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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 town 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 suppliegkelvith food, and everything - necessary for the preseiTation 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 cord for 12 hours -at a time in the trenches, and° 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 men • 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 ruin even can be seldom issued regularly. The Commissariat do all they van, 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 sc tree, and the wretched animals are dying all over the country; the Tur kish drivers are dying fast. I see no end to mat ters till we scud an army of 70,000 men to Pere kop, for supplies .of every description . are con tinually coming in.. Yesterday an imnaonse con voy came in to Sebastopol. Two 13-inch mortars have been brought up, and I hope we shall be able to present a more respect able appearance in our batteries next week, if it please God that the dry weather may continue. Now there are very few guns serviceable; all the large ones are disabled. I would not desire a bet ter fortnne than the money that their shot and shell would fetCh as old iron. For acres the ground is literally covered-with it, which shows what im mense pre:Araticni the Czar has made. They have a great advantage over us, for the diameter o f our guns of th e same nominal calibre is smaller than theirs, so that our shot will fit their guns, but theirs, with th e except i on of 241 b., are too large for us.. We are about SJO 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—WC have put our foot into it, and can't go back. If it were not for •the French, we should be our way to Moscow'; but they are magnificent soldiers, and show us an example in every arrangement. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1855. FPRICE SD. 1/FR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC TO-NIGHT at 8 o'clock, and Every,Night (but Saturday). Stalls, 3s. ; Area, 25.; Gallery, is. Toe Morning Representations take place every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock. Egyptian Hail, Piccadilly. . . IV.AVAL AND MILITARY 4 4 TELLIGENCE. yourself and the Deputy-Lieutenants generally in giving eff,ct to the resolution of the mee ti ng . • St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw ' Ca tarn Hon. 11. Kep- • "I much regret th a t th e s t a t e o f my h ea l t h ren d ers it pel i has been paid wages in .Plyenotth Sound. . impossible for me t o a tt en d th e mee ti ng persona ll y, b ut Princess Royal, 91, screw, Captiin Lord C. Pala, Lord,Burlington has kindly undertaken at my request to lying at Devonport, iiappropriated tor the conveyance be present, and I shall regard.it as a favour to myself if of 47 hospital orderlies to Scutari, ind from Cdrk, 60 you will give Lord Burlington the advantage of your commissariat drivers, 1 i nspector, a nd two sub•iespec.- presence - and advice. upon th e occas i on .—l h ave th e tors, to the Crimea; besides the following troops; viz.: I honour to be, sir, your obedient humble servant, 14th foot-- 9 officers, and 140 men ; oth, 9 o ffi cers , an d " DEVONsennz. ” 57 men ; 39th, 9 officers, 183 men ; and a detachment Th e men of the West Essex Militia, now assembled of the-Royal Sappers ;led Miners, consisting of 5 'officers at Chelmsford, are kept at constant drill. On Friday, and 100 men. Colonel Lord G. A t Paget, 4th Light Li eu t enant-Colonel Brise, the commandant, addressed Dragoons, will sail in thi s s hi p for ttie Crimea, and she the men, when between 30 a n d 40 a t once came f rom will also convey 25 tots o f camp eq ti page and a small the ranks and volunteered for regiments in the line ; 55 quantity of warm clothing. had previously joined the regulars. There is a deficiency Nile, 91, screw, Captain Munday,lhas been taken into in the complement of upwards of 300, but it is hoped Devonport harbour mad placed in th basin at Keyharn,, this will ere long he made up. preparatory to being take n into dock. The 31 West York has g i ven 200 vo l un t eers to the Hall, has stiippod ship i n P or t smoul The Blenheim, 60, scre w bl oc k s h line; an equal number o f f res h men h ave a l rea d y j o i ner ' move ir:to the steam basin t o morrow, them. refit. She has already cost from fil 200,0001. and 300,0091, and.is now . ; in her bailers and machine r y, l Loperieuse, 51, screw, Captain R, will haul into the steam basin at Pen The Amphion screw, steam-friatel fitting-basin at Sheerness yesterday; roasting sheers, and her masts were spection. - Cossack, 21, screw, Captain Fans' 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 jakuLknots in going round tinier favourablaecircusia irees. Falcon, 17, screw, Oberon, 3, paddle, and Myrmidon, 2, paddle, will haul out of the steam basin into the fitting basin at Portsmouth to-day.. The Penelope, 16, paddle-frigate, Captain Caffin, was paid wages at Portmouth yesterday, and her crew granted two months' leave. The . Lue'rer, paddle, is taking in jurymasts,- spars, and rigging, and will proceed to Pembroke, with a party. of riggers; to Lring round the Qileeres new yacht, Windsor Castle, shortly to lib launched at that arsenal. L OTTERS _FROM THE CRIMEA. [ PROn AN OFFICER OP THE ROYALS. Camp above Sebastopol, Dec. 12. We h, tie baa two days of fine cold weather, with the windl*om 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 tine a gain. now. We got an alarm this morning at 7, an 3 an order from head-quarters to be ready to turn mt at a moment's notice, and Nye Lear that the Ru.ssiaeas are gathering and threatening our right flatak at Inkerman, but there has been no firing in that direction as yet. Sunday seems to be their faven/ trite day for fighting. The mountains near Simpheropol are covered with sucer,-, down to a few miles from our position, but we lu.ve had none here yet. I was in the trenches -the night before last, and it was most . bitterly col d. 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 groune !, fortunately, was hard and the moon bright, ant 3. the Russians not firing, so that we couldkeep :in motion, but if there had been the usual mud it v. orld have been perishing work. lam n.taer, I hope, quite over the troublesome attack of diarthcea, and feel quite well again, and if I coull wily- get fresh meat this work would, f am sure, agree very well with me, but I shall soon get accuston Led to the salt moat. The men, too, thank God, are getting round, with these fine days, but the loss ha a been very great. -We were till the last fortn ig ht the healthiest regiment by far, and all the sip flity time at Varna lost hardly any men. Since the 27th Nov. .upwards'Of 80 - bave died, and out of thole :120 men who came out in the last draught 40 aro a'xez aly buried. This shows more than any thing e 1.5, eh aw deadly the fatigue in the trenches is to those um7tecustomed to it, The 9th joined from Malta 10. clays. ago, 520 strong ; they have been some timae in the Mediterranean ; now they have only - 250 for duty, and I hear they - can hardly bury their dead. This may be exaggerated, but there is L:o doubt that the British army has suf fered mom re these last few weeks from sickness than from the sword. Our men drag on to the trenches while the y can scarcely stand, and take a pride in never sh irking or casting their duty on others ; they are much to be pitied, all of them, looking so thin and . out of condition ; indeed, three, four, and soul , ;times five nights out of bed running is enough t o :kill anybody. If this goes on through the wint or, as some suppose, nobody will be able to survi - Jo it : they must send out enough from England to give them another night in bed, and then it 110 not be so bad; but it is very weari some try : - .2tg to walk about in slush for 12 hours a ORNAMENTS for the DRAWING-ROOM, LIBRARY, and DINING-ROOM, consistin; of a new and elegant assortment of Vases, Figures, Groups. Candlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Table's, Paper-weights, &c., in Italian Alabaster, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshte Spar, &c. Imported a n d manufactured by JA.SIE3 Te:.I•INAIS T. (late klawe), 149, Strard, Landon. Mr. TENNANT arranzes elementary Collections of Shells, Minerals, and Fossils, which wid greatly facilitate the interesting study of Conchology, Mineralogy, and Geology, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. GREAT REDUCTION' IN PRICE OF SIR WM. BURNETT'S DISINFECTING Gallons, ss. Quarts, 2s. Plats, Is. Ilalf-pints, 6d. This valuable DEODORISER and DISINFECTANT Instantane ously destroys all BAD S&EELLS without producing any itself. Its free use, as directed, PREVENTS MIDLER& and all CON TAGIOUS DISEASES. ip, Captain W. H. 01 harbour, and will to have a thorough [ t to last between . it is said, all adrift Sold by all Chemists and Druggists, and at the Oftlee,l 8, Cannon street, London-bridge. N.B.—Beware of a spurious Imitation. ARBITTAL OF THE HIMALAYA. CONTRACTS FOR MATERIALS FOR SEA.ME bepartmentof the Comptroller for Victualling Services, Somerset "rouse, 24th Decent, THE Commissioners for executing tl Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of and.lreland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on I 15th January, 1855, at One o'clock, they will he read .uch persons as may be willing to contract for aupplylni Into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford an under-mentioned Articles, viz. B. Watson C. 8., 3111, 0 uth to-day. rim taken into the placed under the taken oat for in- Her Majesty's steam-ship Himalaya, under the co rn 'tnasd of Cantsin T. Rusgell,- arrived at Spithead from Malta and Gibraltar yesterday 'afternoon at 2 o'clock. She left Malta on the 10th 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 400 tons of coal with about 60. toxs of old. iron, Could not make the way agaitist it which she usually does. She averaged, however, 7! knots. From Gibraltar, which she left at 4 a.m. on the 28th, she has met with a succession of hard gales from -E., N.E., N., and N.N.W., with a very heavy sea across the bay and up channel. It had been generally considered alit] est an impractica bility to repair her in Malta so as to enable her to at tempt with safety a winter passage to Eogland; owing to there being no dock there sufficiently long to take her irk ; but Rear-Admiral Stewart and his able assistaats thought otherwise, • and the result 'lei proved that they' were right and the general opinion wrong. The fol lowing account will give some idea how it was managed, 'and. for time success with which it has been attended CLOT aI Wt. and Transport oer, 185 t. he Office of f Great Britain MONDAY; tha ly to treat with g and delivering id Gosport, the .we, has been taken To be dcl Deptiurd. ircred at Gosport. HESSEN ..... • • • •,* WHITE CALICO •• • • OCAEURGII ~ PADDING CLOTH.... • • BLUE BAIZE BLACK LINEN Yards. 29,000 47,00) 10,000 2,000 1,000 Yards. 20,000 23,000 5,000 1,500 BLACK .`~SILK .. ........ . ,500 Skeins. 100,000 Yards. 90.00 Lbs. 2.500 Skeins. 60,010 Ya-ds. 50,00) Lbs. One-fourth of each quan tty to be delivered by the 31st March, an other fourth by the 31st May, and the remain der by the _ _ BLACK SILK TWIST . SEWING Corrox (Fine) LOONrqua BLACK ROYAG CANVAS 'Stay • • • • White 303 .Yants 15,800 10,50) 60,0 1 0 300,000 Fleets. 93,010 200 Yards. 10;00 7,030 28,000 200,000 Pieces. 60,000 Yards. 21,060 Gross. 3,000 10,000 APPOINTMENTS. Master—George Gilpin ( 185 4), to the Perseverance, fire•ship, at Inverness,_ ' every one must admit that the highest praise has been justly earned by the Admiral and by those who carried out the details of certainty a most extraordinary scienti fic experiment, viz. :—M Ladd, mtviter shipwright; 30th June next,or ear lier if pre ferred by the party tendering. Chaplain—John B. Hurliarj ; to the Diamond, 23, on the Mediterranean station. • TAPE Dutch (White) .•• •• LBlack Black Done White Metal BUTTONS Large Horn Pearl ... Surgeon—Henry Pi-.rs (1851). r . eently serving in the Investigator, to the Plyinon!lijl , svit a i. Second Master—George J. Wiiitehouse (1847), re cently serving in the Monarch, to the Cesar, 01, screw, at Devon port. Inspector of Machinery aid-'at--.I Ward (1851), recently serving in the Duce of Wellington, to the St. Vincent, 102, ordinary guard -ship at Portsmouth. • Ileapshaw, superirstendi! , g engineer of the dockyard; and Mr. Hannih, foreman of engineers, and his help mate 4 ; at the same time they received from Mr. Gray, chief engineer of thelliinalaya, - and his juniors, most .valuable assistance. - She was taken to the dock about noon on the Ist of December% Her fore compartment was filled or kept filling by four siphons, for about two hours. At that time a powerful purchase was fired aft to four derricks, Gross. B,nei 500 4.000 Lbs. 2,50) Lbs. WORSTED (Blue) 11'nek THREAD -? Whited Brown C White (inlb. pakfts) 3,0' 0 1,40 3,000 3,560 2,501 1,050 4,000 3,50) Captain Charles G. 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HOW TO BE HAPPY. " Jucunde Vivcre." ~..,, "Few wards to fair faith."—ShakesPerc- It tier ,"‘'n, 23, Paternoster-row; Mann, 39, Cornhill ;or of O t iti- er A.,. IV. RICHARD CULVERWELL, 414, -....e.0. 0e .,_ Vrh e jltho r et „•,..,-, and Twenty Year* Consulting Colleague of the Irbre‘ l 4Y h - the above, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street, London, - i , kilt ''' IQvlsed with on the above matters daily, front Ten till in the eventngs, from Seven till Nine. J 'll- ii -t.,i, 1L... 444 41: h --- rzurramums OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. ~_ . Price 28., illustrated with cases ; • .I,N .4 • A stamps, free by post for 3e I nate r gts,, 0,,,.. 7 017 S DEBILITY; suc e , "'esi, 4 ''ear Syns tms and Cure.—An Essay on Sper p,. s ehn Ntlth P ° ' ..ate rn tam. Practical Observations on a safer and more • " i •stiee.„' t ‘totai n ,,„' of treatment of the diseases of the Generative N i tery — , r toln t.„‘" by the use of the Microscope in detecting and eesp'„ a i , ety' i j Urinary examination, the real cause and effect o ~_l l t,.-r__. o cem „- ,:t e oltplaint, whether arising from solitary habits, kver t „ o - ,, , tz y eA,... `". 1 or mate, followed by practical remarks, founded ~_k r e acid-Liitblll7.,, .experlence in the treatment of linpulssanFt. 'initi o , - % C o „ ,`, Lecal Weakness, Spermatorrhaza, &c. To which 4) ki 4 , - ,.." 4 3 , ltitZ" , ntaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre the,e67.._ th e d "."' en the evils emanating from empirical practice, i,gePorz,,,lngroe.a remedies advocated by various writers on , , disorders. bkt4 , tEn BY KAMITEL LA'AIIIRT, M.D. b" ki,: PO RD-sQUARE, LONDON, . .1.k.Lm2.10 4 ,.:', ne, M atriculated Member of the University of 11(110 * e , lib Q iiser'",'" , "ember of the Lor.don Hospitai Methcal Society Sernm'y ratetti,i.Deptcearies' Hall, London, to., &C. - .'thiei s re,, * ,.,°biect of thls treatise is to point out the tearful con ked rind pre from certain habits, irregularities, reth --' "'id '"'"cod more misery in Youth, degradation in Man , er eta,. ra tteArti e ,,,_-• of c p, •e decay at al' Stages of Life, than, perhaps, au) ktir ...Ally r e - ~laeo known to modern pathologists. Its perusal it. tb4 h p Mott' - ,L' ut nonded to persons entertaining secret doubts of sietturAithata,,;eattion, and who aro conscious of having hazarded 04. ee la .‘ his itt ess, and privileges to which every human being is li ies 4 o ° P 4l itlece e . t t l t_iirri n . per eenc • -nrY hatall men should know, that there are " riled '` Rricl.or re anafs - ement which cannot be viciatcd without Mayy of t• -s Penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed rend I,,,tig v inentisidtrate self-indulgence, how these penalties hat - t er til e €T. bow the sting of their bitterness may be remove, der,k:ear44:2-i and its con sevue-icet; Ma -bo avoided trul above alt, heit''', erl - t a to r w " h lY,"Y dc'rc'e Of p ‘ hysiCal infirmity ' if.ctional Prtt etin aor ~,,,, for 0.. the tizne'y aid of science cannot apply a cure. teve rt s'e in +-he tre y A 'erl ' - ' of Years been eiTaced in an extensive eq.l.6sazieri Le tien of °f delicazo cc:lnp!Pirtz, which have ft ittic r r' 'who tnia t t°° go 'crallY confided to ti.a c:,re of ignorant lz tit thei r r _. great lajury on these who ore induced to place _ ,v p eren4l4ll% 14411ar:r4th101:112 ' L1 Ina).- be lied, price 21 of . ..fcssrs. Piper, thlet:'..l9' ,eiceF3,er:4l4,"Tnoster.torf z Hannay, ' 63, Oxford-street; t oll . "' 44l ' t o re; My.n 39 Co hill •or free i y ;mat for Naar any ada r '" , . Corn hill; ,At ho •ess from the Author's residence, 37, Bed- Eight, c°t'rnitatlen daily nom Eleven till Two, and from i dy. •Cloudl- re turn irt i ;ess ioo ' were press lerously si : --one pot' lg Rower of enjoyill Id 2,220 g 11, C o urt 0 t I+, Atlantic in the cr rt comp' house I or, irgo of tb The sal 9, broker t 'ugh Gall eet, 20144° wife of Syra, to, sq. of Pt' ter, Mr. P Earls!), f' d t., of 80, t, the ]YO rPe, hell :loud dat A'Ara!► )O YO l7 . ice, Il°' the cv* "A HAPPY. NEW YEAR." 110WEVER 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 pig year which will sweeten tho events of the present. The Odd Year, loaded with the precious fruit, of the earth, like a prOvi dent and ladustrious 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 success, and expressing ear thanks for the vast amount of patronage and support which our business in all fts departments has received. We tkink it no presumption to say we have laboured to merit the distinction we have gained. Business—practical, ener getic, constant, punctual, and unwavering —has been our daily ob ject. We have visited every market ; we have employed the skill orn.rinnrn wrifh gifted us; we have encouraged talent, and patronised industry, and have made as our resources available to friends, patrons, and the public, in presenting them with superior and fashionable Dress, at very reasonable charges. We have received our reward in the innu merable instances of satisfaction expressed toward our business and our manufactures—in the vast increass 0: our Trade in London, the United Kingdom, 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 conspicuous response ; and we owe to our friends, patrons, and the public, a grateful acknowledgment of success which has not been equalled on sny former season. We have received the attention of all 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 keen 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 hats. nor, distorted their apprehensions with exerbitaet 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-street Branch Establish ment. Being the largest Manufacturers of Shim is and Underclothing, and having commercial transactions with every Nation and King dom in the World, we have the pleasure of offering ouch articles in Hosiery for Ladies and Gentlemen as are not equalled for supe riority. variety, elegance, or cheapness. Our Wholesale Clothing, ahirt, ard Boot and Shoe Business, for which the most extensive premises are kept at our Cite Establish • ment, has had 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 ducticus 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 Sheffield and Bradford, Yorkshire, where we pursue 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, Austraiia, that home of English in dustry, has a large and flourishing Wholesale Branch of our well known buetnels ; and we are persuaded that in every place that business will always be worthy of the name and celebrity of E. MOSES And PON. 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 towa'ds their patrons and the public, they do so with an ex troordinary degree of pleasure at the commencement of the year ISM ; satisfied that the name of E. MOSES and SON is identified with gcod, fashionable, and chc.lp clothing ; that E. MOSES and SON have tho greatest celebrity es Merchant Tailors, Hosiers, and Out fitters that there is not a :,ranch of business they profess, but in it incbsfatigable perseverance enables them to succeed ; and in the most animated hopes of securing numberless advantages to a ll classes of patrons, and of preserving distinction and celebrity in all nations, E. MOSES and SON most sincerely wish every body in all parts of the world A 11A,PIT NEW TEAR, SPEECH OF TILE KING OP 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 has 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 rpgv.tz to.ti 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 occa sioned material losses to the commercial interests of both countries. My government has unceasingly de. voted its attention to re-establishing these relations, and we hope that, thanks to the sincere and kind 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 thing contrary to th e 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 organisation, 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 w e ll as th e observance of strictest good faith iu 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. Th e organ i sat i on o f a corps. 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, bet 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 in the public revenue, and at the same time:imposes on my Government very consider doGoit wh;oh has bccit Oat, rciul6 cannot be filled up except by the regularisation of the receipts, and the severe repression of every kind of abuse. The powers 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, wo are convinced that they will not claim anything beyond our strength. But, inspired by good faith and national honour, we must, 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 yonr deliberations. It is in contemplation to extend the system of taxation par strenzmor 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 incor.. vesiences 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 CONSOLS MINING COMPANY.—There 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. Stainshy, 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, ~: , Samples of the articles may be seen at the said office, between the hours of eleven and two only, and also at the Victualling Yards, at Gosport and Plymouth. _ _ The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten• Bon is caned, may be seen at the said Office, at the said Victualling Yards at Gosport and Plymouth, and a'so at Liverpool and Bristol. No tender will be received alter 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 to him and his proposed sureties in writing. , . . Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the A.dmirally, and bear In the left-hand corner the words "Tender for - and must also be delivered at Somerset House. THE TRANSPORT SERVICE. The Gyde steam-transport, No. 154, lade—nwith stores for the Baok Sea, went out of Portsmouth harbour yes terday to Spithead, to ship her pqwder, prior to leaving for the seat of war. Yesterday the Black Prince steam-transport took 50 tons of powder on board, at Greenhidie ; she has an immense quantity of warm clothing and general stores, and sails this day for the C.imea. Yesterday the Lady Eglinton transport took several hundred bales of warm clothing, Canada stoveP, &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-traniport 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 Bur =oda, 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 'Ariny and Ordnance Medical Department has given notice to the transport office of the immediate wian4, of ft tf :%t'Aitier tor conveyance of 200 tons of medical stores to the Crimea, to follow those sent out in the Eag'e steamer of 480 tons. The Peninsula, screw steam - transport No. 172, 508 tons, is losding,nt Deptford with Rappers' clothing , for delivery at Consta.ntinople. and rifled musk e t s and 'run. munition for Scutari and the Black Sea fleet. MISCELLANEOUS. The Admiralty have issued orders for another vessel, to be called the Scylla, to be built in the slip from which the Pylades h as j us t 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. SO= idea may be formed of the late gale in the Black -Sea when it is positively stated, upon good authority, that the three-deckers actually pitched their figure-heads under water at asehei., and that one of them, the Bri tannia, had the " blue robe of her figure-head (Britannia) washed away." The dedree of sale in respect of the Russian vessel Atlantic, of which Starkings was late the master, seized in the port of Leith under si mu l a t e d papers, havin;,, she has been sold for the realised 2,2401. Her cargo and effects siderable sum. The Court b b e e n e n efi i t ssi f o o dtahlbsnyo captors,the brought an cdo of Admiralty have also condemned the Russian vessel Sooglassie and her cargo as a lawful into Et the i e s e portJe ff o , f a L e n i l t e h rp o h n an t t h e o 2 f C t r h o n n s f t j a d u t l , l prize. She belonged and was seized sailing under Danish colours, and she and her cargo (wheat) are to be sold for the benefit of her captors forthwith. ~ZILITAIy; c e . _ for 1 to or thcir r ecept i on. - About 150 men of the corps serving at the seat of war in the East arrived at Gravesend. on Sunday in the transport ship No. 9 1 5 ; ir Passag e h ome. Ti ro rest were Severalohathara f tillery , e proper al A pace Places die d on been board a e r ltoy A detachment of invalids belo ng i ng to th e 67 . h an d landed bande o prep; conveyedpr on d t 69th Regiments arrived at Southatnp:;on on Mondls-,Y, from Bilrbadoes, under char-go of - Lieutenant Kelly, 1.1. A., and Dr. Bain, medical department ; they have been despatched L railway to P ortsmouth. Thirteen orphan children accompanied this detachment, the relicts of some of the unfortunate soldiers who fell ViCtilDS to the late dreadful epidemic (the cholera),• and are thrown on the world friendless and destitut e . • A detachment of the 7th Foot, one captain, one subal tern, and 101 user, are ordered to be ready to ernba.ik on board the Prince , e Royal transport, which will be ready by the 6th inst. - A Cotachtnent 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 proving Minis rifles, rifled carbines, 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 men employed in the o'clock in morning proof-house busy _from 7 O'CIOCk - in the evening. Notwithstanding this large supply, there is an immense deficiency yet to be made up by the contractors. . • Th'e Sappers and Miners now proceeding to the scat of war arc now armed with Mr. Laneaster's new car bine, clpable of execution at 1,000 yards, The Minister of War has had his attention drawn to a novel description of siege cannon, 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 fo r hi s conduct at the suppression of the mutiny a t V e ll ore i n 1806, on which occasion be was the senior officer pre sent his Captain D. M. Bethune, who has been p romo t e d t o Major of the 9th F oo t, se rved in the b 7 e 4 in th g y in year. this instance severely Wounded. H e was campaign in Aff rorng to the T ezeen P ass glianistan in 1842, for which he received a me d a l as adjutant of the s a me re giment, at the forcing ei .avo o a f sk th il e i at K t hy he action berPas o s,a f n m d faloaoka ide-de. i i, forcing the recapture of Cabul,' and also at the storm, cap tu re , and destruction of Istaliff. He served also i n th e cam paign on the Sutlej in 1845.6, for which he lik ew i se re ceived a medal, as aide-dc-cainp to Sir J. M'C as ki ll, at the battle of Mcodkee, where the Major-General was killed ; as aide-de-camp to Brigadi , Tr . Wallace ( w h o was killed), at Ferozeshah, where the enarger h e ro d e was shot, and also in the command of the same reg i ment ' s light company at S o bian. Ile entered th e arm y i n 1835, consequently he has up to th e p resent time served 19 years. THE MILITIA. " Bri g ht on, The Duke of Devonshire, Lord-Lieutenant o f th e county of Derby, has just addressed the followi ng l e tt er Jan. 1. to the Deputy-Lieuten a nts of that county, on th e neces sity of for a second regiment of Derby s hi re Mi l i t i a : " Sir,—l have the honour of addressing you, as one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of the county of Derby, to request your attendance at a lieutenautcy meeting, to be held at Derby, on Wednesday, the 10th of January, at 10 o'clock, to consider the propriety of taking measures for raising a second regiment of militia in D er b ysh i re. . "I believe that the general op:viola 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 incuan bent upon me, as Lord-Lieutenant, to bring the matter under your notice ; and if at the proposed meeting active exertions should, as I anticipate, be recommended I should then request the co-operation and assistance of forefoot ; and this was accomplished 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 mizenmast 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 assiAtanee 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.. Into 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.-Cul.) Hume, 95th, badly wounded at Inkerman ; Lieut.-Colonel Berkeley, Scots Fusilier Guards, also severely wounded at Alma ; Dr. Manifold, in medical charge of the in valids ; Captains Stour and Knollys commanding them ; Mr.. Cot rave, 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 oh.eo paecengore and am vantS, 35—making a total of 845 souls, beides her own crew, of"whom one man has died during the 'passage, and five children have been born. Sts anxious was Admiral Stewart to get the Himalaya to England that she was hurried off from Malta ins by no means a very fit state for sea, and meeting with the bad weather she encountered for the first three days caused necessarily a great deal of dis comfort to the invalids, women, and children ; but every thing that could be done to make them as comfortable 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. M'Cann) and by the different officers on board. She was detained at Gibraltar from the morning of the 25th to early on the 28th 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 Hecla, 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 6 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 Porte. mouth harbour to Spithead immediately the Himalaya anchored, and took in a few of the most urrent cases; whom she landed at Haslar, aft er diserotbarkinc , at Portsmouth dockyard Captain Graham, R.N., Colonel Berkeley, Captain White, and Lieutenant Saunderson, of the 62d, who went to the George lintel, 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 camp 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 offioe of Le 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 days of meeting, it . was arranged that courts, which only a portion of the com missioners should be expected to attend, should in future be held on alternate Wednesdays, fur the transaction of routine or formal business: Sir J. SIIELLEY inquired of the chairman whether the commission had power to take land for outfall works at Barking-creek ? The CEIAIRIUN replied that as the conimission was empowered to take land for such purposes, only within the limits of its own juriedit-,tion, and as her Majesty had been ploased 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. SHButir gave notice that be should, at the first court held in the month of February, move resolutions declaring that for the drainage of the metropolis there ought to he two sewers, one on the north and the other on the south side of the Thames, whose outfalls sheuld 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 commissi on should be empowered to purchase land for the purpose o constructing the required outfall works. In reply to Mr. OFFER, The eiIAIRUAN 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 from 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 caul, have been necessary, at a groat expense, to stop the traffic. In answer to another question from Mr. OFFER, The CIIAIRUAN 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 disthiss•them or reduce their salaries. Mr. OFFER gave notice that he should, at a future court, move the appointment of a committee to inquire into the salaries, which, though be did not know what wcrk was performed by them, were, be, thought, too high.. The CIIAIF.ILIN denied that the salaries paid were ex cessive, but should be glad that an inquiry should take • place. Mr. WADE gave notice that, on the 16th January, he should propose to the Comt to offer a premium of 5001. for the best plan of ventilating the sewers under the control of the commission. Mr. THWAITES 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 enginser to the commission) for the drainage of that part of the me tropolis south of thci Thames. The que:ititin '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 considoration as early as 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. a time ; in eed, the young hands cannot do ~ it ; they sit or he 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, vr7aich they do while they can stand. We hear rum vtirs of iron houses being sent out to us from England. I only hope it may be title, as we shall then have A dry place to go to, and where we can have same 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- rangenionts 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 ha.ve 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 thA lip to pi or act _ T claw tlto gun yesterday in the trenches, all jagged and splintered. Not one of the eight sailors was touchel. 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 beast s , o f Which 500 are coming from Constantinople, arrive, hope we shall be able to open fire again with more effect than on the first days. The streets are, I believe, barricaded and trenched in every possible way, and, with .thei r pai•ently inexhaustible supply of powder, shot, and 'shell, we shall have 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. hostile army before the place ; all the magnifi cent arsenals and buildings near the clocks 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 olothing, arc. 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 large masses this morning. In 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 .teinained Under arms, expecting to get the order to march down in support ; but the attack on our lino was repulsed in about three-quarters of an hour, and the orderly galloped up to say we w ere nokwanted. The light and grenadier companies were sent out on picket, and we had to 'stop on the top of a lleak 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 ix large masses on our right flank all day, 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 f rom 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 ditch and 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, 'especialtV the 'Third Division. We were in hopes that the 90th would join our brigade ; but I heat they are posted. to the Second Division, on the right of our line (they have no trench work ; a few pickets is all they ha ve t o furnish) ; but we are obliged to keep a large f orce 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, but still necessary to pre serve our base of operations, which might be cut off at any time without them, as General Liptandi 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 are still at Balaklava • they are inuring them a little to the climate, as the fearful experience 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 bad been some years in the Mediterranean. I was in the trenches the night I came in with our draught ; it rained without ceasing. Bythe next afternoon four of them were d ea d, an d 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 'Ad, and the cold will - be most intense. The houses-in Balaklava are all built with very thick walls, large stoves, double windows, the roofs lined with fas. (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 Balaklaya 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 the 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 not, they go without. They grumble and swear violently, and that is all they have for it. They thus • begin to learn to bo 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. L or d Rag lan (if Lord Raglan be really here, and not in Lon don) is never seen. Whether h.. 3 knows anything of how things are going on or not I do not know ; I am 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 mon 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. He can make great exposures, and do much good, if he will. It is generally understood that ho 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 th e s Ubj e Ct o f f r e quent comment, Raanygltahningneovf tei,r once rode ove r th e ground, or Lordkne knew until the Russians attacked us. Everything about the French contrasts. with' 'us most strongly. Their sick are not numerous.;' their men are always clean and uniformly drassed. 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 over. 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 have lost 114 men up to to-day, and they have at this moment 2&7 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 rasher than better—we shall have no army left. The 34th and 90th Regienenta have arrived, but, owing to the want of transport, they are unable to get beyond Balaklays. The French have batteries with 147 guns ready to open on the place at , frptii 200 to GOO yards. They only wait for us to get lip some g uns to draw off a. portion o f th e 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 iu leaving us so long unmolested,. situated as we are. We are most careless and court ruin over and over again. The indomitable courage of men and efficers 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 peror Nicholas engages to send all that are left of us in the spring away in a single line-of-battle ship. Our encampment is one mass of graves and dead b o di e s of horses and cattle, but there is no :offensive ' sme ll ; There is a portion of the Russian army, strongly intrenehed still in our rear ; but they are on the right of the Tchernaya, 'and .their command the, bridge that gives us the only means" by which they - could be attacked. It is rumoured. in Berlin that the Cabinet hat been taken somewhat aback by the Russian Envoy at Vienna.. having assisted at the conference without even expressing a regret at the absence of that of Prussia. But the party here console themselves with the old illusion of infallibilitir and inevitability ; and further, wjth that of Austria not being disposed to advance an inch further in her demands upon Russia than is specified La 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 thenegative effects produced by the Prussian note of the 19th. - GALLANT EXPLOIT OF ADMIRAL BR UAL—The Journal du Loiret 'contains a letter from the , Critnea, which says :--" Admiral Brunt'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 a ccount to gai n of that affliction, he sometimes has the idea of such audacious attempts as are more to be expected from a young lieutenant who h a as d h o i u s ti p , r i o: s ot v io is n it the channel from an admiral. Lately, after,* severe attack of gout, the admiral called some of his officers into his cabi n , an d said, 'Gentlemen, .a good idea bee just occurred t o me —Ms, to go quietly in, and of Sebastopol. 'We shall so c ie har lb e ,l m e a t a n ne jud p g u e t for ofr o a u n r d . selves what its situation realty . s• The proposition 7e i r s cra jo i yf o u f ll th y e ac b c o e a p ta ted,_a . ": th e b i n oats Th touched wm w en i ci t t h dit h eh i r s oofu o g w thh n e e h rig a e tt hr i t Everything h na ve tre e t ryc r h oe t f a a h i i ni tt : b gw ae h n w . admiral i ddi c a h l i:h m a c e llo e n s i a s g t e h d e so entrance ciev of y the military port. erl on the part of the 'admiral'° - Pa r tY that not a sin g le Ru s si an sen tinel was ware of their approach. But day began to break while t h e boats were still far down in the harbour, and the alarm was immediately given. A terrible fire wals then oliened hll along the fortifications of the channel, and it itae"undor' a fearful shower of- projectiles of every de• scription that the boats made their way out. Fortu nately, not a man 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 converse, tion and praise in the fleet."