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are not a few of stone—small, but sung and well-built edifices,
quite able to resist even Crimean rains and winds, and fitted,
many of them, with fire-grates from Sebastopol. If the army
were to quit the Crimea, leaving its stone and earthen huts
standing, many a Tartar would find a better dwelling than he,
perhaps, had ever before enjoyed, and would marvel at the inge-
nious and comfortable contrivances of the invader. Some of the
stables, too, are wonderfully perfect and well contrived, and
must have cost an immensity of labour. I rode down, a day
or two ago, into the valley towards Karanyi, where the heavy
batteries are, and saw some truly admirable stables. The
stalls were paved ; there was a clean path down the centre ;
there were racks for the hay and well-made wooden mangers,
bound and striped with the iron bands that confine the com-
pressed trusses—excellent mangers—economical of corn, and
which the horses cannot bite. It had been found that the
horses sometimes pushed out the planks of the stable huts ;
so stone walls were built up outside to a sufficient height to
prevent this. In short, although some of the men were still
under canvass, the horses of the artillery in question could
hardly be better cared for, and the condition of those I saw
corresponded with the pains that had been taken to protect
and preserve them.
The health of the camp continues good. As far as I have
been able to ascertain, the average amount of sickness does not
exceed, if it quite reaches, 10 per cent. But a large proportion
of the cases are of a trifling nature, and the mortality is small.
We must be prepared to expect some increase when the rains
return ; but we may venture to hope that this will not be
great, since the men are well provided, and, as it appears to
me, in excellent condition and good spirits. The bringing up
of planks from Balaklava, and the other necessary fatigue
duties, give them sufficient exercise to keep them in health ;
for the recruits there is squad and adjutant's drill, when the
weather permits ; and drunkenness, from all I can learn, is
much less rife than it was last autumn. lam assured that
the average amount of punishment for drunkenness having
lately been computed, was found not to exceed a half per cent.
per diem—a small per tentage—to which, however, must be
added a somewhat larger one for men who get drunk and es-
cape punishment. There can be no doubt that in autumn
issues of back pay, and the difficulty of transmitting money,
aggravated the evil.

A letter from Marseilles of the 17th inst., in the Constitu

tionnel, says,--

" Among the pessengers who embarked this morning in the
Clyde, for Alexandria, were Count Dumonceau and Viscount
Desmanet, who have been sent on a mission by their Sove-
reign, the King of the Belgians, to the Viceroy of Egppt.
Four Sisters of Jesus also took passage in that packet for
Alexandria, whence they are to proceed to Bombay, their
place of destination." - _ .

MARSEILLES, Jau. 18.—A telegraphic despatch, received
here last evening, announcing that the Russian government
had accepted purely and simply the Austrian ultimatum, pro-
duced quite a panic this morning on the corn-market. Wheat
fell 4f. the hectolitre, and there are few purchasers to be found
even at that reduction.
The Journal de Constantinople has a long paragraph about
the construction of a canal from the Danube to the Black Sea
setting forth all the advantages to be derived from such an
undertaking. The Imperial firman which grants the right of
constructing this canal to a company formed by some finan-
ciers of London, Paris, Vienna, and Constantinople was signed
on the 4th of January.