The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert drove out in s sledge
yesterday morning, attended by the Hon. Matilda Paget,
Lord Alfred Paget, and Captain the Hon. Dudley de
Rog."

The Princess Royal, Prince Arthur, with the Hen
Mary Seymour, and the Equerry in Waiting, drove out
yesterday in a sledge.

- Th• royal dinner party in the evening included Vis-
count and Viscenntess Palmerston, Lord Panmure,
Lady Alfred Paget, Lady Elizabeth de Roe, and the
Right Hon. the Speaker.

CABINET COUNCIL.--A Cabinet Council was held at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street, yesterday afternoon.
The Ministers present word Viscount Palmerston, the
Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Arp'yll,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, the Earl
of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Lord
Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James
Graham, Sir Charles Wood, Sir William Molesworth,
Viscount Canning, and the Earl of Carlisle. The Coun-
cil sat three hours and a quarter.
Mr. Alderman Leeman, and Mr. Durnford, Parlia-
mentary agent, as a deputation from. the city of York,
had an interview on Tuesday with Sir liienjamin Mall,
Bart., M.P., President of the Board of Health, at the
office, Whitehall.

Despatches were received from the Governors of Cey.
lon and West Australia yesterday at the Colonial-office.

THE NAVVIES AND THE CRlMEA.—Messrs. Cronkford's
steamer the Loire met with an accident at the entrance
of the Dardanelles in attempting to tow Messrs. Peto'e
sailing vessel the Wildfire into Constantinople, by the
hawser of the latter skip fouling the screw. The private
letter giving us this information states that the Loire
arrived at Constantinople on the 7th, and would leave
for Balakls.va on the 10th inst.
THE NAVVIES.—Sir S. Morton Peto contradicts the
statement that the navvies now engaged on the railway
at Balaklava are inconvenienced by the want of horses.
" I am glad," he says, to be able to state that the requi-
site number of horses, forage, drivers, stables, and every
requisite were sent with the expedition, his Grace the
Duke of Newcastle having given us the most urgent in-
structions to omit nothing which, in our judgment
and experience, might be considered as necessary. I beg
also to state that our letters to the present time speak of
the greatest cordiality being shown by all in authority
in the Crimea."
NON-ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICAN MAIL STEAMER.—
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday, Five p.m.—The United States
mail steam-ship Pacific, Ezra Nye, which was to
have left New York en the 7th, is now in her Mteenth
day out, and her arrival is anxiously expected. Up to
the present hour no intelligence has been received of
her, and it is extremely probable, should she not turn up
to-night, the usual Saturday mail for the United States
will be delayed, as the Pacific was appointed to carry it
across the Atlantic. It is believed that the Pacific slid
not sail on her day, and her voyage prolonged by easterly
winds.
THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE.—The Government
have concluded a twelve months' contract with Messrs.
James Baines and Co., of Liverpool, the owners of the
Black Ball line of clippers froth that port to Australia,
for the conveyance of the English mails monthly to that
colony, commencing with Marco Polo, on the sth of
April. The owners bind themselves, under penalty, to
deliver the mails 65 days from Liverpool. The Govern-
ment of the *eOleny arrange for the departure of the
homeward mails, but one of the Black Ball liners will
return each•rnenth direct 'to Liverpool front Melbourne.
The James Baines, Lightning, and Boomerang, which
have conveyed the mails of the last three months, all
belong to the Black Ball lice.
THI PENINSULAR COMPANT'S STRA3fER
Capt. Weeks, Admiralty agent Lieut. Poole, R.N.,
arrived at Southampton yesterday morning with the
heavy portion of the India mail. She left Alexandria on
Feb. 5 ; Malta, 9 ; Gibraltar, 15. At Gibraltar were
her Majesty's ship Caesar, with troops from Cork, and
her Majesty's steam-sloop Gorgon, trying to get off the
Theta. In Malta harbour were the transports Edenall,
Mary Ann, and Caeaditn with troops. The Euxine, on
the 15th, exchanged nuMleers with the steam transports
Severn and Crcesus, steering to the east, also transport
178 ; she also spoke the brigs Deslandes and Ottoman.
The Euxine experienced at Gibraltar strong gales, with
heavy rain, thunder, and lightning ' • and in crossing the
Bay of Biscay strong gales, rain, and heavy sea.
THE PENINSULAR MAILS.—The Peninsular Company's
steamer Iberia, Captain Christian, Admiralty agent
Lieut. Tickell, RN., arrived at Southampton yesterday
afternoon, with the Peninsular mails. She left Gib-
raltar Feb. 9 ; Cadiz, 10th ; Lisbon, 12th ; Vigo, 15th.
Amongst her cargo were 41 boxes of specie. H.M.S.
Heels, on shore at Gibraltar, was still holding together.
An English barque war in Casceos Bay, with a rudder
gene ; a Portuguese man-of.war steamer was trying to
take her in tow. At Vigo the schooner Flora, from
Glasgow, laden with' iron, was dismasted. The barque
Edith Roberts, hound to Rio with coals, foundered at
sea ; the crew was saved by the Swedish brig Diadem,
and landed at Gibraltar. The Iberia exchanged signals
with st. steamer supposed to be the Indus, on the 10th
inst. On the 13th she passed two steamers at a distance
and exchanged numbers with screw-steamer Calpe. On
the 15th, at Vigo, she passed a Spanish screw towing a
brir, steering S.W. At Gibraltar there were H.M.S.
St. George, wind-beund, is quarantine with small-pox
on board, and H.M.S. Britannia. The following steam
transports, viz., Candidate, Peninsula, Pioneer, Whitty
Park, and Snowdown, had touched at Gibraltar, bound
for the Crimea. H.M.S. Meander was at Lisbon. The
Iberia experienced very boisterous weather along the
Peninsular coast, accompanied by muck rain and wind
from west and south, and after entering the Bay of
Biscay she experienced heavy easterly gales.
TIII COAL TRADE IN SOUTH WALES.—The demand

for coal continues most active, andlnmany cases the
supply is not all equal to meet the wants of purchasers.
Along the coast the various docks are full of shipping,
taking in coal for foreign and home ports. The demand
for steam coal continues to be very brisk, and heavy
cargoes have been sent abroad far foreign Governments.
The anthracite coal is coming daily into greater use, and
a number of new pits in the lower basin of South Wales
have been opened to supply this invaluable product for
marine engines. The patent fuel is also much inquired
for, and purchases have been made for the French Go-
vernment.
THE NEW NORTH AMERICAN FISHERIES ACT.—Yes
terday the new act to carry into effect a treaty between
her Majesty end the United States, which received the
Royal assent on Monday, was printed. The treaty was
concluded on the sth June last, containing a number of
article+. The object df the statute is to secure to the
inhabitants of the United States, in common with the
subjects of her Majesty, the liberty to take fish of every
kind except shell fish on the sea coasts and shares and
in the bays, harbours, and creeks of Canada, &c., without
being restricted to any distance from the shore, with
permission to land upon the coasts and shores of the
colonies. The liberty granted applies solely to the sea
fishery, and the salmon fishery and other fisheries are
reserved exclusively for British fishermen. Various ar-
ticles enumerated, being the growth and produce of the
British colonies set forth, are to be admitted into each
country free of duty. Grain, fleur, animals, meat, fish,
poultry, and other commodities, ale mentioned. The
treaty was ratified en the 9th September, and it is declared
expedient to pass an act on the subject, and all acts at
variance with the same are suspended. The act is to
come into operation as soon as proclaimed in Canada,
New Brunswick, Neva Scotia, and Prince Edward's
Island. With respect to Newfoundland, it is enacted
that whenever the necessary laws shall be passed by the
legislature of Newfoundland, and approved of by her
Majesty, the present act is to extend to that colony.
THE LATE CATASTROPHE AT ISLlNGTON.—Yesterday
Mr. Wakley, the coroner, resumed, at the Carved Red
Lien public-house, Lower-road, I-licgton, the adjourned
inquiry respecting the deaths of the seven unfortunate
persons who perished by the falling of a house numbered
2, in Lower-street, Islington-green, on the night of
Sunday week. Evidence having been adduced, the
Coroner summed np, and the jury consulted together
for nearly an hour and a half. On the opening of the
court the foreman announced the following as the re-
sult of their deliberations :—" The jury are of opinion
that the deceased persons lost their lives by the falling
of a house situated at No. 2, Lower-street, in the pa-
rish of Islington, on the night of Sunday, the 11th of
Fehru.,ry, 1855, from inadventure ; and that there was
great and culpable neglect on the part of Mr. Henry
Fowling, the owner of the house, in employing an incom-
petent person to repair the premises without previously
giving notice to the district surveyor ; and the jury can-
not separate without expressing their approbation of
the conduct of the late Francis Stocker, police constable
No. 262 of the N division, who lost his life in endea-
vouring to save the lives of several others at the said
period. They (the jury) also wish to testify their admi-
ration of the conduct of William Calvert in saving the
lives of eight persons, and they regret the injuries sus-
tained by the witnesses Jauncey and the police-constable
Best."

LATEST NEWS.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

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PARIS, THURSDAY, FEB. 22.

The Monitelt). publishes a telegraphic despatch
from Admiral Bruat, dated Kamiesh Bay,

Feb. 10.

Two ships had arrived with troops and stores.
Advices from Balaklava, dated February 12,
have been received; they state that the siege works

are pushed forward with great activity on every

point.

The railway from Balaklava to the English
camp is far advanced.
Advices from Varna of the 10th February an-

nounce that the Turkish troops that have landed

at Eupatoria form an effective body of more than

30,000 men.

Their sanitary condition was excellent.

A new corps d'armee was to embark at Baltschik

in the course of the week.

The electric telegraph from Varna to Shumla
is to be completed at the end of February.
The following telegraphic despatch from Con-
stantinople was also received in Paris this morn-

ing

Baron de Bruck had had an audience with the

Sultan. His successor, Baron de Keller, had

arrived.

Ou the 10th a thaw had set in in the Crimea.

Communications with the camp were difficult.

The Allied fleet was prepared to ce-opezate in

an attack with the army.

The English had placed 18 guns of heavy
calibre in position. The general health of the

troops had improved.
Omer Paella leaves Balaklava for Eupatoria

without delay.
The southern forts had been mined by the

Russians.

MARSEILLES, FEB. 21.

The Euphrate, which left Constantinople on the

12th of February, has arrived.

Despatches for th© Go'rernment left at 10 a.m.

Our advices from Balaklava are to the 10th.

On the 7th the approach of 35,000 Russians
from the Belbek towards Balaklava, was an-

nounced.

The allied troops were under arms on the morn-
ng of the Bth, and again on the 9th.
The enemy did not make his appearance.

The Russians have, howover, returned, and are
throwing up works on the heights in the vicinity

of Kam ara.

Omer Paella arrived at Balaklava on the 9th,
on which day a council of war was held.
The Princess Royal had arrived at Balaklava.
Rain and snow had fallen.

On the night of tho 9th the French born-

barded the town.
The Russians made sorties every night.

Accounts of the 18th from Varna state that up
to the 16th nothing important had ocourred
before Sebastopol.

CONSTASTINOPLE, FEB. 15.

Baron Koller, the new Austrian Minister, has

not yet arrived. Baron Bruck is still here.
French troops continually pass through the
Bosphorus.
Some Sardinian companies have arrived.
Ax unusual movement is remarked in the
Russian camp in the Crimea, where the weather
has become quite warm.