... The accounts from the Crimea are more favoura- -( ble ; the weather being fine, in the beginning of am February, and thetroopsbettersul)plied; ?? to have, however, been obliged to take an importanta r part of the duty heretofore performed by the En- ne, glish. The Russians had again shown themselves thE in force on the right,-and were throwing up works of on the heights, in the vicinity of ...

... . On Monday evening Herbert Mackwortb, Esq., her MajeEty's inspector of collieries in the western diatilet of England, de- livered a lecture at this institution on The Gases conneoted with Geology.r! The lecture, which was illustrated by a series~ of' charts. and diagrams, drawnI -by. Mr. . Smith, draughtaman of the institution, ?? of a highly scientific character, and. evinced a close ...

... tte Baby. APPOINTMIENTS AND PROMOTIONS. Lieutenants-His Serene Highness Victor F. F. E. G. A. C. F. Prince of Hobenlohe Langenbourg, to the St Jean D'Acre; John P. Cheyne to the Plhcenix. Master George B. F. Swain from the Leopard to the Majestic. Surgeons-Henry Morris from the Powerful to the Impreg- nable; Patrick Martyn, ?? to the Powerful, vice Morris. Paymasters-William Hudson Ozzard to ...

... We have much pleasure in transferring to the columns of the MERLIN an abstract of the report presented to the meeting of the shareholders of the East India Iron Com- pany, held inLondon on Friday last. It will be seen that most honourable mention is made of the Indian manager, a Monmouthshire man, Mr. Beaumont, a gentleman well known, and highly esteemed in this county, and the son of a ...

... THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter from Bucharest, of the 3rd, mentions that the Croats in the Austrian service have been committing such atrocities in the neighbourhood of Craiova and other parts of Moldavia, that Prince Ghika at length declared to Gen. Coronini that unless something were immediately done, he would lay a statement of them before the Emperor. Gen. Coronini seeing the firm resolution ...

... PROPOSED REFORMATORY INSTITUTION FOR !. X MALE ADULT CRIMINALS. it While it is gratifying to observe, by, Dr. Strang's recently ~ published statistical returns, that there 'has been a decrease in v crame during the past as compared with former years, it is n melancholy to risen- that during that period there have been id 2353 males, and e- ; ; 1291 females. Total ?? . 3644 And when we reflect ...

... ITO Frace N- PAtoIS .Tbursday.-Rolative to the departure of the Emperor . *y t h rimca, no one knows that he will go at all, although the ~u ofday and hour was fixed a week since!I I believe the whole ' ofhistory of the thing stands thus :-Ths accounts which, the Emperor received from Sebastepol were conflicting; and Generalt Niel's despatches suggested the presence of Napoleon III.L Then t ...

... h The usual wt e eoly meeting of the bofrd of -guardians was bh h n e Mr. Joseph Harrison in the chair. The rop hie F re prcsentedere thesre. Edwarde, Ledger, MoTnte- of /ny ith, Dal, G. arrison, Kirue, ordittM ee, Jefrfiev, pr I eso, ?? lae bahm Lunt, Shaw, an Lgtbeody wer d 12S Bpirch.it o ?? ,wl h akveg for oftadaddtrel f lr 1 w ordered to be 901 he drawn. be o Trom the report of the ...

... WEST RIDING IEETING ON THE WAS. cer TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. its Bradford, Feb. 23, 1855. of GENTLEM1EN,-We, West Riding electors, echerisic tics is), conviction that our Riding is in wealth, in area, in popula- of tion, the foremost constituency in the edupirs. If this con- 9e't viction be well-founded, then is it most assuredly our dutty Ise tionb fof ot nt xression of opinion, ...

... PARLIAAMENTARY GOSSIP. Fronm tha MletrOopotcV, Correspondent of tf e Liverpool Albion.) London, Saturday Evening. Until this morning there was toleratle hope of Bri- tannia being able to %weather the storm somewhat sea- worthily, though nobody expected there would be much ruling. of thle waves in, the old fashion. Now, however, that the man at thle belos has exhibited un- ?? s ymp1toms of ...

... M1EETING OF CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. Avery numerous meeting, comprising a large body of Peers and early 200 members of the House of Commons, was held at Lord Eglintoun's house, in St James's square, on Tuesday. The ' Daily News' gives the following account of what took place atthe meeting: y a curious coincidence it so happened that, at the very time 'when hr Gladstone and his ...

... FURTHER NEWS OF THE NAVVIES. Though the correspondence of the papers of Saturday acquainted the public that a commencement had already been made of the railway works on the intended line from Balaklava to the heights around Sebastopol, yet, as letters have been received from the navvies themselves, and from some others connected with the engineering expedition, the details so furnished will be ...