29 DECEMBER 1855, page 10

Excrescent Colonelcies.

WE understand that among the comprehensive measures for the improvement of the Army is an abolition of military sine- cures. There will henceforth be no titular Field-Marshals......

The Russian War In Asia.

How shall the war be carried on ? Russia has been beaten in the Crimea, but she is triumphant in Turkish Armenia. She has lost Sebastopol, but she has gained Kars and Bayazeed,......

Topics Of The Day.

THE CONGRRSS, L'EMPIRE &est is Pain "—the aphorism, embodied in a pamph- let, was thrown upon Europe from some mysterious Imperial press of France, for the purpose of......