... TURF PROSPECTS A19D SHREWSBURY SHOTS. I By TOUCHSTONE. The present stagnation in the Sporting World is greater than we ever recollect at this period of the year, and, as far as the setting on the Derby is concerned, we can anticipate no mate. eial change until horses come off their straw beds, and com nience their Spring preparation. In the meanwhile the Trainer's time is no less actively ...

... EMBARKATION OF TROOPS FOR TIM I Crimea. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 2L-Two companies of the Royal Artillery- Captain Graydon's and Captain Oldfield's-have embarked to-day at this port tbr theCrimea. This valuable reinforeementofthisimportant branch of the service numbers 270 men; the following being the officers who accompany it: Captain Graydon's Company-Captain George Graydon; Second Captain, A. C. ...

... ?? eourt. I' WINDSOR, Nov. 10. The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess i Iof Kent, the Lady in Waiting te her Royal Highness, Lady c Frances Bruce, Baroness de Specki, Colonel the Hon. C. B. t Phippa, Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. N. and Lady Mary Hood, Colonel and Lady Emily .Seymour, Sir George Couperi Sir Charles 3gastlakq, Major-General wylde, Lieu- rB ?? Vyie, commanding officer Royal ...

... By the OrIzaba, ?? Cruz ?? Orleans, and Union, from New York, we have news from Mexico up to 4tb of October. They contain no positive political information; all coma- munications from the south, the seast of the rebel Alvarez, and the most important source of danger to the present ad. ministTation, being carefully smothered. Nor, from the con- tradictory reports and rumours which have reached ...

... aTE NEW STADM. ACT. (Prom the North Bri$s&A Deily alot.) [The eubjoined 06rrespondence, which we have been requested to print, is instructive, but at the same time unsstisfactory. It shows how crude our fiscal legislation is, and how unwilling or incompent our authorities are to apply the laws they make. The light in which Mr. Keo h appears, as the official organ of the Stamp Office, would be ...

... MANCHESTER. The subscription at Manchester progresses well, and the total to Saturday morning was 7,3341. 15s. A canvass has been proposed, and it is expected the total will probably reach 10,000t. WALSALL. A meeting, to further the objects of the Royal Cort- mission, has been held in the Guildhall of this borough, Samuel Lowe, Esq., in the chair. Among those present were Charles Forster, Esq. ...

... RWISSIAN NEWS FROM THE CTRMEA. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 3 6 t The following was issued yesterday in i-n Extrior- m dinary Supplement of the Invalide Russc: d In order to complete the hasty narrative of Oct. to 25, we (Invalide Busse) give lower down the de- el tailed report of General Liprandi, chief of the l2th tl division of infantry, respecting the same affair. Together with this report, which ...

... I THE LANCASTER AYD PRESTONRAILWAY. I ml ?? _ i The adjourned meeting of this company %vas held in the office of the company on Monday last, Mr. Bushell in the chair. The Chairman remarked, in reference to a sup. posed deficit in the receipts of the line, which had engaged the attention of the shareholders at their last meeting, it gave him great satisfaction to state that the active members ...

... \ PRIVATE LETTERS FROM THE SEAT OF I WAR. a LETTERS FROM SOLDIERS. We (Bristoi Mercury) have 'been fav ,urea by our ifworthy member, Mr. Berkeley, with a *ee4iou letter from' ifhis humble but able correspondent in tio8th Hussars. It d is a graphic and spirited description i.f:-the routine of a ca- ~'valry soldier's life during 'a camR,%igu, an4 as very, little rhas been said of the movements ...

... The aeath of this eminent man may be regarded as the extinction of a family which has held the very highest rank in the aristocracy of the stage; and, more than any other that has existed in England, or, perhaps, in any other country, has upheld the dignity of our national drama and the honour of the his- trioulc art. He was the last of three great kindred stars, and likewise the least of the ...

... LATEST NWS FROM ABROAD THE CRIMEA. THE STORM IN THE BLACK SEA. The ?? Gazette of yesterday publishes the follwing intelligence received from Trieste, to 'hich port it was brought by the steamer which left Constantinople on the 20th inst: Thirty-tWo English transports were lost in the oale on the 14th. The screw ?? and the SeaNymph foundered with all on board, and three smaller steamers were ...

... The Soldatenfreu4nd has been informed that, although Priuce Mentchikoff's forces are numerically upenrior to those of the Allies, he is not in sufficient strength to pursue an offensive system of tactics at present, it being found impossible to supply the Rus- dan armies with sufficient provisions and other neces- Kaies. The difficulties in the way of doing this are in fact almost insuperable, ...