... IN describing the accompanying sketches of this celebrated Russian stronghold, we beg to be understood, by, our readers as treating it entirely in a warlike point of view, and speak- ing of it more for its renown as an impreg- nable and unapproachable fortified island, than for its commercial or architectural re- nown, which, in the present crisis, are looked upon quite as secondary items in ...

... As the war in Asia is likely to be protracted and desperately conducted, some particulars describing the population of the countries in which it will be carried on cannot fail to be acceptable. Anapa, the ancient Phanagoria—the subject of our present illustration of the successes of our naval operations on the shores of the Black Sea — lies at the southern base of the Circassian Mountains, and ...

... LLANGIBBY, INDECENT CONDUCT.-This was an appeal against the decision of the Magistrates at the Caerleon Petty Sessions, for convicting Rich. Daniel for indecently exposing his person, at the White Hart Inn, Llangibby, on the 29th of May last. Mr. Smythies appeared for the appellant and Mr. Barrett for the respondents. Elizabeth Milner gave evidence against Daniel, and was corroborated in her ...

... THE BALTIC. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) The following telegraphic dispatch is from the Berlin correspondent to the Times. BERLIN, Wednesday, July 4. The town of Nystadt, situate at the entrance of the Gulf of Bothnia, has been bombarded and des- troyed. A squadron of 7 steamers passed Botaldavik on the 25th June with six prizes. THE EAST. The Moniteur of this day contained the ...

... The Queen having been pleased to command that a corps to be designated the Medical Staff Corps shall be forthwith em- bodied, whose employment will be mainly confined to the duties connected with military hospitals, and composed of men who can produce testimonials of previous good character, the General Commanding in Chief directs that all recruiting parties, as well as the district Staff, be ...

... CHINA. Accounts from Hongkong, dated May 10, state that Admiral Sir James Stirling waited until the 1st inst. for the return of her Majesty's ship Rattler from Siam; but, finding no chance of her arrival, his Excellency sailed in the Winchester (flag-ship) north- wards. We hear that the British fleet will proceed to the River Amoor or Sagaleen, and that part of the fleet will remain there for ...

... IN connexion with the defences of Cronstadt, the recently discovered infernal machines are also deserving of notice. A letter from an officer engaged in reconnoitering the mouth of the principal harbour thus speaks of them:—The infernal machines, to which they have in a measure confided the defence of the north side of Cronstadt, are no longer the myth of last year. One of our small steamers, ...

... FITZROY JAMES HENRY SOMERSET, the subject of our memoir, was born in 1788, and entered the army at the age of six- teen, as cornet in the 4th Dragoons. He was rapidly promoted to a company in the 43rd Foot, which regiment, however, he never joined, being attached to the staff of the late Duke of Wellington, whom he accompanied to Denmark in 1807. His lordship subsequently accompanied Wel- ...

... A recent Act passed by the Legislature having repealed the compulsory Newspaper stamp, we are now allowed to publish news on either stamped or unstamped paper; the former will be transmissible and re-transmissible by post for fifteen days after the day of publication FREE, whilst the latter can only paws through the post by affixing a penny postage stamp upon the paper each time it is posted. ...

... A VISIT to these subterranean excavations, in Paris, is now Tendered more difficult than ever, in consequence of a re- cent order of the state, prohi- biting public inspection. Avail- ing ourselves, therefore, of the interest of the subject, we have been favoured with an extract from a private journal, descrip- tive of a recent inspection of these peculiarly interesting caverns for the ...

... As every-day events in con- nexion with the present fearful struggle in the Crimea proves that war, to be played as a winning game, must also be a scientific one, we cannot but look upon improvements in gun- nery as a great step towards the achievement of so desired, yet destructive an object. Con- nected with this idea, the Lan- caster gun-of which we give an engraving-shows a ten- dency in ...

... OFFICERS' HUT, ALDERSHOTT. THERE was not found to be any deep excavation at the Quarry— nothing, indeed, to warrant this name, which has been given to it in the English camp generally. Some stones have been dug out, but very superficially; and the part of the rocky knoll from which they had been taken was entirely below, and on one side of the work which was subsequently constructed by the ...