The Press.
London, England, 1855-02-03 00:00:00

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suggestions of a eatnarille that encouragement he can no
longer find in Parliament or the nation.

THE CRIMEA.

The correspondent of the Chronicle in the Crimea,
in a letter dated January 20, thus refers to the pros-
pects of the projected 13alaklava railway :
Messrs. Peto and Brassey, who have contracted to form
a railway to the camp, have agents out here busily engaged
surveying the proposed line. Although capable of being
carried out, I much fear whether it will be finished in
sufficient time to be of much service. They calculate it
will take about three months to carry it as far as the end
of the valley, a little beyond Kiulikoi. By that period we
may hope for fine weather and hard roads. Had this melt
been taken three months back, instead of the wooden huts
remaining oa the shore and on board the steam screw-
boats in the harbour, the greater portion might have been
up at the different camps, and now in the course of corn.
pletion.

The Times correspondent writes on the same date,
giving a picture of the state of our forces in the
camp little if at all less gloomy than had been por-
trayed in former communications during the previous
months. He concludes :

Quick must be the remedy—nay, instantaneous—else
there will be no English army left, notwithstanding the
numerous reinforcements. There are now, as it is, not
more than 12,000, if so many, efficient men left ; the 7th,
know positively, has but seventeen men under arms fit
for duty.

Advices from Varna, dated the 27th of January,
state that, in consequence of explanations from Con-
stantinople, Omer Pacha retains the command of
the Crimean expedition. Ismail Pacha is placed
under his orders.
Of the seven bureaux of the Chamber of Deputies
at Turin, one only, the seventh, has declared itself
against the treaty with the Western powers.
A despatch from Rome, under date of June 30,
states that at the last consistorium, the Pope an-
nounced that all bis advice, exhortations, and notes
to the King of Sardinia and his Ministry has proved
fruitless. In spite of the concordat and convention,
that Government had infringed upon the rights of
the Church, and contemplated the confiscation of
ecclesiastical estates and the abolition of ecclesias-
tical orders. These measures tho Pope condemned,
and pointed out the judgments of councils for such
offences.

Jenny Lind Goldsmidt has arrived in Hamburgh
and, with her husband, gave a concert on Tuesday
last, which was crowded to suffocation. She intended
giving two more concerts, one of which, it was under-
stood, was to be for the benefit of the poor families
who suffered such losses from the memorable inun-
dations on New Year's-day.

It is said, on good authority, that Mr. Thackeray
will shortly be recognised at the Olympic Theatre in
the new character of a dramatist.

By the death of Rear-Admiral Sir John Hill, Cap-
tain the Hon. Frederick Wm. Grey, C. 8., brother of
Earl Grey, now in command of the Hannibal, 01, in
the Black Sea, becomes rear-admiral, and Sir Richard
Grant senior captain on the list.
THE Mercury, steam-ship, left Bordeaux on the 10th
ult., with a cargo of clover seed, wine, brandy, &c., fur
London, and at half-past nine the next evening was run
into by a large outward-bound barque, apparently
French, which struck the vessel amidships, stopped her
engines in ten minutes, and caused her to sink within
half an hour. The barque kept her course. 'l be
crew, twenty-two, in two boats, which were kept afloat
with great difficulty, continued in the Bay of Biscay
twenty hours without water until relieved by the
barque Jokanna, of Hartlepool, which conveyed them
to Gibraltar.
ON opening the hatches of a vessel lying in the
basin of the Rem canal on the morning of the 25th
ult., the bodies of five able seamen were found lying
dead. It appears that the unfortunate men had gone
down the previous evening unobserved by the cabin
boy, and probably while they were asleep be made
fast the hatches unknowingly, and death by suffoca-
tisn was the consequence.

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