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LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S RESIGNATION.

This event brought the sittings in both houses to
an early close on Thursday evening. In the Com-
mons the announcement was made by Mr. Hayter ;
and Lord PALMERSTON, oberving that the gravity of
the occasion justified him, moved adjournment the
of the house to the next day (yesterday). Mr.
ROEBUCK, who had already postponed to that day hir
motion for a committee to inquire into the state of
the army in the Crimea, demanded precedence of all
public business, which was agreed to. The same
announcement was made in the House of Lords by
the Duke of Newcastle, accompanied by a similar
motion for adjournment. Earl FrrzwirtuAN com-
plained of the absence of information respecting so
important an event, but the Marquis of LAissnovnix
explained that Lord John Russell would make his
own statement on the next day.

PUBLIC HEALTH.
Sir B. HALL moved for leave to introduce two bills
to amend the Public Health and the Nuisances
Removal Acts, referring the matter in the first
instance to a select committee. By one of the pro.
visions of the first bill, local boards desirous of
acquiring property for water or drainage works, could
acquire it without the necessity of coming before
Parliament. Local boards were to make annual
reports, which were to be distributed to all the rate-
payers. The General Board of Health was to exer-
cise a strict supervision over the expenditure of the
money. The second bill enlarged the power of the
local authorities, who were to be established in every
district for its sanitary inspection. Some arrange-
ments were made with respect to lodging-houses
and offensive trades, and the non-performance by
the local authorities of their duties.
After a few words from Mr. Wilkinson, Mr.
Williams, Sir H. Willoughby, and other members,
leave was given to bring in the bills.

AT Wooi,wtcw have now under

trial a vehicle constructed to meet the great difficulty
at Balaklava—the transport of cannon over mud.
The cannon is slung under a pole resting between
two high wheels, which, as they revolve, lay down a
block or .paddle, surmounted by an iron rail, and
dovetailing at its extremity with a succeeding block,
continuing the line. Thus the carriage lays down
its own railway as it progresses, while the sleeper
from which it recedes acts as a lever, and lifts up the
wheels from the bed of mud. It is found that the
carriage will transport the heaviest guns in this way
through a perfect slough. There are doubts, how-
ever, whether it will answer so well on rocky ground,
as, upon being tried during frost, the resistance of
the hardened earth drew out some of the bolts from
the wheels; but it is thought that some modification
of the paddles will overcome this impediment.
THE Indus to day, with the India and China
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THE PRESS.

at a time when he had " one foot in the grave."
The performances of a poet stales pede to uno
are treated with contempt, but the exploits of
a tottering statesman, through whose faint
heart a heroic inspiration never flashed, are,
forsooth, to be rewarded with the badge of the
most brilliant of knightly ranks. But, after
all, it is in the hearts of the wearers, and not
in the glittering jewellery, that we must look
for the chivalry of the order. Mere external
emblems cannot communicate greatness. By
their bold actions, or their noble natures,
Englishmen must register their claims to
brotherhood with the historical knighthood of
the Plantagenet&
A generous Minister would have rejoiced to
decorate the heroic patrician who led the tre
mendous charge at Balaklava, and the army
might have exulted at the star of honour being
given to the fiery valour of the Earl of CAR-
DIGAN. But magnanimity towards any fol-
lower of the Earl of DERBY could never enter
into the breast of that ancient intriguer whose
evil example in snatching at an honour due to
nobler souls will be mitigated in the eyes of
posterity when it is known that, with a cunning
characteristic of his owl-like prudence, our
high•souled Prime Minister—conferred it on
himself !
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The vice of the present Cabinet lies deeper
than in the distribution of its offices. It is
systematically feeble. It committed the great
error of entering into the war reluctantly, even
when it acknowledged the war to be in-
evitable. To this cause may all the disasters
of the Crimea campaign be traced. Prepara-
tions were tardily made, and when hostilities
began it was hoped that each week of warfare
would be the last. How could it be expected
that a Ministry would in autumn provide its
army with the necessities of winter, when it
daily expected some terms of pacification
from Vienna? To this hope, and to the delay
it engendered, our troops have been sacrificed
as effectually as if they had been delivered
unarmed into the hands of the enemy, though
unhappily their death has been more linger-
ingly painful than if they had fallen by Rus-
sian lead or steel. To this same clause may be
traced the dilatoriness of all our departments
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JANUARY 27,1855.

lucciations which prevail in some quarter or other
reelecting the requirements and mode of life of our troops,
I may mention this striking and instructive circumstance,
that among the medical stores brought out for the men by
her Majesty's ship Leopard were 100 gallons of balsam of
eopsiba, and one gallon of castor oil! Very little bread to
all that sack!

The commissary officers are almost at their wits' end.
Their transport is all but extinct. The mules and horses
are fast going altogether, and the men seem likely to follow
them. It is now (4 p.m.) 23 degrees Fahrenheit, with a
bitter fierce wind, and the snow is several feet deep in
some places along the valleys.
London, England, 1855-01-27

ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY.

The following appointments have been made to the Royal
Horse Artillery, consequent on the recent promotions in
the Royal Regiment of Artillery :
GENERAL ORDERS.
Deputy Adjutant-General's Office,
Woolwich, Jan., 1855.

The Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance has been
pleased to appoint the undermentioned officers to the
Royal Horse Artillery, viz.:—Colonel W. C. Anderson,
Brevet Majors Charles Colville Young and John James
Brandling, Second Captains George Barstow, Archibald M.
Calvert, and Gaspard Le Marchant Tupper, First Lieute-
nants William Booth and Edwin Markham.
Woolwich, Jan. 13, 1855.
_ general of the Ordnance has made the
following appointments, viz. :—Captain and Brevet Major
George Ashley Maude to be Brigade-Major, at Woolwich;
Captain and Brevet Major John James Brandling to be
transferredto 1 Troop ; Captain Henry Lynedoch Gardiner
to the Royal Horse Artillery, and posted to D Troop.
Woolwich, Jan. 19, 1855.
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London, England, 1855-01-27

DENMARK.

The motion for the impeachment of the late
Ministry has been rejected in the Volksthing by 63
votes against 32. The budget passed the second
reading on Saturday last. It is reported that Herr
Von Scheel undertakes definitively the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
SWEDEN.
Orders have been given for placing the entire
Swedish army upon a war footing. The measure is
to be executed with the greatest promptitude.
One thousand sailors are to be raised in Christiana.
The Norwegian army gun-boat force is to be consi-
derably augmented.
SARDINIA.

The text of the treaty between Sardinia, France,
and England, having received the assent of the
Government of the two latter countries, was expected
at Turin on the 20th, and was to be submitted im-
mediately to the Piedmonteso Parliament. After
being approved of by that body, the ratifications were
to be exchanged forthwith. The Sardinian loan is to
be fifty million francs.
The Queen of Sardinia, Maria Adelaide, consort of
Victor Emmanuel, expired on the 20th inst. from
typhus, produced by puerperal fever. The deceased,
the second Queen of Sardinia who has died within a
fortnight, was a daughter of the late Archduke Rainer
of Austria. Her Majesty was born in 1822, and
leaves, besides the infant just born, five children, the
eldest of whom was born in 1843.
The life of the Duke of Genoa is stated to be in
serious danger. His royal highness had been bled
five times in the course of a few days. The King is
said to be in a state of profound dejection.

SPAIN.

The Cortes voted, on the 18th, by a large majority,
the Ministerial bill fixing at 2b,000 the number of
se/distre to be galled out this rear, The Government

THE PRESS.

had attached great importance to this measure, and a
defeat had been apprehended.

TURKEY.

A Constantinople letter of the 11th inst. states that
Redschid Pacha was very unwell, and had been
obliged, by indisposition, to receive foreign diplo-
matists at home. important negotiations were
going on.
Four Frenchmen and seven Englishmen had been
found stabbed in the streets of Galata. The perpe-
trators are organised bands of Greeks and Armenians,
who have been traced.
Letters from Alexandria of the 10th state that new
convoys of munitions of war have been sent to the
Crimea by Said Pacha.
London, England, 1855-01-20

TURKEY.

At a great diplomatic dinner given in Constanti-
nople on the 9th, the Austrian Internuncio, M.
Bruck, gave as a toast, " The Sultan and his brave
army of the Danube, who are the admiration of all
Europe." "There," the Internuncio exclaimed, "they
have, in every action, defeated the Russians; they have
taught the Russian Court that they were able
gloriously to defend the rights of Turkey against
Muscovite ambition. !Like the Western powers,
Austria was willing to fight for the rights of Turkey
and of justice, whatever might be the result."
And he stated in conclusion, with remarkable
energy, that Russia was no longer to be feared—
she must yield. The emotion of the guests was ex-
treme ; and the Grand Vizier warmly thanked the
Internuncio.

The Sultan has issued a firman, in which his
Highness thanks the army of Omer Pacha for its
conduct on the Danube, and expresses a hope that
it will continue the same in the campaign which is
about to open in the Crimea.
The command of the Turkish army of the Danube
has been given to Ismail Pacha, surnamed Kalafat.
The army consists only of 0,000 men, distributed
over Bucharest, Ibraila, and Giurgevo.
The firman authorising the cutting of a navigable
canal across the Isthmus of Suez, has been signed
by the Porte.
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RUSSIA.

The Russian Ministry of the Marine has published
numerous promotions amongst the officers of the
Baltic and Black Sea squadrons. It was the Grand
Duke Constantine who proposed it to the Emperor,
and the latter was very well disposed to reward the
sailors of the Black Sea fleet, whom he has already
eulogised in his proclamations.
By a new decree, the exportation from Poland of
wheat, and all other provisions of which the export
was not already prohibited, is strictly forbidden.
Reports have reached Vienna that the Russians
had occupied the Danube and obtained several ad-
vantages over the Turks. Official accounts of these
movements are still wanting. According to one des-
patch, from Brailow, 20,000 Russians had entered
the Dobrudscha, and a body of 15,000, with 50 guns,
was advancing tows/cis Baltchick. Other advices
stated, that during the night of the 7th inst. a
Russian detachment crossed the Danube, and ad-
vanced as far as Babadagh. The Russians captured
83 Turks and one flag. After this exploit the whole
Russian detachment returned to Ismail, in Bes.
sarabia. The Turks had a few men killed, and the
Russians also suffered a small loss.
In order to accelerate the communication with
the Crimea, the Government has ordered the estab-
lishment of a service of malle-poster from St. Peters-
burg to Simferopol, which are to commence running
immediately.
London, England, 1855-01-20

THE NURSES AT SCUTARI.

The Rev. Ur. Sabin writes tints from Scutari, on
December 27, to the chaplain of the forces

A considerable change is taking place in our band of
nurses, in consequence of the arrival of fifty new ones, under
Miss Stanley Miss Nightingale and Mrs. liracebridge have
gradually established the original band of nurses here, and
this iu spite of many and serious difficulties. What we all
feared would be an impossibility has been admirably ac-
complished, and will, I doubt not, be continued with suc-
cess. I think that the only way to secure future success is
the plan proposed and now carrying out, which is not to
establish a separate band of nurses, but to take in as many
of the fresh ones as can be profitably employed. Miss Stan-
ley, acting under Miss Nightingale, takes charge of a certain
number in the general hospital, and though it is impos-
sible that all can 'be at once employed, yet in time all who
are fit for the work will be brought into use. Several have
been sent home from Miss Nightingale's original band, from
ill-health and other causes ; three of the sisters have gone,
three nurses, and five nuns. These latter had been clois-
tered nuns all their life, and their being thrown at once
among such busy scenes has made their stay unadvilable ;
on the other hand, the other five nuns who came with
them are found to be most valuable and experienced nurses.
It cannot be expected that, out of ninety nurses rapidly se-
lected, all should he fit for the work, while Miss Nightin-
gsle's judgment will enable her to select a strong band of
really efficient nurses in a very short time, and this from
actual observation of their work. She looks mainly to the
working powers of her band, and, with unrivalled working
powers herself, soon marks who are fitted for this most
difficult work.
London, England, 1855-01-20

INDIA AND CHINA.

The overland mail has arrived with Calcutta dates
of the 18th, Madras 10th, and Bombay 14th mite

SATURDAY,

The Burmese ambassador had arrived at Calcutta,
and had an audience on the 11th of December.
The Nepaulese army is to march through our
territory to attack the Grand Lama.
It has been decided to open the Legislative Council
of Calcutta to the public and the press. This seems
the beginning of a sort of parliamentary chamber,
which will possibly be realised at some future
period.
An engineering class has been opened at Calcutta
under Colonel Goodwyn, chiefly intanded for
the instruction of the natives, who now, it is hoped,
will begin to see the importance of this branch of
knowledge.
So short is the supply of civilians in Bombay
suited for high appointments, that young men not
six years in the service, and not seven and twenty
years of age, are holding appointments wor►h close
on 2,0001. a year, others of from ten to fourteen years'
service holding those from 2,0001. to 3,0001., for
which no special or Haileybury qualification is

required.
From China it is reported that Sir John Bowing
had returned to Hong-Kong from the north without
reaching Pekin.
The rebels had captured a largo part of thu impe.
rial squadron, and there was a panic at Canton.
London, England, 1855-01-20

THE PRESS.S

Thence the worship of ancestors, of all ancient things, of
those who hold towards the state the place that the father
and mother occupy in the family. The Chinese have in
fact always attached the idea of something holy and mys.
terious to whatever is antique, to all that has existed for
ages, and this respect generalised has taken the name
of filial piety.

The translator of the work has executed his
task with skill and fidelity, so that M. Hues
narrative is read with almost as much ad-
vantage in the English version as it could be
in the original French ; and it is only due to
M. Huc to say that he has given in these
volumes more information upon China and the
Chinese, and conveyed it in a more lively, and,
at the same time, more graphic and terse
manner, than is often met with in books of
travel.
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UNITED STATES.

New York advices to the 2nd inst. have been re-
ceived by the America mail steamship.
A bill had been introduced into the House of
Representatives, and referred to the Committee of
Commerce, for prohibiting the introduction into the
United States of foreign criminals and paupers.

It is understood that John ➢Mitchell has withdrawn
from the editorship of the Citizen. He confesses that
he hes.ibeen grevioasly disappointed in the temper of
the American people—finding them much less dis-
posed than he imagined to encourage the free expres-
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Mexican news to the 19th December had arrived
via New Orleans. General Santa Anna had been
elected by nearly an unanimous vote. Reports of
additional victories of the Government troops were pre-
valent. General Alvarez had approached to within
eighteen leagues of the city.
London, England, 1855-01-20

SWEDEN AND DENMARK.

It is stated that the Swedish Miuister in London
has intimated to the British Cabinet the desire of
his Government to give in its adhesion to the treaty
of the 2nd December.
Six members of the Danish House of Commons
laid on Tuesday before the Volkthing a bill for the
impeachment of the former (Oersted) Ministry. It
was believed that the motion would ce defeated by a
majority of the house.
London, England, 1855-01-20

JANUARY 20, 1855.

ground is covered with them. There is no fuel to roast
the coffee, and the men have no means of grinding it; and
if they had both they are far too hard worked just now to
do either. I know hundreds and hundreds of instances
when, fur days running, men have eaten their salt pork
raw, because there was no possibility of getting fuel to
dress it. If they are obliged to do this with their pork,
your readers oan easily judge what chance their coffee
stands of being roasted. The men also hate coffee, and
will not use it when they can possibly get tea. As a proof
of this, a kind of tea-shop has lately been opened at Bale-
klava, where a pint of hot tea oan be had for 6d. This
place is crowded with our fellows from morning till night,
and not unfrequently the proprietor is quite Bold out long
before night.
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not yet known how soon this contingent will be called
for. At the meeting of the Chamber of Representa-
tives on the following day, the President of the
Council announced that General Dabormida had re-
signed the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, which had
been provisionally intrusted to the Minister of
Finance (Count Cavour). This resignation is believed
to have arisen out of the conclusion of the new

treaty.
A bill of great importance is now under disctussion
in the Turin Chamber, into which it was introduced
under Government auspices. The measure is designed
to suppress, with certain exceptions, the conventual
and monastic institutions throughout Piedmont,
to re-distribute a large amount of church revenues,
and to prevent preperty becoming vested in eccle-
siastical corporations. The bill has received
strenuous opposition from the Church party, and the
debate was still pending when the Chambers ad-
journed for a brief recess on the 12th inst., in con-
sequence of the death of the Queen Dowager.
London, England, 1855-01-20

JANtri.kr 20, 1855.

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JANUARY 20, 1855.

3rd West India Regiment—Francis Spearman,
to be Ensign, without purchase.

BREVET.

Colonel James Robertson Craufurd to have the local
rank of Brigadier-General.
Colonel Lord Wm. Paulet to have the local rank of
Brigadier-General in Turkey.
The following promotions to take place in succession
to Colonel Craufurd, Royal Artillery, promoted to be
Major-General on November 28, 18:4
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Charlton Smith to be
Colonel.

Major James H. Trevelyan, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Charles Erskine Ford, to be Major.
The following promotions to take place in succession to
Colonel Gordon, of the Royal Artillery, promoted to be
Major• General on the 28th Nov.:—
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Crombie, to be Colonel.

Major C. Edward Michell, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain H. A. Turner to be Major.
The following promotions to take place in succession to
Colonel Dundas, of the Royal Artillery, promoted to be
Major-General on the 28th Nov.:—
Lieutenant-Colonel William Raikes Faber to be Colonel.
Major W. Twistleton Layard to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Janus William Graves to be Major.
The following promotions to take place in succession to
Colonel Atrey, promoted to be Major-General on 12th
December, 1854 :
Lieutenant-General John Garvock to be Colonel.

Major Richard 1). Kelly to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Isaac Moore to be Major.
The following promotions to take place in succession to
Major-General W. D. Jones, of the Royal Artillery, placed
upon the Retired List on the Bth January, 1885 :
Colonel Francis Rawdon Chisney to be Major-General.
Lieut.-Colonel Edmund W. W. Passy to be Colonel.
Major Arthur C. Goodenough to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Henry Collette to be Major.
Lieut.-Colonel Frederick Eld, retired full-pay, and Bre-
vet Lieut.-Colonel Henry Francis Ainslie, retired full-
pay, to be Colonels, the rank being only honorary.
Lieut. Henry Langhorne Thompson, employed on a
particular service in Turkey, to have the local rank of Cap-
tain while so employed.
London, England, 1855-01-20

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1854.

WITH the approach of the period fixed for the
reassembling of Parliament, the Coalition has
resumed its squabbles. This is not surprising.
No one can wonder at the protracted sittings
of the Cabinet who considers its constitution.
Each time, before it can venture to meet Par-
liament, its members have to go through all
that unpleasant process of retractation and
compromise which first brought them together.
As every Minister has a policy of his own, and
entertains the greatest contempt for his col-
leagues, the most delicate management is
required to induce them to agree on a line of
conduct which shall present some appearance
of concord to the world. The more they
know of each other the deeper must be their
mutual distrust from perceiving how little
they have in common, and the more difficult
must they find it to assume a semblance of
unanimity. New events as they arise must
stir in every mind the recollections of a life of
political antipathy. We can imagine how
hopeless must seem the att2mpt to reconcile
the views of Lord ABERDEEN and Lord
PALMERSTON when the limitation of the power
of Russia in the Black Sea is discussed, and
how vain must be Mr. GLADSTONE'S efforts to
convince his fellow Ministers that there is no
safety for the country but in his schemes for
loading it with direct taxation. GARRICK,
torn between tragedy and comedy, can but
feebly typify the distraction of her Majesty's
servants, assailed on one side by self-interest
and on the other by self-will. nor can we
wonder at those reports of a dissolution of the
Government which are perpetually afloat when
it is evident that nothing short of a miracle
can keep it together. As matters are proceed-
ing, we may expect to hear that the decisions
of the Cabinet are finally carried by the same
sort of endurance that in disputed verdicts
gives the victory to the juryman who can fast
the longest.
It would be unreasonable to expect that the
wants of the country should receive much con-
sideration when the weightier affairs of private
pretension have to be adjusted. The safety of
the army is not to be put in the scale against
the ambition of the Duke of NEWCASTLE to be
Minister of War. To wound his vanity would
be to break up the Cabinet, while the worst
that can happen by gratifying it, is the linger-
ing waste and wretchedness of our force, with
the chance of its total destruction in the end.
The nation must be burdened with his incom-
petency that the Government may have the
benefit of his support. As the bickerings and
jealousies which every question calls forth
demand some sacrifice, the sacrifice of public
interests is the most obvious and easy; and to
this cause it must be ascribed that the
lengthened deliberations of the Cabinet arc
the invariable prelude to some new disaster or
disgrace. At a time like the present, an Ad-
ministration which was simply weak from the
absence of individual talent and energy would
London, England, 1855-01-20

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1855.

POSTSCRIPT..

NEW SPANISH CONSTITUTION.
On the 13th inst. M. Olozago submitted to the
Cortes the bases of a new Constitution. The prin
cipal points are as follows :
Ail public powers emanate from the nation, in which the
sovereignty essentially resides.
The nation engages itself to maintain the Roman
Catholic Apostolic religion and its ministers, but no
Spaniard nor stranger can be annoyed on account of his
religious opinions, provided he does not offend the religion
of the State by external sets.
Liberty of the press.
Abolition of the law of confiscation and of the penalty of
death for political offences.
Establishment of a National Guard.
Two Legislative bodies—a Senate and a Chamber of
De_puties.
The senators, to be elected for life, are to be chosen from
certain categories. They must have attained their
twenty-fifth year, and be in the possession of an income
of 30,0(X) reels. 120 are to be appointed at first. The
King may not appoint more than twelve at the commence-
ment of every session. There is to be one deputy for
every 60,000 inhabitants. The Cortes are to meet
annually on the Ist of October. Each session is to last
four months. No session can be prolonged beyond thirty
days. In case of dissolution the Cortes are to reassemble
within sixty days. In the interval between two sessions a
permanent Commission of the Cortes, consisting of four
senators and seven deputies, is tobe establised.
The King sanctions and promulgates laws. The Cortes
London, England, 1855-10-06

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London, England, 1855-10-06

RUSSIA.

It is confidently affirmed that the Czar Alexander
would positively visit the Crimea in person. Before
the Emperor left his capital a Council of the Empire
was held, at which it was resolved to continue the
war. The Emperor was to go to Kieff after having
visited Nicolaieff and Odessa. It is believed that
the Grand Duke Constantine will remain with the
army for a time.
The recal of Prince Gortschakoff has been resolved
on, and be will be made Minister of War. General
Mouravieff, who now commands in Russian Armenia,
is to be his successor.

Owing to the scarcity of brandy, required for the
use of the army, the Government has ordered its
admission free of import duty to the Governments
of Ekaterinoslav, Kherson, Taurida, and Bessarabia.
In contradiction to the news that Prince Menschi-
koff had entered a monastery at Moscow, and be-
come a monk, it is stated that the Prince has been
summoned to meet the Emperor Alexander at
Nicolaieff.
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MANIFESTO OF THE EMPEROR.

Moscow, Sept. 20th..
Count Arsine Andrelevitch,—Since my accession to.the
throne of my ancestors it has been my lively desire to visit
my ancient capital, that loyal and beloved residence, where
I was born and where I received baptism under the pxotec-
tion of the relics of the blessed Alexis, the thauxuaturgus
of Moscow.

Having to day satisfied that desire, I have witnessed.
with the greatest satisfaction the cordial and sincere em-
presaement which the inhabitants of Moscow have shown. ini
their reception of myself and all my family, a traditional
welcome which Russia has always given to her Sovereigns.
I charge you to express my sincere gratitude to all elitsses•
of the population of Moscow, and to assure them of my
good will. My happiness would have been complete if
recent events had not dimmed the satisfaction of these%
sweet moments.

My order of the day to the Russian armies has already
made public that after an unexampled siege of eleven
months the garrison of Sebastopol, after having given
unheard of proofs of courage and selftlenial, and having:
successfully repulsed six desperate assaults, has crossed
over to the north side of the town, only leaving " blood-
stained ruins "to the enemy. The garrison of Sebastopol,
has done all that man could do.

I accept past and present events as the impenetrable
decrees of Providence, which has given a year of sad
trials to Russia. But Russia has supported still greater
trials, and the Lord, in His great mercy,
her his tacit support. Let us, therefore, now also place.
our trust in Him. lies always given.

He will defend orthodox Russia, who has taken up arms
for a just cause—for the cause of Christianity. It is a.
great satisfaction to me to sec the unceasing proofs which
all men are giving in their readiness to sacrifice their pro-
perty, their families, and even the last drop of their bloody
for the maintenance of the integrity of the empire and for
the national honour.

It is in the manifestation of these sentiments of the
nation and in these acts that I derive strength and con-
solation, and, uniting myself inseparably with my heart to
my heroic and faithful people, 1 repeat, putting my trust•
London, England, 1855-10-06

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London, England, 1855-10-06

AUSTRIA.

There is no political news of any importance. The
Vienna journals are filled with fruitless speculations
upon the war.
The Augsberg Gazette writes:—

The Western powers are well aware how great must be
the influence of Austria when there is again a question of
peace, and they will therefore consider twice and thrice
tlfor, clic)/ kill forward a probratuhio to which it would
London, England, 1855-10-06

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London, England, 1855-10-06

BARNUM'S LAST.

IT is understood that baby-shows having succeeded eminently, the
notorious American speculator has determined on a Snow OF SECOND
CHILDHOOD, and that several of her Majesty's Ministers and a large
number vf the Old Old \Villas will certainly compete.

A HINT.
Turn about's honest play—we've a Jew for Lord Mayor,—
Now, Pam, give your place to a Christian. That's fair.
London, England, 1855-10-06

946

but stretched dead on the ground. When I satisfied my-
self that there were none in the Redan but wounded and
dying men, I gave the word to my party to retire, who
obeyed like soldiers. We then let ourselves down the
fifteen feet of a bank that we came up before, and were
soon in the ditch and on to the plain, when I gave over
the party to the other officer who accompanied me, and
made my way back to Sir Colin, whom I found in the ad-
vanced trench, and to whom I reported what had taken
place. He shook me by the hand, and thanked me for the
service performed. I then went to the rear and reported
my safe arrival to Colonel Hay, who, with the other officers
and men, were proud of the news that the Redan was at
their command.
London, England, 1855-10-06

TURKEY.

The Sultan has decided on sending a high func-
tionary of the Porto to the Crimea to deliver to each
of the general officers of the English and French
armies the decoration of the Medjidie. Six will
also be given to Sardinian officers. Rifaat Paella,
formerly ambassador at Vienna, has been designated
as Imperial Commissioner for that mission. It is,
moreover, reported that the Sultan intends to present
swords of value to the allied general officers who dis-
tinguished themselves at the siege of Sebastopol.
The swords intended for the commanders•in-chief
are covered with diamonds, and of the value each of
7,0001.
The Contingent is preparing to start for Schumla
to act in conjunction with the Turkish army that is
stationed at Silistria and Rutschuk. General Vivian
will be independent of Ismail Pacha, who commands
the corps d'armie. In the spring the war will be
carried on on Russian ground, and there is no doubt
that Ismael will be taken from the enemy.
The revolt in Tripoli is by no means suppressed.
Mustapha Pacha, the Governor,is removed from that
office, and Osman Pacba is appointed in his place.
London, England, 1855-10-06

THE PRESS.

Lord Stanley, M.P., has arrived at Knowsley from
visiting the Derby estates in Ireland.
General Windham, the gallant hero of Sebastopol,
is not, as stated in some of the papers, brother to the
Countess of Listowell, but brother to the first hus-
band of that lady—viz., Mr. Windham, of Cromer-
ball, Norfolk. Cromer-hall is now the property of
Mr. Bond Cabbell, M.P.
Lord Arthur Lennox and Captain Derriman left
Gordon Castle on the morning of Thursday last for
London, and the same afternoon Lord George Gor-
don Lennox arrived at the castle. The Hon. W.
Bathurst has arrived at the castle from Balmoral,
and the Hon. Adolphus Liddell from Mar-lodge.
The Earl and Countess of March and Miss Greville
have left the castle on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Cum-
ming Bruce at Dunphail.
The grand ball was given onjTuesday at Aldershot.,
in the Camp Club-house. The ball room was taste-
fully decorated and brilliantly illuminated, and pro-
vided with a powerful orchestra, composed of the
band of the Grenadier Guards, and the other princi-
pal regiments of the camp. The ball, brilliantly
attended, went off with the greatest éclat.
Lord Henry Lennox, M.P., has left Gordon Castle
for Lamington, Lanarkshire, and is expected on a
visit at Knowsley-park on the Bth instant.
A correspondent from Paris writes that the Em-
press of the French may be daily seen on her after-
noon drive through the country round St. Cloud,
" reclining on a couch fitted into her carriage." She
resides at St. Cloud in the most perfect retirement
and seclusion.

The marriage of Miss Peel last week appears to
have been witnessed by the London correspondent of
the Liverpool Albion, who in the columns of that
paper commented largely on the subject. The double
ceremony, he declares, afforded Sir Robert a fine
opportunity to play Pater Familias, and, with his
grotesque and outré bearing, to astound every one,
from the " best man" tothe bridesmaids. The match,
we believe, was a love match, and oppesed by rela-
tions on both sides. Yet the wedding•presents were
handsome, and among the donors that pattern of
propriety, Fred. Peel—who, our correspondent de-
clares, " set his undertaker-face against the marriage
altogether,"—as a peace-offering, presented his sister
with a dressing case the size of a coffin, and made
of ebony—a lively souvenir so very characteristic of
the donor that it would'nt at all surprise his ac-
quaintances to hear he had placed a neat little
death's head on the top of the box, and memento
mori underneath.
London, England, 1855-10-06

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