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should never have thought,’ he said, * that you would be so! St. Petersburg and Vienna; to the Cabinets of London and

alarmed by a little harmless snake,” 'Poris he notified that although the diplomatic relations “e ' ' - “, ure . — ‘ ; a i: é 4

a ewan oe is a d Exnestine, epplanding jetween Austria and Russia would cease, Awsiria would not aL — We are diffrent sort of poopie bere.” | rake the field this year. Heres shen, we have a full confir-

** 1t is impossible to clange one s nature," Dre plied * the ” Nature” replied Ernestine ; os what do fn, know about mation of the shallow and preposterous character = on nature? For Heaven's sake hold your tongue.” |vaunted Austrian xJ/imatum. lier terme are rejected with

This was really too rade. 1 was on tire point of making a | contempt; but she has not the courage to sustain them. She sharp reply, when i saw Oken extend her hand towards the will * cut * the Power which iusults her; but she won't fight. repiile’s cage. I kept silence and prepared for flight. She will exchange no more words with Russia 3 but she

(To be concluded mm our next.) won't draw her sword with the Allics. What aa attitude of eS dignity !

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f IA? ips But let us hear what Austria herself says 1 rr

Worresps VCTCE. posture of offairs. ‘The Austrian Correspondence, 2» sem-

LOLA PPP PLO official organ of the Court of Vienna, states that “ the =

To ims Eprroa or tar Exaninen. from Russia appeared conciliatory, and pees pees u

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Sir—I perceive by some remarks in your paper of the Sentiments, Still the oth e. ind of Vienna, which 28th instant, that you intzad offering some suggestions to our 8108 t0 the propositions of the Ca ' Legislature prior to (heir assembly, and would beg to lead &%i '

, eR a eal of antees fi Difficulties, therefere, still ap- ou to reflect u on th : liey taxing the materials ot the guarantees for peace, _ ’ . . y oh. S Nee potiey of taxing . ‘pear to be opposed to the belief that the desired object has

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; when the Russian reserves eame up. The Russien loss was, threo"kélled and three wounded.

OMAR PASHA’S DISASTROUS RETREAT.

Ziewre, Dee. 13.—It is with a feeling of no little regret that, after the lapse of a fortnight, I am compelled to date | this letter from the same place as my last. The gleam of) sunshine whieh then induced a hope of finer weather proved |

deluged with rain. Rather than relinquish without an effort the object which he had hoped to attain when he undertook the campaign, Owar Pasha determined to attempt to fores his way over a flooded country, and across several mountain torrents, to Kutais, On the morning of the 21 the army received orders to march in the middle of a tremendous storm, and succeeded upon the following day in crossing the Ekoura, over which river Skender Pasha had constructed a footbridge with considerable ingenuity, but which was nevertheless ‘almost immediately afterwards carried away. We then | pushed on over roads knee-deep in mad, frequently delayed

used in shipbwaiding. A trade that, irrespective of ity ad-| :

" : ae “che ae tal ad engl it is suid, will not give way from vantages cr disadvantages to those directly concerned in it, been attained. England, it is said edt ¢e Sisatthers is ‘uadewbtedly of great benefic to the people generally. the verbal tenour of the propositions sent fo “Ffleati ie first—it induces many young men to remain that would Should that power persist lu rejecting aby modiica aOR, S08

eal fon ci Cabinet of Vienna will withdraw its Ambassador from 5t.

otherwise leave the Island in search of employment elsewhere | } Se ee a ae ’ that without shipbuilding could not be inal at home, and Petersburg, and will make propositions to Frankfort to have

gives partic! employment to many who are in want of such the support of the confederation against Russia.” From this acsistance. Second—it makes a homo market for all the it will be seen that Austria artfully endeavours to make it

Various agricultural and other products of the Island, many * ef whieh could not otherwise find,a market, and all are side undoubtedly inereased in value and demand. Third—it gives, OW'ng Po pe value to the forest. Fourth—the consumption of imported ‘of the terms already proposed, that Austria will go the length 3, and ony’ the Revenue is greatly increased by | shipbuilding, without counting any of the materials use building or rigging. os ot In New Brunswick, and [ think also ia Nova Scotia, iron, |

rope, canvass, windlass gear, and all articles used in ship-| to listen to a modification of the proposals which Russia has

appear that England is the sole obstruction to a further con | lying in mud and water for four days, with nothing to live on ration of pacific propositions, and thatit will be only | put a short supply of biscuit. The stream, -which is one o to England’s persistence in rejecting any modification | 1.6 most eonsiderable tributaries of the Rhion, and which

hy rivalets, which bad swollea into deep rivers and swept ‘away the temporary bridges which had been put up to supply ‘the place of those destroyed by the Russians, and ultimately

Another offcer had 2 contusion on his head, and hig gy. was completely shattered ; the sisters told mea

about him, but I wished to look into his case with iny eyes, and went tohim. I found bim sitting he askej my name; Itold ithim, and he immediately b god my second a favour he asked of Count Vielhorsky, “Heban’ three brothers, so they were fourinal!l. One fell in the Cane, sus, another here, and two are now severely wounded the have an aged mother, who lives in great poverty, Betorg th

| treacherous, and we baye until within the last two daye been ‘battle he had prayed and said to himself--- My firs: Wound

is for the Kuperor---the second for my mother,” ceived a strong contusion, did not it; but the enemy’s battery, Then it wasthat he had crushed ; the wouad is said to be ® mortal oue. He with tears Count Vielhorsky to get a pension settled old mother---he spoke to him so touchingly, that the himself was moved to tears and promised to do hig. The filial love and care of the young man is beautiful ; nop we hear him without emotion praying for the welfure of exalted proteetress. The Russian soldier is uniqne, Wig joy do we bend the knee and thank God for ing up it, courage and fortitude of our brave fellows. Our expand when we hear how resignedly they endure eter, kind of torture, and say in the most excruciating momen,

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‘camped upon plains watered by the Skeniseal. These were | partially flooded, and it was with some difficulty that spots ‘were found upon which to pitch the tents where the water was

not more than two inches deep. Here. the troops remained

always runs a volume of water, was about 200 yards broad,

lof withdrawing her Ambassador from St. Petersburg. No/ and its impetuous and turbid current was whirling down huge d in| reference, whatever, is made to France ;, but the inference to) tes as if they had been walking-sticks undermining great be drawn from this Austrian semi-officia] statement 1s that “portions of the bank, here and there overflowing the adjacent. | France, but for England's obstinacy, would not be unwilling country, aud altogether presenting an aspect which put any

hope of finding a ford within three or four days out of the

buildiag, are imported free of duty, while on this Island the rejected. We believe this to be a wilful misrepresentation | | Wo.tion, Meautime the rivers in the rear had continued to

above articles are taxed from 2 to 5 per cent. It is there- | ° fore clear that builders on this Island cannot compete with | : " Sata diiine the New Brunswick builders on equal terms. Surely that | that she is professing an adhesion to the cause of the Alles, is wrong. to sow the seeds of mistrust and difference between the Cabi-

There is also another reason for making iron free: it is 2°ts of London and Paris. Austria dreads Russia, but she does

| , } ne », opeto’s » > ‘ . ° . a. a ~ used in the manufacture, within the Island, of agricultural "9t love England and France. Heretofore she has beeu | buying biseuit from their more fortunate comrades at 10

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and other industrial implements ; and I submit that the raw | playing fast and loose with all. By-and-by she will find | paras apiece. The fact that the troops in some of the

material for these purposes ought not to be taxed It may) herself scouted by all. When that day comes, let her look be objected that it is unsafe to make any abatement in the | t9 her own. AN II impost duties, lest the revenue should suffer; but it does not Be. -: adidiaciaae appear to me that the difference would be felt, and even if it | PROSPECTS OF PEACE. should, would it not*be better to increase the duties on other | ACCEPTANCE OF TUE PROPOSITIONS OF THE ALLIES BY KUSSIA. | imported goods, and let all articles be free that are imported; The Times of Thursday, in a second edition, publishes the | to be again exported, with largely increased value derived | following :— from the natural resources of the country. Again it may be| “ Vienna, Wepnespay, 10 pos. waid that much of these materials would be used on vessels!“ Russia bas unconditionally accepted the propositions of intended to remain under [sland ownership for our own | the allies, coasting trade, and therefore not to be exported. Idonot! «This is authentic.” think this objection will be urged by those who know how A third edition cf the Morni«g Post of Thursday says much of — ro a trade is done by Americans and Nova | that her Majesty's Government have received the following BScotiave; and who must therefore recognise the propriety of telegraphic despatch from Sir Hamilton Seymour :--- removing discouraging taxes, so us to enable our own people to compete with them ou fair terms.

“The Russian Goverument accept the Austrian proposals as a basis for negotiation.”

NOBODY. a <_< TEXT OF THE PROPOSITIONS SUBMITTED TO HR BEABITBAR. RSs : The Independance Belge publishes the following as the | CHARLOTTETOWN, FEBRUARY 11, 1856. | text of the propositions submitted to Russia by Count Ester- |

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ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL,

“].--Tuoe Daxontan Prrxcipariries. ao Complete cbolition of the Russian protectorate. The : ' : anubian Principalities shall receive ap Organisetiva con- glish M 2 ou a : “0 ous Tse ea - sil arrived here at & late “aut on Monday ' formed to their wishes, their necessities, and their interests ; might last. The news from the reat of war is unimportant. and this new organisation, respecting which the population | The rumours regarding Peace appear to have been somewhat itzelf shall be consu‘ted, shall be recognised by the contract- |

more active in England than on any previous occasion since | ing Powers and savetioned hy the Sulian as emanating from |

the commencemen: of tho war, it being confidently affirmed | his Sovereign initiative. No State shall have power under |

z ; ; : a . (apy pretext whatsoever, under any form of Protectorate, to | that Ruc i2 manife:*- a disposition to embrace the propositions yP y :

er. intermeddie in questions of the internal administration of the | of the Allies. But the rumours of a peaceful disposition on Pyincipalitics. The latter will adopt a definate permanent | the part of the Czar appear to take their rise in the Austrian system called for by their geographical positton, and uo!

and Prussic:: Covris, and we have just ae little faith in them ! obstacle shall be interposed to prevent them from fortifying |

: : i +r e 1 , ’ <0 i 2 Hit ann) ali! as we have in the Court of St. Petersburg. Russia will never | their territory for their own security as they see fit against all | | foreign agygres-lon

conclude & war, in every aspect of which she has been signaily |. fo ocbanes f -@ad posit; | oe gneey | «In exchange for the fortified positions and territory oc-|

worsted, so long es she er command men and money to carry _cupied by the Allied Armies. Russia consents to a reetifica- | it on; and ono campaion evuld uever.exhaust the resouurces, tion of her frontier vb European Turkey. The frontier | in those reepects, of co hues su euspire as that of Russia. We Will leave the cuvirons of Chotym |in Bessarabia], following |

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guspect, therefore, thé the rumours of pence are cisculated| the line of the heights stretching in a south-east direction, | a ie alae wae aud terminate at Lake Salyzk. The line of this rectification | with wie view of lulling the Allics into a false s2carity, and to) shal] be definitively regulated by general treaty, and the give tho enemy time to make gigantic preparations for the next conceded territory shall return to the Principalities and the | campaign, We have no apprehension, however, that the Allies suzerainty of the Porte. will be eo easily deceived, “If—-Te Danvse. soit , _ “ - 2 - The Colonial and United Siates imatle arrived here on Thure-| . T 7 ee the Danube and of the mouths of the day night last, river shall eficaciously assured by the institations or fae | ae international Jaw, in which the contracting Powers ' n - | shall be equally represented ; excepting the particular positions THE WAR IN THE EAST. of owners of the soil on the banks, which will be regulated | “ : | upon the principles established respecting river navigation by (From the London News of the World, January 20.) | the treaty of the Congress of Vieuna. Each of the contracting THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. _ Powers shall have the right to station one or two light vessels i ’ ” .., | at the mouths of the river, in order to insure the observance It is utterly impossible, from the fragmentary and conflicting | of the regulations relative to the freedom of the Danube. statowents which daily reach us from the various courts of «[1T.---Neorratisaron or tue Buacx SEA Earope, to form any accurate idea of what the actual stateof 4 'Thig sea shall be opened to merchant vessels; closed to things st present is in reference to the negotiations for peace. | ships of war. Consequently naval arsenals will neither be a. ee ceely og the Austrian proposal has certainly | created nor preserved. The protection of the commercial and c orwarded to Vienna; but of the exact nature of that maritime interests of all nations shall be assured in the re- reply we are still completely in the dark. The Belgian Nord, _Spective ports in the Black Sea by tke establishment of in- ss — y . the interests of Russia, tells us that the stitutions conformed to international law and ancient usuages oe ae eters arg Accepts, in principle, the proposais in this matter. The two coast-bordered Powers mutually In aaa by Count Valentine Ksterhazy, and adds, “ The engage to keep up only the number of light vessels, of a i ° ’ 2 : mperial Cabinet of Russia does BOs introduce therein any stipulated strength, necessary for the coasting service. This modifications of significance ; it refuses the territorial cession convention, concluded separately between the two Powers demanded in Bessarabia : 16 consents tu the exchange of the shall form a part of the general treaty as an annex after territories eeiey occupied by the belligerents. That having been approved of by the contracting parties. This - to my. ussia will surrender nothing upon the Danube, separate convention shall neither be annulled nor modified t eee to abandon her recent conquest at Kars and without the assent of the subscribers to the general treaty. : _ . Armenia in exchange for the restoration of Sebas- The closing of the straits shall admit an exception in favour topol and the Crimea, Will Austria, which has no interests of the stationary vessels mentioned in th. preceding article, in Asia, but a very deep interest in the freedom of the’ “ TV.---Canisti1an Sussecrs or tun Porre a of the Danube, consider this a modification of no| « The immunities of the Rayah subjects of the Porte will significance? Ifthe statement made by the Nord be cor- be established without injury to tie independence or the 7 it Is obvious that Russia, offended at the part which dignity of the Sultan’s crown. As deliberations are taking ustria has taken in these transactions, will now only consent place between Austria, France, Great Britain, and the Sublime to -~ for peace upon terms which would be more prejudieal Porte, in order to assure to the Christian subjects of the * ustria ng wo 207 other Power involved in the con- Sultan their religious and political rights, Russia shall be roversy. 0 will say that sucha result to the feeble, invited, on the conclusion of peace, to associate herself with vacillating, and half-hearted policy of the Court of Vienna’ them. , is undeserved 2? But what does Austria say to th's answer; « Y....Tho belligerent Powers reserve the right which

from St. Petersburg? The Berlin telegraph ing, | ; arg ? ‘legrapner (speaking belongs to then ii i D from what authority we know not) tells us, that ; 5 ne ts het — ae

—_ has ——— ~ oerenes of the Imperial Cabinet | Of Tussia without discussion.” Indeed! Has i > THE RUSSr, Jast found courage to act with so much decision 2 Then she| mOY ANGE OF, TAR. RIARANS, 18, of course, prepared to-cast her lot in with the Allies, and? According to intelligence of the 7th inst., from Constanti- | fo take up arms to.cbmpel the Czar to conform to the con- ?9Ple, the Russian advanced posts were within three hours’ ditions she has prescribed. Steady, stead y 5 not quite so fast, ™areh of Erreroum. The sawe telegraph from which he have qnoted tells us, that at the moment at whieh Count Buol rejected the Russian | NIGHT SURPRISE BY FRENCH TROOPS counter-proposals without discusion, he made two distinet | The Invalide Russe pero gee ws Gortsehakoff, the Kussian Minister Prince Gortschakoff, T

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6 other to the Cabinets of Londonand Paris. | wearmg white clouks (probably that they might not be so.

Tv the Rus-ian Minister he announced th ili | readi siDt C e probability of a} readil voi : oT: speedy rupture of diplomatic relations brtweke the Courts of prised Belden. othe Cee by might and cur-

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They bayonetted the outposts, but retreated

juseless attempting to harass the main body of the army,

Count special conditions besides the four guarantees.” have mortal wounds; it was hard to approach their beds and

‘could. I brought our best surgeons to him, but all gave me

fthe fact; and the only motive we can assigv to It 182) Vig aud the line of communication was temporarily inter-

| trai desire on the part of Austria, even at the moment! mM, ve , ircumstances | : , raitorous p ’ cepted. The position of the army under these circu el answered. I stooped over him to search for the wound, aud

was becoming in the last degree critical. Some of the regi- meuts had altogether run out of provisions, and the unfortunate soldiers, who have not received pay for nearly a year, were

brigades were not so well supplied with provisions as those in others is to be attributed to a want of proper arrangements on the part of the generals commanding. The state of the weather, however, would have rendered a retreat necessary, even if such had not been the case, since the hardship and

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‘for their sakes you check the almost resistless fi jtheir blood, and die in the hope that God will help g Russian people, and curb their foes. You cam sea agine what a variety of scenes occur; at times you } you gaze on the wounds, and a few moments after you lang For instance: I stepped up toa st-otcher just laid ont ground, and asked the wounded man i!’ he wou!d’tt likey drink, handing him something to drink at the same time. ‘he begged me to bind up the wound in tis side. Lashed. '* My friend, are you shot through the body #” “ Yes")

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suddenly burst open. When he saw the wound bi

‘said, with the greatest calmness---- The wound is goof! Don’t trouble yourself about binding it up--such wound don’t heal!” Alas! How did I feel! I looked him the face; it was as plecid as that of a sleeping child, ay something holy played over his features. I asked himif ty would like tosee a clergyman? He suid he should; andiy took the sacrament. Peacefully le lay where fe was, said, low---‘* Dear mother, do not leave me!” IE ¢

was so horrified that I almost shricked, for the anit

exposure which the men had been undergoing began seriously to affect their health, and it became apparent to Omar Pasha that to linger longer in so unsuitable a locality would seriously imperil his whole army. He, therefore, reluctantly gave the orders to retire three days ago, and with heavy hearts we turned our backs upon the Russiane. The Prineess Dadian had hitherto wisely determined to remain in her mountains until she bad witnessed the upshot of the campaign ; it is now pretty certain that she will not at present enter into negotiations with any Power hostile to Russia.

WINTER QUARTERS. —SKIRMISHES WITH PRINCE! GREGORY.—-BRAVERY OF TURKISH VILLAGERS.

Repovpt-kaLeu, Dec, 20.—The terrific storms of the last week have obliged all the steamers to get under way and seek at Batoum that shelter which the open roadstead here does | not afford. The army has gone into winter quarters at Choloni, four miles to the rear of Ziewie, where the formation of the country offers great natural advantages of positon. Omar Pasha has established himself here for the present, and is engaged in completing his winter commissariat arrangements. Meanwhile the enemy has not been idle. Finding that it was

Prince Gregory (the brother of the Princess Dadian), at the

have given my life for his, [ would have dane it

Not to lose sight of him, [ kept coming back to him; length they carried him away, and I did not know where tp, While binding aud dressing in a distant tent, | found my poor sufferer again. He rejoiced greatly to see me, raise himself a little, and begged me to lean over him. I knekf down aud asked, “ What do you wish, my friend?” fy answered, “ Mother, let me kiss your forehead.” With tha he took hold of my head and kissed it, saying, “That wasmy§ first, but now take my soldie:’s blessing Le‘ore my death," And he blessed me with the sign of the cross. I was greatly affected, and received with deep faith the blessing of sucha man. My tears overpowerd me; he gazed on me and ait, “Mother, why do you cry? You regretus? We w& for Chiist’s sake, and you see weare all glad.", At the sam instant [ hear laughing, and a voice cries beliind me, Me

ither sister!” [I turn round and ask, “ Who calis? A

voice answers, * A roast pig!" I was amazed, and all th patients laughed. Tien a truly horrible sight revealed itself to these eyes; head, face, all was black, and so charred,» swollen, that it looked one mass. The arms, tog wen shockingly mutilated and burnt. I asked him how

burnt so, and he said a chest full of cartridges had aml close to him. I began to dress him, madea mask for'is face, and he so cheered all the rest with his stories, that

head of about 500 Georgian and Imeritan militia, surrounded Sugdidi and forcing the unfortunate inbabitants of the’ neighbouring villages to take up arms, under threat of burning | down their houses in ease of refusal, he led an armed mob into the town in the middle of the night, and surprised an unfortunate garrison of 180 Turkish soldiers, who had been | left there invalided. Three or four of these were killed, and |

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thoroughly aroused the remainder. These assembled hastily in the square befvre the Princess’s palace, and not only offered | a stout resistanee, but charged their numerous enemy, who | crowded the narrow streets, with such determination that | they killed 60 of them, among whom were eight beys, and | utterly routed the whole force ; after which they barricaded | themselves in the palace, a messenger was despatched to Omar Pasha, asking for relief, at the same time assuring him they were provisioned and prepared for a long resistance. Gregory finding it was hopeless to attempt to dislodge these brave men, turned his arms against a Mingrelian Bey who had taken up arms with the Turks, and obliged him to fortify himself with his retainersin his romantic fortress, which crowns a hill-top, in regular feudal style. Ho, too, has applied for assistance, and Skender Pasha was sent to the relief of both parties. That enterprising General, getting information of the presence of the enemy within a few miles of the camp, went out to meet them with a regiment of cavalry and a battulion of rifles under Colonel Ballard ; placing the rifles in ambush he advanced with his cavalry upon Prince Gregory. Seeing the small force which was opposed to him the Prince charged the cavalry, which retreated until the enemy was fairly in the trap, when the order was given to fire, and a storm of Minie bullets emptied a hundred saddles on the spot ; the remainder precipitately took to their heels. | Skender Pasha then proceeded to Sugdidi. This summary chastisement will, doubtless, produce a wholesome effect upon | the enemy, but it is more difficult to know how the people of | the country are to be treated. Their position is most un- fortunate. Forced on the one hand by the brother of their | Sovereign at the point of the sword to take up arms against | the Turks, subject on the other to the immediate vengeance | of these (the present possessors of the country) if they are caught with arms, they see no means of escape from the dilemma in which they are placed, and which involves the destruction of all they hold dear to them.

THE RUSSIAN HOSPITALS.

The Superior, Frau von St. , a Sister of Merey, says: —We packed our cars closely with all kinds of things for the wounded---bread, shirts, trowsers, bandages, lint, Klukva, water, twine, morphine, powders, castor-oil, and seme red wine that I had kept for aspecial occasion, and which I found very scasonable both for officers and men. All we could take with us we took to Mackenzie, The sisters who are appointed to wait on the officers, and nurse them, speak with tears of their grateful conduct. Many among them

console them with hopes of life. Believe me, your soul melts with pity within you as you do so. Qne offcer has his shoulder splintered with a rifle ball, which then passed into bis left side, where it remained; it is iinpossible to take it out, and he suffers so dreadfully that his cries are distracting. fle is only 26 years old, a beautiful young man, and a good Christian. Tie prays with great fervour. When the strong pains come on he entreats us piteously to help him, as if we

for answer, * Impossible.” At last the poor sufferer learned his sentence and prepared himself for death like a Christian.

even those who were severely wounded were astonished him ; my poor friend himself smiled; he actually helped m himself, too, to put the lint right while I was dressing lis wounds. The burnt artillerist asked for something sour to drink. Iran offto our earthen hut (zemlanka), and in lew than a quarterof'an hour was back again, but he bad jot died. The other soldier did not die befora night, aadi tained his senses to the last.

A CRIMEAN SOLDIER'S EXPERIENCE.

A private, who some years azo ran away from his friend and enlisted, through his passion for military habits, lately

jturned from the Crimea, after having been in the battlesd

Alma and Inkermann, and in Scutari hospital, bas. paida visit to his friends, and among other details he givesth following account ofa very narrow escape he met with at th battle of Iukermamn. He says: “A big surly-lookig Russian, to whom I had to lock np (the narrator beings good-sized fellow), ran towards me with the intention # bayonet me, when I made a niovement sideways, so that i bayonet passed under my arm, or between my arm anday body, und the Russian came up with such voilence that knocked me down and fell upon me, while the bayonet piersl the ground. I then, fearing he would produce a knife to de patch me, clasped my arms round him, and held him with sucht grasp that I never shall forget, while my comrade d

him with the point of his bayonet. The Russian’s blood m down me before I relinquished my hold.” Another tim speaking of the horrible situation he was in one cold night

| when he was on picket duty, he says: “ We packed i

dead bodies of the Russians fuur abreast, to forma wall?! keep the wind off.” The narrator was wounded by a spliates or piece of iron froma shell, which lay hissing some ti near him, and which burst while he was in the act of lec ling his rifleat one of the enemy, whom he shot, who ## taking deliberate aim at him from the parapet, about 15! yards distant. He was wounded again ina sortie of th enemy, while he wason duty in the trenches; bis opponetl then endeavoured to bayonet him, when he struck his weap] so that it pierced his thigh, in which it remained till comrade, whose attention was attracted, gave the finishing shot, and he was thus providentially preserved.

RUSSIAN SPIES IN SEBASTOPOL.

The Invalide Russe publishes an extract from Prité Gortschakoii’s diary of operations, from the 5th to the 16s of December. It says:--- In this space of time w0til particular has oecurred in the - Crimea,.-except some naissances and out-post skirmishes. Thus, to ascertaia as possible the position and works of the enemy om tbe sou side of Sebastopol, a sloop and three boats, under the commatl of Lieut. Dolgoff, were sent on the night between the it and 6th December towards the South Bay (between town and the Karabelnaia suburb). That bold offices leaving the boats which brought him between the Paal and the Woronzoif roads and quay, landed near the c@®) accompanied by Ensign Oskolboft Quartermaster Soya and the pilot Mixkailoff. Thence he advanced as far docks; but at a short distance from the wood-yard be a upon a corps de garde of the enemy sitting round # * whereupon he returned to the sloop. Another alte land at the centre of the bridge of the South Bay also After these two attempts our men took the direction New Admiralty, and landed near the Marson © cpus They came upon a sentinel, whom Quartermaster St "poms felled to the ground, but a general alarm was sp hes

One sister does not leave him; her nursing and sympathy appesr to do him good, Mournfyl and sad is all this to see.

‘limited themselves to a recomuaizsance of tho side of the

the enemy, and they were compelled to beat a retreat. 47 |