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     SUPPLEMENT TO HASZARIYS (;Azi‘-:'i"i‘i«:, FEBRUARY 20_ 
     
    
   
   
    
     The following extract from a privlte 
     
     letter received by last mail, may interest 
     
     some of our readers, though it contains no 
     
    
   
   
    
     news relating to the war: 
     
     sIAga_me||]ll0fl,” Malta, Jan. 5th, 1856. 
     
    
   
   
    
     'I‘he flgamemnon arrived at Malta the 
     
     day before Christmas, precisely two years 
     
     since the occasion when she joined the 
     
     in Beikos Buy. 
     
     Our passage from the Pirxus was unusally 
     
     long and stormy; indeed tor two days it 
     
     blew a gale from the westward, and as we 
     
     were not allowed to use steam, you may 
     
     suppose we did not make much in the right 
     
     Getting, however, at last to the 
     
     coast of Sicily, we were well repaid by a 
     
    

    
     lorious view of rEtna, and of the part of 
     
     island which stretches from 
     
     Syracuse to its southern extremity. Since 
     
     arriving, we liavebeen and still are envelo- 
     
     ped in an extraordinary mist of doubt and 
     
     - uncertainty, as to whether we go to England 
     
     The fact is, that three years of 
     
     constant hard work, with several bombard- 
     
     ments, has so shaken the ship, that she 
     
     requires a thorough refit in dock. Now, 
     
     as there is at Malta but one dock, and that 
     
     employed constantly by the pressing re- 
     
     quirements of the gun-boats and transport 
     
     service, the people in authority here say 
     
     positively, they cannot take us in hand, and 
     
     On the other 
     
     side, Sir E. Lyons, who ivas here_ the 
     
     other day on his way home, is exceedingly 
     
     reluctant to part with what he calls his 
     
     chief supporter, and is equally determined _ ‘ 
     
     I citv, even as modern Athens is dwarfed 
     
     myself am inclined to believe tliatthe Adnii- into insigniticancc by the overshadowing 
     
     ral will carry his point, though perhaps I grandeur ofthe Acropolis. I was possessc 
     
     ' may be misled by my own wislies,_wliic'b, lwith this feeling throughout. and allltntlgli, 
     
     however great may be the attraction for save the Parthenon, and the adjacent 
     
     England, lead me on the broad principle of temples, with those of 'l‘hosi-us, the Winds, 
     
     self-interest to desire that I complete my and the few columns yet stzinding ofJupiter 
     
     four years in the ship; thus, too, giving 
     
     me what I particularly wish, the next cam- 
     
     It is also 
     
     - to be considered that were ive now to go 
     
     i home, the extensive repairs they would 
     
     consider necessary might detain us boyoiid 
     
     even the time for decisive operations in the 
     
     \Vliat a fate for the ./Igamemiioii. 
     
     It will be very easy, I think, to patch us 
     
     up sufficiently to carry us well tlirough the 
     
     summer, and take us to England by the 
     
     Christmas ol next year; for alter all there 
     
     is little the matter even now, which with 
     
     common care, would prevent our running for 
     
     You will know our 
     
    
   
   
    
     allied fleets assembled 
     
    
   
   
    
     direction. 
     
    
   
   
    
     that beautiful 
     
    
   
   
    
     or not. 
     
    
   
   
    
     that we must go to England. 
     
    
   
   
    
     that we remain; so the matter rests. 
     
    
   
   
    
     paigii season in the Black Sea. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Baltic. 
     
    
   
   
    
     along time to come. 
     
     fate, before we do ourselves. 
     
    
   
   
    
     enjoyed our stay at Stainboiil very 
     
     much, for as we lay close to the shore, tip 
     
     the Golden Horn, it was easy in a few 
     
     moments to reach in a caiquc any part 
     
     Each 
     
     day off duty was dedicated to some new ex- 
     
     cursion in search of somewhat to interest or 
     
     amuse us; at one time, a ride to that terres- 
     
     tial paradise of the Stamboul Turks, the 
     
     sweet waters of Europe, now of course 
     
     deserted through the iinseasonableness of 
     
     out-door amusements; at another, a run 
     
     over to Scutari, and so to that celebrated 
     
     point of view, from which can be seen the 
     
     richest panorama in the world, that of the 
     
     Bosphorus and Sea of Marmorii even to 
     
     Buykdere; a walk along the ancient walls 
     
     from the Golden Horn to the Sea of Mar- 
     
     more, with a visit to the castle of Seven 
     
     Towers, was perhaps on the whole most 
     
     interesting, and richest in high historical 
     
     associations; but the sight of the Sultan in 
     
     great state going to the mosque on the 
     
     occasion ofa high festival, and attended by 
     
     all the ladies of his court, superbly dressed 
     
     in magnificent carriages, was one which 
     
     from its almost barbaric splendour, with the 
     
     interest attached to the declining monarch, 
     
     must remain for a long time fresh in my 
     
     We had, in an hour, while 
     
     the Sultan remained in the mosque, ample 
     
     poi-tiinity of investigating the claims of 
     
     the ladies to admiration; they truly were 
     
     very beautiful, but less so, I think, than 
     
     our own fair countrywonien in England. 
     
     - It was most remarkable to note the diffe- 
     
     ' rencs which little more tlaan a F b 
     
     made in the cit aiiditsinha itants. renc 
     
     "influence, I SIT! sorry to say, is paramount "3" 1 9‘: “W” "'0" "‘_'°“'f“l ""998 “'0 
     
     ,,,,,.,,i,.,, to 5, highest triumphs of architecture, the temple 
     
    
   
   
    
     either ofthe ancient or modern city. 
     
    
   
   
    
     recollection. 
     
    
   
   
    
     or 
     
    
   
   
    
     year 
     
    
   
   
    
     bd liberdlity of our commercial dealing: :::"lvll:o::Itllll¢.t AIgt:::pn~’pf the olives wliic 
     
    
   
   
    
     In fact, among the "people, the preferenc 
     
     of us to the French is very remarkable, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     and was shown must uiiiiiistakably to myself 
     
     on several occasions. 
     
    

    
     We were a week at the Pirxus, four days 
     
     of which were spent in quarantine. ’I‘liis 
     
     we employed in visiting by boat the islands 
     
     looking upon the bay of Salaniis. The 
     
     weather was delightfully warm, and on one 
     
     occasion, I picked a inagniticent bunch of 
     
     wild flowers, principally consisting of ane- 
     
     mones and siclomau, a flower in high 
     
     request in English hot-houses. I have 
     
     preserved seine of the bulbs, which I hope 
     
     to send, ifI do not take them to you. 
     
    

    
     It had been a matter of some doubt 
     
     whether or not we should remain long 
     
     enough in Attica to get pratique for a visit 
     
     to Athens; it was then with an unusual 
     
     amount of pleasure, that I found myself free 
     
     to wander where I would in ii land sacred 
     
     by so many associations, to whose genius 
     
     we of these latter days owe all we possess 
     
     of lofty purity in art, and loftier thoughts 
     
     in every branch of learning, but of which 
     
     (the original impulse) even noiv we can 
     
     but aspire to be distant and humble imita- 
     
     tors. A very tolerable coach carried our 
     
     party over the four miles of good road 
     
     between the capital and its seaport, setting 
     
     us down at the Hotel d’Ang|eteri-e. \‘Vc 
     
     there obtained a guide, and at once started 
     
     fortli, eager to make the most of the short 
     
     time left to us. I have done wrong in not 
     
     lirst describing the effect which even a 
     
     distant vieiv of the great remnants of anti- 
     
     quity possessed in cniisiiig one completely 
     
     to overlook the miserable Greece of to—da 
     
     in contemplating the glory of the ancient 
     
    
   
   
    
     had 
     
    
   
   
    
     Olynipus, little new remains of the glories 
     
     (if [he ancient city not ovi‘I‘gt'0\\'l‘l l)y lllc 
     
     modern, swept away by successive coii- 
     
     querors, or the yet gi'entci-destroyer Time, 
     
     these wcr-: all I had eyes to see. The 
     
     temple of Hit: \Vinds eanie first, which 
     
     having siiliiciently a(lllIll‘t.'d, though 
     
     unable properly to appi-cciate its iiianitold 
     
     beauties, we iiiovcd on to Tlicscus, stop- 
     
     ping for a nioiiicnt to inspect the aiicicii 
     
     market place, of which there still l‘('llltllll 
     
     tables of prices, stone blocks for exposiiig 
     
     wares, Ste. The tL‘mpli' of Tlieseus luisf 
     
     been made by goveriinicnt nsorl. of musc- 
     
     iiin in which is stored a large part of the 
     
     statuary, &c., collected at various sites; 
     
     it was therefore, as you may suppose, with 
     
     udcgree of interest almost aniounting to 
     
     owe, that we first introduced ourselves 
     
     within its tiine-lionourcd precincts, and 
     
     looked around us upon its many wonders 
     
     of ancient art. They have all been more 
     
     or less injured, but it nus iinpossiblc for 
     
     the least capable among us for appreciating 
     
     such things, not to be struck with their 
     
     manifold excellences. It is not the least 
     
     part of these extraordinary productions, 
     
     that nameless grace of form, that easy flow 
     
     of drapery, so much lacked in most of our 
     
     modern works, and which makes these 
     
     studies of all that is highest in art. From 
     
     the Theseus to Mars’ Hill, or more propor- 
     
     ly the Areopagus, is but a few liundre 
     
     paces on a slight ascent; arrived there, I 
     
     knew that I was standing on the very spot 
     
     from which had been delivered those won- 
     
     derful orations that have descended to us 
     
     of the great men of living Greece, which 
     
     still stand as high with us in their depart- 
     
     ment as in theirs the statuary of whichl 
     
     have spoken. More than all, I remember- 
     
     ed that from there St. Paul had addressed 
     
     the "Men of Athens” inthe words to all 
     
     familiar, but which, in the full sight of the 
     
     great temples of their triumphant gods, had 
     
     proved of so little avail. The Areopagus 
     
     is but a sort of rounded hill, about which 
     
     could be easily grouped large multitudes, 
     
     and on which were the marble seats of the 
     
     judges who formed the ancient court. 
     
     7th.--The mail is about to leave unex- 
     
    
   
   
    
     3 
     
     2 
     
    
   
   
    
     News by last; nights Mail. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lniveoiv. Friday.——'[‘lie Tim” pm-is 
     
     correspondent writes, that private ietiei-S 
     
     from St. Petersburg, dined 17;}, just 
     
     Slillc that the Czar has declared formally 
     
     that the Austrian propositions were to be 
     
     the basis of ulterior pacific negotiations, 
     
     and for the present may be considered as 
     
     true preliminaries of ]’)t':1CC. 
     
    

    
     Among the diplomatic body and the 
     
     court, peace was regarded as inevitable, 
     
     and the unconditional acceptance ofthe 
     
     propositions had produced considerable 
     
     sensation in that capital, with the excepti- 
     
     on ofthe oflicials. 'l‘lils sudden turn of 
     
     pacific ideas was generally badly receiv- 
     
     vd, not merely by the old Mnscevitc 
     
     party, but also by the mass of the people. 
     
     The popular fziiiaticism had been l'OllSC( 
     
     to such zi pitch after the fall ofScbas- 
     
     topol, that at present it is a work ofdilli- 
     
     ciilty to make them accept a political 
     
     arraiigcinent as necessary or desirable 
     
     for Hnrope. The. public mind was great- 
     
     ly agitated, and an outbreak would not 
     
     be siirprisiiig. 
     
    

    
     The Vienna correspondent of the 
     
     .’['inu2.- states that in that capital the 
     
     most strenuous clforts are llltllilllg to 
     
     induce ldnglaiid not to insist on the dis- 
     
     arming of the Russian fortresses on the 
     
     r‘.'.i.stci‘ii shores of the Black Sea. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The. chances ofa speedy and pacific sot- 
     
     tlenient are on the increase, and Austrias 
     
     sincerity is as much questioned as on former 
     
     occasions, but appearances are fair and 
     
     straiglitforwnrd. 
     
    

    
     Ihe Czar has ordered his army in the 
     
     Crimea to cease hostilities, without waiting 
     
     tora formal arniistice, although it is ru- 
     
    
   
   
    
     for three months. 
     
    
   
   
    
     L.i'rr.sr.—Tlie Daily Ncios of Saturday, 
     
     on undoubted authority says that the pre- 
     
     liniiiiaries will be signed probably before 
     
     'I‘iic.-(lny—-certaiiily before the uiecting of 
     
    
   
   
    
     - Parliiiiiiciit. An armistice will be concluded 
     
    
   
   
    
     imnicdiately after signing the preliniinarios, 
     
     :ind llL';_[IIClilll0llS, with the view ofa final 
     
     and coiiiproliciisivo treaty, will be coinenced 
     
     iniincdiately. It furtlicr states that it is the 
     
     (lt,‘I(}l'llllll!IiltIll ofthe Allied Powers to exer- 
     
     cisc to the fullest extent the right reserved 
     
     to them by the Austrian proposals to bring 
     
     forward tltldllltllltll stipnlationsto the gene- 
     
     ral iiiterests of Europe. 
     
    

    
     Coiiferences had been held at Constanti. 
     
     nople to adjust the first iind fourth points 
     
     relative to the Principalities. 
     
    

    
     The ligliting continues on both sides of 
     
     Sebastopol. The Allicshad blown up two 
     
     ofthe docks. 
     
    

    
     A deep losse had been dug and a parapet 
     
     l‘2 feet high raised around the town of 
     
     Kertch, and the defences of St. Paul's and 
     
     Yeniknle, within which the troops iire hut- 
     
     ted. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A rumour had reached the camp, that 
     
     Gen. VVrangle had been reinforced at Ara- 
     
     bat, and meditated an attack across the ice. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Russians had taken up their winter 
     
     quarters at Simplieropol, and Backschiserai 
     
     and at Kingburn. They had 30,000 men 
     
     between Petroski and Ofriakoff, and fears 
     
     were entertained ofan attack on the fortress. 
     
     The garrison had been reinforced. The 
     
     flotilla was frozen in. but would aid in the 
     
    

    
     efence. 
     
    

    
     All the oflicers of the Anglo-Turltish con- 
     
     tingent are ordered to quit Contantinople 
     
     an join their corps at Kcrtch. 
     
    

    
     Constantinople letters ofJan. 10, state 
     
     that Gen. Mouraviefi‘, after having destroy- 
     
     ed the advanced works of Kara, had left in 
     
     the place and garrison about 1000 men well 
     
     provisioned, and had gone toward Gum:-i 
     
     with the bulk of his army. 
     
    
   
   
    
     pectedly, and I have therefore time for 
     
     little more. I must refer you, until I re- 
     
     turn, to descriptions of better observers 
     
    
   
   
    
     have lingered 
     
    
   
   
    
     I look forward to 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is stated and afterwards contradict- 
     
     ed that Marshal Pellissier, General Cod- 
     
     rington and Omar Ihsha had like Gen. 
     
     Gortshaltotf, received orders from their 
     
     respective Governments, to stop hostili- 
     
     ties. Such orders will not be sent till an 
     
     armistice be nominally concluded, It is 
     
     hoped that such armistice may be sign- 
     
    
   
   
    
     the time when I can tell you all about them. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ed onor about the 2d February. » 
     
    
   
   
    
     i.i~ ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ari-‘Alas IN THE CRIMEA. 
     
     fgccounts from the Crimea to the Gui 
     
     gortigg-éemegitploii utlidfact of the least im- 
     
     . e co was intense, and 
     
    

    
           
     
    

    
     » it ie ortso'azth' 
     
     Balaclava, and iri) the roadsteiidcof  
     
     bastopol. The ice, however soon dis- 
     
     '~‘PP€i1FS~-—'l‘lic men who suffered most 
     
     were the porters and laborers recently 
     
     arrpved and not yet innred to the climate. 
     
    

    
     he cainioiinde from the noi-it f i 
     
     coiitlnticd uiiiiitcrruptcdly. It is l’CllllZi’lrl(f 
     
     cpl tllliat recently the Russians have tired 
     
     sie ls inlto bebastopol, whereas they for- 
     
     pier y t irew only bombs,_hence it is iii- 
     
    

    
     ‘i:'g‘s’dotl,l"‘I‘]t :l'9_Yll1fl\”l<.:hrcceived fresh sub- 
     
     iioes not la erlil id 0 me 0!‘ the city 
     
     with '1 S nucl almago, but is directed 
     
     L {I ' C ' , 
     
     hwe accugiilltet y_ tfiat shows that they 
     
     « _ iiiorrnatioii of all the 
     
     movenieiits in the allied camp. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Globe, the Palmerston organ of 
     
     I ‘ ’ c 7 
     
     P riday ct oning January 25th, announces 
     
    
   
   
    
     iiioured that an armistice will be agreed on 
     
    
   
   
    
     in a leading article that the warlike pi-e. 
     
     parations ot the Government are proceed- 
     
     mg as if no pacific intimation had been 
     
     received within the last few hours It 
     
     sziysa requisition had been sent for trans- 
     
     poit accommodation for 4000 horses, or 
     
     iicarly 6U,llt)t) tons of shipping, Lord 
     
     Palnierston ivliile meeting cordially the 
     
     advances of peace, will carefully provide 
     
     for a possible failure in diplomacy. 
     
    

    
     Kerlcll letters of|Dec. 29th mention that 
     
     nllllougli locked in by the ice the garrison; 
     
     ol crti-.h and Yenikale want for nothing. 
     
     It uel was the only article at all gcai-ce_ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     UNITED srxrics. 
     
    

    
     A tncssagc from the President endors- 
     
     ing the course of the Missouri invaders 
     
     and condcniniiig the Euiigrant aid So- 
     
     ciety has excited great iiidignation in 
     
     many circles. We fear that the Kansas 
     
     qiiestioii will yet involve the nation in 
     
     civil war. The settlers in Kansas never 
     
     will (‘.t)l'ISCllI to be ruled by the citizens 
     
     of Missoiiri. If the latter should repeat 
     
     their invasion, tlre free West will send 
     
     men to help the settlers.-—-Tlien mines 
     
     the tug of war. Nothing can prevent 
     
     this fearful result, so far as we can see 
     
    

    
     but the timely iiiterveiition of Congrcsé 
     
     against the Missoui'iaiis.—IIeraId and 
     
    

    
     (HlI'Il(ll. 
     
    
   
   
    
     HA.SZARD’S 
     
    
   
   
    
     GAZETTE. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Wednesday. February 20, 1856. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Courier arrived with the Colonial and 
     
     'A‘lll0l'lC_t1ll .\liiils last night about 10 o'clock. 
     
     lliedlritish ‘Mail Steamer had not arrived in 
     
     Hnlllax on Saturday. No doubt the weather 
     
     was too boisterous. The Persia which had sail- 
     
     ed the woek previous. had ii protracted assage 
     
     of nearly fourteen days, which proves tliat the 
     
     weather while she was at sea was far lroin be- 
     
     ing propitious, as it was confidently expected, 
     
     after her trial trip from the Clyde to Liverpool, 
     
     that she would have made the run in seven or 
     
     eight dpys. The Collins steamer Pacific sailed. 
     
     from Liverpool on the 23d Jan. (three da s be- 
     
     fore the Persia) and no tidings had been heard 
     
     of tier after being out three weeks; a steamer 
     
     was to be sent in search of her from New York. 
     
     We have no later news than the Telegraphic 
     
     despatch published in our last, but we have the 
     
     details in the paper which all tend to confirm 
     
     the peace r_umors.-the most interesting items 
     
     we have copied in to day's paper. 
     
    
   
   
    
     --—1¢~}.—. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The [louse of Assembly has been hitherto 
     
     on d in the usual routine business of a - 
     
     pointing committees. and incidental to t e 
     
     commencement of the Session the Treasurer and 
     
     Collector of In: st accounts have been present- 
     
     ed. A resolution to revise the License Laws 
     
     has passed the House, and the following very 
     
     important one with res act to hoolmasters 
     
     was iaovsd by Hon. Mr. iii-burton and agreed 
     
    
   
   
    
     Io"-I. 
     
     rcsdcrs with everything relative thereto. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Resol_ved,'l‘liat ii Committee of seven niciabcrs 
     
     pointed to report bv Bill or otherwise, on 
     
     the expediency of makin revision fiir School- 
     
     niastcrs under the Free aeation Act, when 
     
    
   
   
    
     8' 
     
     -5 
     
    
   
   
    
     obliged to discontinue teaching from continued 
     
     sickness or old age. 
     
    
   
   
    
     any measure of interest general or 
     
     be mooted weshall not fail to present our