29 SEPTEMBER 1855, page 14

Topics Of The Day.

THE THANKSGIVING. PUBLIC feeling has demanded a thanksgiving for the hard-won victory in the Crimea; and it is instructing as well as curious to observe how, after a delay that......

Fortification.

THE successful termination of the attack on Sebastopol has revived the controversy on the new system of fortification alleged to have i been employed n its defence. On one side......

Russia In The Black Sea: 1829-1856.

FROM the days of Peter the Great to the treaty of Adrianople the Russians bad been accustomed to vanquish the Turks, dissipate their tinwieldly armies, storm their fortified......