... *E SIEGE oF SEBAMPOL. The following despatches were, Published ont Tuesday in the Lwndien Gazeite Extraordinariy_ Portmsin-square, Midnight. Nov. 6. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has thits evening received derslatches, of which the following are copies, addressed to bis Grace by GeneraI Lord Raglsn.G.C.B. I ,Before Sebastopol, Oct. 23, 1354. 'My Lord Duke,-The operations of the seige have ...

... The news by this mail is rather of a more warlike c' character than usual. The action with the refractoryO Mulik of MAecheree was more severe than was antici- th sated. The force sent out %,ainst him, under Colonel a Cotton, consisted of Gordon's Seikhs, a mountain train in battery, two companies of her Majesty's 22d Regiment, Pt a comlipany of Sappers and Miners, the 8th Regiment of h Native ...

... THE SIEGE OF SLBASTOPOL. ( The following telegrapb iedespatcbes fromn Bucharest, t dated October 24th, confirm the intellizence that the b bombardment of Sebastopol commenced on the lth instant, tr On the afternoon of the 17th October the land batteries o0 opened fire upon Sebastopol. The allied fleets at the n same time attacked the forts at the entrance of the ir harbour. S The English fleet ...

... MISCELANEOUS INTLIGENCE. THsY. PATRILOTIc FuND.-The Royal Commissioners l of the Patriotic Fund have issued a circular letter to the commanding officer of every regiment now engaged in hostilities in the East, inclosing a blank form, with a request that it might be filled up and returned to them, as soon as possible. The particulars which the commanding officers are requested to furnish have ...

... The Belgian mail has brought an interesting conver. sation which took place in the Charnberof the Senate on the subject of Colonel Charras and other French re. fagees, by which it wilU be seen with satisfaction that the Government of King Leopold holds Ca this subject the constitutional doctrine of which it is the glory of England to have furnished the example:- *-lhe Belgian Senate met on the ...

... t l HEB MAJESTY'sNEfYACnT.-ThemonthofJana. X ary next has now been fixed as the period when tr- I splendid new steamryacht, the Windsor Castle, 1tir building at Pembroke for the Queen, is to be fini holi and launched. The greatest exertions are now bein j . made in order to hasten her progress. A large body of t the best men are constantly at work upon her, and con. I verted timber has ...

... CORlMESPON DENCE. FARMERS AND SOLDIERS. I. To the Editor oJ the Ipswich Journal. II SmI,-Permit me, through the medium of yorurJoar. i naol to say a few earnest words to an important class, t1 who, though suffering less perhaps from the war than any other, yet appear to me scarcely to respond to the patriotic appeal of our Queen with that zeal which the ir amount of their influence renders so ...

... (From the Times.) BV advices from Liverpool, oil Tuesday evening, it appears that Her Majesty's ship Enterprise, Captain Collinson, put into Port Clarence on the 23rd August. She had met with no traces of Sir John Franklin. She had lost three of her crew. We presume Port Clarence to be the port of that name at the entrance of Behring's Straits, so frequently mentioned in the records of our ...

... The annual meeting for the election of Mayor for the thi ensin year, took; place in the Council Chamber of the 2s. Town Hall, OD 'Ihursday last. There ras a large at. tendance of members, many of the picincipal itnhabitants being also present. ELECTION 0OF MAYOR.al Mr. Alderman 1`1 AD feltvery great pileasure in intro- r ducing to their notice a gentleman whose qualifications Ing for the ...

... b PAgis, November 2nd.-The Mnitfeur says, that f the English steamer Trent, which left Sebastopol on r the 25th, arrived at Varna on the following evening, p bringing intelligence that the bombardment was con. r tinned without interruption and with the greatest vigour. c The besiegers had directed their cannon against the b town as well as the fortifications. is Sebastopol was much embarrassed ...

... DETAILS OF THE BATTLES AT SEBASTOPOL. (From the Correspondent of the Morniang HerId.) ENGLISH CAMP, Oct. 23. I finished my last dispatch in a hurry, for I was most anxious to avail myself of an opportunity which pre- sented of ascertaining the amount of injury inflicted by our fleets on Russian fortresses. One of our steamers was starting with some of the French fleet, which lay off Sebastopol ...

... | AGRICULTURAL RETURNS FOR IRELAND FOR I ?? The registrar general has just issued the official re- turns Of agricultural produce of Ireland for the past year. It is a document of much importance to thetl country at large. It shows that Ireland has advanced b in material prosperity, and there is sugicient evidence before our eyes every day to prove that she maintains g4 her position. The re ...