... T A 7=--s A H E L AR. a bE THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. of - se January 13.-Last night the wind changed round to the r- southward, and the thermometer roae to 34 degrees. A speedy 6i' MO thaw followed, and the roads and :camp will once more suffer n( from the ravages of our old enemy-the mud. About a-quarter fo le past one o'clock this morning the Russians inside the line of fo ie works gave a ...

... THE FIRE THAT fDEFIES THE COLD. - I- , . .,- r ' ------s frTHEY hoave had but onue comfortin the Crimea-apart from. oethe satisfaction of doing their daty.*.jou~_0br soldiers4. h good cheer,-norin pleasitnthearths; for the tattered mar- aquee and the single blanket, half-cooked. rations and' a' lebed on'the wet earth, are but cold comfortifor men who 11 return, frozen from the trenches, or ...

... I HOUSE OF LORDS-Monday. Earl GREY moved a resolution, to the effect that the adminis- tration of the army ought to be concentrated, and brought under the control of a single and well-organised department. The chief feature of the plan consisted in the establishment of a board, somewhat analogous to the Board of Admiralty, to administer the whole business connected with the military service in ...

... TH E PRESS. POSITION AND DUTrIES OF THE CON-i SEPrATIVPE PARTY. Wi- (10 not re-ret the failure of' Lord Deorhy's at- tenmpt to ?? a Goveriittent by mlto'1WII Lorid P'tlinerstoxl. Tihatt attlempt was dlictatted. by, a siense of PobliiC duty, tran was made inl Cot~liiflKID' 'lwlitil te wis.h Of a eutilsiderahlc mnimber of Conlset' valtive mnmner' i f t 1 L etzzislattwe. T1hrough th a. setusal ...

... i'EALTH OF L.ONDOY. I The present Registrar-General's weekly relornx shows that the high 5mortality announced in recent reports has undergone a further increase. InD the first three weeks of the curren', month the deaths registered in Londoc wers 1,404, 1,466, and 1,649; in the last veek they rOesttO 1,630. Ot males whose deaths are now rcturned the number is 791; of females, 839. In the four ...

... (Dr SVBIIAR1Nz AND BRITISKH TILI0RAvt.) PARIS, THnrsD&r. a A despateb from Admiral Bruat, dated Kasiesoh, e San. 23, states that a blockade had been notified by l commanders in the French fleet, at Odessa, Caffa, Kertch, Anapa, and Soujuk-Kal& . The fortifications of all these places were being strengthened. The Russians in Sebastopol were throwing up an embankment to connect the detached ...

... In the Spanish Cortes, on the 25thi, N. Infantt D waes electe d president by 134 votes to 90, given to M. Olozaga. Both the candidates were progressists. M. c Infante, on taking the chair, returned thanks for the honour done him. The debate onL the bases of the a ?? was thenl resumed, but, it presented no- thing of interest. The Madrid journals conttinue toa speak of ministerial mtodifications ...

... The 'I oniteur' publishes the following as the interpretation of the four points agreed on by the representatives of the three Powers- England, France, and Austria-who signed the Treaty of the 2nd December ult. For the purpose of fixing the sense which their governments attach to each of the principles contained in the four articles, but reserving to themselves, as they have always hitherto ...

... - Before Sebastopol, Jan. 13. The weather continues very severe, and to-day it blows a gate of wind, with drifting snow. Although I have not received the official report from the officer commanding the 4th Division, the offieer of the Quartermaster.-eneral's department, whose duty it is to visit the advanced posts at daylight, has brought in an account of a sortie made by the Russians in ...

... NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next 1 HALF YEARLY ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING, of the Proprietor iu this Company, wjjlbe held on FUIDAY, the 23rd of February, 1-55, at Eleven o'clock pDCtset), at tLe GREAT WUSTEUN ROYAL HOTEL, Paddington. AND Noncii is HEREBY GIVEN, that the Books kept for the Registration of Transfers of Stock will 1>1' closed on and from the 13ih of February to and including ...

... THE METAL TRADE. I Metal Market, London, Jia. 2G, 18.)5. £ s. d. £ s. IEON—Bars, Welsh, in Loudon ..ton 9 g 0- 0 0 0 7 10 0- 7 15 0 Nail rods ti 10 0- 0 0 0 Bars, Staffordshire, in London 9 10 0-10 0 Nail Hods ditto 10 0 0-10 10 0 Hoops ditto 10 15 Sheets (single) 11 lo 0—12 ID 0 Pig, No. 1, Clyde 3 7 6— 3 8 No. I, iu Wales 415 Re lined Metal, ditto 0 0 0— 0 0 Burs common, ditto 6 10 Ditto, ...

... THE SHIP EMMA. The Emm t, another magnificent representative of the Whi.e Star Liue, aucmre i in tue Bay, at about ten o'clock yesterday mllruiug, wtih&Jt passengers, all in goo I hedth, after a. tine pas age oi it tys. T e Emma was built espe- cially f «r the passenger raUe, a id is fitted with every requi- site to coii.sti, ute her equal in acco nmod tion and c uirorfc to the otiier vessels ...