The Sun. — London, England, 1856-01-03 00:00:00

L praise Yates, ey—for the on. nation■ as each guineas ied for [ chari- tve ex- D know tal ma. about coolies is who 'tames which le tale )eently re, the ke hi s e mate 6 nitary course led at 5 con. I dead [32 was ine or it dif ,thout venti- 1, and mid ,have ONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocir. le Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed Lily, and prices of all kinds were without Inge. The sales were 6,000 bales, all to the in --comprising 60 Pernam and Maranbam I. t o 60., 80 Bahia 50. to 6d., 260 Egyptian to 7fd., and 350 Surat 3id. to 4d. per lb. Railway Share Market was quiet, but firm, I slight decline on Tuesday's rates. !he reports of the state of the iron trade for the It year have come to hand. These, compared k returns of 1854, show a most satisfactory re k, and at the close of the year it may be said It this important branch of our national cora ree has not been in a healthier condition for tie time past. Not only has the quiet state of iiness which distinguished previous years passed ay, but there is a steady increase in the home de, with rising prices, and an augmentation of export trade. In the month of December the ►utity of iron exported exceeded by 150,0001. it of the corresponding period of 1854. No ibt there have been many failures amongst _ iron masters recently, but these have been of importance, and many spe ators have been obliged to succumb. nfidence has been restored among the legitimate den, and there is every prospect of this favour- Is state of trade continuing. From Dudley a lort of the meeting of the trade there states that was agreed upon to retain the prices of iron as :—sheets 11/. per ton, hoops 10/., and bars It was stated at the meeting that the coal 40 was very brisk, and good ironstone in re ed- Should the war continue during this year 3 expected that the demand for iron will exceed i t of any previous year ; especially in plates for 'numerous iron mortar and gun-boats which the '°eminent have ordered for the Baltic expe ion. The following particulars, furnished by Mr. Mil t, of the Jerusalem Coffee-house, show the num- Pr of vessels and their tonnage, now on the berth Victoria, New South Wales, New Zealand, aTc. Vessels. Launceston) Robari Town New South Wales Melbourne and Geelong Adelaide Swan River New Zealand Tons. 765 1,479 10,372 15,943 2,275 433 3,139 Total th is last week's railway re c e ipts, ascertained up 1 2 1 date, are in round figures as under :-- 50 t i rt4 t Western. o £23,904 .£20,4211 _. rth-W estene ho.4th-Western 34taon kuth n D ci .ti r ,-.4.a2tern .... - ............ 18,036 16,197 euonian .. 10 832 11,537 r.en_aeta.storrethaen•rd.n. . y. ... e . r .. k . e . h .. i . r . e . 27,347 25,666 [ t i :r t ibiurre o yt r a c e e n e icie . 20,601 19,252 "fteater, Sheffield, and Lincoln 9,501 8,646 =ford, Mr ' "Rlbur h l a , g and Glasgow ,111 Hereford Wolverham 3,635 3,153 1' 950 1 897 950 897 4,708 4,545 b . a llow and South• Western 7 t Wes tern of Canada ll,OlB 6,196 ken E nglish Securities have further receded in con- W o ti l l ne e of the rumour that the Minimum rate at the lank of England would again be advanced at lo ttarlour-meeting to-day. Although no measure itztheeekindhas been resolved upon, it is clear that increased stringency in the money market has h ee l A ted 'erne apprehension, and the opinion has- , Teri general th a t th e p re ssure will not mat fi nancial abate f or some t i me t o co me. The n ew ti t alicia l operations which, should the war con ike h ° , will be ne cessary b y a ll th e Allied Powers are ' wi g some att en ti on , an d it is conjectured that loan titr for 25,000,000/. t o 30,000,0001. will at an Ire 7 Period have to be provided for our own Go tili,„,rtiTent• The Stock market, under these cir 4C:eLances, is depressed, and Console, which opened 0 m , 41 i, have since been 87} I. The New 3 per t o , t 8 1 ' have bean 87/ to 88, and the Reduced 87} t i , - ' l• Bank Stock is steady at 2061. Exchequer ilia are 2s. higher, viz., Bs. to 6s. dis. T he Foreig n stock Market is also flatter and the transactions are not extensive. Turkish 6 per en t l3 ., after being 811 to 811, has receded to 81± S panish 81 1. The New Scrip is heavy at 3 ; discount. .Panish 3 p er C en t s . h ave b e en 38i to 381. Rus ';l:4_4 5 per C e nt s . h ave rea lised 97, and the Small Ilde 44 per Cents. 89. Mexican 3 per Cents. 41.(3 , e teady at 19k, and the Dutch have risen to 63g. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign in k elta:—Grenada D e f er red Bonds, 6/ 7; Mexican, oel9i ; Peruvian, 74 6 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 52 4; ri r toguese 4' per Cents., 46 48 ; Russian 5 per ell ta., 95 7 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 86 88 ex div. ; '..' Danish 3 per Cents., 391; ditto Deferred, 21 21i ; di tto Certificates, 41 5 ; ditto Passive, 7 ±. The variations in the Railway Share market are not generally of importance. Caledonian, Great 100 Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North West sir; South Western and Midland, are tolerably Ig steady. North Eastern (Berwick) are ss. low er , b u t 5 Shropshire Union have risen 15s. Great Western 5 of Canada have ruled weaker, and the Foreign 5 lines are nominal. 20 20 5 20 18 Nor Mining, Banking, and Miscellaneous Shares 4 there ha s b een a very dull market, and the quota- 20i bons have not undergone any particular altera tion. 20 100 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. too From the Offiesat List. j 100 1.(K) lincina.. done. knk Stock .. 206.} 51 1 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B7i i 4 .',:"f 3 per Cent. A nnu iti es ' 4 "g Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 `3 ) , Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885... 16 5.16 India Bonds, £lOOO Ditto under £l.OOO lO Volsols i 4or Account - .Eicheqouer Bills, 2id. £lOO ....•••••• 4 rnall lO 6 Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent 97} 61 7} PP 1859 ~ ...... PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. homessl Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent ( heck Bonds 4l 4 • eriean 3 per Cent. Ditto Account .................... Itussian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, E. St 97 Ditto 4i per Cent Ditto Small B9 onrdini an Bonds, 5 per Cent. .... . Ditto Account s lunisti Bonds, 3 per Cent - i Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account ......... Turkith Ronda, 6 par cent — Ditto for the Account 81iiiiii Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. D Account 3l i 1 d Dutch imykiends on the above payab l e In London. Exchange, 2} per Cent., 12 Guil 63 i x d THREE O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto for Account Jan. 10 B7l z d MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). CORN EXCHANGE. " I "TIIRAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN Per the week ended Jan. 3,1655, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in per Imperial the different Cities and Towns in England and Wa les Quarter. WRZAT. 1 it uxy , 1 oATe ItYll. 111110. I PS", , 776 21 39 6 4i i 268 11 . 1 154 s lld I 49 8 01 47 8 uu THE SIX WEEKB' AVERAGE. "MCAT. i IMILLT. I OATS. WIS. BEAN'. k TEAS. %Os 51 418 Id : 278 lid 54, Id 518 5d ( 501 3d QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 96,964; Barley. 122,322 ; Oats, 16.373 ; Rye, 121 ; Beans, 5,022; Peas, 2,733 quarters. I rEAT MARKETS. NZIVGATZ AND LI A.DENHALL.—About an average busi ness was transacted, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 6 d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; V ea l 3a 6d to 5s 2d per B lbs, by the carcase.'4s 2d to 5a 4d ; Pork, SOUTHALL, J3ll. 2 . — We had a steady demand for beasts and calves, o n higher terms. Otherwise, the trade ruled heavy. B ee f , f ro m 3s 6d to 5s Od ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 510 d ; 'Weal, 41 6d to 55 4c: ; Pork, 3s 6il to 4s 10d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMPORD, Jan. 2.--There was only a moderate demand to -day, as follows :—Beef , from 3 s 6d to 5s Od ; Mutton, 3 8 4d to 5s Od • Veal, 4s 8d to 5s 4d ; Pcrk. 3s 6d to 4s 8d Per Blbs, Quarter-old Store Pigs, 22s to 27s each. 100 100 100 20 20 HAY MARKETS. r ixtrriasintrm.—Meadow hay, 4/ 5 s to 61 04 ; clover ditto, 4115 s to 71 Os ; and straw, 1/ 5s Od to 1/ lOs Od Trad e t o l era b ly firm. per lco,d. t:',UMBERLAND —Meadow hay, 4/ 4s to Cl Os ; clover do.. */ 10 3 t o 61 15; ; and straw. 1/ 4s to 1/ 109 per load. A moderate supply, and a fair demand. WRI TEORAPEL.—MeacIow hay, 4/ 43 to 6 Os; clover 4/ 109 to 71 ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 109 per load. t h illty and straw moved off slowly, on former terms. 7 ASPIAIN. the Times, ident in to ,' to explain my calcula statistics me as those the average as confined in my esti. yself to the rsia ; and I sort on that rith Shiva, ,8 extremely that if the cut off, the of the other on the Cu ot imagine d that with be sees set L he quotes, lost instruc st appeared will see an Laiatic trade main road n the Cas an trade— rery ft:mon d to inter rigation on by way Of Russian. 1655, I have correFpon. 9 tables, he l skins, the ornent pro. troops des. le Crimea.* raschkend, that coin -1 by way of ) illustrate iestruction lch a thing nention of erstand IMO operations becoming would have Iws. But, our enemy mils, I am y, through ctures and )ural, than reach the ly want is overcome !engrained Ile classes, throwing candidates ity of our " would L the Czar, ) political ►cta prove, the right a, and the no softness high price ?SIA. ntinople, m in Per luced the following of native Immunlea. .anda, the Jut year ary to fill as among f the nu- Leh Fetch elision of iinded for mong the 'pence of of their hought it le British Drably su -0 piastres 3d Vizier. man who f a menial , from his rust with vernment wever, of a did not ling that the right East so tee of the the Go• nce from d not be ready to mission, ould not that the was not English s, struck , but no LE SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAILWAY . 11:11ottng Prins this ds7. 22 - 23 3B - 3i 7i - 8 16 - 15 13 -- 14 9 - 8 79 53i - 54 1(5 : 12 ••• '''' •" ... -- ... 6 - 4 6i - 74 11 - 12 83- 8 27 -- 29 17 - 19 €9 - 70 50 - f,2 91 - 9i 20 - 21 80 6 7 87i - 1384 73 - 75 .19 121 .02 104 51i b 241 70 - 75 6 - 7 6 - 71 761 - 77 _ 6 64 93 94 931 94, 14 li l *d 134 i 854 7 64 54 ... '''' ... 23i •~~ P •~• ••• ••• d i 63i 36 38 - 9 i lt ii - 45 29 - 30 67 - 68 8i - 81 5 - 12 - 124 444 454 92 - 97 4 - 21 - 23 101 73 42 11 56 6464- 6- 2d 33 - 35 19 19 3i - 4i 4 1- ..6 Pud.'i ..00 81 Ambg. Nottng. Boat and Bastn. Junct all Belfast & Ballymena all Birming. Wolverh. Stour Valley ..... ..• 29i Birleand. Lancsh. & Cheshiro Junct all Do. Chesil. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cona 19 Do., £20.....••••••••• ' all Rlyth & Tyne origin& £25 (isad. at £4s' 100 Bristol and Exeter 100 Caledonian 31s. Carm. and Cardigar. al- Chester & Holyhead. all Cork and Bandon all Cork, Black, & Pass 18 Cornwall all De. A 8 Do. B 0 Gluiest! Junction O 45 Duolin&BelfastJunc. 5 all Dun. P. & Aber. Jnc. :5 all Do. Now it. 00 t Anglian • all Eastern Counties It. 100 Nast. Union, I Sti it. 1 0., B. Stowe 5 8i Do., New 5 7i East Kent It. 00 East Lancashire It. 'OO Edinburgh& Glasgon 0 all Edinb. and Peeblos. It. 100 din.Prth &Daudet , 0 9 Forth & Clyde JCR % , 0 all Furness 10 all Do. Extension It. 100 !Glasgow &S. West , .. 0 all 'Great N. of Scotlnd 00 Great Northern... It. 00 Do., A. 5t0ck...... It. 00 Do., B. Stock t. )0 Gt. Stb RtWest.(lre 1. 100 Great Western t. 100 Do. Stour Val, Rai Gus. Stk 2 all Irish South-Eastern 0 all Lancaster & Carlisle 63 143 Do., Thirds 61 7 Do. Nov Thirds t. 00 Lancash.andYorksh. 3 Do., Wstßidinglrr. 0 all Liy.Crany.&Southpt 1.11 all London & Blackwal t. 00 Lond.Bright&S.Cst. t. r OO Land. and N. Webtn. O 16 Do. Fifths 0 5i Do.101.Bh., 11 &B...0 24 2 Do. Eighths,. . . t. 100 London andS. Weds., all Do., £5O. all Do., £4B all Lndndrry& Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.Shcf. k Linclt all Do. k Shares, No. 1 82s. Do., Man. & Lin. Un 1 Metropolitan ........ 100 Midland 100 o. Birnmg. k Derb) all (did. G. West. (Ire.) all Do. Half Shares , all Newcastle k Carlisle all Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd $4 Newry k Enniskillei all Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk __ 1-. silNorthn.dcuntiosUn 100 North British all North Devon, No. 1 all Do., No. 2 all Do., i A Deferred all Do., B Guaranteed 10(1 N.Eastern—Berwicl , 214 Do. do. Extension 34) 15 Dodo. G.N.E. ?u.roh all Do. Leeds ......... 100 Do. York 100 North London .. 3t le N.&S.Wstra.,llamr stead, and City Jn.. 17; North Staffordshire.. all North Western all N. &S. Westrn. June 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester. 100 Ox, Wore., & Wolv 8 Portsmouth 100 4 o.cish Central 1 100 3cottishMidhuld 100 Shropshire Un'.on ... al , uth Devon 1. , ./0 South Eastern all South Wales 15 t'l. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun 5 Do it Staines,Wok. &Wok all tockton & Darlia, 16; ;Stockton & Hr.rtlepl. 100 raff Vale ...... 100 Do. Prof., No. 1 21i Thames Hay. D.& B. ... LTlverstone & Lanes. all Vale of Neath all Waterfcl. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limeriek all West Cornwall. 8 West End of London and Crystal Palaoe all Do. A ......... 3 Do. B .... all Wost London. all Wimbledn &Croydon FOB.EIGN. sdl 4ntwerpdx Rott..rdszt 40 Do. sp. a. Oblgs. in Sh. at par till '64 10 Ardennes ........... 4 ilelgian Eastn. June. 10 Beziors to Grai mow 4i Bombay, Baroda, and Central ludia.ScriT all Do. all Demerara 11 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France 10 Do. New all Cast Indian, g. sp. c 10 Do. Ei tension all Do. do. do., '59, do.. 20 Gd. Tk of enada.A is. all Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. 70 Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till 13 all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. 10 Gt. Ceutral of Fran all Gt. Indian Peningula guar. 5 per cent... all Do. New 5 per cent all Do. Extensions.—... 13 Groat Ltixembonrc Constitutod Shame all Do. Obligations all Gt.Westernof Csmad. __. --- shares 5i Do. New sll Do : Bds., payable's7 with oPtion till '55 , 1 all Do. do., '62, p. all Do. do., '76, p. all Dc,. do., '73, without option.. all ,Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 17 !Lake Conat. & Basle all Liorre and Tarnhcut 10 Lyons and Geneva 14 Lyons d Mediterran all Madras 10 Do. Now all Maria Antonia . .... all Do. do. New •11 Namur di Lleg (with Interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of Frince. all D 0.201. Sli all Do. 201. 3 p. c Ws (fray. B. dr Ame. She. all NorwegianTrnnkPre' 16 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen Ifs ParisCaen & Cherbrg all Do 5 Roiie and Frascati all Rouen and Havre all Royal Danish 5 Royal Swedish all Do. Obligations all Sambre and Meuse_ all Do. 51 p. cent. Pref. 50. Seindo All Do, all Southern of France 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A),,. el West Flanders alllB W Do este " rn Pe o r f F c. ra P n r c o e f all D 0.... all Zealand JOINT•B' .11 Xustralania 50 Bank of London . . all tiri. Col. Bk.&;Ln.C: all British N. American 5 Chartd. Bank o f Asin 4 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australis., & China 50 City 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lond all Eng.Scot.&; , kns.Cht all Loud. Chart. Bk. oil Australia ............. 5 Ditto New ...... ....... 20 Icudon and County.. 50 Lnd.&E. Bnk g. Corp. 10 London Joint Stock.. 20 Lond. & Wegtminstei 35 National Pro.of Eng 10 Do. New ........... 22A National of Irelaud.. all New South `Vales,... all Oriental Bank of Corporation 25 l'rc,vincial of Ireland , all bo. New 1 Royal Austra.ln.Bkg .lold Imp Co 50 Royal British all inuth Australia all Union of Australia Now ..... 10 Union 0 , London ?flidness dor e yesterlay. 7i - 7i 3 - 2I 31 - ••• •-• 1 d 34} 341 9 —lO p 21 —21 i 15 16 61 66 go R 5 2i 3 p par -- ap 3 - if 2i --31 241 -24 i 21 - 2p 98 - 100 117 - 122 118 - 123 104 1N 23 - 24 116 - 120 • •• ''..".' • • • 6j - 18 -18 P 7 9 2 - 3 4/ - 5 41 - 4 34/ - 3 5 12 - 124 ••• - • Gi - •71 441 - 44% .•• -- ••• 43 - 45 ... - pm liti —19 i 2 21 2a 2a Si Si ... -- ••• i - iP .. -pm 34 :: 4 i 2 . 9 - 294 lE - 19il :11. BANKS. 89 .- 91 57 - 59 ii -- i-a 62 641 • •• ••• - 17 15 - 16 •.• ••• 3 - ... ... par 2p .. "'-' ... OM. .m.". 38 : 40 37 - 39 51 - 53 .. -•---- ... .. 40 - 73 - 75 8 9 30 a 31 20 20 10 10 tIIE SUM LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1856 THE SURRENDER OF BARS. ERZEROI7III, Dec. 11.—Our first news of the pro bable fall of Kars reached us through that fine old soldier General Kmetty. Riding in hot haste, he reached this on the afternoon of the 28th ultimo. The intelligence he brought simply amounted to this—that the provisions being all but exhausted General Williams had sent his aide-de-camp, Major Teesdale, to Mouravieff, to propose the opening of negotiations. Knietty's own case was a desperate one. He had been formally sentenced to death by the Austrian Government, and had no mercy to expect at the hands of the Russians. Things being at this pass, he waited on General Williams, and besought him to accept his resigna tion, and allow him to cut his way through the enemy's lines. His sword, he said, was now of no further use, and he would rather blow his brains out than become a prisoner at discretion. Williams feeling how little he could do for him if it came to the worst, allowed him to leave, which he did that very night, accompanied by General Kolman and an escort of trusty Kurds. Kolman, as an officer who had held high rank in the Hungarian revolu tionary army, was in the same predicament as himself. The Russian soldiers on the move at night recognise each other by a peculiar low, long whistle ; and, imitating this, the adventurous little party succeeded in passing several of their patrols. At last, however, they were recognised, charged, and dispersed, but, meeting at a place of rendez vous previously fixed upon, continued their jour ney till they reached this without further accident. After their arrival we remained in a state of un certainty for several days. They had left Kars before Teesdale return (it turned out aftewards that he had been detained to dinner by Mouravieff), and were, consequently, quite ignorant as to what terms might be offered and accepted on either side. All they knew was that General Williams's affairs had reached the point of desperation, and that he was not in a position to refuse any conditions which the Russians might please to offer. We were at last relieved from our painful suspense by the arrival of Captain Thomson 's interpreter, another Hungarian refugee in the Turkish service. He lea I left Kars after negotiations had been closed, and was enabled to inform us on what conditions it had been surrendered. They were as follows :—That all non-combatants should be allowed to leave ; that private property should be respected, the in habitants uninjured, and that all foreigners in the Turkish service should be permitted to depart un questioned. Last, not least, all the officers were allowed to retain their swords in consideration of their gallant defence 01i the 29th of September, and to the honour of Mouravieff be it said, that this generous clause was inserted in the body of the treaty with his own hand. Seventy guns, on the other side, and 20,000 stand of arms, were made over to the Russians. The Nizam (regulars) to the number of 5,000 were taken prisoners of war. The Rediff, or militia, and Bashi-Bazouks were dismissed, to go whither they would. Liberty, however, in the case of the latter, has been at best but a cruel gift. Our Siberian winter has set in along the loftier mountain ranges, and report speaks of 150 of these poor wretches being smothered to gether in a teppi, or snowstorm, within the wild passes of the Suwaulee-dagh. Numbers, too, have been frozen to death, and the villages along the road from Kars are filled with their miserable com rades, who have sunk exhausted upon the way. We see them staggering in all day along the prin cipal thoroughfare into the city, haggard and foot sore, their countenances half idiotic from cold, hunger, and fatigue. Their condition, even before leaving Kars, was as wretched as could be ; so much so (I quote word for word from an eyewitness) that it was positively painful to stir out of doors. They were lying about in all directions, groaning piteously—watching the Russian provision waggons, which, as if to add to their misery, passed almost all day within their ken. Townspeople and soldiers alike suffered all the horrors of famine. The former crowded round the General as he rode out of his quarters, and prayed him with all the eloquence of despair to seek some moans of putting an end to their misery. Women forced their way into his very rooms, and, throwing their starvin g children at his feet, im plored him rather to kill them at once than let them perish thus piecemeal for want of sustenance. The hospitals were crowded with sick • on the Thursday before the sut render 80 men died in one day. Many went mad or became idiots from sheer hunger and hard work. Those who preserved a remnant of health, half-starved as they were, and scarcely clothed, were obliged to mount sentry almost every night up to the anclee in snow. Since the battle of the 29th there had been no animal food to issue to the troops. Horses had indeed been killed in the General's stables secretly by night, but the meat was sent to the hospitals for the sick. A pittance of bread or flour made into weak broth was all that the working soldiers had to subsist upon. Discipline was almost at an end. The sol diers had at one time all but worshipped General Williams. After the action, in particular, they gathered round their gallant leader, only too happy, after the Eastern fashion, to touch the hem of his garment in token of their submission and respect. Now these same men refused to salute him, turned their eyes away when they saw him approach. Still, to the last, he hardened his heart in hope. Omar Pasha had written to him, on his arrival at Batoum, to hold out only another month, and he would be' with him. Tho Muchir here, too, Selim Pasha, who had been sent from Constantinople to take the command, forwarded a similar despatch, informing him that ho was at the head of a large, and well disciplined force, all admirably equipped and eager for the fight, and that he would lose no time in marching to his relief. Thus deceived, the Gene ral determined to hold out as long as a mouthful of food remained ' • and, in fact, the last biscuit was issued out of store on the very day of the capitulation. At last, on finding out the truth that the Muchir here at least had no intention of coming to his aid, ho called a general 'council and proposed a sally. But the troops by this time were too exhausted even to march, far more to fight their way for days together over the mountains. We had no cavalry, no artillery horses ; fight ing our way in short, at such odds, was out of the question, and a surrender was determined upon as the only remaining resource. Tho terms obtained, as may easily be believed, were much more favour able than the vanquished had any right to expect; and, allowing all credit to the generous forbearance of Mouravieff, no small praise must at the same time be accorded to General Williams for having managed matters so well under such difficult cir cumstances. The two things that he felt most anxious to settle well were the protection of the inhabitants and the safety of his brave companions in arms who might otherwise have paid a heavy penalty for their doubled devotedness to the cause of European freedom. His fixed determination on these points of honour was of an order which needs no praise of mine. He threatened, in fact, that unless his wishes in regard to them were acceded to, he would destroy the guns, blow up the works, and then leave the Russians to do their worst. Fortunately, he had to deal with a reasonable enemy, and the high-minded sacrifice was averted, no less by firmness on the one side than forbear ance on the other. He had no difficulty, as far as I can ascertain, in settling matters as he wished. It was late before the Turkish troops were marched out of the town. Those of the Russians were drawn up without to receive them, and the victors presented arms to the vanquished as they passed. The higher prisoners were treated with the greatest kindness and consideration. The General, after he had despatched the little business that re mained on his hands, was sent on the route to St. Petersburg in Mouravieff's carriage and four, ac companied by Colonel Lake,* Captain Thomson, Mr. Churchill, his private Secretary, and an Eng lish soldier servant. All his Turkish servants had deserted him in their dread of an imprisonment is Russia ; but, as some similar custom has always prevailed in the world, and can hardly be consi dered peculiar to Turkey, after all there was not mnch to complain of. As to himself, he was in good health and spirits, looking forward to a speedy release. At the time of our last intelligence the Russians had just taken possession of Kars, and the town was in a state of confusion, such as might be ex pected from its occupation by a mixed army of wild Cossacks, Circassians, and Kurds, with no small portion of a regular soldiery—the hardest drinkers in the world. All our employes, however, attached to the Turkish army were treated with the greatest consideration till their final departure. M. Zohrab, for instance, on General Williams's staff as interpreter, was lying ill of typhus at the time of occupation. On hearing the riot of the soldiers he thought it would be safer to apply to the commandant for a guard ; but the latter at once relieved his fears by assuring him that strict orders had been issued to insure his n ot being mo lested, and that if anything happened he should be applied to at once. Passports were gr anted to the Hungarian officers in the Turkish service with the greatest readiness. The conduct of the Russians, indeed, throughout has been irrepproachable. There is very little news here as regards Erze roum itself. The Muchir has been hanging a f ew spies. On riding through the baz or aar the other day I found one strung up at the Ggi-kapu, or George's-gate. He was suspended only a few yards from the ground, with his hands tied behind him, and then fastened to the shutters of a shop at his back, to prevent the body from swinging. The Osmanli inmate of the said shop took it very * Nothing 7iraia e - - sight, 1 think.—F. H. le. This must be au oyez.- b)Awl .- K ; t quietly. He was sitting crosslegged on his counter, smoking his chibouque, and staring at the corpse as apathetically as possible. It was slung from his roof, too, like a sign, and, if it had really been so, he could not have taken it more as a matter of course. The man was an Armenian, and was to have received 500 piastres (something less than 41.) in return for his information. The weather on the hills has been very incle ment. I have already mentioned that 150 soldiers were buried in a snowdrift. A caravan was swept down in the same storm, and 10 men frozen to death. The load lost was a valuable one, contain ing, however, a curious item—leeches. They form an important article of Persian export. The value of them is estimated at 3,0001. LINES LEASED ,NT FIXED RENTALt,. ! YBtd. RAI:MAYO; Leash , : Comp raa, :411011h2ii Pricy: ilia day . London 4 NiN w West °don_ . Un. & E. C.... t.Nrtr.n. It. Count. iCaldonian. L Y Gt. Rests Yk. New. ik Berw. Y. &NM , o Easters 'eto li Co - orfoLk.. `L.& N. 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Austral. Invest. 11 1 1 Ditto New. — fP 1 all South Austral. - Land 34 26 35 1 ar. Submar. Tel. Scrip... _ 20 all Do. it.n:istered 4 5 5 Prust& L. Co.U.Can ' 1 00) 28 , Van Dion - Imes Land 151 16 #rfr Vbitton SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock. TATTERSALL'S.—(This Evening.) CHESTER CUP. 1000 to 15 agst Bold Bumleech DERBY. Bto 1 agst Wentworth 10 to 1 agst Coroner 40 to 1 agst Sugar Plum SPAIN. We have received the Madrid journals of the 28th ult. It appears from them that the announcement that a committee of the Cort es h a d ac t u ally accepted the propositions of the Grand Cen tral Company of France, for the construction of a railway from Madrid to Saragossa, was premature, but the Gazette intimates that it is not doubtful that it will do so. Marshal O'Do nne ll h a d h a d a relapse, but had got a little better ; and though his illness had lasted longer than had been expected, it M. Gutierrez, editor net at liberty after disquietude. imprisonment. The cap tain-general of the Phillipme Isles had announced to the government that a large crop of tobacco will this year be obtained from the province of Cagayan. LAW IN Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN BB WILLIAM ABLBTON. This was a meeting for certificate. The bankrupt was described as of Loughborough-road, Brixton, builder. The amended balance-sheet commenced Sept. 8, 1854, and ended Sept. 18, 1855, and showed Dr. to surplus, 2,070/. ; creditors unsecured, 8331. 18s. Id. ; do. holding security, 1,2401. ; liabilities, 1571. 17s. ; Cr. by good debts, 91. 4s. 2d. ; property, 622/. ; do. in dispute, 7001.; do. held by creditors, 1,7501. ; liabilities, 157/. 17s. ; losses, 1341. 15s. ; trade charges, 7021. 17s. 9d.; house and personal expenses, 2041. gs. 4d. ' The bankrupt obtained a first-class certificate. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) MANSION-HOUSE. ROBBERY OF £985 BY A BANE CLEBIC.—A. respect ably-dre.mied young man, described o n th e po li ce - s h ee t al Robert Henty Withers, 19 years of age, clerk, was placed at the bar charged with having absconded wits 9851. in Bank of England notes from Leighton Buzzard, the property of his masters, Messrs. Bassett, Son, and Har ris, bankers, of that place. John Spittle, a City detective, deposed that in conse quence of a telegraphic communication received this morning at the police•station, he went about 6 o'clock to Euston-square station and there met Mr. F. Bassett. Shortly atter, the prisoner, with a carpet bag and an umbrella in his hand, entered the pay-offloe at the station, when he was pointed out to witness by Mr. Bassett, who gave him into custody. Witness informed the prisoner he was a police-officer, and charged him with robbing the bank at Leighton Buzzard of 9851. in Bank of England notes. Witness desired him to hand him all the notes he had about him, and he took a roll of notes from his pocket and gave them to him, com prising 3 notes of 1001. each, 2 of 501., 11 of 20/., 18 of 101. and 36 of 51. He was then removed to Moor-lane Station and searched, when another Si. Bank of England note was found upon him, 91. 10s. in gold, and some silver and copper. The charge was then made against him and entered, but the prisoner said nothing. On his way to the Mansion House he said, "It was his intention to have gone down by the half-past six o'clock train and have replaced the notes by half-past eight o'clock, as it was his duty to take the notes out of the drawer in the morning, and he could have re placed them without their having been missed. What he did last night was owing to his having taken a little drink." wasF. B a a ss e t clerkt , e i n u e t o h f e the e fir sta m b 1 , s d h e m p e o n s e t c, a thatht; t a n d e b p e e r - n son M er r. placed with them more with a desire of his o . xtaining a knowledge of business than remuneration, and that it was painful to him to have to appear against. him. It was witness's duty to see the money was all riabt, and to lock the sate. The prisoner bad nothing to do with the cash. Last night, about half-past eleven o'clock, from information be received, he went to the batik and ex amined the cash and found about 1,0001. missing. The notes must have been abstracted from a roll: about a quarttr past eight o'clock last night whilst wi taess was called away to another part of the bank. The book con taining the numbers of the notes had been also a batracted, but the notes produced had the private marks. of the bank on them. The prisoner, whe bad nothing to say, was ccanmitted for trial at the next Bedford Assizes. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Day.) LONDON, Jan. 3.—Wind this day at noon, light airs from the Westward and dull hazy weather. COWES, Jan. 2.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Arroma, from Jamaica. SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 2.—Wind S.E.—Sailed'r—Magda lens, for the West Indies. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 2.—Wind S.E.—Arrived - —Walmar Castle, from London, for Port Philip. Sailed—Amazon, for Adelaide, S.A. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 2.—Wind S. to S.E.— Arrived — Wales, from Calcutta. Sailed—Stad Uricht, ft or Sydney, N.S. W. FALMOUTH, Jan. 2.—Wind S.S.E., fresh breezes.—Ar rived—Cornelia, from Moulmein. SClLLY.—Arrived — Eliza, from Rio Grande. LOWESTOFT, Jan. 2.—The Harmony of Shieldia has put in leaky, having struck on Yarmouth Sands. WEVENHOE, Jan. 2.—A brig laden with coals is on the Gunfleet—is expected off with assistance—print of her cargo thrown overboard. CARDlFF.—Sailed — Adam von Ross, for Jam sacs. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday 1, mning. Arrived.—Calcutta, (s. tpt.), from Portsmout h ; Bro thers, Cardiff; Aurora, London ; Despatch, (s.h, Jersey ; Alliance and Nord, (s.), Havre. Sailed—Wonder, (a.), for Jers e y ; A ta l anta, (s.), Havre. LIVERPOOL, Thursday l!,[c.rning. Wind S. Arrived.--Charles Horsfall, from Bonny; HA; uiu, (s.s.), Havannah ; Margaret, Havre ; Montauk, Galv. Is.ton. Sailed—Mina, (a. a.), for Lisbon ; Curack, .North Or leans ; Zagora, Alexandria ; Countess of Morley, for Gib raltar. _ QUEENSTOWN, :fan. 1. Wind N.N.E• Arrived.—Oriono, from Syra ; Orwell, Prince :Edward's Island. DUBLIN. -Jan. 2. Wind S.S.W. Sailed. —Garland, for Jamaica. (BT SUBUIDIND AND BUITISIITELEGUAY DRA.L, Thursday, 9. Al a.m. Wind S. ; fight and fine. Pawed—Seaudia, from London for Cardiff. The Government of Sweden i s employed i n , ma ki ng extensive naval and military preparations. It was rumoured yesterday in Paris that Marshal Pelissier is appointed C o mmander-in-Chief of t he Allied armies. The receipts of the London and Blackwell Railway for the half•year are 35,1921. a ga i nst 38,329 C., for the corresponding period ending with Christmas, 1 3.54. LONDON', TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND RAIIWA .T.—lt is proposed to make a branch railway, 4 miles i o length, from the London and Blackwall Extension li eto the Tilbury line at Barking. Sou'ruaurrost Jan. 2.—The Royal Mail C, »mpany's steam-ship M a gdalena, Capt a i n Abb ott , l e f t -thi s d a y with the usual West India mail, afullpcaasrsgo,gjtt s. T aw elle he ry to the amount of 7,5001., and 117 ene Tyne, with the homeward West Italia snail, is 'expected every hour. The ladies of Launceston (Tasmania), having trans mitted to her Majesty the sumpof 1,6841., to ILA, applied for " the benefit o f the sick and wounded soldiers., sailors, and marines in hospitals abroad," her Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct that the above suna shall be placed at the ilisposal of Miss Nightingale, ay. the most effectual and satisfactory mode of carrying out the wishes of the ladies of Launceston. The British war steamer Caradoc arrived at Mar seilles on the 30th ult., from Constantinople, which she left on the 23d. Sir Edmund Lyons, Adnaii al-in-Chief of the English Black Sea N luadron, and General La Marmora, Commander -in-Chief of the Sir (union army, came passengers in that vessel, and took: their depar ture for Paris the next morning. The Ca radon will, no doubt, await the return of those two personages to con vey them to Malta, whence they will p roceed to the Crimea on board the Royal Albert. The Console of Eng land and Sardinia accompanied Sir Edmund Lyons and ' General La Marnapra to the railway station.. The 39th Regiment of the line and tw o d e t ac hment s o f the 20th and 50th, left Marseilles, by railway, for Faris on the 31st al ANTICIPATED) VISIT OF D. MEDHUBST TO ENGLAND. —For nearly forty years this distinguished Chinese scholar and indefatigable missionary has prosecuted his labours in the Gospel ; first in the Malayan Archipelago, and, since the year 1843, in China Proper. Having re cently learnt that the pressure of these labourer has begun to tell with serious effect upon his health and. spirits; the Directors of the London Missionary Society le oreinvited him to pay a visit to his nati ve coun try in the course of next summer. —Missionary Magazine. WIDENING OF CIANCERY•LANE.--Yest,erday some houses on the west side of Chancery-lane v rere disposed of by auction, by Messrs. Pullen and son, Fore-street, in compliance with directions from the City Improve ment Commissioners, and which will be lova/with taken down for the purpose of widening the entrii:nce into it. The houses are situate between the Mitre :and Carey street, and when they are removed,: the ire will be a considerable addition of width to the atr eat. A few more houses will have to be cleared away 'to carry out the full intention of the improvements in, -this part of the "Lane. 7 ntip.nutss rester lay. 5 43i i 81# 2011 88 7j 73} 511 2 76 6k 94 3i 93i 4 3j lj So 4i 63i i 38 67i I 13 10k 121 45 41 42 / 5r 61 57 66 3d Pal 194 19 4 ai 3 24 $ 8: l i e si IDo ~ 25 12j 12 20 10 St. St. All 2 100 100 to St. 50 St 26i 134, 20. LOO LOO LOO all 1100 100 100 100 1100 1100 St. 161' & St. 100 all i all I[oo 100 100 100 1.00 100 100 20 12i 25 20 St. 1111 12j THE ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. ( From the Times correspondent.) CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Dec. 21, 1855. Winter is now come upon us in reality, and we have had for the last few days some very cold weather. On the night of the 18th the thermometer went down to eight degrees below zero in the camp of the Engineers, Fourth Division. This was by a self-registering thermometer. At 10 a.m. on the 19th it was only three degrees above zero. This is nearly or quite equal to Canadian cold, and, as might be expected, a great number of men have been more or less frost-bitten. I have heard of no serious cases among our men. The French suffer a great deal from cold. The other night two French soldiers went into ono of our guardrooms in Sebas topol and asked for some coffee, and to be allowed to warm themselves by the fire. Our men gave them some coffee and biscuit, and they sat down by the fire. One of them took off his shoes (ho had no stockings) and began rubbing his feet, which wore frostbitten. In about 10 minutes he got up, but staggered and fell dead, to the great horror of the English soldiers. The other was taken care of and was all right iuthe morning. The French are getting great quantities of sheepskin coats from Constanti nople. To-day I met on my way to Kamiesch some hundreds of pack-mules, with 50 coats on each, and a great number of the equipages militaires, also full of coats. The whole of our men were well clothed and well fed, and are in capital health and spirits. Now there is snow cu the ground it is dangerous to go through the camp, as you are almost certain to get a blow on the head from a snow ball, which was aimed at some one else. It is a blessing that these are the only balls we are in danger from now. Really the difference between this winter and last is extraordinary. Instead of the sullen, despairing look of last year, every man seems happy and con tented. We have also civilised amusements going on. On every Saturday night there is a " symposium," or sort of Cider Collar, in the restaurant of the Fourth Division, composed of officers of the division, who meet at half-past 9, and have a kind of supper, and then sing till 12, when the national anthem is sung in chorus and the meeting separates. The .officers of the Fourth Division have also got up some thea tricals, which they are going to act in the restaurant. They are to perform twice, I am told, for the men— that is, for 10 or 12 men chosen from each regiment and twice for the officers of the division, once for each brigade. I hear the first piece is " Box and Cox Married and Settled. These must be the first theatricals ever performed on Crimean soil, as I don't think the Tartars indulge much in that style. The Crimea is subject to new innova tions every day. There is now a real, bona fide, yellow omnibus in Kamiesch. If we are here lunch longer we may expect to be carried from camp to camp in Hansoms. There are one or two dogcarts here already. We have a hunt here also—the "H. Q. P." hunt, which means the Head-quarters Paper Hunt. This is carried on in the following manner :—The fox, which is in this hunt a well-mounted man, has a quarter of an hour's law, and goes off with his pocket full of pieces of paper, one of which he drops at intervals. At the end of his quarter of an hour the field, which has consisted on the two or three meets which have taken place of nearly a hundred, go off after him, a little scattered, all looking eagerly on the ground for pieces of paper. The pace is very fast, and consequently the field tails considerably after a few minutes. There were a great many men out last time who had evidently hunted in a very diff.drent country, and among them Sir W. Eyre, wito was mounted en a very fine horse, and kept well ahead. There have been some very severe ;ales lately in the Black Sea. One of two vessels have been lost near Kamiesch. Ono mail, also, has never turned up yet, and nothing has been heard of it since the steamer left Constantinople. It is the oue duo on the 13th. lam told that the two mails of the 13th and 17th left Constantinople on the same day. The 17th one arrived yesterday, but nothing has been heard of the other. There are numbers of "shaves" flying about the camps. Men have nothing else to do, and therefore make " shaves" to amuse themselves and their neigh bours. I heard two extraordinary ones to-day. One of them is, that a night or two ago a Russian outlying picket, consisting of 120 men, posted somewhere along the Tchernaya (where the " shave" did not say) came over the river, and gave themselves up to the French, as they said they were half-starved, and suffered such hard ships that they would rather become prisoners than remain where they wore. The windy weather has been fatal to the hopes of many out here with regard to the home-made plum-puddings that were coming out for Christ mas-day. The Parcels-office in Balaklava is crammed every day with men eagerly asking if various vessels aro in, and who generally go away disappointed. lam afraid that most people will have to be satisfied with a Crimean plum-pudding for Christmas-day. The turkeys and geese to be met coining from Balaklava to the camps are almost as numerous as they used to be in the old coaching days coming to town from Suffolk and Norfolk. There is, however, a great difference in the size of the birds. We have had immense flecks of bustards flying from the eastward for the last few days. Hundreds of sportsmen have been on the look-out for them, and several have been killed. They are very large. Some of those killed, I am told, weigh as much as 151 b. or 161 b. There is snipe and wild fowl shoot ing to be had down on the Tchernaya, but it is at the risk of one's life that this sport is to be enjoyed, as the Russians are within shot, and generally take advantage of it. However, there are some men out here who are such eager sportsmen that they are not deterred even by rifle bullets. The mail which was due yesterday has not ar rived yet. CAPTURE OF TWO FORGERS. Two notorious forgers, named William Stranges and Thomas Bew, were captured at Eton on Saturday last, charged with having forged the name of the Earl of Dighy to two cheques on his lordship's bankers, Messrs. Hoare, of Fleet-street, for the respective sums of fifty pounds and one hundred pounds. It appears that on the 27th November last Messrs. Hoare received a cheque by post, enclosed in a letter signed Mrs. Mary Harris, pur porting to be drawn by the Earl of Digby. The writer of the letter requested the money might be remitted in Bank of England notes to Mrs. Mary Harris, Marrow, near Guildford, Surrey, and Messrs. Hoare having no suspicion of the forgery sent the money accordingly. On Friday last, Dec. 28th, Messrs. Hoare received a second letter, dated 12, High-street, Eton, Bucks, and bearing the post mark of that town, enclosing a cheque for 1001., signed Digby, payable to Octavius Wingfield, Esq., and requesting that the cheque might be honoured by two 50/. Bank of England notes. This letter aroused the suspicion of the corresponding clerk, to whom the letter was handed, and the firm at once instructed their solicitors, Messrs. Blake and Co., Essex-street, Strand, to investigate the matter. Accordingly a gentleman connected with the solicitors' office immediately pro ceeded to Windsor, and put himself in communication with a Mr. Mason, who has the management of the justice basiness in that part of the county. The result was that through the active exertions of that gentleman the prisoner and a confederate were appre hended on the morning of Saturday last, and brought before the Rev. Thomas Carter, of Eton College, ono of the Bucks justices, on Tuesday. It appeared from the evidence that the house N 0.12, High-street, Eton, was a beer-shop kept by a man named Allen, and the prisoners had requested permis sion to have a letter directed there in the name of Wing field. Mason was in the tap-room, in the disguise of a prisoners applied for the let brieklayer, and when the ter which had been posted in London he took them into custody. Horsford, an officer of the Mendicity S ooiety, de posed that one of th e p r i soners (Th omas Bow) was well acquainted with Lord Digby's handwriting, naving ob tained several chee t uee from his lordship under false pre tences. On the last occasion, at the end of the year 1851, the prisoner obtained from his lordship a cheque for 251., by representing that ho was a Captain Newton, for which offence he was tried and convicted at the Old Bailey in December of that year, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. Ho was now a ticket-of-leave man. When the prisoner was apprehended in 1851 by Horsford's father, he inflicted such serious injuries upon that officer that the latter had never recovered from the attack, and his dissolution was daily expected in con ' sequence of the prisoner's brutality. Both prisoners were well-known swindlers and begging-letter writers, and have both been repeatedly convicted. The prisoners, who were respectably dressed, were fully committed to Aylesbury for trial at the Lent as sizes fur Bucks. CRICIET.—The tenth annual ball of the St. James's Cricket Club takos place at Willis's Rooms, on Tuesday, the 15th inst. The band of the Grenadier Guards Will attend. Ait ° " 1 ' • LITERATURE. The Campaign in the Crimea. An Historical Sketch. By George Brackenbury. Illustrated by William Simpson. Messrs. Coluaghi and Messrs. Longman. The most beautiful souvenir of the great Rus sian War of 1854-55 is, beyond all question, this exquisite volume--descriptive generally of the campaign in the Crimea, and illustrative particu larly of the Siege of Sebastopol. A volume it is, altogether, of little more than a hundred pages of letterpress, embellished by some forty lithographic plates engraved from drawings taken on the spot by William Simpson, who may be designated par excellence THE delineator of the memorable struggle still pending between the forces of the Czar and those of the Allied Governments. The historical narratives of the last two Crimean campaigns will be found by the reader to have been judiciously confided to the late Secretary at Kadikoi to the Honorary Agent of the Crimean Army Fund, Mr. George Brackenbury. That gentleman has ac ! quitted hiirself admirably well of the responsibility devolving upon him as the contemporary celebrant of the glorious contest as yet but partially de veloped upon the shores of the Euxine. H e h as recounted the events of the campaign with the most perspicuous exactitude, beginning with the earliest indications of the outbreaking of war after a peace of forty years' duration, and ending with some of the latest incidents of the renowned con test under the shadow of " the blood-stained ruins" of Sebastopol. His introductory sentence has refer ence to the memorable celebration of that prolonged tranquillity in the fairy palace conjured up from the green sward of Hyde-park during the winter cf 1850- 51. His closing remarks bear allusion to the heroic memories of the winter of 1854-55—memories associated with " the gloomy cypresses of Scutari, and the bleak hills of the Chersonesus." There is a strange significance in the former reminiscence, when our author talks of the spring of 1851 wit ' nessing " a ceremony as imposing, perhaps, as any in the world's history"—the inauguration of the Palace of the Great Exhibition—imposing, certainly, , to all those whom it may perchance have deluded for the moment into the belief that war was for ever at an end, and that the peace of nearly two score years' continuance was to be perpetuated un interruptedly ! Of Mr. Simpson's forty illustra tions to this charming memorial of the contest which so soon afterwards ensued, it is almost need less to speak here at any length in terms of any thing like deliberate commendation. The original drawings from which these lithographic prints have been copied on a reduced scale, have now for some time past been rendered familiar to the English public, through the medium of the beautiful seri(' of engravings issued from the press by the Messrs. Paul and Dominic Coluaghi periodically. It will be remembered by those already acquainted with them, as they have thus appeared from time to time in a separate and costly publication—that the series commenced effectively with the sketch of the notable spot which witnessed the first incident of the struggle on the 19th of September, 1854—the spot upon which the First Gun was fired, upon the occasion, that is to say, of what has been thenceforth known as the Cavalry Affair of the Heights of Bulganak. Turning over the subsequent pages of the volume—what familiar scenes ar© there not successively opened up to view for contemplation—familiar, thanks to the word pictures of William Russell, and the transcripts from the drawings of William Simpson, a writer and an artist who have thus taken high place among the ranks of our instructors, and therefore (by reason) of our benefactors. Through the me (bum of one illustration, for example, wo look down upon the picturesque little inland sea-port, as it may be called, of the now famous Balaklava. In another, wo gaze, from the rear of the English bat teries, upon the remote town and battlements, and shipping, and harbour of Sebastopol. Here we are scanning the huge round tower of the Malakhofl'— there surveying the wild panorama presented to observation by the city of the caverns and the ruins of Inkerman. Yonder, we are noting Lord Rag lan's head-quarters, at Khutor Karagatch, and yonder, again, marking the caves along the Woron zoff-road, and the dismal gorge now known far and wide, so grandly, as the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Opening the book at one part, we come upon " A Hot Day," and at another, upon " A Hot Night" in the batteries. Now, we are peer ing down into a Russian rifle-pit, and now tracking out the course taken by the railway, extending from the camp to Balaklava. Conspicuous among the incidents of the campaign herein represented, however, must be especially enumerated the charges of the Heavy Cavalry Brigade, and of the Light Cavalry Brigade en the 25th of Oct., where poor Nolan met his glorious death so bravely, and where Scarlett and Cardigan won immortal fame with their good swords, by a prowess as splendid as any ever displayed of old by the vaunted heroes of the days of chivalry—upon that memorable but disastrous day when Lord Raglan issued that most preposterous order, the folly of which he afterwards shamefully endeavoured to shift from his own shoulders to those of the valiant and ill-used Earl of Liman, the scapegoat of a disingenuous strate gist and a bungling Commander-in-Chief. Nume rous other scenes of interest will be found, more over, lending the collective charm of their attrac tion to this graceful and valuable record of the Campaigns in the Crimea, as preserved for after times by the pencil of William Simpson and the pen of George Brackenbury. The Seat of War in the East. Ten Parts-making the First Series. By W. Simpson. Colnaghi and Company. With four additional i ns t a l men t s , recen tl y pub lished, of the splendid wo r k, en titl e d " Th e S ea t o f War in the East," by W. Si mpson , th e Fi rst Se ries of that remarkable production is at length completed. This first series comprises altogether no less than forty large ill us t ra ti ons -th e same forty illustrations given upon a reduced scale in the volume above noticed, as from the manuscript of G. Brackenbury. Dividing the whole series of plates, thus affording us a detailed view of " The Seat of War in the East" into four separate depart ments, they may be readily enumerated as follows. Firstly, for example, we have-1, the Malakhoff Tower ; 2, the heights of the Bulganak ; 3, Balak lava, looking towards the sea ; 4, the Loss of the Prince ; 5, Sebastopol from the rear of the English Batteries ; 6, the Heavy Cavalry Charge ; 7, the Battle of Inkerman ; 8, Lord Raglan's Quarters ; 9, General View of the Adjacent Country ; 10, a Quiet Day in the Diamond Battery. Secondly, we have-1, the Field of Inkerman ;2, a Zouave Picket ; 3, a glimpse of the Commissariat Difficul ties ; 4, the Graves of the Officers of the Fourth Division ; 5, the Light Cavalry Charge ; 6, the Road to the Camp ; 7, the Camp of the Naval Brigade ; 8, the Camp of the First Division ; 9, the French Engineers Tracing a Trench ; 10, the New Mortar Battery. Thirdly, we have-1, a Sailor's Funeral ; 2, Sebastopol from the Sea ; 3, Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded ; 4, a Quiet Night in the Greenhill Battery ; 5, Camp of the Second Division ; 6, the Ruins of Inkerman ; 7, the Works outside Balaklava ; 8, the Balaklava Railway ; 9, the Scene of the Night Attack on the 28th of March ; 10, the Dinner of the Grenadier Guards on Christmas-day. Fourthly, and finally, as far as this " First Series" is concerned, we have, 1, Sebastopol from the Fast ; 2, General View East of Balaklava; 3, Excavated Galleries near Ink_eyman ; 4, a Hot Day in the Batterie s ; 5, a H ot Night in in the Batteries ; 6, the Valley of the Sh a d ow o f Death ; 7, the Russian Rifle Pits, where C o l one l E ger ton was killed ; 8 , PrinceWoronzoff's Palace at Y a lt a ; 9, the Monastery of St. George ; 10, the Lighthouse at Cape Chersonese. The fourteen plates last enumerated are those which have but very recently been issued from the press by the Messrs. Colnaghi, and by the issue of which the whole of the First Series has been at last brought to a most brilliantly successful conclusion. An eye - witness of the majority of the scenes herein de lineated standing beside us as these exquisite im pressions of the drawings of Mr. Simpson have been turned over, one after another, carefully and de liberately in succession, has assured us of their ex traordinary accuracy and verisimilitude. It is this faithfulness to the appearance of the actual scenes delineated iu the series that constitutes the chie f value and the conspicuous attractions of the mas terly sketches taken on the spot by William SinipsTlar and afterwards reproduced. in a collection of spl . ol 3oll a lithographic engravings by the eminent publishing firm of the Messrs. Paul and Dominic Colnaghi. _ Viewed dispassionately as such, the s eries can only be regarded as secondary to actual s un-portraits,taken by the magic aid of some skilled and artistic photographer. Wherefore William Simpson to our thinking stands forth altogether unrivalled among the delineators by the mere a id of the p enci l of the of the geat events of the glorious historical localities henceforth to be re- Frenc h cam paiga before Sebastopol. re membered as the scenes Angle- The municipal council of Nantes has just voted 150,000 fr. to succour the poor of the town.—Galignani. THE NEW OMNIFS SCLIEME.—INTERFERENOE OF TUB POLICE.—The project for the formation of a new °rani. bus company has met with a sturdy resistance on the part of a groat number of the regular " Bus men," and placards of a very exciting nature have been for some days posted i nthe City, to counteract what is considered to be a " 1 9reign innovation." As every available point is posted with these bills, the congregation of idlers and the jeering of the " Bus-men " have created such a perfect nuisance, that the police were diligently emplorl yesterday in preventing more bills being 'posted, an in pulling down or defacing any already put, up. • . ~..,~ ILL. ld in of his g, 12 'e re f eless 146, mate Lhori :lines r cir they Eierto t the sub ly at 'nab; 16f f 371 8 81i