... T HE A t TIlHE PEACE PIIOP1OSAIl'.S. rUMOUR0C11ED DETERMINATION 01? TilE CZAR. TO REJEJCT THIEM. and most of the lengtheneid statemeneits in the various papers dusing the last two days coil-cut almoust wholly of speculat ion and conjecture. C'I~ to this tout sonie writers have asserted, and the great sma-jority hate taken for granted, that -Anstria lis niot niade the re cent propositionss ...

... |ERIPTORIOuS SERVICES OF THE 1{OYAL ENGINEERS IN THE CRIMEA. l are Lets uld 3g; eat ced rge ter .ull Ira led wnd Dry ith jor ant illy ley Ext uts. ins ets or- ;he of ,lt of ps by, in- For 70, scl it, rts nd ig. as )11- 'ill Ild ies god or ey on she os. nd vas rse ies it~ r Lcc ?? 01: el YE [n In .n M I, k at )r WAR. DEPARTUFINT, Dec. 20.-Lord Paunmure has received from the Field-Marshal ...

... For hat THE PEACE -NEGOCIATIONS. t ts ?? ,Fi;im trzi ?ett.- lets believed bore inth -s Iatr, that Coti t Late rho y is nto thle bearer at tny for oltiniatuslt to itoesia. I1 ?? itgad letter, frot n to: ?? Fin peror of Austria, in t it Lisdouibtful iv I et Ier this letter' tiwe anti other representations. nirc hot, to vrecodis thle trod Itition PPIt of den Miite plii0al-.1ottit 1/ti aie, ...

... LATEST INEWS. .-v (BY ELE5CT'1IC TELEGPBAP-T, odrce, S, ?? RUPTURZIE WITH PEISIA. The Times' (secondl edition) Paris correspondent is in- . formed that the English Minister at the Court of Persia has broken offl ddiplouatic relations with the Shalh. DENMARK AND THE ALLIES. L Thele lovninto Post (Second Editioni) l'aris Corresponldent writes on Sunday- L Denmark, it is expected, will very ...

... (Prom the Times' special correspondent.) FOURTHa DIVISION CAMP, BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Friday, Dec. 7.-The weather has been exceedingly unpleasant since I last wrote; heavy rains have fallen, aud the roads are severely tried, but on the whole they stand the heavy test uncommonly well, and the unsettled parts are undergoing repair. The cold of winter has not yet set in, and it promises to be a late ...

... TUIRKEY IN ASIA. ,en CO1TOTNPE ?? tacnk of t27th November, state Ears was to capitulate on the very .5t Xnut. A great numher of mea had died of hunger. Ions Tu Journaal de Constantinopie says that after the pas. rin sage of' the Ingour, Omar Pacha moved rapidly forward, not crossed the Rion, and on the banks of the Chopi attacked was a, fortified village of that namne, having a very consider- ...

... HULLLOCALBOARDOF HEALTH. \ The MAYOR Ath~n Bannmister, Faq.) presided at the adjourned metin, kser,. letswr --I MaR. NrWMAR~~ teived from Messs .rootwendatargiLav 'that MN~Tho zsarch had made an assignment 'for the beneft' of his creditors, and asking this board to the ?? tine deed, for its claim for £200; and the second La-v letter starting that the muortgisgees now in possession of toI .his ...

... ONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24. The woolleni warehouses are nearly all closed this day. Messrs. York and Sheepshanks's, and Wm. Lupton aud Co., two of the oldest established firns in the town are the only exceptions. THE WE ATHER.-A great change has taken place in the weather. A little rain fell during Saturday night, and on Sunday morning a rapid thaw set in, witha conm- paratively mild ...

... THE LATE JOSEPH HUME, ESQ., AND THE B3N I) t ARTER ACT OF 1844. -2 N K C r IART A -- T ii - C~a,-ICCL S50o~ohieigremarkable toL to- the Rect that, wills the exception of thle war the tw ub-i L. , j ects fotr tl eII inoni n 1t oC cuIIpying1 theI a ttenltio; fte1ibi ,aare the Ban Cater Act of 1844, and the means of ren- ?? honour toisgets Pponent, thle late J. Hlume, as Lsq I ava~il myel of ...

... ISSUE OF MACAULAY'S 1ISToRY i_ WI S A ?? a . (From a forthcoming number of the Buc and Ylw [Long as it is we feel it impossible to resist extractin the following laughable burlesque of Macaulay' tyle. It is in its way as good as any of the Rejected Addresses.] The volumes are out. The publishing day passedover without disturbance. The regulations of Messrs. Long. mann were received with ...

... ,e The Daily NeWs has published the following extracts d from a private letter, dated Kertch, Crimea, December it 1, 1855:- Our Anglo-Turkish force progresses to our o hearts' desires. We have been here for about a couple y of monlths. On our arrival a nuwber of troops were t handed over to us. Our force now numbers as follows: *r -Sixteen regiments of infantry, at 950 men, 15,200; .5 two ...

... ELECTION GOSSIP.-The expected retirement of Ur. Y Baron Parke from the Bench has given rise to the ;t rumour that one of our borough members, Mr. Watson, a Q.C., will be elevated to the vacant judgeship. What probability there may be in this report we cannot tell; we believe it to be certain, however, that an electioneer- .r ing solicitor of the town, whose gratuitous services at h the late ...