the field. 
Manchester. — Sir, — We, the undersigned, having learned 
that the letter of Mr. John Bright, M.P., on the war, has 
been translated and circulated in Russia, as embodying the 
sentiments of the people of Manchester, respectfully request 
that you will call a public meeting, in order to enable the 
citizens to declare that they do not concur in the opinions of 
Mr. Bright, but are fully convinced of the justice and 
necessity of the war, and earnestly hope that it will be 
carried on with the utmost vigour until the objects for which 
it was comineuced are thoroughly effected." 
Conflagration at Leeds. — A conflagration, involving a 
serious loss of property, happened here on W ednesday morning, 
A few minutes after six o clock a lad discovered smoke issuing 
from the lower floor of the extensive flour-mill situated in 
Sykes-street, York-street, occupied by Messrs. Dickiusou and 
Thorp. Information was given to the police and to the 
•various fire-stations. In a short time the Leeds and York- 
shire, Sun, Norwich Union, and Corporation engines were on 
the spot, but were delayed three-quarters of an hour, in con- 
sequence of the bursting ol one of the mains. By seven 
o'clock they got into play, but it was evident the whole 
building was doomed to destruction, for it was one mass of 
fire. Floor after floor fell, uutil the entire six-storeyed 
building fell with a terrific crash. Fortunately, no one was 
injured, although several parties had a very narrow escape. 
The flames extended across the street, and fired the St. 
James's Day-schools and Mrs. Anakin’s saw-mills, which 
were with much difficulty preserved from entire destruction. 
The mill is the property of Thomas Bollaud, Esq., of Gletl- 
hon, aud was worth £(>,000, having recently, at an expeuse of 
£3,000, been converted from a flax-mill into a flour-mill, 
working fourteen pairs of Freuch stones. It was insured for 
£3,100 iu the Leeds aud Yorkshire Office. The mill con- 
tained at the time of the conflagration about 600 sacks of 
superfine flour, and 350 quarters of wheat. About fifty sacks 
of flour only were saved. Messrs. Dickinson and Thorp’s 
loss i3 estimated at £4,000, and they are insured iu the 
Unity Office for £1,200. Neither the St. James's Schools 
nor Mrs. Anakiu were insured, but their loss will not be 
many hundreds of pounds. 
Bedford. — The election to fill the vacancy caused by the 
death of Mr. Henry Stuart, the late Conservative member 
for this borough, took place on Tuesday. Captain Stuart, 
nephew of the deceased member, came forward upon a re- 
quisition from the Conservative party, and Mr. J. S. Trelawny, 
the late member for Tavistock, was brought out by the 
Radical party. At the nomination on Tuesday morning 
C \ptain Stuart, in his address from the hustings, declared 
himself opposed to the Mayuooth endowment, the ballot, and 
any large increase of the suffrage. Upon local matters he 
took the popular view, aud especially with reference to the 
management of the great charity endowment of this town. 
Mr. Trelawny expressed his opinions in favour of the ballot, 
a large extension of the suffrage, and the grant to Mayuooth. 
He treated with quiet sarcasm the attempts which he said 
had been made to brand him as a Papist. He warmly ad- 
vocated the great question of reform, and especially in 
reference to the abolition of church-rates. At the close of 
the poll the numbers were declared as follows : — Captain 
Stuart, 422; Mr. J. S. Trelawny, 331 ; majority, 91. 
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. 
FRANCE. 
(From our own Correspondent.) 
Paris, Thursday, Dec. 7. 
Opinions in Paris on Lord Aberdeen. — Lord Palmerston, the 
Court , and its feeling towards France. — Legitimist Senti- 
ment of the British Army — The Russian Assassins; one 
good effect. — Letter of a Zouave.— Theatres and Miscel- 
lanea. 
Without entertaining the least ill-will personally towards 
Lord Aberdeen, most of the English met with in Paris 
heartily desire his removal from office— a feeling so general 
among them as to have been lately expressed at the table 
of the British Ambassador. However high his character for 
honour and integrity, his well-meaning reluctance to believe 
iu the possibility of the war — though clear to all the world 
beside — till it actually broke out, and, then, the fatal delays 
and want of energy displayed even after the Rubicon had 
been crossed, are all laid at his door, aud, iu fact, deprive 
the entire Government of all confidence on tliis question ; 
his late spiritless speech in the City more befitting a 
puritanical preacher than the minister of a great uation 
just entering into a war. These singularly-tame effusions 
have a mischievous effect ou the Continent, giving an im- 
pression that the war with Russia — aud, what is more 
important, the alliance with France — is viewed with dis- 
favour by at least a section of the Cabinet, and also iu 
higher quarters. This impression receives something of a 
confirmation from the evidently friendly footing on which 
Lord Aberdeen is received at Windsor^ where his visits, as 
reco- led by the Court newsmen, are constant. Some of the 
French writers, who are remarkably quick-sighted in reading 
the signs of the political horizon, comment upon these fre- 
quent invitations, and sharply remark that Lord Palmerston, 
who arrived in town from Paris on Thursday or Friday Inst, 
bos not been honoured by any summons to the Royal pre- 
sence, though they seem to think that his Lordship’s 
frequent interviews with the Emperor, in considering the 
deep interests involved in the personal opinions and feelings 
of his Majesty respecting the conduct of the war, and the 
measures to be taken, it might have been expected that his 
Sovereign would have been desirous to learn the opinion o 1 
her French ally, from his Lordship himself, rather thau 
through the somewhat misty explanations of the noble 
Premier. This, however, has not been done ; aud though 
the exclusion of Lord Palmerston from tlio hospitalities at 
Windsor, according to the other Cabinet Ministers, has been 
often a subject of remark, on the present occasion it assumes 
the character of something like a slight, which exteuds 
further than the noble lord himself. Mind, I am merely 
conveying you the opinion of Parisian quid nuncs on this 
point, which is to be heard in every salon. But at a moment 
like the present, where a cordial alliance with France is, in 
the eyes of most reflecting men iu Europe, the only real 
object of satisfactory contemplation which the blunders and 
hesitations of Ministers have left the country iu this mis- 
managed Russian affair, it would be sad indeed to have the 
heat interests of two great nations thwarted by little short- 
sighted prejudices, certainly not of English growth. 
Everywhere, iu the salons, iu the foyers of the theatres, 
the elegant frivolities of Parisian life have given way before 
the higher predominating considerations of the horn - . Even 
the ladies, those privileged evaportes, have given over their 
favourite pursuits, and reading, or, rather, devouring the 
2»^ U With “tW • Cri T a ’ ‘ 8 the Chief ‘’““Patton of their 
leLuit. With that innate sentiment of admiration, for all 
e “n g r f an uoble - "Well distinguishes them, they 
stnue m the feeling with winch the chivalrous gallantl y of 
the English army is regarded by all Europe; and many 
a tear has been shed in the boudoirs of Paris over the fate of 
the young heroes who fell at Inkerman, and in the ever 
memorable cavalry charge at Bolaklava. To give you an 
idea of what the most inveterate enemies of the alliance 
the Legitimists, feel and think on the subject, I transcribe 
an extract of an article in one of their weekly journals, 
written by one of the staunchest adherents of Henri V. :— 
Let us remind our readers that those officers who fall In tho Crimea 
belong, by the privilege of liirth and fortune, to the highest families in 
the English aristocracy. Those noble fellows, who shed their blood so 
freely for Old England, inhabit palaces in London, castles and manor- 
mlU n. the com, try, and all those gifts or rank ami wealth, that make 
hfc doubb- sweet, are theirs. Let our founders of systems, and dreamers 
ol Utopias, admire the phenomenon presented by the English aristocracy, 
sustaining Its proud pre-eminence in this ago of widely-spread 
equality. Let them look closer, and they will see that tho first 
privilege claimed by that superb and intelligent nobility is to die for 
their country. Behold them, by land and by sea, everywhere, beneath 
the red or blue uniform and golden epaulette of tho English officer, 
beats the heart of one of England's noblest families. 
There are, no doubt, many inaccuracies in the writer’s 
notions of our social system, yet this honest burst of en- 
thusiasm canuot fail to awaken sentiments of cordial 
good-will at home — at all events, to borrow the words of 
Tacitus, “ profession pietatis aut laudatus crit, ant excused us." 
One good effect — aud no evil is unaccompanied by some good 
must result from the savage murders committed by the 
Russians on our poor wounded brothers in the field : it will 
put an end to the mawkish, sympathising clap-traps with 
which Ministers and others in Parliament are wont to season 
their orations when speaking on the war. One language 
towards a uoble and generous enemy, another for a cruel aud 
treacherous foe. A provincial paper publishes a letter from 
one of the Zouaves (a private) who was in the late action, 
from which it appears that gallant corps gave no quarter, on 
the hint of their officer. I give a few extracts from the 
epistle, which is eminently characteristic, but rather too free 
tor anything like literal translation : — “ Here I am,” writes 
this soldier, “ in the trenches, up to my knees in mud aud 
wet, but very comfortable, having just had a bowl of 
scalding-hot coffee and half a loaf, baked this morning, which 
has set me up for the day. Ah ! father, you’ve often told us 
of your hard work at Smolensko and Moskowa, and that the 
Russians were tough morsels to digest ; but they never stood 
then as they did at Inkerman, where they fought like 
drunken devils. As for the English, they’re the best fellows 
in the world, and as good soldiers as live — I won't say better 
thau the Freuch, because they are not ; they do some things 
better thau we do, and we others better thau they. I think 
we shall both improve under fire ; they are as steady as old 
rocks — too steady. They advance too regularly, and lose 
many men, where the French fly on the enemy at once ; but 
as for giving in, they can't do it — it's against their nature. 
For more than four hours the poor fellows were cut up by a 
whole Russian army, aud though sometimes actually sur- 
rounded, never gave way ; but they were getting awfully 
tired when we came in sight. They gave us an .English 
hurrah that I think made the Russians stare. Our captain, 
who was killed, said to us — ‘ Yen la de Vouvrage, Enfants / 
travaillcz/ El souvcncz vous que ces gaillards hi ne donneiU 
pas de quart ierl’ Enough said: in five minutes we were 
into the front rank of the enemy, and bloody work it was. 
We went to work like enrages. The English fought as 
savagely as we did — all bayonet work. They stood their 
ground for about two minutes, when they were seized with 
a cholic aud ran, we helping them behind with our bayonets. 
But they had so many in reserve that their place was soon 
supplied by fresh troops. Our new obusm-balles, luckily, 
here came into play, and bursting in the midst of their 
crowded ranks, spread terrible destruction, killing and maim- 
ing hundreds at every explosion. This completed their 
defeat ; and if we had had only half their numbers, we should 
not only have repulsed them, but been masters of Sebastopol 
that night." 
The obus-u-balles, the writer mentions, seems an improve- 
ment on the old Congreve rocket ; and, doubtless, much of 
the carnage described as taking place in the enemy's ranks 
was the effect of this formidable missile. The letter details 
many horrible incidents on both sides, but particularly the 
Russians, whose indescribable barbarities, it is to be hoped 
are exaggerated. These atrocities are, however, treated by 
our worthy Zouave with a careless indifference almost 
amounting to gaiety — peculiarly aud characteristically 
French. 
The absorbing question of the war excludes all other 
topics to such a degree that I have left myself scarcely any 
room for any other subject. The loss is not great, for there 
is otherwise little of interest stirring. Balls aud parties, so 
usual at the begiuniug of the winter season, are wholly sus- 
pended in consequence of the mourning late events have 
carried into so many families. The theatres are faring badly ; 
among many novelties, we have but one striking affair, 
and that good only in name. It is called “ Cinq Cents 
Diables" Five Hundred Devils. Tho title alone would — and 
probably will — make the fortune of the Adelphi. Alas ! 
What's in a name? All the merits of this piece are confined 
to its title, for a more incomprehensible stupid set of 
devils" were never seen or heard of. 
Qalignani tells us, through an advertisement, that “ a 
young widow lady, considered handsome, aud having an 
honourable name, with the addition of the title of Countess, 
is desirous of meeting with a marrying Englishman of inde- 
pendent fortune. Address, Mine, de B , Poste Restante.” 
Another advertisement, in the same paper, reads somewhat 
more louche, “ a young woman of twenty, who understands 
the getting up linen, aud the superintendence of a house- 
hold, desires a place as companion or upper servant, with 
an elderly bachelor, or widower. Address, Mile. Louise, 
Hotel Soubise, Rue du Bac." 
Among the too many suicides recorded by the papers in 
Paris this week, is one from rather a remarkable cause. A 
Savoyard who had been the Samson of his native village 
aud its neighbourhood, where none of the men could equul 
him in strength and agility, lately came up to town, and 
became a porter at the Corn-market. Here the post of 
honour for strength was already in the possession of a man 
of very extraordinary muscular power, against whom our 
Savoyard had no chance. He, however, insisted upon a 
trial, but. though he made a fair struggle, was completely 
overmatched by ltis burly antagonist. He took his defeat 
so much to heart, that the next day he was found hanging 
behind the door of his bed-room, life quite extinct ! Another 
suicide of a more romantic cost, in which there were two 
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victims, took place a few days previous, in one of the little 
hotels near tho Lyons railway. After the arrival of the 
train, a young man aud woman, both— particularly the 
young woman— remarkably well-looking, presented them- 
selves and hired a bed room for a few days. They remained 
much at home, and were little noticed in the house but on 
Saturday a very strong smell of charcoal from their room 
led the waiter to knock. No reply was returned, and on 
forcing the door, tho pair were found locked in each 
other s arms, and both dead. A letter ou the table stated 
that their parents hail refused their consent to their mar- 
nag ?.’n' . . that , , beiQ S insupportable, they had resolved 
on flight, a few days of happiness, and death antiques 
jours de bonheur, ft la mart. The places of their redd/ncc 
wore given, Horn which it appeared that the father of tho 
young nun was the magistrate of tho district, and the girl a 
farmer s daughter in the vicinity. The young man’s age 
was twenty, that of the girl seventeen. Two-thirds of the 
suicides m France, among the lower ol&sses, arise from the 
same cause— disappointment in love no religious feeling 
ever seeming to prevent this last aud worst of crimes. Poor 
wretches — 
" Because they never think of death, they die 1 " 
THE LONDON GAZETTE. 
Tuesday Dec . 5. 
MASTER-OF-THB-HORSK'S-OFFICE, July, Id, 1851. 
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Lieutenant-Colonel 
Thomas Myddelton Biddulpli, Master of tho Household, to he Extra 
Equerry to her Majesty. 
A D M I R A L T Y. Nor. 38. 
Corps of Royal Marines. 
BREVET. 
With reference to Her .Majesty's Order in Council of lath September, 
1 851, the following promotions are to toko place : — 
To be Generals — Lieutenant-Generals Walter Trcmenheero, K.IL , 
Edward Nleolls. 
The undermentioned officers, who were placed upon Retired Full 
Tay previous to her Majesty s Mid Order in Council, o l>e each pro- 
moted to a step of Brevet rank : — 
To be Colouels — Lieutenants-Coloncls Henry James Gillespie, 
Samuel Garmston, John Harvey Stevens, Charles Fcgnt, Richard Lytle 
Hombrook, William Lewis Dawns, William Calami, James Clarke 
John Tothill. 
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 30. 
Corps of ltoyul Marines. 
First Lieutenant Henry Way Muwbey to be lieutenant and quarter- 
master, vice Williams, promoted. 
BANKRUPTS. 
William Hunt, Bedford-row, wine merchant — John Bislcy. South- 
ampton, eai-penter — James Charles Jones, King William-street, City, 
and Mlckloliam, Surrey, dealer lu shares — Charles Kelley, High street, 
Kensington, and Baker-street Bazaar, Portman-squntv, auctioneer — 
Daniel Chapman, Cornwall-road, Hammersmith, builder — Charles 
Satauel Sasse, High-street, Portland-town, bread baker — Tliomos 
Palmer, Birmingham, licensed victualler — Thomas Plumloy Derliarn 
and William Bennett, Bristol, cabinet makers — John Bush Mercer, 
Bath, carpenter — Edward Leader Box, Bristol, corn merchant — 
William Crowther, Halifax, Yorkshire, Innkeeper — John Mitchell, 
Bingley, Yorkshire, woraterd spinner — George Jones and Edmund 
Cleg, Salford, Lancashire, ironfoundera — David Ainsworth, Manchester, 
warehouseman. 
CAVALRY PROMOTIONS. 
From Friday’s Gazette. 
WAR OFFICE, Dee. 8. 
4 111 Dragoon Guards — Lieutenant Thomas Miller Clarke to be 
Captain, without purchase, Dec. 8. 
To he Lieutenant* without purchase — Cornet Daniel Pcploo Webb, 
vice Clarke ; Cornet Bathurst Edward Wilkinson, Dee. 8. 
5th Dragoon Guards — Lieutenant Charles Augustus Drake Halford 
to be Captain, without purchase, Dec. 8. 
To be Lieutenants without purchase — Comet Robert James Mont- 
gomery, vice Halford; Cornet J. Stephenson Ferguson, Dec. 8. 
0th Dragoon Guards — Lieutenant Francis Richard Hawker to be 
Captain, by purchase, vice Sheraton, who retires, Dec. 8. 
7 th Dragoon Guards — Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Twopony. lYom 
half-pay of the 9th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel 
Amalie, who exchanges; Mojor Arthur Cavendish Bcntlnek to bo 
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Twopony, who retires ; Captain 
Charles Pyndar Beauchamp Walker to be Major, by purchase, rice 
Bentinck; Lieutenant William Wentworth Lamb to be Captain, by 
purchuse, vice Walker, Dee. 8. 
1st Dragoons — Lieutenant John Chamberlain to be Captuin, without 
purchase, Dec. 8. 
To be Lieutenants without purohase — Comet Richard George Glyn, 
vice Chamberlain ; Cornet William Wray Ilurtopp, Dec. 8. 
2nd Dragoons — Lieutenant Francis Sutherland, to ho Captain, 
without purchase, Dec. 8. 
To be Lieutenants without purchase — Cornet Andrew Nugent, vice 
Sutherland ; Cornet Lennox Prcmlcrguat, Dee. 8. 
4th Light Dragoons — Lieutenant and Adjutant George Ellis, to be 
Captain, without purchase, Dec 8. 
To bo Lieutenants without purchase — Comet Wiiiiaiu Afilcck King, 
vice Ellis ; Cornet George Warwick Hunt, Doe. 8. 
(fth Dragoons — Lieutenant German Wlioatcruft, tube Captain, with- 
out purchuse, Dec. 8. 
To be Lieutenants without purchase — Cornet William Stratford 
Sleigh, vice Whcateroft ; Cornot Edward Fineli Dawson, Dec. 8. 
8th Light Dragoons — Lieutenant Francis Edward Macnoghtcn, to be 
Captain, without purchase, Dec. 8. 
1 1th Light Dragoons — Lieutenant Harrington Asley Trevelyan, to 1 e 
Captain, without purchase, Dec. 8. 
To be Lieutenants without pureliase — Comet George Ashhv Mad- 
dock, vice Trevelyan ; Cornet Arthur I.yttleton Annosloy, Dec- 8. 
13th Light Dragoons — Lieutenant Peter Valentine Purcell, to b 
Captain, without purchase, vice Goad, killed in action, Oct. 25 , Lieu- 
tenant Edward Lennox Jervis, to be Captain, without purchase, Dec. 8 
To be Lieutenants without purcha se - -Cornet George Maxwell Goad, 
vice Purcell, Oct. 25 ; Cornet Denzil Thomas Cliaiubcrlayne, vice 
Jervis; Cornet John Deardcn, Dec. 8. 
1 5th Light Dragoons — Brevet- Miyor Richard Knox to be Major, by 
purchase, vice Brevet- Lieutenant-Colonel Blatchford, who retires , 
Lieutenant Henry Lee to be Captain, by purchase, vice Knox j Cornot 
Thomas Francis Maude to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lee, Dec. 8 . 
15th Light Dragoons — Cornet Joseph Tarratt to be Lieutenant, by 
purchase, vice Sleeinon, who retires ; William Wimtanlcy, gent., to be 
Cornet, by purchase, vice Stewart, promoted, Dec. I. 
17th Light Dragoons — To be Captains without purchase — Lkutennn t 
Lewis Edward Knight, vice Webb, died of his wounds, Nov. 7 ; Lieute- 
nant J. W. Cradock Ilortopp, Dec. 9. 
To be Lieutenants without purchase — Cornet Drury Curzon Lowe 
vice Knight. Nov. 7; Comet Arthur Burnnnd. vice Ilurtopp, Dec. 8. 
To be Comets without purchase — Cornet Walter Iligtiy Seymour 
from the Royal Horse Guards, vice Leith; promoted; John Glbuone 
gent, vice Wombwell, promoted, Doc. 8. 
BANKRUPTS. 
F’bid a v . — William Hudson, Church -street, Hackney, grocer— Ben 
jamiii Hutlcy, Kingsland-roud, corn dealer and trader— Henry Brown 
Murden, Kent, potter — Richard Derbyshire, Liverpool, merchant — John 
Henry Goodere, Merthyr Tydfil. Glamorganshire, scrivener — John 
Young and Jasper Young, Bread-street, Cheapside, warehousemen and 
commission agent* — John Frlsby Bentley, Sol by, Northamptonshire 
coal merchant — William Winder, linymavkot, tavern-keeper — William 
