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MORE COMFORTS. - The Royal Yacht squadron
schooner Fairy arrived at Malta, on (3hristmas-day, after
a fine run of 13 days 8 hours, On the 26th she took on
oranges, lemonis, and onions, and
then proceeded with a fair wind for 13 alaklava.
board a quantity of

Two SIDES TO A STOET.—We have: just bean favoured
with the sight of two letters from the Crimea, dated
Christmas-day, one from a sergeant i n the 42d. He feels
no want of clothing or provisions. The other is from a
private in the Royal Marines, who says :—" Tell my
mother that I have spent a comfortable Christmas on
shore. We are all in hopes of having our New Year's
dinner in barracks in Sebastopol, as it is getting very
cold up here. Tell my mother that I am well, and
quite comfortable ashore, along with the soldiers of all
descriptions. Dear Brother, we hncl a beautiful sight
last Tuesday ; there was a large powder magazine, be-
longing to the Russians, which blew up a large fort, and
about 200 or 300 Russians with it. What a sight it was
to see pieces of gun-carriages, besides soldiers flying
up in the air. Our men gave three cheers, which the
Russianns did not like." •

SCOTTISH ENTERTAINMENT.—Last evening Mr. A.
Fairbairn and the Misses Bennett gave an entertainment
of a very attractive nature, at the Horns Assembly
Rooms, Kennington. It consisted of Scottish anecdotes
very humourosly related, and Scottish music very
beautifully sung. The entertainmen t was divided into
two parts, the first of which comprised many well known
and favourite compositions, and the manner in which
Mr. Fairbairn gave us" Corn Rigs are Bonnie" was
capital, and richly merited the applause it received.
Miss M. A. Bennett also gave us " A Highland Lad
my Love was Born" to such perfecttion that it was
unanimously re-demanded. She com plied with the en-
core, but substituted another old favourite, "Gin a body
Kiss a Body," and it was only from a consideration of
the length of the programme that this song did not share
the fate of the preceding one. The feaftro of the part,
however, was the celebrated duet "Caller Herrin'," and
the imitation of the cry of the Newhaven fishwife,
by Miss E. Bennett, was excellent. Though we have
not heard the old old cry for a long time, it came fami-
liar to us as household words. The second part
was as well selected as the first, and was received with as
great enthusiasm. A new song composed by Mr. Fair-
bairn, entitled " The Old Saucy British Flag," was sung
by him, and created quite a furore. We have not the
slightest doubt that it will become a "first favourite."
To all these who have been delighted by the warblings
of poor Wilson—and who has not—we say go and hear
Mr. Fairbairn ;he is his legitimate successor. •

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lEONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETINGS —BIRMINGHAM,
Thursday.—The ironmasters meeting yesterday was
fully attended. The hall and committee-rooms were
during the day crowded. Such houses as Barrows and
Hall (the producers of what is called marked iron) were
understood to be firm, but, taken generally, the price
of iron was reduced 405. per ton. Bars are therefore at
about 9/. The concluding meeting will be held at Dud-
ley on Saturday; but there is no reliance to be placed
upon prices fixed at quarterly meetings ; they are
eventually settled by necessity. A considerable demand
for manufactured iron exists, but the North American
call, which used to be very considerable, is restricted
and uncertain. So soon as the American trade improved,
our exports across the Atlantic may be expected to be
better in proportion.

THE PRICE OF FOOD AT SERASTOPOL.—We read in a
letter from a sub-officer of the French Engineers before
Sebastopol :—" I will give you an idea of the manner
in which we live. If we wish to procure anything be-
yond the ordinary rations, we must pay 2f. a litre. for
wine, 70c, the kilogramme for haricots, 90c. the kilo.
Va. potatoes, 4f, a kilo. for sugar, lf. for a wax candle.
As for other things, they are beyond reason. As to
our kitchen, it is a kind of but built with dry stones and
covered with our camp sacks. It is so low that we can
scarcely stand upright in it, and it is here that we have
all our recreations and our gossip. The rain comes
through the roof as through a sieve, and in the morn-
ing the place is like a swamp. Fortunately, we eat
well, are young and in good health, and have bomb-
proof patience."

AT TEMPTED ASSASSINATION.—An attempt was made
a few evenings since to assassinate Mr. Thomas Goold,
while returning to the residence of his brother, Mr.
Wil ,am Goold, of Rockfort. He was fired at while
passing a grove, and the asstssin was so close to him
hat A pert= Of the wadding struck hiru in the face.