... LETT2 RS FROM THE CRIMEA. The following is an extract of a letter received by Mr James Nichol, residing in Pitt-street, in this town, from his son, a trumpeter in the 8th Hasears, at pro- sent in the Crimea - Balaklava, Dee. 11, 1854.-Dear Father,-We started for the Crimea on the 1st of September, in the Hlimalaya, and were sixteen days on the water looking for a lending place, We landed all ...

... MONETARY AND OCO&IEROIAL REETROSPECT FOR 1854. (Abridged from the Clobe of Saturday.) The year which is now brought to a olose has been one of the most eventful for many years past, and will stand prominently forward in British history, marked by the singular characteristics of a nation aetively engaged in prosecuting a formidable war, and yet largely extending its business relations and ...

... X BOGTHBSHIHLDOS COUNCL On Wednesday last, the council for this borough met in the Town Hall, the Mayor (John Toahaeb, Esq.) presiding. The minutes having been read, the Town Improve- ment and the Finaneo Committees reports were read, but they contained nothing of any pnblio importance. Mldr MATS then took occasion to call the attention of the council to the bad state of the turnpike road from ...

... LONDON, JANuAity 4. W ea have reeeived, says the Timms, the following de. spatch froma our correspondent at Berlin :- Under date of St. Petersburg, Jan. 2, vre learn that a despatch had been received there from Prince Mlenschikoff, an. flouncing that nothing remarkable had taken place at 19ebastbopol between the 20th and 26th. of December, wih h exception of two sorties on the 21st. In one of ...

... 11. rrr try - . TaB WAr.-The Timnes Paris correspondent writes a secret letter from St. Petersburg, mentioning that some important changes had taken place, and that more were reported, among the higher officers of the army. The one Ioked upon as ,tho most important is the nomina. tion of General de Berg, who distinguished himself at Bevel by the measures he adopted for the defence of the place ...

... THE HOSPAL AT SCUTART. :. 'lies 2nnes correspondent, writing from Sorstari, Dee. 18, observes that reaent arrivarlsof memdical stores and comaforts, by the Ottawa, the Jura, the Eajabad h Rlobert Lowe, have led to' an 'incrad supp ofdth requisites for the due administration of thed hospiltals somo important discoveries made in the tumult of th puvyr'department. Among themisaeeoflt andlinen, 16 ...

... PRB109 OF STARES sr sJvAIYA. Share. RALWAYS. Pd Latette . ?? Price., 830000 stock Aberdeen e . ?? ,, 69 10 8526e 20 Amberg. Notting. & Boston 8t 4j 2000000 Stock Briatol and Exeter 100 93 L8404059 Stooc Caledonian .. 60 38U 4200v S0 Chester andllolybead 14 4000 20 Ceokermouth & Workingten a 6 8000 25 Dundee and Perth ?? a17 1IS00 50 Dublin and Belfast Junction 25 410 l 1053606 Stock E ast ..an ...

... AGRICULTUBAL REPORTS. NO4ITH NORtaTInu5E.LAxD.-In our closing report l for the year, the last month has generally proved sea- sonably finc-peculiar only for boisterous gales of wind, which for the list mon'th has blown very stormily f W.N.W. Heavy showir of Meet and snow ?? on the 24th and 26th, which iontinue to lie on all lands, ex- cept within a short distance of the sea-shore, the moun- ...

... ,, -..NEWCASTLE JANUARY 6. The additional information respecting the military ?? in the Crimea, are not ouch as to alter sub- tantially the vies of things whioh had previously been placed before the public, Fresh arrivals of troops in *coaderable iiumbprs are reported, and the weather had somewhat improved, which had matte it more praotica. ble to supply the army with such provisions and addi- ...

... PROGRESS OF THE SIEi.1I The Couriror de Mf'aerjilles of the 28th nit, pub. lished the following letter from the seat of war:-n Before Sebsatopol, Dec. 12.-I have rely little to communicate to you, and wore it not for two sorties made by the Russians against the French batteries, the monotony of our life would not hare been interrupted. On wal da the 10th, Abt halfpat openedo'clotk p.m., the ...

... m orn me - - - ~ I TIMES.-The curtain falls on another year-a year of strange changes and vicissitudes, of hope and exulta- tion, of anxiety and despondency-a year which has at once covered us with glory and overwhelmed us with discredit, and through the chequered annals of which we seek in vain for any clear and distinctive mark of the future which'is impending over us. In January of this ...

... SOIREE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND * INSTITUTE. l On Tuesday evening the i'rt soiree of the Newcastle upon_ Tyne Church of Bnlend institute was, held in te Music Hall, iR this tow , and as it was announced to be under the patronage of a distinguished list of ladies, who not only volunteered to p~reside at the tables but also provided them gratuitously, considerable in- terest wae manifested on ...