... 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 ...

... TrE NEW GOVERNMENT AND ITS APPOINTMEENTS. reace it(Fromn the Vinese) unde~ CLOSELY following on the ill-advised and unpopular appoint- tors le. ment of Mr Peel to the Under-Secretarysbip of War, we have Sit to notice the elevation of Sir Francis Baring to the Chancellor- previ rd ship of the Dachy of Lancaster. If we turn from the appoint- tary rd ments of lr Peel and Sir Francis Baring to ...

... To i/is EBIORo of thse ABnsanaNr JOURNALen Por f SnR,-It is a matter of regret anti wonder to sec how much mastors and servants neglect to avail themselves of a Servant's T Register, in the country parishes. Tho alternatives arc-the 5fesissg markeste, or a most unsatisfactory and tedious system of pi pr ivate enquiries-troubling neighbours and friends in every rquarter, and often exciting ill ...

... EN L A N 0. d By command of the Queen, thirty-two of the Grenadier Pe- [W e gimnent of Foot Guards, wounded at Alma, Inkerinan, and in Secret the trenches before Sebestopol, assembled at Buckioghm Pa- out rii 'e lace, within the grand ball, at hialf-past two o'clock onl Tuesday an exi afternoon, and were inspected by her Majesty, who was accoma- sonter panied by his Royal Highness Prince ...

... It SINCE the last session of Parliament, many of th ose ale ii id who occupied its benches have gone the way of al h Mart *e- living. Some have died on the field of battle, some of le id painf'ul disease, but at least one of their number has S is- fallen in ripe and honoured age, after a long and noble` near1 ut career of active and unsullied patriotism. Mr Home is poiso ill no more. HeI has ...

... (From tida Erantnesr.) Sul g **The existing neaspaper stamp does not operate r-pai .t strictively, except so far as sound policy may warrant in a case exl a which is not one of ordinary merchandise. On this head we to. aeentertain no doubt whatever. Thie attempt so to represent it to aebroke down before thle committee of the House of Commnons. MEi n Not all the noise and agitation made about ...

... 11, a i s Tar, second annual meeting in connection with the above go- hi Al1 csety, took place on Wodnesday evening, in the Uall of the fri Is M iechanics' Institution. The attendance wee not very large, he To I The platform wee occupied by Mr Tioinson of Bancliory (chair- Sn IS man): Rev. Die Brown and AMTiggart; Rev. Messrs Murray, so :i1 Wood, Fraersi, Miller, J. C. Brown ; Baillie Watson; ...

... the Mondqy, 20th Febriaasg old The Commissioners wet immediately after the Coancil Meet-F 1r1a1g.F Oil1 GROUNeD TO ABERDEEN IlAIrwAT. ties Thle PROVOST reported, as to the sale of ground at the upper f Part of the harbour to the Aberdeen Railway Company, mhe that, in furtherance of the objects of the B~oard's remit for- to thle Plains and Works and. Finance Committees, a can- fereicce hand ...

... TH:E WAR:. DIce- - C est THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. I SEnAsoroPOr, Jan. 23.-At the dawn of inorning on the i 21st, a small-sortie was made on the extreme left of the Frenche position, where a new battery has been established at the hcad s of Quarantine Bay. It was foreseen early by our allies, and f attacked the instant the enemy issued fortih. Tule Rnusians f ido were repulsed, after a smart ...

... To itho DIRECTORS of tie ADERDEEN RAILWAt. Fettercairn, 20th Feb., 1855. *; GEeeNTLr e s-T choose this moment, when we are in hourly jeopardy of a sudden gale arising end obstructing ali corn- mnoniention along yonr line, through the long cutting in this a pint of Kincardineshire, to suggest a plan which I think would relieve us from it; end I adopt, in a matter of such universal in- g terest ...

... le m0 f- THE Ministry has beenmagain broken up. The rem- at ir nant of the Peel Party, against whom has been directed h much of the bitterest hostility of the Opposition, tendered th to their resignations on Thursday, and on Friday gave se o. their reasons for so doing. To us it seems they have th le adopted a very proper, although it be to the country a fo id most inconvenient course. They ...