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"This is a point on which I had hoped that your Excellency I
would have felt it a duty to be informed," replied the Baron,
gravely.
"A duty, M. the Baron?"
" A duty, M. the Count."
And at this stage they both took snuff in somewhat large quan-
tities, and with emphatic action.
" Permit me to reply," said the Count, " and you will accept
more than the mere literal meaning of the words, that I do not
understand.'"
" That was my fear, Count Gortschakoff," said the Baron, " and it
dates from the time when your colleague gave, with some levity, his
assent to the proposition M. de Buol has read so charmingly."
"It is not the only fear on the part of the allies which has
been justified since the passage of the Pruth," returned the Russian
Envoy.
I could not stand this, you know, my dear Lord. I bore their
beating about the bush and their compliments and equivoques very
well; but when he took the liberty of saying that we had displayed
fear, and had had grounds for it, I flew into a rage. Up I started, and
though the Baron Bourqueney, who is a man of some physical strength,
pulled me down upon my chair twice, and tore my left coat-tail, I in-
sisted on being heard.
" Gentlemen," I said, addressing the Russians, " my name is John
Russell, lately Leader of the British House of Commons, and going
home to take the same situation again. I am intimately acquainted

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on board, had been despatched in order to repress
these outrages.

Lieut.-Colonel Kelly, of the 34th, who was shot on
the night of the 22nd, while leading on his regi-
ment, was for twenty years in the army, and only
attained his present rank about ten days before his
death. It is only about two months since that he
left Plymouth with a large draught of the :34th for
the Crimea.

Captain the Hon. Cavendish Browne, of the 7th
Fusiliers, who was also killed in the repulse of the
sortie, was the fifth son of Lord Kilmaine; he was in
his 25th year, and had been seven years in the ser-
vice. Major the Hon. James Lyon Browne, of the
21st Fusiliers, and Captain Browne, of the 80th Re-
giment, are brothers of the lamented young officer.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS lately invented by
Chevalier Bonelli for making trains communicate
with each other while they are running, and thus
preventing collisions, are being now established on
the Turin and Truffarello railway line, with a view
to test the utility of the invention.
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been occasioned
among the officials in Basinghall street, in connection
with proceedings in bankruptcy against a man named
White, alias Lands, lately carrying on business as a
boot and shoe vender, at High-street, Camden-town,
St. John's-street, Clerkenwell, and Bolingbroke-row,
Walworth, owing to the report that a great quantity
of goods had been previous to the bankruptcy se-
creted by the bankrupt, and that a search for them
bad been successful. By the active exertions of
several of the principal creditors, a clue was obtained
and followed up, and in the course of Wednesday,
under a search warrant obtained from Mr. Commis-
sioner Fane, no less than five tons of goods, of the
value of between 1,5001. and 2,0001., were seized in a
carrier's yard in Seckford street, Clerkenwell, where
they were deposited in an underground kitchen
hired by the bankrupt, about the Ist of January last.
It is said that the bankrupt will be indicted by his
creditors under the highly penal clauses of the
Bankruptcy Law Consolidation Act.
THE estimated population of England and Wales
in 1854 was 18,617,000; the number of births,
634,506 ; of deaths, 438,239 ; and of marriages,
159 000. . _

- •IT is said the son of a sporting peer is off—to use
the Newmarket phrase, " has bolted," and left money
transactions of a grave responsibility, touching all
classes. This makes a great stir in the betting
world.—Globe.

CAPTAIN DOUGLAS, who took out the General
Screw Company's steamer Bosphorus to Australia,
has been appointed harbour-master at Port Philip,
with a salary of 2,0001. a year, and a residence found
him.

AMONGST the passengers who arrived in England
by the last West India packet was Captain Petre.
He sold out of a regiment of Dragoons some years
since to gratify his love of travelling. He has tra
yelled nearly over the world. His last journey was
across the American continent, from Buenos Ayres
to Chili, over the Pampas and the Andes .
A DEPUTATION OF YORKSHIRE NEWSPAPER PRO-
PRIETORS from Leeds had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer on Wednesday in Down-
ing-street, for the purpose of laying before him their
unanimous views in favour of a halfpenny stamp on
newspapers to free the post, and of a halfpenny
stamped cover to entitle unstamped copies of regis-
tered newspapers tow single transmission through
the post,