... TiHE BALAKLAVA RAILWAY. Sir Francis Heat] makes use of his Cauadian experience to suggest a way to make thc ')env rtilucy:- Mv Lord Duke,-It is stated in the niewspapers that you are about to despatch to the Crimea a dleet of seven steam and to sailing ships. latlen with navvics and materials for the construction at Baililava of a railway, which it is cx- pectled vill he completed by the cuad ...

... THE CRIMEA. Russian despatches from the Crimea of the 23d show that nothing important had occurred before Sebastopol to that date. From the 16th November to the I8th December, the Allies had received reinforcements to the extent of 24,000, including Turks. The Saint Louis was encountered at Cape Matapan on the 14tb, with 1000 French troops on board. Twenty-five transports, with reinforcements ...

... LORD RAGLAN-. TO TSUE EDITOR OF THE CALDONIAN MXEROR'T. Sla,-A most unjust set is now being made upon Lord Raglan bh thc 3-thss. Lord Raglan is blamcd, either directly -or by impleioralo, for nll the sufferings to which our army in the wast is exposed-sufferings which, I am afraid, are too rcn] to be den-ied or even softened down. But it is Cosv to show :that these sufferings ought not to be ...

... THE; RIGHTS OP SCOTLAIND. ( socil )iec ccl e 13lancW.) ! Wlhv is it that we do not love Australia, but hbecaute hic r i histors has' no ]Wlast. becasc there is no legenll, as inc Scotlan(d. 1 connertcd with cey ry m.ountain and every glen-because lucre Ir is notiling here to ?? those ernotiolt. which, thoenlh tbev miav le ordin cilr 'perhaps huished amid thc tcimuit of b ccsi-, neCS an11 the ...

... COMIMERCIAL RETROSPECT OF 1S54. (From the Titnes.) Instead of realising the apprehensions of war prices and universal confusion, the commercial year just ended has been one of the least eventful in modem times. The vague anxiety which marked its opening subsided as soon as the quiet con clusions of economical science took the place of the magnified traditions of a former aid wholly dissimilar ...

... TIHE CRIMEA. VIESNNA Jan. 4.-Prince Gortschakoft has bad audience of the Emperor, whihl hasted an hour and threc-quartcrs, hut his .m\tjesty is not likely to makec any concession to R]2s-ia. General Usten-Sacken is to act against Eapatoria with 45,000 men and SO guns. According to telegraphic despatchles from French head-quarters, both armies arc preparing to attack the southern part of ...

... (Fieon Mie Times.) The curtain fails on another year-a year of strapaeschnnces and vicissitudes, of hope and exultation, of anxiety nut. de- spondency-a year which has nit once covered us with glory and overivheitned us with discredit, and throu-gh the checkered annals of which we seek in vain for any clear and distinctive mark of the future which is impending over us. 'he year found us at ...

... LONDO' N G A7ETTE. At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 2d day of Jan. IS53. ?? the Lords of 11er M1ajestv's Most Honourable Prihv Council. Whereas the Lords of the Council wvere pleased. by their order of the 30th dax of November last, tl) prohibit the ex- portation of ?? lias, Portland cenent, and other articles commonly used in tile mitnufacture of marine cement. to any plce nori l of ...

... STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARPMY oN THrE IST OF JANCARY 1855. (ITe-si the United Serrice Gazette.) [Where two places are mentioned, the hist-named is that at vbich the depot of the regriment is stationed 1st Life Guards, Regent's 29th, Dinapore; Chathan. Park. 30th, Crimea; Fermov. 2d, Hyde Park. 3 1st, Zante; Pembroke. Roeal Horse Guards, Wind- 32d, Bengal; Chatham. sor. 33d. Crimea; Fermoy. lst ...

... ITEMIS FROM THE CAMP. CONDITION OF TNE ROOPIS. An offlicer, dating Before Sebastopol, December 7, writes:- To sleep in a room seems now almost too great a luxury to indulge in, even in imagination. For a month back we have scarcelv known!i what it is to have a dry day or to see the sune. Tis day has been the first exception. Picture to yourself the state of the ground. I wish I could see ...

... LATEST NEW M l I flBY ELECTRiC TELEGRAPH.) I LONDO\, SUNDAy. TI'E WAR. No Iater telegrap1hic new s. LONDON EXCTHANGE-. Jn. C. Connols forAccoant, 910,! [LExchaquer B.flarge) Do.Mone? - eDO. (smnall)-__- Ycn 33 percents.- 904 ! Do. Boads,-- Bank Stoe 2- 0 10 ?? RAILWAYS 4 7 pin. )14 7 Pn. 20t 1t i h1 Aberdeen -- - iLon. & bennen- %i., n'ov' 45 Csledonjar. ?? Shelt, & L., 24 t Do. Preference- 4t ...

... Ite Sabi. Captain John IV. Tarleton (1R52) has been appointed to the Eurydice, 26, on the North American and Wcst Indies station. Commander Thomas A. B. Spratt (1849) at present com- mander of the Spiteful paddle steamnsloop on the Mlediter- ranean and Black Sea station, is promoted to the rank of Captain. Master James F. Beclkett has been appointed to the Coast Guard. Acting-Assistant-Surgeon ...