... Camp of Balaklva, My Dear Brother and Sister-I now embrace this oppor- tunity of writing these few lines to you, hoping to find you in good health, as it leaves me at present, thank God for it. I should have wrote to you ere this, but I was in hopes of Sebastopol falling before now, but you may depend it is a very strong place; to look a; it you would be surprised to see the guns the Russians ...

... The mail-steamer Atlantic arrived at Liverpool on Sunday, with advices and letters from New York to the 16th iust., and with a freight of $1,900,000 in specie. The grand council of the Know-Nothings of the State of New York, assembled at Syracuse on the 8th inst., agreed on the following as their plat- form until the meeting of the National Council 1. Americans shall rule America. ?? The ...

... The Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs has, under date of the 10th inst., issued the following circular to the representatives of Russia The Imperial Ministry for Foreign Affairs has jL 5t received the following official announcement : -In the forerloop of the 16th (28th) of April an English officer, with a bag of truce from the fi- gate l'Itnp6rieuse, Captain Watson, notified in Port ...

... I OBINRT COUNCIL. ,bi et Council was held at the F.oreign-ofice 0 '9g Etrelt, OD Saturday. The Miuiaters pre- sere iscout5 t Palmeraton, the Lord Chan- t hre larqui of Lansdowue, the Duke of ti, Sir Georqe rey, the Earl of Clarendon, yy Iohn itussell, Lord Paunmure, the Chancellor IQc bC~bequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right ?? Smith, Sir William Molesworth, Qutt canning, and the Earl of ...

... I GRANTD BANQUBT to the COLONIEL and OFFiCERS of Xc ROYAL SURREY .MILIIA. On Friday night a grand banquet was given by the Mayor and corporation of Kingston-upon.Thamea to Colonel Challoner and the oflicers of the 3d Royal Surrey Militia, at the Town-bill; Mr. John Shrubsole, the mayor, presided, and iamongst those present ?? St. Leonards, Colonel Challoner, Admiral Sir George Latabert, ...

... bhe following are the names of those who were honoured with the Crimean medal:- OFFICERS OF THE ARMY. Lieutenant.Ueneral his Rooal Highness the Duke of CLebtefiantGeneral Sir John Burgoyne, G.C.B. Lieutenant-General Sir De Laoy Evans, K.C.B. 31jor-General the Earl of Lucan. Majmr.oeoval the Earl of Cardigan. aijor general the Hon. J. Scarlett. Mojor.General Torrens. 4th DrsgooD 0112rds-Captain ...

... The following are the articles of capitulation for the formation of a Foreign Legion for the service of her Britannic Majesty:- Art. 1. Each recruit is to be enlisted for the duration of the present war, and until one year after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace. No man otherwise engaged will be passed at the depot at Heligoland, or at that at Shorocliffe. Art. 2. The recruits ...

... I THB PBARL FISHER Y IN CB YLON. After a failure of nearly half a century, the pearl fishery in Ceylon for the present year will, it is estimated, present a return to Government of more than £10,000 sterling. The scene that has taken place this year at Ceylon in the last month is an extraordinary one, as the reader will see from the following interesting account extracted from the Ceylon ...

... NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTI109 OF, NA VAL PRIZB MONEY. --4- [FRoM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE,] Department of the Accountant-general of the Nory, Admiralty, Somerset House, May, 1855. Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamnen, asd mwrinel, and to all persona interested therein, that the distribultiondl proceeds arising from the Russian vessel Augusta, captured on the 20th May, 1854, by her ...

... ORPHAN WORKINGG SGHOOL. Yesterday a public examination of the orphan children educated at this old and valuable institution took place at its commodious establishment on Haverstock hill. The chair was occupied on the occasion by Mr. Apsley Pellatt, M.P., a liberal contributor to the school, who was supported by a numeroas and respectable audience. The examination was ably conducted by Mr. ...

... '.YR1sRAELsI RiESOLUTVION. foljowing is the resolution which Mr. Dis- h ,,19 laid Oi the table of the House of Cora- a s ,O be discussed to-morrow (Thursday) - a this ITouse cannot adjourn for the recess hoist expressing its dissatisfaction with the am- joQ5 ligaage and uncertain conduct of her inisters with reference to the great . , of peace or war; and that under these oir- qUOS59 this ...

... LFROM OUR OWN CORlRESPONDENT.] PARIS, SATURDAY. The attitude intended to be adopted by Austria at the present crisis is an object of as much anxious speculation in Germany as in France and England; and every public document issuing from the tienna Foreign-office is eagerly examined and commented on, with the hope of discovering come certain indi- cation of Austrian intentions. The Cologne ...