The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-02 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

RUSSIA.

WINDSOR, J. 1.
The Duke of Cambridge (attended by Colonel Tyr•
Whitt) and the Duke of Newcastle arrived yesterday
afternoon on a visit to her Majesty.
The dinner party included the Duchess of Kent, the
Prineess Royal, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Ernest
of Leiningen, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the
Duke of Newcastle, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de
Speth, the Hon. Mary Seymour, Sir George Couper,
Mr. and Lady Frances Baillie, and Colonel Tyrwhitt.
The {sand of the Grenadier Guards played during
dinner.

After dinner her Majesty had an evening party, to
which the following had the honour of being invited :
Lady Caroline Barrington, Colonel the Hon.C. 8., Mrs.,
and two Misses Phipps, Captain Sayer (63d Royal Welsh
Fusiliers), Mrs. and Miss Bathurst, Miss Knollys,
Major-General the Hon. C. and Mrs. Grey, Miss Clive,
Colonel the Hon. N. and Lady Mary Hood, Miss Hill,
Colonel and Lady Emily Seymour, Lady, Miss, and Mr.
Couper, and Mr. Gibbs.
Tho Queen's private band attended.
This being New Year's-day, the baud of the 2,1 Life
Guards assembled on the East-terrace at seven o'clock
this morning, and performed a selection of favourite airs.
Her Majesty's annual distribution of food and clothing
to upwards of 600 poor persons of the Windsor and
Clewer parishes took place this morning in the Riding-
house of the Castle. The Queen and Prince, accom-
panied by the whole of the royal family, the Duke of
Cambridge, Prince Ernest of Leiningen, and the Duke
of Newcastle, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of
the household proceeded to the Riding-house at a
quarter before ten o'clock, to witness the distribution,
which was arranged under the direction of the lion.
and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, the clergy of
Windsor and Clewer, and the district visitors for the
relief of the poor.
The members of the Clothing Club, established under
her Majesty's patronage, received at the same time arti-
cles of clothing according to the amount of their contri-
butions, with the addition provided by her Majesty.
In the evening Mehul's sacred drama of Joseph was
performed in St. George's Hall, by an orchestra of nearly
100 executants. The persons represented musically
were as follows
Benjamin, youngest son of Jacob Madame Clara Novello.
Joseph (Paaneah)
Jacob, his father Mr. Weiss.
Simeon Mr. Benson.
Reuben Sons of Jacob
Naphtmli Mr. Wilbye Cooper.
Uutoba.l, an Egypttan Mr. Thomas.
Messrs. G. George,
Seven other sons of Jacob (semi- Walker, W. Grice,
chorus)
and Smythson.

Israelites and Egyptians (chorus.)
The band comprised her Majesty's private band, aided
by a selection from the principal performers of the Phil-
harmonic Society and the Royal Italian Opera.
The chorus, 72 in number, were selected from the
Royal Italian Opera, and the Sacred Harmonic Society,
Exeter-hall.
The performance was conducted by Mr. Anderson,
the director of her Majesty's private band ; Mr. W. G.
Cusins, organist of her Majesty's Private Chapel, pre-
siding at the organ.
For this occasion, a new English version, with re-
citatives to connect the various scenes, and render the
whole available as an oratorio, was written expressly for
her Majesty by Mr. W. Bartholomew ; the music of the
recitatives being composed by Mr. W. G. Cusins.
Lord de Tabley and Colonel the lion. N. Hood have
succeeded Lord Camoys and Lieutenant-General Sir
Frederick Stovin as Lord and Grooai in Waiting.
Lord Charles Fitz Roy and Colonel Seymour have
succeeded Lord Alfred Paget and Ciptain Hon. D. de
Ros as Equerries in Waiting to the Queen and Prince.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.
office from the Governors of the North American Pro-
vinces, of Ceylon, Hong Kong, Mauritius, and Labuan.
Despatches were sent yesterday to the Governors of
the West India Islands.
The Commissioners in Lunacy have (with the appro-
bation of the Lord Chancellor) appointed John Forster,
of the laner Temple, Esq., barrister-at•law, to be their
Secretary, on the resignation of R. W. S. Lutwide,
Esq., appointed a commissioner.—Gazette.
A matrimonial alliance (says the Glasgow Daily Mail)
is understood I'6 be concluded between the youthful
Marquis of Lothian and the Laly Susan Ramsay, elder
daughter of the Marquis of Dalhousie. The Marquis is
on his return from India, after which the nuptials are
expect-id to be celebrated. His lordship's estates in
I:dieburgh, Ruxburgh, and Norfolkshire are esti►nated
to yield 40,000/. per annum.
The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., M.P.,
arrived at his official residence at the Admiralty last
evening, from Hickleton-hall, Yorkshire, where Lady
Mary Wood and family intend to remain until the close
of the month.
The Earl and Countess of Elgin have returned to
Broom-ball, Fifeshire, from visiting the Earl of Mans-
field at Scone Palace, near Perth. The noble earl is to
be presented with the freedom of the city of Glasgow on
Friday next, and will be entertained at a banquet that
evening by the civic authorities.
The Earl of Shaftesbury has returned to St. Giles's,
Dorset, from visiting Viscount and Viscountess Palmer.
ston, at Broadlands, near Romsey.
Mr. Watson, Q.C., is to be the new judge.
The Walter Hood sailed last night from Southampton
for Sydney.
It is stated that the Earl of Erne has invested
105,0001. in the Dundalk and Eoniskille❑ railway.
A new screw frigate to carry 50 guns has been or-
dered to be built at Bombay. She will cost between
100,000/. and 150,0001.
S►r Robert Peel's marriage with Lady Emily Hay has
been postponed till the 17th inst.
MEETING OF THE LONDON DOCK COMPANY.—At
meeting of the London Dock Company, held yesterday,
Mr. Cattley presiding, the dividend declared was 21. 10a.
per cent. for the half year, free of income-tax, and the
report received unanimous approval.
A despatch from Alexandria says that the fears of a
scarcity of corn have proved unfounded, and that the
exportation of grain is permitted.
Mdlle. Taglioni has just quitted Vienna for St. Peters-
burg, after a stay in the former capital of two months.
The Right Hon. W. G. Hayter has given 401. to the
funds of the 'Wells Mechanics' Institute, to be expended
in books.

His Royal Highness the Count de Chambord has for-
warded the sum of 201. in aid of the funris of the
French Benevolent Society, " Society Francaise de
flienfaisance." The Lord Mayor has also most liberally
contributed to this most excellent institution.
Colonel Eden, the commandant of Chatham garrison,
issued an order on Monday, stating that the several de-
partments will endeavour to carry out the intentions of
the letter received from the Horse Guards for contri-
buting to the Nightingale Fund.

CFCAmriorr OF TILE STAB.—According to the latest
dates from Melbourne it appears that the Champion of
the Seas was to be despatched on the 25th, instead of
the 15th of October. She is expected to bring more
than 400,0001., and is now 68 days out.
The liabilities of Mr. J. Cheetharn is stated by the
Manchester Courier to amount to 111,098/. The assets
51,643/.

Four thousand persons have been carried off in the
province of Pataz (Peru) by an epidemic classed by
physicians as a fever of a new type.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—SHILLING DAY, JAN. I.—Ad-
missions on payment, 1,197; ditto by season tickets,
263 ; total, 1,460.
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—The next session of this
Giurt is fixed for Monday next, the 7th inst. The judges
on the lota are Lord Campbell, Mr. Baron Martin, and
Mr. Ju.stic4 Crowder.
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"To favour this reconnaissance Major Mous-
sine Pouschtine of the Count Radetzky Hussars,
advanced towards the south side of Mount Yaila
with a company of Chasseurs and some Greeks of
the Balaklava battalion, and by the sudden firing
of a gun threw into alarm a post of 40 men sta-
tioned there who fled precipitately."

THE FALL OF KARS.
(From tree Daily News Correspondent.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 20.
Subjoined is a despatch, which reached me two
days ago from your Erzeroum correspondent, with
further details of the surrender of Kars, on the
28th ult. In this lamentable affair it is at least
some consolation to reflect on the terms of the ca-
pitulation, which are honourable alike to the victor
and vanquished. The sumptuous banquet given
to those British officers and their brothers in arms
who took such a prominent part in the heroic de-
fence of the fortress, is indeed a goodly incident
and convincing proof that there are still in the
enemy's ranks some traces of that noble and chi-
valrous spirit which softened down the horrors of
warfare in the olden times. General Mouravieff
is well and honourably known at Constantinople,
having bee' here some twenty years ago with the
Russian armaments, to aid the late Sultan in the
Egyptian war, conformably with the stipulations
of a treaty then in vigour between Russia and the
Porte. From all I can learn, he was a frank,
generous soldier, and not without a certain tincture
of liberalism—fond of society, of music, and a great
chess player to boot—and certainly it must be ad-
mitted that, notwithstanding a signal discomfiture,
he has managed to play and win the game admir-
ably in the present instance. General Williams,
as British Commissioner in the Turco-Persian
question, had, moreover, frequent opportunities of
cultivating the best relations with Mouravieff; and
this circumstance no doubt contributed in some
degree to alleviate the miseries of the captured
city, its garrison and population, and will also, let
us hope, procure for our noble countryman every
possible comfort and consolation compatible with
his position as prisoner of war.
In reviewing the series of causes which led to
the lamentable disaster of Kars—all arrivals from
that locality conour in the opinions expressed in
my last, relatively to the apathy and most cul-
pable conduct, generally speaking, of Selim Pacha,
the military commander at Erzeroum. These com-
petent authorities state that had not Selina Pacha
distinctly promis whole month previous to the
fall of the fortres the was on the point of ad-
vancing vigorousl resetzc, taw garrisem and
population were all firmly resolved to sally forth
and rescue themselves, without even a chance of
failure at that time, considering that the enemy's
reinforcements had not yet come up, and that he
was moreover completely decimated and demora-
lised by his late discomfiture.
In the next place, the invasion of Georgia by
Omer Pacha, a country with which he is, it ap-
pears, but little acquainted, and at this unfavour-
able season besides, has not escaped without obser-
vation and comment. It even appears that the
Russian officers themselves at the banquet of Kars
did not attempt to conceal their astonishment at
this untoward movement of the Sirdar, calculated
to compromise the safety of his whole army.
Lastly, it is much to my regret that I again re-
cur to the true and real origin of all the disasters
which, with one splendid exception perhaps, have
attended, from beginning to end, the campaign in
Anatolia. In the opinion, therefore, of many in-
telligent persons with whom I have had occasion
to converse, this long series of calamities is entirely
to be attributed to the improvidence of the allied
powers, who, ever since the commencement of the
war, have persisted obstinately in refusing to the
Sultan the smallest aid and co-operation in teat
quarter, for the protection of the finest and most
fertile provinces of his empire. The Turkish Go-
vernment, no doubt, also will incur much blame
for having neglected to supply and equip ade-
quately its brave army, as well as for the eternal
delays which are said to have existed in sending on
the necessary reinforcements. These complaints,
perhaps, are well founded more or less; but, on the
othe-r hand, it is well known that the military ope-
rations of the Turkish army have been entirely de-
pendent throughout on the decision and direction
of the generals commanding the allied forces. It is
a matter, I believe, of the utmost notoriety that,
when there was a question of transferring Omar
Paella's force from Eupatoria to the Asiatic coast,
much delay was occasioned in consequence of the
necessity of obtaining in the first instance the sanc-
tion of the British and French governments • and
that having been procured at length, the girdar
had, if I am rightly informed, the utmost difficulty
in finding three or four British transports for the
conveyance of thirty or forty thousand men with
all the munitions and materiel of war. I have no
doubt, besides, that however culpable others may
also be, the onus and odium of delay, whenever it
occurs, will be laid principally at our own doors.
John Bull, foreigners say, is invariably too late
in all his operations. Ho rises late, breakfasts and
dines late, sits late, and goes to bed at an hour
when most others are astir and well nigh on their
legs. He learns wisdom late; his education is
late, commencing really, for practical purposes,
after the expiration of his academic course, at a time
when other folks are, generally speaking, nearly
equal to the duties of their respective callings. The
only instances wkerein he somehow or other manages
to keep up with time, are, in the field, on the race-
course, and the stock exchange.
To do him justice, however, when once his blood
is up he puts his shoulder manfully to the wkeel ;
and with his wonted "sinews," pluck, and rouscle,
contrives at times to retrieve his losses, and effect
wonders. And so be it in the present trying emer-
gency.

The cholera is almost completely extinct, and
only six cases in the capital and environs, during
the week, wore reported yesterday at the last sit-
ting of the council of health. It has come to my
knowledge, from an unquestionable source, that a
despatch from Lord Clarendon, with an accom-
panying note from our ambassador, was also trans-
mitted by Fuad Pacha, the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, to the council, containing an accusation
against the sanitary administration for undue
severity towards British transports and British
trading vessels in general. This is a rather serious
complaint, and although I am not as yet fully ac-
quainted with the whole merits of the case, I have
no hesitation in presuming that Lord Clarendon
has been led into error by his informant, who had
not time or opportunity perhaps of acquiring cor-
rect information on this subject. I therefore think
it a duty to state that all vessels, under whatever
flag, trading between the different ports of the
Ottoman empire, are subject exactly to the
same regulations which form the organic or
fundamental sanitary law of the land framed
many years ago, with a view to the safety of
the public health, by the Porte, with the consent
and co-operation of all the great powers. Theyare,
therefore, all represented jointly with the Turkish
government by their respective delegates, who are
Also members of the council of health ; and hence it
is utterly impossible that the smallest partiality
should exist in that assembly, or any injustice be
done in those cases submitted to their considera-
tion. Tho sanitary officers, or executive strictly

The Invalide Busse publishes the following
" News from the Crimea" :
" On the 26th of November (Bth of December),
Col. Oklobjio, Commander of a detachment on our
left flank, made a reconnaissance from Yeni Sala
by the mountain pass into the Baidar valley, with
a view to annoy the enemy and ascertain his
strength and position. With this object in
view, on the night between the 25th and 26th
of November (7th and Bth of December), our
troops advanced in two columns to the pass,
followed by a reserve, and although they en-
countered a pelting rain in the mountains, and
the descent into the valley of Baidar was ren-
dered very difficult by the rough nature of the
ground and the number of cross trenches and
abattas on the way, the movement was neverthe-
lees carried out with complete success.
At daybreak the throe companies of the left
column, under the command of Major Biruko-
viteb, attacked the village of Bap, drove out
the French out-post detachment, and pursued it
as far as its reserve, consisting of three battalions,
which in the interval had formed into line of battle
on the heights in the rear of their lodgments.
The three companies of the right column of
Major Danilenka, on hearing the firing, hastened
to join the left column beyond Baga. A bayonet
combat took place here, and our six companies
having routed the enemy pursued them vigorously
in the direction of the Tchernaya.
"This little but brilliant affair threw the whole
enemy's camp into alarm. When the dense
columns of French infantry got into movement
from the Merdvinoff Farmhouse, to come to the
support of their advanced guard, our detachmen
retreated in perfect order beyond the pass, carry
ing off 18 prisoners.

Our camp at Devi Boynu suffers continual losses,
both from disease and from the effect of frequent
and serious desertions.
If we are not to remain exposed to the fate of
Kars, the Governments of the Sultan and of the
allied powers ought to despatch immediately a
force fully equipped. For some days past we have
been visited by Russian spies. It is reported that
two are already condemned to be hung. We may
infer from the appearance of spies, that General
Mouravieff will not be contented with Kars, and
will commence operations this winter, or in the
coming spring at least.
A portion of the troops of *Lich Klissia still re-
mains encamped. in Balli Kioi, about 12 hours'
journey from here.
General Mouravieff has received reinforcements.
They consist of about 20,000 infantry, but they are
troops unused to war, being levies from the Geor-
gian infantry.
To-morrow we expect the arrival of about 2,500
troops, lately landed at Trebizond, to join the army
of Selim Pacha. Of the 12,000 men who were pro-
mised us two months ago we have received as yet
scarcely 4,000. Better late than never.
The British officers made prisoners with General
Williams aro : Colonel Lake Major Teesdale, Capt.
Thompson, and Mr. Church'ill secretary and inter-
preter, who follows voluntarily. Zohrab, the
other interpreter, is expec'Led here in a few (lays.
He is not able to accompany the General, as ho is
only in a convalpscont state, recovering slowly from
the effects of typhus.