The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-04 00:00:00

ex Vz Apply to T IVE I he e r Annt t the Pr The T The AITN 'Ai the Claren by given, net orvon ac icier B ooks THE AilytYA.L 8 DAILY TIMES ria - A Timis iy now I containiA KING EDITI Wednesday lITTT'' 7 to Press Sliatlitra J3ailg (6inits FRIDAY, JA NUARY 1, 1856 ..-.--...,........---. THOSE teen called G av e ru me with Russ: gross Po we look upon i imp t ma have lef ilma.n.t, numb erin full and awful occupa ye port tion of Eastern Wee, e commercial intercourse with Ind W€ therefore regard t peace as essential to the attainment Lst end. We cannot, therefore, of our moral and j surrend treaty s roper; without the onsont of those who ha ices to her inde mare of the magical influence Russian venality of the Divan e aid of that agent corruption, i is difficu A) ma. salty of a Turkish Ministry, again §, i;lo Rtorhan arr r from an c entrenched But what is there that cannot be done z `Pachas her in the cabinet or with it, am the cam 'e do, by an unbroken string of tradition from the Prime Minister, down to the meanest servant of the throne, are we to allow the SULTAN yhich may within the next lediterranean into a ntered into a treaty a Russian t of the Alli with Austviao and under that treaty 1 army was t delay, is nonarch has already folly of that 10 can see the end of should, therefore estrait Ind not encouraged in entering into ay concern the For if the Ottoman f their country lielenie which Emperor downfall of the are a portion o PO to our i interest the progress o i at th immer are treated by ,OtlS 0 public, 1 the wildest rav the Press, and t One day 3 are.told " the Russit ir to its diplomat s ready to after e Wet hyzant Bvzant 1 to secure ,he ) the hands of loath int 'dulous po eatnmertiat Salel. THIS DAY d FLO' TRLICKI S THO DENT} of Three per nnanv for the Half-Year Share. will e sth to t, "?. NOE TERN EAS PER ANNUM K, at Thr DAILY News of the )1d has ierished )t allow NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.—LIVERPOOL, rRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1556. cifie object. It comes direct 'from St. Petersburg, or the CZAR'S hirelings and sympathisers in other countries. The Bourbonists, Orleanists, Legitim- Yrnssiails, diver Austrians, and Greeks. we may be .t the attention of the in hat t of th The most tli Allied ftom But, tha ire too, rumou taken by but one of 'three partie hment of Hu n and arc et who may outlive the contest, enialuu Of het war rumor statements which have a direct tendency promise them both at home and abroad ; iihallT therefore, be relieved of [the) dish ble task c :posing their fallaciousnes n time matters continue to wear the a the Eas £he move is of 0.31 AR PACIIA alone keep up the life .pf struggle. Still, it is just possible, that some- e done in the Crimea a few days befor ssembli f Parliament STY'S • Lords n order to give 1. Commons something les the very disheartening condi. Ime§tic. - If OM AR PACIfA. should in time, it is probable he will be ro" through the leading parts required to opes to both Houses. - But if he should NGTON would do well to be ie dash, as-it is _quite impossible that 11 , finisters can face Parliament withOuf some warlike achiev4ment worthy of the oceasion. Should Prince GORTSCHAKOFF attempt nothing, and allow all the fogs, mists, snowstorms, and hurri canes to pass without striking a blow, there is nothing for it but the Allied armies taking - the field, if only to show the Lords Spiritual and V 101 1 8 Temporal, that we really have a military force in the East. THE London Times, Globe, and Standard, have all announced, with equal avidity, the wonderful intelligence that the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES has been raised from id. to lid., and they have one explanation. of this 'step is wen by the propri As for the small fry nporartes, t ird the announcement t ian th and as this is all we ask ; they ) modest a behest very man We have, tv, planted with care 1, and relying upon tli€ t, and the fe he soil we have selected, we hope to see it grow and spread, untifit assumes the magnitude and importance which similar undertakings have attained, by prudent management, and incessant attention to the public's wants, in other parts of the kingdom. THE COURT WINDSOR, Jan. ,2.—Prince Albert with the Duke of Cambridge, accompanied by Prince Ernest of Leiningen, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and the Duke of New castle, went out shooting yesterday. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred went to London and visited the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester-house. Their Royal Highnesses afterwards attended Mr. Faraday's lecture, at the Royal Institution. The dinner party included the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Royal, the Duke of Cam bridge, Prince Ernest of Leiningen, the Duke of New castle, Lady Fanny Howard, the Baroness de Speth; the Hon. Mary Seymour, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Mr. and Lady Frances Baillie, Sir Geo Couper, and Colonel Tyrwhitt. The following had the honour of, receiving invitations for the musical performance of Mehul's " Joseph," which took place in the evening, —Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Rev. Lord and Lady Wriothesley Russell, &c., &c. The Queen, the Prince and the dinner company entered St. George's-hall, at half: past nine o'clock. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.—A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office yesterday afternoon. A meet ing of Cabinet Ministers will be held at the War Depart- ment to -clay. We are glad to learn that Sir George Grey was suffi ciently recovered from the effects of his recent severe accident to attend at the Home office yesterday THE MAGISTRATES AGAlN.—After the last notice that appeared in our Paper; on the non-attendance of unpaid pollee court, there was, for a fortnight magistrates at t or three weeks afterwards, a rush of Justices of the Peace aornini, that not only astonished the public, but crowded th bench ,itself to inconvenience. Of the two evils, the last Was the least certainly, but it soon fell like a spring -tide; and the visits , of their' Worships again became like those of the angels. Magistrate 4 are supposed to tte.conposed of the same materials as other people, and t, like meaner individuals, they take a nrnhahlP t boat New Y )uld be iblic did not by the neglect of the magistrates MONETARY • AND COMMERCIAL. LIVF4POOL, T,IIIIIISDAY EVENING. There has been but little business done in the Produce markets, and the transactions in Cotton have also been on a limited scale, the sales amounting only to 0000 bales, including 1040 taken for speculation and export. Prices remain unchanged, but holders offer their stockp freedom. a with The Liverpool Share Market has been dull and inactive, and . closes without animation, at the following quotations:—Aberdeen, 14. , Ches ter and Birkenhead, 131,131. Caledonian, 269 27 Chester and Holyhead, 14. Ht. Eastern Coun ti F - 171 I_7l. Grea _as, c z -dst Lancashire, _ Northern,. 22 221: Ditto A, 01 Great' `'Neater 52 521. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 70' Liverpool; Crosby, and Southport, 127; - don and North Western Stock., 931. ter, Sheffield and Lincoln, 231 23i. • ence, 18 138. .Ditto New 6 percent Pret. Midland Stock, 63! 631 North British, 7 5-1.6. North Staffordshire, 81 8 1,1 - Ditto Profe 7-16 A South Easte Lo. xorK, 'Newcastle. York and North Midland, 22 9-16 7-10 d Great ie of „the' speculators ned nec ling of ti After payit profits for the half- - yea. wee Ont'MYhieli Upwards of 4,Q00/. has beail, .paid for. 'Alining a.nd Agricultural Estates in Wicklow. A dividend at the rate 000 per cent. per annum was declared on the paid-up capital of the Company, being 7s. per share., • lianent improyemers The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to the end of the year, are as under := . 1855. - Corresponding week last year. £7,463 4,041 170 ENGLISH LINES Bristol and Exeter Cheshire Junction Deeside East Lancashire Great Western Great Northern Kendal and Windermere Lancashire and Yorkshire London and Brighton London and North Western London and South Western Manchester, Sheffield, &c........ Manchester and S.. Junction Midland . Newport, Abergavenny, &c, Oxford, Worcester &c Shrewsbury and Hereford . South Eastern ..... . South Devon Shropshire Union Taff Vale West Hartlepool IRISH LINES. Belf,ist and Ballymena .. Cork and Bandon Cork and BlackrOck Dublin and Wicklow Waterford and Limerick SCOTCH LINES 5,133 186, 5,160 23,904 .27,347 125 20,601 11,073 4,737 20,440 25,666 124 19,252 52,779 a 12,641 9,501 740 28,253 808 3,635 1,283 18,036 2,775 950 3,244 2,641 10,659 50,604 11,173 9,646 25,692 568 3,158 1,208 16.197 Caledonian Edinbnrgh and Glasgow... Great North of Scotland .. Glasgow and South Western FOREIGN AND COLONIAL, Antwerp and Rotterdam Liege and Turnhout Great Western of Canada'... Grand Trnnk of Canada Ontaiio, Simcoe, and Huron 10,832 4,708 11,537 4,545 683 488 117 11,018 3,255 1,188 The English Stock Market to-day was generally flat in character, but no further fall vas established .; The closing quotations: were the same as :yester day, naively, 8 ; a temporary decline which took place in the earlier -part of the day being recovered in the afternoon. The influential saleS of stock to which, vve have lately adverted continue, g the dethand in antieipatio 'ould b LATEST INTELLIGENCE. SECOND EDITION. * GENERAL CALL TO ARMS BY TIM; RUSSIAN COMMANDER IN ASIA. KONIGSBERG, THURSDAY )clamation the entire ngrelia, to he enenne ling whi n Exchange hey ,no sooner commenced zing, like so many bees in a bottle, and ha! is -mg ny boys who had seen the ination, they shall have it in a few taken a prothirtent part in the he repeal of the NeN , is aper Stamp could 1 hen that most. unjus t once lowered our two guineas ry within lye miles of the le, to give the less affluent I the pride sual pur- y newsp, one per u,c4 . lis,4.4veTpopl. really Te,qu .ed this fi ill -not our rate o and have raised casual imiichasers to th e halfpence cotemporaties may have money to thro a profitless speculation—l three pages of advertisements out of ,hey may boast f having they peo/Ae may tell us that papers which are given away pay well; but we have ascertained beyond" all question, that a Newspaper which has to keep up a literary, reporting, and news staff, with lespatches, and all the other auxiliary "lake a morning journal anything and an' adveitisifig' sheet, cannot be prOduced ,nd this we think quite sufficient ?lanation,ef the change we have made as regards it ecisual übscribers will continue to receive this paper at two guineas . per afinum ; and we 'can say with no small that our present list is sufficiently numerous to justify our stating that we can lose nothing by the recent • alteration ; but, on the contrary, to maintain the ground we have taken from the first, and to give this important town and port' a. • first-class, and. thoroughly honest, and independent Newspaper. THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES was the first provincial morning paper established in England. We took the field in the face. of . a host of weekly papers which came out every _ day in the week filled with the , same stuff hashed and re-Bashed es in every seven days.; and our success Tonle one of the most memorable in y. We 'muse confess, however, tware that we made ourselves nation. We did 'not at we WE at the " principal. iper proprietors in the town" thouaht of combinir mean accessible to the poorest as well •as the richest class of the community ; and after, trying the 3xperiment, we find that to continue it loss. To would only enormous hate persevered at a penny, we must have sacrificed some feature, instead of adding anything present stoc n us what the of intelligence and general time and experience have Newspaper readers of Liver- arcely offer any ries for placing ourselves .hick will enable us to supply the manufacturing dis- s much- entitled to, and can as well to support, 'a -first-class or " leading journal" Kim and Middlesex. And as we have had two lger e rience as a morning paper than in the town, the public will, we feel the best judges a lied with the descrip n and refinement, we e purpose of c t us out of the long before Cher le Stamp Dut-c stablishing a daily paper to field. W any tho. that our 1 aware that s of repealing: success had filled our atemporaries with dire consternation ; had no notion that "Pikeists," ultramont and all th( great literary tal about to unite for our destructior Could y have been seeking the salvation of TOWn thousand-and -One sharp meree, trade, and industry of Liverpool ? The llercitrt ilanced that m resorted to it tlier u 11Li,Ler eciu ter our pape tiotwithstand For instance, we saw two respectable tradesmen of the town who, ere detained for more than tla hours yeiterd uence of th non-attendaz cond court. For yesteiday the inconyeialenc 1-attendance was intolerable No ma ffer most seriously i to-111011 0 , the 4th. The, supply of mope, yet n [ Lombaitd- , streetwas.rather larger. The rates of discount are fully maintained Exchange money was easier. At Paris to 7 day tl4 _ per cent. Rentes for money closed at a decline of per,.,cent. The demand for gold for exportatic In the Stbel a thtt Corn ay. the,26th histan LACED TO PEATII. TOR Cow - At:DK 11 T 3 ay states that on the 11th A. letter from lia2 Mr. Dehen: 1 master of H.M Lynx, was tried by court martial f during the attack on Kinburn. HE 's screw gun-boat sentenced to be hanged was foun, During the sitting — of the County Court, yesterday, Mr. Grocott took occasion, on the part of the' solicitors practising there, to convcy to_his Honor, the judge, their happy, wishes for the New Year, and to express their respect for him, and their sense of the manner in which he conducted the business of the court. His Honor declared his thankfulness, re marking that during the past year over 15,000 cases had been disposed of, ,so that the court could hardly be said to have much idle time. He added that it gave him high gratification to bear testimony to the character of the pro fessional men practising in that court, and out of the number who continually appeared before him, there were rare exceptions where he had to express any condemnation of a solicitot's conduct as regarded a client, and none what ever as regarded himself personally. CLIFIST3IAS PLAys.--Although juvenile theatrical per formances, o common at schools at the present season, disarm criticism, yet there are some that cannot be passed without a notice. Amongst the productions of the present " festive season" were two performances by the pupils of the. - Catholic Institute, Hope-street, 'on 'Wednesday, and last evening, at the pretty theatre, Clayton-ball. The _ pieces selected were " Slaclieth" and . " Pa;II Pry," of the latter we may at once say it was ably sustained throughout, of Macbeth we have this to add : If careful study, correct reading, excellent judgment, and impesing action on the part of the several performers, constitute the ingredients of a good play, then indeed, except in the truly professional " good Ones,"" we could not wish to have witnessed a better generally enacted drama. The Rev. Mr. Nugent, the principal of the school, has taken unusual pains with the young gentlemen intrusted to his care, and for the last five years he has bad performances, which have now approxi mated to perfection. It would be invidious to particularise the name of any young gentleman—all performed their several portions to perfection, and were applauded to the echo by brilliantly crowed houses. Dr. Scoresby, so well known as one of the most eminent of the Arctic navigators. is now in this town, having come from his residence in Devonshire for the purpose of pre paring for his voyage to Australia. The public a-e already aware that—impelled by his love for science, but still more by an ardent desire to render lasting service by determining the magnetic laws which influence the action of the compass in the southern hemisphere, as well as in the voyage thither —Dr. Scoresby has been long seeking such an opportunity as is now afforded by the Liverpool and Australian Naviga tion Company, who have placed at his disposal an entire state-roomin theßoyal Charter for the voyage to Melbourne. The ship-owners association Lave furnished the .means for his return, and the admiralty have felt so ranch interest in the success of his voyage that they will supply him with the best instruments, as well as charts, belonging to their depart ment, to enable him to make his observations. Dr. Scoresby visited the Royal Charter on Wednesday, and expressed hiinself in the highest terms of satisfaction at having at last met with a ship in every way adapted to his object. He dwelt particularly on the wooden masts, the situation of the wheel, and the compass aloft, independent of those k corrected in the usual way. The Dr. having repre to' the company that in order to render his obsarva ►mplete, it was most important that he should ce them at once, and that for this purpoSe it s,sary again to swing the ship, mediately msde to ' take the fortunately, however, the tides that this ha's odd be to the U e east w rid the time p: rouht has beer mous tb sailinz is ocnressed athern f , 1 00 . d, 11)2E(?).1 - 1 5 . 4 i re, .23 :i t, 2 Y&1•h Midland Stock, -6 South =684 Dovei WEST DEEIC GUARDIANS, Meeting on Wednesday At the previous meeting, a child, deaf and dumb, had made a complaint that she had not received proper attention or sufficient food at the Deaf and Dumb In sti tution. The Chairman and the Rev. Mr. Moore were requested to inquire into the subject, and they reported that the institution were perfectly willing to have the case inquired into, but they believed that there was no truth in the statements,- and the charges made by the girl were not substantiated. LIVERPOOL CnEwnsTs' ASSOCIATION.—A meeting of this society was held last evening at the Royal Institution, the president, Mr. Abraham, in the chair. Messrs. Tiernan and J. F. Smith were elected members. The secretary announced donations to the museum of 62 fine specimens of theproducts of Price's patent candle company's manufactures from E.' F. Wilson, Esq., and two specimens of manna from Messrs. Raimes and Co. The thanks of the meeting were passed to the donors for their valuable contributions. Mr. Mercer then delivered a lecture on " photography," dwelling more particularly on the chemistry of the collodion process, and the decompositions which take place in its different stages. The lecture was illustrated by a number 'of diagrams and experiments, and at its conclusion a vote of thanks was given to Mr. Mercer for his instinctive lecture. PIGEON Eln - ooTrNa.—Oa Wednesday and yesterday an interesting match'at pigeon shooting came off at Bootle for 401., when a number of the " cracks " from all parts of England contended for the prize, including Mr. Webb, from London ; Mr. Thomas, of Birmingham ; Mr. Wood, from Manchester, &c., &c. It was arranged that there should be four prizes, viz., 201., 81., 41, and 31. The match com menced shortly after noon on ednesday, their being 40 competitors, with seven birds each to shoot at. After some excellent shooting, the contest closed for the day, the competitors having had only two shots each. The match was resumed yesterday, when there was again some splendid skill displayed, several of the competitors killing almost every bird shot at. The first ties having been gone through, it was found that " Young Sloper," of Rochdale, Mr. James Williams of Bury, Mr. Donald of Whitehaven, and Mr. Wood of Manchester, had each killed every bird, and consequently remained in to contend amongst them selves for the head prize, but after a short consultation amongst the parties, they agreed to divide the whole amount of the money equally, and the match therefore terminated. There was an immense concourse of specta tors on the field during both days, and the matches excited much interest. The sports took place in. Mr. Musker's field, near Miller's Bridge. RUPERT HOUSE, EvxxvroN:--On the_Wednesday before. Christmas day, the pupils of the schools of this ment, assembled for their Christmas exercises. The whole length of the school was laid open for the pupils and the visitors, the clergy, and the examiners. The pupils were' thoroughly examined in reading and parsing grammar,, arithmetic, French, geography, history, and chronology, and answered in so clear, intelligent, and exceedingly satis factory a manner as to reflect credit on their re li g i ous instructors and themselves. The needlework was also carefully inspected, in which department the young ladies had also acquitted themselves in a manner highly'satis factory to their parents and friends. The first ribbon was awarded to Miss J. Collins ; the second ribbon to Miss Redmond, and the third, or accessit ribbon, to Miss E. The prizes (being only the little prizes) to ss Glover, Miss Simpson, and Miss B;cker- iss Pitts; iving their tit triedallions Christ pus and select audier 's. were per t and satin-... theatre, - wit '-11~C~ W ~ , ocl ,and anything Co interfere Scoresby's experiment t an Co. wi ws in this matter So good j uet to the be,,allowed to care 119 pains in 80,1.- ScoreßbY's vie 748 197 172 367 870 The lnvalide Russo publishes, a prc issued by Ge population ( f Imureta, Guri wage a war ( of the Cz It is supp has iiiduced ---...Ap..._..- neral Mouravieff, c Ing or )f 'extermination against t that it is this Omer Pacha to retrea th A fi llecer eventwii i-preted. by tau The . German „, Jotrhziil states' that Baron Seebach's Mission to St. Petersburg is the result of an arrangement between the court of Munich and Saxony. An evasive Russian reply to the offer of peace now made - would, it is remarked, only be likely to touch the Western Powers, but it 'would seriously affect Austria, who is the m over in this negociation, and perhaps compel her to measures which would ,introduce great coldness into her relations with Russia. It is to prevent this, says the Frankfort Journal, that M. de Seebach has been sent to St. Petersburg. ---.0. SWEDEN AND NORWAY, The Naremburg Correspondent publishes the following.:-We learn from, a. good source that besides the treaty of November the 21st, there are , in existence special conventions between the Western Pewers and Sweden. "These acts were pre . - pared during the stay of General Canrobert at Stockholin. They remain still to be ratified, and will not be published unless hostilities 'against Russia should continue in the spring. These conventions will place Sweden in an entirely new attitude to Russia, and will have for their effect rmuch more than those to concede depots and stations to the Allied Fleets. ---•--- THE FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING The Funds closed to-day as follows :—Four and a Half per Cents, Oif. 75e. ; Three per Cents, Of. The people.of Monaghan have memorialised the general commanding the forces. in Ireland for a military force,to be stationed in the county, and to have the necessary, barrack accommodation provided. it appears that there no military station in any part of the county. NAVAL VETERANS.—The following nag. officers. during thd past month reached the following ages :—Slr Graham Hammond, 77; Earl of Dundonald, 80 ; John White, 79 ; W. H. Waolett; 82 ; ' Sir J. W. Dean Dundas, 70 ; 'J. F. Mainwariug, 72; Abel Ferris, 79.—P/yrzwitth Letters from Riga, of the 27th of December, state that a number of vessels were loading 'at that port for the East Sea, with hemp, cora; - and linseed for sowing activity of the overland trade through exchange to be, steadily maintained Prussia caused thi 3 , :t0 thi fever , ctures pf Cardinal - :Wiseman Thursday CLIARGE QF MURDER.--Ligial id Mar Jordan hart been arrested and lodged in - the gaol of Casfiebar, charged with being concerned in the murder of PatriCk WHale, of Bailyhean, in the county of MayO, some weeks ago. The accused were arrested amongst the mountains of Leitrim, from the description given of them in the hue and Cry. THE NATIONAL DEBT.—The Lords Commissioners of Her Maje Sty's Treasury have certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt,. that there was no surplus of actual revenue over the actual expenditure of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the year ended the 30th September, 1855. THE HYDE PARK RIOTS.—The ensuing sessions of the Old Baily will be one of considerable interest ; the trial of the police constables against whom indictments were preferred at the instance:of the government, founded upon the report of the commissioners, for violently assaulting several persons, and upon :which the' grand jury at the last sessions returned true bills, being appointed to tak e place during the ensuing week, before one of the judges. THE EMBASSY TO PERSIA.—A correspondent at • Con stantinople states that the difference between our minister at Teherawand the Persian governmentlarises out of the hostility of the Persian government to a man named Mirza Ha,skin who was employed in our service, and who took refuge in our embassy to avoid assassination. Our minister asked the Persian government to give a guarantee that the ;man's life would be safe ; but the Persian government refused to give such guarantee in writing. The British minister then struck his flag. It is thought that the dispute, which is trifling, will be speedily arranged. The recruiting for the army. in Glasgow and the out stations (exclusive of Edinburgh) has been unprecedentedly successful in the year 1855, just closed. During the year the following number of men have been medically inspected by the staff surgeon ;resident in tlilt city, viz :—January, 675 ; February, 654 ; March, 979 ; April, 653 ; May, 698; June, 445 ; July, 554; August, 307 ; September, 261 ; October, 363 ; November, 569 ; December, 514. Total, 6,672. These include the recruits from the Hon. East India Company. Of this large number, as near as may be, 5,000 were passed, and sent a t once t o j o i n th e ranks f the British Army. The above does not include the enlistments for the militia. .ANEW SUBMARINE WAR MACHINE.—A. letter from St. Petersburg says : " Mr. Mauer, after being refused by the British government, has obtained great encouragement from the Russians, who have been at the expense of erect ing one of his machines at a• cost of about 15,0001. lt is said to be a clever invention, and to be spoken well of by the most intelligent engineers at St.. Petersburg. It is to be propelled by two screws, and _steered to any point underwater; where it may remain for eight hours without requiring fresh air to be pumped. The Russians osten tatiously profess to congratulate themselves that it was riot adopted by the English, as it might haVe been effica clods in enabling them to remove the booms and mines they have put under water to prevent the approach of of ships of war. . . HONOURABLE TESTIMONIAL TO A VETERAN. - A very interesting ceremony took place on Monday last, 81st ult., at Warley Barracks, the depot of the East India Corn .dany, in the presentation of a testimonial to the esteeme•: Ser geant-major Robert Sullivan, on his retirement from the depot, and service of the company. Forty-four years fiL.i he been eriployed on active duty, and ,. for the last thirty. THE CRIMEA. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) 22, 1855 - .•. • „ Camp, at Sebastopol, Dec The grand steeple chase, of which I gave you an account in my last, of the 15th ult., is still the topic of conversation, and seems to have aroused the sporting vein among our officers. By way of consoling them elves for the loss of the hunting season in England, hey have started a diversion which they call a paper This n )ble field-sport consists in riding furiously fter a ball of paper, or, if th 01111: o En ean them I the wind the trick of ton before, %4 drops bits of paper as he le exercises does the youth of zorate itseli such no h hiralr ainst the spring jilt the cxc of the engagement at Baidar the Russians will give then no employment. With respect to that skirmish in the that the midable Russians intended than was Om reserve but on so signally repulsed by ,ndav last a st intense; ITSt'tC ,C 3: and art in, which.has . cont:iii9ed 'np tat ti .old was y say 10 degrees greater than at any t ime last year.• Inside my own tent, the thernaocue,ter was at 8 degrees at' 10 or 24 degrees below the,' freezing point ; in several places it sunk to 3 degrees below zero, and within a few yards of me' a soldier was frozen to death in his bed. Several sentries who felt asleep were also frozen to death;' and numbers came into hospital with severe frost-bites. It is rather thilder to-day, but is still a bard frost. The camp presents a singular appearance ; the ground covered with snow for miles around—the white of the snow relieved by the darker shade of the tents and huts, while men'pass yoti clad in every conceivablc fash:on. of winter costume. The warm clothing for the men came just in time; several sledges have. been started, .and snow-balling has taken the place of foot-ball among the men. Great dissatis;- faction is expressed, at the irregularity of the' mails.- The Freneh have got the contract for this winter, and very badly they manage it. We have two mails due, of which nothing has been heard. Notwithstanding the lift ter experience of last year there seems as mach delay and ismanagementin providing for the army this winter,as if no lesson had ever been learnt, and no Russell roused a country's indignation. Huts are still on the road ; those (that have arrived) come incomplete, and are almost use• less; they let in the water, aro always deficient in some' important part, and are made of miserably thin wood. In one case a large hospital hut was sent up to a regi— ment, when it was discovered that all the fastenings belonging to it'had been sent out in another ship,and were supposed to be then at Malta, and yet government has not spared the public nionc, , y ; each of the huts for the men costs the country £2OO, of which bargain the contractors have got the best. FRANCE (FRO.N.S OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EV E NING . ___ . , . In consequence of the fete yesterday, only two of the morning papers have appeared to day—the difonitevr anal "- "ags = the former containing ,nothing, cxcept a de- - tons made to the presen nptror yesterd , and the:latter nothing except so; article on the Russian circular referred to in my letter of ' 'Yesterday; which , article presents .nothing of itn parlance. ;have had some conversation to day with a political ess to the best a, aid h !Tie jncit Tostt ly that, (as, eh government has,.upt :Atte, sttest expectation of O A :ploposition9 _. A • . _ - - übiect weary of the war, were-wnfolly mistaken—and' that all classesof the , poreileti(mOvith the =exception' of' a there handful ol'stnek•jobhe's and riloneyLitiong : ers;are', 'on the contrary, lit - artily devoted. to .it. , • I am told that Turkey is not at :all pleased with the prtipositions sent to Russia by Austria ; with'theconsent of the Allies, and that' she particularly proteits against having her vessels of war excluded from the Black Sea, as well as those of Russia, in. virtue of the proposed neutralisation. This objection of Turkey would in itself be a serious impediment to an arrangement being effected. , Admiral Lyons arrived at Marseilles yesterday, and am told reached Paris to-day.. The Sardinian Commander' in-Chief in the Crimea, General La Marmora, arrived with him, • but went to Turin. You are • aware -that Admiral Lyons has come to France, to attend the grand Council of War, which is_to be held in this city, for the purpose of deciding, on the future plan of the cainpaigil in the Crimea. General La Marmora is also to'join it. According to Constantinople letters of the 24th Liao , it has already been decided that Marshal Pelissier shag have the chief command of all the Allied armies, and Admiral , Lyons: of the Allied fleets. The . Admiralt h owever , will not gain so much in importance as the Marshal,. seeing that whilst the-latter will helve .30 5 .00 0 or 40,000 English, and 10,000 or. 15,000 Sardiniao 6 handed over to him, the latter will only get a few gull' boats and small . vessels---all the large ships of the,iio o and frigates having been broughthome long ago. It was believed in the Crimea that Marshal Pelissiel will also come to, Paris to attend the• Council of Ware You will remember that I: told yon some time ago.th o he would most likely do so. The return of Omer Pachig; to Soukoum Kale i s confirmed, •At Kertch vas* Russian force had s u r r ound e d a foraging party of . i. * tr five Turks, unde Captain Sherw oo d, an E ng li shme o l and had kille the captain, and killed or capture° twenty of the men. f . . • There has been a Very heavy fall an the • •BoittO to-day--of 'lir. in the threes, cash, and 16. 15 0 ' for the end of the month,-and in other securities proportion. The, fall was caused by the' utter hopeleW ness of peace, the fear of the war being extended to Prussia in the spring, and by , the situatio n o f tb' market. A curious statem ent h as b een ma d e to me in a welt informed quarter, and I mention it without being abl e to guarantee its truth. It is that Lord Palmerston, M g recently had communicated to him p a p ers which prof' that Prussia is even much more seriously implicated vvil informant could not state, •but. he said s n 'e Y re tres grafts (very grave:) Russia than bad - been supposed. The precise nature 0 , much .confidence, that a . has j° ° ; committed a flagrant violation of neutrality, b! allowing large quarities of saltpetre to b e Cory veyed into Russia, in spite or the English Alni bassador having positively informed her govern:l3o, - o svhere the saltpetre *xnight be seized. howevel acting in this scandalous way,,thePrusviart 'Governnlef i , fw,,,-,vdintr to the German papers, determined' on thattahlalso o withs _l)erg, a general in. 1 . e of the Imperial family ° zar to make peace. ' • oetersbur"' "Pruslsti i s assertei the Prince of VViirtemi armies, and" a near re Aa, to press on the A. despatch from r employed that that a O l e o in t tic coasts. . •n 0 new, anki I l 'A minfer l : 6 o . , err th