in coals with all possible despatch, and hold themselves
in readiness to weigh anchor. Admiral Napier, who
has engaged an apartment in the town, went this morning
on board the Duke of Wellington to concert with
Rear-Admiral Chads, and it was believed at Kiel that
some of the steamships would to-morrow re-enter the
Baltic to reinforce the English vessels which still occupy a
few stations in that sea. The communications between
Sweden and Finland are re-established, and masses of
goods are daily imported into the Russian ports of the
two gulfs. The isles of Aland have not yet been
reoccupied by the Russians"

The latest movements in the Black Sea Fleet are
contained in a letter dated the 8th inst. from the Katcha:
—"The fleet continues at its anchorage here, with the
exception of the Bellerophon, sent to Eupatoria to
protect that place, in conjunction with the Leander. The
marines stationed at Eupatoria have been removed to
co-operate with the army, and blue jackets have
replaced them. The Tartars continue to furnish large
supplies of stock, which the transports take to
Balaklava for the use of the army. The ships stationed at
Balaklava are the Agamemnon, Sanspareil, Highflyer,
Niger, Retribution, Vesuvius, Diamond, Wasp, Vulcan,
Spitfire, Fury, Caradoc, and gunboats. Commanders
Powel and Heath, of the Vesuvius and Niger, are
in command of batteries for the protection of Balaklava.

Letters from Athens state that the Porte has consented
to renounce its claim upon the kingdom of Greece for
compensation in respect of the recent irruption of
Hellenic bands into the Ottoman territory. In return,
the Greek government, conducted by men who were
not parties to the late insurrection, is doing what it can
to efface the memory of former grievances. Twelve
thousand head of cattle, which had been carried off by
the Greeks, have already been either restored or
replaced. The Hellenic minister has notified to the
representatives of England and France that the expense
of lodging their troops at the Piræus will be reckoned off
the sums owing to those powers for loan and accumulated
interest.

The intelligence from New York is to the 8th inst.
The United States Government was about to issue a
treaty circular providing for the admission of the
produce of Canada, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward
Island, on the same terms as recently established
respecting colonial fish. The provinces of Nova Scotia and
Prince Edward Island would shortly adopt measures for
carrrying out the treaty.—An official proclamation had
been issued confirming the convention entered into
between the United States and Russia, establishing the
rights of neutrals at sea. The convention provides that
free ships make free goods, and that the property of
neutrals on board enemy's vessels is exempt from
confiscation, unless contraband of war.—It was expected
that Sir Edmund Head would leave Boston for Canada
on the 7th, to assume the post of Governor-General, and
that Lord Elgin would shortly sail for England, first
visiting New York and Washington.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

The new publications of the past month, in which
the interest of the war has been all-absorbing, have
comprised—two small volumes on Painting and
Celebrated Painters, founded on a similar work by a French
writer, but adapted as a guide to the principal foreign
masters in our National Gallery, by Lady Jervis White
Jervis; a volume by Mr. E. Sullivan, The Bungalow
and the Tent, descriptive of a visit to Ceylon; an
abridgment from the French, by Mr. Bayle St. John, of
Travels of an Arab Merchant; a volume of collected
Dramas by Tom Taylor and Charles Reade; an
annotated edition by Mr. Bell, of the Poems of Waller;
a volume of sermons, by Mr. Maurice, on the Doctrine
of Sacrifice; a poem in celebration of the happiness of
married life, the Angel in the House; the Pocket- Book
for 1855, issued by Mr. Punch; a publication, also from
the collection of Mr. Punch, of some six hundred Pictures
of Life and Character, by Mr. Leech, which belong to
the class of pictures you read rather than see, as Charles
Lamb said of Hogarth's; a volume translated and edited
by Lord Ellesmere for the Hakluyt Society, History of
the Two Tartar Conquerors of China, with an
introduction by Mr. R. H. Major; a republication of
magazine papers, Recollections of Literary Characters
and Celebrated Places, by Mrs. Thomson; a volume of
Haps and Mishaps in Europe, in which Miss
Grace Greenwood describes what she saw and how
she was entertained, as a visitor from America; a
volume, by Doctor Doran, of what may be called
sartorial literature, full of all kinds of pleasant anecdotes
relating to tailors and their craft, Habits and Men; a
learned disquisition, by Mr. Wheeler, on the Geography
of Herodotus; two London Directories for 1855, Mr.
Kelly's and Mr. Watkins's; a volume by Professor
Ferrier, of Institutes of Metaphysic, the theory of
knowing and being; a second volume of Mr. Cunningham's
annotated edition of Johnson's Lives of the Poets;
a description, published in Mr. Bailliere's Ethnological
Library, of the Native Races of the Russian Empire,
by Dr. Latham; a religious fancy, or phantasy, by Mr.
J. A. St. John, called Philosophy at the Foot of the
Cross; a translation of a Muscovite story, Home Life in
Russia, satirising the corruption of government
employés; a story in two volumes, Heart's Ease, by the
author of the 'Heir of Redclyffe,' and three novels, each
in three volumes, May and December by Mrs. Hubback,
Herbert Lake by the author of 'Anne Dysart,' and the
Curate of Overton; a small but sterling collection, by
Miss Birbeck, of Rural and Historical Gleanings from
Eastern Europe; a new edition, with notes by Dr. Irvine,
of Selden's Table Talk; a volume on Theatres and other
Remains in Crete, by Edward Falkener; a course of
University Lectures on Population and Capital,
delivered by Mr. Rickards at Oxford; the literary
journal, or diary of the readings, of an accomplished
English scholar, the author of the "Fasti Helleniei,"
entitled Literary Remains of Henry Fynes Clinton; a
volume containing the substance of the Croonian lectures
on Medical Testimony and Evidence in Cases of Lunacy,
by Doctor Thomas Mayo; a new and improved edition
of Mr. M'Culloch's Geographical, Statistical, and
Historical Dictionary; a Commonplace Book of
Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies, original and selected,
by Mrs. Jameson; several cheap editions of novels,
poems, and histories, in the Libraries of Messrs. Bohn
and Routledge; a volume of Leaves from the Diary of
an Officer in the Guards, descriptive of the Peninsular
Battles; a volume on The War by Mr. Macqueen, in
which the Russian view of the Eastern question is
advocated; a collection of Historic Notes on the Books
of the Old and New Testaments, by Samuel Sharpe;
some gift-books for Christmas, among which are the
Keepsake, the Court Album, and illustrated editions of
Longfellow's Golden Legend and Scott's Marmion;
a Manual of Mercantile Law, by Mr. Leone Levi; two
handsomely illustrated volumes, by Mr. William Osburn,
on the Monumental History of Egypt: a new volume of
Selections, Grave and Gay, from the published and
unpublished writings of Mr. De Quincey; several Children's
Books, by Messrs. Grant and Griffith; an introductory
Text-Book of Geology by Mr. David Page; a republication
of a series of papers from 'Frazer's Magazine,'
by Mr. Badham, with the title of Prose Halieutics, or
Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle; Mr. Knight's British
Almanac and Companion for 1855; a second series of
the Romance of the Forum, or stories of celebrated
trials, by Mr. Peter Burke; an account of Giotto and
his Works in Padua, by Mr. Ruskin, written to accompany
the outlines published by the Arundel Society; and
a volume on Our Camp in Turkey and the Way to it,
by Mrs. Young.