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Selling Carriate and Pair, attended by Pierrot, Trumpet I , p o ssilli Family—Slack Rope -Gipsies—Punch,• &c. &c: Ot% et iire by PHILLIPS, SWEABOR'I AS IT I4!—vocal Colleen!—Extras is alai Quadrille Band !—The Spanish - 11 Leei t - Piumplial Arch leading to the Fair!—DANCING. gnk o "n the New Salle de Dense, under the Direction of et, 114 -I ',. !—The whole to conclude with the SIEGE and B of SEBA.STOP./L, and , :rand Pyrotechnic Tabl , Vtej vharge—Admittance, ONE SHILLING. The Fair to ( N I ZItI: II .,Day at Three o'clock, announced by discharge of can \f"ell;, ° ` every description will be introduced as they pre. A CREMORlNTE.=—Adniission, One St lit: G'rq u ir. - -The exc it emen t crea t e d by the sum ss of the W 1 El,- t•e kt PXTE having induced numerous applications to \I iew k t tl of 4eature of that night, the Panoramic Rep-esentation au'oeopol and its Earthwerk by Jones, admitted by co am t3l:l:rtilnet °r itles to possess very considerable merit both as red it +s 5 " execution, has determined the proprietor .0 tts row tt k , tir n ,'" lll haM Park to the Cremorne visitor, from 3 to 7, du Iring ) 1t ,r11 ) , ; Soldiers w oun d e d i n the Cri W ean conflict will atten t I to lTiost interoting points and incidents connected . ere p,'lng the storming of the Mamelon Vert and capfu th ne of lio rtr 45 , with all its leading features, and Pyrotechnic Efilects am nightly, at half-past 9 b.,„2 l "'T THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. s EmArt.—On the 29th of May, 1855, an th t Anal v,, lzm was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and tk'klin a n June following was made perpetual against Jo 1 eph ;toy Deq„,; , others, to restrain them, ander a penalty of one U ttou f.to,kl 4; 4. ' 8 . front imitatin , this Medicine, which is protecte it by r, Patent of ' England, and sects ' red oy• the Seals of • the mar nlacie do Paris, and the Imperial College of Medi ine, TRIESEMAR, No. 1, for, Relaxation. Spermatorrhees.. and Exhaustion 0.! th 'll 4 ,llo,"ether arising from excesses, accident, or climate 4Zpeersons who are prevented entering the married stat by 'lees of early !rrors it is invaluable. mall/ in 4, TRIESEMAR, No. 2, Xll 1 1. Ate, , no short space of three days, completely and ent t r e l y so to all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cu I ebs , p o '„,?een thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the het . I t h Il i , ' , ton of the population. t l gt TRIESEMAR, No. 8, t ist tat c„, ntinetrtal Remedy for that class of Disorders, wit ict • %Nutt 4,t 3 , the English physician treats with Mercury, to thci in• riletion of the patient's constitution, and which all th. ,` 4 l„,,tt the orielw cannot remove. "Ith' sci .N D, 2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or Si eli lauseatin qualities. They may lie on the toilet s ibl tt• 4 4 e.r u se b bu il es n s suspected. ,8:4 cases at 1 Is. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided int. ....1„ te , 3 4 as gdministered by Valpeau, Lallemanel, R 'llO be had ' Wholesale and Retail in London of John st op •• 6S I , ", t rtet -- ; 4 ,,, n naY an i Co., 63, Oxford-street: and Sanger. I , n. ,rbr '4ll R Ingham, druggist 46, Si arket-street, Manches s, er .• tqLis t % 4 r,„, hooksell, tr, Deansgate, BI ton ;J. Priestly, chemist 52 ;W inn , Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-sts set. all, bookseller, High-street, Birmingham. The Third Edition.—Just published, price 55., by post, tree, 5, ba ®N TRUE tit FALSE SPERMATORREREA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the r tttt x - Real onfferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From ne i4ertna, ht ERTCH JACKET 111 NEW MA.' rE- ,it Dr. PICK rotti.. With an Introduction by the Editor, containing t, Ns ALS .___ t S to ecl I) , • The unparalleled approval of the li-rtch Jr leket a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued Di',.. 'eleei , a vast number of patrons has induced E. MosEs and by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are The fly f „ . _ a magnificent and unlimited Stock of New Mat, trials credulous enough to seek their aid. 7f) 4. k ert ' .. l "._ this novel and gentlemanly Article of Attire. " or. Picktord 's known to English readers by his frequent practi- IVkw `'`l e m Jackt may re obtained at the Establishment. 4 contributions to German medical literature. This is the first t ,."'N, n s • T h ' - °n, in aterials ter the present and the approac i ling •:me he informs as that he has addressed himself to the non-medi• ' 1 e 1 ,', 1 , 0 ,115 - w e il K, eetch Jacket is one of the . most elegant and u I Mid :al reader. We trust this may ' not he the last, if be shall steel any, er l e tty,,, , il the which has been submitted to the Inspection of the pu'iiblic, ,they equally flagrant evil which It may be in his • owes to cor etilt,here 1 ,,, - nVeror's Cape, a thoroughly waterproof fabri trect." —London Medical Gazette.tribe of ' Quiet Sympathisers,' r t „..iO 4 _ g.tr, led as the most convincing Proof of the talent and and ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book bz txe rcisod by E. Moses and SON in the productlol tof , ould find its way into the hands of those who safnr from the corn -101,,,bh.,, mtil is p 0 ,taint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would Orlll o , _ - are invited to inspect the New Sporting Dr era, ,e saved much needless suffering of kody and mind, and what is of , k, e 'tert tct ualy a. consierable addition to their comfort, bnt :al a suchpce though it Is that which the quacks most to the 4,1 at"" by nave stales ef material and design, which can I mly money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the e N t he Est. gh ew tet Establishments of E. MOSES and Sox. .tmpirical system of treating Spennatorrhcea, and to place the treat ttikr,p„_ee, and most Extensive St ck of Hosiery, Hats, The ots, ,nent upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, ;;,ellt i°!•9.. °Wilts for Emigrants—the largest Wholesale De- likely to do much good." 'e pi,,..ne Worrki. 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I'HE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. lust published, price 25., illustrated with cases ; free by post for 26 stamps, VERVOUS DEBILITY; Its Causes, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Sper uatorrhcea, with Practical Observations on a safer and more unessful mode of treatment of the diseas2s of the Generativ, ystem, obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting and istinguishing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of very variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits. <ce..sses, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founder in twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance. .Tervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spernatorrhcea, &c. To which ,re added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre isutionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical prretice. ,ed on the dangerous remedies advocated by various writets on ~ese important disorders. 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The hollyhock, a flower till lately thrown aside, used only to fill up a blank corner or hide an old wall, were magnificent, many of the stalks covering six feet in one mass of blossom ; the spikes shown by Mesas , . Gaunt and Benningfield being particularly remarkable fur depth of colour and richness of hue. Of the dahlias, it may be said they abounded in all the qua lities necessary for a prize show ; and so general was the merit, that it was a very difficult task to give a just preference. A few seedlings were shown which appeared to excite a good deal of interest among the growers. In roses, as usual, the Messrs. Paul, of Ches hunt, shone in the first tank ; nor were their hollyhocks, in our estimation, inferior to the best, though the first prize was not awarded them. At a very early hour the lovers of Flora began to as semble, and up to seven o'clock continued to increase, so that by this hour, not only was the tbe.itre, which was beautifully fitted for the show, crowded to excess, but the gardens throughout were lined with visitors. Before the leading attraction of the day had passed away it was evident there was some feature expected which proved to be the leading feature of the night-- this was the Ashburnhatu Military Spectacle—the Storm ing of the Mamelon Vert and Capture of the Rifle Pits, which was repeated with all its characteristic incidents and pyrotechnic effects. To give an idea of the crush to gain reserved seats is ,simply impossible. Not only was every one secured the moment an opportunity offered, but many urgent applications were necessarily refused for want of room. Dancing was resumed and continued till a late hour, closing a floricultural season with entire success. Among the most successful competitors in the First Clasi fa; Dahlias ' and to whom prizes were awarded, were the Rev. C. Fellowes, Messrs. Robinson ' Mahar, Sladden, Holmes, Pope, Shriinpton, Castles, and Cooke. Second Class.—Messrs. Turner, J. Keynes, Legg, J. Walker, E. C. Allen, Pope, and Gaines. For First Class Hollyhocks.—Messrs. Grant, Ben ningfield, Bowler, Dyson, T. Roake, J. Long, and C. Grant. PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• But the finest sight of all the fair is what is called krcts niriad , or the street of the finery, which is usually die- played on temporary shelves and covered in with coarse canvas, each merchant adding his piece to form a long covered avenue ; and here you will generally find con gregated all the belles of the country, in yellow and red boots, with streamers flying, or flowers on their heads, buying ornaments in order to touch the hearts of the , swains with love, or those of their companions with envy ; ; or perhaps you may find some rustic lover purchasing pre sents for his lady-love. In all this assemblage of rude un cultivated people—l have seen as many as four or five thousand of them congregated together -there are never 1 any serious disturbances ; all is order and quiet ; th e y seem pleased and amused with the rude gaity of the scene, and enjoy it till it becomes dark, when some go to their homes, others to the brandy shop ; while those who have goods lie down and go to sleep under them, no matter how inclement the weather. These fairs in winter generally last a week, but in summer rarely more than one or two days, as time is very valuable during haymaking and har vest. If it were not for these institutions, there would be no possibility of the peasant procuring anything besides what was produced in his own village, where he would lead the life of a kind of Robinson Crusoe in the society of others like himself. The serfs, in general, have very limited ideas on the sub ject of religion, as they, for the greater part, can neither read nor write ; they go to church, where they repeat, with great devotion, a certain number of Ayes and Pater nosters in their own language, or rather Slavonic, and cross themselves while the priest is celebrating mass, which is done with more or less pomp according to the occasion or the riches of the church. If you ask a peasant where is God, be will generally point to the corner of the room where there are hanging one or more coarse, badly-executed paintings, representing some of their saints, and which he is firmly persuaded are so many gods This will, perhaps, - le -(este x stn , essf pity ill England, MR it is -the-naturarfe: suit of their uneducated state, which precludes them from un , lerstanding allabstrac' ideas. They must have something corporeal—something they can see and feel ; consequently, to abolish these would be to do away with all religion in their eyes. In their way they are very religious. I have ven known some of them who, when they are about to commit a sin, will cover carefully their images, that God may not see what they are about. They are very strict in their fasts, which are eery severe, as neither milk, butter, eggs, nor anything that is produced by ani mass is permitted ; and, of course, animal food is forbid 'ten. The principal and longest fast is, of course, Lent, when they do not even eat fish during the first and last weeks, nor on Wednesdays and Fridays; from Good Fri -lay till after mass on Easter Day, many of them eat no thing, but spend their time in watching, fasting, and pray ing, being firmly persuaded that Christ dies and rises again every year at this time. But when the mass is over on Easter Day (generally about 4 a.m.), ample amends is made for the long fast, by stufflog to a degree that is really disgusting to look at and think of. Nor is the brandy cep forgotten ; for, during the three days that Easter lasts, it, is almost a sin not to be drunk, nor are the priests back ward in setting the example both in eating and drinking. There is another custom, which is universal throughout the empire—that of kissing. You frequently see two men, who can hardly keep their legs, stop and uncover in the streets, one saying " Christos vcskres," the other answer ing " Vi-istino vcskres;" they kiss each other three times on alternate cheeks, and then walk on to perform the same ceremony with the next acquaintance they may happen to meet. They are blindly attached to their religion ; and this has been the means employed to arouse their enthusi asm for the present war, which, I am told, has been very successful in Russia Proper; but in Southern Russia it his only Met with partial success, for there the people are not strongly attached to the paternal government of the Czar, and still have many traditions of their former freedom, be!'ore the hated Mazeppa. They think themselves the only orthodox nation in the world, and all others they call Bussernian, or infidel. They have very curious notions of the rest of the world, and regard all foreign countries as so many provinces belonging to the Czar. I have fre quently been told that the Turks, incited by the French and English, had revolted, and that the latter, finding that the .Turks were not able to do anything against 1 the White Czar alone, had revolted too, although they, the peasants, could not understand why the French and English should revolt, since, by all accounts, they were much better off than the Russian peasants, who were the Czar's own- particular people.. That is their idea of the present war, and, of course, the rebels are to be utterly destroyed by the power of the Czar ; ; for they rea son that, if they were to revolt, they, who are a great people, would soon be annihilated ; what must it then be for those whom they esteem insignificant in proportion to their knoivledge of them ? The priests are objects of great veneration, although many of them are not far removed, in point.of education, from their flock. I have met with those who could scarcely read, except their church books, which they had learned by rote. There are, however, many who are well educated, and oven learned, but these are chiefly in towns. These era the two extremes,, whereas the great body of theta c , u read and write, and understand enough of the dogmas of the Russo-Greek Church to keep the people in their present state. Here also we find the same system of feeing going on as elsewhere ; for if they take a fancy to anything that a peasant. passeeses, the-owner knows that it is no longer his property, or he will not receive abso lution when he goes to confession ; or the priest may re fuse to bury any of his family that may die, or to baptise his, children, or may even excommunicate him. All classes Second Clase.—Messre. Chester, Buean, Paul, and Turn.-r . Op n Clas4, for the beet Twelve Stove and Greenhouse Plants.— Itleasre. E. A Hamp au4 Rhodes. Second beet.—Mr. Young. For the beet Collection of Roam—Mews. Paul and Sop. Seco; d best.—Mr, Ponsford. For the best Verbenas.—Messrs. G. Smith and Au gue.. For the best Fuschias.—Mr. Games. Seoond ditto. —Mr. George. For the beet Cut Flowers.—M. E. A. Ramp Second ditto.—Mr. Rhodes. Third, ditto.—Mr. Si oung. Fourth, ditto.—Messrs. Fraser and Co. Prizes offered by Members for First Class Dahlias (Lord Bath).—Mr. Keynes. Second, ditto.—Mt. Turner. Certificates for Dahlias (the Bessy, yellow).—Messrs. Alexander, Wheeler, and Keynes. Certificates for Hollyhocks, broke.—Messrs, and Bu..an. Certificates for Verbenas.—Messrs. Weatherell (3 and Gaines. Certificate for Phlox.—Mr. Bum). Recommended for Roses.--August ; ditto, cut blooms, A. Young ; ditto, baL.aine, Wakeman ; ditto, verbenas, in pots, Weatherell and G. Smith ; ditto, phlox, Salter. • Members' Prizes.—For best of (Lord Bath) dahlias, Mr. Keynes ; for 2d ditto, Mr. Turner ; for the best six sorts of f r uit, M r . Hamp ; second ditto, Mr. Young ; third ditto. Mr. Salter. Clutter fall upon the poor peasant ! Their greatest oppressors are the rural police, who exact from them to their last shirt when they can. I knew ono very intelligent man among the crown peasants, who said that his position would be very welt for an uneduc ,ted man like himself, if it were not for the cruel and unjust exactions of these locusts These were hi, very words. He was always glad when I talked of England, and the people there, which I did but very circumspectly : he made frequent an 3 very shrewd compatisons between the two countries, but could not understand how the upper classes could exist if there were mo serfdom, or how we could get soldiers if we had not the same system as that existing its Russia. When I told him how our soldiers were paid and treated, he only wondered how it was that every man was not a soldier. That the law was alike for rich and poor he could under stand, and remarked that it was the wish of the Emperor that it should be so in Russia. but that those who were charged with the execution of it there had all the power in their own hands ; that there was no redress for the poor peasa ,, t, who must suffer till the change came that would sweep away all their oppressors. He could not explain what change was to take place, but was fully persuaded that it must come ; and if it were not for the question of religion mixed up in the present war, I am fully convinced that. this would be looked upon as the time for effecting that change. The peasantry have to endure great hardships when troops pass through their district. The passage of troops in Russia presents many singular and strikin g feature. Every Russ'an regiment is composed of four battalions, each a thousand strung. On the march, two of these battalions are sent on, followed by the other two, at the interval of a day or two. These battalions are broken up into companies of 200 men each, under a captain, and di rected to hold a parallel course. These companies are again subdivided in detachments of about 50, and take their way among the villages, only concentrating before enter ing a large town, so that they generally march over about double the actual distance by the road. It is a curious sight to meet one of these detachments on the march. In front of erch party generally marches a man singing mili• tary snatches, with a tambourine, or some instrument, to keep up the spirit of his comrades, while the others join him in the chorus. The effect of this is very strange, sur rounded as one is by the dreary landscape of a Russian winter, without tree, house, or human being in sight— nothing but snow above and below, for the atmosphere seems impregnated with it, as the air of London is with smoke—there, in the midst of such a wilderness, to meet a body of armed men, with one of them at their head, sing ing, and perhaps dancing some war dance. VENE: UELAN BONDHOLDERS. A meeting of Venezuelan bondholders was held yes terday, Mr. J. D. Fowles presiding, at which it was unanimously agreed to reject proposalthaevpeabrdeenn who in hmenaodmreempburyensietchnael the . commissioners for the settlement of that debt. It ap pears Venezuelanthat s rservai a and Government, have tion with the Committee of Spanish-American Bond. holders, but the terms are regarded as so inadequate as to be wholly unworthy of consideration. The basis of the proposal is the payment of 2 per cent. interest on the active debt and arrears, and of 1 per cent. on the deferred, and it is stated that the commissioners cannot improve them in any shape. They profess, however, to be prepared to use their influence with the Government to obtain, if possible, one-quarter of the Customs' reve nue for the benefit of the foreign creditor, to be divided in proportion to the class of represented debt. With a revenue which has increesed from $1,721,000 in 1839 to $3,444,000in it h lBs3 a , ve is beenm urgedad thate, and it is aless objectionable contended proposal should that the exertions of the agent of the bondholders in Caraccas (Mr. Carnancho) will probably produce a more satisfactory arrangement. Annexed are the resolutions adopted : " Resolved—That the proposal made by Mr. F. Corvaia and Mr. M. Pardo, jun., dated Paris, the 2d of July, in relation to the foreign debt of Venezuela, cannot be ent•r taineil by this meeting. " Resolved—That, for the convenience of the Venezue lan Government, this meeting will consent to receive p=!3"- ment of the arrears of interest on the de bt, Venezuelau active and deferred, in a stock to be created for that annum, pur pose bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent. p providedwit with the satisfactory G t o h v a e t rn a ment of v ene z arrangement u e lVenezuela fo of the accruing interest on the foreign deb t that in any " Resolved—That this meeting is ofopinion of Vona arrangement to be made with the G ov e rnment Wrest upon the the In • zuela for the future payment of the duties of Cus toms debt an adequate assignmentGvernment, the amount toms should be made by that Custom houses of Venezuela thereof to be received in the the Committee of Spanish by agents to be appointed by American Bondholders. Th t the Committee of Spanish-American " Resolved— , ai n e er pa be y na m a e d n e t t an immediate adjustment of the Venezuelanto foreign debtthe best manner that circumstance may r t the future bring about inbe requestede. to continue their exertions LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1855. B ANK OF DEPOSI T, No. 3, PALL. MALT. EAST. LONDON. Established A.D. 1814 Parttes desirous of INVESTING MONEY are requested to extruine ,he Plan of this Institution, by which a high rate of interest may be btained with perfect security. The Interest is payable in January and July. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. Prospectuses and Forms for Opening Accounts sent free on appli ati on. ARGYLL ROOMS.—LAURENT'S CASINO will RE-OPEN on SATURDAY NEXT for the Winter eason, on which occasion the following sfasic will be performed by its celebrate) Band :—March aux Flambeaux. 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[The writer of the article in last number, on the " In 'ernal Sufferings of Russia from the War," having in trusted to us his papers, containing his observations dur ing his residence in Russia, we extract from them the fol lowiug intelligent statement of the Social Condition of the Russian people—a subject at present. possessing unusual interest. Russia, the Power of all others which has most to tear from such a course, is now bringing on a war of ,pinion in Europe, the political effects of which will in lee time extend into her own dominions. In order to apprehend what may be the effects of such an event, we nust first know the elements upon which the new ideas will have to work ; and viewed in this light, the following +ober and authentic resume of the social state of the Rus ,ia nation seems to us to possess more than ordinary im pertance in the present times.] Landed Proprietors—Nobles.—Many of the landed pro arietors in Russia, especially the small ones, would like to see serfdom abolished, as it would be more profitable for hem to cultivate their land with hired labourers than with serfs, who eat up the greater part of the produce. I tin very well acquainted with ono small proprietor, who possesses about 1,500 acres of land, and possibly some 70 ,r 80 peasants, and I know well that he does not get more han 1001. per annum from his property. He is, however, ..n exception to the general rule, being very easy witl: ,hem ; but it is not to be supposed that they are better off 'or that. On the contrary, they are in general much poorer :Elan the peasants of the neighbouring gloat estates, though ,heir master pays the poll-tax, which is never the case in a.rge properties, where there is more trad,, and the pea .ant has an opportunity of disposing of his produce, and where there are fairs held, which gives him a chance of ;elling many little articles, such as hay, oats, &c. In general, the state of the smaller landowners is one Duch to be pitied, for in many cases they are as ignorant is their own peasants, and yet have all the pride of caste, which is in general very at, ong in Russia, where much f the old feudal feeling remains. If they enter the public , ervice and leave home, their small properties become still •maller, as their means will not allow them to keep an in tendant; nor is the service sufficiently remunerative to live n ease, or even without running into debt, for in general dficials are very badly paid indeed. Of this I can give you in example in the case of a young man, the son of a small proprietor, who pinched himself in order to give his son a good education at the university, where he remained till he was twenty-three years of age, when the father thought he would be able to obtain some good government employ .nent—at least that he would be at no further expense. After waiting nearly a year, he obtained a place with a salary of four roubles a month, one of which was deductad for his rank, leaving him three (rather less than 103. a nonth) to provide himself with a lodging, table (which are o be had fur about 30s. a month), clothing, audeverything aecessary for a. gentlkunau. After that, it is wonderful that Lhe Rsissian officials accept bribes a tort et a travers None but nobles have the right to possess serfs, though it does not follow that all nobles possess them, for there is L very large, class of poor nobles in Russia who possess uothing, never did possess anything, and are never likely to possess anything—and these are the most miserable of all the others ; for they aro nothing—peither peasants nor gall ;lemon. It will naturally be asked how they became pas 4essed of their-nobility ? They are for the most part sons Jfambitious clerks of churches, &c., *hose fathers oil' iends have taught them to read and write, and through the inte rest of some great man got them admitted into some Government office as copying clerks, where they receive ► rank after a certain number of years, and become noble, and of course their children too, who do as their Bathers have done before them—leading a wretched exist ence, without any prospectof advancement, upon a miserable pittance, unless they have great abilities for plunder, when, ay dint of accepting bribes, they get a small sum together. Thera is no sum so small that they will not accept ; you tufty even offer them articles of wearing apparel—any thing ; and this latter is too frequently done when the poor suitor has nothing more to offer. I myself have given such small sums as 4d. and 6d. for trifling services which they have seemed reluctant to perform, which has always bad the desired effect of accelerating their movements, and saved me the ennui of waiting half an hour for them to perform their duty. Some, again, of this class, live by going frcm house to house in the country. They stay at a house till the master gets tired of them ; then he sends them to his nearest neighbour, who noes the like. The Russians, in general, are very hospitable ; and in the country, where they lead a very solitary, monotonous life, are glad to see any one who can procure them a little variety, as they have no sources of amusement whatever except shooting or coursing ; but when a man is not a sportsman even these fail him, for books are very rare, very expensive, and not very interesting, on account of the extreme severity of the censure that is exercised. A really good werk is a great luxury, and seldom to be met with in a Russian country-house; hence they are glad to see anybody whe can give them a little news, be it ever so stale. But I must give the Russians their due : they are, from the highest to the lowest, very hospitable; a general invitation there always means, ?in town, that you are ex pected to droll in two or three times a week about dinner time, and, without being asked, take your seat at table like one of the family. If you decline staying they will feel quite hurt; even the very servants will press you to remain and take dinner with the family. When you are asked to the country, you are never expected to give any previous notice of your intended visit, but to go at any time you feel inclined ; and you are sure to meet with a harm reception, and are expected to remain just as long as may suit your own convenience. Some of the smaller proprietors, from leading such a solitary life, get into habits of beastly intoxication, in which they consume days and nights, while their property goes to ruin. I have even known instances where they have kept casks of spirits in their beds ()ores, and been in the habit of crawling on all-fours from the bed to the cask seldom being in a state to walk—drinking out of the tap, and then crawling back again to bed, to sleep till they should be ready to take another slight refreshment in the same manner. This must seem very much like exaggera tion ; but I can assure my readers that I advance nothing hut the pure truth, and what fell under my own personal observation. Without doubt such are exceptional cases, and are soon brought to a conclusion by death; but some can support this life for two or three years. One great cause of the poverty of the nobles is the sub division of estates that takes place on the death of the pro prietor. Every son has an equal share in the property, with an equal share of the debts. Some, though few, of them may acquire more land, and so add to their heritage, but with the greater number the reverse is the case, so that the debts are increased, and the estate in a similar way subdivided, and thus eventually the heirs are obliged to sell off their portions to pay the mortgage, or surrender the land to the crown, and the son of the ate proprietor becomes a beggar. With all this before their eyes, they raise a terrible outcry against the English law of majority, which, if it were the law of their country, would preserve it solvent, whereas they now have national bankruptcy to look forward to. Many of the poorer class of nobles obtain admittance into the universities at the expense of the crown, where they are educated as army surgeons. They receive their education, board, lodging, and clothing--everything during the time they are in the establishment--on condition that they serve the government during two years for every one they spend in the university, with the same emoluments that the other army surgeons receive. These men are generally very unfor tunate, as they are forthe most part appointed to situations for which there would be no volunteers—such as small forts in unhealthy parts of the Caucasus, in the interior cf Siberia, or in the fleet, to which many Russians have a great aversion. There are not many of these crown stu dents, as they are called, who do not feel themselves under a kind of noble slavery ; for when once they have finished their studies, they cannot, upon any consideration, refuse to servo, though they may obtain their liberty by paying, before they have finished, a c-rtain sum for every year they have been on the est a bli s h men t ; b u t even th ou it re quires powerful influence to secure their liberation. Others are received into the faculties of mathematics and belles lettres, for the purpose of becoming masters in the different educational establishments ; bat they always receive ap pointments that others who are free will not accept. The number of these is very mall— army surgeons are what the country wants and will have. At the present moment there is a large bounty offered to all young men who are f i n i s hing their course of medicine to enter the army ; and instead of the five years' study that are generally required before they can pass, they are examined and passed in three years and a half if they volunteer, which, of course, nine-tenths of them do, as those who remain are very sus piciously looked on by the Government as disaffected ; and they are expecting an order to join nolens miens —for the want is now greater than ev er it was b e f ore . [Th e resu lt s of this pernicious system w ere po i n t e d ou t i n th e ar ti c l e in last months number.]. The relation between the nobles and their serfs.—The relation between the peasant and his master when looked upon on its fairest side, does n o t presen t anyt hi ng very pitiable in southern' districts of Russia, where the s o il is very thinly peopled. The serfs aro obliged to give half of their time to their master, and to do any work he may require of them. Of course, the cultivation of the land is their chief employment, in which the women take their part as well as the men. The general arrangement is, that the peasant should work three days a N veekfor his m as ter, and three days for himsel f, during which time he tills his own plot of ground ; and as land is very plentiful in those parts, he can always have as much as he choos es t o p l oug h ; so s man m will o always re so tthan a n h a.ivne anya other great advan ttlaioact a o n ve i r n o d n u e st t r i i l ou at imile, coun try.° I have known instances of hard-w or ki ng , labour , loving serfs, who posse ssed their 20,000 or 30,000 roubles ; hut these instances are rare. Having worked three days for his master, the serf is quite at liberty to work for wages, either for his rich e r and more fortunat e neighbours, or for his master, which is very frequently done, as it is not every one of them who possesses oxen, or the means of tilling land on his own accoun t . Th o se, ho wever, who possess cattle, are obliged to bring their oxen with th em when they go to their ta s k , which are employed in plough ing, or anything else that req uires drau g h t c attle ; and as the soil is very stiff, there are generally eight oxen yoked to each plough, and never less than six—so that the num ber required to cultivate some 5,000 or 6,000 acres of land is enormous. Where the master is an absentee, the in tendant will sometimes force the serfs to work their own days without paying them soy wages, as he will promise to do. The average rate that a labourer can earn is from 6d. to Bd. a day; but during hay time his earnings are much greater—from ls. to is. 4d. a day, with his food. In case of a failure of the harvest, every proprietor is obliged to feed his own peasants ; and to provide against that emergency, there are established iu every village what are called provident magazines of corn, in which there is obliged to be kept a certain quantity of rye and barley—(l think it is three quarters for every soul ; but as only the males are taken iu the census of course it will only give half that quantity per head). As it rarely hap pens that the harvest is a complete failure, these stores are seldom drawn upon more than two or three months in the worst of years, although, in the years 1848 and 1849, they were completely exhausted, on account of the failure of the crops for two successive years. In fact, in the spring of 1'49, some places were rendered desert by the entire population dying from want, and scurvy pro duced by bad living. Even in the best-organised villages, where the owners spared neither pains nor expense, the mortality was at the rate of from five to ten per cent. in the course of the winter. What is very remarkable is, that at this very time, at a distance of perhaps 300 miles, corn was very plentiful, and selling at prices little above the or dinary rates ; but as the tracks were all broken up, there were no means of transporting it—there being no roads, properly so called, in the interior of the country, and when the frost breaks up, the mud is more than knee-deep for a space of perhaps three weeks or a month, and sometimes two months, when the frost breaks up very early—as itdid in the year 1849, and again in 1853. To give a faint idea of what a Russian road is like in its worst state, I shall just relate what occurred to a friend of mine who was obliged to travel from Ekaterinoslav to Kharkoff in the mouth of March, 1853. The distance isabout 2 0 versts, or 14) English miles, and is generally done in 24 hours or less in the Winter -or summer. He was quite alone, without servant or luggage, except a small portman teau, and travelled in the or unary post waggon, which will not weigh altogether more than 3 or 4 cwt.—had five post-horses to it, the usual number being three; and, not withstanding all this, he was 7 days and 6 nights on the road, travelling day and night, as is the custom in Russia there being no inns on the road where to stop. Now, if travelling by poet is attended with so many difficulties in the spring of the year, what must be the expense and trouble of transporting corn at that time ? It is utterly impossible, for its value would be doubled in about 25 miles ! I remember the attempt being made for rather less than a hundred miles with horses, but over such fearful roads they could not load more than 4 or 6 cwt. to each horse. About a third of the horses perished on the road, and a portion of the corn was consequently abandoned, while the keep of the cattle on the journey cost as much or more than the corn itself, for hay was very dear that year ; and they were about a month going and returning —the men and horses being all that time away, and conse quently unable to do any useful labour. The sufferings of the people during the year 1848 and 1849 were really dreadful. At that time I was in the town of K ; and, as there are never any account pub lished of the calamities that may befal the people, of course it was only afterwards that I obtained my information from medical men, who were sent by the Government to inquire into the state of affairs, and to render such assist ance as the state of things required, from the stewards of estates, and from the proprietors themselves, who are re sident on their properties at the time. There was one who, I remember, told me that he was obliged to leave his village, which was a small one, as all his peasants were dead, and he only made his escape with one man, who was his servant—that all the others were lying dead in their huts, without anybody to bury them. Scurvy in its most malignant form was the disease that carried them off, which was no doubt produced by improper food, for in many instances straw was chopped up and mixed with the flour to make bread, which at the best of times ie not very good, being quite black, and very course in appearance. Of this the quantity was so smell that it was insufficient ' to keep body and soul together. Happily for the country, it is not often that this state of things occurs, but then it was produced by the cholera in 1847 and 184 i and had harvests combined. The want of medical aid is severely felt in all parts of the empire, for the immense number of surgeons required for the army completely drains all the establishments of their medical students, and leaves the country a prey to all the diseases-known, which, when serious, are generally fatal. In a large district, containing perhaps four or five hundred square rniles e there will he not more than two doctors, and sometimes Only one. It is true that some of the larger proprietor;, who reside on their own property, keep con stantly a medical man iu their house ; but these instances •are very rare, though on most estates there are two or ;three barber-surgeons who understand cupping and bleed• ing, and just enough of medicine to do harm. I know a large estate of upwards of 2,000 males, and with the females about double that number, without any medical than ; and the nearest town is distant 50 miles, where resides the dis trict doctor,' who has as far to go is every direction, so that when sent for he may be as f on the other side of ? the town. But the peasants themselves have more faith in charms than physic, which they can only be prevailed upon to take with difficulty. As tor restricting them to any par ticular diet, it is useless to attempt it, unless you can shut them up in a room and serve them yourself. The corporal punishment of eerie is very common—in fact of hourlyS2Oreenee, anti Seetral'often arbitrarily admi nistered, though, according to the law, no proprietor of serfs can give more than fifteen blows with a stick at one time ; but this limitation is never attended to, becausethe peasant can get no possible redress, as the very man to wh en he ought to apply in such a case is often a guest at his master's table, and known to be in his pay. But not withstanding all this, when the master is a kind-hearted man, anal resident upon his own property, the peasants look up to him like their f ',that. and protector; anti it often happens even now, though some years ago it was much more frequent, that the free peasants will come and beg to be set down as serfs, knowing'at the same time they cannot recover their liberty again. It is when the master is a cruel man, which the majority of them are not, or when the property is left to the care of intendants and agents, that the poor peasants stiffer most ; they are ground down to supply either the avarice of the men to whose care they are committed—who are, for the most part, Poles—or in order to support their master, who is revel ling in all the luxury of the capital, or possibly Paris, and who has not the slightest idea as to the means by which his luxuries aro procured ; nor does he wish to know. This last case is certainly the exception to the rule, and only occurs when a man is living beyond his means. On most large estates there is generally about 20 per cent. of the entire population who are domestic servants, bailiffs, or task masters, who are divided into classes, the highest of which is prieaslichiek, or a man to transmit orders; to these is the task assigned of seeing that the in tendant's orders are punctually obeyed. Under them, again, come desiatnieks who are always placed over the men at their werk, to see that theydo not shirk their duty. Besi ies servants and bailiffs, there are storekeepers, dis tillers (there is generally a nistillory in every large village), ehepheafs, neatherds, carpenters, joiners, and a great many other trades that are carried on in the villages. In the vil lage where I resided some years we had some very good tailors, and even bookbinders, who of course were appren- ticed in the neighbouring towns; and the embroidery that used to be done by a number of young girls was really asto nishing. None of these things, however, are to be found where the master is an absentee. Not only those who hold any office of this kind are exempted from more laborious work, but their families are seldom called upon to work with the rest, and consequently all their labour goes to make up for the constant employment of th e heads, who receive no wages except during the haymaking season, whets all hands are turned out and a great many more hired, as the quantity of hay made for sheep fodder is something fabulous. The greater pert of the man employed constantly enjoy great advantages over the others, as their families being quite free to work for them, the greater the number of chil tren the greater the quantity of labour, and the greater the amount of produce, and consequent riches, of the bead of the family. None of the peasants can marry without the previous con sent of their master ; nor can they intermarry with those of neighbouring villages without the consent of both owners, and then the owner of the bride generally makes her a pre sent to the master of the bridegroom, who of course does the same on a similar occasion ; but such matches are of very rare occurrence. The greatest grievance that both proprietors and pea sants have to complain of is the frequent levies of soldiers, the as r which is a great burden upon them. But it is he ht to re he has the master shows h s o h e o v w e s r l h ie is m g a r y ea t t b e in t k proper;power' ig and of course if her has a drunkard, a thief, or a m an with any other g reat moral defect, he is made a soldier of ; or if there be a man who is too clever (i.e. , uni;erstands too well his position, and is likely to breed discontent among the others), he, too, is sent for a soldier ; in fact,eall who are likely to be in the way. During the present war, the number they have been obliged to send is enormous; but the details of this have been given in our previous paper. In all the southern governments there are great numbers of Jews, who are not allowed to live in the northern, who are encouraged on many of the large estates under a pre tence of commerce, hut really because they pay the owner for permission to live there; and they cause great distress to the poor serfs by letting them have the corn-brandy (nearly all the drinking houses are kept by Jews) on credit, and then taking their produce at half its real value, thus robbing the poor fellows of their hard-earned money. The lower orders of Russians are generally much addicted to drinking, which is not so much to be wondered at, when it is taken into consideration that the corn-brandy of the country is not much dearer than good beer is iu this coun try,inhabitant of the Ukraine can get a glass of his favourite you never see them merry and at the same time stronger than our gin. When an liquor, ho is happy, though when intoxicated, but always more or less thoughtful ; and if they sing, their songs are always of a melancholy de scription ; their dances, indeed, have very little animation in them. The old feeling of freedom that existed in the time of the Hetmans is gone, and almost forgotten by these degenerate sons of Cozaks-Zaporojtsi, who in astern Eu rope played a not unimportant part in the fate of nations. They have ono very beautiful allegory of the fate of their le, and u cannot insult a m an country in a song said to h ave been com p osed b y fazeppa, u de but nobody appears now to understand it. Mazeppa him self is execrated by the peop y more than by calling him Mazeppa. rah The t most interesting s ight, perhaps, to be seen i n Little is the steppes during the haymaking or season. Then these vast solitudes beoome thickly sprinkled over with an active population : where before all was soli tude, now appears life ; the mower re-setting his scythe, its sharp passage through the stiff long grass, the hum of voices, the cries of the overseers of the workmen—all serve to enliven a scene that at all other times oppresses one with a sense of deep solitude. The immensity of the tracks of grass-growing land on some estates is really amazing ; I know on one estate 21,000 acres of grass in one piece. The number of hands required to make the hay is in mopor- Um) to the size of the hayfield. In this spot I have fre quently seen from five to seven hundred men, women, and children at work together : the men cut the grass, and the others rake it together, ant form it into rocks, when it becomes dried by the heat of the sun. To tutu it, as in England, is entirely out of the question, on account of the immensity of the quantity. As the grass falls so it dries. It is also stacked on the spot, being drawn to the stack by oxen. Masters and Servants.—The servants, for the greater part, are the serfs of their masters ; or, when the latter do not possess any of their own, they hire them from those who do. In the northenagovernments, where the population is much denser than in the south, I believe it is a very com- t m i c o k n e t e g a v f e o , r o t n h e c o p n r r o l i p t r i o i e n t otrhtaot he give e i h n i s s e h rf im a a ki nd of certain sum annually for this privilege ; the serfs then become do mestic servants, or, possibly knowing a trade , become journeymen, and sometimes masters, themselves : when the latter case occurs, their owners frequently recall them to the village again, which of course they object to, and are made to pay a go, id price for their freedom. When a servant is a serf, and is guilty of anything that may appear to his master against the rules of his house, the police are sent for, and the delinquent is walked off to receive a good flogging —not with the kuout, however, but simply with a bunch of rods like a schoolboy ; or he is put into solitary ronfi ne ment, accordingto the request of his master, no inquiry what ever being made as to why be is punished, if the order for punishment be accompanied by the present of a rouble to the police-officer. Men are punished in this way by mis take, and no notice taken of it. The men themselves do not consider it as any disgrace to be flogged, and they even boast of how much they can support. I could never see that this system produced any beneficial result; on the contrary it only hardened the men, who said that if they were flo , ged for nothing this time, it should be for some thing the next. A coachman who was driving into a gate way met another coming out, and as neither the horses of the one nor the other could be made to back there was a stoppage for — foot-passengers that lasted two or three minutes. An officer of police happening to be passing at the time, ordEred his soldiers to take one of them off to the police, where be was severely flogged for what was no fault of his. If a droshki-driver overcharges or is impudent, you have only to tell him to drive to the police, and he falls at your feet, and will not only return you the overcharge or beg your pardon, as the case may be, but offer to buy you off with a present, because he knows he will not only re ceive his flogging, but be made to pay smartly too, and perhaps lose one Of his horses. The servants frequently conduct themselves badly, on purpose to be sent to the village again. Some masters are notorious for ill-using their servants, knocking them about, pulling their hair, merely for their amusement. The ser vants are also rarely to be depended on, being much ad dicted to petty theft, so that nothing can be left about the room that is not under lock and key. They rarely, how ever attempt anything on a grand scale. Sometimes they will, when pushed to extremity by the cruelty they expe rience at the hands of a master, tovenge themselves by trying to take his life, [and generally effectually. One must he especially careful with servants who are very obliging, as they have frequently an interested motive in gaining the confidence of their masters—they are police spies. There is a much greater degree of familiarity between toas ter and servant than elsewhere. This arises from the fact of the servants being slaves, and about their master's person from infancy ; but they are not the more to be trusted for that. This, however, is not asserting that all servants are spies, but there is known to be a lar„, , e proportion among them. This is the cause why the French language is so extensively employed in society; for, with that language, one has no necessity for learning Russian (which few fo reigners do), except to speak to the servants. Within the last four or five years, however, the Russian language has come into more general use, from a feeling of patriotism-- real or pretended; but it is no uncommon thing to meet people, ladies especially, who speak French much better than their own language, which they term barbarous, and. always give the preference to the elegant stranger. The late Emperor was always pleased when he found a fo- reigner who could speak Russian, which is really a very fine language, though at present little cultivated ; it con tains all the elements of a find tongue, though very diffi- cult for both natives and foreigners. The nobles keep a great number of servants in their houses, especially in the villages; chiefly men and boys, who are very often extremely ragged, but that matters not if every one in the house have his servant, who does little else all day than sleep, for nowhere is one so badly waited on as in Russia. It seems a general rule, that the more numerous the servants, the wore the attendance. I am quite convinced that whoever has been in the interior of Russia will bear me out in this assertion. On entering a house you have a servant given you, whose sole dot . , is to attend to your wants, which he understands to mean pre- Senting you all your clothes while dressing, at the same time assisting you to put them on if necessary, taking them off when you undress, and sleeping outside your door in the entr'actes of these cperations. They do, however, pretend to make your bed and clean your room, but it is only a pretence. If you should be so unfortunate as to have for attendant a son of nature fresh from his native fields, you must expect to have a great amount of trouble with him, for he will know nothing of the uses of any of the utensils necessary iu civilised life, and will frequently make the most ludicrous applications of them. Crown Peasants.—The state of the free peasants, or rattier the peasants of the crown, is in theory much-better than that of those belonging to private ihdividuals, but practically it is much worse, as they are subjected to the tyranny of petty officials, who grind them down to the lowest degree. They have no task work, and the land be longing to the community is equaUy divided. They are only bound to furnish a certain proportion of corn every year to the public granary, which, in case of need, is sup plied to them, or goes to the benefit of the crown, as at the present time of war ; besides this they are subjected to an annual poll-tax for each male, and are required to fur nish horses for any official who may be travelling through the country on the crown service, or f9x tliv tousport of ' any stores that belong to the Government, for which they receive uo payment. These are their chief duties, and they have the privilege of drawing lots for soldiers, with the liberty to circulate over the empire, which many of them do, engaging in trade, and even making considerable fortunes; they have also the right of changing their deno mination, and becoming merchants in towns, by paying for the guild. The officers of the rural police oppress them very much, taking from them anything they may fancy ; and woe be to the unfortunate man who should think of refusing them what they demand. They are made to give up all they have, in some instances even to borrow or steal, to satisfy the demands of justice ! They have often soldiers quartered upon them, who tyrannise over them to a fearful extent, and appear to glory in the idea that they have some one upon whom they can wreak their revenge for the tyranny of their officers. There is nothing the peasant fears so much as to have soldiers quartere t upon him, for, by bitter experience, he knows that neither his wife nor his property will bo respected. The soldier will take whatever he thinks proper for his own use, an I not unfrequently steal for the use of his officer, the ideas of officers on the score of honesty being as lax as those of the men. _ _ . W 7will now attempt to describe the interior of a little Rus sian hut. It is built by inserting a number of posts into the ground at distances of about four feet from etch of her, which are wattled between, with spaces left for the doors, and three or four small holes, about nine inches or a foot square for windows. This lone the walls are plastered with mud (this is the work of the women) till they acquire a thickness of about 5 or 6 inches, and the building, when covered in with straw, is complete : there remain only to be provided the internal fittings and furniture, consisting of a stove that occupies about a third of the room, with a wattled chimney in the lobby, a bench of planks running round the room, and a large box or chest that is placed in the opposite corner of the room to the stove, and serves for a table as well as for a general receptacle for all the mobile property of the family. The stoye in front is built nearly up to the ceiling, but behind there is a large opening, which serves as a bed for the aged members of the family ; fur in this one room of about 10 feet square, you generally find three generations—the patriarch and his wife, with two or three married sons and daughters, with their children. The old folks, as we have said, sleep upon the stove, the other members of the family upon the benches or earthern floor; they have generally no beds but their sheepskins, their tall caps serving them, as pillows. In Russia Proper, I have ben told, they carry these things still further, by keeping all the family together for centuries, and adding to the house as it increases; but iu Little Russia the children leave their homes when the parents die, giving up the hut to one of the family, who pays the others their share, which of course is very small in amount, as the whole would not cost more to construct than 41. or si. The Little Russians aro very cleanly in their persons and houses, compared to the inhabitants of Russia Proper ; the houses are generally nicely whitewashed both inside and out, and have when new a very pretty appearance. The costume of the men in summer consists of a shirt and drawers of very coarse home-made linen : the drawers are made very wide, like Turkish trowsers: to these aro added boots and a svitka, with a tall cap made of lamb-aki n, with wool outwards. On holidays and great occa sions the svitka is made of coarse undyed wool, and fastened with a button, and at the waist with a belt of some gaudy colour. Iu the winter they add a sheepskin fur, and that completes their wardrobe. The costume of the women consists of a shirt reaching to the knees, and a piece of course undyed cloth bound round the waist, and reaching also to the knees, leaving the feet and legs bare; boots like the men, except that sometimes they are red or yellow, and a svitka, are added for holidays. The girls wear on their heads a fillet, with long streamers of various-coloured ribbons down the back, or a cornet of rudely-made gaudy paper flowers ; the 'harried women tie up their heads in a kerchief, biding all their hair; in the winter they also add the sheepskin fur. The women, how ever, have many variations in their costume there as every where : the petticoat is often made of party-coloured printed cotton, and the svitka of blue calico, with a num ber of red worsted tails sewn on to it like ermine. There are few trades followed in the crown villages, so that they have to make a great many things for themselves or go without them, or wait till there is a fair somewhere in the neighbourhood, when they can lay in a stock of ne cessary articles that cannot be produced at home. These fairs are very curious in their way, and generally collect all the peasantry of the adjoining villages, with a good sprinkling of the smaller class of proprietors, who have not the means of going often to the town. The goods chiefly sold aro pots for cooking, and dishes of coarse earthenware, hardware goods, small windows ready glazed, common printed calicoes, cheap ribbons, paper flowers, ear-rings of copper gilt, of the very commonest description, grocery and indifferent wines from the Crimea and the Don for the small gentry, tanned hides, boots and shoes, rough wheels for bullocks' cars, and the cars themselves. Here it is that the peasants dispose of their spare stock and corn. Their horses are generally sold to and bought of the gypsies, who attend the fairs in great numbers, and are .very expert in cheating in their dealings, as well as in horse-stealing. Their oxen, sheep, &c., are generally bought by dealers or exchanged amongst themselves ; the corn usually finds its way into the hands of the Jews, who contrive to make a rich harvest out of these gatherings. On the whole, the scene has a very animated appearance, but it is one which must be seen to be thoroughly appreciated. On one side you see a group of the swarthy sons of Egypt examining the merits of a horse, and huckstering for the price with some sturdy peasant with a fine beard ; on the other, a Jew pedlar trying to dispose of his wares, and swearing that his copper ear -rings are soli 1 gold ; here a woman in holiday attire is bargaining for pots in which to cook her borsheh ;* there a priest, with long hair and beard and sweeping robes, buying incense for his church, hag gling with the huckster, and giving his blessing to some one at the same time A little on the outskirts of the fair is erected a booth for the sale of krast and tea ; on posits to this is the brandy shop, where most of the borne and cattle bargains are concluded, and where some c'!."l' purchase-money is left under the name of muggent c /1-4- * A kind of soup made with cabbage and others`gtal. +A sour liquor, made from rye flour, whi i also used in the preparation of borsheh. In striking all bargains with a Little Russian, it is always a question as to who shall find muggeritch, or drinking. money, as nothing can be done without drink. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. _ • Aug.HRI,N, I R BS A S ILN . V . .. a..rn...C. .. forle 2 t 2 u , r B n 74 B th 2 e d nNg in OT week last year .................... 19,860 15 5 RAND HOLYHEAD RAlL WAY.—Traffic return for Aug. 26, 1855 ................. ..r7,017 6 Corresponding week last year ..................... 6,89610 2 thewC:CGre Corresponding EEse i n) °T l d : llEi ending Decrease in 1855.. £l2O 16 5 CORK AND BANDON R AlLWAY.—Traffic return for week cubing Aug. 25, 1855 ......... £226 1 6 Corresponding wee k l ast year POSTAGE OF NRWSPAPERS. The following correspondence has akin place between Mr. Wheeler, news agent, Manchester, and the General Post•ofce " Manchester, Ang. 20. " Sir,—l perceive there Ls a new regulation out respect ing newspapers posted to the colonies and foreign countries, and that on them the impressed stamp will no longer be required. Will you inform me whether a single penny postage label (in addition to the postage mentioned in in structions No. 45) wilt be sufficient for such papers as the Times, or Illustrated Yews, each weighing above four ounces " Do I also understand rightly that, although a stamped (impre.,s3d) newspaper is posted, with theltainp visible, directed to a foreign country, it will requite the additional penny postage stamp, precisely as if it wax an unstamped one? "'Will you further inform me whether an unstamped newspaper (London or local) posted in this town, with a penny label, directed to any of the suburbs, is liable to any further postage ou delivery ? I am &0., " Rowland Hill, Esq., Sz.c." " B. WHEELER. " General Post-office, Aug. 24. " Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 20th inst., I beg leave to inform you that unstamped newspapers are now forwarded to British colonies and foreign countries upon prepayment merely of the rates of postage stated in the instructions No. 45, 1855, without Any restrictions as to weight, except in the cases there specified, " With regard to your second question, it is distinctly stated in the instructions No. 60, 1855, a copy of which I enclose, that the impressed stamp will not count as postage in the transmission of newspapers abroad. "An unstamped newspaper is entitled to be transmitted once anywhere within the United Kingdom, upon prepay ment of a postage of one penny, if it does not exceed four ounces in weight. " I am, sir, your obedient, humble servant, J. TILLIY. " Mr. B. Wheeler, 7 and 8, Royal Exchange arcade, Manchester." THE INSURRECTION AT SABBAGEE. The following private letter, dated Gambia, Aug. 8, gives some additional particalars of the late fatal disturbances in that colony : "On the 16th of last month Governor O'Connor issued, or directed to be issued, a warrant for the appre hension of a Mandingoe belonging to the town of Sab bsgee, for having sold as a slave one of the British sub jects (a black) belonging to Gambia, and entrusted the execution of the warrant to Mr. Fenton, Queen's Advo cate at that settlement. Accordingly that gentleman, accompanied by 12 men of the 2d West India Regiment, under command of Lieut. Davis, of that corps, proceeded to Sabbagee, a town which has been under British rule only within the last four years, and is about seven miles from Bathurst, the seat of Goverament, and secured the person against whom the warrant had been issued. Upon this the inhabitants armed themselves and turned out, insisting upon the release of the prisoner. Seeing such a formidable mob, Mr, Fenton deemed it expe dient to give up the prisoner and retrace his steps. After marching a quarter of a mile his party was fired on. Lieutenant Davis then retreated a short distance fur et h n e e r m , y w i h n e when h h e e e k s u u d n d t e il n b l y e r w e a h e e h e l e e d d t h r e o u n n u d t p e a s ti t d ef k v er pos the . Mary's. Ile lost two men and was himself slightly wounded. "Lieutenant Armstrong, 3d West India Regiment, who accompanied Mr. Fenton, was shot in the arm, and four times in the body. The arm (right) has since been amputated, and Mr. Armstrong is going on well. " Governor O'Connor, having been apprised of these proceedings, immediately (the same day) collected the disposable force under his command, viz —l3O soldiers of the Ist, 2d, and 3d West India Regiments, and about the same number of militia, with ene brass 12- pound mortar and some rockets, and marched towards Sabbagee. cen t a re bait, and, jungle, with a road running through the Col. O'Connor reached this pass he concealed,ordered "Within about four miles of the place there directed a suspecting that the rebels might be .a.a e .. f a they few rockets to be thrown in. As he antiveir; i y powerful opened a, heavy fire in return. Seeinga deemed it expedient body opposed to him, Col. O'Connor to retire. treat, which they did, "The troops were ordered to reached Cape St. keeping up a smart fire until the enytioned. The loss on Mary's, the out station already ln n . d 53 wounded, of all in an l d 2 on h e ou 2 r 4 s . this occasion was 23 killed, feeling the insufficiency of ranks. Governor O'Consntoto the Governor of Gorse, his forces, sent a request some French troops. With begging the assist c danalaecrity our allies immediately em their accustorne in V p iallielineeudvbe y cto h m e m th an re d e er, fie a l n d d pi w ec i e tili s d the French brig•of-war Entrepreea,nt, barked on boar is . a l a t vi:d dens of the River Gambi On Gambia. the sa were a ch soldiers, with a proportion of officers, inst. 100 French d at Cape St. II , y were disembarked at of Col. O 'B' "(1 having been joined by the remainder. O'Connor's fuse, with 250 n ative auxiliaries, he marched again towards Sabba gee,°under howitzer. The rebels met this force about half 14guacncsto, P half way, and were driven back into their town. Colonel O'Connor ordered the stockade to be carried by assault. Accordingly the French formed the right attacking party, and carried the stockade at the point of the bayonet, ably seconded by the soldiers of the West India Regiments. The town was razed to the ground and Sabbagee no longer existe. The loss o f the rebels 'le computed at . 1 , 500 killed • , our loss is 25 killed and 70 wounded. The names of the officers wounded (none were killed belonging to the regular troops) are Colonel the mouth O'Connor, severely, twice in the arm ; Lieut. Armstrong, severely ; Staff-Surgeon Il.endley, slightly ; Colonel Fin den, R oyal Gambia Mil i t i a , s li g htly. Kill e d—C ap t a i n de Gri gny , R oya l Militia. The French brig Entreprenant left this morning, b having first saluted with 21 guns, which was returned her Majesty's steam-vessel Myrmidon, jtent arrived from England. She is to remain here for I\ nos time, until at least we hear from home. The total exTenditurif of ammunition (artillery) on the 4th inst. was 59 Oen., 141 round shot, and 73 121 b. rockets, with a fe w rounds of grape and canister. The loss to the Frencli in killed is only one, a sergeant, who was buried witb. military honours. " Staff-Surgeon Merchant died at Sierra Leone on the 25th ult, from the effects of a severe fall. The camel la healthy." 7 CHARITABLE BEQUEST.—By the death of 1 7 iarriet, the wife of Mr. Henry Francis Richardson, the G Toyama's"' Benevolent Institution acquire the sum of It ,0001. Mrs. Richardson contributed to the Cancer H Olio West London Dispensary, and numerous of lee charities previous to the terminaticon of her useful lif 5. 140X/y u-0+ ,,,, AND NORTH-WESTERN RAIL AT.—WAR WICK R CES. klitrve l/ AY and WEDNESDAY, 4th and sth Sebtember. 'Qat 41 sr TICr listo n at the regular charge, will be issued from , minion to Leamington, on TUESDIY, 4th September, s t ,,r to r eturn by any train up tO and including Wednesday, the P4 raber. %berm -,, By order. ' t anager's Office, Euston Station, Aug. 29, 1855. PAM , !tbs. !tb. !tbs. ris rna 13 01 11 I.lg. 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