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WAll MISCELLANEA . Tnrc Hkai / hi ov tub Awiy . — Dr . Hall , in a report to General C ' odrington , dated December 4 fch , says :--" Tho weather hits boen boisterous , wot , cold , iw « ohangoublo , which has occasioned « n inorouno oj
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Another victory of the Turks over the Russiarpj i ^ ' riBporteclj bu . t . 3 S ( 6 ii ? confirmed ,,- |! I ? he result o ^ jfae action is said ^* oi ' nave keen tHe taking : possession by Omar Paeifa of the fortified tayin of Khoni , behind the river Zskeni-Khal , about five leagues from : Kutais . Twelv ^ - thousand filfs were found in this place . Omar pushed on , and arrived before J £ utais , which he prepared to attack . General Mouravieff is said to have despatched a portion of his army against Omar ; but , if so , it is not to be doubted that the Turkish Generalissimo will " give a good account" of his enemy . The Auxiliary Division , which left Erzeroum for Kars , has not been able to advance . Of the fall of Kars there now remains little
doubt . The Ottoman Generals had previously offered to surrender the place , if permitted to retreat to Erzeroum ; but those terms were refused by General Mouravieff . On the 10 th of November , the garrison made a sortie , but . were repulsed ; and on the 28 th of the same month the place surrendered . The desperate condition of the town for want of food was made manifest early in Noyember by the Turks voluntarily surrendering sixteen Russian prisoners , obviously because they would diminish the stock of provisions . The writer of a letter from St . Petersburg , who relates this story , praises " the happy audacity" of General Susslow ' s
advance upon the Drouen Dagh , which so " imposed" upon "Veli Pacha , that he abandoned all nope of relieving the garrison . He adds that it would have been easy to have advanced to the rescue of Kars after the victory of the 29 th of September ; but the attempt was deferred until Mouravieff had bad time to recruit his army . Galignani states that the park of artillery at Kars when it surrendered numbered 120 field-pieces , and a few heavy siege guns . The garrison is believed to have been about 16 , 000 strong . The defiles
Ithsi Sea -o £ iLzojf on the 20 th of November , 1855 . ' T&e weatlfer became most severe , and I could only succeed in serving the notices upon the authorities on shore at Marioupol . But on the 8 th of November the shipping anchored off Marioupol were duly warded , andon the 9 th , those off Taganrog likewise . A gale pf extreme violence from the eastward blew continually from that date until the 18 th of November . I then immediately served a notice upon the neutral shipping in B ^ rdiansk . There , from M . < jopcevitch , as tyell as previously at Taganrog and Marioupol , we learnt that the Russian authorities had kept the neutrals in quarantine ever since their arrival , and that the likelihood of cargoes being procured Was almost at an end . A Russian officer at Marioupol laughed at the idea of the neutrals believing they would . get wheat this year , and told Commander Kennedy , whom I sent in there with a flag of truce , that the neutrals must stay the winter . Under these circumstances , looking to your wishes and instructions upon the subject , it became a cause of great anxiety for me lest , by the sudden commencement of winter , or intentionally , the neutral vessels should fail to quit the sea on the 20 th of November . I therefore , as the ice had begun to make aud the temperature to fall rapidly , after the 13 th despatched all the squadron to Kertch , except the Ardent , Snake , and Clinker , and with . them , proceeded up the Gulf of Azof . We arrived off Marioupol on the 19 th , and found all neutrals had sailed for Kertch , and on the 20 th I sighted Taganrog and found the roads empty , all the vessels that were there having likewise left . The ice already extended on either hand some miles from , the shore , the Don appeared to be frozen , and every indication of winter having set in in that neighbourhood was apparent . At Marioupol , the river or harbour was frozen , and much ice lined , the coast as far down as Bielosarai lighthouse , the temperature at mid-day as low as 29 ° Fahrenheit . From thence I separated the squadron so as to examine the whole coast froni Yenitchi to Yeni-Kaleh lighthouse most minutely , and not a single boat of the smallest desci-iption was to be seen /
between Kars and Erzeroum are held by the Russians , in whose hands General Williams and all the Turkish Pachas , as well as the whole of the garrison , are prisoners of war . The Invalide Russe publishes a report of a " sanguinary action" which took place on the 6 th of November , between a Russian corps under General Koueherinko and a body of mountaineers of the tribe of the Tchetchen . The Russians seemed to have commenced the movement , and , as far as can be gathered from the telegraphic report , to have been worsted .
lee and snow are now diffused pretty generally over all the various theatres of the war . In the north , the crystal barriers are built up for the next five or six months ; snow covers the wide tableland of Armenia ; and frost has seized the Crimea in its grip . A hurricane , also , has swept over the Allied camp ; several tents have been blown away ; and the Tchernaya has overflowed . No casualties have occurred on the coast . It is rumoured that important movements of troops in the Crimea are about to be made . Three thousand troops of the Egyptian Contingent have embarked for Asia . Peace is still to be talked of , but remains as
uncertain as ever j and Sweden , to a certain extent , and in a negative way , has come into the Alliance . The Czar , however , stands firm . His main force at Odessa , it is reported , will be removed to Nicholaieff ; and a concentration of forces on all the strong positions of the Black Sea and the Baltic will take place . An order of the Superior Council of Administration at Warsaw enjoins all the inhabitants of the kingdom to offer gifjts to the defenders of Sebastopol ; for the Poles require to be coerced into gratitude towards the paternal government . Rumour states that , after a lingering illness , Paskiewitch is dead ; but Humour has killed many other persons in connection with the war who have since turned up , alive .
Such is the brief sum total of the war news of the week ; and it would almost seem as if , for the Chriatinan season , we were to have a temporary pause in hostilities , that we might indulge in dreams of peace . CXOSE OP " mii SMASON" IN TUB SEA Oil' AZOF . Tho following roport bus been addressed by Captain Shorard Osbom to Sir Edmund Lyons : — "Sir , —Being now , in accordance with your in-Bti'uotiona , on my roivd to rejoin your ( lag , I have tho honour to roport the closo of bporutionu iu the Soa of Azof and tho px'ooeodings of tho squadron in that fioa subsequent to my last letter dated off Gheisk , 7 th of November , 1865 . On tho 7 th I received your instructions , with notices relative to noutrala quitting
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1214 T H ff . v , fc- « E ADEE , sf&m ^ .. [ No . 300 , Saturday ,
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Nicholay lias been elected as provisional chairman the election of permanent chairman was deferred to another meeting . ' The conditions of the election laid down by the members are , that the chairman shall * haVfc no ^ 'fStpre thjwa& : ^ 500 a year , that he shalrgrtf ^ fiHiaJS time t&M § dttfies , and that the election shall irtb * be by ballot , Witby open voting . The last poinjfc has been noticed as showing the public feeling gainst ballot vaipfgj but , it must be lgmeniberetf * that the Coiintcil of Forty are exerdfcjphg a trust , not enjoying a suffrage of their dwn . War also—social war—is going on in our Assize Courts , and in that society which gives materials for our Assize Courts . The law annals of the week are a bitter satire . In these economical days , Davidson and Gordon , well-connected speculators , whose dabblings in spelter and spoliation are well known , have got off upon a technicality , frustrating the jurisdiction of the court . There are , however , other proceedings to be taken against them . The case helps , with scores of others , to show how feeble are the mechanical aids to the credit of speculators , and the security of commerce . The case of Mrs . Wooler has been followed tip by another poisoning case at Tewkesbury , not quite so startling as the intrusion of crime into a household , but more ghastly in its extent . Mr . Cook is a man apparently with more money than purpose ; he hangs about at race-courses , taking a desperate interest in the success of his own horse ; he has money in his purse ; he is hail , fellow , well met with all and sundry , sear him . Sharing his bets as well as his society , is Mr . Palmer , who pi-escribes for his ailments , and whom he accuses of drugging him . Cook is ill , three medical men prescribe , one administers the medicines , and he dies with no trace of one drug that was prescribed , but with every sign that he is killed with strychnine—one of the most deadly , sudden , and elusive of poisons . He falls ,, another victim to the prevalent fashion of poisoning .
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Health of London . —The effect of the cold weather recently experienced is now written very legibly in the mortuary registers . The deaths registered in London , which in the previous week were 1 , 099 , rose last week to 1 , 271 ; and it may be stated that the rate of mortality represented by this number of deaths is at least equal to the ayerage for this advanced period of the year . Since the second week of November , when the deaths were below 1 , 000 , and tho mean temperature was 41 deg ., the returns exhibit an increase of 300 deaths , and the weekly temperature has declined to 3 2 7 cleg . There were registered last week 627 males and 644 females . Of these , without distinction of sex , 574 died under 20 years of age , 182 at 20 years and under 40 , 241 were from 40 to 60 years of ago , 202 60 years old and less than 80 ; and , instead of 83 octogenarians who died in the previous week , CO died last week . A woman died in the Greenwich workhouse at the great age of 101 . Last week , the births of 781 boys and 791 girls , in all 1 , 572 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 , the overage number wns 1 , 440 . The lowest temperature of the week occurred on Thursday , when tho thermometer foil to 21 " 3 deg . The highest temperature in the week occurred on Saturday , and was 48 cleg . The moan temperature of tho water of the Thames was 37 * 2 dog . Tho water was coldest on tho day ou which the air was warmest . The wind , which at tho first was in the north , blew afterwards from tho south-west till tho ond of the week , when it turned to north-west . Tho air was quiet . Snow fell on Monday ; eomo rain and Bleot on Friday . —From the Registrar-Oeneral ' 8 Weekly Return . Tnia FnoST has again set in with great severity , and skating has recommenced in tho parks . Sovor * l porsons have fallen in , but no deaths have occurred . The City Burial Guound . —A letter from Archdeacon Halo was read before tho City Commission of Sowers , on Tuesday , stating tho willingness of that rovoroud gentleman that tho new burial ground at Ilford for tho city of London ahould bo consooratod Without dohvy . A lottor was also road from Mr . Masaoy , aeorotary to Sir Goorgo Grey , to tho effect that an order iu council of tho 13 th of September , 1864 , hod authorised tho kooping open of St . Andrew ' s burial ground , ( tho hideous condition of which has rooently attracted attontion ) until tho now cemetery should be ready . Mr . Masaoy expresses surprise at tho 'delay in finishing that comotory j and it would ( teeth , * that ¦ his ¦ letter ( which boars dato some days previously to that of Arohdeaoon Halo ) has had Boino utfluenaq in determining the course now taken by tho $ ur <) h dignitary . . ' „ , ' ., ' ' vT ' . . \ . ¦ . « ¦ •¦•*• .
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THE MUD IN THE CRIMEA . We are all ankle-deep in mud . No , that would be nothing . It would be no great matter of complaint or grievance if we had to deal with the ordinary material , so familiar to all Londoners after a few wet days , before the scavengers remove the formidable soft parapets which line the kerbstones . That can be scraped off , cleaned , rubbed away , ox * washed out : This nothing but long and persevering efforts , continually renewed , and combining all the former operations , can remove . It sticks in pasty clods to the shoes , and will insist on being brought into clean buts and tents to visit your friends . It has a great affection for straws , with which it succeeds in working
itself up into a kind of gigantic brick , somewhat underdone , iu which condition it threatens to build your legs into the ground if you stand long enough in one place to give it a chance ; and it mightily affects horseshoes also ; and sucks them off with a loud smack of relish in those little ravines between rocky hill sides in which it exercises the greatest influence . Literally and truly , it is like glue halfboiled , and spread over the face of the earth for the depth of several feet . It is no joke for a soldier to see his sleeping-place , in hut or tent , covered with this nasty slime ; but they cannot be kept clean . One step outside and you are done for . Tho mud is lying in wait for you , and you just carry back as
much on your feet as if you walked a mile . Carts stick immovably in the ground , or the wheels and axles fly into pieces from the strain of the horses and mules , whioh have led a wretched existence indeed ever since this weather began . Tho now huts are much coixiplained of , and ib if ) said they are frail , illinaclo , full of chinka . nnd knots , which drop out , aud leave inimical littlo embrasures for tho wind to shoot through . During a moderately strong breeze of wind , a short time ago , the roof of ono of tho huts blow off . . . . Thoro is an unoharterccl corporation m the town of Kadikoi , with a mayor ami uldormon , or town councillors , and a vigorous administrative stafi Omul
that would astonish the elder brethren about - hall . They have a machinery of Huuvongors aud Howor-mon , and they pay about X'liJO u-inonth for keeping their city in order . This wouthor , however , does not contributo to their comfort ,, and diminishes their pro fits , ami the condition of tho roads makes their chariol-whooln drive heavily . Ah to these roads , on which so much depends , it ifl not posniblo to express an opinion yet ; but a portion of tho soction bolow tho Col is in a vory bud state , aa 1 can attest , and I am told that tho portion in question in juflt t » o vory part whoro tho military ouginoorn interfered witn tho civil engineer . — -Times Correspondent .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 22, 1855, page 1214, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2120/page/2/
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