HASZARD’S GAZETTE. JANUARY 13.

he niado frequent references to a

chart which could be seen on s rriiii $:~°:.:.-=:.2:*-- -or u -w 3 v 0 u the hills towards Tchergoun

Most of the Russian canny, 5". 1:}: our rear, and the forge in and over the I 3°01“ gfletly diminished.

PIIPAIATIONI POI ITOIIIIWG IIIAITOPOL.

Private letters received from the French cam 5:53;‘ .3050"-Opol s k of the assault of thaii gram I In ‘event t at may soon be expected. ‘bu .'"°"" P°l|1f«I of observation everything

is done within the bosie d city can be The second line of forti cations is des- :v|.“.d 5‘: ver strong. The _Russians have u emse ves of ever point where resis-

"°° *3“ I30 oflmd. an what is called the Promenade is not the worst prepared to oppoge l'h° ?lu'°'' . however, is not on 11111011?‘ bio tlke Sobestopo as to keep it, for we ;_ “ "i’l““‘l|!°|l’-Ion!-bly exposed to a severe fire

i-gm t e heights and fortresses on the north ll _0-bosobestopol will probably be a complete Illa!) _ fore we can t in, but ruin as it may be t re is no altsrna re, and the opinion is that it must be stormed and captured to satisfy the ‘'’''W' P"°P"¢ of the army, and produce a moral efleot throughout Europe. _ The Russians seem N heve ii and vided for such a con- “3I°0°’8 lid they have made every preparation for retreat to 50 side of the harbour, and ram.“ 1‘. it. evpriimpegiment - re ‘.0 | ran i was

occasioned

f-oiioe. the open ied bein covered with woodtivhieb can be madi’ availablg fog fuel and other necessaries; 45 , it is now said at the Wat-silos, is the mount of the force expected with Omar - ache. ‘ ' 350'“ “M000 more than was supposed. are from the prrison of Shum a, therefore he considered as the flower of Ottoman army. It is remarked that the Rue. eians have begun to arai their ships in the bar-

nr_ o Sebasto‘p:l,

English nest is tight to be a Sinopo, and a part of the French at Ooashntincple. it was git:-iged. the; the N were medltatin a

s see w fiance atbokiin oiir di-mylnishd ‘M 0 an IIIIADPUI. CONDITION 0' TII TURKS AT

sananavs.

The Turks are employed In making a road- actually making a road arlast! its course will he tswa thoaddqnarterls, u to hthy. .' are so a ' shore and yiliag shot anlili siiiilol. In D watch t a miserable gravity and jwith which those poor creatures ghin rows, the men pass the shot bod e lneech with a lalsly abir, yvplich mm? W on Ill Illltllllfl I A s it for tre'nsmission. ' hen ih 8 9 hi’, the rolling of eyes, the convulsive stru es, the grunts which as like electric shocks rom man to man with t a 68-pound shot or 13-inch mor- tor are really astonishing, but at last the globe pf metal seems_ to a uire heat, and is dropped 'i'i'...'l‘.°n.;'.‘.'.‘." 'i'i.°.," ..1’l‘i,"1’;'§‘§’..'2i. ..‘2.a".’.'l°.2‘.'i.“ b :1 pct naturally, but owing to sickness and

a ivin .

As to t e town itself, words cannot describe its filth, its horrors, in hospitals, its burials, its dead epglddyin Turkls, its lcrowded lantiiae, its noisomes s its typur iens.or its eca . All the picturds ever drawn of plague and {- tilence, from the work of the inspired writer who chronicled the woes of infidel Egypt down to the narratives of Boocaccio, De Foe, or Moltka, fall short of individual “ bite ” of disease and death which an one me see in half-In-dozen

l d ' ha fan hour's walk in Ha aklava. n‘;sT)itg‘bIilna l lo.ur efibats, that dyirlig Turksgigye me e 0 every no on stree _e caaca, an e forms of huan sullering which meet the eye at every turn, and once were wont to shock us, have now made us callous, and llipve ceaspld even to attract passing attention. ise up t e piece ofhmzltting or poarse ru wlplchhhangs t a 0 some misera e ouse, :l'°0r:I.'WitlI°il1 :v‘ii|ii3'h yyou hear wailings and cries of in and prayers to the Prophet, and you wil see in one spot and in or}: instant a mas‘: f latsd th t ' serve on wit i’.;,:‘.‘Z’°...'.'.'i‘." r... . 'i'a‘}2Z_a...‘. _'i'l.. ..._.a, has ..... as they dided,h er]: lying IIdO‘by side gitlh {go I‘ ' , t tter reesn e s c e yliiiililsalilimagiiiation. he commoiieoft necessa- ries of a hospital piretowsnting; ll10|’l¢Jll?°eil:l|° least attention pei ecsncy or c‘ n _n - the stench is sppalliug—the fmtid air can barely strii la out to taint the atmosphere, save througtfisthe chinks in the wall; and rplofs, and for all can observe, these men ic wit out the least elbrt being made to save them. There they lie just as they were let ntly down on the und by the poor fe_llows, their comrades, who rougbt them pa ‘tihoir back; lti'i:'Ill1Iotll.°r:|!|:IoI: w'th the test on crnoss Ii _ allowed to remain with them.’ The sjck appear fiofiliie tended by the sick, and the dying by the g.

III 0

RUSSIA.

The following private letter, dated the 8th inst., has been received from St. Peters- burg:— _

"In consequence of the receipt of the affair of the 5th ofNovembcr, the Empress has had a serious and even alarming re- lapse. The courier found the Emperor in the apartment ofthe Empress, awaiting the news with feverish impatience, and when the truth was declared to him, he could not retrain his feelings, but broke out into the strongest expressions of dissatisfaction and anger against hie generals and his army. One exclamation which escaped him res- pecting his sons greatly alarmed the Em- press, who was aware that they were with the army at Sebastopol; she feared that some terrible calamity had befallcd them, seeing the agitation of her husband, and she fainted away. She remained for some time insensible; and it was with much difiiculty that the Emperor and the attendants suc- ceeded in restoring her to animation. She became more calm, when informed that eothin had occurred to her sons; but her health as seriously suffered from the shock caused by the defeat of the army at Inker- man, and she has novy to str:.gfll° |8‘""' an increase of deh_ilit and a low fever. The greatest alarm is sit for her, and MI’ recover is considered very doubtful InIl°°‘l- The soemnitios of the anniversary ofthe accession to the Crown were very limited this year; they were confined to a more rc- =' ...-~;.*,...- - cm have t I I hmeeeasioaed as, aadthedaage.-thsyyet passes, ysucaa seareelyhave asides e-

thc desperate efforts making here to com- plcte the arrangements of every kind for next spring. The Grand Duke Constantine takes no repose. He is at one moment in the arsenals of St. Petersburgh, again at Sivoahorg, and then at Cronstadt; ins ct- ing everywhere, fleets, arsenals, foun rise, and all the troops connected with those de- partments. The Emperor is often obliged to moderate this excessive ardour, in order to avoid alarming the population. We have several ships of the line in the Admiralt (locks, the screws for which are already sif- vanced in execution. Of the guard (d'slite) we have here at this moment only the re- giment of Preobrashcnski, with its reserved battalions. Of the rest, two divisions are on the march for Poland, and the third is partitioned in the Baltic provinces. The

otters we receive from the Crimea relative to the disasters caused by the hurricane of the 14th state, that the corps of Dannenberg, a part of which was on route for Bakshi- Serai, has suffered particularly. Their condition is of the most frightful kind, from want of provisions as well as from the tem- pest. lany c iefs of divisions who had been wounded in the affair of the 5th have died of their hurts.

“ I see that foreign journals say a ood deal about the ' pacific dispositions‘ o our court. This I believe to be complctel a mistake. The contrary is the truth. or- sons placed in a very ition at the court declare in the strongest manner that neither the Imperial family, nor the high functionaries of the empire, manifest the faintest desire to accept unroservedly the conditions proposed by the estern owers. As to Austria, every one here is furious against her, particularly since the commu- nication made by Prince Gortschakoff. ‘ Russia will never forget or forgive her per- fidy,’ cried a lady the other evening in the saloons of M. . ‘For my part, I am ready to give at this moment 100 of my serfs for the regiment of Chasseurs.’ Three days after the niece of the lady in question was ap ointed one of the ladies in waiting to the mpress, but the Emperor, at the same time, ad an admonition conveyed to her to be cautious how she spoke of politics in society, and particularly in saloons which the auaclm of the Austrian embassy fro- quented.”

coiuscrviiss anoirr 1-as nu. or ssnisroron. The followin is an extract from a letter, dated Paris, Viyednesday evcning:— “ Some English officers from the Crimea, who are invnlided, passed through Paris yesterday. They expressed an opinion that the English troops would eat their Christ- mas puddings in Sobastopol, and there are etters from French oliicers in the cam in which it is stated, that the fall ofSebastopol before New Year's Day is certain. It is said in the political saloons that the Emperor Napoleon has expressed the same opinion. Such, however, is not the general impres- sion here, nor do some of the superior officers of the army in Paris, who receive letters from the Crimea, believe that it is possible, after so many disasters from the season of the year, and the long and heavy rains which have retarded the operations of the allies, for the allies to become sufficient- ly formidable for the speed reduction of this great stronghold of the ussians. On the other hand, there can be no doubt that the army of Prince Menschikoff is in a ver had condition. Even the Soldier-'s F ' , of Vienna, which has systematically related everything favourable to Russia and un- favourable to the allies, has changed its tactics, and now tells us that Prince Men- scbikoff has informed his government that he is unequal to resist any very serious of- fensive operations by the Anglo-French army."

rniivsroar ssiivics. onnoii, Dec. 22.

Yesterday, the Oscar trans ort hauled out into the river from Woolwic Dockyard with I58 tons of ordnance stores, and the Agnes Blakey, with IE) tons of shot and 250 of coke, for the Crimea.

Yesterday a merchant ship, which has been an aged by the Committee of the Cri- mean und, left Irongate Wharf for the Crimea, heavily laden with provisions, clothing, Sic, for the troops in the Crimea. The cargo consisted of several chests of tea, a large quantity of boxes containin cocoa, preserved vegetables, meet, an milk, coloured blankets, a supply of warm cloth- ing, &c.

The Wildfire, Captain Downward, the first vessel to be dispatched by Messrs, Pet_o, Brassey, and Co., as s rtion of their rail- way expedition to the rimea, is still do- tained at Birlienhead by unfavourable weather. She has on board 52 “ navvios” and a cargo of railway dplant.

The Liverpool an Londondsrry new paddle steamers William M‘Ccrmick and Enniiiltillen, were to sail yesterday for Souiham ion from Liverpool for the purpose of embarking wooden huts for the French army in the Crimea.

MILITAIY IOVIIIIITI.

Yesterday a great number of ' serviceable men were entered for her Mayesty’s land forces at the Staff-olfice, Delahay-Street,

feet 4 inches, and an increased bounty of £6 per man. _

Yesterday Colonel Jones issued orders, pursuant to instructions from the Wer- cflice, for the first company of the Royal Ssppers and Miners to proceed forthwith to the Crimea. _

Yesterday a large quantity of stoves fbr the Crimea were bred lit to the Tower, from which place they w I be forwarded la a few days to their destination. Several hundred tin i were also brought, which willbo ll-so nthe stoveswhse iheyare placed la the various 00$.

Westminister, at the reduced height of 6 “

“Tiia Tisiss Coiiiissroiinaii'r.”— mongst illustrious Irishmen who have dis- tinguished themselves in the East, there is one individual whose name is not recorded in any military trophy or despatch, but who has, neverthe ess, contributed most signally to the imperishable glory of the British arms. We mean Mr. Wm. Russell, the gallant correspondent of the Times. may be justly styled the Xcnophon of this memorable war. The true and life-like pictures thrown off by his rapid hand, in the midst of danger, interruptions, and fatigue, whilst the roar of battle and the cries ofthe vanquished and the victors are still ringing in his cars, are scarcely surpassed by any- thing that history, ancient or modern, has brou ht forth from her silent chambers. Scarcely has the despatch of the cominaiid- er-in-chief appeared in the Gazette, when a letter of three or four columns in length, with matter enough to fill a small volume, comes out from the pen of Mr. Russell, written in a tent, under the circumstances we have alluded to, giving a masterly re- view of the whole exploit; its beginning, its progress, and results, intermixed with such accurate details of the fortunes of the day as to prove that the writer must have been in all parts of the field, and almost person- ally mingled with the combatants, wherever the strife was hottest. And such detai|s!— so raphic, so spirited, so full of fire and feeling, as to put romance to the blush, and teach its writers, that their occupation is

one. For what fiction could move the passions of anger, terror, admiration, and pity, with equal force? What imaginary distress—however highly wrought—can ri- val the sad but splendid realities which he places with exquisite fidelity and distinct- ness before the mind's eye! Walter Scott never threw a more heroic glory around any devoted hand than that which envelopes our hapless brigade of light cavalry as it moves—almost visibly in these pictorial paragraphs—across the plain to assured destruction. cclus non inaiiiler angit. Tears of true heartfelt sympathy have co- piously attested the power of that description wherever it has been read. On the other band, see the French soldiers, the Chas- seurs d’Afrique, with “ the light of the bat- tle on their faces," dashing over the steep, and finishing the affair at the Inkerman. Any one who knows how to paint would undertake now to delineate, with oto- graphic particularity, the entire c that scene, in so vivid a light do even its minute traits stand out in the sketch of this udinir- able word-painter. Yet his graphic powers are his least merit. The generous fearless- ness with which he maintains the cause of the or soldier against neglect at home, and the truth and trustworthiness of all his statements, notwithstanding the haste and confusion in the midst of which he must collect and send olf information, add much to the value of his more brilliant endow- ments, and cause us, as Irishmen and mem- bers of the press, to feel road of Mr. Russell.—Dubli'n Evening ail.

Rsinwir Snnrxas ros ms Csnrn.—Durin last week the works of Messrs. Reed and Co.,

ro rietors of the creosote works at the North

oc , onkwoarmouth, have been employed night and da cutting and preparing sleepers for the inten new railway in the rimea. About 20,800 of these are now read , and will be conveyed by the North Eastern ilway to the Tyne, where they will be loaded on board several large screw steamers, chartered by the Government, and sail direct for the Crimea.

Psisoiins or Waii.—A cop of the conven- tion between her Majesty and the Emperor of the French respectin prisoners of war, signed at London on May 0, 1854, was laid before Parliament a few d s a It contains five articles. The first article provides, that the prisoners made in the course of the present war shall be divided equally between the two couutries,and that whenever one of the two conn- trics shall have maintained a greater number of prisoners, an account of the excess of expendi- ture shell be rendered every three months, and rope entbe made of the half of the amount by t e Government of the other_country. Ile- pots established for prisoners in any foreign country are to be supported by the Government. As regards the exchange of prisoners, no dis- tinction is to be make between the respective subjects of the two Governments who may have been captured, but their liberation is _to sti ulated, exce t in special ca_ses, accordin to the priorit ofi a date of their capture. he fifth artice refers to the ratification of this convention, which took place in London on the 20th of May last.

ENLISTMENT OF FOREIGNEBS.

The followin is a copy of the bill, as amend- ed on report. t is intituled “ An Act to permit Foreigners to he enlisted, and to serve as Oflcers and Soldiers in her Majesty s Forces, The 5th clause here printed was struck out in the House of s.— _

" Whereas it is expedient that her Majesty, durin the continuance of the war, shopld e enabled to enlist and employ foreigners in her army: be it therefore enacted by the Queci_i’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and tempo- ral, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— _

“ I. It shall be lawful for ‘her Majesty _to cause to be enlisted as soldiers into her service persons not bein natural-born subjects or in- titlsd to the prlv egles of natural-born subjects of her Is’ ty, w o may voluntarily enter themselves r such service,_ and to grant com- missions or letters of service to any such_pcr- sons to serve as clears, the persoiis so enlisted d commissioned to be formed into separate regiments, battalions, and corps: and such an-

tmsnt commission, and the service thereun- der, shall be as lawlhl, as if such persons were natural-born subjects of her Ilajesty. _

" Provided always, that the men serving under this Act shall not be employed in the Upr-

kingdom except for e or of boi trained arreyed,end formed into regiments,bat- mlloas, or corps for foreign sefll°0.IIId 0300 t such bodies efreserve as may be ks t in the U_nl- tsd kingdom for training and array ng recruits, and for supplying vacancies in such re llllfllil, fitgliona, or cor ; and that tbz.-re she lnot be within theUal kla m more in the whole, fisslomonsa servlsgaailsr tiilsastaisay

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“ 3. Every person enlisted as a soldier under the authority of this Actsliall he attested in such manner as her lllajcsty shall direct, and not otherwise; and all ollicers, non-commissioned ollicers, drummers. and rivets soldicrs eiilist— ing or commissioned un or this Act shii_ll take such oath for their fidelity during their con- tinuum-c in her 1\lnjcst_v‘ii service as her Majesty shall direct, and no other.

" 4. Subject to the provisions herein contained, all ofiici-rs, non-comiiiissioncil ofiici.-rs,ilrunimcrs, or private soldiers serving under the provisions of this Act. shall ho subject to all the provisions contained in any Act for the time being in force ' for punishing mutiny and dcserlion. and for the better payment of the army and their quarters,‘ and the Articles of \\ or made in pursuance thereof, in the some manner to all intents and purposes nsiiny of her .\lujcsty’ii regular forces are subject to the same.

“ 5. It shall be lawful for her Majesty. if she are fit, to make any supplemental Articles of War to be applicable special] to persons who may be cnlistcd or commissioned under this Act. and thereby to vary or control any Articles of War for the time being in force; and the restrictions and provisions contained in any Act for the time being in force ‘for punishing mutiny and desertion, and the better ayiuent of the army and their quarters,’ in re ntion to Articles of War made thereunder, shall be ap- plicable to such supplemental Articles of War as aforesaid.

“ 6. This Act shall continue in force during the present war, and until one year after the ratification ofa definitive treaty.’

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Five non-commissioned ofiicers in different regiments were romoted to commissioned rank in the Gazclteo Frida the 15th.

General the Right (ion. Sir James Keinpt,

_. . B., Colonel of the first Regiment of Foot, died on _Wcdncsday, the 20th inst., at his residence in South Audley-street, London. This distin uished olliccr has spent more than 71 years in the service of his country.

Sir Charles Napier made his appearance in the House ofCoinnions on Tuesday. He is at present staying at Mcrchiston-hall.

to ball given in the Pavilion Rooms, Brigh- ton, in aid of the Patriotic Fund, some of the Russian oliicers (prisoners of war) attended, and they had no difiiculty in finding partners amongst our countywomen.

The great transept of the Cr stal Palace is now adorned with it uionster hi-istnias tree. ncarlv fifty feet high, and decorated by numer- ous ags, variegated lumps. nick-iiiicks, bon- bons, Joe. The tree cost nearly £700.

THE VOTE OF THANKS TO THE ARMY AND NAVY. srl_:scii or LORD Joim nusssnn.

On Friday (last week) Lord John Russell (after laying on the table it copy of the Treat between the Emperor of Austria and Her Ma- jesty and the Emperor of the French) proceeded to inovo ii vote 0 thanks to the Army and Navy engaged in the Crimea and Black Sea, and in so doing spoke as follows :—

In performing the task i have undertaken, I have the satisfiiction ofthinking that, however feebl and incompletely the task may be execu- tcd, am sure o the sympathy of this House (Hear, hear). I cannot doubt that all those who were_concerned with, or who rip roved of, the ex edition that has been sent to i. no Crimea will_g iidly join in acknowledging and in ad- mu-_ing the constancy and the fortitude with which they have seen the service performed.