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    fliat Russia toust , * s a preliminary to teveryttfing , accept the Four Points as fctwes of negotiation . They were then 'at once accepted . The next point is , that aUhongb the t ^ vermnent professes to be ready to negotiate on those bases , no power has , as yet , been given to the EngKsh Minister at Vienna to do so .

    MISCELLANEOUS ,. , Thanks fob the Vote of Thanks . —In both Houses a letter from Lord Raglan to , severally , theTord Chancellor and the Speaker , was read , expressing the gratitude of the Commander-m-Chief and of the entire anny for the Vote of Thanks passed in December . The letter -was accompanied by a . similar acknowledgment from General Canrobert . Ordered to be entered on the minutes of the Houses . VofE of Thanks to the Navy . — On Tuesday the Lom > Chancellor read a letter from Admiral Dundas , announcing the transfer of command to Admirals Lyons Attd Bruat , and also expressing the deep gratitude felt throughout the fleet for the Vote of Thanks passed in December . The letter was entered on the minutes of theHonse . „ __ _ -

    Goixhmai- Sympathy with the Wab . —Sir George Grey laid on the table a number of resolutions which had been passed in the colonies expressive of the liveliest sympathy with England in the present war , and containing offers of assistance . County and Borough Pouch . —In answer to Mr . H . Palmer , Lord Palmerston said that , after the illsuccess of last year , he should not be induced to propose a . bill on this subject in the present session . If any other gentleman were to do so he hoped he would be more successful . He was sure such a measure was much wanted .

    Unstamped PtraucATtONS . —On the motion of Mr . M . Gibson , there -was ordered to be laid before the House a copy of tbs correspondence between the Board of Inland Revenue and the publishers of unstamped publications- to the 31 st of December last , in continuation of a former return . .

    NOTICES OF MOTION—CONDUCT OF THE WAR . Lord Lyndhubst , that on Friday , the 21 st of February , he would move the following resolution : — ~ "JThat in the . opinion of this House the expedition to the Crimea was undertaken by her Majesty ' s Government with very inadequate means , and 'Without due caution or sufficient inquiry into the nature and extent of the resistance to be expected from the enemy ; and that the neglect and mismanagement of the Government in the conduct of the enterprise have led to the most disastrous results . " The Earl of Ellexborotjgh , that on Monday , in moving for certain returns , he should make some observations on the general condtict of the war . Earl Grey , on Tuesday , that an humble address should be presented to her Majesty on the subject , as was understood , of the office of the Minister of War .

    Mr . Adair , on the 5 th of February , to address her Majesty on the progress and maintenance of the present war . Mr . Rich , on the 6 th of February , for a select committee to inquire into the efficiency of our military academies ... and . other , provisions for preparing officers for regimental and staff appointments . BURIAL ACTS . Mr . A . Pellatt ( Feb . 6 ) , for a committee to inquire into the operation of the various burial acts . Also into the question of the compensation of owners of private grounds , and whether it would not be morally and religiously for the advantage of the community to remove all burial grounds from the control of the bishops and clergy , and to place them under local boards .

    MARRIAGE LAW AMENDMENT . Mr . IIkywood gave notice that on Thursday , ' next , the 1 st of February , he would move for leave to bring in a bill to amend the law as to marriage with a deceased wife ' s sister , or with a deceased wife's niece .

    LAW OF PARTNERSHIP . Mr . Cardwei-l , on Monday , for leave to bring In a bill to amend the law of partnership . NKWSVAPKR STAMPS . The Chanoelix ) r of thk Exchkqukr . —On Monday , a resolution in committee of the whole house , with the view to the introduction of a measure relating to the law on newspaper stamps . SUCCESSION TO REAL ESTATE . Mr . Locke Kixa ( Feb . 6 ) , for leave to bring in a bill to amend the law of succession to real estate in cases of intestacy .

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    Blockade In The Black Sea. The Following...

    BLOCKADE IN THE BLACK SEA . The following telegraphic despatch has been received from Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons : — " Being informed that considerable consignments of munitions and contraband of war have taken place from neutral ports of the Mediterranean to those of Odessa and Kertch , the admirals of the Kngllrth and French squadrons have determined on eHtablinhing an effectual blockade of tho principal Russian portn in the Black Sea , and to notify tho strict enforcement of thin blockade from tho lut February , 1855 . Steps havo been taken to provide for an oflicicnt forco being , prior to that date , stationed before tho principal ports which are to bo blockaded , furnished with duo authority for tho purpoao in tho names of tho two Governments . "

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    yaEWiiR . . ; ' There appears to be an established etate of things before Sebwstopol . Daily telegraphs Announce * s aoveities * h & t the l ^ e nch ^ ire , ready And waiting for the English , Baily does MenBchifcoff announce that nothing has'OCettJFred , and that the casual flre . of "the Allies is harmless * The last message is as follows : — '" The siege opewrti « i » do hot advance . " Two successful night sorties were made on the 13 th and ISth of January . " We took fourteen English and nta & French prisofters . The Allies lost a considerable nunafc « r in killed . " Arab deserters say that the Turks are treated with very little consideration by the Allies , -who employ them to carry projeefcites , provisions , < and otfeer loads from Baiaklava to the cMnp . "

    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 Pacha has entirel y 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 iu 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 th , 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 to the assistance of-their allies . General Osteri Sacken has detached forces to cover the road leading to Baktschi-Serai , and that on the Perekop side General Pauloff had placed himself between Tultschuck and Kontugan .

    A correspondent oT 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 GortschakofF , 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 , and attack the place by assault , if necessary . At the beginning of January two traders of Sebastopol , disguised as Tartars , and two Russian officers , dressed up as priests , were arrested . atJEupatorja , andshot as spies . Prince Menschikofflately offered an amnesty tosuch 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 iu 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 nn 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 . " Tho Major-Gcneral regrets that , in tho attack made last night by tho enemy on tho advanced works of Frenchman ' s-lnll , tho breast-work was quitted ; the enemy entered it , and have caused a l oss of 1 offioer ( missing ) , 4 killed ( men ) , 18 wounded , and 12 missing .

    " Tho loss of life , tin ' s risking of credit and character , appear to have arisen from the sentries remaining so close to tho works , that they could perceive nothing until too late . Tho alarm could only be given when the enomy was upon tho work , and thus a handful of Russians , whom the troops would eagerly have attacked by daylight , was enabled to take our ground from us for a time . " Tho attention of tho field-officers , and particularly of tho senior oflioors , present in tho advanced work , is now particularly called to these circumstances . Thoy must see , by frequont visiting , that tho sentries remain well to the front , nnd in their proper advanced positions .

    " And it must bo an order positively carried out , bo near tho enemy , that at least one half of tho troops there remain tip , in a compact body , with their arms in hand , ready cither to fire upon tho enemy , or to charge vigorously with tho bayonet , by which ho is sure to bo drivon back'at once . 11 This in to bo road to each company by officers . ( Signed ) "W . CoimiNCtTON , Major-Gouorul . "

    ' On the occasion ordistributi ^ Canrobert delivered a short Ifcadress / to the , troops He alluded to the obstacles to th 6 taking Sebostopol and the delays that had hitherto occurrwj , owing to a variety or causes ; but he added , that these delays would only render the capture more certain ., as the lives of the soldiers were carefully attended t ^ anaunnecessary loss avoided . l ! he . address b ¥ ttfe XSeneral was cheered , and criesof ** ¦ TftteVEmper $ wrT " Vive Canrobertf * were uttered hi reply- Th & General said that he was delighted to hear the cry df " Vive VEmpereur ! " but that they ought to reserve that of ** Vive Cantobert ! " until he led them to the capture of Sebastopol . . . : MISCEM ^ ASEOtJS FACTO . . . .. v : , The Austrian Government have ordered , all the- < J « wb residing near the frontiers of Poland to move immediately into the interior , so as to Tie more trader tbe surveillance of the police . This measure has been taken in consequence of several Hebrews having Acted as spies to the Russian Government , and Carried news of movements of troops , & C * , across the frontier . B & - wards have been offered for the apprehension of « erort £ Jews who are suspected of being Russian spies , « u & who have absconded , and probably found a refuge i & Poland . Asu experiment as to the range of the cannon on the heights of Inkerman , occupied by the English liflemen , was made on the 4 th against the Russian fleet inS « bas » - topoL The balls flew in the midet of the fleet , and broke the mast of one of the vessel * . The French hospitals at Constantinople can accommo * - motiate 10 , 000 sick and wounded . The grand hospital at Pera contains 1 , 200 beds ; the barrack of the Imperial Guard Dohna Batch * , 500 ; R & misch Tiflicli , 1 ^ 00 ; Daoud Pasha , 800 ; Bosphorus Quanledja * 200 ; GtuV hane " , at the Point of the Seraglio , 1 , 000 ; MalteptS , 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-- ^ ather a large ' detachment . '" _ " Marseilles , Thursday . , ' ¦ " The Duke of Cambridge and Admiral Dundas arrived from Malta thisniorning , at eight . KCSS 1 AK FAG ! TS . " " According to Russian reports of the 13 th , from Sebastopol , many men of the allied armies desert to them . " Menschikofif says , _ that in a sortie on the 16 th the Russians made fourteen English and nine JPrench 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 fi » r assuming the ofiehsive in tho Crimea , and you m « ay shortly expect to hear of their moving forward , as they have received the necessary reinforcements . ' " NOTES OP THE SIEGE . " " " " - TDCE-ZOTTATES-BV-NIGHT . - - — . - Tliese gallant but eccentric troops ate 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 tlie Buccess of a § ioux : — * * ' * The other night , in a deluge of rain and m 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 tho distance of live paces . The rest of the band followed , commanded by an officer called Benner , formerly of the 7 th Regiment of the line . Thoy all crept along on th « ir 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 , ho then glides on himself , and thus gets on without noise or embarrassment , always ready to bound to his ftset should an enemy surprise him . Tho firat in advanco acted as a guide ; ho felt tho way ; tho second communicated with the ofliccr surrounded by his band . Every man had his oyos and ears on tho alort . The path they took made a circuit . Thoy had to leave on tho right an earthwork occupied by Russians . To fall upon it , carry it , or kill its occupants , would not have been a difficult task , but it would have given tho alarm , n was necessary to double it and gH < lo between it and the ditch , inspect the cncmy ' fl work . s , and return without lotting them be aware of tho danger they had incurred . Before entering tho narrow Htrip which Hoparatos tho / oWfrom the Ru « a ! an post , tho officer loft more than half his men on station . Should his . party bo _ discovered , they were to full upon the post . Ho himself , with five or six determined men , enters tho dangerous path , and nroceedH nlongrido thofou * I with , his hand he tries tho strength of tho defences ; thoyaro bound firmly together , and are fixed fast in the ground . The foas 4 is six foot deep and full of ruin-water . It seems possible to ecalo

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 27, 1855, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27011855/page/3/