or other vessel without an authority, and the
captain or any one on board receiving and harbouring a
stranger without a passport will be liable to immediate
punishment of a severe character. An office has been
established at Balaklava for the registry of the names
of all persons coming and going, and for the issue of
permits of residence and passports. One of the Provost-
Marshals has been appointed to attend to this particular
duty. A branch, under the direction of a Provost-
Sergeant, will be established at Kazatch Bay. Police
stations are being erected in certain situations about
the camp, one being at head-quarters, and these will be
marked by lights at night. Some of the Marshal's
assistants will always be in attendance. With the aid
of the electric telegraph, and by means of other
arrangements for speedy communication, the effective
working of the establishment will be secured, and
order and other advantages obtained in the camps.
The troops in camp remain very healthy. All the
cavalry have now left, with the exception of the 11th
Hussars, who are to remain throughout the winter,
the 4th Dragoon Guards, the Greys, and the 6th
Inniskilling Dragoons. One troop of the latter regiment has
already embarked." The Times correspondent writes
also on the 22nd. "Our allies share with us the
labours of destroying the docks, which will be ready to
go at any moment we desire. The Sappers experience
great difficulty in forming the mines, in consequence of
the water running in on them from the clay; but with
their usual energy they worked away, and formed the
mines, which will contain eight small and two large
magazines. It is expected that the explosions must
disintegrate the masonry and tumble the stonework into
the basins. The English works are under the charge
of Captain Nicholson, R. E., and Mr. Deane has lent
the use of his batteries for the purpose of firing the
mines, and will undertake that part of the operation.
Drunkenness is much on the decline; the petty thefts
have been traced in nearly every instance to natives or
camp followers, and on the whole there never was a
better conducted army in the field placed under similar
circumstances. We are to have horse races on a grand
scale early in December."

The latest official intelligence from Sebastopol is contained
in the following despatch from General Codrington:
"Sebastopol, Dec. 4.—My Lord,—The enemy
continue to fire occasionally, and sometimes heavily, on
parts of the town. They must have expended a
considerable quantity of valuable ammunition without
causing us any loss or inconvenience. The enclosed
Casualty Return is the first of the sort I have had occasion
to report to your lordship. It may seem unimportant
to refer to the state of roads and weather here, but
their condition affects the essential communication and
well-being of the army. The winter broke upon us
suddenly on the 26th and 27th with snow, and has
varied with gales and rain; and a very deep state of the
ground has damaged all communications. Constant
presence of labourers and constant attention are
requisite, and are being given to the road, which, from a
peculiarity of soil and condition, was worked into holes,
but which is, and will continue to be, of the
greatest service to the army and its supplies.—I
have, &c., W. J. CODRINGTON, General Commanding.
—P. S. I beg leave also to forward the weekly report of
Dr. Hall, the principal medical officer, by which your
Lordship will perceive that the general state of
health of the army continues favourable."

The Times correspondent in Mingrelia furnishes an
account of the battle on the Ingour; which took place
on the 6th, not the 5th, of November, as reported in the
official telegraphic despatches. The march of the army
through the forests and swamps that extend between
the Godava and the Ingour presented great difficulties.
The correspondent referred to joined the advancing
troops beyond the Godava, and found them "a
miscellaneous multitude straggling by devious paths through
the tangled underwood, or ploughing their way through
deep mud."—"There were infantry and cavalry in long
lines winding between the magnificent oak and beech
trees of which the forest is composed; Abasians on
wiry ponies dodging in and out, and getting past everybody;
mules and pack-horses, in awkward predicaments,
stopping up the road, on whose devoted heads
were showered an immense variety of oaths by their
drivers, who in their turn were sworn at by the rest of
the world. There were some batteries of artillery,
which looked so hopelessly embedded that nothing short
of British energy, as impersonated in the young
Englishman who commanded, could have extricated
them. There were broken-down baggage-waggons and
broken-down mules, and everything but broken-down
men. Here and there a Pasha was squatted by the
roadside, indulging in his nargilhe, enjoying his 'kief,'
and watching placidly the exertions of his troops." The
whole force—the numbers of which are not given—
arrived on the right bank of the Ingour on the 4th of
November, and Omar Pasha reached their camp on the
3rd. The enemy were posted on the left bank, covering
the forts. Their right, supported by the fort of Ruchi,
and covered with wood, faced the river at a point where
its bed was two hundred yards broad, but where the
stream was much narrower. Their centre was posted behind
an intrenchment, opposite another practicable crossing.
The left held a ford still further down the river. Opposite
the fort of Ruchi, by the direction of Omar Pasha,
the Turks threw up two batteries, on the night of the
4th, with the view of occupying the attention of the
enemy by their fire, while he crossed the river lower
down. This movement was successfully accomplished on
the 6th. One column, headed by Rifles under Colonel
Ballard, the whole commanded by Colonel Simmonds,
effected the passage of the river and attacked the
intrenchment; while Osman Pasha, with a second column,
in the face of a heavy fire, and in spite of a strong
current, forded the stream lower down, and routed the
enemy at the point of the bayonet. Colonel Simmonds
carried the intrenchment, and the Russians fled, leaving
behind five guns. Here, however, his aide-de-camp,
Captain Dymock, was killed at the head of his
battalion. Routed at the points assailed, the enemy
evacuated the fort of Ruchi, and retired in the direction
of Kutais. The Turkish loss is estimated at 400
killed and wounded. The Russian loss is not estimated,
but it is stated that there were 300 dead on the
field.

A despatch from Admiral Lyons, dated Kazatch Bay,
December 1st, has been received at the Admiralty. The
admiral encloses a letter from Captain Sherard Osborn,
of the Vesuvius, dated the 24th ultimo, stating that, as
the formation of ice had commenced in the Sea of Azoff,
and as he had been informed by both M. Gropcevitch,
the Austrian merchant, charged with the shipment of
corn in Austrian vessels, and by the Russian authorities
at Mariaupol, that all chance of neutral vessels obtaining
cargoes this year was at an end, he had withdrawn
to Kertch with a squadron under his orders,
after assuring himself that no merchant vessels
remained in that sea.

Intelligence has been received of the fall of Kars,
after its long heroic defences. The place surrendered to
General Mouravieff, on the 28th of November. Vasif
Pasha, eight other Pashas, General Williams, and the
whole of the garrison are prisoners of war. The
particulars of this unfortunate event have not yet been
received.

The Times gives a comprehensive view of the state of
the war at the conclusion of this year: we quote it,
slightly abridged. "It is reassuring to observe how
great has been the revolution in the British army within
a single twelvemonth. The year which is about to close
has been so filled with great events that it is difficult to
believe only the usual term has passed away since first
the story of Balaklava and Scutari fixed the attention
of the world. The year 1855 began in calamity and
apprehension that almost deepened to despair; it is
about to end in satisfaction, if not in triumph, with well
grounded hope for the future, and a consciousness that
we are at least beginning to deserve success. What is
the condition of the British camp in the closing month
of the present year? Heavy rains have fallen, and the
roads have been severely tried, but they have, on the