... (From tlia Times.) We can acquaint our readers this morning with a fact which 'Will create no small astonishment, and which will give the pub- lie a new insight into the policy of Russia and the contingencies of the war. The Crimea, at present the scene of hostilities, is a peniusula, situated at the extreme south of the Russian empire, aced connected, as our maps inform us, Xwith the ...

... ?? NEW-YEAR'S DAY (OLD STYLE) FESTIVITIES IN TIHE HIIGHLANDS. - IN Alit. 1l1i.Ilb21AO'. _ According to ancient custom, the annual gathering of Clan t Iver Glassary took place at Lochgair, the seat of MlacIver Campbell, Esq. of Askoish. At all early hour the neighbour- ing hills resounded with the well-known pibroeib, indicating that 1lighland blood was astir. The day was ushered, in by MacI ...

... TH1E BRITISH EXPEDITION. (Fromn the Times' Correspondence.) Camp before Sebastopol, Dec. 30. There his been a remarkable change in the weather within the last few days, and if the present fine mild days and sharp bracing nights last a little longer we may hope to be relieved out of the slough of despond, to stay the march of sickness, and to make some progress in the siege. To-day the thermo- ...

... - . Nominal return of deaths in the Goneral Hospitale at Scotari, as reported to the CoitinandantN Office by the medical autboritilet, from the 27th Doe, to the Sod January, 1855:- h ilajor Sharp, 2011h Regt., of woundo, Dec. 28. Purveyo L. Ward, cholera, Jai,. 1. Major Co-viile, Di7l, Rcgt., dysentery, Jan. 2. NOCotonneoxosen0NE OFroteenS AND MOIN. Private John Shattleworth, 55th Rtegt., ...

... : - =PATRITIC FUND. SCOTCH AND ENGLISH CONTRIBUTIONS. 1Us (From the Edinburgh Courant.)I Y 'e The Commtte appitd to supriten Lte collection for.oi thle Patriotic Fund inl this city brought their labours to.- a to Is, graceful close last Monday, at a meeting convened to receive Li en the final report of their acting deputies. In every respect We ini think the Scotch metropolis has reason to be~ ...

... I I . _ I Pr] DESPATCH FROM LORD RAGLAN. Pr! JAN. 15, ?? LVAn DErAnTZENaT, JAP. 15. Iri Iiis Graee the Duke of Newvastle has received a despatchi of which Pr] the following Is a copy, addressed to hli Grace by Field Marshal the Pri Lord Raoglan, ?? r Before Sebastopol, Dec. 13,1854 Fri My Lord Duke,-In my despateh of the 18th of October, reporting. Pfi the oponing of our fire upon the enemy's ...

... LETTER FROM TIHE CRIMEA. (From' Lieutenant-Colonel Waddi, Comminding the t0th Regiment,) nf Before Sebastopol, Dec. 22, 1854. On the evening of the '20th I went to the trenches, in comi- mand of the guard of 1200 men. It was a fine, clear, starlight night, and. was congratulating myself on my luck, with Thompson, when all of a sudden the Russians opened a heavy fire of artillery from one of ...

... TELEGRAPHIC DESPATOHES. (trorm the Morning Chronicle's Correspondence.) Vienna, Saturday, Jan. 13. n Eight Russian battalions passed the Danube, and dispersed the Turks at Matschin. Prince Menschikoff has demanded a reinforcement of 40,000 'Men. 35,000 infantry and 500 cavalry have bean sent to Bessarabia. f Marseilles, Jan. 13. 1 Tho last accounts from the Crimea announce that half of the a ...

... blaY zifMOrNN JAUA-RY19 FRIDlAY MORtNING, JANUARY 19. There is scarcely a word of intelligence from the seat of wvar in the East worthy of remark. Now that oar troops are fully supplied with warm clothing and their wooden houses, we may expect the clamour of discontent, which has really proceeded from very few sources, to cease for a while. The Russians continue to annoy our men in their ...

... TlHE WAR. THIE CRIMEA. to The Moniteur contains the following telegraphic despatch:- 1 Pera, January 11. IN On the 5th inst., Omar Pacha arrived at the camp before Sebastopol. Having made himself acquainted with the intended J( movements of the Alliedarmics, Omar Pacha left on the 6th for Varne, and, after giving his orders at the latter place, lie will A: proceed immediately to take ...

... SCO TL AND. Brutal Assault.-An assault of a serious character was committed in Wallacetown, last week, by a man named Michael White, a colliers' labourer, on his own wife. He had been drinking heavily during Saturday afternoon, and returned home drunk. Some angry words were interchanged between the miserable pair, and during the altercation he raised the bottle from which he had been drinking, ...

... WAR APPLIA NCES. * (From the Builder.) 'It is to be hoped that the present vital struggle with despotic 1, barbarism will'oiee for all render Wei imiipossible, by maturing l its deadly energies beyond all human endurance or resistiiice; and thi cant oinly be done by themore enlightened and inven-. tive portion of the human race, and hence by those who ought to acquire thi masteiy. It miay be, ...