... OUR CONTEMPORLBt-1s. T-qlTwo Aaaufl GAMBIED AwiTYm.e.)- We do not mean to exaggerate the suces of the Bus. * general KarsisnotanotherSebastopol; AMOenDI enot such another volable purt a the CfimeL But ether Wt our a uth n derrate the loss we have so- =d as the apathy of our statesmen underated the cethat wa required. To have conquered a arrisoen cspable of suh a defence as it has maintained ...

... AI AM Wl1CNN LaDY atN, SEBASfopoX. rirom: the-New. York -turssl oaCmec. We haves been. favoured with tile following extract of a l'tter from. ani meia dyPriobably' tha- frst nd lyone wh as visited they scenes of car'ae Iwrote you a few lines from Kdmiesch,.which 1 do not borlithre exoursions,& Tne to hec-qurss.ad-n 6ea me.-oy He'I ong ngis - hi ofice one d t ha noctae mrngs'tonbe hiredt hat . ...

... ?? question of the Danish sound dues isthau stated in the BanCers' Oircular:- There has been for some tiue rather anangry feel. ing expresed in several of the American journals rela. tive to the eustom of charging certain dues upon the passing of ships through the Sound into the Baltic in proportion to their tonnage. By the principal Euro- pean states these charges have been loeg acknowledged ...

... SERViCES 0F A LIFE.BUAT. - - -II An o i was FreJ.ted, at Tuby, of kly W=n, r the Irat time during a gale of wind from S E,,tb life-boat of tise ?? and the',resut- of the trial vws in every reepect satsfactory; indeed it was well it was go, for the next day both ee life-boat and crew were severely tried, b%* they behaved admirably. The undinching courage and untiring energy of the crew, in ...

... Baron Martin has explained to Doctor Jackson. His speech had been garbled, says the judge; Ithe speech was given verbatim, say the local reporters. However, we give the judge's own words from his explanatory letter to the sensitive, but nevertheless patient, Doctor Jackson :- The hubstance of what I maet to say, and believe did say, was this-that in a case of presumptive evi- dence ...

... : EALTII OF LONDON. It w shown at the last report that London bad 5 rd an increase of InOrtfity, the effect of cold weather. In the week that ended lat Saturday, though the rigour of the weather was not miitiated, but aug. Inuntd, the number of deaths regiseed rwas not quite equal tothat of the preceding week; the numbers in the two periods having been 1 2Y1 and 1,257. It is agreeable to ...

... TIE PEACE 2EGOTIAOnm A letter from Berlin, of the 22nd, in the y I have at piesent somthig 'positive end in ' l' announce. I a: bort te since stated t Pctsntto confided by the.King to th Count Munster wes 33508 symtpom of the disposion o hs ajeaty. At a happy have good resson for beving that ?? about to be manifestd by a atilmoraigniflt E political men'. have ben srck by ths complet cha° ...

... RUSSIAN ACCOUN oT ?? 4 ?? '0Es- .. ,, The Invalide. Russe publishesthe cificia rePGTW Getr Mouravieff o fthe Ccaspitnlatibn of K lrar. T era dated Quarters of Vladi (fortress), Kera, 29th 0 After the assault on Kare of the 29th eptertb Turks, momentarily encouraged, expected to ee onr, t'ie retreat, and were astonished -to see, on the conthary tp the blockadedbecame stric£er than ever, an ...

... j3DERBY NOM1iB~OirATUJK . TO TaR ZDITOZ'..F'07E7 s k. Sir,-I am surprised to find half a hundred,borses still without .namaes in the list oY TDrby entries-for i8S', and --I take the liberty of suggesting the following for thobse hom it may concern. 18thD~mr4 ! Yours truly, ' : PITE. 18th December, 186S. .u ?? BAaP w MrBatsan'` a by Conyegham, out of Barsbara;. DiO.shde. Mr. N. Balfe's oh o by ...

... . At the Western Assizes, a poor man is tried for attempted suicide. His son is killed in the Crimea, and, at the same time, his wife deserts him. The poor man's brain yields to the ca. lamity and the shame, and he seeks to drown himself: he was 'fortunately prevented, says the report; whereupon he is committed for trial by the sagacity and tenderness ef Hampshire justice; and after lying ...

... I TH GARDEN.-By K. GEAxd. SHASMh&BLE GARI)ENWO Cheops that have dens to 'a good deal of Dmisblef have al- ready vis.Ited us i ather sharply, and wflj have dftte many Very nicely laid pln.The rapid thaw of Sunday last5 sale nearly a creek of'alinost uextemipled severity. put the ground into a miserable state of awomY, spng rottenness; and bedsof small plants were woofy ydiasereed, many lplants ...

... . .. I ?? £¶- P-i The marshal minister of war has received the fol- lowing report from Marshal Velissier, dated Grand headquarters at Sebastopol, Dec. 11, 1855:- Monsieur la Mar6ohai,-You. have already learned, by my telegraphic despatch of the Stli instaot, the failure of the Ru~ssaos in the attack they attempted to make, during the morning of that day, on the outposts of D'Auteinarre's ...