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

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed steadily, and prices of all kinds were without change. The sales were 6,000 bales, all to the trade—comprisin g 60 Pernam and Maranham 50. to 60., 80 Bahia s;d. to 6d., 260 Egyptian 52d. to 71d., and 350 Surat 31d. to 4id. per lb. The Railway Share Market was quiet, but firm, at a slight decline on Tuesday's rates. The reports of the state of the iron trade for the past year have come to hand. These, compared with returns of 1854, show a most satisfactory re sult, and at the close of the year it may be said that this important branch of our national com merce has not been in a healthier condition for Some time past. Not only has the quiet state of business which distinguished previous years passed away, but there is a steady increase in the home trade, with rising prices, and an augmentation of the export trade. In the month of December the quantity of iron exported exceeded by 150,0001. that of the corresponding period of 1854. No doubt there have been many failures amongst the iron masters recently, but these have not been of importance, and many spe culators have been obliged to succumb. Confidence has been restored among the legitimate traders, and there is every prospect of this favour able state of trade continuing. From Dudley a report of the meeting of the trade there states that it was agreed upon to retain the prices of iron as follows :—sheets 11/, per ton, hoops 101., and bars 9/. It was stated at the meeting that the coal trade was very brisk, and good ironstone in re quest. Should the war continue during this year it is expected that the demand for iron will exceed that of any previous year ; especially in plates for th• numerous iron mortar and gun-boats which the Government have ordered for the Baltic expe dition. The following particulars, furnished by Mr. Mil ler, of the Jerusalem Coffee-house, show the num ber of vessels and their tonnage, now on the berth for Victoria, New South Wales, Now Zealand, &c., &c. Vessels. Tons. 765 1,479 10,572 15,943 2,275 Launceston! Hobart Town New South Wales Melbourne and Geelong Adelaide Swan River New Zealand 433 3,139 Total The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this date, are in round figures as under : 1855. 1854. Great Western No rth-Westera So uth -Western Brighton Midland So uth - Eastern 18,036 16,197 Caledonian Great Northern ..kancashire a n d Y or k s hi re 20,601 19,252 anchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 9,501 8,646 Oxford, Worces., and Wolverham 3,635 3,153 Shrewsbury an d Hereford 1,283 1,208 Shropshire Union e, Edinbu rg h an d Glasgow Glasgow and South-Western Great Western of Canada ll,OlB 6,196 English Securities have further receded in con tTleuenee of the rumour that the minimum rate at Bank of England would again be advanced at the parlour-meeting to-day. Although no measure of the kind has been resolved upon, it is clear that t he increased stringency in the money market has excited some apprehension, and the opinion has bec ome general that the pressure will not ma terially abate for some time to come. The new financial operations which, should the war con tinue, will be necessary by all the Allied Powers are exciting some attention, and it is conjectured that loan for 25,000,0001. to 30,000,0001. will at an early period have to be provided for our own Go vernment. The Stock market, under these cir cumstances, is depressed, and Consols, which opened at 87i have since been 871 b. The New 3 per Cents. have been 87/ to 88, and the Reduced 87.1 to 87i. Bank Stock is steady at 2064. Exchequer Bills are 2s. higher, viz., Bs. to Gs. dis. The Foreign Stock Market is also flatter and the transactions are not extensive. Turkish 6 per Cents., after being 811 to 81a, has receded to 811 and 814. The New Scrip is heavy at 31 discount. Spanish 3 per Cents. have been 381 to 38i. Ilus- S ian 5 per Cents. have realised 97, and the Small Bonds 4i per Cents. 89. Mexican 3 per Cents. are steady at 19k, and the Dutch have risen to 631. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign S tocks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 7; Mexican, 19a 19 ; Peruvian, 74 6 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 52 4 ; Portuguese 4' per Cents., 46 48 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 7 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 86 88 ex div. ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 391 ; ditto Deferred, 21 21 ; ditto Certificates, 4 ; ditto Passive, 7 The variations in the Railway Share market are not generally of importance. Caledonian, Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North West ern, South Western and Midland, are tolerably Steady. North Eastern (Berwick) are ss. lower, but Shropshire Union have risen 15s. Great Western of Canada have ruled weaker, and the Foreign lines are nominal. For Mining, Banking, and Miscellaneous Shares there has been a very dull market, and the quota tions have not undergone any particular altera tion. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. /Prom the Official List.) nuoram done. Bank Stock 3 Per Vent. Reduced Annuities B7l I 1 New 3 per Cent. Annuities 471 8 71 Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 3l Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, ISBS l6 5.16 India Bonds, £lOOO ...... Ditto, under £lOOO _ 10 d 00viols or Account B7l 1 Exchequer Bills, 21d. £l000 %mall . Ditto Bonds, 1858, 31 per Cent 971 61 „ 1859 PP ...... ••• 971 61 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO( K. Greek Bonds 4l 14 "xicall 3 per Cent. Ditto Account .................... .....• Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 97 Ditto Small B9 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto Drew Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account 2l x d Tnrkith Bonds, 6 per cent Ditto for the Account Bll 1 1 1 Ditto Now Scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account 3l d Dividends on the above payable In London . Duteh Exchange, 21 per Cent., 12 Gull 631 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols B7l 1 MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). CORN EXCHANGE. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORE For the Week ended Jan. 3,1555, made up front the Returns of the Impectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. w 7 n 7s za 2 T. *A RIAL S OATI. I aye. I 81A.1411. PMAP d 39s 41 54s lid 49s OA 475 6(1 THE SIX WEEKS' AvERAGE. WnEAT• I asat.ty. I OATS. 111 E. ELAys. t PEAS. gas 51 i 415 ld ) 275 Ild ; 548 Id Ms 5d 505 3d QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 96 . 9 ` 34 ; Barley, 122,323 ; Oats, 16,323 ; Rye, 121; Beans, i3O - 2s; Peas, 2,733 Quarters; MEAT MARKETS. NEWGITI AND LiADENHALL.—About an average busi ness was transacted, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 4s 2d to 5s 4d; Pork, 3s 6d to 5s 2d per 81bs, by the carcase. SouTHALL, Jan . 2.—W e h a d a s t ea dy d eman d f or b e a s t s and calves, on higher terms. Othorwise, the trade ruled heavy. Beef, from 3s 6d to 5s Od ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s Od ; Veal, 4s 6d to 5s ; Pork, 3s 6d to 4s 10d per 81bs, to sink the offal. RomFoRD, Jan. 2.--There was only a moderate demand to-day, as follows :—Beef, from 3s 6d to 5s Od ; Mutton, 38 4d to 5s Od ; Veal, 4s 8d to 5s 4d ; Perk. 3e 6d to 4s 8d per 81be, Quarter -old Store Pigs, 22s to 27s each. HAY MARKETS. SM/TRFIRLD.—Meadow hay, 4/ 5s to 6/ Os ; clover ditto, 41 15 s to 71 Os ; and straw, 115 s Od to 1/ 10s Od per load Trade tolerably firm. CUM BERL AND.—Meadow hfty, 4/ 4s to 6/ Os clover do., 4/ 10s to 6/ 15s ; and straw. 1/ 44 to 1/ 10 8 per load. molerato supply, and a fair demand. WHITFCHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 41 4 s to 6' O s; c l over do., 4/ 103 to 71 Os; and straw, 11 4s to 11 104 nor load. Both hay and straw moved off slowly, on former terms. CASPIAN`' to the Time , ondent in t : 2d,' to explsr g my c aicto the etatisti ) same ae .14 In the avero has coofict4 to illustrste destruction such a thivg, mention 0 derstand ol° y operation° it becoming would hall iews. But) our eneolf India, I am ely, through acturea eon Dural, 02 0 ) reach the ally want 11 0 overcool°, engraiDe° Idle elastic° , e throwing candidates ility of onr, iatt " woul d ,h the Czar, no political facts pro Yet " the right Les, and Os )tne softness y high Flo RSIA. 9.ntinople f ion in Per• )duced the e following of native :ommunica' oranda, the Last year nary to fill vas among Df the nu' hah Fetch 3ension of minded for liming the equence of 59 of their thought it ,be British lerably su• )0 piastre. Ind man who 4'a menial ;, from his Cruet with )vernment )wever, of In did not sting that the right Le East SO ace of the the Go• Ince from Id not be ready to mission, could not that the L was not a English u, struck I, but no nmercial -esterday (ding th• season, s of 200 :led with ather an ;ernents, idence of mi as an !3 Duke, earliest shortly ;any ad t enter 'ere pro of the 'or gate n," and thanks, y terms he saw e or two re then ledged, strains oyment praise Yates, ey—for the en nations is each ;uineas Led for chari- ve ea know 'al ma. about coolies 3 who Lances which e tale cently :allao. .e, the fan i 1 :e hi s 1 mate litary :cline oolies ed at con. dead 1 was ILL. } ' SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAY-S. !login* Price. yesterday. 22 • 23 3i - 3i ••.• '.." • • • 7i - 8 16 - 15 13 - 14 9 - 8 79 - 81 53i - 64 10 12 5 - 4 6i - 7 11 - 12 - 27 8 i - 29 17 - 19 69 - 70 50 - 42 9} - 93 191 -20 i 80 - 85 6 - 7 874 - 84 74 - 75 LI - 121 102 - 104 51i 52i 70 - 75 6 - 7 6 - 7 p 76i - 77 g 93 95 931 944 14 Ic, 1 - 4 85 86 8 7 d 6 ••• '''" ••• iii : ii i 63/ 64 id 36 38 9i - 9 i • It 48 - 44 29 _. 30 67 - 84 - 8,1 5 - 12 -12 i 444 454 92 - 97 4i - 22 - 24 [Ol. 10$ 73 75 42 44 11 12 56i —57 i 63 65 2d pai 13 - 35 ... - ... 4 - 6 RAILWA Ts. A herdeen Ambg. Trottug. Bost and Eastn. Junot... 8. , ' fast & Ballymena. Rirming. Wolve rh li Stour Valley Birk eand. Lancsl.. z Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & £5O and £25 Cons Do., Rlyth Tyns origina' £25 (lwl. at £45) Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Carm. and Ca, digan Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Do. A. Do. B iCtiefr Junction Duolin&Belfast , Junc Dun. P. & Ahor. Jnc. Do. N • ...... • East Arglinn Eaetorn Counties.... . East. Union, A Eiti e., B. Sto,,t Do., New A. East Kent East Lancashire Edinburgh& Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles . din. Prth &Durde, Forth A Clyde Jolt:. Furness . Do. Extension Glafsgow & S. West, ,, Great N. of Scotlnd Great Northern _ Do., A. 5t0ck........ Do., B. Stock Gt. St h. &West.(lre ) Great Western !Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds losticash.andYorksh D 3., Wst. aiding Cu ILiv. Crsoy. &Smithy t !London & Blackwal Loud. Bright & S.Cst. Loud. and N. Wor tn. I Do. Fifths Do.IOZ. Do. eighths London and& Wostn. Do., £5O . Do., £4O . Lntindrryds Coloraint Lndndrr7. & Ennisk. fdanch.Shef.& Lincli Shares, No. I Do., Man. & Lin. Un. Metropolitan Midland Do. flirmnc. &Derb) NEM& G. West. (Ire, Do. Half Shares Newcastle & rNwpt.Aberg. &lied Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint' and Rostrevor Norfolk Nortlin.Connties Un North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., a A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwici. Do, do. Extension Dodo. G.N.E. Do. Leeds Do. York North London N.&S.Wstrn.,llaini, stead, and City Jn,. North Staffordshire North Western 'N. & S. West rn. June Nuneaton, Hinekloy and Leicester... Ox, Wore.. & Wolv l'orts:ilouth o.;‘isli Central eottish Mid land Ihropmhiro Un'on lioutil Devon South Eastern mouth Wale 9 .. Yrkeh. t Riv. Dm, Do Staines, Wok. &Wok tockton & Darll , l r to*ton 4; Hartlepl. Taff Vale ....•• ......... Do. Pref., No. 1 Names Hay. D.& R, taverstone & Lanes Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limeriek West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace Do. A . Do. II Wost London , Wimbledn & Croydon FOREIGN. 74 - 8 3 2id 3 -- I par 34i 35./ 9 10 p 21 —21 i P 9i - 9 15 - 16 62 67 82 87 2i —34 p 5i _ 5 $ par -- ip 3i - 4 3 - 3i 24i -25 i 2 - 3 98 - 106 117 - 122 118 - 123 104 106 23i - 24, 115 - 120 7 --74 p, 181 -- 18 P 7 L I 9 2 - 3 - 51 4 : t - 4i 33 - 12 - 126 f•• '''' q - .7i 44i -45 i 4 : i ... - Pm lti -19 i 2 - 21 2i - 2 - 8 i - if' • .• ... .... pm 3i - 4 ... - 4 29# -29 i 18 -- 19i1 BANKS. 89 - 91 57 - 159 • • • ''..... ... ii = i-d 63 -• 65, ••• ••• 16i 17 15t 2 161 3 3 d par —2, ... ... ... ••• ...• „, . 38 = io 37 - 39 51 - 53 OM. ••• • •• .. •"'" *, 40 42 73 - 7 5 8 9 30 ci 31 Antwerp&Rott~•rdszn Do. 5 p.e. Oblgs. cox. in Sh. at par till '64 Ardennes Relgian Eastn. June Beziers to Grai swim, Bombay, Baroda, am' et.ntral India,SeriT Do. Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. Now East Indian, g. 5 p.c Do. Estension.... Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Th of CanadaA IP Do. St. Lawrence Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Doben , con. into Stk. till V I Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of Fran: , Gt. Indian Peninsnis guar. 5 per cent. Do. New 5 per cent Do. Extensions 'Great Luxembourg! Constituted Shared Do. Obligations iGt.Westernof Canad• gbares Do. New Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p.'56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O do., '73, without option._ ........... Hamilton .& Toronto IDo. 6 per cent._ LAC Const. he Bflaie Lierre and Turnhout 'Lyons and Genova Lyons & Moditerran i Nfadras Do. New • Maria Antonia Do. do. New INamur & Liege ( with interest) Do. (ex interost) Northern of France, D0.20i. She Do: 207. 3 p. c Bdv (fin y. B. & Arne. She. NorvregianTrankPre` Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Ronen..... ParisCaen di Cherbrg. De Rome and Frascati Ronan and Havro Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. Obligations Sambre and Meuse Do. 5i p. cont. Pref iScindo Do. Southern of Franca St. Andrew's and, Qucboc West Flanders Do 5i per c. Prof_ Western of France 1 Do_ .. Zealand JOINT-S' Australasia Bank of London Bri. Col. Bk.&LE. C. British N. American Chart& Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China City ................ Colonial. Commercial of Load Eng. Scot. & &up. Cht Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia Ditto New London and County Lnd. &E. Bnk g. Corp London Joint Stock Loud. & Westminster National Proof Eng Do. Now ........... •.• National of Ireland New South Wales Oriental Bank of Corporation. i 'Provincial of Ireland 'Do. New Royal Australis. Bkg, S E Gold Imp Co Royal British ionth Anstralia • Union of Anstmlia !Do. New. Union o: London It nsIn••• dor • yesterday. DO all all all THE SUN, [MN DON, THURSDAY EV Pl.NifiG, JANUARY 3, 1856 LINES LEASED ‘T FIXED RENTALP. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) THE SURRENDER OF KARS. RAILWAYS. Compans Ciostng enclr yester thy T4nwlnells Tester lay. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. ERZEROUM, Dec. 11.—Our first news of the pro bable fall of Kars reached 113 through that line old soldier General Kmetty. Riding in hot haste, he reached this ou 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-do-camp, Major Teesdale, to Mouravieff, to propose the opening of negotiations. Kmetty'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 ou General Williams, and bes Ought hi m t o acce pt hi s 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 bow little ho 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 (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE WILLIAM ASLETON. 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. 18 , . id. ; do. holding security, 1,2401. ; liabilities, 1571. 17s. ; Cr. by good debts, 91. 4s. 2d. ; property, 6221. ; do. in dispute, 7001.; do. held by creditors, 1,7501. ; liabilities, 1571. 178. ; losses, 1341. 15e. ; trade charges, 7021. 17e. 93.; house and personal expenses, 2041. Ss. 4d. The bankrupt obtained a first-class certificate. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day. MANSION-lIOUSE. RO➢EERY OF £985 BY A BANK CLERK•—A respect. ably-dressed young. man, described on the police-sheet as Robert Holly Withers, 19 years of age, clerk, was placed at the bar charged with having absconded with 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 after, the prisoner, with a carpet bag and an umbrella in his hand, entered the pay-office 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 201., 18 of 101. and 36 of 5L He was then removed to Moor-lane Station and searched, when another 51. Bank of England note was found upon him, 9/. 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." 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 Rars 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 ho 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 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 on the 29th of September, and to the honour of Alouravieff 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 Suwanlee-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. _ . Mr. F. Bassett, one of the firm, deposed that the pri soner was a clerk in their establishment, and bad been placed with them more with a de s i re o f hi s o bt a i n i ng a knowledge of business than remuneration, and that it was painful to him to have to appear against him. It was witiess's duty to see the money was all right, and to lock the safe. The prisoner had nothing to do with the cash. Last night, about half-past eleven o'clock, from information he received, he went to the bank and ex amined the cash and found about 1,000/. missing. The notes must have been , abst rac t e d f rom a ro ll a b out a quarter past eight o clock last ni g ht w hil s t w it ness was calledaway to another part of the bank. The book con taining the numbers of the notes had been also abstracted, but the notes produced had the private marks of the bank on them. The prisoner, whe had nothing to say, was committed 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 w ea th er . Cow's, Jan. 2.—Wind .E.—Arrived—Arana, from Jamaica. SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 2.—Wi n d loon, for the West Indies. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 2.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Walmer Castle, from Landon, for Port Philip. Sailed—Amazon, for Adelaide, S.A. PORTSMOUTH , Jan. 2.—Wind S. to S.E.—Arrived— Wales, from Calcutta. Sailed—Stad Uricht, for Sydney, N.S. W. FALMOUTH, Jan. z fresh breezes.—Ar rived—Coraelia, from bloulusein. SClLLY.—Arrived—Elin, from Rio Grande. LOWESTOFT, Jan. 2.—The Harmony of Shields has put in leaky, having struck on Yarmouth Sands. WEVIINHOH, Jan. 2,--A brig laden with coals is on the Gunfleet—is expected off with assistance—part of her cargo thrown overboard. CARDlFF.—Sailed—Adam Yon Ross, for Jamaica. 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 ho rode out of his quarters, and prayed him with all the eloquence of despair to seek some means of putting an end to their misery. Women forced their way into his very rooms, and, throwing their starving 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 surrender 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 alleles 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 al'uost 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. The Muchir here, too, Selim Pasha, who had been sent from Constantinople to take the command, forwarded a similar despatch, informing him that he was at the head of a large and well disciplined force, all admirably equipped and eager for the fight, and that ho 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 wore 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. The 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 Moura.vieff, 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, ho 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 Mouraviefrs carriage and four, ac companied by Colenel 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 in 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 much to complain of. As to himself, he was in good health and spirits, looking forward to a speedy zelease. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Arrived.—Calcutta, (s. tpt.), from Portsmouth ; Bro thers, Cardiff; Aurora, London ; Despatch, (s.), Jersey ; Alliance and Nord, (s.), Havre. Sailed—Wonder, (10, for Jersey ; Atalanta, (s.), Havre. LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind S. Arrived.—Charles Horsfall, from Bonny; Habana, (s.s.), Havannah ; Margaret, Havre ; Montauk, Galveston. Sailed—Mina, (s.s.) r for Lisbon ; Curack, North Or leans ; Zagora, Alexandria ; Countess of Morley, for Gib raltar. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 1. Wind N.N.E. Arrived.—Oriono, from Syra ; Orwell, Prince Edward's Island. DUBLIN, Jan. 2. Wind S.S.W. Sallod. —Garland, for Jamaica. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) Wind S. ; light and fin©. DEAL, Thursday, 9.41 a.m. Passod—Scandin, from London for Cardiff. The Government of Sweden is employed in making extensive naval and military preparations. It was rumoured yesterday in Paris that Marshal Pelissier is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Allied armies. General Giovanni Durand() will replace General La Marmora ad interim in command of the Sardinian army in the Crimea. The receipts of the London and Blackwall Railway for the half-year are 35,1921. against 38,3291. for the corresponding period ending with Christmas, 1854. LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND RAII WAL—It is proposed to make a branch railway, 41 miles in length, from the London and Blackwall Extension line to the Tilbury line at Barking. SOUTHAMPTON Jan. 2.—The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Magdalena, Captain Abbott, left this day with the usual West India, mail, a full cargo, jewellery to the amount of 7,5001., and 117 passengers. The Tyne, with the homeward West It dia mail, is expected every hour. NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.—It appears that con siderable exertions are being made to change the omanydirec tors of h company, and to app o i n t oth er gen tl emen on from five to ten times as much stock as the p resent di rec t ors h e ld . The ladies of Launceston (Tasmania), having trans mitted to her Majesty the sum of 1,0841., to be applied the in boardt i the s company holding p for " the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers, sailors, and marines in hospitals abroad," her Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct that the above sum shall be placed at the disposal of Miss Nightingale, as 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, Admiral-in-Chief of the English Black Sea squadron, and General La Marmora, Commander-in-Chief of the Sardinian army, came passengers in that vessel, and took their depar ture for Paris the next morning. The Caradoc will, no doubt, await the return of those two personages to con vey them to Malta, whence they will proceed to the Crimea on board the Royal Albert. The Console ot Eng land and Sardinia accompanied Sir Edmund Lyons and General La Marmora to the railway station. The 39th Regiment of the line and two detachments of the 20th and 50th, left Marseilles, by railway, for Paris on the filet al ANTICIPATED VISIT OF D. MEDHURST TO ENGLAND. —For nearly forty years this distinguished Chinese scholar and indefatigable missionary has prosecuted his labours in the Gospel ; first in the M a l a ya n Archip e l ago , and, since the year 1843, in China Proper. Having re cently learnt that the pressure of these labours has begun to tell with serious effect upon his health and spirits, the Directors of the L ond on Missionary Society have invited pay a visit to his native country in the cour se of W IDENI NG Or CHANCERY •LAN L—Y es t er d ay some him mxt t m mer.—Missionary M agaz i ne. houses on the west side of Chancery-lane were disposed of by auction, by Messrs. Pullen and Son, Fore-street, in compliance with direction s from the City Improve ment Commissioners, and which will be forthwith taken seof 'widening the entrance into it. situate between the Mitre and Carey street, they a re remove d , t h ere w i ll b e a considerable addi tion of width to the street. A few more houses will have to be cleared away to carry out T do he hw houses the full intentio n of th e improvements in this part of the " Lane." E FF ECT OF THE RUSSIAN " INFERNAL 'MACHI NE .— for and the ar we p h u e rp n The surveying steamer Firefly, Captain Otter, which arrived at Woolwich about ten days ago from the Baltic, has been docked for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of damage sustained by the explosion of the Rus sian infernal machine. Several sheets of her copper are blistered on the spot struck, and some are ripped up. The concussion, as described by the officers of the Firefly, was very severe. The damages were principally internal, and were repaired at the time by the carpenters of the fleet. They consisted chiefly of injuries done to the sail room, which was knocked away, and the bulkheads were sent across the orlop d eck, which was likewise started up three inches in various places. The whole of the men's mess gear on the lower deck was broken to pieces. The Firefly also experienced some very severe damage in her lower timbers, and lost her forefoot on a reef of rocks while carrying on her reconnoitering operations off Abo, near the Gulf of Finland. Voss's Gazette announces a new daily journal, founded at Naumburg, in Prussian Saxony, to advocate Russian interests. A letter from Berlin of the 27th ult., in the Correspondent of Hamburg, says "We are assured in diplomatic circles that the Cabinet has not yet sent from Berlin the despatches in which representations in favour of peace are to be made to Russia, but that a very pressing note I to that effect is being prepared, and that it will be bout off in a few clays, At the tine 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 st rict orders had been issued to insure his not being mo lested, and that if anything happened he should be applied to at once. Passports were granted 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 Ern roum itself. The Muchir has been hanging a f ew spies. On riding through the bazaar the other day I found one strung up at the Gorgi-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 hack, to prevent the body from swinging. The Osmanli inmate of the said shop took it very * Nothing is said of Teesdale. This must be ?Al oyeil oight, 1 think.-_—E. • 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, ho 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 3,0007. Bedford nod Blot chloy Buckgharnsh. Clydosdalo Jo. Col. Stour Vy. Sod. and Hal. E. Lin. g. 6 pc. E. Un. 11. Sh. Glad. Barr. & Direct p. Now Olstr.dt Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. P: eferen o Lon. , Til., & S. Lowestoft cr. 4 por cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. %tn. and Matlock Middloabro' & Redear. Midld.Bradfd Newmarket Bury Exten N.& Est.l p.c Do. 6 per et Do. Fixeds p Preet. & "it yre Do. Shrs. A Royatn.& Hit. Shot. Roth.and Goole g. 5 p.c. Shrews. &Her. S. Staffordsh. Wear Yalleygr 6 per cent Do Wilts&Oomret PREFE" London & N. Wont. E. Un. E C it.Nrthn FE. Count.' ICaldonitut Gt. Weetr YIL. Now. Berw. V.&NML. Do Easter; 'do k Co. Ire:fca. & Midid. Stckton Darli ngt. En. Coun. Ft Count. L. kN.W, ptNorthn Lancaah k Yorksh. T. 13rassoy M. MCloan Otockt. Darlingt Do cltW eitn. 92 - 94 94 - 98 ,I:3* :_"iii 105 ii -: li. 1 - lii 2i - 24 E 3 - 91 par p i 5 57 ... ..' ... ••• ••• 130 - I:'3 - 8 34 - 30 - 31 31 - 83 THE ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. ( Front tie Times correspondent.) CAmr 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 I 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 one 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 (he had no stockings) aid began rubbing his feet, which were 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 inthe morning. The French are getting groat 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 on the ground it is dangerous to go through the camp, as yon 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 Cellar, 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 mach longer we may expect to be carried from camp to carp 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 different country, and among them Sir W. Eyre, wife was mounted en a very fine horse, and kept well ahead. There have been some very severe gales lately in the Black Sea. One of two vessels have been lost near Kamiesch. One mail, also, has never turned up yet, and nothing has been heard of it since the steamer left Constantinople. It is the one due 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 beard 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 tho river, awl 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 were. The windy weather has been fatal to the hopes of many out here with regard to the home-made plum-puddings that wore coming out for Christ mas-day. The Parcels-office in Balaklava is crammed every day with men eagerly asking if various vessels are 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 coming 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 flccks 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 16114 There is snipe and wild fowl shoot ing to be had clown on the Tchermaya, 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 Digby 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. 23th, 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 501. 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 business 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, one of the Bucks justices, on Tuesday. It appeared from the evidence that the house No. 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 brioklayer, and when the prisoners applied for the let ter which had been posted in London he took them into custody. Hereford, an officer of the Mendicity S ociety, de posed tbat one of the prisoners (Thomas Bew) was well acquainted with Lord Digby's handwriting, easing ob tained several cheques from his lordship under false pre tences. On the last occasion, r t the end of the year 1851, the prisoner obtained from his lordship a cheque for 251., by representing that he 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. He was now a ticket-of-leave man. When the prisoner was apprehended in 1851 by Horeford'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 for Bucks. CRICKET.—The tenth annual ball of the St. James's Cricket Club takes place at Willis's Rooms, on Tuesday, the 15th inst. The band of the Grenadier Guards will attend, 531 4 3/ 24i 8 I Si 7i Si Do all all _OO LOO all all all all all 181 all 9i all fiberdeen Do. N 0.2, 7 p. c. Myth and Tyne leper c. pref. (issd.atsol, rid. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO ,hester & Holyheaf' Guar. 5a per cent Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Do. do. Pref. No. 2 ork &Bandons3p.c .Dun.Prth E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. 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Coluaghi and Messrs. Longman. The most beautiful souvenir of the great F Ws. sian War of 1854-55 is, beyond all question, this exquisite volume—descriptive generally of the campaign in the Crimea, and illustrative particn 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 strugggle 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 ef the Crimean Army Fund, Mr. Georgeuitte d hßrackenburyin That gentleman has ac well of the respon s ibility 4isel f admirably devolving upon him as the contemporary celebrant of the glorious contest as yet but partially ie. veloped upon the shores of the Euxine. He has 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 of 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 ma y p erc h ance h ave d e l u d e d 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. tiona 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 hare 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 series of engravings issued from the press by the Messrs. Paul and Dominic Colnaghi periodically. It will be remembered by thos7 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 are 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 dium of one illustration, for example, we look down upon the picturesque little inland sea-port, as it may be called, of the now famous Balaklava. In another, we 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 Malakhoff— 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 -1 In'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 on 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 Lucan, 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 Serio3. By W. Simpson. Colnaghi and Company. With tour additional instalments, recently pub lkhed, of the splendid work, entitled " The Seat of War in the East," by W. Simpson, the First Se ries of that remarkable production is at length completed. This first series comprises altogether no less than forty large illustrations-the 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 d eta il e d v i ew o f " T h e Seat of War in the Kist" into four separate depart ments, they may be readily enumerated as follows. Firstly, for example, wo 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 Count r y ; 10, a Quiet Day iu 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 East ; 2, General View East of Balaklava; 3, Excavated Galleries near Inkerman ; 4, a Hot Day in the Batteries ; 5, a Hot Night in in the Batteries ; 6, the Valley of the Shadow of Death ; 7, the Russian Rifle Pits, where Colonel Egerton was killed ; 8, Prince l fVoronzoff's Palace at Yalta ; 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 scen©s 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 in the series that constitutes the chief value and the conspicuous attractions of the Dial" terly sketches taken on the spot by William Simpson, and after wards reproduced in a collection of splendid. lithographic engravings by the eminent publishing firm of the Messrs. Paul and Dominic Viewed dispassionately as such, the se ries can only be regarded as secondary to actual sun-portraits, io g ahiden ofc etflioreth taken by the magic aid of some skilled and artistic photographer. Wherefore William Simpson to our tkinking stands forth altogether u n rivalled among pencil t obethe re membered of the delineators by the mere . glorious historical localities as the scenes of the great events of the Anglo-French campaign before Sebastopol. The municipal council of Nantes has just voted 150,0001 r. to succou r the poor of the town.—Galignani. TELE NEW OMNIBUS SCHEME.—INTERFERBNOS OF THE POLICE.—The project for the formation of a new omni bus company has met with a s t ur d y res i s t ance on th e part of a great number of the regular " Bus men," and placards of a very exciting nature have been for Some days posted in the City, to counteract what is considered to be a " Foreign 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 employed yesterday in preventing more bills being posted, and in pulling down or defacing any already put up. 30 or t dif ;bout 'anti• biori. Lines cir they erto the iub r at )ahi 6t. 25 25 St. 20 5 20 18 20i tOO 20 20 10 20 £0 100 100 100 20 20 20 50 100 50 100 100 20 1100 3 'lOO, all all I 10 4 10 4i 50 all 2. 10 20} 51j 2 76} I 94 931 4 67} 7 13 10k 12# 46 41 42 i 57 6 16J i