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EAST INDIA HOUSE, 25.ra OM, 1854. T COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST Is ook . IND IA COMPANY do hereby give Notice, that the Transfer th e 7 - h ot the said Company's Stack will be shat on THURSDAY, Tut„ December next, at Three o'clock, and opened again on T, 'AY, the 16th of January, 1855. q t the Warrants for the Dividends on the said Stock, payable the Ti ntIZAY, the 6th January, Is's, under the 11th section of tertd o d and y 4th William IV., cap. 85, will be ready to be deli etn t a h at da. JAMES C. MELVILL, Sezretary, IVI I7-- • ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC TO -NIGHT at 8 o'clock. and Every Night (but Saturday). tak, ,; Area, 25.; Gallery, Is. The Morniwt Representations kopr e ' n „._,",erY Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock.— m .no Piccadilly. NOTICE OF DIVIDEND; • 11A Nlt OF DEPOSIT, cI Aii 4ATION.A.L ASSURA.NCE AND INVESTIIENT ASiO- No. 3, PALL-MALL Elm LONDON. ' Established A.D. 1844. T he Xmpowered by Special Act of Parliament. rve,,,ANTS for the HALF-YRARLY INTERFST, at the be t "' ° Per cent. per annum, on Deposit Accounts to 31st Decem kakyabr ready tor delivery on and after January the 10th, 1855 Pgru PETER MORRISON', Managing Director. ,e 8 desirous of Investing Money are requested to examine the o' Ac coitn the Bank of Deposit. Prospectuses and Forms for Opening 11 sent free on application. CONT I % ACTS FOE SEAMEN'S BAGS AND COAL SACKS AND BAGS. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Nary, Somerset-place, 3d Jan., 1854. Commissioners for Executing the Office of 554. ire High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Brita i n th 2 - Tand, BO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY , Pe rzo Z instant, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with Such ee oet . at May be willing to Contract for supplying her Majesty's „ D ockyards with - CANVAS BAGS, ' 41 113e of the seamen of the Royal Navy, and with ,Att,„„,, COAL SA` - KS AND COAL BAGS. i m "' d Of the articles and forms of the tenders may be seen at Alf' ° Mee- No tender will be received after one o'clock on the ag e , treaty, nor will any be noticed, unless the party attends, or au Is ke " him duly authorised in writing. af id , 1 7 tender m left-hand corner th th e words " Tender forust be addiessed to e Secretary of the Admiralty, u 'ar in the htlied must also he delivered at Somerset-place, rkecom ktoln by a lett er s i gne d by t wo re sponsible persons, enzaging to b°011 ( 1 , with the person tendering, in the sum of 5001. for the rforinance of each of the contracts. 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Business—prectical, ener .let constant, punctual; and unwavering —has been our daily We have visitedeevery market ; we have empl o y e d th e s kill • x e perienee with which many years of boundless trade have r. , edtis ; we have encouraged talent, and patronised industry, and int Made ail our resources available to fries; 's, patrons, and the „___'" n ic, ' in presenting them with r superior an i d fashi ntble Dress, at et;:f re asonable charges, M e have receive , our reward in the innu ten, t hl3 instances of satisfaction expressed toward our besiuess and leta' n factures—in tho vast increas3 of our Trade in London, the ee t ed Kinedom the Colonies, and t 1 rough the Wor'd. ene hitdeise c aI:TY-made Clothing Department has been publicly acknow --- ` l ' boon of society, and an advantage to individuals and tltralltea 6 tOr ti f„,-, Our ambition to furnish the best, most fashionahle, and lirtest;:k"le Clothing, at the lowest possible prices, has Met with a p ub the —nsPlctious response ; and we owe to our friends, patrons, aud lic nliten ed a grateful acknowledgment of success which has not been ' 4 , 411 la s .." 4 ny former season. We have received the attention of Lsitte u Ze7 3 and of all professions—our productions have been declared t _' , e popular the most gentlemanly, the most comfortable, and 2 3 111; 4 'M. 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Though every colony of the Brit . s h_ "e_ c etry e," e _ a s In it our patrons, Australia, that home of English : 11 7,'4 large and flourishing Wholesale Branch of cur w e • and w nr persuaded that in every place that etoo -- will e e and celebrity of E. fes e nd ways b 3 worthy of the name ei• l ewe Sou. 4 e rt as it is E. MOSES and Sore's custom annually to recapi wc!aheit 'toe, Progrees of their busiress, and to express their good 7aorde ne l r arda their ratrons and the public, they do so with an ex -455 e er, de gree of plea sure at the commencement of the year With eadsfled that the name of E. Moses and SON is identified fashienable, and cheap clo'hing ; that E. Moors and Sou lit4l,,ue greatest celebrity as Merchant Tailors, Hosiers, and Out there is them is not a branch of business they profess, but in *hest gable .Perseveranee enables them to succeed and in the ellas--"lrnated hope s o f securing runntierler.s ailvaetagee to all 114e37 9r patrons' be _ Welt e e . o nsand of preserving distinetion and celebrity in ail oe ti e ras 'and Soer most sincerely wish every body in all Orld A liAppy NElyEdit. ;., • MR. COBDEN AT LEEDS.—We understand that Mr. Cobden purposes addressing the electors of the %Vest Riding of Yorkshire at Leeds on Tuesday, the 16th iust. The " ERA " Newspaper (illustrated) commences the New Year with Gratis Supplements, which will be con tinued every week until further notice. Nearly 100 co lumns devoted to news from the Seat of War ; Original, Political, Foreign, and Theatrical articles ; important information for Licensed Victuallers ; Literature, Music, and general news. The " Era " forms two distinct news papers : one for the family, and the other comprises all the Sporting News of the day. Among the contribu tors will be found the first talent of the day, as well as "The Old Actress " and "Touchstone," who prophesied 125 winning horses the past year ; he this week writes of the Derby, 1355, commencing with John Scott's lot. Order of all news-agents, or send six postage stamps to the Office, 3, Catherine-street, Strand.—The best New Year's Gift is to pay 265. for 52 papers, and a share of the " Era " Derby Gifts of 5001. Post office orders payable to Messrs. Wm. Willott and Frederic Ledger. ADTERTISESIENT.]—TIIS WAR IN THE EAST. —POWERFUL PATENT RECONNOITRING GLASSES.— SIGHT AND HEARING -Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Oh serve—opposite the York Hotel. Newly-constructed Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. 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By her Majesty's Roya Letters Patent for valuable and extraordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to. know the distances of objects viewed through them—of great importance to the army, navy, and others. These telescopes possess such extra ordinary powers that some 3,i inches, with an extra eye piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars; with the same telescope can be seen a, person's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They are of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly ; while their vary ing from 4 to 6 inches enab'e us to discover• more than the above, and the Georgian, with his 6 satellites, &c.—The Royal Exhibition, 1851.—Valuable, newly-invented, very small, powerful waistcoat-pocket glass,the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known l i miles distant ; they answer every purpose on the race-course, and at the opera houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at S to 10 miles They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, • race-course, camp, and perspective glasses, with wonderful power.-39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. observe— oppo -1 site the York Hotel, nee, Bristol, Islington ► urt of Ban bury ; Bad, Imilton• rift, cap, 32 ' ° Des., 1854. t 11,015, 10f 900 1 + 984, 11.1i0.1113,180635 ----- s3 £27 5 Chief Casbier. Iritios (eight 11 61I's 4 , 5 3 15, 06 ' 63 5 • • • ••• 7,779 f 63 ;Qin .. .. 653'8' ---•-1194 £35, 851 ' Chief Caller' lo Sugar ceolai 'nding the exclugve siri on the itry DAY. 30 .-53 4 •••• •• • 2 5 5,- • " 43% ••••'• " 1,30 130% 5331 . . ...... -I •• • • .. .• •••• tys' sight ▪ .. • Lucx, r> s og, Bars X 3 17 0 oin 0 0 0 0 " 0 • 0 0 6 14 it.liNCl' r. 'Tov, 20, 1/ $ 1 south, . 30, lat. To, Doc. 111° mg. 37 IC' t , Oct. 6, 1° ' F., long. 2 ,s t long. 26 1 1l Dec. s, l °' .A., lat. 10. T., long. 30 • r. " 29, lat. 0 1 sts of tho 11 31 ",0 4 , u 1 high Pl avorsl e ie was again eef, 6id t° o jP it Da, id i n r i4 fat, Os i d .-skins, 3. 11 dga Of" down. 0 r own. 98 ,04 (lr fl 1d 167- ,1(1 9 04 0 ad lit 4 0, 1 lb 91 5 o t it) SIP ki ib 9 ‘ L lb ISO OJ attendance? Wheat v / 01! er the cur t S int )g corn no white, 0 0 otl 6o l o 38s Od: to il a, 44i Od '" Sod attiey, )ek's qu° d d; red, Od ; 1 11 : od ; ne Peas, 0 7,0 1 Od to uv' EPOlO' 0 MAY', JO of Weatil.r. IC I John's -11 s, 11yd°' ro r barriste. d er iok 0.1. of ory v. Vi r ra',,,t , daugh"" Yr" adrow sgod 61 tblol ,unty of , A O l Li Preoivi, Brain , 1 111 loader ' i 0 YOViI~ ace, J. , °• o - the Ow' No. 19,429•] PUBLICATIONS. PARLEY'S ANIMALS. The Eleventh Edition, carefully revised, bound In cloth. gilt edges, price Gs., with nearly 500 Engravings on Wood, ABOUT ANIMALS. By PETER PARLEY, Author of " Tales about Sea, Europe, Asla,'! Ere. London: William Tegg and Co., 85, Queen street, Cheapside. TALES rrHE HYGEIST, or Medical Reformer and Defender of the Right of Conscience and Priva'e Judgment, fur JANUARY, contains :—Our Address to the Public —Report of the liritishCollege of Health for 1895—" Punch" and his Libels—Declara tion of Captain Lamb efore the Mayer of Manclies.er—Mr. Fra-er's Address cn the I lygelan System of James Morison—Mr. Gibbs on the Medical Liberty of the Subject an I the Compulsory Vaccination Act—The "Times" Newspaper at issue on the Chohra Question with the Doctors amointeci by the libard f Health—Medical InquiAtion in France.—Hay be ha I at the Brit'sli College of Health, New road, London, in forwarding a postage stamp ; at the 113 - geist Office, 262, Strand ; and of all the dilly authorised agents for Mr. Morisoa's Vegetable Universal 314 dicine. • ASUPPLEMENT GRATIS WITH THE WEEKLY DISPATCH every week until further notice. — The unexampled interest which attaches to every incident connected with the operations of the Allied Armies in the East has determined the Proprietors of the WEEKLY DISPATCH to devote a greater space to the intelPgenee from the seat of IV ar than the ordinary limits of this, the large. , :t n.w:paper published, could pasihly afford, and, with the view ef giving the amplest details, they have resolved upon the is.ue of a SERIES of SUPPLE \TENTS GRATIS, which will in clude every particular of Interest connected with the Siege and deci sion of the contest at Sebastopol, and will bo continued whenever demanded by the prozress of the Campaign. By the publication of these ,;;upplements the portion of the paper. usually devoted toincidents of domestic and political importance e ill be reserved intact, and the engrossing* subject-of the War will re dive the fullest and moot varied illustration. A UPPLENIENT will be published i n SUNDAY NEX (Gra tis), and on every succeeding week until further notice. The DISPATCLI, of Sunday, January 7th, 1355, will be printed in a new type, of an improved castruter, by which the pleasure of read ing will be enhanced. Published every Saturday rrorning, et 4 o'c'oalc, in time for the first train and the morning matte. Another edition is printed In the Aft erriron, fir the poet of that evening ; and a third publication takes plaee on Sunday, bringing the whole news, of any importance, by extra eil ions, up to the latest hour of the same afternoon. The pi the Drsrercn is Sixpence. Orders may be given to all newsrondors in. town and country; and to the Publisher, at the Disnitcrt Office, 133, Fleet-street, London. QUACKS UNMASKED. The Third Eiltion.—Just published, price 55., by post, free, ss. 6d. ON TRUE (1, , FALSE SPERNIATORREREA, with the View of di.tirgaishlng the Imaginary from the heal Sufferers under this diseas , , and C rrecting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Care. From the German of Dr. PICKYu it I W Ith anl ntro la ction by the Editor, containing a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are credulous enough to seek their aid. " Dr. Pictford In known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he Informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall letect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his 'ewer to nor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of ' Quiet Sympathisers,' and 'Medical Friends,' arc mercilessly exposed and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who suffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satlsied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it Is that which the quacks most prize— much moncy......This volume is welt qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhma, and to place the trext meat upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good." London: 11. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. CIR AV.E•SEND ST PACKETS. _ _ ho other Packets call at the Greenhithe and Purfleet Piei The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permit FROM TERRICE PIER, GRA.VESE'..+TO. WEEK DAYS. A s g , zi Terrace f. Pier le SUNDAYS, s 0 L., 0., Oran:bases from Feneharch-streat Station to all parts of London every quarter Of an hour. BRUNSWICK WiIIIIF, BLACKWILL, on the arrival of the fol lowing Trains from the Fenehurch-street Station. W=IC DAYS. RUNDAYB. Fen- -5 f, 2 Fen- g church `Si church 5 tE C:1 SerestB g Street 8 z 8 44 a 4 a 4 10 —•— —II _ 2 ti 4 IA • '0 or from Gravesend and Landoll...". „ Gravesend and P.Jacky/all or Wool' lietween Gravesend and Intermediate Pie BOAT TrCiliNTS.—TwolVe stonths, st, three Months, 27. Os. ; to he 1144 of the Packets; or of Hr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Nov. 13. 1854. Loro Cabin. 'Saloon. ~.. 10d. .. Is. 2d. rlsh 4d. .. Os. MS. rs.. 6d. ..Os. ad. Oi.; Six Months, sr. os. ; Collectors on boar; the iravesend. DR. CULVERNVELL ON NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY, AND INDIGESTION. Also, on Urinary Derangements, Constipation, and IDemorrholdS, I s . each, by post. 13. fid. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. " Abstontia multi curantur morbi " A popular exposition of the principal causes (over and careless feeding, &c.) of the above harassing and distressing complaints, with an equally intelligible awl popular exposition of how we should live to get rid of them ; to which is added, diet tables for every meal in the day, and full instructions for the regimen and observance of every hour out of tke twenty. four. Illustrated by numerous cases, &c. LIGHTS AND SHADES OF MARRIED LIFE. " He which that hath no wif, I hold him lost, Helplesg, and all desolat. Ile that hath no child, Like sun and wincle."—Chancer. _ Subject : Marriage, its expectations and Necessities—Development of the Affections—Love Matches—Precipitate, impelled, and retarded t nlone—^iaritsl Incongruities—Mutual Unsuitableness—Mental Incompatibility and Physical Defectiveness—Advantages of Inter. marriage—Theory of Gestation—Hereditary Resemblance—Mode o determining Legitimacy. On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all Unas. similable Alliances—Law of Divorce, &c., &c. CHASTITY A'SD IT3 INFRITIGEMENTS. A Lecture to Young Men. " What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as rerit , ed as Athens ever heard." Subject :lile'spllgrimage, from infancy to old ege. The adveril 6f the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casaalties licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, zraphic, narrative, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages, &c. 'On Secret Diseases. their Selt-management and Cure. The QUEEN BOOK.—A comprehensive and porahr exposition of genito and urinary disea.ses—their nature ani treatment, com prising especially primary and secondary symptoms, nil forms of urinary deranges 10110, stricture and spermaterrhcea; with 250 en gravings and prescriptions. rock BLADDER, URETHRA, ant RECTUff.—Comprising Urinary Deranzements, Constipation, and Hannorrholds. Vols. 6 and 7, companions to the preceding. TUE ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. HOW TO BE HAPPY. "Juconde Vivere." "Few words to fair faith."—Shakespere. Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or of DI!. RI•^.HARD CULVERWELL, itrother, Successor, and Twenty Years C nsulting Colleague of the late Author of the above, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street, London, who may be advised with on the above matters daily. from Ten till Five, and in the evenings, from Seven till Nine. I, • . - fib 4 ' • 11 - I `• 1;) mar . 011 I I \ LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1855. NAVAL AND miLETARy INTELLIGENCE. wishea by packing their donations in packages not ex ceeding 120;11. in weight. Packages Of 4 ciwt., '5 cwt., and ecwt., are most inconvenient far removal in the Crimea.' - The steam-ship Eagle is receiving on board a large quantity of hospital stores fOr Scutari. The Odin steam•frigate,: Captain Francis Scott, was paid wages down to Wednesday at. Woolwich, and the crew 'have got one month's leave of alosence. In the meantime the Odin will receive new boilers.- SIR ARCHIBALD i LISON ON, THE IVAR• The'JaMes Watt, 91, Captain Elliott, and the Pene lope, 18, Captain Caffin, are refitting in the steam-basin at Portsmouth ; and the Centaur, 6, and Salamander, 6, steam-vessels, are preparing for re-commission. 'The crew of the Majestic were engaged yesterday taughtening lower and topmast ratlines, as the last act of completing the refitment of rigging, ready for bend ing sails and for sea when necessary. She is now com plete+,.with lower topeail, topgallant, and Royal yards crossed, and looks aloft a complete yacht on a large scale. SE AILkM, THURSDAY, JAN. 4. Yesterday a ceremony took place in this little maritime town, the inauguration of a literary institute, which served to attract. tho intellect and refinement of the county of Dur ham for miles round, and of theadjaCent towns of Newcastle and Shields, and to elicit froth the learned and accomplished historian-of the great. French Revolution ail a ldress which, at this crisis of the nation's fortunes, will be read with deep interest throughout the country, entering as it does largely upon the discussion of the leading questions afrtcting the commonweal at this moment—viz., the right education of the people, the national debt, our system of taxation and its results, strikes between masters and workmen, and, above all, the great contest which we v.ree new waging against Itussia. The building which was yesterday dedicated to the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Seaham, Flame 4,000 in number, the great bulk of whom are engaged in mining and seafaring pursuits, has been erected under the auspices, and almost wholly at the cost, of the rklarchionese of Lon donderry —her ladyship in that respect carrying out a wish long dear to the heart of the late marquis, and being prompted as well by her own benevolent impulses. It is iu the Grecian style of architecture, after the model of the femous Temple of Minerva at Athens, and ieternally it consists of a large, lofty, and commodious lecture-roem, a libraay and reading room, and a news-room. Precisely t.t 12 o'clock Sir A. Alison entered the lecture-room, accom• panied by a distinguished party now enjoying the hospita lities , of Lady Londonderry atWynyard-park in this county, including the Marchioness herself, the Each and Countess Vane, the Earl and Countess of Portarlingtou, Lady Alison, Lord Ernest Vane Tempest, the Earl of Sunderland.(an in teresting bey, eldest son of the Marquis and Marchioness of Bland ford), Mr. John Vandeleur Stuart and Lady He len Stuart. They were cordially greeted on their arrival by tholuuditory,:among whom, besides the inhabitant of the town, were many of the gentry of the sari - minding neighbourhood. The Great Northern, the LadyiiiCel.4ambton, and the Typhoon are all at Greenhithe having their com passes -adjusted, previous to proceeding for the Crimea. The Great Northern has on board a locomotive engine fur running on the Balaklava line. The Blenheim, 60, screw blockship, Captain W. H. Hail, has been placed in the steam factory basin at Portsmouth, to have a thorough refit. The Hogue, 60, screw blockship, Captain William Ramsay, has been placed in the steam factory basin at Portsmouth, to have a refit in her machinery. The Arrogant, 40, Captain Yelve:ton, steamed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday from Spithead to refit. The crew of the Formidable have-been paid down to the 31st of October last., Imperieuse, 51, screw, Captain R. B. Watson, C. 8., was placed in the steam, basin dock at Portsmouth yes terday. Her bottom is perfect., there is scarcely a scratch upon her copper, and she will haul out again to-day. The Melarnpus•is fast progressing in her equipment ; topmasts have been set an end, her rigging is set up, and being ratlined down by the- dockyard rigging de partment at Sheerness. The Amphion will complete the discharge of her stores to-clay. The crew changed over yesterday to the Nymph frigate hulk. The Bonetta, brigantine, Lieutenant Wake, R.N., commanding, sailed from Spithead for Chatham to be paid off yesterday. The Adder, steam-vessel, arrived at Sheerness yester day, at 8 30 a.m., from Woolwich, with the Ann lighter iy tpw, the , - latter -hs.yinz on board machinery for the new screw steam-vessel Pylades, fitting there, and chain cables for the new screw steam-corvette Tartar, fitting at Chatham. _ . The Earl VANE, having assumed the chair, said, in doing so, the pleasing duty devolved upon him on that occasion to introduce to their notice a distinguished indi vidual who had kindly consented to leave the many pur suits and claims non his time and attention, in which his eminent talents and abilities involved him, and to de liver the inaugural address of the Se:llmm Mechanics' In. stituto. (Cheers.) It would be presumptuous in him to enter on that occasion into any lengthened panegyric on tho character of Sir Archibald Alison, inasmuch as he should be very imperfectly able to express his high sense Of the abilities, and of the energy of mind and character, which had rendered Sir Archibald so deservedly eminent among his fellow-men, and inasmuch as they themselves must have already formed their own estimate of his intrin sic merits, as the great historian of the ago, whose name would be handed down to posterity with feelings of the deepest gratitude. (Cheers.) The noble earl proceeded gracefully to state that the institution they were that day a inaugt' rating had originated in ono of the dearest wishes of the life of his late lamented father—the happiness and prosperity of Seahani harbour, which he might be said to have called into existence, and he expiessed an ardent hope that it would realise the beneficent aims of its founder. Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON then rose to address the meet ing, and was received with loud and prolonged cheers. He said, often as he had been called on to take part in meetings of this description he never rose to speak with feelings of warmer gratitude, and with higher satisfaction than he did on the present occasion. He had assisted at public meetings of this kind in many of the older cities of the empire—in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen; but this Wa3 the first time that he had been honoured with an invitation to attend a meeting of a different description, which was called not in an ancient, • bat ie a rising city, which attested not the efflorescence of civilisation, but its commencement. (Cheers.) When they looked around them, and reflected on what they now saw, iu what he might now call this rising town—this beautiful and commotlions harbour, and this flourishing neighbourhood, and contrasted its present position with that which obtained five-and-twenty years age, they were almost led to think they were placed amid, not the ancient civilisation of England, but amid the rising energies of America—on the shores of the Ohio, or on the banks of Mississippi—for in no part of that promising and favoured land had been found indications of a more rapid progress than those they saw about them hero, or the seeds of ulti mately a prosperous development. (Cheers.) They could not but reflect, when they beheld around them those snag nificent docks and harbours, and they could not forget when they were assembled iu that hall—containing within it so much that was interesting, attractive, and ennobling, and constructed on the best model of Grecian taste—that all that was mainly owing to the energy, the determina tion, and the patriotism of one man—(renewed cheerse— and be trusted that as one man had laid the foundation of thee prespeetty end edifice, many men would assist in raising the superstructure, and thus the wishes and aspi rations of the noble family who had founded this city on the very shore of a stormy ocean would bo more than realised by those on whom they had conferred those bene fits. Whilst they stood in the very midst of so much that was calculated to remind them of the illustrious noble man whom it had pleased Providence to take from them within the past year , there was room for consolation when they reflected that his mantle had not fallen on unworthy shoulders. They had now in that room some of the sur viving relatives of the deceased nobleman, among whom waste be found all that was most attractive and amiable in the one sex, and all that was energetic, manly, and beneficent in the other. In their presence was one who had been the ornament of courts, and another whose chief a s nxiety was, as it had always been, to see the prosperity and happiness of:Ill:trowel him. (fear.) In contemplat ing this rising city, and all that hail been done here within a quarter of a century, he could not help indulging in the hope that the efforts of the original founder of the place, and of those noble persons who survive hiai, would not prove unsuccessful to themselves. The prosperity, wealth, and happiness which they Lad diffused around them, would ho trusted reflect on their own family, and that all which they now saw about them on every hand was only a dim foreshadowing of what ultimately was to be the grandeur of the house of Vane. (Cheers.) There was also much in what they saw that reminded them of the pest; and it was only by combining considerations of the past, the present, and the future, that an institution of this kind could have its due influence in elevating and ennoblieg the human mind. In the records of this noble family there was to be found enough to awaken and sustain the interest of the most thoughtful men. During the last 150 years England had been engaged in three gi eat contests; he meant the wars of the succession in the beginning of the eighteenth century, the war of the French Revolution, and the one in which WO were now one:se:ed. They be held before them in that room the lineal represent dive of the great hero of the war of the succession. (Cheers.) The young nobleman, then in their company (the Earl of Sunderland), who took his title from a town in this neigh bourhood, as he wee destined to be the lineal descendant, so lie (Sir Archibald Alison) trusted he would be the worthy representative of the great Duke of Marlborough. (near, hear.) On the other bend, in their president, who had just addressed them in terms characterised alike by good taste, eloquence, and philanthropy, they had a repre sentative of the companion in arms and in diplomacy of the Duke of Wellington ; and in another scion of that noble family they had a young nobleman who was not pre sent at the ceretuouy only because be was serving his coun try in the Crimea, and prepared to lay down Lis life for it if required. (Cheers.) Of him it might be said, as Brutus and Cassius said of a brave comrade in arms, that "he was only the more present to the thought because ho was withdrawn from the sight." (Hear, hear.) It was in the social tendency of institutions like the one they were now seeking to establish, in forming and moulding private cha racter, in withdrawing men, and especially the humbler .orders, from habits of vice and degradation, and generally in elevating and improving all classes of the community, that their merit is said to consist. Far be it from him to throw any chill on such pleasing anticipations. They must all have seen to what a large extent these anticipations had been realised. But on the present occasion he felt that an institution of this kind ought to bo regarded in an other light, that was to say, not so much as conducing to the elevation of the individual and to the virtue and hap piness of private families as to the due discharge of pub lic duties by the whole citizens of the empire. (Hear, hear.) This was a light in which he was ready to admit that institutions of this kind had not hi therto been considered, from an unwillingness on the part of those in the habit of addressing the members of such institutions to introduce aught in the nature of dis sension among them. While cordially agreeing with those persons in that view, he still thought there were occasions on which another line might be adopted with adVantage to all parties. And that the present was such an occasion he thought he might, as a proof, appeal to the events pas sing around them, because they were events in reference to which they all felt alike. The persons to whom he wished to address his opinions were not merely private in dividuals, fathers of families, brothers, sisters, and all the different other relations of life—he was desirous of speaking to them as being also entrusted with certain public duties, on the due discharge of which the prosperity and welfare of the empire entirely depended. It was in vain to say they could separate the elevation and instruction of the middle stied working classes from the general prosperity of the empire. They it was who delegated a de&deil majority of representatives to the House of Commons; and if we were to find the foundation for wise measures, on the part of Government or on the part of that house, we must look for it in wise thoughts and wise views on the part of the ceactituoncies. (Cheers.) It was they, and persons like them, who formed the constituencies of the empire ; and it was to them that the country must look for the forma tion of those opinions which were gradually to rise from the great base of the pyramid of society until they reached and properly influenced the comparatively few individuals who wore entrusted with the conduct of public affairs. He contended that unless infor mation, intelligence, and wisdom were implanted in the body of society, in whom the regulation of the nation was vested--that was to say, in the great majority—it was into peeeible to expect that any amount of human ability, on the part of those who governed, was to conduct the affairs of the nation with success, or to avert disaster. hi every point of view it was of the last importance that the people of this country should he duly instructed, and that their information should keep pace with the enlarged and enlarging duties which they were called to discharge. (Cheers.) Errors in conduct, either of individuals or bodies of men, were seldom the result of want of right feeling ; they. mere usually rather the result of want of knowledge, or of misdirected knowledge. Ho would give one or two instances just to show what an amount of blessing might accrue to society if all classes, from the working man up to the Cabinet Minister, were duly instructed, and if informa tion and the lessons of history were so imbibed that error or Wondrous conduct was rendered impossible, There WM 5/ --- e--c--c_.--r______ _ I - PRICE SD. one topic of a social kind, and of great importance to all classes of the community, to which he would advert for a moment, and that had reference to the disastrous contests which took place from time to time between masters and workmen. (Hear, hear.) There was no point on which intelligence and information were of more value than on that. There was no subject on which practical knowledge ought to have greater effect in promoting happiness among the working classes, and in preventing those dis esters and misunderstandings which produced misery and heartburn ing among employers and employed. There was a great dif ference of opinion among persons as to the effect of those strikes. They would see it often stated in the public news papers—it was repeatedly said during thestrike at Preston — that strikes were always unfortunate, and that the workmen who engse•ed in them were always defeated. There were, oa the other ° hand, people, and generally among the workmen, whoalleged that strikes werennerally attended with succesr, and that they were the great means whi:h the workmen had of raising wages. Those were the opposite feelings floating through society on this subject ; and the effect was that from time to time frightful collisions took place between employers and employed, which threw hundreds and thousands of people out of employment for months together, seriously affected trade and commerce, and pro duced an amount of misery and heartbUrning impossible almost to imagine. Now there was au obvious principle by which they might diltineuish truth from felseho3d in this important matter, and he hoped to see that prineiple recognised in the end. The principle he apprehended to be this, that strikes were Euccessful when they were made by the workmen in t rising market, in order that they might obtain _a 'certain proportion of the proats which were accruing to their employers ; amid the point when - strikes became disastrous was when they tylopted that principle which was so Cam mon among them, but which was of all principles the most untenable, and the most de plorable iii its results— namely, that by which, having got their wages raised in prosperity, they sought to prevent them falling in times of adversity. (Cheers.) A pitched battle then often took place, on the part of the workmen, to keep up wages, during a period of distress and suffering, to the level which they-had attained at a period of pre- vious prosperity. When the workmen struck-in arising market, they-6track in their uwti,-intereit,,a.nd they were benefited by it; but when they' struck under — n riLliket, they struck in the interest of the master, be cause the master then got quit of the working men and of ho rate of payment which ho could not -.4,uataiu. In Lanarkshire, where there bad been strikes a% formidable. as in any ether part of the empire, ho had often cnjsyod the entire confidence of the leaders of those strikes, and they often came to him for advice. llehad invariably said to them "If you choose to strike, don't strike whoa the market is against the master. If you want to strike, strike in a rising market ; bat don't strike when the market is failing . You can always judge of the tendency of the market by the state of the funds. If you choose, I will -send you newspapers by which you can ascertain, in a moment, the state of the funds; and when the funds are falling, fur God's sake don't attempt it." There was another matter in regard to taxation in which he wished to impress upon them, and through them upon the country, how desirable it was that an institution of this kind should, if possible, bring the working classes up to a level with the necessities if the else, and put them abreast of their real situation. Ile did not know if they were aware that one-half of the whole taxation that now pressed upon the country — ?,6,000,00 1. a-year—might have been avoided, and the whole of it have been taken off, if the advice that was ton lered to the people of the country in former times had been followed, and if the sinking NIA existing at the end of the war had been kept up to discharge its debt. There • was at the end of the war 15,030,00 C/. a-year of sinking fund ; and if that had been kept up, we should have had at this moment no national debt at all, it would have been all paid off in the year 1815, and we could have car tied on the war to all eternity with , nit either a loan or any other assistance. (Loud cheers.) Bat now the op portunity wee lost. 15,000,0001. a year at c(appoutel interest would have paid off the whole debt iu 1815, and 10,000,000/. a-year would have paid off the whole debt by this time ; and since the peace we had repealed taxation to the amount of 40,000,0001. a-year. Why was it that this enormous benefit had been lost? It was just owing to this, that the middle and working classes had not been properly instructed, and did not know their duty ; and now the debt remained a hopeless burden -on the national energies. These were facts in reference to which he wanted the people in structed. He could not refrain from adverting for a moment to the subject which almost wholly absorbed the national mind at this time—he meant the present state of the war. They could not look at a newspaper, or mix with society, without feeling that that was the all-prevailing ob ject of anxiety. There was hardly a family in the country who had not a father, a brother, a relation, or a friend at present serving in the Crimea. Of the warily of their noble patroness (the Marchioness of Londonderry) there was ono member with the army before Sebastopol, and of his (Sir Archibald Alison's) own family there were to be found two eons engaged in the same perilous duty. (Hear.) How many families were there to whom the departure of relatives for that service carried sorrow and anxiety, and from whom the receding sails of each transport-ship wafted away at once all the endearing memories of the past and all the hopes of the future, and cast them on the ultimate issue of events which no human wisdom could fathom. To them might be truly applied the words of an old English poet : " Then go, and round your gallant heads, like banners in the air, Shall float full many a tender thought, and many an ardent prayer." (Cheers.) When such had been the interest which the present war had excited, it was of the last importance that we should what was the nature of the enemy with whom we had to contend, and what was the cause of the anxiety which had eo suddenly changed the thrill or exultation which followed our first triumphs into some thing akin to the despondency of defeat? He would tell thorn. The power with whom we had to contend was no despicable enemy. Ho was at the head of an empire of 70,000,000 of men, who doubled themselves every seventy years. The whole energies of tho nation were dedicated to war or to preparations for war. Commerce, agriculture, science, art, were all held in subordination to the leading passion. Every young man of any ability was sent to the military schools ; 180,000 men were being constantly so educated, and the ablest among them were reserved from time to time to the profession of diplomacy. At the head of that empire was to be found a man of most remarkable character, who would leave his deeds durably imprinted on the records of history. He was a man of energy, of unshaken courage, of great determination. He was ccr dially supported by the whole Russian nationfor.the Russians were unanimous on that point. Every man, from the Emperor himself down to the serf, was impressed with the idea that the Russians were to conquer tLe world, and that they themselves were to be the instruments of its sub jugation. Te this man, so qualified, and characterised by such extraordinary and extravagant ambition, might be applied, with a slight alteration, the lines of a poet of the last century : " No joys to him paeific sceptres yield ; War sounds the trump, he rushea to the field; Behold, surrounding kings their power combine. * # * it ar Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain ' Think nothing gained;' he cries, `till nought remain, On Stainhoure walls till Russian standards fly, And all ha mine beneath the Eastern sky." (Cheers.) flow was it, again, that in this contest with this great power wo had made so sudden a transition from the exultation of victory to the despobdency of defeat ? That was to be fauna in the neglect of the experience of former wars. They saw that a great deal of blame was sought by the public journals to be laid on this Minister and on that journal. He stood there neither to vindicateeme Minister nor another, nor ono general nor - another ; but he stood there to point out to his fellow-countrymen the errors and faults, he would almost - say the national crimes, which had led to.this war as a national punishment. We had been, all along, unduly confident in our positiou, and lead over looked, during the long peace, all future preparation for war. The infatuation of the country in this respect had been such that when it came to be recorded in the pages of history it would appear almost incredible. There had not been a single Minister since 1815 that had not come into power, or endeavoured to retain power, by perpetual re ductions. of the army and navy. That had not been a matter of party. Whigs, Tories, and Radicals had had the same end ru view, and among thorn they had done the it best to render this great nation utterly powerless in the midst of its neighbours. The people who returned the House of Commons, which had the command of the purse strings, did not know, when one by one they were reducing some small articles of taxation, that there was going on at the same time the loss of the sinking fund, and the' utter prostration of the country for any purposes of just ag gression or defence. Three times during that pacific period, when we were constantly reducing our arma ments, we wore on the very verge of destruction frem the weakness of our military and naval forces. At that very period we 'were three times on the eve of a war—twice with France, and once with France and Russia united. Indeed, so near a war were we on that last oc casion , that the ambassadors of France and Russia bad IeIV London. ' What was our force then ? At that time, .if the French had'attempted to land on our shores, we mild only have opposed to them 10,200 infan try, and 42 guns, the carriages of which had not hien re paired since the battle of Waterloo. (Laughter.) • Really, in this matter there was but one mode of securing national independence and a durable peace, and that was by Teeing always prepared for war. During the 40 years of peace we had Been relaxing the sinews of war, and showing that we were wholly unprepared for any purpose of successful defence. We were the richest nation in the world, and the greatest in commer ce ; we were the obj ec t ' o f e nv y t o every State under the sun ; and was it wise—was it not rather the height of madness—in a country like this to go on reducing its • armaments year after year, and so pro claiming to tte world that we wore in no condition,to fight in the event of being menaced by aggression or hostility ? He m ust say, our existence as a nation at this time might a l m ost be ascribed wholly to Divine interposition, for it had not been preserved either by the wisdom of our states men or of our people. Why was it that we were now in volved in such serious' danger? It was jest because our army was one-third of its proper size. Suppose when the war broke out England bad had 100,000 regular troops, 20,000 cavalry, and 80,000 militia, we should then have gained a decisive success in the first campaign.•• With 40,00 men in the Baltic wa could have taken Cron stadt ; and suppose we had sent at once 50,000 to the Crimea, we should have been able to destroy the.enemy's great fortress on the Euxine. If there had been 6,000 cavalry, instead of 700 at the battle of the Alma, the re treat of the enemy would have been converted into a total rout ; and at Balaklava— fought on the anniversary of the battle of Agincourt, after the lapse of 430 years—if we had had 5,000 more English troops, the valu able road from Balaklave to the camp would have been protected, and 5,000 English horse would have rode tri umphant through 10,000 Russians. At the battle of Inkerman, again, which was destined to be immortal in the world, and would take its place with these of Marathon and Platen, if we had had 20,000 'more English troops, while with the right wing we hurled the Russian bat talions down the heights of Inkerman, with the left wing we would have taken Sebastopol, and the two Grand Dukes, who were present at the action, would only have come up to see the total destructi ' of their father's hop es. (Cheers.) Before he concluded e would. make one Ire markwas, of a more general character, nd that as , as to the probability of the future contin ance of war , and t he moral purpose which war was i tended to ser vo in the - administration of nature, We d beard a good deal o, APPOINTMENTS. Captain John W. Tarleton (1852) has been appointed to the Eurydice, 2G, on the North Atnerica.n and West Indies station. Commander. Thomas A.. 8. Spratt (1849), at present commander of the Spiteful pa'ldle steam-sloop on the Meditei ranean and Black Sea station, is promoted to tho rank of Captain. THE 90-GIIN SCREW SHIP PRINCESS ROYAL FOR THE 'CRIMEA. This ship, at Devonport, commanded by Lord Clarence Paget, will be ready to proceed to the Crimea in a day or two. Major• General Jones, the director of the engineering establishment at Chatham, embarks on board the Prin cess Royal for the Crimea. Lieutenant John Clayton Cowell, Royal Engit,eer officer, who Was with the major general at the taking of .Bomarsund, with four other engineer officers, goes with General Jones to the scene of war; . The ambulance corps, consisting of 1 serjeant and 40 privates, left Chatham yestenlay morning for Devonport, to embark on the 6th inst , on board the Princess Royal, fur conveyance to Scutari, to act as medical orderlies to the sick and wounded so:diers. _ _ _ _ The Ist company of Royal Sappers and Miners, con sisting of 100 rank and file, have left. Chatham for De vonport, to embark in the Princess Royal. Captain James F. M. Browne, Lieutenants Frederick C. Belson, John H. S. Carter, and Alexander De Conroy Scott, are the engineer officers in command of the company. TRIAL 01? THE ESK. The Esk, 21, screw, Captain Birch, went again to the measured mile at Stokes' Bay, yesterday morning to test the power and speed of Griffiths' propeller at a two feet coarser pitch. The results have been highly satis factory. Her speed on Wednesday, at the fine pitch, realised on the average nearly 91 knots per hour, With 68 revolutions, and working up to 181 b. pressure. Yes terday the pitch was altered two fee', and her average Was 94- knots per hour, with 60 revolutions, and 171 b. pressure. The working of the engines has been highly satisfactory, and the results more than could have been anticipated. It must be borne in mind that the Esk is of the Highflyer class, with 250 nominal horse-power engines, having 50-inch cylinders, and 2 feet 9-stroke vibration scarcely perceptible, and with a real improve ment of late introduced by the patentee, Mr. Griffiths. The alteration of the pitch is so simplified that the com monest sailor on board can regulate the pitch of the screw at pleasure. The propeller is hoisted in the ordi• nary way, but where heretofore the pitch has been re gulated by a long key t from the deck, the propeller is now hoisted on a level with the deck ; the fids are taken out, the blade is released, and, by fresh fids being sub stituted the pitch is made coarser or otherwise. At all events, the simplicity of the means conies nearer home .to tho capacity of the Ulna jo.elveu lii the e.luseu,,, of the engineer. The weight of the iron propeller now on trial in the Fmk is about 3 tone ; if made of metal the weight would be reduced to 21 tons. The present ordinary screw-propeller weighs 31 tons ; but, to give a fair trial of their respective merits, the Esk will ship the ordinary propeller this day, and again run the measured mile. Nothing can be fairer than the testing of the qualifica-. tions of the difft,rent principles, and whatever be the re sults the public will have the benefit of. There is one prominent feature as regards Griffiths' portable screw— that of a damaged blade being shifted in a very little time, and such blade weighing but little over 12cwt. THE HINIALAYA. The Himalaya having disembarked all her sickly freight, hauled off from Portsmouth dockyard jetty yes- terday, and will proceed to Southampton to refit. Those rick and wounded not ordered to be accommodated at Portsmouth Garrison Hospital left by railway yester day for the invalid depot at Chatham. Some horses were landed from the Himalaya yesterday, said to be the property of General Sir Do Lacy Evans. They looked in a miserable and jaded condition. The Himalaya is discharging, by means of her own crew, her obsolete stores into a hulk in Portsmouth harbour, and will not get off to Southampton before to-morrow. She is naturally an object,ef much interest in the port, and it is thought probable that her Majesty may go on board her to day, en route from Gosport to Osborne, although the ship is not in th© beet plight for such a visit. THE URCESUS. The Crce , ,us steam transport has been appropriated by Admiralty fur the conveyance of troops to the Crimea. These she will embark at Portsmouth, where the ship may be shortly expected. She will take out about 20 officers and 1,200 or 1,300 men. The draught of 100 men previously ordered for em barkation on board her _Majesty s steamer Princess Royal has been countermanded, and they will now go out, in all probability, in the Omen's. THE WOODEN HOUSES. The loading of the ships at Southampton with sup plies of wooden houses and other stores on account of the French Government, progresses very slowly. The Sidadin, Coriolanus, and Swiftsure are receiving their cargoes, and the former vessel will shortly leave in tow of a steamer for Balaklava. The delay appears to be in the receipt of the houses from the con tractors. A considerable quantity of wooden huts for the British troops have been lying at South ampton waiting opportunities for shipment, and thus it has happened that, while the French ships have bean waiting at Southampton for the wooden huts, the English huts have been waiting for ships to convey them ! A slight accord betaveen the French and British authorities on this head would have prevented the delay which has taken place. A large quantity of asphalted felt, for covering the houses for the English troops in the Crimea, is lying about the Southampton Docks, exposed to the wind, rain, and dust, and will probably be nearly rotten and worthless when it arrives at its destination. This felt is packed in rolls ready for use, and the printed instructions on each roll appear to be indifferently attended to. The screw steamer Union touched at Southampton on Wednesday, on her way to the Crimea, and embarked a small num ber of huts on account of the British Government. THE MECIL.A.NICS AT SHEERNESS. A number of mechanics have been lent from Chatham yard for duty at Sheerness, to expedite the refitting of the ships there. A nunaber of extra hands have been put on the Russell, to expedite her leaving the dry dock No. 2, in which the Amphion is to be placed. They are all working over time. This strip (the Russell) will carry a very heavy armament at an easy draught of water; she is being fitted to carry Lancaster's heavy guns, on traversing pivots, on her upper deck, and it is also reported that she will be provided with two of Cap tain Julius Roberts's (of the Royal Marine Artillery) sea service mortars to throw the 13 inch shells. CONVERSION OF THE WELLINGTON. The Admiralty order for the Wellington to be con verted into a hulk for the crew of the Royal George has been countermanded, and the Benbow, receiving ship for Russian prisoners of war, is ordered to be paid off, and the crew of the Royal George arc to change over to her to-day. The Admiralry have decided on taking all the upperdeck guns out of this ship, and she will . i❑ future carry two pivot traversing guns (Lancaster's im proved) on her upper flush deck. She will then be what is technically called a three-deck ship, with all the men housed in time of action. • THE TRANSPORT SERVICE. There are numerous piles of the wooden barracks for the troops in the Crimea still on the jetty at Portstro - uth dockyard, waiting the means of conveyance. Three thousand blankets have been forwarded from the Ordnance stores to Cork, to be taken by the St. Jean d'Acre to the Crimea for the use of the troops. Within the lut day or two tunny hundred of 'lac:tag-es of free gifts for the army in the Crimea, as well as -for the hospital at Scutari, have been shipped on board the East Anglian and Harlequin ; but the donors of these liberal gifts would most effectually promote their own MISCELLANEOUS. Her Majesty's yachts Fairy, - Master Commander Welch and Elfin, Master Commander Balliston, went out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday to try their effi ciency fox- attendance upon the Queen this day on her Majesty's visit to o;borne. • The Lucifer steam-tug is loading, at the jetty of Ports mouth dockyard with jurymaSts and - gear, to take to Pembroke for rigging the Queen's new steam-yacht Vic toria and Albert, whioli is to bo navigated at Portsmouth to be equipped for her Majsty';d serti.ze. A notice was posted at tho dockyard-gate at Sheer ners yesterday that the Princess Royal would leave Devonport on the 6th inst., - with mails for the Black •Sea. LETTERS FROM THE CRIMEA. (FROM AN OFFICER OP THE GUARDS.) Camp before Sebastopol, Dec. 13. Our Brigade areall very much annoyed at Lord Rag lan's despatch of Inkerman ; independently of his say ing so little about the Guards, the 'despite was not at all correct. Ile mentions that the 20th and other regiments of the Second Division suPported ; thiy ought to have done so, but never did.„ The fact, was, General 'Pennefather, who commands :the Second Di vision, wrote the whole of tie despatch sent to Eng land, and, of course, only mentioned his own divi sion. Lord Raglan ktrew nothing abut the fight at all, and, unfortunately, the three senior officers of the 'Brigade - of guards were weunde:l, and consequently no despatch came in from US . . The Duke of Cambridge quarrelled with Lord Raglan, 84 he said nothing to him about it ; but there is a great deal of talk about the whole thing here, and much diSpleasure. Lord Raglan is getting fast into bad odour with the whole army from his total carelessness of every thing ; there will be a great outcry against him be fore king. The weather has mended, and we are able to get up the fresh guns from Thilaklav - a ; the French got theirs up two days ago, and ours will all be up by to-morrow; we 'Alan then have 10 days more to getup the ammunition ; the shells are so heavy, the largest weighing 2001). - This will be a fortnight from now, when, I suppose, we shall open fire again in earnest. Tbey say we shall not fire.for more than two days and 'nights, as we cannot do very much with the big guns, and then we shall go in. The Russians haVe been for a long time hard at work in the town, throwing up bar ricades, &c., and mean to fight it out. There is a great deal of firing going en every day and night, but not much done, except, now and then, some smart fighting from sorties. There was a very severe ono 'last night, but as I write this on outlying picket, and came on before daybreak, I don't know the particulars. .The firing for teen hours was as great as in au action. Most of the divisidns Were under arms, but we were not turned out, and, though 'less than three quarters of a mile off, I slept through it. I heard the first part, and it was very heaVy—volleys of musketry and cannon. 1,300 sick went off to Scutari from here, and there have been 60 or 70 iiithe,Englisharmy buried daily—all Lord Raglan's fault, in not seeing that cloth ing and shelter were provided for them, which was in his means; but he does not care. . • The following letter is from an English prisoner '2oth Regiment) in the hospital inside Sebastopol: ' Sebastopol, Nov. 23. "I have got the opportunity of writing to let you know where I am. I was taken prisoner on the morn ing of the sth. I was close to that battery on the hill. When the Russians advancel up to the battery I was hit by a musket ball on the right ear ; at the same time a stone or a piece of shell bit me on the body and knocked me down. Before I could get up again I had my firelock taken from me, and was hit on the head, which left me insensible for a time. After they drove our men down the hill, seven or eight of them pricked me with their bayonets, and hit me with the butts of their &docks ; one was going to fire at me, but the others would not let him. They dragged my belt • off, and took me over the bridge, where their wounded were, while (till), night. Then they took us close to the har bour on the right of the town into an hospital. I am getting quits well n The ofg• cr. are trory Li..a t o us. Yr e nape 711, of h,eaa, some soup, with a little piece of moat in it, and a glass of tea pet. day. Thoy say they .hail shift all that is able to go in a few days, but I do not know where. I saw John Hawki ns the first night, but I have not seen him since. I think ho must have died. Mullings, of No. 1, is dead. There is me and Murray of No. 1. Will you let my friends know where I am Off Gallipoli, on board the Magdalena, Dee. 23. A f.rtnight ago this day I left my home for the Cri mea. Several of my friends and neighbours had intrusted to my care th . eir offerings to our brave troops in that country'sdie . warfare. At the stations of the l South-Eastern righton Railways, on which I t h z a tl d t t s o c e t a e o e f l o ou r ;1n ydayto p Portsmouth, I inquired if those packages might be all Owed to pass free. Not only was the boon granted most readily at both, but every care was taken to inform the servants at all the stations where I had to stop on their respective lines of my be ing in the train ; and every attention and civility, as well as many warmly expressed good wishes greeted me on my arrival, and were offered on my departure without a singlefee was remitted on the two occas i ons w h en it was ne cessary for myself of those great conve t me exception. to avail Even the ordinary "cloak-room " conve niences. My packages consisted mainly of blankets, articles of warm clothing, z w. I ant sure you will excuse my troubling you to ex press my gratitude, both on behalf of myself and our brave troops, on such an occasion'; and if you think it to do so. InYletter you are at full liberty worth while to publish I have the honour to subFeribe myself, my dear Sir, Very truly yourS, bAN. A , sistant OMeial Chaplain to the Army in the EIS' is the Maudlin-street Stati on, in Kilkenny, to coin. from a sub- cons t a bl e , l a te o. radTeh;:ollowin,; 4C C am p near Balaklava, Crimea, Dec. 7, 1854. 4 4 ' There are twO sides to every picture.' Up to the time we came to BalaklaVa' We had good times, but in deed the discomforts we are going through now sou could scarcely believe. W e left the Joseph Shepherd on a r n e y the of eon our braveand countrymen fell. You c ould not believe that the fine arm y o f E ng l an d i s re duced to what it i s out here. The few horses that are left are scarcely a bl e to carry their hides, and the poor men, from the cold and hardship they a re go i n g th r o ug h, ust e wherele to s o w h m e are scarcely able to walk. . It is admitted by old sol diers to be the severest campaign that the English have been engaged in for the last century. The guesian army that engaged our troops on the sth are encamped about three miles on our right rear ; we can see quite plain, sitting in our tents, the Cossack sentries, and of course they can see ours. We have batteries placed in good position, and it would require - a great force to dis lodge us. Our (the constabulary) duty at present is the keeping the passages clear about Dalaklava, and where there is such great traffic, takingforagc and everything else that a great army requires, from Dalaklava to where the main body of the army is encamped near Sebastopol. The roads are knee deep with mud, and to see poor men and horses dragging and pulling along the road it would strike pity into any person's heart. There is a good deal of the men dying ; they take cramps from the cold of their feet. The hospitals here are full, and they are sending tthem in shiploads to Scutari every day. We hive an almost constant cannonading up at Sebastopol, and I i i believe the besieged burn the most powder. The French are admittedly before the English, both in being able to carry on the war' in a foreign country, and in their ad• vance on Sebastopol. By what I can hear the Russian fleet are protecting the town, and must he dislodged be fore the place can be talcen. The Allied forces are throwing up batteries to play on the fleet. The Rus sians sally out at night to take the batteries and are beaten back again, and I believe that is the way things are going on there. The weather as yet is not colder than in Ireland, but when a man gets wet to the skin he has no place to go to but a cold tent : when he gets up in the morning he must go about collecting Wood to boil his breakfast, w hi c h consists of green coffee, which must be roasted on the stable shovel, pounded and thrown into the water—=that, with some biscuit, is our breakfast •, bis cuit and salt-beef our dinner ; supper same as breakfast We get 2 glasses of rum a day, which is chiefly the thing that keeps life in ; but we hope it won't be always as bad as it is now: If Sebastopol was once taken our condi tion would be better. Why, it it is not taken, and that the troops have to winter here, history will record another 1812. Some of the mounted Staff corps are in excellent health and spirits ; and I myself never was in better health and spirits ; and we h•Spe,• with the Divine assis tance, to rub out and return to our native country again. Only two of our men died—one a mounted man from Waterford, name d Maguire, the other one of the Eng lish constabulary." WrcH KILLED BY HER HUsnAlits. —The inquest on Ellen Bruin, the wife of Joseph 'Bruin, a waiter, who was killed by her husband throwing a teakettle at her, , t 3 described in Me Sea of yesterday, terminated on Wednesday evening, i n a verdict of manslaughter against the husband, who was committed for trtal at the Liverpool assizes. ttinsei ~l>.~~ /7/77/ - late years of peace societies, and that throtigh the agency of . a grand congress of nations war would pies into oblivion, like the mammoth or the ichthyosauri ; but they might rely upon this, that war would never cease until vice was extirpated from the world. War was the penalty 'which vice inflicted on man, as the pain of elaiL.lbirth was the cures which it had leftupon woman. War was a penalty inflicted on the human race for its sins, and,,:under a mer ciful Providence, it was made the means of working 'out a .cure for its own evils, and of elevating the mind of man. There were many hearts which would be broken, there were many anxieties that must arise, there were. many incalculable distresses that would be produced bw . this contest. Such distress was the inevitable rtsult .of the great national puniehment which the nation watt „ , now undergoing. lie would say one word of coned lation to those who had been bereaved by this contest.' The memory of their relatives, dear to them,.would also- be embalmed in the recolleotion of a grateful country ; their names would never be forgotten either by their re-r : latives, their friends, or their country; . and to them they might well apply the beautiful lines of a poet of a distant period " Bp fairy hands their knell is mug, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To deck the turf that wraps 'their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit There." On the motion of the Rev. A. BETHUNE, seconded by Mr. R. PLUMMER, a vote of thanks was accorded by ac clamation to Sir Archibald Alison for his interesting and eloquent address. A similar compliment was paid to. Earl Vane for presiding as chairman, and with that the ceremony terminated. RUSSIA. The following letter has been addressed to a contem porary beg to append an extract from the jour nal of. the Statistical Society which may interest some of your readers. The latter portion is condensed. from an abstract of a re:um of the population, marriages, birth-, and deaths in the principal provinces if the Russian empire in 1812, procured from Count Nes selrodo by Lord Stuart do Rothesay, at the instance. of Lord Aberdeen, and communicated to the Statistical Society by Maj-a. Graham, the Registrar• General, in 1844 :-- "ENCROACHMENTS OF RUSSIA. " The Russian frontier has been advanced towards Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Vimna, and Paris about 7CO miles. • Constantinople ... 500 " Stockholm.. 7'reherati - '1,006-M:!*;;;:=. , • "The acquilitions of Russia from Sweden equal the remainder of Sweden. Poland equ:,l the Austrian empire. European Turkey equal Prussia., exclusive of the Rhenish provinces. _ Asi.tic Turkey equal the German Small States, Rhenish Prussia, Rolland, and Belgium. Persia eq nal England. Tartary equal European Turkey, Greece, Italy,' and . "The total acquisitions of Russia in sixty-four years ertial her whole Eur..pean empire before that time. "POPULATION OF RUSSIA. Inhabitants. "In 1689, at the ae2ession of Peter I. 15,0W,000 1762 PI CAthetine 11. 25,000,‘ 00 1796 deatn of Catherine 11. 36,003,c00 1825 t, Alexander 53,000,000 1842 in the reign of Nicholas 60,000,090 "In 1542 the returns La•l not been received from Georgia, Koury k, the Trans-Caucasian, or the Caspian provinces ; neither are included in the return Finland, Poland, the Don Cossacks, the Cossacks in the ceuutry of the Black Sea and of the Ural ; the provinces of Yakutsk, Karr;schalca, Okhotsk, or Russian America. ACcerdi,,,g to the last census the females preponderated over the males, but not neatly to the extent they do in England. The births were 4.45 per cent.; the deaths 3.75 per cent. ; the excess of the former indicated an i:ieraaso of 7in 1,000 annually. In Russia liu 99 per- Eons married annually; in England 1 in 128. The mor tality in Russia was 1 in 27; in England 1 in 45 an nu:illy. The areasof the Russian empire was estimated at 7,700,000 English square miles, or 85 times the ex tent of Great Britain. The mortality of Russia was least in the north and north-west provinces, and greatest in the southern ; in the latter the mortality was 5 times greater than in the former. The return had been drawn up apparently with great care and accuracy, and gave a high opinion of the administrative talent and energy with which the Government was carried on.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, 12, St. James's-square. EDWARD CHESHIRE. POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY. (Prom the Liverpool Chronicle, of Dec. 9, 1854.) On Monday evening the usual monthly meeting of the Polytechnic Society was held ; Mr. Newlands, borough engineer, in the chair. TELE PLATING WIRE BURNER. Mr. Arthur Jackson read the following paper on gas expansion :—I have the pleasure of introducing to your notice and for your discussion a simple but very effica cious manner of increasing the light from a given quantity of gas, or of economising the expenditure to a consider. able extent. It is effected by inserting a wire in the in terior of the flame, by which simple means a considerable expansion takes place. I was desirous to have measured the difference of the light before you ; but it was impos sible to make the experiment in a satisfactory manner in a room of this description. In order, therefore, to have the same impartially tested, I solicited Mr. Nei lands to do so, who, together with Mr. Boult and Mr. King, the engineer of the gas company, assisted by Mr. Edwards, very obligingly did me the favour. I will show you the contrast from one and the identical burner, with and without the wire, so that you may judge of the same yourselves—the gas escaping from the same apertures will leave no doubt on your minds as to the quantity consumed. You will, therefore, be able to form your opinion of the increase of the light without difficulty. Why this increase takes place I must leave in the hands of gentlemen more skilled in the science than znyself to decide, as opinions are conflicting. Some have observed that they could account for it if the wire was rod hot ; but being cold, or rather comparatively so, as I will show you directly, they are at a loss. If lam allonted to state my opinion, I think it arises from the gas playing on the wire; it becomes spread over a greater surface, thereby allowing a' larger quantity of the oxygen of the air to mingle with it. The escape ef gas being also im peded, a portion of the interior ot the fleme is made to emit light, whicli, in the ordinary burner, is consumed without yielding any. To look at a burner casually, it does not appear of much consequence whether it consumes two, three, or four feet per hour ; but when you reflect that the amount paid for artificial light in this country amounts to some millions annually, it then becomes a matter of interest how to economise the expenditure, and I flatter myself that I shall be able to prove to your satisfaction that this small piece of platina wire can do its (azty. Mr. Jackson then exhibited his invention. By the insertion of the wire in the gas flame it became visibly iucreased. The wire in the blast of the gas was com paratively call, but when outside the flame it became rid hut. In redly to a question it was stated that the cost of the burners would be Sc. per dozen ; the wire was lode struceible, and would last as long as the burner. The eflict of two wires was to increase the flame still more, to the ci.tent of about five per cent. Mr. Huggins asked if steps had been taken to measure the extent of the increase.—Mr. Jackson replied in the affirmative. Mr. Joseph Boult, stated he was present at an experi ment which bad been made nettle presence of tbe chair man and Mr. King, and the result was that from the same burners, measured by the intensity of the light, the saving would be from 17 to 25 per cent., but they were tot able to be very precise in the amount. Mr. Boult.then proceeded to consider why the introduction of the wire increased the amount of light, and came to the conclusion that it was caused by slower combustion. The chairman agreed with Mr. Boult that the increase of light was produced by slower combustiOn rather than by the introduction of mere air, which caused the gas to burn blue, not yellow. He agreed that the saving in gas was from twelve to twenty per cent. ; but its operation was most anomalous, the smaller gasburner giving , the best results. This opened up a field of investigation, which he hoped he should be able to pursue ; but he considered that Mr. Jackson's b, rner was more suitable fcr gas made in London than in Liverpool ; but even in Liver pool its use would effect a saving by increasing the illu minating pewer.--Mr. Salt Asked had Mr. Jackson's invention been applied in Liverpool 2—Mr. Jackson said it nad been applied in the Angel Hotel, the Ex change Newsroom, Stock Exchange, Stork Hotel, and many other places. If it were a month later he had no doubt he should be able to give most sati, factory re sults. Mr. Towers had i-iformed him that his saving was about 31. for one month. His gas rent was about 2001. per year, and he expected to save him about 501. per annum. The chairman expressed his willingness to afford every facility to gentlemen who might be desirous to ascertain the result of the experiments which were making on this subject under his superintendence. Thanks were then voted to Mr. Jackson for his in teresting paper. Ll:etoarlvie by RECRUITS.—During the past week about 150 recruits and seamen have arrived in this town from London by railway, under charge of their officers. Some •f the former joined the depot here; but the majority were conveyed to Portsmouth. They were in excellent and cheered heartily at the several stations, and were cheered in return.—Br . ighton, Gazette. ' the year the date will be EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY Pros.-"BY a strangespirite, coiacidence which will not again occur for a long ti me , om Septuagesima to Advent the new year commences on the same day as in 1849, and c,msequentiy all through on the same day. But what-is mere singular is that all the moveable holiday fail on the same dates And the same days. The almanaoks of 1849 might therefore ser ye for the present year. MEETING AT 3fAimilEsTEß.--The atinual meeting of i„ t ..• At a nieeting held yesterday morning, at the the Manchester4.iiberals is fixed for Friday evening, the e-rooms, George Wilson in the chair, it was Mr. Alexander 'Henry, and seconded by Mr. G. Hadfield, M.P., "That a soiree be given in honour of the members for Manchester (Messrs. Milner Gibson and John Bright), to take, place at the Corn. Exchange, on the 19th inst." The resolution was carried unani mously. Mr. Cohthn, M.P. and the members for the county are to be invited. The gentlemen present at the meeting included Alderman Sir Elkanah Armitage, Alderman Ile3 wood, Councillors James Watts, -- Mackie, J, Simpson, and Fildes. -.--- , --.... 4, + , --.. • „,..„.... b ,._°IAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. -- '.Ur."..„ following REMARKABLE NOVELTIES have been 1,4,-;•,Lity.pREPARED. I tberr "RE by J. H. PEPPER, Esq., on Professor Wheatstone s t *Rto r Z,n„ts an the TRANIM ISSION of SOUND through Solid Con ,ltm.p!strated by a TELEPHONIC CONCERT. ' 4I .L b p .f.: l -R f of an ENTIRELY ' NEW and SPLENDID OPTI 4A/LoicitAMA. illustrating the VOYAGES of SINBAD the 11313t0 Pria'.- w .:.9 1 Beautiful PHANTASMAGORIA. EFFECTS, and lIoi);:.„lus!c arranged by Mr. Wand. TRIAL 0 - EVENING, the Bth inst., LECTURE to the INDBIT,SN SPIcta. ir v,,: On PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, by Day= - Great InCria' tte. . s .. l i. siE ( -, -- ~‘ , l e in the 'VIEWS of the WAR : the BATTLE , of the '''' c '' ° cc. -''' of SEBA.STOPOL, the ENGLISH BATTLRIES, LECTITIVe: o n , War, the STP:kut NI IN . TB RIFLE, and that powerful implement of been erected by 3,1 tr,,,. Droiecting Sixty Palls per Minute, Aventno. -4424 4 and will be discharged daily and in the LECTURES on EEE.,. Mr. CRAweeen's VOCAL -ern' by Dr. B ACHHOFFNEA. _ __ _ BONGS of SCOTEAND DAVlS'Sm otis. Fo r r th e , a d n-Itory, I'ICTERTAINMIINT of the PATRIOTIC Ail the other LECT UR KS, t atrS pedal Amusement of the Juvenile I :Tesh decorations. M AR lONETTES will b_e e e xh_ i e b . it a e c ci . . R EIIIIITIONS of MODELS, Bt. . & X 4,- .1411 % VAR NoottnEN's e , ulir; 41 ' i v llusical Game, the POLY-HARMONl pialue4l Daily b y the Inventor. Ills Large Theatre. Is open on Saturday Evenings, from Half-past "&” :1 4 .91. Ten, with Mr. Cralrfor,Ps Vocal Illustrations of the ntic Bon d gs of Scotland, the A merican Entertainment, end Mr. 411 Ran, , ~..-._ HENRY RUSSELL, THE V37ALIST. Will shortly be published, AM AGNI FI OEN T LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT (24 inches by 20). This distinguished Cotnposer may justly be entitled the " Dibdin" of the age, from the many beautiful QOngs he h.:14 written, amongst which may be ranked, "Cheer, Boys, Cheer," and which have cheered many a brave heart in ~be Crimea. Proof copies, is. 65. 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