... THE MANIFlEBTO OF THE EMPEROR I Nicholas. An extraordinary supplement of the Journal de Si. Petersiourg of the 16th. (28th) December, brings us the following document By the Grace of God, We, Nicholas the First, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Hussies, &c., &c., &c., make known:- The causes ofthewar, that still lsts, are well understood by our beloved Russia. The country knows that neither ...

... HEIGHTS :ABOVEX SEBAS-TOPOL. I ;DEC. 23.-I 1n sorry to say that the most barefaced false- hoods are carried home by letters, and: the severest attacks upon all departments, fromn the Connander ot the Forces 4owwards. it.it said by the stupid. grumblers that Lord Raglan is slow and ineffiient-the staff of every. division thoroughly incapable- the engineers mere butglers-thee medical management ...

... I TPOWN ElDITION. SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 1855. W A R.-AFPFP 0A C I II G Operations of Iniportance. Our notice last week of the progress of the War in the Crimea was of a gloomy character. The accounts before us were to the 13th of December, at which period incessant rains had produced a scene of great wretchedness in the camp. We had conversed with officers just arrived from the Crimea, and their ...

... DJSPATQ9E O- V zISFF OZA~II QBERT.I The iofeaiteuir of Thursday contains the following despatch from Gene'ral, Canrobert - PERA, DEc. 27, 1854-The French Charge ?? at Constantinople to the Minister of Foreign Affairs :- General Canrobert writes, under date of the 25th-' We shall soon be enabled to assume the offensive. _We sae renewing our forces *more rapidly aind more safely than theenenay ...

... AGRICULTURALJ DI'TELLIGENCE. LLANGoLLENr-A correspondent thus writes to us from llangollen- Having seriathir'a uncommon sight for Chriki As, I wniW to inf yo 'ojft, leaving it with you to make it knon t rouhryor paper if-you think proper. I have j6Sisegn.. in`.the garden oX John Lees, Esq., Gerwyn, Wrexhiama, a' prtree and an applt tree with their second crop of frdn~thi&tydar. The first ...

... LETTmES PROX THE CRIME. I FROM A CORPORAL OF TME 336 REGIXENT. Camp, near Sebastopol, Nov. 22. I now sit down on the cold ground just to write a few lines to you to let you know that I am still living, although I have had many narrow escapes of my life, but God has been kind enough to spare me so far through this expedition, and I hope he will do so. I have lived to see many poor but good men ...

... TOWN ?E I - M. 1 I . ? I LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, THE CRIMEA. Advices from Sehastopol of late date state that the Russians arc taking 'p a position to the north of the fortress to be ready to rcplihse an expected attack from that quarter; and telegraphic despatches from French Head-quarters report that the Alied urusies are preparing to attack the southern part of Sebastopol. ,Other ...

... THE New RAILwAY EETwsEBEK PAiDra eeoN AND THA NORTn-WsEST.-This route is now open, giving the public a speed of above forty miles per hour for 213 niles by the broad gauge, aid Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Shrewsbury, within the same fares and time as by the old routes, but it inflicts upon the public a slow train between Chester and Birkeubbead of fifteen miles, occupying three quarters of ...

... OnITUArY.-On the 18th uit., at Sibsey, Lincolnsbire, aged 119, Mr. Thos. Whitehead, great-grandfather of Messrs. lKeogh, Soho-street, Liverpool. TamEu are seventy-two members of the House of Commons who claim to be wholly excused on election committees on account of being more than sixty years of age. DuEING the year 1854, li,854 persons emigratedin Govern- ment ships for Australia from ...

... m, w I T 11 At WN, &Ww, THE CRIMEA. The following telegraphic despatches from Berlin have been received:- Under date of St. Petersburgh, Jan. 2, eve learn that a despatch had been received there Sfrom Prince Xeuisclhikoff; an- nouncing that nothing remarkable .had taken place at Sebas- topol between the 20thl and. 26th oteDecem-ber, with the exception of two sorties on the 21st. In one of ...

... THE BALAXLAVA RAILW.AY CORPS. Sir Francis Head has addressed the following lettor to his Grace the Duke of Neewcastle.- hMy Lord Duke,-It is stated in the newspapers that you you are about to despatch to the Crimea a fleet of seven steam and two sailing ships, laden with navvies and materials for the construction at Balaklava of a railway, which it is expected will be completed by the end of ...

... ?? BRITigBH M]lUSKET, TEm XMI 1 flee,- the Colt Ilevolver, and the Russiau Iand :English Artillery. TOI THE EDITOR OF THR ERA. Nothing is more requisite for the conquest of the foe, and there. fore, for the saviug of our soldiers and the country, than effective ei nef-.The Speteater, Dec. 2, 1854. Sir,-For many years past my own settled convictions have. been in perfect accordance- with the ...