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      it Russia most , as a preliminary to everything , accept 5 Four Poteta as basts ofnegotiation . They -were then onee aeeept « L The next point is , that although the vernment professes to be ready to negotiate on those ies , no power has , as yet , been given to the English r iister at Vienna to do . so . , MISCELLANEOUS . Fhanks for- the Vote of Thanks . —In both Houses jtter from Lord Raglan to , severally , the Lord Chanter and the Speaker , was read , expressing the

      gratite of the Commander-in-Chief and of the entire army the Vote of Thanks passed in December . The letter 3 accompanied by a similar acknowledgment from leral Canrobert . Ordered to be entered on the miss of the Houses . Tote of Thanks to the Navy . —On Tuesday the sd Chancellor read a letter from Admiral Dundas , louncing the transfer of command to Admirals Lyons L Brnat , and also expressing the deep gratitude felt inighout the fleet for the Vote of Thanks passed in ? ember . The letter was entered on the minutes of

      House . Jolomeal Sympathy with the "War . —Sir George sy laid on the table a number of resolutions which had n passed in the colonies expressive of the liveliest lpathy with England in the present war , and conling offers of assistance . Jounty and Borough Police . —In answer to Mr . Palmer , Lord Paxmerston said that , after the £ 11-sess of last year , he should not be induced to propose ill on this subject in the present session . If any er gentleman were to do so he hoped he would be e successful . He was sure such a measure was

      ; h wanted . Jjnstamped Publications . —On the motion of Mr . Gibson , there was ordered to be laid before the use a copy of the correspondence between the Board Enland Revenue and the publishers of unstamped lications to the 31 st of December last , in continuai of a former return . NOTICES OF MOTION —CONDUCT OP THE WAR . . ord Lyndhurst , that on Friday , the 21 st of Feary , he would move the following resolution :- — That in the opinion of this House the expedition to Crimea was undertaken by her Majesty ' s Governtt with very inadequate means , and without due

      tion or sufficient inquiry into the nature and extent ; he resistance to be expected from the enemy ; and ; the neglect and mismanagement of the Government he conduct of the enterprise have led to the most . stTous results .- ~ _ - — _ he Earl of Ellenborough , that on Monday , in ¦ ing for certain returns , he should make some oblations on the general conduct of the war . arl Grev , on Tuesday , that an humble address lid be presented to her Majesty on the subject , as understood , of the office of the Minister of War . [ r . Adair , on the 5 th of February , to address her esty on the progress and maintenance of the present

      [ r . Rich , on the 6 th of February , for a select com-; ee to inquire into the efficiency of our military acaies and other provisions for preparing officers for mental and staff appointmenig . BURIAL ACTS . [ r . A . Pellatt ( Feb . 6 ) , for a committee to in-• e into the operation of the various burial acts . Also the question of the compensation of owners of ate grounds , and whether it would not be morally religiously for the advantage of the community to ove all burial grounds from the control of the ops and clergy , and to place them under local boards . MARRIAGE LAW ASrENDMENT . , [ r . IIeywood gave notice that on Thursday next , 1 st of February , he would move for leave to bring in LI to amend the law as to marriage with a deceased ' s eister , or with a deceased wife ' s niece . LAW OP PARTNERSHIP . lR . Cardavell , on Monday , for leave to bring in a to amend the law of partnership .

      NEWSPAPER STAMPS . he Chancellor of the Exchequer . —On Mon-, a resolution in committee of the whole house , with view to the introduction of a measure relating to law on newspaper stamps . SUCCESSION TO REAL ESTATE . [ r . Locke King ( Feb . G ) , for leave to bring in a to amend the law of succession to real estate in s of intestacy .

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      BLOCKADE IN THE BLACK SEA . 2 following telegraphic despatch hns been received n Rear-Admiral Sir . Edmund Lyons : — Being informed that considerable consignments of litions and contraband of war have taken pluco from tral ports of tho Mediterranean tothoso of Odessa and tch , tho admirals of the English and French idrons have determined on establishing an effectual ikado of tho principal Russian ports in the Black Sea , to notify the Btrict enforcement of this blockade from 1 st February , 1865 . Steps huvo been taken to vide for an efficient forco boing , prior to that date , loned before tho principal ports which arc to bo : kadod , furnished with duo authority for the purpose ho names of tho two Governments . "

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      Theee appears to be an established state of things before Sevastopol . Daily telegraphs announce as novelties that the French are ready and waiting for the English . Daily does Menschikoff announce that nothing , has occurred , and that the casual fire of the Allies is harmless . The last message is as follows : — .. " The siege operations do not advance . " Two successful night sorties were made on the 13 th and 15 th of January . " We took fourteen English and nineFrench prisoners . The Allies lost a considerable number in killed . " Arab deserters say that the Turks are treated with very little consideration by the Allies , who employ them to carry projectiles , provisions , and other loads from Balaklava to the camp . "

      More reliable news , however , says that the English are now all but ready , and that the soldiers cannot be restrained . Letters from the Crimea of the 12 th state that the Flagstaff Battery had been mined by the French , who only waited a favourable opportunity to blow it up . Omar Paeha . lias entirely completed his arrangements of co-operation , and issued his orders accordingly . The divisions of the Turkish army , consisting of 25 , 000 men , were to be in their appointed position by the 25 th of this month This is an important fact , because it affords some data by which we may more correctly speculate when Sebastopol will be stormed .

      A leter of the 19 tb , from Vienna , says : — "The embarkation of Turkish troops for the Crimea has proceeded with such activity , that on the 14 th the last transports had set sail . " During the night between the 11 th and 12 th 150 Russians attacked our lines . Atfer a hand-to-hand fight that lasted a few minutes , they were repulsed , leaving in our works seven dead and two wounded prisoners . Our loss amounts to seven wounded .

      According to intelligence from Warsaw , the Russians on the 9 th made a rather important sortie from Sebastopol . It was directed against the English , who repulsed the Russians , and forced them to retreat with loss . The combat was finished when the French came up tcr the assistance of their allies . General Osten Sacken has detached forces to cover the road leading to Baktschi-Serai , and that on the Perekop side General Pauloff had placed himself-between Tultschuckrand Kontugan .

      A correspondent of the Vienna Wanderer writes from Warsaw that the exertions made to send large bodies of troops to the Crimea from the Danube are incessant . Prince " Gortsehakofly ; on the 5 th , ordered the recent diversion into the Dobrutscha , in order to prevent the Turks from leaving Varna for the Crimea . Large bodies of Russian troops have been ordered to concentrate themselves at Perekop , so as to afterwards advance on Eupatoria Jind attack the place by assault , if necessary . At the beginning of January two traders of Sebastopol , disguised as Tartars , and two Russian officers , dressed upas priest ' s , Mw . erft . arrested i _ a _ t _ E _ upatgria ]! and shot as spies . Prince Menschikofflately offered an amnesty to" such of the Tartar population as would return to their villages , but not more than about 100 individualswomen , children and old men—left Eupatoria to avail themselves of the prince ' s offer .

      The abandonment of the advanced works by the sentries of the 7 th Regiment , on the night of the 20 th ultimo , has ended in a court of inquiry into the matter . It seems that the sentries were not sufficiently advanced , so that the enemy came upon them before they could rouse their pickets ; and it also appears that there was an absence of the proper defences , or of any attack upon the enemy . Major-General Codrington , now in command of the division , published , the next day after the repulse , the following " Division Order . " The Major-Genoral regrets that , in the attack made last night by the enemy on tho advanced works of Frenchman ' s-hill , the breast-work was quitted ; the enemy entered it , and have caused a loss of 1 officer ( missing ) , 4 killed ( men ) , 18 wounded , and 12 missing .

      " The loss of life , this risking of credit and character , appear to have arisen from tho sentries remaining so close to tho works that they could perceive nothing until too late . The alarm could only be given when the enemy was upou tho work , and thus a handful of Russians , whom tho troops would eagerly have attacked by daylight , wus enabled to tako our ground from us for a time . " Tho attention of tho field-officers , and particularly of tho senior officers , present in tho advanced work ^ is now particularly called to those circumstances . They must soo , by frequent visiting , that the sentries remain well to tho front , and in their proper advanced positions .

      " And it must bo an order positively carried out , so near tho onomy , that at Ieu 9 t ono half of tho troops there ronmin up , in a compact body , with their arms in hand ) ready either to flro upon tho enemy , or to charge vigorously with tho bayonet , by which ho is suro to bo driven back at once . 1 " This is to' bo road to each company by officers . ( Signed ) " > V . Codrinoton , Major-Gonoral . "

      On the occasion of distributing the crosses , General Canrobert delivered a short address to the troops He alluded to the obstacles to the taking Sebastopol and the delays that had hitherto occurred , owing to a variety of causes ; but he added , that these delays would only render the capture more certain , as the lives of the soldiers were carefully attended to , and unnecessary loss avoided . The address of tfae General was cheered , and cries of . «* Vive TEmpereurT ' " Vive Canrobert . ! " were uttered in reply . The General said that he was delighted to hear the cry of " Vive VEmpereur T but that they ought to reserve that of " Vive Canrobert . '" until he fed them to the capture of Sebasttjpol .

      MISCELLANEOUS FACTS . The Austrian Government have ordered all the Jews residing near the frontiers of Poland to move immediately into the interior , so as to be more under tbe surveillance of the police . This measure has been taken in consequence of several HebrewB having acted as spies to the Russian Government , and carried news of movements of troops , &c , across the frontier . Rewards have been offered for the apprehension of seveeal Jews who are suspected of being Russian , spies * and . who have absconded , and probably found a refuge m Poland . An experiment as to the range of the cannon on the heights of Inkecman , occupied by the English rinemen , was made on the 4 th . against the Russian fleet in Sebastopol . The balls flew in the midst of the fleet , and broke the mast of one of the vessels .

      The French hospitals at Constantinople can succoeanoo modate 10 , 000 sick and wounded . The grand hospital at Pera contains 1 , 230 beds ; the barraokof the Imperial Guard Dohna Batche , 500 ; Ramisch Tiflich , 1 , 000 ; Daoud Pasha , 800 ; Bosphorus Quanledja , 200 ; GulhaneVat the Point of the Seraglio , 1 , 000 ; Maltep ^ , 230 ; and at Scutari , in the Isle of the Princes , at the Polytechnic School , the Russian Embassy , and the two floating hospitals , 5 , 000 . . " The invasion of the Dobrudscha was effected , not , as it has been said , by General Luders , but by General Pawloff , the commandant of one of the divisions of Luders' army . According to these accounts the Danube was crossed on January 8 by 3000 Russians—rather a large ' detachment . '" ¦ ¦;" ' " Marseilles , Thursday * "The Duke of Cambridge and Admiral Dundas arrived from Malta this morning , at eight .

      RUSSIAN FACTS . " According to Russian reports of the 13 th , from Sebastopol , many men of the allied armies desert to them . " Menschikoff says , that in a sortie on the 15 th the Russians made fourteen English and nine French prisoners . " "A letter from Odessa , of the 9 th , in the Ost Deutsch Post , says : —* I am able to inform you positively that the Russians have taken all the necessary measures for assuming the offensive in the Crimeay and you may shortly expect to hear of their moving forward , as they have received the necessary reinforcements . ' "

      NOTES OF THE SIEGE . THE EOTJAVBS BY-NIGHT . — ¦ - — - --These gallant but eccentric troops are gaining a distinct reputation by their various capacities . They fight equally well with any other troops , and are , additionally , able to trail along the earth -with a foxlike facility which is almost unearthly . Here is a description of an enterprise from a French writer ; it sounds precisely like the prowling of a Pawnee

      followed by the success of a Sioux : — " The other night , in a deluge of rain and in complete darkness , some twenty of those intrepid volunteers known in the army as enfants perdus , because they risk their lives in -the most daring enterprises , passed out of our trenches . Two led the way , one behind the other at the distance of five paces . The rest of tho band followed , commanded by an officer called Beimer , formerly of the 7 th Regiment of the line . They all crept along on then- bellies in dead silence . Their chief , an old

      Zouave , had taught them how . As each man lies down he glides along his rifle to the full stretch of his arm , he then glides on himself , and thus gets on without noise or embarrassment , always ready to bound to his feet should an enemy surprise him . Tho first in advance acted as a guide ; ho folt the way ; tho second communicated with the oflicor surrounded by his band . Every man had his eyes and ears on the alert . TIuj path they took made a circuit . They had to loavo on the right an earthwork occupied by Russians . To fall upon it , carry it , or kill its occupants , would not havo been a difficult task , but it would have given tho alarm . It was necessary to double it und g lide between it and the ditch , inspect tho enemy's works , and return without letting them be awaro of tho danger they had incurred . Before entering the narrow strip which separates the ich uion

      fossa from the Russian l'OHt , tlio oiucer more half hi * mon on station . Should In * party be discovered , they wore to fall upon the post .. Ho himself , with five or six dotonninea mon , enters the dangerous path , and proceeds , alongside tho / cw *} , - with his hand ho tries the streiiffth of tho defences ; they aro bound firml y together , and are fixed fast in tho ground . Tho fo » s 6 is six feet leep and full of raiu-watcr . It acorns possible to scale

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      THE WAR .

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      January 27 , 1855 . ] THE LEADER , 75

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 27, 1855, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2075/page/3/