The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-15 00:00:00

METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT

ACT.

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The followinz have been elected menibPrs of the Cen-
tral Board of Works, for the districts specified :
GREENWICH AND DEPTFORD.—Messrs. Bristow and
Th wastes.

PLUMSTBAD, CHARLTON, AND LENVISII.A.M.—Mr. Chas.
Atkins, of Lewisham.
WooLwica.—Mr. Lewis Davis.

Miss Nightingale has been in the habit of seenlinc
borne weekly considerable sums (often as much as 200/.
or 300/. a week) made up of small ones of 20s. or 30,i.,
which soldiers begged her to remit.
General Todtleben met with an enthusiastic recep-
tion on arriving at St. Petersburg a few days since. A
dinner was given•him by the Grand Duke Nicholas and
the generals and officers of the army at Sebastopol, who
happened to be staying at the moment in the capital.
The Royal Yacht Club has taken Cowes Castle, in the
Isle of Wight, for a club house.
HACKNEY CHURCH RATE.—The following was the state
of the poll at its close yesterday, the second day :
Against the rate, 932 ; for the rate, 704. Majority
against, 228.
MEATH ELECTION.—The following was the state of
the poll at its final close ‘Evoy, 1,639 ; Meredyth,
899. Majority for M'Envoy, 740.
The letters from Hamburg state that money has
again become very scarce in that city, and that tale rate
of discount has returned to 6; per cent.
A banquet was
given on Tuesday evening, at Taun-
ton, to Col. Chapman, on his return from the Crimea.
Yesterday morning a man was found lying dead on
the railway passing over Bridge-street, Hackney.
The commercial advisee by the India mail yesterday
are, on the whole, slightly less unfavourable. At Bom-
bay such sales as had been forced of manufactured goods
had been at a further decline, but at Calcutta there had
been an active inquiry at improving prices.
Is the Court of Chancery on Thursday the case a gain st
the original directors of the South Australian Copper
Mining Company was brought to a decision, and they
were declared liable to make good any loss occaskned to
their mode of ;dieting
the company by the shares, and
to account for a difference of 8,000/. in the sum alleged
to have been paid for the mines. The question as to
the payment of
costs was deferred, but the Court inti-
mated an opinion that they *should be thrown upon the
defendants.
NEW PAMPHLET BY MB. COBDEN.—Mr. Cobden, we
understand, is preparing a Pamphlet for publication,
which will wake its appearance in all probability in a few
days.—Manchester Examiner.
The cornoners jury have held an inquiry into the
death of Mr. John Blaylock who was unfortunately
killed, a few days since, while attempting to leap upon
a train which was in motion at the Tranmere station of
the Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction Railway. It
appears that the trains do not stop at this station unless
a signal is exposed, and on this occasion the statioe-
reader, William Williams, was abseht from his duty.
The driver seeing no signal, of course did not stop it
the station, and hence the accident. .A. verdict of man-
sliughter has been returned against the station-master.
THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.—tis we intimated

in our last this unfortunate commissioni3,in a state of
dissolution, Mr. Romilly has resigned his office as one
of the commissioners, and if we are not misinformed,
the experiment, having been tried and having signally
failed, will be given up "as a bad job." Mr. Henry
Lewis Wickham, late Chairman of the Board of Stamps
and Tax&, has been mentioned as his probable suc-
cessor to Mr. Romilly, but it is far more probable that
the Civil Service Commission will be knocked on the
head.—Civil Service Gazette.

VACA/rIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN TUE
CIVIL itIiVICE--War Department—Mr. Richardson
has been appointed clerk in the Storekeeper's Depart.
ment, rico Forbes ; Mr. Charles D'Oyley Forbes has
been appointed clerk in the Storekeeper's Department
at Gibraltar.—The Board of Trade—Mr. Lancelot
Spence has been appointed a junior supplementary
clerk.—Customs—Mr. Henry S. Persse has been ap-
pointed a clerk in the Imports and Exports Office in
Londor. Mr. John B. Bunyard has been appointed an
extra clerk in the Imports and Exports. Office in Lon-
don. lifr. Henry Jones bas been appointed an extra
clerk in the Imports and Exports Office in London. Mr.
James Smethurst has been appointed an extra clerk in
the Imports and Exports Office in London.—Scotland
—A. vacancy has been created in the office of Professor
of Military Surgery in the University of Edinburgh by
the death of Sir George Ballingall, M.D.—lreland--A
vacancy has been caused in the office of Vice-President
of the Royal Cork Institution by the death of Dr.
Haines.—Tasmania—Captain Hawkins has been ap-
pointed Surveyor-General, and Mr. Sprent, Deputy
Surveyor-General of the Colony, in lieu of Mr. Robert
Power, retired on 5001. a year pension, and of Mr. H.
C. Cotton, either pensioned or otherwise provided for.—
Cape of Good Hope—Mr. Andrew Wyley has been ap-
pointed Geological Surveyor for the Colony of the Cape.
—Fast Indies—Mr. C. D. Russell has been appointed
collector of Sarun. Mr. G. L. Martin has been ap-
pointed collector of Purneah. Mr. E. F. Latour has
been appointed collector of Tirboot.—Ceylon—Mr. P.
W. Braybrooke has been appointed principal Assistant
Colonial Secretary, and clerk to the council. Mr. J.
Swan has been appointed second assistant in the Colo-
nial Secretary's Office, in the room of Mr. J, Frazer,
deceased. Mr. E. R. Power has bden appointed Go-
vernment Agent for the Central Province, vice Mr. C.
R. Buller, resigned.—Civil Service Gazette.

LATEST NEWS.

NEWS FROM KARS.

Refusal of the Terms of the Besieged, and

Sortie of the Garrison.

VIENNA, SATURDAY.

The Fronden Blatt contains a letter from a
British officer at Kars, dated Nov. 11, informing
us that the state of the besieged garrison was

hopeless.
They had offered to surrender if permitted to
retreat to Erzeroum, but these terms were refused
by General Mouravieff.

On the ]Oth the garrison made a sortie, but

were repulsed.

(From the Morning Post of this day.)

We pledge ourselves to the authenticity of the

intelligence respecting the capitulation of Kars,
which was published excusively in this journal on

Wednesday last.

We were perfectly correct in stating that
General Kmety, the commander of Kars, had,
with another officer, effected his escape through
the Russian outposts to Erzeroum, and that
thence intelligence has been received from him.
General Kmety states that before he left General
Williams had despatched a flag of truce to General
Mouravieff offering capitulation.

That Kars is in possession of the Russians
there can be no doubt. That the brave Williams

and his noble comrades are prisoners there is

every reason to fear. If terms of capitulation
could not be agreed upon, General Williams's

only alternative was to cut his way through the
Russian force, and risk the extermination of his
troops. Beaten by disease and fatigue, their food
and ammunition at an end, relief hopeless, the
men who have made the name of Kars illustrious
could, by no human means, long3r defend the
place for which they have sacrificed so much.

With this deplorable catastrophe we fear the

campaign in Asia will close for the winter.

(Front the Journal des Debats. )

The English journals continue to announce the
capture of the city of Kars by General Mouravieff.
We do not wish to contradict this news, unhap-

pily but too probable ; we believe, however, that
no despatch has arrived at Paris officially confirm-
ing the intelligence. The letters received this
day (Thursday) from Constantinople speak of the
critical state of Kars, but not of its capitulation.
They tell us also that the city and its environs

were covered with a bed of snow more than six

feet deep, and which, without considering the

enemy, would be sufficient to prevent all attempts

to revictual it.

(From, the Cottrrier de Marseille, of the 13th inst.)
Accounts of the movements of the expedi-
tionary corps of Omer Pasha, on the banks of the
river Phasis, had been received at Constantinople.
The operations of Omer Pasha inspired much
confidence at Constan tin ople. Everybody was per-
suaded thathe would soon roach Kutais, and that an

encounter with the enemy must be favourable to

the Ottoman army, which is in a far better con-
dition than the forces opposed to it, who have to

cover and defend a great number of points. This

bold diversion of Omer Paella, however, had not

yet been attended with any satisfactory result for
Kars. The garrison- was reduced to the greatest
straits, and although the constancy of the Turks

may still prolong the resistance, it is doubtful
that the heroic besieged can hold out many days,
unless efficient assistance be directly afforded
them. The position of Kars is consequently much
compromised, but nothing has been yet received to
confirm the report of its surrender.

BERLIN, DEC. 13.

The following is published by the Constitution-

nel :—" The Invalide Busse states. that a san-
guinary affair took place on the 6th ult., between
the corps of General Koucherinko and the rebel
tribe of the Tchefftchenieffs. The Russians at
first crossed the Kuban (between the Caucasus
and Circassia), but afterwards retiored behind that

river."

The Princess Dadian has signed a treaty by
which she engages herself to co-operate with the
Mingrelians against the Russians.

TRIESTE, DEC. 14.

Fifteen hundred men, forming part of the
Anglo-Swiss Legion, arrived on the sth.

VIENNA, DEC. 13.

The subscription to the shares of the Bank of

Commerce and Industry amount to 100 millions

of florins.

MADRID, DEC. 12.
The Government has refused the offer made to
it by the Credit Mobilier of Paris o 1 50Crmillions
of reals at 6 per cent.

The Sf. Petersburg correspondent of La P resse
writes under date Dec. 3 :

If you would forma conception of the losses
sustained by the Russian army in the Crimea,
read the Invalide Busse. The official journal
coatains an order of the day by the Emperor,
issued after his inspection of the 4th and sth
infantry divisions, in which it is said that of eight
regiments seven only could show an effee,tivo of
more than two battalions.

The Augsburg Gazette publishes the following :
VIENNA, DEC. 7.

Up to this time no ground has been gained upon
Which negotiations for peace can be commenced.
The story of an Austrian ultimatum is a pure in-
vention.

We are expecting the arrival, within a few
days, of several eminent Russian diplomatists
accredited to foreign courts, among them Prince
Gortschakoff, Baron de Budberg, Baron de Kru-
dener, M. Sewerin, and M. de Fonton.
The Augsburg Gazette announces that the en-
tire army of the Austrian monarchy, the army
corps occupying Moldo-Wallachia alone excepted,
is to be reduced to a peace footing, as the 4th
army corps standing in Gallicia has already been.
The next corps for reduction is that commanded
by the Archduke Albert, stationed in Hungary
and Transylvania. The diminution is effected not
only by granting leave to a large number of in-
dividual soldiers, but by the disbanding of cer-
tain battalions. The civil carps attached to the
army, reinforced when this time last year its
eventual activity was contemplated, are also re-
duced to their former footing. The Emperor of
Austria's order of the day, dated Nov. 2, 1854,
allowed two months for placing the army on the

-war footing, and tlSis feiln was 'found too short,
This fact will help us to judge bow far the Em-
peror still preserves the iuteution of becoming our
active ally.