legs hanging stiffly clown, the eyes staring wide open,
the teeth set on the protruding tongue, the head and
body nodding with frightful mockery of life at each
stride of the mule over the broken road. No doubt the
man had died on his way down to the harbour. As the
apparition passed, the only remarks the soldiers made
were such as this.—'There's one poor fellow out of
pain, any way! 'Another man I saw with the raw
flesh and skin hanging from his fingers, the naked bones
of which protruded into the cold air, undressed and
uncovered. This was a case of frost–bite, I presume.
Possibly the hand had been dressed, but the bandages
might have dropped off. All the sick in the mule–litters
seemed alike on the verge of the grave."

The latest intelligence from Sebastopol is contained in
the following despatch from Lord Raglan, dated the
10th instant;—

"I have nothing material or important to report
to your Grace since I addressed you on the 6th.
There was rain yesterday and the day before, and in
the course of last night there was a considerable fall of
snow, which remains on the ground; but it does not
freeze, and the country is again saturated with wet. It
is reported from the front that great activity prevails in
the town and harbour of Sebastopol. Large convoys of
apparently sick men were observed to be moving out of
the place, and numerous carts, with one horse, to be
coming in. The enemy appear to be breaking up hulks
in the Arsenal Creek, and to be using the material for
platforms and chevaux de frise at the 'battery du Mat.'

"We are proceeding with the armament of the works
on the right. The health of the troops continues to
improve in some slight degree. They are amply
supplied with warm clothing, and with provisions. Forage
is our only want, and this arises chiefly from the Commissary–
General not receiving from England the supplies
of hay upon which he has reckoned."

Omer Pacha has defeated the Prussians at Eupatoria.
The Russians attacked that place on the morning of the
17th inst. They were commanded by Liprandi; and
their numbers were 20,000 infantry and 6,000 cavalry.
They commenced the attack an hour before daybreak, and
had with them seventy guns. The conflict lasted three
hours. The assault was signally repulsed. The steamers
threw shells among the assailants. The Russians lost
500 men, the Turks 150. Omer Pacha commanded in
person. Selim Pacha, the Egyptian, was killed.

The Emperor of Russia has promulgated an ukase,
ordaining the formation of a general militia of the
empire. This document is characterised, as usual, by a
canting affectation of piety.

Accounts from Turin state that the treaty of alliance
between the Western Powers and Sardinia was adopted
by the legislative chamber on the 8th instant. The
majority in its favour was 101 to 60.—The Duke of
Genoa, brother of the King of Sardinia, died on the
11th instant; the third death in the house of Savoy
within a few weeks. He was two years younger than
the king. He married in 1850, the Princess Elizabeth,
second daughter of the present King of Saxony; by
whom he had the Princess Maria Theresa, born in
1851, and Prince Thomas Albert Victor, born last year.
The Princess Elizabeth, thus left a widow, is only
twenty–five years of age.

Gratifying accounts have been received from the
interesting community of Pitcairn's Island; letters
having been addressed at the end of October last by the
Rev. G. H. Nobbs and John Adams, the son of the
original settler, to the Bishop of London, Sir Thomas
Acland, and the Rev. T. B. Murray. By these letters
it appears that the number of inhabitants had increased
from 172, the last census, to 200, all except three having
been born on the island. These three are Messrs.
Nobbs, Buffett, and Evans. The islanders were well,
and, though not in want of food, had some anxieties
arising from their augmented population. They had
heard "rumours of wars" through some American
whalers touching at Pitcairn's. John Adams bears high
testimony to the character of their pastor, of whom he
says, "His whole aim seems to be directed to one
object—that of doing good to his flock, both in spiritual
and temporal things."

       NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

THE past month's list of new publications is the
scantiest we have had since the war set in; but it
presents some few books of considerable general interest.
It comprises a volume of travel and adventure in
California, by Mr. Frank Marryat, called Mountains and
Molehills; or, Recollections of a Burnt Journal; a
new volume of reprinted Essays from the Edinburgh
Review, by Mr. Henry Rogers; a new novel, Mammon,
or, the Hardships of an Heiress, by Mrs. Gore; a brief
record of a Summer Tour, by Mr. Barrow; a romance
by no less notable a romancer than his Eminence
Cardinal Wiseman, Fabiola; or, the Church of the
Catacombs; a collection of Pictures of Palestine, Asia
Minor, Sicily, and Spain, by an American traveller;
the first volume of Thomson, in Mr. Parker's annotated
edition of the Poets; a welcome republication, with
a preface by Mr. Henry Reeve, of Ambassador Whitelocke's
curious and valuable Journal of the Swedish
Embassy in 1653 and 1654; a reproduction in a library
form, from the pages of the New Monthly Magazine, of
Shell's Sketches Legal and Political, with notes by
Mr. Savage; the Literary Life and Correspondence of
the Countess of Blessington, by Mr. Madden; a bulky
little volume of antiquarian anecdote, and varied
miscellaneous reading, called Curiosities of London, by Mr.
John Timbs; the first volume of a collection of Lord
Brougham's writings, revised by himself with much
apparent care, containing Lives of the Philosophers of
the Reign of George III.; a reprint of a discreditable
book, by Mr. Henry Wikoff, My Courtship and its
Consequences; a Handbook of French Literature, among the
publications of the Messrs. Chambers; a History of
Woman, by Mr. S. W. Fullom; a study in English Literature,
consisting of the First Four Books of Milton's
Paradise Lost, with notes for the use of scholars;
the volume for 185–1 of Mr. Bogue's Year Book of Facts
in Science and Art; a volume of Oxford Essays,
contributed by members of the university; a translation
from a book descriptive of Moslem and Christian,
partly fact and partly fiction, by a Polish officer now in
the service of the Sultan; a Manual of Political Science,
by Dr. Humphreys; a descriptive essay on The Bulgarian,
the Turk, and the German, by Mr. A. A. Paton;
an American biography of a well–known American
editor, the Life of Horace Greeley of the New York
Tribune, by Mr. J. Parton; another transatlantic book,
a condensed alphabetical account of notable duels in
various countries, and especially in America, called
Notes on Duels and Duelling, with a preliminary essay
by Mr. Sabine; five instructive lectures on our language
and its changes by the Reverend R. C. Trench,
called English Past and Present; a valuable
Memoir of Sir Robert Strange, Engraver, and of his
brother–in–law, Andrew Lumisden, by Mr. Dennistoun
of Dennistoun, to which the melancholy interest
attaches of having issued from the press on the very day
of its author's death; a useful school Guide to the
Mythology of Ancient Greece, by the Rev. Dr. Brewer;
an essay by Mr. Thomas Wright, on Early Christianity
in Arabia; a condensed translation, by Mr. David
Jardine, of Baron Muffling's Narrative of my Mission
from Constantinople to St. Petersburg in 1829–30; a
translation, by the Rev. O. F. Owen, of the recently
discovered Refutation of Spinoza, by Leibnitz; and the
filth volume, containing the philosophical essays with
several important additions, of Sir William Hamilton's
edition of the Works of Dugald Stewart.