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ANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. beret Incorporated by Royal Charter. The Court of Directors y Ive notice, that a HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND at the rate PL ;-•• , nnum n., •ho tbie to the proprietors of sha es reg,tereti in ti..a euthai, , rer the sth day of January next, at the ofticeof the Corporation, No. (' St. Bishopsgate-street, between the hours of Ten and Four, Aroma, transfer can b e ma d e b e t ween th e 15th in s tant, and the sth r " l inia, as the books mud be closed during that period. By order of the Court. G. DE B. ATT WOOD, Secretary. 11. Q. t St. Helen's-place, London, sth Dec., 1854. EAST and. WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY. c 4,, —The Court o f Di rec t ors o f the East and West India Dock It:tanY hereby give Notice, that a Half-Yearly Court or General of :t"ug of the s a id C ompany w ill b e h e ld, pursuant to the directions e Act I s t and 2d William IV., cap. 5 2, at th e D oc k H ouse , N o . 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December 28, 1854. at v s Iloreby Given, that a General Meeting of the Proprietors 144 Law Life Assurance Society will be held at the Society's F leet -street, London, on FRIDAY, the 2d day of February of e t t, Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, pursuant to the p ov,sions a uca l o %ciety's Deed of Settlement, for the pu. pose of recelvinz the alst D I" Annual Report of the 'Accounts of the Society up to the th oke `e,:raber, 1854 ; to elect Two Directors in the room at fhomas lines.' ' 4 CI , deceased. and Edward Lavrfonl, Esq., who has dlsqus.• and for general purposes. vi ii Direct or t o b e chosen in the room of Thomas Cl ar k e , E sq. , j t ernain in office until 24th June, 1655. The Director to be ttlit,,en hln the Jane, roomlBs 6. of Edward Lawford, Esq ., will remain In office " 24 t By Order of the Directors. WILLIAM sAmurz DOWNES, Actuary. 1 /11 tRUANT to an Order of the High Court of a nd „chancery, made iu a cause, ALEXANDER FINDLATER to ol '''. JEERS against WILLIAM ROCIIM, the Creditors of Garrard et late orNo. 2, Upper Wellington-stv*et, Strand, in the county L il esar, Solicitor, deceased, the Intestate in the proceedings of named, wko died in or about the month of May, 1854, u s , their Solicitors, on or before the 15th day of January, , 0 come In and pr ove th e i r claims, at the Chambers of the u ' C hancellor Sir John Stuart, No. 12, C id-square, Lincoln's-inn, tr qi4 ftaa ; or in default thereof they w Trill be peremptorily excluded alertefit of thesaid Order. - • • tlt ille_dllesday, the 17th day of January, 11155, at 12 o'clock at noon, th s (.7 Ila "Id Chambers, is appointed for heartig and adjudicating upon Dom ‘ this 7th day of Dec., 1854. ALFRED HALL, Chief Clerk. H. D. RUSIIIIIIIIT, Plaintiff's Solicitor, 2, Surrey-street, Strand. AOFFICE OF ORDNANCE, PALL. MALL, Dec. 29, 1854. RTICLES of the under-mentioned description 10 i; 'B s•.-- . b eing from time to time required for the Ordnance Service, f k C ans, Shot, and Shells, Small Arms, and the various articles comprising them, Ili t niPowder and Saltpetre, Acc o utrements, "Wien Cloths and Clothing, Linen .l ankets and Rues, do., ,4ather and Leather Articles, Pglish and Foreign Timber and Deals, I"_ a sks, Coopers' Ware, Brushes, &c., lei Castings and Ironmongery, let Castings and various Articles of Metal Work, thi ,aints, Oils, and Turpentine, I Cou e : Ti nciPal Officers of her Majesty's Ordnance rlereby Give stiiviiipat all persons desirous of tendering for, and competent to Ur" l ')'•of the above articles, will, upon signifying to the Sec re er,The Board their desire of so doi ng ( s p ec ifyi n g the description be tee`le ea), rec F e veForms of Tender whenever such articles may ca for the Ordnance Qervice. By Order of the Board. J. WOOD, Secretary. TROWSERS REDUCED TO 14s. 47,..Asers and Waistcoat, 2/s. ; Coat, Waistcoat, and Trow- VrOu gh , Made to order from Scotch Tweeds. all Wool, and i‘egent. shrunk, by B. BENJAMIN, Merchant Tailor, 74, N.B.—A perfect fit guaranteed. U 11 ,R ISTMAS HOLIDAYS.—ROYAL Xov A NOP TICO N' of SCIENCE and AR r. Leicester - square.— km% A ttractions. — Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with a coin ofilnents on the grand organ by Mr. W. T. Beet, and the legond the -.lt d din told by Mr. Leicester Buckingham—Dioramic Views of War iris the Crinita—r uminous Fountain, 100 feet bigh— t, '4eke'sng Appar tus and the Subaqueous Light in the ..3'Blal Ci stein—Ces , i , orama of St. Petersburg and Moscow', with ......'7ltralt of the Czar Nicholas—Lectures on Electricity—Chemistry !tic atntal history —And the History of the Bee, for juvenile audi e!_during the morning performances—Franklin's Arctic Voyages 12. 4 r n aral Magic in the evening . Doors open in the morning at tiox,u . ZrAil l 'ag r (Saturday excepted), at 7. Admission, Is.; en under 10, Half-price. L A I T RENTS During the co CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.- urse of this Week Will be played by Laurent's O rchestra: —Overture, La Gazza Ladra. Rossini : Waltzes : Vermah haws Toasts, Strauss; Milia (first time), Bosisio • Souvenir du Lux *lnbourg, L. lieugnol ; Le Carnaval do Venise (by desire), H. Laurent, With Variations for all the principal perf ormers. l'alais de l'Alcazar, H Lamotte ; La Orterre, nows-o e Quadrilleshoti;ache, ti L e e , Italvina Lamotte . Polkas : Blumentest, Strauss; Fidelite ; The ~,,'err Armen (first time), Strauss. Gallop, Les Guides, H. Laurent. alincipal Cornet A Piston, M. Boulcourt. All i nfqrrnation rdative to r uil • to be obtained at the music repository under the orchestra. I . s' l ° iling o . Ts pen at Eight; commence at half - past. — Admission, One iCHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. I I 11101.ThA.e IsfolioPT-44MKHA.NBLIEC NOIVNELSTTIIETSUharrIeObeNens LEC TURE PREPARED. aiZtUTURE by J. H. PEPPIRs Esq., on Professor Wheatstone's thi3ntkents en the TRANSMISSION of SOUND through Solid Con- Z, illustrated by a TELEPHONIC coxes:RT. CA,Cej PAR rof an NTLIMI4T.A& A sseerifNIMAK t 1 41, 1 2 1. 0RA.MA, illustrating the VO S-e Si ,„. kh r - `,:vn, with Beautiful PHA.NTISMAGORIA. EFFECTS, Said ~i ,, pt . la, te Music arranged by Mr. Wand. -4— , -443: bier.. in the TIEWS of the WAR: the BATTLE of the , ' IR; he 'SIEGE if SMASTOPOL, the ENGLISH BATTERIES, vfli,teTUßlll on the MINIE RIFLE, and that powerful implement of lksae. h e STEAM GUN, projecting Sixty Palls per Minute, which has kie t ° , te.:l by Mr. PERKINS, and will be discharged daily and in the e ` ali kts Lte • tk r CrIVES on ELECTRICITY by Dr. BACIINOFFNER. 1104.01tawseak's VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT of tke PATRIOTIC Atku t : or SCOTLAND. For tk e s p ec i a l A musemen t o f th e J u venile Atlu i r7 ' DAVIS'S INGENIOUS M kRIONETTES will be exhibited. lo,einter LECTURES, EXHIBITIONS of MODELS, &c. &c. &c. ibittboz:4,„clecerations. , - — "L , Juvenile Night on the 3d of January, and gratuitous distri -441.a, Ifthe Ornaments of a beautiful Christmas Tree amongst the _l4.",e o Ple. VOI,T. '4llNooltazrea New Musical Game, the POLY-EIARMONI e4IIthked Daily by the Inventor. 1 tifi cpl 6. z - g 44 lit i ll ° c ,E„„ArJr'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED . 1 1 LE,S approved of by the french College of Physicians, administered in the Paris and London Hosp tals, and -4 4 4 4 by them to be the best remedy for the cure of certain 6 ; 2 8. " ,y e e " Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852) —trice per ICO t.. - " , e11,.L . To be had of the inventor, GABRIEL JOZEALT, -30titiZ,.. el nist, 49, Haymarket, London, whose name is printed on - " e roment stamp, and of the principal chemists. -i - - - _ _ Fore Cabin. to or from Gravesend and London• • •• 103. .. „ Gravesend nod Blackwell or Woolwich Bd. .. I, etween Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 64. .. LIGHTS AND SHADES OF MARRIED LIFE. " t o which that bath no wif, I hold him lost, r,VD 1,9, , and all desniat. thlt 'lath no child, ...‘abj e „,. — ^e sun and winde."—Chaucer. thg A ' Marriage, its expectations and Necessities—Development taarrt Dattbility and tbiton.`,Tections—Lo've Matches—Precipitate, impelled, and retarded 404;"--1141trital Inc , n , ruitl es —Mu tu al Unsuitableness—Mental Physical Defectiveness—Advantages of Inter 44410—Theory of Gestation—Hereditary Resemblance—Mode of 811144.41nZ Legitimacy. On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all Unas ula Alliances—Lave of Divorce, &c., &c. 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On Secret Disea ses , th e i r Self-management and Cure. or - :e GREEN BOOK.--:1 comprehensive and popular exposition h t lenito and urinary diseas,s—their nature amt treatment, cone especially primary and secondary symptoms, all forme of in.:Ary derangements, strict ure an d spef raatorrhcea ; with 250 en snags and prescriptions. 4 . 0 1, BLADDER, URETHRA , and RECTUlf.—Comprising riru.— ••,Y Derangements, Constipation, and ILemnrrhoids. Vols. 6 and 7, companions to the preceding. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. HOW TO BE HAPPY. " Jueunde There." "'te " Few words to fair faith ."—Sb a k espere. r wood, 23, Paternoster-row; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or of tr oth DP., RICHARD CULVERWELL, late":6l Successor and Twenty Years Consulting C o ll eagu e of the v ili s,mi t bor of the Love, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street, London. • tdvised with on the above matters day, from Ten till M the evenings, from seven till Nine. vg .t Itt'r INFIRMITIES OF YOUTII AND MATURITY. Nx; 4.4lsi ted, Price 28., illustrated with cases ; free by post for 30 stamps, DEBILITY; it-korriz cause .% Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on er thil„. L . with Practical Observations on a safer and more l`e e b t ra ckle of treatment of the diseases of the Generative heptttfish i „` a illed by the use of the Microscope in detecting and Vari,,:g , by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of eri or complaint, whether arising from solitary habits, Net.7eqt;'cident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founded :e ~° tl. l l IS„Zars' experience in the treatment of Impuissa st n i ce, „.7soled - ,•,"' ll tY, Local Weakness, Sperrnatorrhcea, &c. To v, ch ', ..p l irrentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, ith pre th theme fh: o 4ts on the evils emanating from empirical ` practice, --eSe 411 "1 ° remedies advocated by various writers on pip e rt_ disorders. 34 , By SAMUEL LA'MERT. M.D. s 'et -l Or u tDp 4 D R D-SQUARE, LONDON, r ic tile, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin t i'',..earttfa„"°,,rerY Member of the London Hospital Medical Bode y +he e...`" Apntneeari ec , Hall, London, ke., &c. 'vetten,,:.erdial object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con• 11 ble b rave xultinB from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, and pre ocuced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man ,,_ ler elm.. Mature decay at all stages of Life, 'than, perhaps, any It? perusal is t lit u rtie i "" a of disease known to modern pathologists.. is" t r . Dh r'37,,?ecolnmended to persons entertaining secret doubts of e3tllir c ondition, and who are conscious of having haza in r -4PPltt ess, and privileges to which every human be g -t is ab itof neceasary thatall man shonld know, that there are ""°flal management which cannot be violated without . 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INDAYS, r, s N a''' ,re. tting) 4~ t O " A HAPPY NEW YEAR." HOWEVER we may value past enjoyments, it must be admitted that present hopes have a greater influence than bygone recollections. There are some pleasing reminiscences of the p , st year which will sweeten the events of the present. Tho El Year, loaded with the precious fruit , of the earth, like a provi dent and iidustrions predecessor, has left us the legacy of good food, which we hope, notwithstanding adverse circumstances, to have at a cheap rate. Reviewing the past year, we have the highest gratification in re cording our srcce•s, awl expressing our thanks for the vast amount of patronage and support which our business in all its departments bas received. We think it no presumption to say we have laboured to merit the distinction we have gained. Business—practical, ener getic, constant, punotual, and unwavering —has been our daily oh j,ct. We have visited every market ; we have employed the skill and experlenoe with which many years of boundless trade have gifted us ; we have encouraged talent, and patronised Industry, and have made al our resources available to friends, patrons, and the public, in presenting them with superior and fashtmahle Dress, at very vasemble charges. We have received our reward in the innu merable instances of satisfaction expressed toward oar business and our manufactures—in the vast increas 3 of our Trade in London, the United Kiturclom, the Colonies, and throughout the World. The Ready-made Clothing Department has been publicly acknow ledged the boon of society, and an advantage to individuals and families. Our ambition to furnish the best, most fashionable, and comfortable Clothing, at the lowest possible prices, has met with a most conspicmms response ; and we owe to our friends, patrons, and the public, a grateful acknowledgment of success which has not been equalled on eny former season. We have received the attention of pill classes and of all professions—our productions have been declared the most popular, the most gentlemanly, the most comfortable, and the cheapest. Our system of business, now universally known, has Lean as exten ively praised; and through the past Year, the cordial congratulations we have received have been a source of satisfaction, which we esteem the most brilliant triumph of Trade. As Hatters, we have supplied elegant articles for the intellectual developments of our fellow-subjects, and have neither contracted their benevolent propensities by comfortless kats, nor distorted their apprehensions with exorbitant prices ; but the best productions of London and Paris have been transferred from our Establishments to their proper places—the Heads of families and all the young hope fuls of a future generation. In the Hosiery Department such encouragement has been expe rienced as has exceeded the most sanguine expectation, and at the repeated solicitation of a vast number of patrons we have been in duced to add a Hosiery section to our Oxford-stre, t Branch Establish ment. Being the largest Manufacturers of Shirts and Underclothing, and having commercial transactions with every Nation and King dom in the World, we have the pleasure of offering such articles in Hosiery for Ladies and Gentlemen as are not equalled fur supe riority, variety, elegance, or cheapness. Our Wholesale Clothing, Shirt, and Boot and Shoe Business, for which the most extensive premises are kept at our City Establish • ment, has bad the most liberal encouragement from Merchants, Shippers, Captains, and others ; and we have the greatest satisfac tion in the uniform testimony which has been awarded to our pro ductions from the celebrity they have gained in all parts of the world, and the conviction that they have proved the most pro fitable investments which were ever made for the export or home trade. We most gratefully acknowledge the distinguished patronage which has been conferred on our Branch Establishments at .Slieflield and Itradferd, Yorkshire, where wo cursue the same plans of business, charge the same reasonable prices, and furnish goods of the same fashionable and excellent order. Though every colony of the British Empire has in it our patrons, Australia, that home of English in dustry, has a large and flour;shing Wholesale Branch of our well known business ; and we are persuaded that in every place that business will always be worthy of the name and celebrity of E. Moses and SON._. However, as it is E. MOSES and SON'S custom annually to recapi tulate the progress of their business, and to express their good wishes lowa' ds their ratrons and the public, they do so with an ex traordinary degree of pleasure at the commencement of the year 1E55; satisfied that the name of E. MOSES and Sox is identified with good, fashionable, and cheap clothing; th a t E . M OSES and Sox have the greatest celebrity as Merchant Tailors, Hosiers, and Out fitters; that there is not a Lrarich of business they profess, but in it indefatigable perseverance enatles them to succeed ; and in the most animated hopes of securing numberless advantages to all classes of patrons, and of preserving distinctly and celebrity in all nations, E. MOSES and SON most sincerely wish every body in all parts of the world A IiAPPY NEW IEAB z , / , . / , - • , -----._ ."7 . . r i . • , • - '' 1,, • , , 'I V •, '"1" ..., .elI • At , ' # ik 4 .- - _ ~..; ' . 1 . f - • ....% ! :-Nt--, , r . --, ,„ ~.,,,,,, J•i.... ~ i• -.-, J 1'...N. , .:4„..1r ~,,.*,--.,, ' ~ -..., 4 : 4 .: , . 4.:,4:._ -, :i_t_,,b -.,-....- ..,- 7 , - --• l I , .... ' ~, ~-"' 7 ~, . 4...5. I ~/ . -" 1k&..., .. si • - 4 ; f!.411., , - ' ;: 1.. .'• fN, N `; 1 ',- ': • ~,, ' . 1. ~-• ~ . ..-.., -:-. t ' I/ - - , A-_ki,sl •.- 4 4 4 ' ... ..-.-.; .. , - '3— -, , • .1%... ' • 4 ,' 4..... - f•/' 1 r. t t.. , % _....... ~,- - # „ a 1,,,„, . ( . 0 ,, ....„.., + ...-„,, ~..y . "?...7 i '.'" 1 • ,, ,...,.,64 ____ . 7 - '' W .--? 'L' '''O taitilir ' 4 : ' ;, 4 '-' -i ' ''. ;'' 14 ''''. - 4- - " '''' D 0 -,..4 4 . _,_ "., Al ' . • ',/,'• ',IZ -I', CP, 11 . 4 ' it - :, 0 43 - ,, ,4 ,:,. ~ ‘ :-.... '' , , f , . ;p er L'-- M,-.: . 5 .. :-': . ? , . LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1855. MR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC TO-NIGHT at 8 o'clock, and ErerylNight (but Saturday). Stalls, 3s. ; Area, 25.; Gallery, Is. The 3forninx Representations take place every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock.— Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. ORNAMENTS for the DRAWING-ROOM, LIBRARY, and DINING-ROOM, consisting of a new and elegant assortment of Vases, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper-weights, Sec., in Italian Alabaster, Marbles, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imrorted and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT (late Mawe), 149, Strand, London. Mr. TENNANT arranges elementary Collections of Shells, Minerals, and Fossils, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of Conchology, Mineralogy, and Geology, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Ten ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any. _ _ No Tender will be received unless made on the Printed Form pro vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at the acid Office, at. the Victualling Ysrds at Gosport and Plymouth, or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Service at Liver pool, or to the Collector of customs at Bristol. - . Tenders will be admitted for any portion of the above quantities, but separate tenders must be made for each place, and no attention will be paid to any offer not so made. Samples of the articles may be seen at the said office, between the hours of eleven and two cnly, and also at the Victualling Yards, at Gosport and Plymouth. . _ . - The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten tion is calved, may be seers at the said Office, at the said Victualling Yards at Gosport and Plymouth. and also at Liverpool and Bristol. No tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering or an agent on his behalf should attend at the office on the day of contract, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated 10 him and his proposed sureties in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Pt 9 and must also be delivered at Somerset House. SPEECH OF TILE KING OF GREECE. We have already given an extract from the speech delivered by the King of Greece, on open ing the Chambers ; we now give the entire text of that document : " Senators and Deputies—After the painful trials which we have just passed through, and which have compelled us to defer your meeting beyond the period at first fixed, let us return thanks to the Most High, who hag delivered us from a cruel disease. In addition to the public misfortunes which have so deeply afflicted our heart, we have had to deplore the premature loss of our august and well-beloved mother. The regrets testi fied on that occasion by all among you who were present in the capital proved to us in a very consolatory manner the part which the nation itself took in our affliction. Well known circumstances, accompanied by deplorable acts, have for some time past led to the interruption of relations with a neighbouring state, and ooca ,sistursoi Jo/aerial -losses to - alui , xsessisessaia&Assteliests bal i Pnunt r ieg- . 'My goverlESlßLlll.l,lllasisoaki• „ Cs;ihope that, thanks to the sincere and hind operation of the great powers, the allies of the neighbouring state, and whose noble and generous sentiments in favour of Greece have been strongly manifested, our desires will be happily realised. In presence of the formidable struggle which had broken out in the East, considera tions of a superior order, derived from the manifest in terests of the nation, as well as from a feeling of grati tude towards the powers alluded to have dictated to us the declaration of a strict neutrality. In firmly adhering to this system, we will neither permit nor tolerate any thingcontrary to the honour and true interests of the coun try. We keep up friendly relations with all the powers, without forgetting that the paramount interest of Greece is to draw from the springs of European civilisation all the benefits which result from them for society. Nothing, in fact, can be better suited to our situation, or more powerfully contribute to the national glory, than a good internal organisltion, by the aid of the moral and religious education of youth, of legislative and govern. mental arrangements, having for object the development of agriculture, industry, and commerce, as well as the observance of the strictest good faith in all transactions, either public or private. We feel a conviction that you will eagerly give your approbation to all the measures which my government will lay beforeyou for this object. We especially call your serious attention to the bills, which will be presented to you, relative to modifications to be made in certain parts of the communal and electoral law, and the necessity of which modifications has been admitted by long experience. The organisationof acorps of infantry on a uniform principle promises the best re sults for the strength and discipline of the army. There will be a bill presented relative to the engineers which unites the scientific works of the army to the technical works undertaken by the state. Brigandage, which frequently desolates several points of the territory, attacks not only the interests of honest and peaceable citizens by compromising their lives, their honour, and their fortune, but also unjustly exposes the reputation of the nation, which rejects with indignation the guilty acts of a small number of evil-doers. You will, we are sure, give your energetic support to the legal means which will be proposed to you with a view to repress and extir pate so dangerous an evil. "Deputies,—The budget of next year will be sub- mitted to you. The grape malady, which for the last three years has destroyed one of the most valuable productions of Greece, and the stagnation of commerce and navigation caused by it and by political circumstances, have occa sioned a notable decrease i❑ the public revenue, and at the same time - imposes on my Government very consider able expenses. The deficit which has been the result cannot be filled up except by the regularisation of the receipts, and the severe repression of every kind of abuse. The po veers who have guaranteed the loan this year again furnished the funds for the payment of the interest and the sinking fund of it. Relying on their friendly dispositions, we are convinced that they will not claim anything beyond our strength. But, inspired by good faith and national honour, we roust, gentleman, in our turn, endeavour to establish with them some ar rangement in the execution of which we shall observe the most scrupulous exactitude. We recommend to your solicitude the vote in a proper time of the budget of next year, in order to avoid as much as possible the provisional credits founded on that budget, and also to vote the budget of 1856, which will be presented to you in the course of this session. Bills relative to the finance will also be submitted to your deliberations. It is in contemplation to extend the system of taxation par stremmer to the greater part of the land now taxed by valuation. The establishment of a fixed duty on cur rants will relieve the growers and dealers from the incone veniences attached to the fluctuation in value. The customs tariff, revised and completed on liberal prin ciples, will also call for your attention. The idea, long entertained by the Government, of rendering citizens landowners, will be at length accomplished by the aid of laws offering facilities to those who owe arrears to the Treasury for lands acquired by way of dotation to citizens who have built houses on ground belonging to the public domain, and to those who wish to purchase portions of olive-grounds and other perishable property of the state. " Senators and Deputies,---At all times harmony and confidence between the executive powers and the legisla tive bodies guarantee the success of public affairs ; but at extraordinary periods like those in which we now live such an accord becomes imperiously necessary, for it is only by it that we can ward off the immense dangers with which we are surrounded. We rely on your pa triotism, and we expect with confidence from the session which is about to open results agreeable to our wishes and to our hopes. It is thus that the Most High will bless your labours. We proclaim the opening of the second session of the fourth legislature." TAMAR CONGOLS MINING ComPa/ff.—Th era was a meeting this day of the proprietors of this company, when a long discussion took place in respect to the mismanagement of the affairs under the auspices of Mr. Stainsby, whom it was eventually agreed to re move from the management, with several of the direc tors, by the votes of the whole of the adventurers then present, NAVAL A'•ITD MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw, Captain Hon. H. Kep pel, has been paid wages in Plymouth Sound. - Princess Royal, 91, screw, Captain Lord C. Paget, lying at Devonport, is appropriated for the conveyance of 47 hospital orderlies to Scutari, and from Cork, 50 commiasariat drivers, 1 inspector, and two sub-inspec tors, to the Crimea ; besides the following troops, viz. : 14th foot— 9 officers, and 140 men ; 9th, 9 officers, and 57 men ; 39th, 9 officers, 183 men ; and a detachment of the Royal Sappers and Miners, consisting of 5 officers and 100 men. Colonel Lord G. A. Paget, 4th Light Dragoons, will sail in this ship for the Crimea, and she will also convey 25 tons of camp equipage and a small quantity of warm clothing.. Nile, 91, screw, Captain Munday, has been taken into Devonport harbour and placed in the basin at Keyham, preparatory to being taken into dock. The Blenheim, 60, screw .blockship, Captain W. H. Hall, has stripped ship in Portsmouth harbour, and will move into the steam basin to morrow, to have a thorough refit. She has already cost from first to last between 200,0001. and 300,0001., and is now, it is said, all adrift in her boilers and machinery. Isnperieuse, 51, screw, Captain R. B. Watson, C. 8., will haul into the steam basin at Portsmouth to-day. The Amphion screw steam-frigate was taken into ,the . fitting-basin at Sheerness 'yesterday, placed under the masting sheers, and her masts were taken out for in spection. Cossack, 21, screw, Captain Fanshawe, has been taken out for a cruise. Esk, 21, screw, Captain Birch, takes her trial at Stokes Bay to-day, under Griffiths• screw. It is said she made nine knots in going round under favourable circus).- stances. Falcon, 17, screw, Oberon, 3, paddle, and Myrmidon, 2, paddle, will haul out of the steam basin into the fitting basin at Portsmentltto : * , , he Ponek•po, - • -it e44 - 40devetiptain Caffin; was Paid wages at Portmouth yesterday, and her crew granted two months' leave. The Lucifer, paddle, is taking in jurymasts, spars, and rigging, and will proceed to Pembroke, with a party of riggers, to bring round the Queen's new yacht, Windsor Castle, shortly to be launched at that arsenal. APPOINTMENTS. Master—George Gilpin (1854), to the Perseverance, fire-ship, at Inverness. Chaplain—John B. Ilurbard, to the Diamond, 28, -on the Mediterranean station. Surgeon—Henry Piers (1854), recently serving in the Investigator, to the Plymouth Hospital, Second Master—George J. Whitehouse (1847), re• cently serving in the Monarch, to the Caesar, 91, screw, at Devoaport. Inspector of Machinery afloat —John Ward (1854), recently serving in the Duke of Wellington, to the St. Vincent, 102, ordinary guard-ship at Portsmouth. been Captain distinguished i G n the ßci scientific department .N who has long of the navy, has been selected by Sir Jaynes Graham to proceed upon special service to Malta, and we feel sati s fi e d th a t Sir James has us e d a wise discretion in fixing upon an officer so well known and popular, to carry out any par ticular duties which the Government may have in view. Captain RoLinsea w;11 be borne as supernumerary cap tain on the books of the Ceylon, the flag-ship of Rear- Admiral Houston Stewart. THE TRANSPORT SERVICE. The Clyde steam•transport, No. 154, laden with storca for the Mack Sea, went cut of Portsm6uth harbour yes- terday to Spithead, to ship her powder, priur to leaving for the seat of war. Yesterday the Black Prince steam-transport took 50 tons of powder on board, at Greenhithe ; she has an immense quantity of warm clothing and general stores, and sails this day for the Crimea. Yesterday the Lady Eglinten transport took several hundred bales of warm clothing, Canada stoveq, &c., on board, at Woolwich, for conveyance to the Crimea. The Admiralty have taken up the Prompt, Leith steamer, to convey troops and stores to the Crimea. Yesterday the Oscar steam -transport left Falmouth, with 158 tons of shot, shell, and ammunition, and a vast quantity of stores for the Crimea. The William, 703 tons, engaged by Government for the conveyance of 300 male convicts from Ireland to Ber muda, will leave Deptford on the sth inst. for Queens town, to receive them on board, Surgeon Superintend ent Charles Smith will have charge of the prisoners, and a military guard of two officers and 50 men will accom pany them. The Director-General of the Array and Ordnance Medical Department has given notice to the transport office of the immediate want of a steamer for conveyance of 300 tons of medical stores to the Crimea, to follow those sent out in the Eagle steamer of 480 tons. The Peninsula, screw steam-transport No. 172, 508 tons, is loading at Deptford with sappers' clothing, for delivery at Constantinople, and rifled muskets and am munition for Scutari and tie Black Sea fleet. moos 'w - brok theTyrades has just been launched at Sheerness. Orders arrived at Sheerness yesterday for the crew of the Royal George to be hulked on board the Wellington, ordinary victualling depot. Some idea may be formed of the late gale in the Black Sea *hen it is positively stated, upon good authority, that the three-deckers actually pitched their figure-heads under water at anchor, and that one of them, the Bri tannia, had the " blue robe of her figure-head (Britannia) washed away." The decree of sale in respect of the Russian vessel Atlantic, of which Starkings was late the master, seized in the port of Leith under simulated papers, having been issued by the Admiralty, she has been sold for the benefit of the captors, and realised 2,240/. Her cargo and effects also brought a considerable sum. The Court of Admiralty have also condemned the Russian vessel Sooglassie and her cargo as a lawful prize. She belonged to Elise Jeff, a merchant of Cronstadt, and was seized in the port of Leith on the 24th of June, sailing under Danish colours, and she and her cargo (wheat) are to be captors forthwith. sold for the benefit of her yourself and the Deputy-Lieutenants generally in giving effect to the resolution of the meeting. " I. much regret that the state of my health renders it impossible for me to attend the meeting personally, but Lord Burlington has kindly undertaken at my request to be present, and I shall regard it as a favour to myself if you will give Lord Burlington the advantage of your presence and advice upon the occasion.---I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient humble servant, DEVONSHIRE." The men of the West Essex Militia, now assembled at Chelmsford, are kept at constant drill. On Friday, Lieutenant-Colonel Brise, the commandant, addressed the men, when between 30 an d 40 at once came from the ranks and volunteered for regiments in the line ; 55 had previously joined the regulars . There is a defi c i enc y in the c om pl ement o f upwars of 300, but it is hoped this will ere len.. be made up. The 3d West York has given 200 volunteers to the line; an equal number of fresh men have already joined them. ARRIVAL OP THE .HIMALAYA. Her Majesty's steam-ship Himalaya, under the corn maid of Captain T. Russell, arrived at Spithead from Malta and Gibraltar yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. She left Malta on the 19th of December, at 6 p.m., and experienced a most tempestuous passage to Gibraltar, having encountered for three days a heavy westerly and north-west gale with much confused sea, and, being ex tremely light, having only 410 tons of coal with about i 0 tons of old iron, could not make the way against it which she usually does. She averaged, however, 74 knots. From Gibraltar, which she left at 4 a.m. on the 28th, she has met with a sneeession of hard gales from E., N.E., N., and IT.N.W., with a very heavy sea !toren.% the bay, fuld..lip .chappei, liitatelitteffefiittY - 6 - 6 - 6. -- a;i4a iimist an impractica bility to repair her in Malta so as to enable her to at tempt with safety a winter passage to England, owing to there being no dock there sufficiently long to take her in ; but Rear-Admiral Stewart and his able assistants thought otherwise, and the result h as p rove d t h at t h ey were right and the general opinion wrong. The fol lowing account will give some idea how it was managed, and for the success with which it has been attended every one must admit that the highest praise has been justly earned by the Admiral and by those who carried out the details of certainly a most extraordinary scienti fic experiment, viz. :—Messrs. Ladd, master shipwright; Heapshaw, superintending engineer of the dockyard ; and Mr. Hannah, foreman of engineers, and his help mates ; at the same time they received from Mr. Gray, chief engineer of the Himalaya, and his juniors, most valuable assistance. She was taken to the dock about noon on the let of December. Her fore compartment was filled or kept filling by four siphons, for about two hours. At that time a powerful purchase was fixed aft to four derricks, hove taut, and she started up 18 inches. Three hours later the purchase was hove again, when she moved up 12 inches, and so continued till half-past 11 p.m., when it was found her shaft-ho!e was 15 inches out of the water. At this time her immersion was 7ft. 10in. aft, and 27ft. forward, with about 2ft. of water under her forefoot ; and this was acc3mplished so easily that per sons witnessing the operation almost doubted their own eyes. She strained nothing whatever, and when her defects had been made good she was let down, the water in her fore compartments pumped out, and in 12 hours she regained her natural position, and looked as trim on the water as she ever did—that is after she got her inizenmast in and topgallantmast pointed, yards squared, &c. It will be seen that she was water-borne the whole time, and that by destroying the buoyancy forward the assistanee she required aft to raise her was compara tively small. She brings home from Malta several wounded and in valided officers from both services, among whom are Capt. Graham, R.N., late of the Rodney, and Lieut. Bridge, R.N., late first of the Vengeance, but serving lately with great zeal in the trenches, invalided ; the gallant Capt. White, of the 17th Lancers, severely wounded in the rash but noble Light Cavalry charge on the 25th of October ; Major (now Lieut.-Col.) Hume, 95th, badly wounded at Inkerman ; Lieut.-Colonel Berkeley, Scots Fusilier Guards, also severely wounded at Alma ; Dr. Manifold, in medical charge of the ; Captains Stour and Knollys commanding them ; Mr. Cotgrave, midshipman, the fortunate and only sur viving officer of the ill-fated steam-ship Prince ; also Mr. Owen, the only officer saved from the Resolute transport. She also brings invalided and wounded men, women, and children from no less than 42 different regiments, thus— men, 140; women, 225; children, 295 ; naval invalids, 12; shipwrecked seamen from the Black Sea, 116; second class passengers and servants, 35—making a total of 845 souls, besides her own crew, of whom one man has died during the passage, and five children have been born. Sa anxious was Admiral Stewart to get the Himalaya to England that she was hurried off from Malta in by no means a very fit state for sea, and meeting. jvith the bad Weather she encountered for the first three days caused necessarily a great deal of dis comfort to the invalids, women, 4.adchildre f irgne t • as the circumstances would admit of was done by the officer in charge, as well as the medical officer (Dr. Manifold, staff surgeon), assisted by the surgeon of the ship (Dr. .111`Cann) and by the different officers on board. She was detained at Gibraltar from the morning of the 25th to early on the 2Sth getting a supply of coal. She coaled in the New Mole, which for a ship of her great length is not a very convenient place for the pur pose. This may have been in some measure the cause of her apparently long detention at that port. At Gibraltar her Majesty's steam-ship Ueda, Com mander Hawker. The Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's ship Indus, Captain Soy, arrived at the Rock at noon on the 25th, after a fine passage of four days 21 hours, and proceeded to Malta and Alexandria at G p.m. the same day, all well. The same company's ship Iberia arrived at 6 p.m. on the 27th. On the 24th, off Cape de Gatt, the Himalaya exchanged signals with her Majesty's ship Neptune, bound to the East. The screw transport Gothenburgh, No. 133, left Gibraltar for the East on the 25th. The Sprightly, steam tender, went out from Ports mouth harbour to Spithead immediately the Himalaya anchored, and took in a few of the most urgent cases, whom she landed at Haslar, after disembarking at Portsmouth dockyard Captain Graham, R.N., Colonel Berkeley, Captain White, and Lieutenant Saunderson, of the 62,1, who went to the George Hotel, where they remained for the night. The rest of the Himalaya's melan choly freight will be disembarked to-morrow, most pro bably at this port. She came up to Spithead with the yellow flag flying, but soon hauled it down. THE METROPOLITAN' COMMISSION OF SEWERS. Yesterday a Court of Sewers was held at the office of the commission, Greek-street, Soho. Mr. Jebb was in the chair. With a view to shorten the duration of the proceed ings of the court on its ordinary clays of meeting, it was arranged that courts, which only a portion of the com missioners should be expected to attend, should in future Le held on alternate Wednesdays, for the transaction of routine or formal business. Sir J. SHELLEY inquired of the chairman whether the commission had power to take land for outfall works at Barking-creek ? Tile CHAIRMAN replied that as the commission was empowered to take land for such purposes only within the limits of its own jurisdiction, and as her Majesty had been pleased to include within those limits no past of the county of Essex, the commission could not take land for the purposes referred to at Barking-creek, which was in that county. Sir J. SHELLEY gave notice that he should, at the first court held in the month of February, move resolutions declaring that for the drainage of the metropolis there ought to be two sewers, one on the north and the other on the south side of the Thames, whose outfalls sheuti be so near the mouth of the river as to prevent the filth, when once discharged, being brought back by the tide ; and that it was necessary that the commission should be empowered to purchase Lend for the purpose o constructing the required outfall works. In reply to Mr. OFFER, The CHAIRMAN stated that a sewer, about two hun dred feet in length, had been constructed by the late commissioners, under Sir George Duckett's canal, at an expense of frorn 1,5001. to 2,0001. The work was exe cuted because the canal was at the time emptied for the purpose of being cleaned. Had not this golden oppor tunity been seized, it would, in order to pass under the canal, have been necessary, at a great expense, to stop the traffic. In answer to another question from Mr. OFFER, The CHAIRMAN said that he had no doubt that the officers of the commission held their offices during plea sure, and that it was competent to the commissioners to dismiss them or reduce their salaries. Mr. OFFER gave notice th:►t 110 — should, at a future court, move the appointment of a committee to inquire into the salaries, which, though he did not know what wcrk was performed by them, were, he thought, too high. The CHAIRMAN denied that the salaries paid were ex cesive, but should be glad that an inquiry should take place. Mr. WADE gave notice that, on the 16th January, he should propose to the Coutt to offer a premium of 5001. for the best plan of ventilating the sewers under the control of the commission. Mr. TnwATTEs gave notice that at the same Court he should move a series of resolutions expressing approval of the "Great London Drainage Scheme" (as opposed to the plan proposed by Mr. Bazalgette, the engineer to t!le commission) for th e drainage of that part of the me tropolis south of the Thames. The question of the liability to rates of tithes in the hands of ecclesiastics having been mentioned, Mr. OFFER gave notice of his intention to move its consideration as early es possible, with a view to the consultation upon it by the law officers of the Crown. After the transaction of some other business, the Court adjourned. MILITARY. _ . About 150 men of the corps servine , at the seat of war in the East arrived at Gravesend on Sunday in the transport ship No. 95. Several o f th e R o y a l A r till er y died on board on their pessage home. The rest were landed and conveyed to Chatham, where proper places have been prepared for their reception. A. detachment of invalids belonging to the 67th and 69th Regiments arrived at Southampton on Monday, from Barbadoes, under c h arge of Lieutenant Kelly, R.A., and Dr. Bain, medical d epartment ; t h ey h ave soldiers railwayttl i s iorts w m h o o u detachment,ftehl thei.lvictims t Tm e l Thirtee nsicttos of be e some orphan omdespatched echodf trhe unfortunate e by n accompanied the late dreadful epidemic (the cholera), and are thrown on the world friendless and destitute. A detachment of the 7th Foot, one captain, one subal tern, and 104 leer, are ordered to be ready to embark on board the Princess Royal transport, which will be ready by the 6th inst. A eetachment of invalids from the West Indies pro ceeded from Portsmouth yesterday for Chatham. Yesterday the Proof-master and other officials in the small arms' department, Tower were busily engaged in provieg Minie r lips, rifled eetrbines, :and other fire-arms. The number sent in by the contractors since Saturday last by far exceeded any week's supply since the contract commenced, and has kept the m en em pl o y e d i n th e proof-house busy from 7 o'clock i n t h e morn i ng unt i l 8 o'clock in the evening. Notwithstanding this large supply, there is an immense deficiency yet to be made up by the con tractors. The Sappers and Miners now proceeding to the seat of war are now steeled with Mr. L ancaster ' s new car bine,yards. Coolh.is attention drawn to auToh capable ,vetl of description Minister executionot‘ya of frhassiegaethlacannon, the invention of a Mr. Williams, of Pembroke. A description of Which was published in The Sun yesterday. Lieutenant Colonel Machlachlan, who died at his re sidence in Southampton on the 29th ult., was honour ably mentioned in Colonel Gillespie's despatch for his conduct at the suppression of the mutiny at Yellore in 1806, on which occasion he was the senior officer pre sent,Y Wounded. He was in Captain D. M. Bethune, who has be en p romo t e d t o hig b7.34inthg year. in this instance severely Major of the 9th Foot, served in the campaign in Aff ghanistan in 1842, for which he received a medal as adjutaiii of the same regiment, at the forcing of the Khyber Pass, and as aide-de-camp to Sir J. M`Caskill at the action of Mamookail, forcing the Tezeen Pass, the recapture of Cabul, and also at the storm, capture, and destruction of 'stela. He served also in the cam pgathdi9er Wallace (who was Major-G enera l was cam paign on the Sutlej in 1845. 6 , for which he lik ew i se re ceived a medal, as aide-de-camp to Si r J. M'Caskill, at killedtheba r a l e s of ni d i e d - doeo-dcka camp t e e, ) where o killed), at Ferozeshab, where the charger he rode was shot, and also in the command of ,the same regiment's light company at Sobraon. lie entered th e arm y i n 1835, consequently he has up t o t h e present time served 19 years. THE MILITIA. The Duke of Devonshire, Lord - Lieutenant of the county of Derby, has just addressed the following letter to the Deputy-Lieutenants of that county, on the neces sity of forming,. second regiment of Derbyshire Militia : " Brighton, Jan. 1. " Sir,—l have the honour of addre ss i ng you, as one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of the county of Derby, to request your attendance at a, licutena.ntcy meeting, to be held at Derby, on W e dnesday, the 10th o f J anuary , a t 10 o'clock, to consider the propriety of t a ki ng measures for raising a second regiment of militia i n D er b ys hi re . "I believe that the general opinion of the county is strongly in favour of an endeavour to raise the second regiment, and it has appeared to me to be a duty incum bent upon me, as Lord-Lieutenant, to bring the matter under your notice; and if at the prop ose d mee ti ng active exertions should, as (anticipate, be r eco m men d e d I should then request the cooperation and anaietance of GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICE or SIR WM. B URNETT'S DISINFECTING FLUID. Gallons, ss. Quarts, 2s. Pints, Is. Half-pints, Gd. This ♦aluable DEODORISER and DISINFECTANT instantane ously destroys all BAD SMELLS without producing any itself. Its free use, as directed, PREVENTS CHOLERA and all CON TAGIOUS DISEASES. Sold by all Chemists and Druggists, and at the Offlee,l S i Cannon street, London•bridge. N.B.—Beware of a spurious imitation. CONTRACTS FOR MATERIALS FOR SEAMEN'S CLOTHING. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset House, 24th December, 1854. THE Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on MONDAY, the 15th January, 1855, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's 'Victualling Stores at Deptford and Gosport, the under-mentioned Articles, viz. : To be delivered at Deptfosport. -- - --- Tanis. Yot es. Maxi; .......... ........ .. 29,000 MOO WRITE CALICO .. .. 47,000 28,000 , -....,,,, -- Q8J4043.0xt ••,• •• • 1,4.* . ......, ' ' WOO- ' -' t e ' ' ' SMOG . . `6:... 1= -3G..:".- PADDING CLOTH .. 2,000 1,500 BLUR BAIZE l,OOO - BLACK LINEN Skeins. Skeins. ofeach quan- BLACK SILK ........ . 100,000 60,000 ttty to be Yards. Yards. delivered by BLACK SILK TWIST • .... 90,000 50,000 the 31st Lbs. Lbs. March, an- SEWING Corm/ (Fine) .. •... 300 200 other fourth Yards. Yards. by the 31st BLACK SIILLLOON ROYAL CANVAS ...... • • • • (Stay I White TAPE Pieces. Pieces. next,or ear -4 Dutch (White) .. ••. 99,000 60,000 tier if pre- Yards. terred by I -Black ....... - 21,000 the party Gross. Gross. tendering. Black Bone - 3,000 White Metal Bt7TTONS Large Horn 5OO - Pearl .. • • Lbs. Lbs. WORSTED (Blue) 3, 00 0 2,500 Black l,lOO 1,000 THREAD 1 Whited Brown White (in lb. pakgs) 3,500- 3,503 ~/ tf ~~~~~ ~ j~~~~~ r PRICE SD. LETTERS FROM THE CRIMEA. [FROM AN OFFICER OF THE ROYALS. Camp above Sebastopol, Dec. 12. We have had two days of fine cold weather, with the wind from the north. Yesterday the wind got round to the south-west again, which is the rainy quarter, and it began a little this morning, but it is fine again now. We got an alarm this morning at 7, and an order from head-quarters to be ready to turn out at a moment's notice, and we hear that the Russians are gathering an d threatening our right flank at Inkerman, but there has been no firing in that direction as yet. Sunday seems to be their favourite day for fighting. The mountains near Simphoropol are covered with snow, down to a few miles from our position, but we have had none here yet. I was in the trenches the night before last, and it was most bitterly cold. I had two flannel shirts on, a waist coat, then a pea-jacket, and my regimental great coat, yet it was as much as I could do to keep warm. The ground, fortunately, was hard and the moon bright, and the Russians not firing, so that we could keep in motion, but if there had been the usual rand it would have been perishing work. lam now, I hope, quite over the troublesome attack of diarrhoea, and feel quite well again, and if I could only get fresh meat this work would,l am sure, agree very well with me, but I shall soon get accustomed to the salt meat. The men, too, thank God, are getting round, with these fine days, but the loss has been very great. We were till the last fortnight the healthiest regiment by far, and all the sickly time at Varna lost hardly any men. Since the 27th Nov. upwards of 80 have died, and out of the 120 men who carne out in the last draught 40 are already buried. This shows more than any thing else how deadly the fatigue in the trenches is to those unaccustomed to it. The 9th joined from Malta 10 days ago, 520 strong ; they have been some time in the Mediterranean ; now they have only 250 for duty, and I hoar they can hardly bury their dead. This may be exaggerated, but there is no doubt that the British army has suf fered more these last few weeks from sickness than from the sword. Our men drag on to the trenches While they can scarcely stand, and take a pride in never shirking or casting their duty ou others ; they are much to be pitied, all of them, looking so thin and out of condition ; indeed, three, four, and sometimes five nights out of bed running is enough to kill anybody. If this goes on through the winter, as some suppose, nobody will be able to survive it : they must send out enough from England to give them another night in bed, and then it will not be so bad ; but it is very weari some trying to walk about in slush for 12 hours at a time ; indeed, the young hands cannot do it ; they sit or lie down in the wet, get cramps, and are carried to hospital, where they die. That is the way they have all gone. The old soldiers know that their only chance is to keep moving about, which they do while they can stand. We hear rumours of iron houses being sent out to us from England. I only hope it may be true, as we shall then have a dry place to go to, and where we can have some chance of keeping our things dry. December, they say, is generally a fine mouth out here ; January and February very bad ; but nothing could be much worse than the last fort night, which is a sort of consolation. Some ar rangements must be made about firewood ; there is none within two miles of us ; but near the Light Division there is brushwood which would last some time ; we have no animals here of any sort, or else we might lay in a supply. The artillery have taken advantage of the fine weather to bring up two 13-inch mortars, and the French have dragged up five cannon ; they began to repair our platforms yesterday in the bat teries, which looks as if they intended to have another brush at them. Our last 68-pounder on the left attack was disabled two days ago in a curious manner. It was a ship gun, and the sailors had loaded, and were standing by ready to fire, when a shell from one of the Russian guns entered the muzzle. The concussion sent our gun off, and at the same time the enemy's shell burst inside the gun, tearing two or three feet of the lip to pieces. I saw the gun yesterday in the trenches, all jagged and splintered. Not one of the eight sailors was touched. Our guns present a very melancholy spectacle ; some burst, others with trunnions broken off, and placed hors de combat in every possible manner ; but if we have fine wea ther, and the beasts, of which 500 are coming from Constantinople, arrive, I hope we shall be able to open fire with Incro effect than on the first days. The streets are, I believe, barricaded and trenched in every possible way, and, with their ap parently inexhaustible supply of powder, shot, and shell, we s h a ll h ave much trouble with them even when once inside the place. They are work ing night and day, and we can see plainly long strings of arabas and dromedaries passing and re passing to and from the city. With a telescopeyou can see plainly the people walking quietly along the streets, while the town, with the exception of a few barracks, or large houses on the outside, is perfectly uninjured, and if it was not for the re ports of the rifles and the occasional discharge of a gun from our batteries, no one could tell there was an hostiio army before the place ; all the magnifi cent arsenals and buildings near the docks are per fectly uninjured. I walked over the field of Inker man yesterday ; it is still covered with fragments of shot and shell, bullets, bayonet scabbards, pouches, and torn clothing, &c. We are making strong redoubts to prevent a second attack on that flank, and the Russians are doing the same on the other side ; it was there they were seen in motion, and collecting in largo masses this morning. Ira a few days the works will be finished, and then they will have hard work to turn the position ; the guns are not up yet. (FROM ANOTHER OFFICER.) Camp near Sebastopol, Dec. 13. We were all turned out of bed this morning at 1 o'clock by the alarm sounding • there was a very heavy fire of musketry along all" the line of French trenches, and at one part of ours. We fell in and remained under arms, expecting to get the order to march down in support ; but the attack on our line was repulsed in about three-quarters of au hour, and the orderly galloped up to say we were not wanted. The light and grenadier companies were sent out on picket, and we had to stop on the top of a 1 hill on the left of our attack for two hours. We all expected to have a second In kerman-day, as the Russians had been moving in large masses on our right flank all clay, and so we thought the attack on our front a mere diversion. I do not know the particulars of it, but they ad vanced in heavy columns up a ravine, through which runs the high road from S e b as t opo l to Bala klava. There are high cliffs with caves on each side " • the road is broken up, and a dit c h an d para pet thrown across it. We generally have two com panies in the caves and on the road by night, and one by day; and if it is true that the Russians ad vanced in columns, they must have got their " greens." Our men were in high delight at the prospect of getting a supply of Russian boots, and I found my martial glory evaporated very fast by the time we were marched from our picket. We are very hard worked indeed, especially the Third Division. We were in hopes that the 90th would join our brigade ; but I hear they aro posted to the Second Division, on the right of our line (they have no trench work ; a few pickets is all they have to furnish) ; but we are obliged to keep a large force there, as the Russians continually threaten us in that direction. For the same reason the Highland Brigade and Cavalry Division, with the Marines, are down at Balaklava, useless as far as the siege operations are concerned, hut still necessary to pre serve our base of operations, which might be cut off at any time without them, as General Liprandi is somewhere in that direction, though, they say, he has moved towards the Alma to hold the Turks at Eupatoria in check. The 90th and 34th aro still at Balaklava ; they are inuring them a little to the climate, as the fearful experi e nce of the 9th Regiment and our draughts shows how deadly hard work is to new arrivals ; the 9th have lost half their regiment in the ten days they have been here. They marched up from Balaklava, pitched their tents on a wet day, slept on the wet soil ; the next night, also wet, they relieved us in the trenches, and that sealed their death warrants. They were all old soldiers, and had been some years in the Mediterranean. I was in the trenches the night I came in with our draught ;it rained without ceasing. By the next afternoon four of them wore dead, and since then, out of 120 men, 42 are buried. Now they allow no new arrivals to go in the trenches for the first week. The 46th and 57th, too, have suffered very much ; but for the last week, thank God, the weather has been dry. It is a most extraordinary climate. With a north wind, it has been exces sively cold and frosty ; to-day the wind is south, and as warm as an English spring day. January and February, with part of March, are very bad, and the cold will be most intense. The houses in Bala,klava are all built with very thick walls, large stoves, double windows, the roofs lined with fas- i G ,.-----, ~~ tines, and every precaution against cold. What we shall do in tents I know not. We are obliged to grub about for roots for fuel. In the cold, damp tents without fires it Ivia be terrible. Th ere is a rumour that iron houses are coming out from England, but I am afraid they will be too late for any good. The return, a few days ago, of men fit for duty in the whole British army was 17,060, of ' whom 9,000 were on duty, leaving 8,060 to relieve them. We are undertaking the siege of a t own with a garrison of 45,000 men, our rear and flank menaced with a force of 40,000 more. They are superior in guns, position, and everything else, are living in houses, well supplied with food, and everything necessary for the preservation of health, while we are obliged to keep our men, who were until the last week nearly naked, without a shirt on their backs, a shoe or sock on their feet, exposed to the wet and cold for 12 hours at a time in the trenches, anclo deep in the slush, and, when in the advanced works, unable to move or stand upright from the constant fire of the Russians. Can it be wondered that these men should say that they would rather die than go back to the miserable camp ! The tents all leak, and the mei are lying 15 together in a place where no English gentlemen would put their pigs. The only rations are salt meat, and of that for some time they have only had half quantities. The pitiful gill of rum even can be seldom issued regularly. The Commissariat do all they can, I believe, but the wear and tear of animal power dragging up those dreadful arabas is so great, with the roads as they have been,—two feet deep in the heaviest clay,—that without a con stant importation we shall be brought to a stand still ; forage, too, is very sclree, and the wretched animals are dying all over the country ; the Tur kish drivers are dyi ng fast. I see no end to mat ters till we send an army of 70,000 men to Pere kep, for supplies of every description are con tinually coming in. Yesterday an immense con voy came in to Sebastopol. Two 13-inch mortars have been brought up, and I hope we shall la ble to - -t a nit , — - able appeara, please God Now tho- large ones ter fortune shell would ..__ grog. is literally covered with it, which shows what im mense preparatioes the Czar has made. Theyhave a great advantage over us, for the diameter of our guns of the same nominal calibre is smaller than theirs, so that our shot will fit their guns, but theirs, with the exception of 241 b., are too large for us. We are about 500 yards from the town in our advance, and our men pick off the people in the streets ; their sharpshooters fire from the houses, and are very troublesome. I think I have given you a pretty long yarn about our very exhilarating prospects here. One thing is certain —w e have put our foot into it, and can't go back. If it Were not for the French, we should be all on our way to Moscow ; but they are magnificent soldiers, and show us an example in every arrangement. (FROM A. FIELD OFFICER MENTIONED FOR DISTIN GUISHED CONDUCT IN LORD RAGLAN'S DESPATCH.) Camp before Sebastopol, Dec. 12. We are going on much as usual, receiving rein forcements, sometimes by a regiment or two, some times by draught, but in both cases burying them or sending them to hospital quite as fast as they arrive. A ship comes in to Balaklava with men on board, it is raining in torrents, but a staff officer in snug quarters shows his zeal and his smart manner of doing his work by sending an order for their immediate disembarkation and joining the camp. It is promptly obeyed. A hundred or,,a thousand men, as th© case may be, wet through and through, and up to the tips of their shakos in mud, some times without blankets, often without tents, take up their ground at a late hour, and there they lie. If they have something to eat, they are lucky ; if they have n o t, th ey go w i t h out. They grumble and swear violently, and that is all they have for it. They thus begin to learn to be reckless at starting. Their frightful exposure brings on cer tain disease, and in a few days the dying and the sick are the exclamation of every one. Lord Rag lan (if Lord Raglan be really here, and not in Lon don) is never seen. Whether be knows anything of how things are going on or not I do not know ; lam sure he ought to do so. I have drawn any thing but an exaggerated picture of what happens over and over again. The 9th Regiment marched up without a medical officer'at all ; they had several cases of serious illness the next day, and when a medical officer came there was no medicine. The medicine chest had not accompanied the regiment, because they had no draught animals or means of carrying it. This is precisely the way in which everything is conducted, and yet Lord Raglan has been made a Field-Marshal. The blood of his officers and men has won it for him, and net his own abilities. lam told Sir De Lacy Evans will speak out, and I most earnestly hope he may. Ho can make great exposures, and do much good, if he will. It is generally understood that be has gone home in the greatest disgust with every thing. It will hardly be credited that, al though the exposed state of our right flank before the Inkerman battle was the subject of frequent comment, Lord Raglan never once rode over the ground, or knew anything of it, until the Russians attacked us. Everything about the French contrasts with us most strongly. Their sick are not numerous ; their men are alway s clean and uniformly dressed. They seem to have good rations, cook well, and seem a happy set. Our men are a mass of dirt, rags , and misery. They seem sunk in despondency and in difference ; nothing moves them but an alarm, for they have no hope but to fight it out and get it ever. They think, poor fellows, that another good fight must decide it. Our sick yesterday under canvass, exclusive of .the shiploads at Balaklava and in the hospitals of the Bosphorus, were 3,181. The French, with their largo army, take charge of 1,000 of them for us to-day. The 46th Regiment disembarked on the 10th of November 706 strong. They hate lost 114 men up to to-day, and they have at this moment 257 sick. This regiment has never yet been engaged with the enemy further than in the trenches. They lost 12 men in one day from sickness alone. I saw six dead bodies lying in their camp this morning. If things go on as they are doing —and as the winter advances there is every chance of their being worse rather than better—we shall have no army left. The 34th and 90th Regiments have arrived, but, owing to the want of transport, they are unable to get beyond Balaklava. The French have batteries with 147 guns ready to open on the place at front 200 to 600 yards. They only wait for us to get up some guns to draw off a portion of the enemy's fire. If the fine weather we have just now holds for but a few days, you will soon hear of the assault being given. The Russians have certainly shown a great want of enterprise in leaving us so long unmolested, situated as we are. We aro most careless and court ruin over and over again. The indomitable courage of men and officers alone saves us. I have never heard of any one getting an order yet in any action I have been in. We all do as we like. We have had two alarms lately—the one last night, the gusts of wind preceding the storm. We shall have a de cisive affair before long. It is, however, a very dreary prospect before us. It is said that the Em b(luol,esudr e ir e s n t o li c fae Nicholasmh spring.ms e s n engag es one tnt t o fl a t :: s a is b s ne s u gn t l odef thereigl Il r et a -1 graves n -t s b o a a ar n t o et d ff l e e e d n f sia offensive ship. o f smell. There is a portion of the Russian army strongly entrenched still in our rear ; but they are on the right of the r reliernaya, and their works command the bridge that gives us the only means by which they could be attacked. It is rumoured in Berlin that the Cabinet has been taken somewhat aback by the Russian Envoy at Vienna having assisted at tho conference without even expressing a regret at the absence of that of Prussia. But the party here console themselves with the old illusion of infallibility and inevitability ; and further, with that of Austria not being disposed to advance an inch further in her demands upon Russia than is specified in the body of the December treaty. Profound silence is maintained meantime by the Government organs rela- tive to the results of Baron Usedom's stillborn mission, and to the negative effects produced by the Prussian note of the 19th. _ GALLANT EXPLOIT OF ADMIRAL BRUAT.—The Journal clu Loiret contains a letter from the Crimea, which says :—" Admiral Bruat's daring is proverbial in the fleet. In spite of the fits of gout with which this officer is so frequently attacked, or perhaps on account of that affliction, ho sometimes has the idea of such audacious attempts as are more to be expected from a young lieutenant who has his promotion to gain then from an admiral. Lately, after a severe attack of gout, the admiral called some of his officers into his cabin, and said, `Gentlemen, a good idea has just occurred to me —it is, to go quietly in, and ourselves visit the channel of Sebastopol. We shall so be able to judge for oar. selves what its situation really is.' The proposition was joyfully accepted, and in the middle of the night n every of e put off and enteredseveral he eh f the a b n o n a ni ts . Part of it, and the admiral touched with his own hand The the boats Ch r e wentnla g through the chain which c loses the entrance of the military port. Everything ' cal managed so cleverly on the part of the admiral's party that not a single Russian sentinel was aware of their approach. But day began to break while the boats were still far down in the harbour, and the alarm was Immediately given. A terrible fire was then opened all along the fortifications of the channel, and it was under a fearful shower of projectiles of every de scription thit the boats snide their way out. Fortu nately, not a maa was wounded, though the longboat of the Charlemagne was somewhat damaged by the enemy's shot. This bold attempt, so successfully exe. cuted, has since been the principal object of converda tion and praise in the fleet." shall be able to present a more res'pect: arance in our batteries next week, if it , d that the dry weather may continue. „ h eos t ik a ."*„. , are very few guns servieesble ; all the are disabled.. I would not desire a bet- e than the money that their shot and d fetch as old iron. For acres the ground r.