... THIE CONDITION OF RUSSIA. most No doubt, public opinion has its abuses, but if we was want to see the consequesces of its absence, they are to do exhibited to the world in the present cendilon of a had Russia. A wore awful case novel betel man or empire. s their Russia bee no one to advise her. Wrapt in his dark '5 ble to and solitary despotism, the Ctar has none with whom scenes he can divide ...

... THE BRITISH ARMY- IN THE CRIMEA. (From the Sseppfemerat to the london¢ Gcreeftet of Tuse., day, Nov. 27.) WAiR DEPARTMENT, Nov. 27. lord Prnmure has thit day r. ceived a despatch and its enclosures, of w~hich the followting rre copies,i addreesed to bis Lordship by Sir William Codring- iton: SEBASTOPOL, Nov. 13. My Lord,-Having SO lately assumed the corn- I me~nd of the army, I h~ave rnot ...

... GENERAL O1RDERS. 5 lHesdquarters, Ssbastopol, Nov. 10. .Gereral Sir James Simpsou announces to the army [that tbo Queen has been grabciously pleased to permit lhim to resign the comnmand of thts army, and to asp. .noint General ?? SirWilliamn Codr~ngton, ?? Bto be his successor. ?? resigning hie command, the ?? to ex- preue to the troops the high sense he entertrins of the iadmirable conduet ...

... COt RIS MARTIAL a court-martial, of which Captain Sir Thomas Mtalt- s! i.,,o Her Mlajesty's ship .Ercrlletea. weas Presi- ~ea~sbled on board the Slag-ship rictor y, on ! rt last, to try Mi- Jam~es Driver, Acting-Assis- ' Egiaeer. na->, of the first class, serving en board I- itajuoty's steamn gunboat .Halide, for having, on the ,,Q'October. disobeyed orders and behaved with die- t a:st his ...

... 1ro?n 1r14?7U !? GsZ?G. WAR-o)'r1CB, NoT 30. 2nd Regiment of Dragoon Guards-BteYet-.lajor 11. .Briseae, to be Major, by purchas~e, *ice Brevet Lieut.- Col. P. Las Poer Treuch, who retires ; Lieut. C. 8. .Hutchineofl to be C~ptain, by purchase, rice Brieco. Royal Artill ry-'lhe appointmen~t of Lieultenant A. Donall, dated 24th September, 1855,xhabeen cancelled; .Lientenrat Gi.K. Taylor, onatbe ...

... . IMPORTANT TO FRIEDLY SOCIETIES. Dy an Act of te lau1s session to consolidate anda amend 1. the law relating to Friendly Societies, it is provided that where the rules 'of any Society estbhblshed under any of the Acts thereby repealed, shall have directed L. disputed to be referred to Justiceef, such dispsstea shalld fromn and after the let day of August, 1806, be referredt to, and decided by ...

... MtZ~INISTERI.AL ARRANGEMEN'S. Seveai ci sugee halve tuisco pl cc in thb or*nillesion tof tin, Gabisiee. Th'l., 1)-ke of Arwvll, as hl~s been a;lready setated, iezzsl le55:*i~ Lordi Canninlg .ar ?? irMaser.Gcsemt;al and~ Lord Horrowty, vacsting the Virc-Chencehirlorhip of thc Duchty of Lancaster, will take thc Duko of Argyll's elnecore place no Lordi Privy -Seal. hr. Moines-, whio retired fro~m ...

... ThE DALTiC FLEET. 2(PrOm a Correspodet) . - EL ov 2 The news concerning the movements of the allied fleets in the bay is so bare and uninteresting that it is .hardly worth while writing to you. The weather iso getting colder every day; at the time I wcito all the hille are covered with hoar frost, and the thermnometer stands at 24 of Fahrenheit's scale;* if this lasts in a couple of days the ...

... THE WCAR. A despatch fromn Marsreilles, dated~londay, statos thatL tbe towrn of Sebastoplol will Dot be ecenpied by thet Allies. Thto entgineer will complete its destruction;- the preprarations for blowing up the arsenals, dorke, and otb. r iummense constructions, being nearly finished. In !thes iFm. despatch it is a~ssrt.d that the armuy of Gesneral B'ouravieff had re-crossed the Arpatchi ...

... AMIERICA. t'nt The Baltic steamer has arrived, with advices from Ngecw York to the 14th. In reference to the reinforce. e retof the British W~est India squadron the Ness~ yorki E and 'AGee stated.. twvo woeeho ago the British government aro fitting out a new oquadron to strengthen their naval force at Bormuds and the W~est India Station. The London Times hints that the object of the increose ...

... SOlJTHMPTON, SATURDY, DECEMtBER. 1, 1855. lao a un The Uinited States moil steam-ship Arage, arrived off n Cewes this morning, and after transhipping her Englishs 5.,mails and passengers, proceeded to Heaere. She left New York on the 17th November~ P- The Peninsular and Oriental Canspany's steam-ship l' Madrid, Ceptain Neil Cook, left on Tuesday with the ox outward Peninsular mnails. She took ...

... PARIS, hMoNnAr. 'icsterday (Sunday) his Mlajesty the King of So-tiinjo attenlded mass at the Chapel of the Tuileries. At twve o'clock his Miajesty w-nut to the Hetel of the SMaruinis de Villansarina, his Amnbassador at Paris, shbere he received the members of tbso Corps Diplo- n aditue. Tbheir MJajesties the Emperor rnd the Xing of Sardinia itronored soith their presence the concert given by ...