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The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-20

MI ILIONA.3 DOLAN.

This was an appeal from the last Birmingham Quarter
Sessions, in which Dolan was convicted for feloniously
receiving some property stolen by another prisoner,
named Rogers, from a Mr. Turner, his employer. The
facts, in brief, were that the property was found in the
possession of Rogers by Turner, who thereupon sent
for a police officer. The constable apprehended the
prisoner and took from him the stolen articles, and then
proceeded to Dolan's shop, accompanied by the prisoners
Rogers and Turner. Before reaching the shop, how-
ever, the policeman gave the property back to Rogers,
who, then, by the direction of Turner, went and dis-
posed of it at Dolaa's shop, where it was stated he had
previously found a sale for stolen goods, and gave what I
he received for it to Turner. The question arising out
of these facts was, whether Dolan had been properly
convicted of a felonious reception of the property in
question.

After hearing the arguments of Mr. O'Brien on behalf
of Dolan, and Mr. Beesley on the part of the proseetb•
tion,

Lord Campbell, in pronouncing the *pinion of the
Court, said he felt very strongly that the conviction was
wrong, because if such a doctrine as that involved in the
the case were held to be correct, then any article which
had been once stolen, but afterwards restored to its
owner, if disposed of at any future period might lay the
purchaser open to a criminal indictment. In the pre-
sent case there could be no doubt but that the owner of
the property had just as much the possession of, and
control over it, as though it had been in his own hands ;
and so having it in his possession, he authorised the
officer to give it to Rogers fora specific purpose—namely,
to sell it, and in
giving' it up the officer acted as his
agent. It could not, therefore, be said that Dolan, by
purchasing it, had brought himself within the act of Par-
'Bent as to the reception of stolen property. The con-
viction must, consequently, in his opinion, be quashed.
The other learned judges having expressed similar
opinions, the conviction was quashed accordingly.
London, England, 1855-01-20

PUBLIC BATHS AND WASHHO USES.

A Return, showing the Number of Bathers and Washers,
and the Receipts at the Establishments now open in
London, and also a few out of the many similar Insti-
tutions in the Country, for the year ending December
30, 1854 :

METROPOLIS.

District and Name of the
Establishment.

No. of
Bathers.

No. of Total Receipts.
Washers.

Whitechapel The
Model
St. Martin - in - the -
Fields 127,581 42,780 2,585 17 11
St. Marylebone ... 161,349 36,275 2,602 18 10
Westminster, St. Mar-
garet, and St. John 103,228 62,793 2,191 5 4
Greenwich 53,100 7,251 95412 8
Westminster Saint

E R. A.
156,158 45,124 3,03 G 16 0

111,471 41,116 2,147 8 11
53,18 G 10,078 1,027 2 6

James
Poplar—All Saints
St. Giles aid Blooms-
bury
Bermondsey—(opened
June 19)
Lambeth ( opened
April 2)
St. Pancras —George-
street

124,250

1,957 17 6

Totals for London
during 12 m0nth5...1,220,739 421,101 23,157 17 9
COUNTIIT.

Liverpool—
Cornwallie-street 134,032
Paul-street 59,597 14,260
George's Pier-head 53,710
Frederick - street
(opened July 24) 8,113 149 5 1
Hull
Bristol
Preston
Birmingham 101,457 4,903 1,830 18 9
Maidstone 33,393 8,948 384 3 7
GIORGI WOOLCOTT, Assistant Secretary.
Secretary's Office, 12, Buckingham-street, Adelphi,
January 19, 1855.

1,977 7 4

967 5 1
1,916 15 10
London, England, 1855-01-20

JOINT-STOI

all lAustralasia
all British Colonial Bank

and Loan Company
all British N. American
5 Chartd. Bank of Asia
2 Chrtd. Buk. of India,
Australia, & China
25 Colonial
20 Commercial of Loud
16 English Scottish and

Australian
all Loud. Chart. Bk. of
Australia
20 London and County
10 London Joint Stock
20 Loud. & Westminstc
35 National Provinciw
of England
10 Do. New
22 National of Ireland
all New South Wales._
all Oriental Bank of
Corporation
25 Provincial of Ireland
all Do. New
1 Royal Australn.Bkg.
& Cold Imp C 0....
all South Australia ......
all Union of Australia...
2 Do. New
t; • tiAoA of leoodoil.livii
London, England, 1855-01-20

THE TRANSPORT SERVICE IN THE

BLACK SEA.

Annexed is the reply of the Admiralty to the commu-
nication addressed to them at the beginning of the last
month, urging that the officers and men of the merchant
'vessels engaged in the transport service in the Black
Sea should be allowed to share in the postal advantages
enjoyed by the regular fleet :

" Admiralty, Jan. 10

" sin commanded by my Lords Coasmiscioners
of the Admiralty to acquaint you that, siace the receipt
of your letter of the 4th of December, they have beta in
communication with the Postmaster-General on the sub-
ject of assisting the officers and men of the transport ser-
vice in the East as regards their lettere, and the following
is the arrangement come to :
"The reduced rate of postage allowed to the army and
navy canna be extended to the transport service—i.e., if
letters aro sent via Marseilles—but their letters will be
cent, if prepaid, in closed mails, twice a week, through
France, with the mails for her Majesty's forces, and the
Army Postmaster has boon directed to receive and despatch
them, by which means it is hoped greater regularity and
despatch will bo secured.
" And with regard to letters unpaid, they will be opened
and returned to the writers, notice to which effect will be
given by the Post-office, as the Army Postmasters in the
East keep no accounts, their duties being confined to the
receipt and distribution of letters.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" W. A. B. HAMILTON.
" D. Dunbar, Esq."

CITY or LONDON MILITIA.-At a meeting of the
Counnission, held on Tuesday last, the 20th of February
next was fixed for the assembling of the regiment forming
the Royal London Militia, for permanent duty, and they
are to meet at ten o'clock in the morning at the Artil-
lery-ground, Finsbury. The Queen's warrant was for the
embodiment of the whole regiment, and not a part of it,
as was suggested at the last meeting. Captain Hall,
the adjutant, was appointed paymaster, but no one was
appointed quartermaster. Messrs. Bosanquet were ap-
pointed bankers and agents. There were several vacant
commissions, but the commissioners declined filling them
up until they saw what number of men ►nuster for per-
nianent duty. The meeting then Adjourned,
London, England, 1855-01-20

New-street, Dorset-square, dressmakers-3f. Falck and R.
Hirschfeld, King.street, Chempsido, foreign agents—J. J.
Waony, C. J. Hill, and F. Schmitter, Manchester, com-
mission merchants, so far as regards J. J. Waeny—A.
Thorpe, J. Thorpe, jun., S. N. Cropper, and J. S.
Cropper, Derby, silk throwsters, so far as regards J.
Thorpe, jun.—T. Smallthwaite and T. Perry, Liverpool,
car proprietcrs—J. Sharwin and W. Sharwin, Man-
chester, manufacturers of umbrella sticks—W. Wood-
head and S. Worsnop, Bradford, Yorkshire, printers
—E. Corbett, S. Cliff, and J. Chadwick, junior,
Manchester, agricultural chemists, so far as regards
E. Corbett —R. Eaton and S. Moss, Macclesfield,
Cheshire, silk throwsterf—Jonathan Jowett and John
Jowett, Bradbury, Cheshire, coal merchants—J. Cazneau
and A. Wright, St. Helen's-place, Bishopsgate-street, in-
s urance brokers—R. Clark, G. Pomfret, J. Hyde. and J.
Brown, Burnley, Lancashire, cotton cloth manufacturers
—J. Midgeley and N. Slater, Bradford, Yorkshire, plum-
bers—W. Gates and H. Norton, Basinghall-chambers,
City, wine merchants—Susannah Balls and J. Balls, Nor-
wich, boot manufacturers—J. T. Lea and H. Greathead,
Birmingham, lace dealers—T. P. Barkas and W. Barkas,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, printers—C. Thornhill, S. Thorn-
hill, M. Thornhill, and J. Thornhill, Sheffield, Yorkshire,
awl blade manufacturers, so far as regards J. Thornhill—
T. Davis, J. Davis, and J. M. Sponceley, Halifax, York-
shire, cabinet makers—C. H. Rhodes, J. Lane, and C. H.
R. Rhodes, Chancery-lane, and Gracechureh-street, City,
attorneys—T. Anderson, W. Thorburn, and J. Anderson,
Manchester, and Huddersfield, Yorkshire, woollen manu-
facturers, so far as regards T. Anderson.

BANK OF 7
An Account pursuant to the Act 1
the Week ending on Saturda:

ISSUE DEP.
Notes !fatted .. •• ~.. 25,830,560

425,880,560

Dated the 18th day of Jan., 185

BANKING DE
Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest ... 3,223,009
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-

ENGLAND.
'th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for
r the 13th day ofJan., 1855,

,ITMENT.

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities • 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 11,580,500
Silver bu11i0n........

ing's Banks,. and
Dividend Accounts) 2,294,292
Other deposits 10,842,702
Seven Day and other
81118........ . 1,271,406

A 25,880,6541
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
'4.

£32,189,409

:pAIITMENT.

Government securities
(includg.Dead Weight

Annuity) 11,731,427
Other securities...—. 14,035,963
Notes •• • • .... 5,763,465
Gold and silver coin.. 658,554

132,189,409
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 18th day of Jan., DI

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending the 16th
Jan., 1855, is 21s 6d per hundredweight exclusive of
the duties of Customs paid or payable thereto on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.
London, England, 1855-01-20

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Morey (barque) from Liverpool, lat. 51 N., long. 7
W.; Orontes (screw, steamer), same time.
The Santiago, New York to Melbourne, Dec. 12, lat. 40
N., long. 69 W.; F. W. Brune, New Orleans to Liver-
pool, same day, lat. 33, long. 73.
The Sarah and Emma, Newport to Bembay, Jan. 9, lat.
50 N., long. 10 W.
The Jamaica, for Jamaica, Jan. 11, lat. 50 N., long. 7
W.

The Lady Milton, of Liverpool, for Mobile, Jan. 5, lat.
48 N., long. 11 W.
The Benjamin, bound to San Francisco, Dec. 9, lat. 4
N., long. 24 W.

The gehen-Wiederda, bound to Port Philip, Jan. 11, lat.
7 N., long. 25 W.; Abel Gomer, Bombay to Liverpool, the
same day.
The Mathilde, Marseilles to Bombay, Jan. 12, lat. 9 N
25 Nr. .•

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.
London, England, 1855-01-20

FLIGHT OF POLES FROM THE RUSSIAN

CONSCRIPTION. -----
The Cologne Gazette publishes the following,
dated from the Oder, Jan.ls
"The persecution of the Polish fugitives who crossed
into Prussia with the view of escaping the Russian con-
scription is being carried on unrelentingly by the autho-
rities of the former state. Count von Westarp, a pro-
vincial judge in the southerd part of Upper Silesia, gave
directions on the 11th ult. to the subordinate officials of
his district to arrest 39 individuals, advertised as con-
script deserters by Russia, and on ascertaining their
identity to deliver them up forthwith to the Russian
authorities in Poland. That even the poorest classes in
Poland continue to dread and loathe Russian military
service is shown by the circumstance that all the thirty-
nine individuals in question, except two of them who are
Jews, are merely day labourers, poor workmen, and
household servants. Their ages lie between 18 to 25
years, and they all worked for their living, before they
took to flight in the districts called Miechovitz, Slop-
nik, Olkuss, Sandomierz, Opatov, and Opozynski.
London, England, 1855-01-20

CONTEMPLATED CORPORATE
REFORM.

The Right lion, the Lord Mayor yesterday caused a
special notice to be issued, calling together the Common
Council, to consider the report of the Consolidated
Committee upon that of the Royal Commissioners, ap-
pointed to inquire into the state of the corporation of
London, as notified by his lordship at the last Court of
Common Council.

With reference to the question, Mr. Thomas H. Fry
has given notice of the following motion, which upon that
day will assume the shape of an amendment, namely :
" That this Court, while ready at all times to effect all
necessary reforms in the Corporation, is of opinion that the
recommendations of the Consolidated Committee—
" To surrender the charters of the City,
To restrict the elective privileges of the citizens, by re-
ducing their representatives in common council to one-
third of their present number,
" To disturb the ancient boundaries of the wards,
" To withdraw from more than eleven thousand free-
men and liverymen the power which they have enjoyed
for more than three centuries of electing the lord mayor,
sheriffs, and other officers of the city, and centralising such
elections in a small section of the corporation, and
"Te render the magisterial election dependent upon
periodical election, are propositions subversive of the
rights and privileges of the citizens at large ; inconsistent
with the impartial administration of justice, and alike
opposed to the principles of local self-government and the
wishes of the constituency of this city ; and that therefore
this Court cannot agree with the (Consolidated Commit-
tee's) report."

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, JAIL 19.

NATURAL SCIENCES TRIPOS, 1855.
The examination for the Natural Sciences Tripos wi,
begin on Monday, March 5, at nine o'clock a.m., in the
Senate-house.

The order of the examination will be as follows :

Monday—Comparative Anatomy and Geology.
Tuesday—Physiology and Botany.
Wednesday—Chemistry and Mineralogy.
Thursday—Mixed Questions.

COMMENCING BACHELORS' NATURAL SCIENCES TRIPOS.
Any student in arts may be a candidate for honours
in the Commencing Bachelors' Natural Sciences Tripos
of 1855 who shall have passed the examination required
for the degree of 8.A., after Ash Wednesday, and in the
Lent Term 1855 have entered into his 11th term at least,
having previously kept mne terms, exclusive of the term
in which he was admitted ' • provided, however, that not
more than 11 terms shall have passed after the first of
the said nine terms.

Any student in law or medicine may be a candidate
for honours in the Commencing Bachelors' Natural
Sciences Tripos of 1855, who shall have passed the
examinations and kepi the exercises for the degree of
L.L.B. or M.B. respectively, and in the Lent Term,
1855, have entered into his fiurth Lent Term, after his
first term of residence ; provided that he has already
kept nine terms.
London, England, 1855-01-20

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LoNnox, Jan. 20.—Wind and weather this day at
Noon, fresh breezo from northward and eastward, with a
hard frost.

COWES, Jan. 19.—The Woodbine, of Cardiff, has been
got oft shore:
rORTgMOUTH, Jan. 19.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Sinopo,
from Constantinople, for Antwerp, with damage Cana-
dian (French steamer), transport, No. 176, from London,
for the Crimea ; H.M.'e steamer Janus, westward, and
left for the eastward.
Back of the Goodwin Sands.—Goo. Henry Wampas,
from Hamburg, for Adelaide, S.A.
Off the Lizard.—Tomate, from Sarawak.
Dovien, Jan. 19.—Wind. E.S.E. Arrived—Helene and
Olga, from Porto Cabello, for Hambnrgh.
PLYMOUTE, Jan. 19.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived—John ,
Barlett, from Manilla, for Antwerp; Laurel, Callao.
Sailed—Colonist, for Australia.
FALMOUTH, Jau. 19.—Wind, N.B. Arrived—Caracta-
cus, from Callao and Liverpool; Emma, St. Domingo, for
Havre,.
LOWESTOFT, Jan. 19.—The Eugenio has been assisted
off shore, leaky.
MALDON, Jan. 19.—The Jessy, tho Elizabeth, and a
foroign brig, which were on shore on the Black Tail, 14th
inst., havo been got off.
SUNDERLAND, Jan. 19.—Sailed—Black Sea and the
Celerity, for Balaklava. •
GRIMSBY ILOADS, Jan. 19.—Arrived—Phooniz, from
Callao, for the Moray Firth, in want of supplies.
Jnnszv, Jan. 18.—Wind, E. Sailed—Zarab, for Bar-
loadoes.
CROOKHAVEN.—Arrived—Dartmouth, from Mazagan,
for Queenstown.
ST. IVES (Cornwall), Jan. 18.—The Maria (sloop), of
Padstow, has been fallen in with in a sinking state, and
abandoned, but has been brought in here.

WOOLLENS FOR TIIE NAVY.—The Government orders
for supplying the navy with woollens were issued on
Wednesday. Several of the manufacturers and merchants
in Leeds -and district have born successful in their
tenders.
A.roTHEcAntEs' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the scienco and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practice, on
Thursday last :—Henry John Thorp, Mahlon, Essex ;
James Hutcheson Whiteside, Stockton-on-Tees.
Tus CoNvicr BARTIIELEMY.—The execution of this
criminal is fixed to take place on Monday next, in front
of the Old Bailey. The usual preparations for carrying
out the last sentence of the law were commenced yes-
terday, and extraordinary precautions will be taken in
anticipation of an unusual crowd of spectators.
CHURCH BELLS.—M. Bay, jun., a watchmaker at
Sainte-Austre-berthe (Seine Inf6rieure), has discovered
a means of repairing the bells of churches, when cracked,
without the tedious process hitherto considered indis-
pensable of recasting them. The operation is said to be
very simple, and does not necessitate the removal of the
bell from its place,
London, England, 1855-01-20

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

NOTICE TO MARINERS. ADRIATIC CURZOLA
CHANNELL BEACON ON SUSNAC SHOAL.
On the middle of the Susnac Shoal, which lies between
the rock of that name and the Island of Badia, in the
eastern entrance of the channel between the Islands of
Curzola and Sabioncello, a floating beacon has been placed
in fire fast water. It is of a four-sided, pyramidal form,
the upper part of which is painted red, and the lower part
white, and to avoid this vessels must keep 20 fathams dis-
tant from the beacon.

Admiralty chaiteaffected by. this notice will be No.
2,153, Mediterranean Sea ; No. 1,440, Adriatic Sea ; No.
204, Adriatic Sea, Sheet 5; and No. 1,616, Curzola
Channel.

FIXED LIGHT,
ON BOONS ISLAND, MAINE,
The United States has given notice, that a new Light-
house Tower has been erected near the old Lighthouse on
Boone Island, in about 43 deg. 8 min. N., and 70 deg. 29
min. W. of Greenwich, and that its fixed light was to bo
exhibited on the Ist of this month, from which date the
light in the old tower would be discontinued.

Th; tower is built of grey granite, I.IS feet high, and the
light being 133 feet above the level of the sea, will be seen
from the deck of a moderate-sized vessel, at the distance
of 18 miles.

Bearings and distances of the New Lighthouse from pro-
minent places in the vicinity, viz.:—Boone Island Ledge,
W., distant 2 miles ; York Ledge Beacon, E. by N., dis-
tant 5i miles ; Isle of Shoals Lighthouse, N. by E. E.,
distant 15 miles; Waleback Lighthouse, N.E. 13 miles.
Me above bearings are magnetic.
Admiralty Chart affected by this notice will be No. 268
N. America, East Coast sheet 5, and United States Light-
house List, page 8, No. 34.

CUSTOM HOUSE, JAN. 19.
ENTZRED INWARDS.—The Alida from Konigsburgh—
Alexander, Rotterdam—Jane, St. Üba's--Reward, Bruges
—Nimrod, HambUrgb—Glackauf, Memel—Eyerhardus—
Othello, Stockholm—Elise, Rotterdam.

ENTERED OUTWARDS. The Centaur for Corfu, Zante,
and Patras—Elizabeth, Grenada—Hawk, Dunkirk—Pa-
queto, Cadiz and Seville—Tenerife, Malta, Corfu, and
ratras—Santarang, Melbourne—Annie Marie Elizabeth,
Copenhagen—Julia, Adelaide--Iceni, Launceston—An-
teinette, Sydney—Bravo, Censtantinople—Pacha, Deme-
rara—Tres Grmcas, Oporto.
CLEARED OUT WITS C•aGO.—The Kestrel, for Malta
and Alexandria—Grasmere, New Zealand.
London, England, 1855-01-20

LLOYD'S SHIPPIIIrG-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Jan. 20.—Wind and weather this day at
goon. fresh breeze from northward and eastward, with a
hard frost.

COWES, Jan. 19.—The Woodbine, of Cardiff, has been
got off shore.
PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 19.—Wind, N.B. Arrived—Sinope,
from Constantinople, far Antwerp, with damage Cana-
dian (French steamer), transport, No. 176, from London,
for the Crimea ; steamer Janus, westward, and
left for the eastward.

Back of the Goodwin Sands.—Geo. Henry Wampas,
from Hamburg, for Adelaide, S.A.
Off the Lizard.—Tomato, from Sarawak.
DOVER, Jan. 19.—Wind. E.S.E. Arrived—Helene and
Olga, from Porto Cabello, for Hamburgh.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 19.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived—John
Barlett, from Manilla, for Antwerp; Laurel, Callao.
Sailed—Colonist, for Australia.i
FALMOUTH, Jan. 19.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Caracta-
cue, from Callao and Liverpool; Emma, St. Domingo, fur
Havre.

LOWESTOFT, Jan. 19.—The Eugenie has been assisted
off shore, leaky.
MALDON, Jan. 19.—The Jassy, the Elizabeth, and a
foreign brig, which were on shore on the Black Tail, 14th
inst., have been get off.
SUNDERLAND, Jan. 19.—Sailed—Black Sea and the
Celerity, for Balaklava.
GRIMSBY ROADS, Jan. 19.—Arrived—Phoenix, from
Callao, for the Moray Firth, in want of supplies.
JERSEY, Jan. 18.—Wind, E. Sailed—Zarab, for Bar-
badoes.

CROOKHAVEN.—Arrived—Dartmouth, from Mnzagan,
for Queenstown.
ST. IVES (Cornwall), Jan. 18.—The Maria (sloop), of
Padstow, has been fallen in with in a sinking state, and
abandoned, but has been brought in here.

WOOLLENS FOR THE NAVY.—The Government orders
for supplying the navy with woollens were issued on
Wednesday. Several of the manufacturers and
merchants
in Leeds and district have been successful. in their
tenders.
APOTHECARIES' ILALL.—Names. of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practice, on
Thursday last :—Henry Jelin Thorp, Maldon, Essex ;
James Hutcheson Whiteside, Stockton on-Tee4
THE CONVICT BARTHELEMT.—The execution of this
criminal is fixed to take place on Monday next, in front
of. the Old Bailey. , The usual preparations for carrying
out the last sentence of the law were commenced yes-
terday, and extraordinary precautions will be taken in
anticipation of an unusual crowd of spectators.
CHURCH BELLS.—M. Ray, jun., a watchmaker at
Sainte-Austre-berthe (Seine Lal6rieure), has discovered
a means of repairing the bells of churches, when cracked,
without the tedious process hitherto considered indis-
pensable of recasting them. The operation is said to be
very simple, and does not necessitate the removal of the
bell from its place.
London, England, 1855-01-20

MIDDLE BACHELORS' NATURAL SCIENCES TRIPOS.

Any student may be a candidate for honours in the
Middle Bachelors' Natural Sciences Tripos of 1555, who
at the time of the examination for the Commencing
Bachelors' Natural Sciences Tripos, in 1854, was duly
qualified in point of standing and other circumstances to
be a candidate for honours in that tripos.
No student of a different standing car be a candidate
for honours in either tripos, unless he shall have obtained
permission from the Syndicate appointed to consider the
cases of persons who have degraded.
All persons desirous of being candidates in this ex-
amination must send their names to the Professor of
.Anatomy ou or before Friday, March 2, 1855.
London, England, 1855-01-20

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Jan. 16.—Whatever may be the opinion
of the Diet as to the " pacific declarations" of Rus-
sia, we hero in Vienna neither hear of nor observe
any pause in our vast military preparations. An
immense camp is being fortified at Przesmysl, at
which 10,000 mei are said to be constantly labour-
ing. It is destined to be a grand depot for arms,
ammunition, and provisions, and, whilst serving
as a base for operations, to supply also the want of
fortresses in Gallicia. The Augsburg Gazette con-
tradicts the report I mentioned some time since,
that Count Schlick was recalled from the com-
mand of the cavalry concentrated rcund Cracow.
Count Arnim, the Prussian envoy, is making
every possible exertion to obtain for Prussia a seat
and voice in the conferences for the re-establishment
of peace. Prussia having by her own vacillating
policy lost her former position as a first-rate Euro-
pean power, Austria, France, and England can
carry on the negotiations wall Russia very well, and
perhaps better, without the assistance of Prussia.
The latter has now become greatly alarmed at hav-
ing carried matters to such a length, and is willing
at any price to be again admitted into the con-
ferences. The Allied powers, however, de•
mand the following concessions from Prussia be-
fore complying with her wishes : Ist, her adhesion
to the December treaty ; 2d, that she shall offer no
opposition to the proposal about to be made by Aus-
tria to the Bund at Frankfort for the mobilisation
of the whole army of the German Confederation ;
and 3d, that she shall herself mobilise immediately
100,000 men, and concentrate them as an army of
observation on the Russian frontiers. It remains
to be seen whether Prussia will accept these condi-
tions. The time appears to be at length arrived
when she raugt mak() up 1 mulct to follow one
London, England, 1855-01-20

COMFORTS FOR THE CRIMEA..

Yesterday a considerable number of bedsteads were
shipped at the Tower for conveyance to the hospital at
Scutari, Constantinople. These bedsteads are reported
to be on an improved construction, and adapted to the
requirements of those wounded or suffering from ampu-
tation.

The ladies' committee formed at Leeds have within
about a fortnight only despatched to the Crimea the
following useful articles for the army :-1,254 linen and
cotton shirts, 300 pairs of woollen drawers, 2,028 pairs
of stockings and socks, 350 pairs of gloves, 276 linen
sheets, 403 towels, 504 flannel vests, half a ton of old
linen, 136 down pillows, 552 pocket handkerchiefs, 14
blankets, 2 bundles of newspapers, 30,000 books and
tracts, 9 bundles of lint, 3 sacks of bandages, 94 dozen
of Amontillado sherry, contributed by Mr. Hamilton
Richardson, 10,000 needles, 61b of thread, an innume-
rable collection of mits, 1 box of arrowroot, 1 large box
of lanterns, 1 large bale of tow, 36 cotton caps, buttons,
pins, thread, &c., 5 dreadnoughts, 37 woollen coats, 2
hair mattresses, 12 prepared hareskine, 1 bundle of slip-
pers, 1 sack of slings, a large number of muffatees and
gs.untlets, and a number of railway wrappers. The weight
of the goods sent amount to 2 tons 14 cwt. 3 qrs. 13 lb.,
and their value, at the most moderate estimate, is 8301.
Yesterday notice was given on the Royal Exchange
that within 20 days from that date the Russian veriel
Odessa, seized under simulated papers In the port of
Hull, would be condemned and sold as a lawful prize to
her captors.
The hospital at Fort'Pitt, Chatham, is now so full of
patieks that there is hardly room for the invalids as
they arrive. There are upwards of 300 mon now in the
sick wards.
London, England, 1855-01-20

MILITARY.

The Canadian Steam Navigation Company's screwship
Canadian (now the hired transport No. 176) arrived at
Portsmouth yesterday from the Thames, to embark some
of the detachments of regiments, which we have before
detailed as ordered to embark for the Crimea in the
Crcesus, now refitting at Southampton—viz.' draughts
from the 4th Regiment, the 7th, 18th, 19th, 23d, 28th,
,34th, 33th, 44th, 46th, 71st, 77thl88th, 93d, 95th, Ist
battalion of Royals, and Ist battalion Rifle Brigade—in
all about 1,200 troops. The Canadian's arrival was re-
ported to the War-office last night, and orders as to the
embarkation of her allotment of the above draughts will
be despatched to Portsmouth this day.
The newly formed depot battalion at Mullingar con-
sists of the depots of the 14th, 62d, and 90th Regiments.
The officers of the staff of the above depot battalion now
present at Mullingar are Col. J. T. Hill, commanding ;
Major Johnson* Brevet-Major and Adjutant D. G. A.
Darroch, and Lieutenant and Quartermaster J. Burke.
Second Captains G. L. Chandler and J. De Luttrell Saun-
derrien and First LientenantH. H. Conolly are the officers
who embarked with Captain Hawkins's company of
the Royal Artillery at Dublin, for Liverpool on the
17th inst., en route to Woolwich, preparatory to their
immediate embarkation for the Crimea.
Colonel J. B. Gough, Deputy-Quartermaster-General
(Ireland), has arrived in Dublin from the East Indies,
and has taken over the duties of that office from Brevet-

Major J. H. C. Robertson, Royal Engineers, Assistant
Deputy-Quartermaster-General.
On Wednesday morning the depot of the 92d High-
landers, which has been stationed in Belfast for some
tittle past, left in the Stork, for Glasgow, en route to
Edinburgh. The party, which mustered upwards of
200 strong, was under the command of Lieut.-Colonel
Lockhart.
London, England, 1855-01-20

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HOSPITAL STAFF.

Assistant Staff-Surgeon Ed ward William Bewtree, M.D.,
;o be Staff-Surgeon of the 2d Class, Jai. 19.
MEMORANDUM.

Major-General Henry Dwyer, Major on half-pay, Unat-
tached, has been permitted to retire from the service by
the sale of his commission.
The lame of Captain Edward Herbert Maxwell, of the
88th Foot, having been erroneously inserted in the list of
officers promoted to the Brevet rank of Major, in the
Gazette of 12th Dec., 1854, such promotion has accordingly
been cancelled.
The first Christian name of Ensign Browning, of the
89th Foot, is Montague, and not Montagu, as previously
stated.

The Christian name of the Ensign appointed to the 37th
Foot on the 22(1 Dec., 1154, is Jarvis, and nct Jervis, as
previously stated.
The promotion of Lieut. a. J. Wolseley to a company,
without purchase, in the 90th Foot, as stated in the Gazette
of the 29th Dec., 1154, has been cancelled.
CONIMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
tat Royal Surrey Militia—George Rontree, Gent., to be
Quartermaster, Deo. is.
Ist West York Regiment of Militia—John Mitcham
Isaac, Esq., to be Paymaster, from the 20th December,
Dec. 21.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
County of Essex—Caledon Du Pre Alexander, Esq., to
be Deputy Lieutenant, Jan. 16.
County of Pembroke—Thomas Mansel, Esq., and Wm.
Owen, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenants, Jan. 16.
Royal Bucks King's Own Militia—Lieutenant Charles
James Palmer to be Captain. vice Ridley Smith, resigned.
Rutland Militia—Second Lieutenant Edward Costall to
be First Lieutenant, vice Alexander Doris, etired, Jan.l.
Dort* Regiment of Alilitirt—Aslaton, Warlacr, Goat"
London, England, 1855-01-20

ABOLITION OF THE CROSSBELT.

The old-fashioned cross-belts, which were worn by the
household troops in the Crimea, having been found to
be extremely cumbersome, contracting the chest and
retarding the movement of the guardsman, while the
infantry of the line, having a waistbelt instead of a
shoulder-belt for the bayonet, performed their evolutions
with greater rapidity, the commanding officers of the
Brigade of Guards have dispensed with the side or bayo-
net belt, and the men have only a shoulder-belt for the
pouch, and are accoutred in every respect as regiments
of the line.
London, England, 1855-01-20

MILITARY.

The Canadian Steam Navigation Company's screwship
Canadian (now the hired transport No. 176) arrived at
Portsmouth yesterday from the Thames, to embark some
of the detachments of regiments, which we have before
detailed as ordered to embark for the Crimea in the
Crcesus, now refitting at Southampton—via., draughts
from the 4th Regiment, the 7th, 18th, 19th, 23d, 28th,
34th, 38th, 44th, 46th, 71st, 77thA88th, 93d, 95th, Ist
battalion of Royale, aid let battalion Rifle Brigade—in
all about 1,200 troops. The Canadian's arrival was re-
portedt
othe Wtoarp-office loaustthntighhist,danynd. orders as to the
embarkation of her allotment of the above draughts will
be despatched
The newly formed depot battalion At Mullingar con-
sists of the depots of the 14th, 62d, and 90th Regiments.
The officers of the stafref the above depot battalion now
present at Mullingar are Col. J. T. Hill, commanding ; '
Major Johnson' Brevet-Major and Adjutant D. G. A.
Darroch, and Lieutenant and Quartermastar J. Burke.
Second Captains G. L. Chandler and J. De Luttrell Saun-
dersen and First Lieutenant H. H. Conolly are the officers
who embarked with Captain Hawkins's company of
the Royal Artillery at Dublin, for Liverpool on the
17th inst., en route to Woolwich, preparatory to their
immediate embarkation for the Crimea.

Colonel J. B. Gough, Deputy-Quartermaster-General
(Ireland), has arrived in Dublin from the East Indies,
and has taken over the duties of that office from Brevet-
Major J. H. C. Robertson, Royal Engineers, Assistant
Deputy-Quartermaster-General.
On Wednesday morning the depot of the 92d High-
landers, which has been stationed in Belfast for some

theie past, left in the Stork, for Glasgow, en route to
Edinburgh. The party, which mustered upwards of
200 strong, was under the command of Lieut.• Colonel
Lockhart.
London, England, 1855-01-20

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JIILLIEN'S CONCERTS.
• RJYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.
LAST WEEK BUT ONE.

The PROGRAMME for THIS EVENING, Saturday, Jan. 2C,
will include the Andante and Finale from Beethoven's Concerto in
C Minor, performed by Madame Pleyel; New songs, Minnie, and
(first time) Charlie, sung by Madame Anna Thillon ; Overture, Son
and Stranger; Pietro it Grande Quadrille ; the Adagio from W. H.
Fry's Dramatic Symphony ; the Sleigh Polka (second time) ; grand
Operatic Selection from Les Huguenots; the Pantomime Quadrille ;
Marche des Guides (first time) ; Solo, flute, Mr. W. S. Pratten ; the
Charge Oalop ; and the grand Allied Armies Quadrille, assisted by the
three Bands of her Majesty's Guards ; God:Save the Queen, Partant
Pour la Syria, &e. &c.
London, England, 1855-01-20

THE TRANSPORT SERVICE IN THE

BLACK SIA.

Annexed is the reply of the Admiralty to the commu-
nication addressed to them at the beginning of the last
month, urging that the officers and men
of the merchant
vessels engaged in the transport service in the Black
Sea should be allowed to share in the postal advantages
enjoyed by the regular fleet :

" Admiralty, Jan. 10
" Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty to acquaint you that, since the receipt
of your letter of the 4th of December, they have been in
communication with the Postmaster-General on the sub-
ject of as the officers and men of the transport ser-
vice in the East as regards their letters, and the following
is the arrangement come to :
"The reduced rate of postage allowed to the army and
navy cannot be extended to the transport service—i.e., if
letters are sent via Marseilles—but their letters will be
sent, if prepaid, in closed mails, twice a week, through
France, with the mails for her Majesty's forces, and the
Army Postmaster has been directed to receive and despatch
them, by which means it is hoped greater regularity and
despatch will be secured.
" And with regard to letters unpaid, they will be opened
and returned to the writers, notice to which effect will be
given by the Post-office, as the Army Postmasters in the
East keep no accounts, their duties being confined to the
receipt and distribution of letters.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"W. A. B. HAMILTON.
" D. Dunbar, Esq."
,

CITY OF LONDON MILITIA.—At a meeting of the
Commission, held on Tuesday last, the 20th of February
next was fixed for the assembling of the regiment forming
the Royal London Militia. for permanent duty, and they
are to meet at ten o'clock in the morning at the Artil-
lery-ground, Finsbury. The Queen's warrant was for the
embodiment of the whole regiment, and not a part of it,
as was suggested at the last meeting. Captain Hall,
the adjutant, was appointed paymaster, but no one was
appointed quartermaster. Messrs. Bosanquet were ap-
pointed bankers and agents. Them were several vacant
commissions, but the commissioners declined filling them
up until they saw what number of men muster for per-
manent duty. The meeting then adjourned.
London, England, 1855-01-20

CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.

Last evening a publio meeting of this society was held
at the Beaumont Institution, Mile-end-road ; Viscount
Ingestre in the chair.
The CMAIRMAN said that they had come there to urge
the claims of the Conservative Land Society, the direc-
tors of which, he could conscientiously say, all felt a pe-
culiar interest in the rights of the shareholders, while
lie himself had comelso miles in order to preside at their
meeting. He believed that all the gentlemen who took
shares in the society would naturally hold Conservative
principles, although, at the same time, the society was a
land society, and enabled all, whatever their political
feelings, to obtain land and a house for themselves. He,
however, believed that none would subscribe their names
to it unless they knew themselves to be conservatives.
(Hear.) One thing was certain, that every tendency,
whether Radical or Whig, which induced men to save
their earnings, and become landlords instead of tenants,'
was to their own advantage. (Hear, hear.) He felt
deeply upon 13.. question of conservatism, and would
ask them, whatever their principle. be, whether
they would not sooner have any Government than
the present ? He considered that in supporting con-
servatism they would be attending to their own in-
terests and to those of the country. For his own
part, he would rather see men of straightforward
principles—of principles, for instance, like those of Mr.
Bright, who advocated peace—be would rather see
Mr. Bright in power than a Government which said one
thing and meant another. After deprecating the want
of unity and energy on the part of the Conservatives,
his lordship apologised to the meeting for digression from
the subject before them, and concluded by expressing
his earnest belief that the Conservative Land Society
conferred advantages upon all who wished to invest
their money to their own profit.
Mr. Fowler, Dr. Worthington, and other gentlemen
afterwards addressed the meeting in support of the
society and conservatism, and also in explanation of the
mode of allotment of an estate recently purchased at
Old Ford.
London, England, 1855-01-20

REAR-ADMIRAL SIR 11. LEEKE.

A letter from the naval department of the Hon. East
India Company's service at Bombay, dated December
the 14th, says :—" The indefatigable Commander-in-
Chief, Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Leeke, R.N., is hard at
work in a way he likes—fitting out the Punjab (which
was built for a steamer), 1,800 tons, as a sailing trans-
port, to convey the 10th Hussars to Suez; thence they
march across the Desert, and so on to Alexandria, down
the margin of the Nile, and then to the Crimea. The
Punjab will carry 450 horses and men, and there are
vessels for the rest that will be ready. The Punjab was
only launched a month ago. On Tuesday evening, the
12th inst. (December), Sir Henry Leeke sent in his plan
to Government ; it was immediately approved ; and on
Wednesday he commenced to get her ready under his
personal superintendence, which your home dockyard
superintendents might take a hint from at these busy
times. He commenced to get her masts in and to work
at her; she has, of course, to be caulked, coppered, rigged,
stored, provisioned, watered, (650 tons), decks to be laid,
sails, awnings, fittings of all sorts to be supplied, and in
six days he has promised the Government she shall go
out of dock with topgallantyarde across, sails beat, and
everything ready for sea—and she will be ready by the
day promised. To-day her lower masts and yards are
rigged, 450 tons of ballast in, tanks going on board,
and all is work.' I never saw fellows work better
and they gave Sir Henry three hearty cheers on his ad-
dressing them as to the urgency of their service. She
will be ready on Monday—Sunday will not be employed.
This is pretty well, it is thought here (Bombay), for a
British admiral who is not thought workable enough to
be rated an admiral on the activo list' of tho Loyal
Navy."

LOSS OF A BREMEN RRIO.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN.

SIR,—I beg to forward you the following particulars
of the total loss of the Bremen brig Henriette, Captain
Hoisloop, from Bremen to St. Jago do Cuba :—The
vessel went on the Long Sand on Tuesday night, about
12 o'clock, the sea immediately making a clean breach
over and filling her.' The crew took themselves to the
main-top, where, by the help of the main-top-sail, they
made a kind of hurricane-house to shelter themselves
from the inclement weather. In this state, without food
or water, the unfortunate crew remained until this
(Friday) morning, expecting every roll of the vessel or
breaking sea to be their last moment. Mercifully, the
Ocean, of this port, on her way to the North
Sea, fortunately discovered them, and immediately
went to their assistance, although a heavy sea was
running at the time. They were, however, enabled to
rescue them all, and landed them here about 2 o'clock
to-day. The poor fellows, from long exposure to the
severe weather, were much frost-bitten in their feet and
hands. The Bremen Consul immediately took charge
of them, and afforded all the care and attention their
case required. The vessel's cargo, consisting of bricks,
Holland's gin, &c., was all lost.
Margate, an. 19.
London, England, 1855-01-20

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Mercy (barque) from Liverpool, lat. 51 N., long. 7
W.; Orontes (screw•steamer), same time.
The Santiago, Now York to Melbourne, Dec. 12, lat. 40
N., long. 69 W.; F. W. Brune, New Orleans to Liver-
pool, same day, lat. 33, long. 73.
The SArah and Emnaa, Newport to Bombay, Jan. 9, lat.
50 N., long. 10 W.

The Jamaica, for Jamaica, Jan. 11, lat. 50 N., long. 7
W.

The Lady Milton, of Liverpool, for Mobile, Jan. t, lat.
48 N., long. 11 W.
The Benjamin, 14ouud. to San Francisco, Doc. 9, lat. 4
N., long. 21 W.
The Schon-Wiedorda, bound to Port Philip, Jan. 11, lat.
7 N., long. 25 W.; Abel Gomer, Bombay to Liverpool, the
same day.
The Mathilde, Marseilles to Bombay, Jan. 12, lat. 9 N
33 W".

RAILWAY PRAFFIC RETURNS.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Milos
opened,
1855.

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Kucelpts.

1855
London, England, 1855-01-20

EXCHEQUER CHAMBER

Their lordships (Lord Campbell, Baron Platt, and
Justices Coleridge, Cresswell, and Williams) were en-
gaged during a portion of this morning in this court, in
hearing appeals in criminal cases.

RI THOMLS DOLAN. '

This was an appeal from the last Birmingham Quarter
Sessions, in which Dolan was convicted for feloniously
receiving some property stolen by another prisoner,
named Rogers, from a Mr. Turner, his employer. The
facts, in brief, were that the property was found in the
possession of Rogers by Turner, who thereupon cent
for a police officer. The constable apprehended the
prisoner and took from him the stolen articles, and then
proceeded to Dolan's shop, accompanied by the prisoners
Rogers and Turner. Before reaching the shop, how-
ever, the policeman gave the property back to Rogers,
who, then, by the direction of Turner, went and dis-
posed of it at Dolara's shop, whore it was stated he had
previously found a sale for stolen goods, and gave what
he received for it to Turner. The question arising out
of these facts was, whether Dolan bad been properly
convicted of a felonious reception of the property in
question.

After hearing the arguments of Mr. O'Brien on bekal
of Dolan, and 3,1 r. Beesley on th e part of the prosecu
tion,

Lord Campbell, in pronouncing the opinion of the
Court, said he felt very strongly that the conviction was
wrong., because if such a doctrine as that involved in the
the case were held to be correct-, then any article which
had been once stolen, but afterwards restored to its
owner, if disposed of at any future period might lay the
purchaser open to a criminal indictment. In the pre-
sent case there could be no doubt but that the owner of
the property had just as much the possession of, and
control over it, as though it bad been in his own hands ;
and so having it in his possession, he authorised tie
officer to give it to Rogers fora specific purpose—namely,
to sell it, and in giving it up the officer acted as his
agent. It could not, therefore, be said that Dolan, by
purchasing it, had brought himself within the act of Par-
ment as to the reception of stolen property. The con-
viction must, consequently, in his opinion, be quashed.
The other learned judges having expressed similar
opinions, the conviction was quashed accordingly.
London, England, 1855-01-20

THE WAR IN ASIA.

From Kars we hear that the nomination of Ismail
Pacha as Governor of Anatolia has given the
greatest possible satisfaction to the troops. All
have the greatest confidence in him, on account of
his known talents, of which his military and stra-
tegic works give such full proof. The whole
neighbourhood of Kars is thoroughly fortified, all
the works being now undar the command of Hus-
sein Pacha, who has divided the army for the de-
fence of every point. The inhabitants themselves
are to take charge of the city.

Every week the soldiers are drilled and specially
prepared for the threatening campaign. The food
of the men is excellent, and they begin to forget
those miserable times when they were without
support for many dreary hours, when flour was
served out to them by the handful, instead of the
regular ration of bread. Schamyl has entered
Sarzbache, where he took a goodly number of Rus-
sian prisoners, having left Sarzbache to the care
of Daniel Sultan who was formerly a general in the
Russian service, whereas now he is commander-in-
chief of the army of the Sheik Schamyl. He has
under him 20,000 men, of whom 6,000 are regular
troops, principally deserters from the Russian
army, and commanded by Polish officers. The in-
habitants of the Caucasus so dread the Russians
that they are delighted at Schamyl's drawing so
near to them. It is said that his army is daily in-
creasing from the number of deserters that come
over to him from the enemy. The cold was very
severe, but the snow- had not yet covered the
plains.

POLAND.