The Sun. — London, England, 1855-01-01 00:00:00

• • 'zxfiluisrrz CURES WITH MESMERISM. _ • •- Just published, price Is. 6d., /r - HE ZOIST, Na is .now ready, and JL contains remarkable Mesmeric Cures of Gout, Rhemn wathich Neuralgic agony, Housemaids Knee. and of Diseased Bone had been previously treated with torturing measures in an hospital ; an account of Reichenbach's last work, and his exposure of Liebig ; the cerebral• Development of Alex. Dumas; Swedenborgi mina ; the identity of certain instances of alleged Witchcraft with Mesmeric Disturbance ; some cases of remarkable Sleep ; with an exposure of Sir B. Brodle's errors and his injustice, by Dr. Elliott on ; ani more mischief from Spirit fa ncies. " London Illppolyte Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. _ _ CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. - ROYAL PANOPTICON of SCIENCE and ARC, Leicester-square.— Novel Attractions Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with accom panients on the grand organ by Mr. W. T. Best, and the legend of A m laddin told by Mr. Leicester Buckingham—Dioramic Views of the War in the Crimea—Luminous Fountain, 100 feet high— Heincke's Piv ng Apparatus and the Subaeous Light hi te Crystal Cistern—Cestnoraraa of St. Petersburg and Moscow, with Portrait of the Czar Nicholas—Lectures on Electricity—Chemistry -- Natural History—And the History of the Bee, for juvenile audi ences during the morning performances—Franklin's Arctic Voyages and Natural Magic in the evening. Doors open in the morning at 12, In the evening (Saturday excepted), at 7. Admission, Is.; Schools, and Children under 10, Half-price. IRURY-LANE.—Le3see, Mr. E. T. Smith.— Reduc d Prices as caaal.— A Morning Performance every Wednesday, at Two o'clock. TUB .Tax. 1, Will be presented EMT EN CO. Cheracters by Messrs. T. Mead, Belton, A. Younge, mod Worrell; Misses Marriott, Arden, and War rington. Atter which, A DEAD SHOT. To be followed by the entirely ortginal, extraordinary, lite rary; traditionary, comical, gastrononecel, and peculiarly culinary •and fare vale domestic grand comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled JACK AND JILL; or, Harlequin King Mustard and the Four and -Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pic. The extensive scenery, en tirely new, by Messrs. Nicholls, Cuthbert, Cooper, Gordon, Wilson, and Moore. The machinery by Messrs. Tucker. The extraordinat I properties, decoratione, tri•ks, changes, and transformations by Mr. Needham. The choregraphic arr ngeme.nts by Madame Louise. The overture and music composed and selected by J. 11. Tully. Leader, Mr. Hayward. The whole attic designs, models. and sketch es fltrnished from the studio of Dikwynkyn, who for many weeks past has been personally supervising their execution. The novel grotesque burlesque opening invented and written by E. L. Blanchard ; and the wnole arranged and pro.hiced under the immediate superM teudenee of Mr. Edward Stirling. Principal Ingredients in the Christmas Bill of Fare : -The Hall of Hypochondria in the Domains • of Delnese.-Misanthropy (Genius of Gloom). Mrs. Belford. Fog, • Drizzle, Taxes, Spleen, Indigestion.' Quarter -day (his Ministers of Melaneboly), Messrs. E. V. Dent, E. V. Wet, E. V. Load, V. Bills. Azure Dietetical., in Eatte V. Day, E. V. Weight , an d E . n d._ since, Messrs. Croak. Quake, Fret, Fidget, Worry, Flurry, F ame , Vex, G roan. G ro wl, Grumble, and Grizzle. Apparition of Misan thropy Op r e fte . me tee Nightmare, and Magical App earance of Good e-Iltrinoutan her Christmas Car. Good Humour, Miss Alder; Llghtbeare and Sunshine (her Attendants), Misses Honey and B e ' Mrs: Glasse (the original " Cook's Oracle,' ani the well known adviser of the " First Catch your hare," &c.), Miss Rosina Collins. The receipt given to make a good pantomime, and its con ecretioh accordingly. Cottage of Jlll on the borders of Fairyland (by Sunrise), with Enchanted Kitchen, Garden, and Region of Preserres. "Sing a song of Sixpence, • e Pocket full of rye, "Four-and-twenty blackbirds, . ‘, - " Baked in a ple."-Anclent Nursery Legend. Jack (the Interesting hero of the olden story, who went up the hill to fetch, Sec ),alterwards Harlequin, N. Memo; Jill (the heroin e o f the adventure, in love with Jack), anerwards Columbine, llfdlle Roleno ; Marenalaee (the Fairy Queen of the Pr eserves ) , Miss K. Warrington ; • Pineapple, Raspberry, L emon, Cherry, Apple,. Greengage (her Assistants), Misses Cllflord, Gower, •lohnsoand n,Lot-e, ; Strawberry, Cranbpererrsye,r,Gesno),ssneeenrry, Lords, and Richardsen Cur rant, Apricot, Damson, Quin e, &c. (Fancy , Cbanic es Grace Honey, Ellen Honey, Laurance, Louise, Therese Sidney, Gordon, Barnes, Emily Barnes, Richardson, Eliza Richard son,eKin' Rose, Sidney, Emily Moore, Elizabeth Smith, Lille Ellis, Rosa H E. Box, Tayler, Matilda Cheilley, Preserved St. osa Ey ms, John Levine., S. Johnson, and Roberts • anba Blooming their warm :illy), Master l'ungent ; Fruit Blossoms Selection of Corypheel. The Will and the Way-the y Talismanic Sixpence -7 he Change. Grand Beeet. Principal Dancers, Mdlle. Therese and Annie Cushnie, Therese, Smith, &c. The Four-and- Twenty Blackbirds, Masters Tweet Tweet, Toot Tod, LOodle Loodle, asc. The Reading of the Will " Jill must not a husband take, , Till she a pie can make and bake." Interior of Jill's Cottage (by Moonlight).-Coal. Mr. Nobbs; Bundle Of Weed, Mr. Halfpenny ; Conereve Box, Mr. Fizzer ; Bellows, Mr. Leathertongue; Dutch Oven, Mynheer Von Tan ; Rolling Pln, Mr. Smoothpaste ; Gridiron, Mr. De Bar; Frying Pan, Mr. Broadrim ; Soyer's Three-legged Iron Pet, Herr Potluck. Cruet Castle in the Table Cloth Territory (by Moonlight), and Golden Palace of King Mustard.-King Mustard (afterwards Clown), Harry Bolen° ; the Empress Vinegar (afterwards Pantaloon), Herr Kohl ; Black Pepper and White Pepper (eentinels on duty - at Cruet Castle), Mr. Husky and Mr. eneezums ; Sweet Oil, Miss Florence: Cayenne, Mr. Capsi cum; Harvey's dance (attendant in waiting), Mr. Savoury ; the Army of Zees*, Messrs. Indian Soy/Curry, Capers, Ketchup, Mushrooms, Garlic, Shelot, Sweet• Beres, Ported Tongue ; Potted Beef, Potted Bloaters, Potted Anchovies, Potted shrimps, &c.; Horse Radish (from the Klinger stab's), by a Racine Na. e Grand Review-Ter rific Attack upon the Appetite, and Reify of the Relishes-Great Progress of .1111 in her Culinary Career. The Abode of Chutnee in the Province of Pickles (by Sunset).-Cliuteee (Chief of the Pickles), Mr. Fiery Fact ps ; the Pickle Army, Messrs. Onlens, Walnut, Gher kins, Canlifiewer, Red Cabbage, Ste.; Small Jar, Master Piccalilli. Great demand for Pickles and determination of the Door to Stand a Jar. Interior of he Stupendous Salt efine (by Moonlight).- Salt Rock (a bright Wla to Sprite), Herr Willikind Moleno. Imminent danger of Jill in splitting upon a Hock of Silt - Treachery of Vinegar - Upsetting the Pall above, and Evaporation of the Saline Stalactite "'ulnas. diselosing The Emerald Temple of Salad.-Magical Union of the Sweets and Sours, and " a Pio" termination of the Lodes of Jack and Jill. The Trans f orma ti on . -H a rlequin, M. Milano'i : Co7ttmblnes, Mdlle. Ilo'eno and Miss Ellen Honey ; P antaloon, Mr. C o l e ; Sprite. Herr Willikbul Moleno; Clown, the celebrated Harry Bolen° (hi; first app'arance in Landon for many years) ; Aerial Evolutionists, by the inimitable Italian Brothers. •The Turk's Head Public-house and Hairdresser's Shed Hairdresser, Mons. Pomade; Publican, Mr. Billy Williams; Customers, Messrs. Rednob, Smockface, Owen Swift, Beardless, Whisker Want, Baron Niche son, and Tom Steed; the British Pub liebY themselves; Policeman Al, Mr. Vigilant. Aperoach of tho Great Rugged Russian Bear-How he IVhines after the Porte, which, Ong rather old. turn; out somewhat crusty-A Dose of Turkey Rhubarb -A Don-e Cossack -Pure Circassian Cream-How one Sham 111 makes all well-The Great Bear turns out a Great Boar "-Uneaten Attachment to Grease-Clown Cuts hi. Customer's Hare sad afterwards Dresses it a la Soler-The Great Moustache Move ment -A Close Shave -Clown shows hie high attachment to the Pole-Sudden Rise in Porter-An Ni .T.M.P.-A Patten Look at 10 O'clock --A Bona Fide Traveller -Ginger Beer and Gin without ger - ' Lill . a light, a Regular Row, and Station-house fur Two. Great Anteriaan Baby Show. -Am val. of the In rant ry-itlden Squall-m e -- -'s upon the Bye of Battle-General Attack--Awarding the Panes -Clown and Pantaloon's Offs; rinea -The Prettir st Baby In the Wcrid-A Model Bab y rin d a Spirit child - The Wonderful- • En WI in Dr. De Jongh's Cod Liver . Oil-i 1 ,Wleti Great Prize Baby -Fresh Arrival efelo more habits-The Judge Confounded-Great Uproar--An Unwelcome Visitor to a Ladies' an l Juvenile Party and Extr_ordinary case of Sut•perNeetent,p=„e,fitilezne, by the Ita lian Sprites. Scott's 'tester Shop, and Pursell's Biscuit Biking and colkrectionpry F a t acishm,iit, Cornhill -" Up rouse day' Roister • for ye then, my merry men, it is our o; ening ens 'nil a Lobster fer tsv,, -A Mussuen su and a Man for a -uccie-D etY and Cuseciel - A Bride Cake and a Wedding Cake- Pint Eat Pr 'n end sec on d Editi on -Left Out f r want of Ro m - en of the rev lee an I Pnvileges or th i Press " Oh, what a r e esr. *rumpus, what a r i o ti ng. " teak-r, Mr Crivs'y ; Fishmonger, Mr. Seale , ; Matter Newsboy. Christmas -box; le litters, Messrs 1 P° 4 i ' l ChaPel ; Editor, Mr. Cutem town : Critic, Cutemup; Pas sengers, Metiers. Trot, ey, Co en Mende Ileare num, Mr. sl'Oba‘da7 .lon Hose r' seep a nd New Win g of t se, Loune,e, Loiter, and Walk. Somerset-house. --Here . we a-e-I-Merre Christin es and a Happy New Year - 11411 Prices and Low Prices-Manchester Stuff-Eng lish Contertere-Stocka on ilane an d Handsome .stocks--Ford'sEureka Kirin--Reform in the Civil List and lene'vil Treatment oi the Clerks-Transfer-day at the Bank, and General Heyday at Sonleraet•hou• e --nosier, If r Stock en ; Shopman, Mr. Early bird; Boy, Master Toddles. Soyer's Mrazie Kitchen.-Chef de Cui s i ne, Mons. !Royer; Kitchenmalds, Insli4see Basteaway and rlisPlnesell; Guardsman, (or oral ton gshanke ; Policeman, ereeant Podger. rei 1 :0 , 1 1 ve g-Soy er's Last Soup - Where's the Knives and P a Fo ( rks e m He r it'd and leramiled Lob sters -Heelless Swains-Lobster Patty read Gielet Soup-Clown Gene all to Pot-Harlequin 'lets well Towelled and afterwards Mangled -Clown and Pan-Moen ring lestio . Thou comeat in Sne l l an . • . .11 tripe, that I win speak n na a essterr-n Regular 'lra te thee (Soyer, or rather Shakseeare)-Teo Many Cooks Spell the roth-The scene finishes (Clown's) et An Illuminist m in a very A wes n with Panoramic Effect 1 I ablea illuminated Page of the nistory of England.-Grand Alleeorical spirited manner. I, , ustre NI , Forces. Yowl T Quadrille," by the double bawls of the e• • unities "Allied Army . i • of the Triumphs of the - n Partant pour la Syrie," an.•-1 enell Is and French.e Cod save the Queen," Regiment, Mies lietecea Collins, the spirited patreiti , 'rule rrltannia " patee:litwer..ofstnhige la which character she will for Deeemeer, and. . r e wig, eine" c effusion. pu ensiled in " Blacewee , • , written t • • Mew Gluards, when the e Corp° , al John Brow's, of the Grena- Balaklava, see men g t soma drink for the Brat time at UM:- " Come all yonLeallant British hearts that love the red and blue, And drink the health of those Then fill the a let it glass, an _ erie bravet:cis who made the Riv.sians . .nt mei of SeptembPsera,se,it,,hbrteeeentlitlenhr,rlea, For the twe • Vestibule of the Temple' the Brave Patriots. ist of i) V , ictery. The Tribute of England to n s d na tl o 4 o -f l o ia z o rr re, Electric Scenic f ' ri Mem of Laurel Wreaths, Goreeetis and Illurnin i Timex, with Hevelve e . ' e atee t ecenenis awl Valle, at ens. Terrine Fright ' scene pressmen a coup d, re 1143 Italia', Brothers. The whole stage. Adraladon :-s et tau ceil never before wieseesed on the English upper circle, 3s: • 1, 55.; dress a rele, 44. ; second price, 25 -i , second lower gallery, Is , Price, Is. Grin pit, 2s. ; second price, Is ; boxes, sec en , ISt ., 11.,, ! t rice, td.; upper gallery, Gd.; private performence at 7 o'clock" and upwards . D tore open at hale-pet 0, open dally, from II till 5 Half-price at 9 o'clock. The box office Chetterton. o'clock,Welk..--The following under the direction of Mr. Edward prepru•ation, and will shortly be llegalise pt cos are approved and in Palteetime, by E. L. Be ieeiar Pre'lneed : -The Grand Christmas milt, r -sq ; Two Dramas, b - A. ,Esq. ; a Drama, by Dlon Bound- Meyerb , er's Opera, L'Etdle3'Harris' Esq. ; an Adaptation from and effects ; to be succeeded by du Nord, with new scenery, properties, son) 01 Gluck'. l ehlgenia In TinarlidEnglistiver6:4l (by Mr. Reynold- Ilan Drama, many months in s• The Grand Historical Egyp- Preparation, will also shortly appear. THEATRE ROYAL HAY M ARK F.l. Under the management of Mr. lenckstone. THIS EYENT.NO, Jste, 1, Will be performed the Drama of Till; KNIqIITS OP THE RO(T'SD TABLE. Characters by Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, W. Farren, Compton, and Buckstone; Misses Reynolds and E. Chaplin. Followed by a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled LITTLE RO•PEEP; or, ;iarleluln ant the Girl who Lost h.r Sheep. Little 110-peep, Miss L. 'i hompson ; Harlequin, Mr. (Moping; Pantaloon, Mr. IV. B trues; Clown, Mr. Appleby; Columbme, AE3 , SI. Brown. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRP.. Under the Matugement of 31r. Unlaces FEAN. Tills E, EVNINO, JAN. Will be presented THE COURIER OF LYONS. Principal charac ter ey Me. C Kean. After which will ix, Pro , lncecl a New r hri,itmas Pantomime. entitled. 11.1.M.EQUIN I'AXE-LIE.AI:I>: or, The Great ]Cashew, Ea:legal% mr.Cormack; Clown, Mr. amine; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; and Columbine, Mist Destiorou4ll. TEMATKE 1 :0VAIN Al)ker 4 pi Proprietor, Mr. li, Webster.—D nctreas, Madame THIS EVENINO, JAN. j by Wilt b 3 retform d RONA FIDE TRAVELLERs. Mes rs. Rimer, P. Bedford, Kee , ey, Mrs. Kee•ey, After wb!ch, a new grand Eccentric Extravaganza, called Z'G. ZAG ; • r, Travels at Messrs. Lanttbe and l'ruth. To be followed by THE CAME' AT CIIOBIIAM. To which will be added a naw Farce, cut:tied TILE RAILWAY BELLE. ROYAL OLYMPIC THE I.T/tE. • Les3ee and Manver. Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, JAN. 1, Wlll he presented a new Comedietta, called A WIFE'S JOURNAL. Characters by Messrs Brown, Emery, Harcourt, and Leslie;' and Airs. Erown, and Miss Masitell. A.ter which, a new Fairy Extrai=anza. entitled THE YELLOW DWARF .t THE KING OF TILE GOLD MINE}. Charac ters by Mr. F. Ronson. Miss Julia t. George, Miss E. Ormende, hiss Marston, Mies Bromley, and .‘irs. litzallan. To concinde with the Farce, called A BLIGHTED BEING, in which Nir. Itob3on will appear.. ROYAL LITE TEI EATRE. Urvter the management of Madame Vectris. Sole Lessee Mr, . Mathews. TUB EVENING, Jam I, Wm be perf;rtned AGGRAVATING SAM. Principal character Mr. C. Mathewa. — b Produced a new and original Fairy Extravaganza, eia titled PitIN CE PRET TIT E and 'flip: PTE h ELT. " 19"0,-,1 'IF 1../ .. 4 ISETrEIt THAN* ONE. Pox-otter 4'y 1' V) • S ... Aeitgant°lol' r e P i r r t ° v n ale l 2. ° o u x ri e t :i, l .3 (3. 1r. Alerort, 15, New Bond-street. j.- - I, 4 4.kai.ANDS t fir, harlequin and Britannia! ,„ , N . x T sn , A.‘Tti,:rs ttoyAr, A 70 V. l ..a'" -.- ~,, ~,. • Lutist. r.u.l Manager, .;r. V711"11 Ci°,-;L:i'o - Tietnendous success of the Comic Panto , RFO 11 11- IR -No 1 E . THIS DAV, at Two o'clock, a fiRAND M r (...S - ASCE, NA hen will he presented N kANTOMIME, with a bril'iant routine ot SCE NE:S in the CIRCLE. THIS EVENINCI, ENV EQUESTRrA.N e 0311( And during the week, the .qiletield Spectacle of THE BATTLE of THE ALMA! With a Claesical Se:les of SCENES in the mtENA! conclude with the gorgeous Equestrian Comic p tornime S 1 7 . ad ' tett tiULLI %TER'S TRAVELS TE1.1,01.7(111 Tit thHORSE r. 1.1 t *- ' 114t-olnto oh front Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. s'• i , West, It rhrig Manager, Mr. IV. H. Cooke. Equestrian Dlreater, d 4r. .-1'...#44 W . Co . oke, ).., ...... ..,.. t' x. .... ~,...,..„,._„.,,,,,,,,,.. ...,:e ...„. ~.,„.., vl,atie,_ ~......,.. „......„. VIATIVaS Ai 7Y THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1855. A British army was despatched to Scutari, and a British fleet to the Baltic. The latter captured ani destroyed Bomarsund in conjunction with the Allies, and made the Russian fleet keep close under the walls of Sweaborg or Cronstadt. It clid not fulfil the expectations of the nation. But that we firmly believe to have been the fault of the Home authorities, and not of the gallant Ad miral in command. The land expedition lay for some time inactive, while disease and privation more than decimated their ranks. They saw their Allies engaged in a life-and-death struggle, but no effort was made to relieve . or assist them. It was not until August that a movement in advance was attempted, al though the intention was suffered to leak out, so as to put the CZAR on his guard, and enable his servants to prepare a warm reception. Tran sports were then assembled, and in the beginning of September the army sailed for the Crimea, where they were landed at Old Fort on the 14th ef Septem ber, without loss, or even a show of resistance. On the 20th the glorious battle of the Alma followed, and soon after the celebrated flank movement on Balaklava, the propriety whereof is at present more canvassed than on its first announcement. Since then there has been the attempted surprise at Balaklava, rendered memorable by the un fortunate misapprehension which led to the self-devoted sacrifice of so many of our brave cavalry soldiers ; and the battle of Inkerman, where a greater number of the assailants were placed hors de combat than the entire number of the defenders of the position. We have also had a winter Parliament, -remark able only for the establishment of an unconstitu tional force, and the impression occasioned by the Ministerial proposition that Englishmen were un able to defend themselves without the venal aid of mercenaries. We must zow look forward confidently and hopefully. We trust the New Year will bring more resolute councils, and that the British Government may, even at the eleventh hour, show themselves worthy of the position in which they ars placed, and fulfil the expectations and wishes of the people whose destinies are placed in their hands. Let Sebastopol be taken, and Austria will Dave serious grounds enough to dread the vengeance of Russia. NICHOLAS can no more forgive his im perial serf than he can a patriotic Pole. Her con tribution to British losses at the victory of Inker man will not mitigate his wrath in the least. Austria dared, by mistake, to congratulate the Allies, and has since dared to set 03IEIt PACHA at liberty for the Crimea, and to sign " a treaty which, defensive to-day, may become offensive to morrow." She has sinned beyond the hope of pardon. This position of hers is the only ground on which we can hope that she may do from ne cessity at last what she ought to have done from a sense of honour and right long ago. It is, however, time that she bestir herself. Whenever the Crimea becomes a hopeless battle-field for Russia, she will bring the greater part of her power to bear on Austria. The young murderer of the Hungarian officers for whose life even a PASKIEWITCH intereetied, the young tyrant who has suppressed the national institutions of Hun gary, will then have that yet powerful country more favourable to the Russians than to him. Prussia will never help him, and the Poles, unless gained in time, will be his bitter enemies. Aus tria has wronged them only less than Russia, and they will gladly seize any opportunity to plunge their bayonets into either oppressor. NICHOLAS has, moreover, one advantage over the boy-king. His people and the Poles are of one race—they are all Selavonians; and deeply as they feel the wrong: inflicted on them by their fellow Sclavonians of Russia, they are yet more incensed perhaps with the Austrian and Ger man contempt for their race. Austria was indebted to her Sclavonian population • for passing through the revolution of 1848-9 without dismemberment ; they expected as a reward a Sclavonian policy, but they have been recompensed with a steady effort to convert them into Germans. This, being the majority of the population of Austria, they naturally resent. NICHOLAS has therefore but to offer some conces sions to the Poles, and to take the lead in a cru sade for vengeance on the contemners of the Scla vonian race, and the Poles would follow him. Why should they not? If Austria be not willing to restore them to nationality as the best safe guard against Russia, nor the Allies as their only reasonable material guarantee for a lasting peace, why should they not take up with the next best thing, and compel one despiser of the Sclavonian race to feel its terrible power when aroused and united to avenge, where it can, a long series of insults. If Austria is to be secure against the possible vengeance of Russia next summer, a n d against the despairing co-operation of Poland to inflict it—if, too, the Allies mean to have Poland with them and not against them, and to secure the aid of Sweden, who waits on this one condi tion then the declaration of Polish nationality as the fifth and the greatest point must not longer be deferred. Count VALERIAN KRAsursicr, wino, at least, may be presumed to know the minds of his countrymen, assures us that from such consi derations as these alone the question is an urgent one. It has been frequently asked by a leading jour nal, and with an a i r o f per f ec t knowledge--Howare wo to got a t P o l an d ? Wh e th er oar s hips are to sail on dry land and disembark their troops at Warsaw? It is interesting, in reading the care fully-reasoned pamphlet alluded to, to see the difference between pretentious and scoffing decla mation and real knowledge. Wo give in another column an extract from the Count's pamphlet, which will be interesting information to nearly every one of our readers, and which will show that the writer fully understands the prac tical as well as the political part of his subject. He marks the very part of the Baltic from which Poland may be invaded with success, with the certain co-operation of the inhabitants of the dis trict, and with equal certainty of cutting the Russian line of communications, while the base of our operations would be a sea coast comparatively near to the ports both of England and France. In fact, the more the question is discussed and studied, the more must every thinking man be convinced that it is pre-eminently the great prac tical one of the hour. It may suit the purpose of venal writers, sold to Austria and Russia in 1848, to pooh pooh it as the vagary of refugees ; e i migra.nt e ; it may suit an aristocratic Cabinet to forget, if they can, an aristocracy as noble as themselves, though pining out their days in Siberia, or as tint not to disqualify h er for despot's hope —to leave her clo t' : it may suit a Ministry which would tint fir its credit's sake perhaps to beat Russia, of Germany ; but if Our positron oilt hs b borders of t h w e i forcea to o t o n p u f a o t r r h e c o e r n d their own interest, they I\ p ,i e ll op fo le rce b o e n ce o n u ie r alive Gover nment a reconstituted Poland, even as they a o ton n , t aosn a t oe r : i r g ta l h i righteous o wu terminationw, a r. o They f the needless effusion of English blood, and to take the only effectual guar:a-Ace for European peace. DESPATCHES FROM THE PACIFIC. We have been favoured by the Admiralty with the following : (No. 19.) President, at San Francisco, Nov. 15. SIR,—As a sequence to Captain Sir Frederick Nicol son's letter of the 19th September last, addressed to me, the duplicate of which was forwarded hence on the 16th ult. ; I beg to transmit lists of the names of the seamen and marines belonging to her Majesty's ships who were killed at Petropaulovski, or who have since died of their wounds. I am, &c., (Signed) CHARLES FREDERICK, Commodore. Ralph Osborne, Esq., M.P. President, San Francisco, 14th Nov., 1854. Return of Officers, Seamen, and Marines, belonging to her Majesty's ship President, who were killed or have died since from wounds received in the attack on Petropaulovski OFFICER. Captain Charles A. Parker, Royal Marines. SEAMEN. James Ariell, able seaman. James Callaghan, „ David Stedman, „ John Leask, ordinary. Richard Twinll, „ George Durrant, „ MARINES. Private Richard Turrall. „ John Saines. „ Francis Russell. „ George Henderson. „ Robert Woodards. (Signed) RICHARD BURRIDGE, Captain. List of Men lately belonging to her Majesty's ship Pique, who were killed, and who have since died of wounds received in the operations against the Batteries and Town of Petropaulovski, Kamtschatka, on the 4th of September, 1854. Joseph Batt, master-at-arms. Wm. H. Garland, second class ordinary. Daniel Davey, A. 8., died on board from wounds on 13th September. James Alfred, captain foretop. Charles Browne, alias C. Brown M‘Dermot, leading seaman, died on beard from wounds on 15th Oct. Noah Yates, sailamkers crew, died on board from wounds on 7th Sept. Thomas Morrison (1), ordinary. Joseph Hatch, A.B. James Thirlwell, A.B. Joseph Down, ordinary. James Marks, boy, first class. Lanman Race, serjeant. John Carter, serjeant. Joseph Jackson, private R.M. Henry Jefferies, private R.M., died on board from wounds on 6th Sept. Thomas Heweson, private R.M. Williom Carne, private R.M., died on board from wounds on 15th October. List of persons belonging to her Majesty's ship Virago killed during operations, and since died from their wounds. ' Killed at Petropaulovski, 4th Sept., 1854 George Tee, stoker. Henry Fowler, gunner, R.M.A., 3d Class. Thomas Martyn, private, R.M., 3d Class. Died of Wounds— George Julier, gunner, R.M.A., 3d class, 14th Sept. Samuel Sergeant, stoker, 14th Oct. LATEST NEWS. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. We have received by way of Vienna the follow ing despatch from a correspondent at Constan tinople, dated December 21 : " On the 16th the Russians made a sortie by night, but were repulsed by the French, after a severe struggle. " The Rifles also repulsed a Russian sortie. " Our mortars and batteries are ready to open, but the heavy rains impede tho progress of the siege, and cause great sickness. " General ' Adams died of his wounds on the 19th. " Since the 16th of November 24,000 Eng lish, French, and Turks had arrived in the Crimea in the British vessels. " The Turks at Eupatoria have been much strengthened from Varna." Our Vienna correspondent adds : " The following telegraphic news is in several of our papers this (Saturday) morning, but does not deserve implicit confidence : " ODESSA, DEC. 25. " A courier has just brought intelligence that General Liprandi's corps, powerfully reinforced, is attacking Balaklava.' " THE NEGOTIATIONS AT VIENNA. We have also received the following despatch from a correspoudent at Vienna : " VIENNA, SUNDAY EVENING. "At the request of Prince Gortschakoff, who declared that his powers were not sufficient to enable him to accept the four conditions as inter preted by the Allies, the representatives of the other Powers have consented to wait 14 days from the end of December for the definitive reply of Russia." VIENNA, DEC. 30. The Russian troops in Bessarabia are estimated at 150,000 men. There is nothing of importance from Sebastop6 up to the 23d. RUSSIA. WARSAW, DEC. 23. The first Corps d'Armee, commanded by General Sievers, is completely assembled. Its staff is in the centre of the position on the right bank of the Vistula, that is at Radom, fourteen German miles from this place. General Rudiger is commander-in chief of the first and third corps, and of the corps of Grenadiers. He at the same time acts as Go- vernor-General. Prince Gortschakoff is Genera' in-Chief of three corps in the south. Field- Marshal Paskiewitch is generalissimo of all the six corps, and is still at Warsaw. ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 25. New measures have been taken by the Russian Government to augment the revenue. The oz• cise duties on tobacco have been raised. The following is given as an extract of a letter addressed by the Emperor of Russia to Prince Menschikoff, after receiving the report of the bat tle of Inkerman : " Most inward thanks to my brave army in my name for their immutable fidelity. Tell them that the eye of their Sovereign, and of all Russia, looks upon them with admiration. They are the pillars and I . ..et:moat cham• pions of right. Russia's honour will, through them, core forth untarnished from this war." THE PACIFIC. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 24. The Echo du racifique has the following in re lation to the Allied fleet, which sailed on Satur day and yesterday : " The Eurydice, having on board the Russian prisoners, sailed for the Sandwich Islands.. The Government has ordered the prisoners to be kept there until further instructions regarding them shall be received. The Forte and President will proceed to Mazatlan, from whence, after a stay of a few days, they will sail for Valparaiso, where they will await orders to return to Europe, or any other destination which may be assigned them. The Amphitrite leaves for Honolulu, and from whence, after a short stay, she will sail for Tahiti. It is probable that the squadron will again assemble in our harbour in a few months, and, in conjunction with the Alceste and Adventure, again go north ward, although their movements will be controlled altogether by the current of affairs in Europe." The papers of this morning notice the departure of the Pique also—destination Honolulu. SPAIN. MADRID, DEC. 27. The Cortes have rejected the proposition of Sanchez Silva for suppressing the 03troi. There were 116 for, and 128 against the motion. THE FRENCH NATIONAL LOAN. The Moniteur publishes' the following report from M. Baroche " PARIS, Dsc. 31, 1854. "Sire,--The Senate and Legislativ'e Corps associating themselves with onpressement to the idea of your Ma jesty, have adopted the bill authorising a new loan of 500,000, 000 f. "That loan, destined to provide for the expenses of a war so gloriously undertaken in the interests of civi lisation, and to maintain France in the rank which is her due in Europe, ought naturally to be a national loan. "Thus your Majesty wished that, like the loan of ' 259,000,000 E, it should by realised by the means of a public subscription. " The experiment tried in March last succeeded too well to render it necessary to think of having recourse to other means. " Public subscription, which excludes no one—which appeals to the patriotism of all—which welcomes great capitalists as it admits modest subscribers—which, in making the whole public participate in the benefits of the loan, seems to diminish by that very fact the sacrifice the State may impose upon itself, needs no further explanation or comment. The happy issue it has bad for the State, as well as for the subscribers, guarantees the success it will have again. " The country will reply by a new proof of confidence to the new appeal of your Majesty. " With the first loan the Four-and-a-Half and Three per Cents. shared the subscriptions between them in un equal proportions certainly, but which showed that both these values responded to the different classes of subscribers. " I have, therefore, the honour to propose to your Majesty ito offer, at the same time, to the choice of takers in the new subscription, 41 as well as 3 per Cents. " If your Majesty agrees to this proposition, the fol lowing might be the conditions of the loan : "One of the principal advantages which can be offered to subscribers results from the combination of the terms granted for the payment of the subscriptions, with the date the arrears of the rentes issued shall be paid to them. "The payments of the capital subscribed are to be made as follows :—One-tenth on subscribing, and the remainder from month to month in 18 equal payments, so that the last payment would not take place till 1856. "The arrears, however, of the rentes delivered shall be paid to the subscribers for the Four-and-a-Half per Cents, after the 22d of Sept., 1854 ; For the Three per Cents. after the 22d Dec. of the same year ; that is to say, that, counting from those epochs, they will touch the full amount of the interest of their capital, although they will only have paid up a portion. " The benefit of the terms is equivalent to the sub sbscribers of the Four-and-a• Half per Cents, to a di minution of 2f. 93c. on the rate of issue (taux &emis sion) of the rente, and to the subscribers of the Three per Cents. to a reduction of 21. Bc. "As regards those who, in the limits of faculty of discount which will be granted, pay up beforehand the full subscription, a discount of 4 per cent, will be given them, instead of the benefit accruing from the prolonga tion of the terms of payment. "I must now call the attention of your Majesty to the fixing of the rate of issue of the Rentes. This ought to be done in such a manner as to conciliate the interests of the State who borrows with the legitimate chance to be as sured to the subscribers. "The last quotation of the Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Rentes at the Bourse of yesterday was 92f. 50e. I pro pose to your Majesty to decide that the Four-and-a- Half per Cents. Dente shall be issued at 92f. "The last su ota tio ns of the Three per Cents. was 66f. 60c. I propose to fix the rate of issue of the Three per Cents. at 65f. 25c. Thus the subscribers will receive the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 50c. less, and the Three per Cents. at lf. 35c. less than if they had pur chased at the Bourse yesterday. " Aryl if to these advantages to be addedithe reduction of the price which results from the periods (to mcs) granted for the payments, and which amounts, as I have already stated, to 2f. 93c. for the Four-and-a-Half per Cents., and 2f. Bc. fur the Three per Cents., it will be seen that the subscribers of the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. will obtain on yesterday's quotations a net benefit of 3f. 43c., and those of the Three per Cents, an equal benefit of 3f. 430. "Your Majesty will not regret these advantages ac corded to the loan as they will profit all subscribers, and, by assuring the success of the operation, they will con tribute to consolidate and develope the credit of toe State, "At the time of the loan of 250,000,000 f. it was de cided that in case the capital subscribed should exeeed the sum demanded the subscriptions which did net ex ceed 50f. should be exempt from reduction. I propose to your Majesty the adoption of an analogous measure, but to encourage as much as possible small subscriptions I think it advisable to admit that in case of reduction, those that shall not exceed 500 f. of relate shall not be submitted to a proportionate reduction. " Your Majesty being desirous that the greatest pos sible number should share in the benefits of the loan, I have the honour to propose the maintenance of the rule previously established, deciding that 10 francs sub scription be admitted, without, however, allowing them to go below that figure. "The Emperor will kindly observe, that happy in profiting by the experience acquired in a first operation ably conceived and prudently directed, I have endea voured, as much as possible, to adhere to the dispositions decreed in the month of March last. _ _ "I feel confident that they will this time have the same success as in the first instance. "In the month cf March we were at the commence ment of a war, commanded by the interests and honour of France. The nation responded with enthusiasm to the appeal of your Majesty. "To-day it is a question to continue that war with a vigour which, alone, can bring it to an end. We have to follow up the first and brilliant successes which have added lustre to our arms, and cemented by common vic tories the alliance of France and England. "France will not leave her work incomplete. "I am, with the most profound respect, Sire, your Majesty's most humble and very obedient servant and subject, "J. BAROCHE, "President of the Council of State, and charged with the Ministry of Finance ad interim." The Moniteur promulgates an Imperial order, approving of the above report, and the following Imperial decree : " In conformity with the law of 31st December, 1854, we have decreed and decree as follows : "Art. 1. Our Minister Secretary of State of Finance is authorised to proceed by public subscriptions to the alienation of the sum of Reutes Four-and•a-Half and Three per Cents. necessary to produce a capital of 500,000,000 f. " Art. 2. The Rente Four•and-a-Half per Cent. will be issued at the rate of 92f., with enjoyment from the 22d of September, 1854. " The Rente Three per Cent. will be issued at the rate of 65f. 25c., with enjoyment from the 22d of December, 1854. " Art. 3. Conformably to the dispositions of the third paragraph of the first article of the bill of the 31st December, 1854, the dotation of the sinking fund will be augmented, slating from the Ist of January, 1856, by a sum equal to the nominal capital of the rentes which shall be issued in virtue of Art. 1. of the present decree. " Art. 4. Our Minister Secretary of State of Finance is charged with the execution of the present decree. " Done at the Palace of the Tuileries the 31st Decem ber, 1854. " NAPOLEON. "(Countersigned) J. BAROCHE." Another decree ordains that the subscription lists shall be opened from the 3d to the 14th Jan. inclusively, comprising Sunday, the 7th. THE WAR IN ASIA. Letters from Trebizond, of the 12th, bring ac counts of an attack made by a body of Russians and Mingrelians on Redoubt-Kale, in Abasia. They were, however, vigorously rejuised by the Turkish garrison, and had to retreat with consideLabl. los.. Some prisoners were made, and will be sent here. ALGAR and STREET, Colonial Newspaper, and General Advertisement Office, 11, Clenaent's-lane, Lom bard.street.—Jarmary 1, 1855. THE WEATHER.—SUN Orrin, Dee. 31. THERNOXETEB, IN THE SHADE. 43 —highest since noon yesterday. 40 —lowest this morning and during the night. 53—this day, at noon. BAROMETBB, 30 . 44. WIND, W.N.W.—Light breeze, and fine frosty weather. JANUARY 1. 50 —highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and.during the night. 52 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'03—a sudden fall of nearly half an inch. WIND, W.N.W.—variable and squally—blowing very fresh. It blew a heavy gale during the night, with stormy gusts occasionally. g , \ ~ M ~`~ rr LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1855. We live in strange, eventful times ; and the year which has just terminated will be regarded by the historical student as one of the most memorable recorded in British history. After thirty-nine years of profound peace and tran quillity the torch of War has been enkindled— the Temple of JANUS re-opened. Nor is it a "little War" in which we are engaged. The prophetic foreboding of the Great NAPOLEON is in course of verification. The attempt has been made to render Europe " Cossack." France — happily governed by the nephew and legitimate representative of that NAPOLEON whose dynasty we wasted so much blood and treasure to over throw—is united heart and hand with the British Empire in a determined opposition to the grasping cupidity and boundless ambition of the Northern Despot—united by bonds that, we trust and be lieve, will day by day be more closely cemented until they become indissoluble. They are engaged in a sacred cause. It is, indeed, a " Holy Alli ance," in the true sense of the expression. "Holy," because there is no private or personal feel ing involved in the quarrel. " Holy," because' they seek no political aggrandisement ; and that having shown a profound sense of the blessings of Peace, they have yet flung away their scabbards rather than suffer the triumph of injustice—the victory of " might over right." This is real " chivalry," not the caricature denominated " Quixotism," but an earnest feeling of what jus tice demands, and an unbending determination to see that it be enforced. It is the result of an un flinching obedience to the Divine precept, " Do unto others as you would they should do unto you." France and England have, therefore, in terposed their power and authority between the oppressor and his intended victim. And they have done so, not hastily or recklessly, but with a thorough knowledge of the danger, diffi culty, expenditure, and bloodshed that must be encountered. Perhaps we may be wrong in ascribing this latter knowledge to the entire nation. When the Government, or rather a portion of the Government, comprising all those whose offices gave them any control over the manage ment of hostilities, appeared to remain in total darkness. Lord ABERDEEN, Mr. GLAD STONE, and some others, unquestionably exhibited a blind credulity in hoping even against hope that peace could be still maintained ; and by their professions and practices they probably occasioned, and certainly rendered the War more for midable and onerous, for they induced the CZAR to believe that an exhibition of haughty duturmivation might on2hla hi m to escape from the false step he had taken, and to be allowed to play out his game with impunity. At the commencement of 1854 we were still at peace, although the aspect of the politica ho rizln was peculiarly lowering, and all, save a few devoted " ABERDEENITES" and members of the Peace Society, looked on a speedy collision with Russia as inevitable. The massacre of Sinope had taken place. The nation was disgusted, not merely at the brutality of the Russians, but also at the apathy and indifference of our own Admi ral, who, with an overwhelming force under his command, suffered the fleet to coma forth from Sebastopol and to perpetrate the awful and heart rending atrocity that horrified the British nation. It had, however, produced oue result. It had led to a more resolute demand on the part of the Western Powers, who were determined no longer to stand idly by while such atrocities were being perpetrated. They demanded that the Princi palities should be vacated by a fixed period, the 30th of April, offering, at the same time, certain definite proposals that might possibly have led to an amicable arrangement had they been received i n a suitable spirit. The CZAR, however, dis missed them in the most summary manner, stating proposals did not requ i re a moment's that "he consideration."t Meantime, however, Parliament h a d assembled, and notwithstanding the gravity o f existing circumstances hopes were held out of various mea sures of reform which were urgently required. Some of the less important, or, at least, th e l ess anxiously looked for, were carried, but the vast majority were relinquished with more or less de monstrations of regret on the part of their puta tive Parliamentary sponsors. In some cases the innocents were surrendered without the appear ance of regret, while in others the p arent exhibited strong indications of the painful struggle lie had endured before consenting to the sacrifice. If we obtained a small instalment of University Reform, we were obliged to relinquish the fondly cherished expectations of parliamentary Reform, which seemed within our grasp when it had been especially announced in the Royal Speech. The last relics of the obsolete Usury Laws were erased from the national statute-book ; but the Ecclesi astical Courts remained unimproved, the law of marriage and divorce unaltered ; and if there was a consolidation of the Mercantile Law, we were Stith compelled to await patiently the long-pro nected with rui3ed codification of the Criminal Law. Of the last Session "" may say, so far as matters uncon nected that the th© War were concerned, that it was one of large prorni3, those in the fis c al licial'es chief e and of scanty performance, doubling of the Income Pa T ttnieut o be noticed were of the Malt Duties, namely, the the . ; the Spirit • large increase the stoppage of the reduction Duties, and Duties, and the promise of a'lsi of tile Sugar further reduction of the Tea DutieissPeusi°4 of all kind in which we are enabled t of th e 0 place faith in the promises of Ministers. We also had the creation of a War Minister. But the chosen of the nation was not appointed, and the Duke of NEWCASTLE, who received the post to which the voice of public opinion had nominated Lord PALMERSTON, has not been very successful in the performance of the onerous and important duties confided to his charge. Return ing, however, to the all-important question that absorbed the attention of the community. we may say that War was proclaimed at the close of the first quarter of the year, or the 28th of March. Two expeditious had previously been despatohed, TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 18—The. French force, including the reinforcements which had arrived: up to the date of these despatches, amounted to 60,000 available troops. The British since ;the battle of Inkerman have been strengthened by the arrival of about 7,000 men, making a total amount of about 22,000 at the present moment. There is a report in circulation that the Vladimir has captured a British transport laden with 15,000 rounds of ordnance ammunition, but there is no mention of the incident in our latest intelligence. General Montebello arrived yesterday from the Crimea, and is expected to return to France hi a few days, with all the details and important fnfor mation relative to the operations at Sebastopol. To-day he visited the French hospitals and distri buted among the wounded heroes 50,000 f., as a souvenir from his august and munificent master. The health of the Duke of Cambridge is com pletely re-established, and intends to return to the Crimea, it is reported, in the course of a few days. The Sultan has, as was expected, announced his intention of visiting the royal duke. A new and important postal regulation has been accomplished, whereby we shall have is future eight arrivals from France and eight departures every month. The cholera is again happily on the decline. AMERICA. The United States mail steamer Union arrived at Cowes, on her way to Havre, on Saturday ; sh• left New York on the 16th ult. ; she brought specie to the value of 40,000 dollars for France. Mr. Adams had introduced his bill for regulating the naturalisation of foreigners throughout the re public. It extends the term requisite for naturali sation to 21 years. The bill was referred to a com mittee. In the Senate a motion for leave to invite th• President to Offer his mediation in the affairs of Eur•pe had been refused. A senator had proposed the appointment of a committee to investigate Pre sident Pearce's conduct in the Greytown affair, but the motion was rejected. The municipal election at Boston has resulted in the choice of the Know-Nothing candidate for mayor by a majority over all competitors of 1,253 votes. The Know-Nothings of Worcester also elected their entire ticket on Monday. Indeed, throughout the entire state of New York, excepting Charlestown, the K. N.'s have been successful. Colonel Steptoe is to govern the Mormon state of Utah, in the room of Brigham Young. On the 15th the Cunard steamer Alps, now a transport of the British Government at the East, formerly seized for smuggling, anti bonded for 75,000 dols., was declared forfeited to the United States. News from San Francisco was of Nov. 24. The specie list of the Northern Light has a total of 833,707 dollars. When the news reached San Francisco that the Allies had taken Sebastopol a salute was fired from the British and French war vessels lying in San Francisco Bay in:honour of the event. One week after intelligence arrived that the announcement of the success of the Allies was a h6ax, and that Sebas topol had not yet fallen before the besieging armies. It was then Mr. Kostromitinoff's (the Russian con sul's) turn to show some signs of rejoicing, and ac cordingly he made preparations for giving an en tertainment and firing a grand salute, which is thus noticed by the San Francisco Herald of the 23d ult.:— " A large crowd collected on Broadway and Pacific wharves yesterday, to witness the firing of the salute on board the Zenobia, in honour of the affair of Petro paulovski, and in joyful recognition of the fact that Se bastopol is not taken. A t n oon p r ecise l y the Russian flag was run up and saluted w i th 21 guns, and 7 were afterwards fired as a mark of respect to the Consul, M. Kostromitinoff, on his departure from the vessel. A sailin g collation was spread on board , a number of toasts A tswer e e .: drunk, and the festivities passed off with great eeat. The Zenobia is an American ship, under captain." rican colours, and commanded by an American The intelligence of the affair of Petropaulovski, says the same Californian journal, was received with joy by the American citizens in Honolulu. The sympathy among them is all on the side of Russia. COMDIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Dec. 16., The market as yet experiences very little relief from the new features which mark it, viz., a rapid decline in foreign exchange, and the increased current of gold from California, which must now contribute t* the strength of the banks; and of 01I! merchants. The Pacific's advices have depressed the cotton mar' ket, and increased the desire 1* realise. There is but little variation in the price of flour. Holders are as firm as the nieney market will allow them to be, but occasional sales are made at a reduction of 121 c. to 25c. per brl. 'rest our quoted rates for " cash to-day." Freights are rather dull. We quote : t• Liverpool cotton, square bales per lb., 9.64 to 3-16 d. ; flour, per bri., ls. 3d.; heavy goods, per ton, 15s. to 17s. 6d. To London--flour t per brl., 2s. ; heavy goods, 20a. to 255. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, DEO. 30. The dinner party yesterday included her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Bishop of New Zealand and Mrs. Selwyn, and Colonel and Lady Emily Seymour. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance after dinner. The Queen, with the Princess Alice, walked in the Home Park this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales, went shooting. Captain Seymour had the honour to accompany the Prince. The Lord Chamberlain left the Castle in the forenoon for Londun. Day. 31. There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yes terday. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert drove out yesterday afternoon in an open carriage. The equerries in waiting were in attendance on horseback. 16e Queen and — Prince, with the Royal children the Duchess of Kent, attended Divine service to-day in the private clsapel of the Castle. The Rev. Lord ~Viiothesley Russell performed the morning service, and preached the sermon. CABINET COUNCIL.—The Ministers will again as. semble in council to-morrow afternoon at the Foreign office. Major-General Lord Rokeby, appointed to command a division of the army in the Crimea, will leave town on Friday next for Plymouth, to embark there the follow ing day for the Black Sea. Major-General Barnard, who is likewise appointed to command another division, and who is staying with his uncle, General Sir Andrew Barnard, at the Geverner's house, Chelsea Hospital, will accompany his lordship. Captains Barnard and Allix, aides-de-camp to the gallant generals, proceed to the East at the same time. The horses and baggage of the Generale have already been forwarded to Ply mouth. We are happy to learn that the Duchess of Cambridge received letters on Saturday, brought by the Queen's messenger who arrived that morning from Constan tinople, from the Duke of Cambridge, which gave a favourable account of the health of his Royal Highness. The Royal Duke has been staying at Therapia since he arrived with Major the Hon. James Macdonald, from Balaklava, and his heala has gradually improved, mainly from retirement and change of scene. The Royal Duke is most anxious to rej)in his division of the army before Sebastopol, but his medical attendants insist on his thorough restoration to his accustomed good health before he quits for the Crimea. It was thought his Royal Highness would leave towards the close of the month (December) for Balaklava. We have received a letter from a correspondent, re ferring to a very graphic account we published of the Russian steamer Wladmir and another firing upon the French steamer Caton, on the sth. The name of the English steamer that drove the enemy back was the Valorous, and not the Terrible. WINDSOR CASTLE.—There will be no theatrical per formances or halls at the Castle this season, the morns usually occupied for that purpose having been fitted up in the most splendid manner for the reception of the Em peror and Empress of the French, whose ♦isit is expected immediately after the war assumes a more favourable aspect. REPORTED VISIT OF THE QUEEN TO CARDIFF.—The Cardiff Guardiaa contains a letter front Colonel Phipps to Mr. Richards, Town Clerk of Cardiff, which states that thorn is no foundation for a report on which the Town Council were preparing to act, that the Queea and Prince Albert would shortly pass through Cardiff, on their way to Pembroke Dockyard. No royal visit is con templated either to Cardiff or to Pembroke._ SOUTH AUSTRALIIN SYMPATHY WITH ENGLAND IN THE WAIL—AB an expression of colonial sympathy with Great Britain in the war now raging with Russia, a fund is being raised in aid of the wives and dependent relatives of the soldiers and sailors engaged in the war. The sum already collected amounts to 5,2171. Gs. A ustralian and New Zealand Gazette. AVAILABLE COAL FIELD IN VIOTORIA.—The discovery of coal at Cape Patterson, about 150 miles from M e l. bourne, on the south- ea st coast, is of the grea t es t i m portance ; it will enable machinery to be very advan tageously used, and create a demand for steam power, which will stimulate a new important branch of com merce for the tuturc—Australian and New Zealand Gazette. THEAT/13.—SinCO the first night of the Christmas entertainment at this house Mademoiselle Benoni, a French clansease of considerable celebrity, from La Scala, at Milan, has made her appearance in the divertissements which form a relief to the action of the piece. She is an artiste of a high school, endowed with great physical strength, and with a decision and firmness in her steps which give a remarkable character to her execution. It should be observed that the diver tissements are of a different kind from the occasional dances which we sometimes find at non-operatic theatres. Mademoiselle Benoni and Maraquita are real artistes of the ballet, versed in the mysteries of elaborate pas, arid their appearance at a dramatic house may be regarded as a sigular novelty. WANT OF SEAMEN AT veesels are now detained in our harbour for want of seamen. There seems to be a deficiency of mates, men before the mast, and masters. Mates aro getting freely 6/. 10s. per month to Constantinople, and in some instances as muck as 61. 10s. and 81. has been offered. Whilst the navy has been absorbing during the year many of the best men from the merchant service, the present system and imperfect supply of a pprentices are by no means ade quate to meet the deficiency ; indeed, according to present appearances, mainly owing to the inefficient supply of apprentices, some serious embarrassments may be apprehended.—Suntierland Times. THE WEST INDIA MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON; DEC. 31. The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Atrato, Captain Woolley, arrived this morning at 11.3 0 , from the West Indies, with 105 passengers, and the usual mails, in charge of Lieutenant Brydgee l R.N., Admiralty agent. The latest dates brought by the Atrato are :-- Santa Marti* Dec. 5 Grenada Tampico Vera Cruz Greytown — 6 Antigua Chagres Havannah Demerara — 10 Montserrat Trinidad Carthagena — 11 St. Thomas's Jamaica — 11 The Atrato brings on. freight 582,864 dollars on merchants' account ; 72,000 dollars for dividends 346,913 oz. gold dust and bars ; 1,070 dollars' value of platina ; 1,9001. British coin, and a large general cargo. Information respecting her Majesty's ships of war, at the various West,lndia Islands and Nava' Stations, at the date 6 - f the most recent advi c e Her ajesty's steamer Devastation sailed from St. Thomas for Port Royal on the 7th inst., 'After having recovered the whole of the guns (13 in number) thrown overboard from the Harrier on the Auegada Shoal. Her Majesty's steamer nutter left St. Thpo o , on the morning of th e 17th i ns t ant f or B ermu oi and England, and the Medea replaces her at Thomas. The Calypso is at Antigua, the Mariner at Bar' badoes, the Termagant, with the flag of Coriow dore Henderson, and the Vestal, are at GreytOvalt expecting to be joined very soon by the rest o f the West India squadron and the Admiral. The Arab, from Honduras, is hourly expected at Port Royal, as also the Powerful and Eurydic e from England. The Wolverine relieved the Arab at Honduras@ The Scorpion, surveying schooner, is at 'BO' muda. The Argus at Samana, St. Domingo ) schooner Bermuda, at Nassau. At Port Royal—Boscawen, flag of Admiral Nit shawe, Colossus, Imaum, and Daring ; and the - American steam-frigate Princeton, 10 guns, on he' way to Greytown. At Jamaica at subscription towards the Patriotl" Fund has been sat on foot. A grand military-coo' cert (assisted by a few amateurs) had been given!: Kingston, the proceeds, a b ou t 1001., t o b e a pp b , to the fund for the relief of widows and orphane caused by the present war. His excellency, tu t , Governor and Lady Barkly were present. It wen off with great eclat. ' sila The island is generally healthy. At St. Kitts the cholera has diminished considel: ably, a few isolated cases on l y b e i ng repo 0 0 ! 0 About 1,500 persons have died of its effects in tW island. At Grenada the weather was fine, but fever. el lj other diseases usual at this season of the =re f existed to a general ex t en t. T ra d e was ver y du l l ' Vera Cruz was quite healthy, an d f u ll o f strange," on their way to and f rom th e cap it a l. T ra d e low dull and declining. It Antigua the weather was highly favourabl for the growing crop. From every part of the is le a i there are account s o f th e prom i s i ng appearan ce ; the cane fields, and the prospect, should the B east, continue propitious, of a goo d h arves t. During - th e last few days we have had some seasonable shoic, f el the previous two weeks ha v i ng b een ra th er d r y.- r regret to state that there is a considerable amouP. of sickness in the island at p resen t. F eve r _of; severe type is very prevalent, and the mortalitylft above the average. The disease has been most fa!f; amongst children ; but it has also pressed heavP.l on grown persons, many of whom have fallen Ala tiros to its attacks. Some of the medical men o . ll i that in many instances the malady has presenly; unmistakeable symptoms of the typhoid type, 4 form of fever which has not unfrequently OW" itself during the last eighteen months. A USTRA LIA. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 31. By the Royal mail steamship Atrato we hal received advices from Sydney, v i a C a ll ao Panama, to the 29th of September, being five dar later than our last accounts. Prom all parts of the colony business wa• picoed dull. The great competition, heavy arriv'" of goods, high rents, and other expenses, 11 causing many merchants and traders to suspen payment. Gold continued to arrive plentifalliP and was worth 4/. per ounce. tb d The Mayor of Hobart Town h a d p a id into a colonial treasury 2,000/., to be remitted to Engl sll l for the aid of the wives and families of Britioh.o ? diers during the war. The subject of steam communication with Ur i f laud was attracting great attention. MURDEROUS ASSAULT UPON A FEl4[4O At the Bew-street Police-office ' Alfred Smith, a lii*S without occup a ti on , was brought before Mr. ,jarclis; charged w ith a murderous assault upon Elizab Sprigg, with whom he cohabited. He had been living for twelve months past on t earnings of the woman, de r i ve d f rom p ros tit u ti on . Ile 0 0 turned home to their lodging,•in Lincoln-court, at , early hour of the morning, after being out all niC,4 and immediately comm ence d b ea ti ng th e p ro see"i i , with a short hand-broom, about her head and ball Having dragged her from the bed to th e groundv,, kicked her in the eye and throat, tearing away the Tie in both places witk the tee of his boot. She ran shell naked into the court, where a police-constable hape to be on duty, and, according to the st a t emen t of I, Aar officer, her neck and should ers , an d chemise, tr,eiol covered with blood. Th e woman presented a frigh t l' appearance, her arms and legs being sadly swollen, 11 : 0 1 her body bruised all over ; an d the only excuse o ffe o by the prisoner for his shameful ill-treatment of woman who prostituted herself for bis support, of f that "he was j ea l ous o f her. " The officer stated prisoner was rather the worse for drink, but kn' what he was about. 11 0 Mr. Jardi ne sa id h e h a d no t b een hitherto oaths upon to inflict the full punishment authorised bf new act in reference to these b ru t a l assau lts 11 ,.P ° 0 women ; but this was one of the worst case s he Po ever heard of. The prisoner must b e comm itt e d to b ar labour for six months. THE REVENUE.—Although nearly a week is wantiv s ,o the expiration of the financial quarter, which 1 01 45, made up to Friday night next, th e sth J anuar y, I °,be we believe we shall be justified i n congra t u l a ting r. c ig public by anticipation upon th e gra tifyi ng resu lts srk o t the revenue tables will present. It will be found sm., upon all the great heads of revenue there will be a 046 crease, both in the quarter and in the y ear . Ia : D s Customs the increase in the quarter's rovenaa will P; s t, fall far short of half a million, attributable, f or th e part, to the increased returns receiv e d from s un! Under the great head of Excise an increase u p on IS quarter to fully the same amount may reasonably bP11" ticipated—and to a much greater extent upon the as the additional duties upon malt and spirits hefe_ 4 7 several months past been in full operation. The h°'' a of stamps and taxes will not p resent so much yariatis''r But the property tax will, undoubtedly, exhibit a in n considerable increa se upon the year, and to some est e r also upon the quarter—though it will be remember, that the period from Oct. 10 to Jan. 6, is the least P r ''d ductive quarter of the financial year to this branch i, the revenue. If in the quarter's receipt of the Yo f office a sli g ht d ecrease shall be apparent, the result's the year will more than counterbalance any t em pore $ falling o ff on t hi s head. Finally, we shall probably 110 greatly err, if we estimate the increa se u p on th e g uar* $ to be not far short of a million, if it do not excee d tb* amount, and upon the year at fully double that etl_. f ri " This is no bad balance-sheet for the end of the first l'"" of the war.—Observer. Jtt THE NEW REGULATIONS AT THE POST-OPTION. --- t will be remembered that, d ur i ng th e course o f t h e pa s year, the Royal Commissioners appointed to inqns; "into the state of the Post office," presented their repo° and that shortly afterwards the Lords Commissiona l of her Maj es ty' s T reasury were p l ease d t o order that- the proposed regulations as to salaries and pensions, si g ; poietment s , an d promo ti on s, s hould b e carr i e d out $, rapidly as possible. In several of the major doper. ments this has been done, and various changes bri e taken place in consequence. The lower, or letter carriers' departments are now about to be similarlys treated, and, indeed, in some instances, on Saturday In the of fi cers were dealt with, an d t h at i n a most libel, manner. One officer, a sub-sorter, who has served 4 ; years, was superannu a t e d upon a pens i on o f 961. pa [ annum, the late allowance being 521. per annum only Several other p art i es, w h ose terms o f serv i tude var ied from 15 to 30 years, in the same class of rank, have r e erived from 201. to 701. per annum retiring allowanc e ' far more th an th ey cou ld or wou ld h ave obtained uncle', the old system. By this plan, incompent men will b e discharged, though not without the means of- subsist' ence, while the way will be opened for the introductio n of simplified arra nge m en ts o n th e modus operancli, of t he office—measures which have not at present been - trie i because of the predilection of old officers for the long established mode of performing the in-ddor duty. 111t 11 , 1, k per es e , 3 O o Lo4 g 4 1 tiao473, 46 8 keh: 4l , 41:1' Pz oo, M