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is about to b

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evinced by the leaders of

siegers

of their friends I

2is official billet doux,

and, pursuant of the same I

previous "ill health," has returned from his continental
so3ourn; and resumed his "official duties at the Treasury."
All these are looked on as external symptoms of an
administrative disorder more deep-rooted and wide-spread

the public which can

Ministerial malady by the

selves, is not slow

caustic

,
p, has seriously aroused
of about equal power hovering close by, to tal
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nbling of the collective of any turn of ill luck to us or of opportunity to ti
which may offer. In truth, the allied armies, up to ave
suspicion receives further
recent neriod. have been auite as much besieged as 1

Sent out with a force a

Generals, shut up in their own lines, ha'

een corn

to turn the heights of Sebastopol and Balaklava into
second Torres Vedras. Now that reinforcements, whic
should have been forwarded long ago, are arriving wit
rapidity and in considerable numbers, all reason for droac
on part of the allies, appears at an end. Deferring th

assault Is not therefore a matter of such pressing mom,

except that by obtaining pnssession of the town our t
might secure better winter quarters than in thei

trenched camp; still, as it is plain the Russian
march out as the allies marched in, the capture o:

topol will not greatly facilitate the conquest of the Crimea,
as it would have done had an adequate force been sent out
to effect it in the first instance. To capture Sebastopol
and its immediate defences under present circumstances
would in some degree resemble the taking of Portsmouth
without securing Gosport ; with this great difference, that
all the guns on the unsubdued works on the north side of
the creek at Sebastopol would operate fearfully against the
holders of the town and its defences. All these diffi-
culties may be dealt with, and no doubt will be, by Lord
RAGLAN ; but he must have more men at his disposal.
Full consideration of these and other details connected

with the conduct of t
interesting and immediate subjects for Parliamentar
attention; and will, in spit

e war wi

thout dou'

Ly deprecat

receive atten-

Ministers; ad misericordiam or otherwise
tion from that assembly.
Another subject which cannot and must not be allowed

to escape Parliamentary animadversion, is the equivocal
conduct. to call it by the mildest name, of Austria. It

will be seen that for the fortieth time a new treaty is c
the Lapis between Austria, Prussia, and the W
Powers. What its purport may be must be narrowly
scanned, and a bona fide performance of its conditions
insisted on : they must no longer be permitted to play the
part of those

That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope—

Waiting upon the tardy services to be rendered by Aus-
trian neutrality, enabled the Russians to double the forti-
fications of Sebastopol. Yielding to the peaceful desires
of Austria, we authorised the Russians to withdraw their
troops from the principalities, and concentrate them in
the Crimea. Diverted by the prospective valour of ex-
pected Austrian battalions, let us not be cajoled into
slackening our efforts for the safety of,our troops, - -
honour of our country

In the death of JoilN GIBSON LOCKHART, a man re-
markable in many ways has been removed from among us.
Mr. LOCKHA.RT, who was in his 60th year, was the son of
a Scottish clergyman, who was himself a branch of one of
the oldest and most distinguished baronial families in the
county of Lanark. He whose death is now the subject of
remark, was from boyhood distinguished by a partiality
for letters, and an aptitude for scholarship ; and, during a
dangerous illness in early youth, while unable to attend
the curriculum of a public school (the High School of
Glasgow), he prepared himself for the University of that
city, in which he greatly distinguished himself. Subse-
quently he entered Baliol College, Oxford, in 1809, then
in his 16th year ; at 19 he took his degree, and was a first-

class man. Returning to Scotland, he was called to the
bar in 1816; and shortly afterwards, abandoning that pro-
fession, he betook himself to literature, and became one of
that valiant literary band who originated and gave vigour
to Blackwood's Magazine. In this undertaking he was
associated with Professor WlLsoir, and became intimate
with Sir WALTER SCOTT, whose opinion of him was very
high. His contributions to Blackwood were of a greatly-
esteemed character, and were remarkable for the
poignancy and graphic power of their satire. In 1819, he
rave to the world a triad of volumes, under the name of
Peter's letters to his Kinsfolk," whiC
faithfully-executed literary portraits
Political, and literary men connected