... SECOND EDITION. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1854. ?? I S! It is unfortunate just now that the political writers of the daily press are so ignorant on military subjects. There is a want of men like the late ARaMAND CARREL, who could handle a pen or the sword with equal ability. It would be better to retain some old Peninsular officer on the editorial staff than to mislead the country, as is the case at ...

... No doubt, when future poets shall sing of the glories of the ni,,ld of Alma, and of the chain of stirring and prosperous evetts which have blessed the Allied armies from the hour of their disembarkation at Eapatoria up to the latest report of theirproceedings beneath the very walls of Sebastopol, a verse or two will go to celebrate the martial exploits and heroic ,Ictions, onl lanld and soea, ...

... ROYAL ASYLUM FOR POOR, AGIDE Decayed, and Maimed Freemen of the Company of Watermen and Lighterini. The annual dinner for the benefit of this benevolent society was given on Thursday evening, at the London Tavern, when upwards of two hundred gentlemen were present. The objects of this. excellent institution are fully expressed in the title, and nothing can be more praieeworthy or more cheering ...

... THE NlEW POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS. Since the report of the Commissioners appointed by the government to inquire into the state of the Post-office appeared, the Post, master-General, Viscount Canning, has been actively engaged with Mr. Rowland Hill and the heads of the several departments, in the arrangement of the necessary prelininaries. The Money order Offlce has been placed upon an ...

... WREC3: OF dE 3[I STEAMSHIP Arctjod--Great LoAs ot Life. .. 1- ~f +.hn TTnitp Sfqf.,,s We regret to announce the total 1oss Of 'oe u mwac owlec mai stamsip rcic, Captain Luce, for New York, from Li'ver- pool. The intelligence was ?? n Thursday, which vessel had to call at St. John's for coal The particulars, as far as yet ascertained, appear, to have been as follows :-The Arctic sailed from ...

... (From thle Commissioner's Report just issued) From the statement of Dr. Lloyd Williams, of Denbigb, who, V virtule of an order issued under the 8 and 0 Vic., c. 100, sees 1i1 cod 113, visited, examined, antd specially reported on the case, it appeared in substance, that Even Roberts, who was aboult forty-ciht years of ego, was the eldest son of a farmer, vroidieg at Llannercl, itear Bangor, in ...

... I DIVINE SERVICE. IN TE AXY. I Horse Guards COirtliar. The folloving important document has been'issued'by the Secretary at War:- ' War Office,' September 23d, 1854.. Sir,-Certain changes -having Ieen considered expedient in the regulations iisded from this' departmhent; dated the 31st of March last, for the remuneration of clergymeh officiating to the troops in the lidited Kisqgdoni, I am ...

... At last the dark curtain, which for more than nine years has concealed the fate of Sir Jorrs FRINKLIN and his gallant fellow-adventurers, appears to have been withdrawn, and as awful and affecting a spectacle as human imagination ever pictured has been suddeily revealed to us. It was on the 19th of May, 184.5, that the Erebus and Terror, officered and manned by 138 brave fellows, unlder the ...

... I NOBLE but RECKLESS BENEVOLENCCE. Sick and Wounded Soldiers. The English are neither mercurial nor phlegmatic, but some- thing between the two, though when once their generous and benevolent synipathies are roused, no people respond with so much alacrity and vivacity to any demands upon the r liberality. Sometimes, however, they do more harm than good by allowing their charitable feelings to ...

... THE COBFLAGRATIONr at IEWCASTLIE I . oand Gateshead.- , . _, ! _ On Wednesday morning, at ten o'clock, the adjourned in- quest on the unfortunate persons who lost their hoes by the explosion at Gateshead, on the morning of Friday, Oct. 6, was re- emared in the Town Hall, before Mr. Favell, the coroner, and a jury. Capt. Do Cane was again in attendance, and assisted in the investigation on the ...

... A JOUINAL FROM THE ENGLISH 1 I - 1-11 .-Ca1mp at SebastopoL - I The following journal, extending from the 3d to the 7th of October, is full of interesting details*- Oct. 3. Rode into Bealaklava. Just at the entrance into the town passed a dead horse lying unburied, the effiuviam most dreadful, but the passers by merely hurry on a little faster or make a slight detour in their course. it is ...

... The season of short days and long nights-of much gas and little sun-of fogs without and fires within- of labour in the capital instead of lounging in the countr~y-is fast approaching; and society is beginning to adjust itself to this change in times and circum- stances. After another glorious bulletin or two war news will become scarce; the Cz&.n will be getting crazy at the prospect of his ...