_ cover goods-waggons are sent, with it large

. temporary tents and huts, impervious to wet,

. or destroyed by water.

i HASZARD’S GAZETTE, JANUARY 31.

BALAOLAVA RAILROAD.

The last division of Navvies bound for1 work in the rimea—lcft for the scene of operations. The vessels ccnve ing them, an to coastructt c railway from Balahlavn to the trenches before Sc- , tb"l°P?l’p~°°fl|i|¢l tlfrselyen steam-ships and ' wo Isl vesse .e t e e ate tonna e °r5‘9,l “'5-‘Btu’ HCEE: gower. In-I-rs-ll out--i-t-, srisoo tons ofrails and fifllflflll 3. ax” sleepers, 600 loads of tim- 59". ll" pbout 3000 tons of other material and machinery, consisting of fixed engines, Crane’. Pile engines, truck waggons, bar- rows, blocks, cain-falls, wire-rope, icks, ha": “Pnulli Cribs, and a variety of’ other plant and tools; besides sawing-lnachines, lorgel. carpenters’ and smiths’ tools Ste. This material is distributed over the difl'c- rent vessels in such a manner that should any onp orjtwo vespels be lost or disabled, it will

_ - a -' -_ "° ' ., uftheivhole. The “ml” °°'"°Y I III parties of 50 or 8), Workman; each party under the charge of "' f°"°'“3“ ‘Dd llllstsut; as well as a surgeon “_’ "°h_"°"°lt and a clerk to attend to the "'°l“°-"'08 8013 care of the stores. The al- lowance of provision. will be on a liberal Scale; both of the same description as usu- f‘“.V '"Pl}l|°d _to ships’ crews. Each man II supplied with clothing suitable for the voyage and for the service he will have to.perform on his arrival, as follows:—-l P‘“"l°‘! big. I ainted suit, 3 coloured cot- ton shirts. 1 Incl shirt (red), I flannel 51"" (“’l"l°). l flannel belt, 1 pair moleskin "‘°“99|‘5t 1 lnoldskin vest lined with se e, l fear-nought slop, l liusey drawers, 1 b ue °l‘flV_|t. I blu_e worsted cravat, 1 pair of l°g8|flg9. 1 pair of boots, 1 strap and buckle, 1 bed and pillow, l pair of mitts, I portable stove for every ten men, I rug and blanket, l_pair of blankets, ] woollen coat, 1 pair of waterproof boots, I pair fisherman’s boots, 1 pair grey stockings, and 2 pounds of to- bacco for present use. By the above ll“. it will observed, that each man is provided with a painted waterproof bag, capaple of containing his kit, and also three days provisions; no boxes or lumber of any kind being allowed. The fishcrman’s boots, reaching to the knee, are for their use on b°*“'d. as well as in wet weather in the

Crimea. But, besides, there is a pair of P“

strongly nailed boots, commonly called navvles' boots, to be served out to each man on_ arrival in the country. One hundred pairs of long boots, reaching to the hip, are also provided for the use of parties requir- ng to work in the water. Besides ten huts, each capable of housing 40 men, 100 rail- way sheets or covers generally used to

quantity of boards and scantlings, with the

and not easily inflammable which can in ii. few hours be erected and as easily removed. The sheets will also afford temporary cover- in to provisions or fuel likely to be injured Coal, coke, and firewood are also furnished in large quan- tities. To each party of tell a cooking stove, of a ver portable but cfiicient cila- racter, is provided, which will boil, bake, and fry in the open air. The stall‘ consists of one chief engineer and three assistants, one accountant and clerk, one stoi'-ekeeper and 'clerk,besides foreman and time-keepers. Whilst ever thing is provided to render their work 6 cieiit, the sanitary condition of the men has not been forgotten, the medi- cal stall‘ cousin of a surgeon, four assistant surgeons, and four nurses, selected from the first hospitals in London. n ample stock of medical stores and comforts is provided, and a lar e number of Dean and Adam’s revolvers liave also been provided in case any of the workmen should need them. Two railway missionaries will likewise ac- company the men, and a selection of books is provided for their use. On arriving at Balaklava, one of the sailing ships will be appropriated as a store and hospital ship, the rest of the squadron will be employed as circumstances may render expedient.

Emuonimsnr or run Esrlas MILITIA. —It is intended to call out the whole of the Militia regiments of the United Kingdom, including the Irish as well as Scotch Militia.-—Alrcady sixty-four English and Welsh regiments are embodied, and sixteen more are ordere out, making eighty out of the hundred of England and Wales. The remaining twenty will make the last batch. The number of men authorised by Parliament for this part of the local force is 80,000, whilst the number for Scotland is l0,0(Il, and for Ireland 30,000.—If out of tllese,80,000 can be ot together, it will be an outside number. ome l5,000 of the better pre ared Militia regiments will gar- rison the editerranean colonies, requiring afourth more to remain at home for the purposes ofdepots and keeping up the force abroad. Thus, 20,000 are provided for. The remaining 60,000 will be required for home duty, in conjunction with the depots of the re ular army, and for volunteering into the fiine. It is expected, that sufiicient

fortified places, and of addin to the most im' portant of them an entrenche camp, capable o . accommodatinga division of infantry. In fact; it is stated that this system of entrenched camps is to be carried out on a larp mic. 9;D_ extend from (Ironstsdt to most of the mlllhry positions in Poland. This among other matters. is tllc cause of the visit 11125118 G_csler Dehgm, the governor of the town a dtidel of Cronsaldt to Field-Marshal Paekiswltsch at Warsaw, in order to confer wmth him on a grand plan of defence for the w ole length of the Vistula, and thence to Nev_a, in case of an invasion during the ensuing campaign.

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A'l"I'ACK ON THE FRENCH BATTERIES.

e Courier dc Marseilles, ofthe 28th ultimo, publishes the following letter from the seat of war: .

Baroili»: SIBASTOPOL, Dec. 12.—I have very little to communicate to on, and were it not for two sorties made b the Russians against the Froncli batteries, t c monotony of our life would not have been interrupted. On Sunday, the 10th. about half- at ei ht o’clock, p. m.. the night being ver rk an stormy, the wind blowiuga re ular urricane, a lug bodyof thcenemysiil iedout of Sebastopol by shat ry he rdens, opposite the most advance works 0 the French. Favoured by the obscuri- ty, the Russians had approached within fort yards of the French batteries when the alarm was given, but before our troops could be ready. the enemy rushed forward, and some of them had even succeded in scaling the perapets of the batteries. The surprise, however, was

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only inolnentary. The Russians who netreted into the works were all killed, and e French

to the number of 700 or 800, charged the re- mainder with thc bayonet. The Russians, thrown into the greatest confusion,lled towards their lines, leaving several hundred killed, wounded, and prisoners in the hands of the French, who ursued them to the very walls of the place. A l the forts opened fire to protect the retreat, but, owing to the darkness and the nature of the ground, the French suffered no material loss. At one o'cloc a. m., strong detachments of the Russian infantr eflbcted a second sortie, with a view to is the French from the sitions the had taken. On their approach, t e latter retired in silence and ispersed among the neighbouring ruins. The Russians continued to advance, but meeting none of our soldiers they thou ht they hit returned to their camp, when ad of a sudden the French opened upon them a deadly fuell- hide. The enemy, so cruelly sur rised, was compelled to retreat, and re-enters the city in the greatest disorder. was a real sauve gun‘ I. All the batteries of the place then began to tire, and the shots so close y followed each other, that the whole sky was illuminated and the ground trembled under our feet. This frightful uproar gave me an idea of hell. In all those attacks the French, had not more than 40 men pla s dc combat. t two o’clock all was again tranquil. The Russian loss must have been 300 men. Our troo s ve mounted the artillery they lately received in their third parallel, and they are ready to open tire with 00 guns, amen which are several mortars of the heaviest call The French will, however, wait, until the English be plreparedto operate. The French had taken t sir precautions be- fore the bad weather set in, b constructing a good military road between K arson and their camp, so that they were able to t up in the time their amunltien and, provisions of every sort. The English. unfortunately, were less provident; but their allies came to their assist- ance, and worked dagfind night to construct a this stone road from laclava to their camp. They, moreover, lent their horses and mules for the conveyance of their srtille It has been admitted by all the English 0 cars that, while their horses prrpnsent a wretched a pear- ance, those of the h are in a 1hr ctter condition than the day they landed in the Cri- mes. nr Allies cannot understand how our men and horses enjoy such good health. Before the end of the week, the English will have pla- ced eighty uns in position. They have resol- vedto esta lish a second psral cl. The two batteries constructed at Inkerman are admira- bly situated, and two redoubts will soon be erected on the bill which commands them. Those batteries are to be armed with four 18- inch mortars and twelve 32 pounders. This position is tobc defended b the French and the two rcdoubts b the Eng ish. The redoubts are to mount four inch mortars, ten 32 und- ers,and other guns of long range. Al this artillery will be so disposed, as to fire upon all the points of the city, particularly upon the port. e reckon on these new works to des- troy and burn the Russian fleet. The due weather has fortunately returned, the wind has ceased, an mperature i ' French lent their ambulance wagons to the English for the conveyance to Balaclava of the sic . who are to be embarked for Scutari. The English frequently visit the port of Khcrson, which,as you know, is the French port. The are surprised at the order we have established there. The French navy has constructed several landing-places, one for the cavalry, another for the infantry, and a third for ammunition and provisions. At Balaclava, the service is not so well or niscd. General Canrobcrt and the other chietli inspect the troops eve day; they visit the hospitals, regardless of t c weather, ~their resence euimates the soldiers and con- soles t c sick. so. 13.—-The enemy made another sortie last night a inst the French lines. At nine o’clock, Russians sallied out again from the Garden Battery, but finding the French prepared to receive them, they made a move- ment as if the intended to attack in think one of the Englis batteries. The English being also on their guard, the assailants met with a warm reception, and were obliged to retreat in great disorder. I think they will now leave us quiet for some time, for they have been un- fortunate in all their nightly expeditions. The divis' n of General Liprandl has not alto ther

barracks will soon be ready for the whole number; sooner, in fact, than the men can be rocured. In the military colonies of Mata, Gibraltar, and Corfu, the Militia regiments will do the garrison duty. At Malta, in addition, it is intended to have a reserve force of regulars in training, and ready for immediate embarkation to any point where their services may be required in the field. We understand that already it most lively competition is displayed by the Militia regiments longest enrolled, for the first turn of garrison service in the Mediterranean.

Sriisivornsrilito run Foa-rlrian Pucss IN Russia. —Lctters from St. Petersburg state,that several councils have lately taken place there under the presidency of the Minister at War with the attendance of the naval and milita oflccrs commanding in the Gulf of Finlsn and its. shores. Thssc councils recognised the necessity of strengthening and augmenting the various

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aban oncd the neighbourhood of Bela lava. Part ofit is cncampecl about a league from its former position, 25,000 men quartered a little to the south, and a division of between 15,000 and 18,000 men has strongly entrenched itself near Inkcrman. It is gcnerall believed, that the Russians intended to attac our advanced bat- teries in that direction. The s ifanncr of that General has lately received reinforcements, and he has now upwards of 40,000 men. The 3tth English Regiment coining from Corfu has arrived, an 4 French have landed at Khcrson. The moment all our reinforcements have arrived we shall, in all probability, march against the Russian army in the field.

Akussus Siiau. Porno INTO an Elva- i.lsa Gus.-The Artillery have taken ad- vantage of the fine weather to bring up two- inch mortars, and the French have drag- ged u five cannon; they b an to repair our atforms yesterday in the batteries, whic looks as if they intended to have

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another Ilrtlfi. sit t _ 2- Our last 68- jsundcr on the left ck was disabled two days ago in a curious manner. It was a ship gun, and the sailors had loaded. and were standing by ready to fire, when a shell from one of the Russian guns, entered the muzzle. The concussion sent our gun oil’ and at the same time the enemy's shell burst inside the gun, tearing two or three feet oftlle lip to pieces. lsuw the gun yesterday in the trenches, all jagged and splintered. Not one of the eight sailors was touc e .

STATE OF AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

A letter from St. Petersburg of the 20th, in the Coiistilutioniiel, says,-—" The heslih of the Em- ress is very llcr sons, Nicholas and biichael, have. on her pressing solicitations, been recalled from the Crimes by a special order from iinpercr. They went direct to Gatschina, where the Court is residing, and are only to leave in a few days. The side-de-camp of the Grand Duke Michael, who was wounded at Iulisrmann, has received leave of absence for eight months to recover his health. a pro ted the Prince

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,1 against the eticmy’s balls, and was at last

seriously wounded. During the last few days the Emperor has not come to St. Petersburg. Christmas will not be very gay this year. The furious enemies of the West make declsmalions in the Russian journals against the purchase of French and English articles for presents. ' prices of these articles have risen incredibly high. To make up the deficit resulling from the Treasury by the diminution of the duties on foreign imports. the Minister of Finance, M. de Brock,hss had recourse to various cxpedients. The plies of salt, for example, has been coil- sidcrably increased in a great part of the empire, and a recent uksse providcs for llle augmentation of the revenue from the mono oly of tobacco. The Minister of the Interior, oullt Panin, on his part. animated with the same financial zeal, excites by different measures, and especially by the direct action of Government functionaries an the clergy, the pstrioiic enthusiasm of the people, so as to cause them to make voluntary donations. 'l'lius, for example, when, in ii province, is con- tiisctor for the sale of liquors, which is a Govern- lncnt monopoly, does not make a voluntary sacrifice of solnc hundred quarts of spirits of wine for the troops on the march, it is certain. that the contract wil not be prolonged. The fanaticism of the people is excited by different means: bill it great many people are now already learning to make adistiociion between the interests of the country andihose of Czarism. It is only when the Government fears to cause misery and famine that it lessens somewhat the rigour of its fiscal measures. Thus, in Finland, it has not dared yet to prohibit the exportation of hemp, flax, pitch, and timber, as it has prchibiled the export of the raw material of the smith of Russia. The Government appears decided to defend Sebsstopol with all its disposable forces. The Ministers Nesselruds, Dolgoronki. and Paula have a great deal to do. The former liss had to abandon his svonritc pleasure of playing at whirl and ombre ; Dolgcrculli is required to resent every day an ncrease of the army; and min to resent s new register of voluntary donations. nfoiiuuatcly, most of these sugmeniaticns only figure on sper."

Tn: Youxc Bitirlsn 0mcsas.—Previous to the war, luxury and indulgence appeared to have reached a point the most extravagant. Young men and elderly men seemed to vie with one another in providing means of inordinate self-gratification. The club-houses of the me- tro lis became joint-stock palaces of refined an elaborate luxuriousness. If, on the Derby day, or 0ak’s day of 1853, one had walked into St. James’s street about 11 o'clock in the morn- in , there were to scan the young men of fee ion with their admirably appointed car- riqges, preparing for the sports of the day, an most of them with blue veils tied round their hats, intended to be used as guards for their complcxion,when encountering the sun and dust of the road. If one walked on to the Army and Navy Clubhouses in Pall-Mall, the most prcposterously luxurious of all the laces in that neighbourhood, there were other similar

ups.—Among all these young men, thou h in the dross of civilians, were officers of t e regiments which have been rforming such astonishln feats of valor! T cse young men, who thong t it necessary to guard their faces from the sun of a British summer day, are the sanle who have lain in their tents upon the heights above Sehasto l, scarcely a eltercd from the cold damps o it November night, and have started with alacrity at the first sound of the morniu . to lead their men into the most

a terrible con lots that ever soldiers were engaged

in, and to face death in every terrible aspect that death can assunie.-—Londan paper

MINISTERIAL Ciilsis—Tltr¢alened Resig-

nalt'on.—ln well informed circles the impres- sion is general, that a ministerial crisis i at hand, if it has not actually arrived. Lord John Russell, it appears, and a party who act with him in the Cabinet, are determined not to incur the responsibility of acting further with the men to whom the manage- ment of the War Department has been con- fided. The vague rumour of Cabinet dis- sension has at length assumed a definite shape. The Lord President of the Council has demanded, it is said, the removal of the Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Sydney Her- bcrt from the posts for which they have proved themselves so miserably disqualified, and the dismissal of those poor incapables involves the retirement of the remainder of the “ gang," including, of course, the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord John Russell can neither have forgotten nor forgiven the slight to himself and the great party he rep- resents, of placing every oliice connected with the War Department in the hands of the Peelite clique, while Whigs have been carefully excluded. The few men of ability and experience in the Cabinet have been compelled to look on, while their incompe- tent colleagues were blundcring along their ruinous course; and they had the satisfac- tion of reflecting, that although they were powerless to control the mischief daily ac- cumulating throwh the ignorance and pre- sumption of the ar Ofiice, they were held accountable for it by the country at large. It is not sur rising, therefore, that Lord John Russel should have resolved no longer to peril the remnant of the expedi- tion in the Crimea, and his own reputation as a statesman, by an association with the most incompetent and erversc Ministry who ever scrambled to 0 cc.

The advantages which the people of 010 United States expected to have derlvedfrom the war in the East have not been reallz,ed' on the contrary, it has serlvlflly 0'70“ .

stagnation and bankrupfcy among them. When the contest first couimeuced between Russian despotism on the one hand, it justice and moral advanceiilcut, as exhibttod hy the Western Powi.-_rs, on the 0ll|0". 0"" Republican friends vulllly indulged the hope that they would be in the position of the fox while the two sturdier animals were con- tending for the prize, they lliiagllled that piriltical vessels bearln the Russian flag would swarm the seas, that British colli- merce would be sadly molested, and that they would have the carrying trade almost exclusively in their own hands. l_ilIl. lllefie anticipations have not been reullzed,_ the vigilance and activity of the allied cruisers having effectually prevented any depreda- tioiis upon their commerce. once _W6 find, that the American papers are altering tllcir toile, and that the most rnbid among them are earlicstly wishing for the return of peace. This, however, cannot be ex- pected, until Russia has been completely hunibled:—the Crimea will be wrested from her grasp, and the fortifications of Sebasto- ol, it is said, will lie-razed to the ground, leaving nothing but the site of the city.

Ir. Evans, an American, writes from St. Petersburg to the New Bedford Mercury, under date Nov. 1, as follows:—-

Iani confident that we shall have ace by the let of April next, or a general uro- pcnn war. If peace is not concluded by spring, the campaign will be continued by the allies on a gigantic scale, and we may expect to see the French and English armies in St. Petersburgh and Moscow. The Russians will show a good front, but they cannot stand before all Europe, or even the French and English alone, if they sllould put their whole force against Russia.