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1154 THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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THE WAR.
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TnERE is very little news from the Crime...
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The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 28...
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THE PRINCIPALITIESMOKAL COURAGE OI? O3HA...
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AUSTRIAN PDOPLB versus ADHTHIA,rr TRKATI...
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THIS AOBTRIAN ALLIANOR. Tho Timm ot Thur...
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The following is from the Daily N~ eivs ...
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INOID E 1* T S. Baknows roil TWJ3 Ciumea...
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1154 The Leader. [Saturday,
1154 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
The War.
THE WAR .
Tnere Is Very Little News From The Crime...
TnERE is very little news from the Crimea . The jreat storm of the 14 th is described elsewhere . A 3 espatch from Balaklava , dated Nov . 25 , says : — "The Russians made a sortie . The English repulsed them , and took permanent possession of a 9-gun battery . The Allies have landed 146 ship-guns . " Another account increases the achievement : The Presse makes mention of the sortie < m the 25 th , and states , on the authority of a despatch of the 25 th from Balaklava , that the English took two batteries of seven guns each , which the Russians had not had time to spike . On the 26 th , a part of the garrison attacked the Prench lines , but was routed with a loss of 230 men . The Irench . lost 75 men , three of whom were officers .
The Journal De St. Petersbourg Of The 28...
The Journal de St . Petersbourg of the 28 th ult . announces that Prince Mensehikoff , writing on the 18 th of November , reports the damage done by the storm to have been very great among the shipping of the Allies all along the Crimean coast . The fire of the batteries grew weaker and "weaker each flay , and the approaches of the enemy were entirely suspended . The Russian loss for several days had been only four killed and fourteen wounded . The English had attempted to establish themselves near the head of the dockyard , but had been repulsed with loss . Prince Menscbikoff , writing again on . the 27 th lilt ., states : —
" The Allies continue their bombardment of Sebastopol , but their fire is weak , and causes us scarcely any loss or damage . "It is obvious that they are strengthening their position and establishing-new batteries , but the fire of the latter has not yet opened . " The Daily JYeios of Wednesday says : —" Further friendly advices from before Sebastopol , of the 22 nd , state that the defensive works of the English , betweea the right of their line of attack and Balaklava , was nearly completed . Ah English regiment , from the Piraeus , arrived on the 20 th , and the next day detachments from the Guards , 1 st , 7 th , 23 rd , and 95 th Regiments , to the number of 1200 men , landed at Balaklava . French reinforcements were also continually arriving . The firing from the . batteries of the Allies was kept up . "
The Moniteur of Thursday contains the following despatch from General Canrobert , dated the 28 th of November : — •' The rain has ceased , and the weather seems disposed to improve . " Our -works of all kinds , lately impeded by the bad stato of the roads and trenches , will now assume a new vigour . ' * Our reinforcements continue to arrive , and I have just received the sbcth regiment of Dragoons , the sixth battalion o Chasseurs h pied , besides various detachments of different regiments .
" The enemy still shows no signs of activity , but continues to protect the town by repeated entrenchments . "
The Principalitiesmokal Courage Oi? O3ha...
THE PRINCIPALITIESMOKAL COURAGE OI ? O 3 HAB PACHA . A correspondent of the Daily News writing from , Bucharest , says : — "An incident occurred at tho opera hero which has excited considerable attention , and is tho talk of the town . Omar Pacha made hia appearance in his box , accompanied , by the wife of his nephew , Tefwik Bey . Tho lady was completely unveiled , and sat thus listening to tho music with the moat perfect composure . This is , I believe , the first instance on record in . which tho wife of a Mussulman lias displayed lier features before mom , and aboyo all before Giaouxs , and ia consequently a
tremendous innovation , of which I am very anxious to see tho result . It displays great courage on the part of Omar Pacha , but will , I am certain , when the newo reaches Constantinople , oxcito the fiercest ire amongst tho old Turks . Muaaar Pacha ( Sir Stephen Lakoraun ) came into the box soon after , and entered into convocation with madam o ; and whilo this was going on , Ismail Pacha ( not he of Kalnfat ) arrived , and took Ida place on . tho opposite flido of tho houae . Glancing across , lie saluted Omar Pacha , but on sooing tho lady , suddenly bcoamo deadly pale , remained motionless for two or three minutcH , and then rose up , saluted again , left t « a box , and returned no more . "
Austrian Pdoplb Versus Adhthia,Rr Trkati...
AUSTRIAN PDOPLB versus ADHTHIA , rr TRKATIU 1 B . We quote tho following from n correspondent of tlie Daily JVcws at Bucharest , ns being the opiniona of an intelligent Englishman on tho spot : — u I will glance at a few of tho events which have occurred hero einco tho month of Augus-t . On tho 1 st of September last Mueaar Paoha ( Sir Stophon Lukoraan )
received the command of 4000 of the Turkish cavalry and twelve guns . He had orders to press on the rearguard of tfee enemy , and repair all the roads and bridges on the line of march towards the Pruth , Omar Pacha intending to advance immediately . Hussar Pacha accordingly left Bucharest cone or two days after , attacked and routed the Cossacks under Colonel Bontemps at Benz & S , and continued his inarch . General Aurep was at this time at Rumnick with the rear-guard a » d nine guns , and General Ludere was at Ibraila with 5000 mea , and also same artillery , tout the number of guns is unknown . Mussar Pacha pushed on between them tc Martineselii , when Aurep , fearing he might be surrounded , retired precipitately into Moldavia . The
former then marched towards Ibraila , hoping to fall in with liiders' force when in the act of crossing the Pruth , and when , being encumbered with sick , and baggage , and plunder , it would have fallen an easy prey . Hie was within twenty-two miles of the town when a courier overtook him , bearing an order for him to return to Bucharest . This order was sent in compliance with a requisition from Colonel Halik , the Austrian military agent , vho had formally protested against the advance of any portion of the Turkish force , and had previously , as I informed you at the time , addressed a note to Omar Pacha calling upon him to retire from the Principalities altogether , but had withdrawn it upon reflection :. The Turkish generalissimo was thus for the
moment compelled to remain inactive at Bucharest , as , had he put himself in open opposition to the Austrians , he might have been all but certain , that under a very small amount of pressure from M . de Brack , his own government at Constantinople would have disavowed , and consequently humiliated him . After tlie arrival of Count Goronini , Omar Pacha made another attempt to go forward , and actuall y issued orders fo r the march of the whole army , with the view of creating a diversion in Bessarabia . All the officers had received instructions to make their preparations . Omar Pacha himself was to start in a day or two afterwards . On the day
folloTving these orders were all countermanded , m consequence of another protest from Count Coronini , and of the intrigues here of the Russian spies and partisans , who iill the highest places in the Government , who are the favourites and proteges of the Austrians , and during whose presence in the capital any advance on the part of the Turks would be attended with , greater or less danger . The Austrian general advised Omar Pacha at this period to- withdraw altogether from " Wallachia , and , if he was really anxious to continue his operations against the Russians , to follow -them up through the Dobru & scha . JVom Rustschuk to Toultcha or MatscMn
is for an army at least three weeks march , through a country perfectly desolate , and in which a man inhales pestilence at every breath 5 and , on arriving in front of the enemy , it would have been necessary to construct a bridge across the river under their fire . They in superior force , and the Turks without sappers or engineering staff , and the bridge at iRustschuk which has cost so much time and labour would lave been rendered almost useless . This is advice to give to an ally here is counsel from an enemy of Russia ! . . . . " Another order for the march of all the Turkish troops was issued . Two battalions set out , but owing to the dreadful state of the roads , were obliged to halt in a village sixteen miles distant , af ter suffering three
days of great hardship . A counter-order ~ was accordingly issued , as the transport of artillery and baggage was impossible . Yesterday Bairarn Pacha ( General Cannon ) and his st aff started for Ibraila , and tho snow began to fall to-day ; there is a hard f rost , and , perhaps , tho maTch of the troops will bo resumed , should the ground prove sufficiently hard . It is said that Omar Pacha will soon follow , and establish his head-quarters at Ibraila . Coronini 1 ms not yet returned ; if ho arrives before tho Turks have nil gone , very likely he will proteat . The movement has , however , now lost most of its importance—it is like locking tho stable door after the steed liaa been stolen . Sebastopol by this time is either lost ot won Tho conjecture which I ventured to make in tlie concluding paragraph of rny last letter
lias turned out to bo "well founded . Coronini has again protested against the advance of the Turks , in a letter addressed to Omar Pacha , in which ho declares his willingness to tolernto ( tolorer ) their movements in an onward direction , as far as the Seroth , but no further , and between two linos drawn from Bucharest to Maximony on one side , and Bucharest to Sovoriny on tho other , tho distance betwoon these places being three miles . So tlint , supposing tlio Turks bo imprudent enough to avail themselves of hia permiosion , nnd attempt an advance in tills narrow apace , and that Coronini ib determined to carry out his intentions with a strong hund , tho Russians knowing tho former can make no flank movement , have only to concentrate a strong force between those two points , and annihilate Omar Paclia's army . "
This Aobtrian Allianor. Tho Timm Ot Thur...
THIS AOBTRIAN ALLIANOR . Tho Timm ot Thursday gives , offi cially , tho following negatively explanatory account of tho treaty : —• " Tho ratifications of the trouty aign « rt at Vienna on Saturday hwt between Austria , Franco , nnd England will ctouIitloHH bo exchanged us flpoodily an possible , and tho troaty itself will then bo mudo known to the world . In
fliemean * inie ** vwriety of conjectures have beenhazarded on this important subject , some of which have been transmitted to us by our own correspondents abroad ; but we are « atbfied that the real substance and purport of the treety has not yet transpired . Whatever may be its provisions , we undertake to affirm , from our knowledge of t 3 ie policy of the allied Governments and of the intentions of Austria , that it does not postpone fox a period of three months the decision of a question of vital interest to the -conduct or \ the war and to the future peace of Europe ; that it does nat'contain any guarantee , either direct or indirect , of the possessions of Austria ; that it has never been , intended to send a division of the Austrian army either to Varna or to the Crimea ; that it does not
contain any promise of subsidy or secret article ; that the belligerent Powers have not in any way bound themselves to make any fresh propositions of peace to Russia , or to enter upon negotiations on any basis proposed by the German States ; and , lastly , that , although France and England adhere to the Four Points contained in their Notes of the 8 th of August , as the chief substance of their demands and the sole basis of negotiation at the present time , they have distinctly intimated what their interpretation of those propositions is , such as to include all the great objects of the war , and that the Cabinet of Vienna concurs in this interpretation of those terms . The conjecture we have mentioned having been more or less accredited and circulated in Europe , we feel it our
duty positively to contradict them ; and we are inclined to believe that , when the articles of the treaty are known , they will prove much more consistent with the account we gave on Tuesday last of the results of this negotiation . If o . ur information be correct , although this convention is not an actual treaty of offensive and defensive alliance between Aus tria and the Wostern Powers , inasmuch as Austria is not at this moment at war with Russia , it is of nearly similar significance , and the strongest engagement which , under the circumstances , Austria could sign . We mean by this
expression that we believe the Emperor of Austria to have contracted a positive engagement to enter into an offensive and defensive alliance with tlie belligerent States against Russia , unless peace upon the terms exacted by all the Powers be concluded before ike termination of this current month of'December ; or , in other words , unless , in answer to the announcement at St . Petersburg , that Austria is about to join the Western alliance , the Emperor of Russia declares at once his inability to prolong the contest . Such au act of surrender on the part of the Czar is at present highly improbable . "
The Following Is From The Daily N~ Eivs ...
The following is from the Daily N ~ eivs : ~ " Bucharest , Wednesday . " 40 , 000 Turks and 100 guns will be embarked at Baltsehik and at Varna next week , for the Crimea , " One regiment remains at Bucharest . " Danisk Bey replaces Mussa Pacha as commandant of the town . " Mussa Paelia superintends the embarkation . " Omar Pacha will leave in a few days . " The Morning Chronicle announces that tlie following are the essential dispositions of tlie treaty : — " If before the end of 1854 Russia does not make acceptable propositions which will assure a good and durable peace , the Three Powers will take measures to obtain that peace .
Ihe three contracting parties engage themselves not to accept any proposition for peace without having deliberated in common . " The Daily News confidently announces further intelligence : — " Russia is to be called upon immediately to accept of a peace on the basis of tlie four points , as interjiretcd in the Treaty . This interpretation includes the throwing open of the Black Sea to the fleets of tho Western Powers . Russia is not to bo allowed to maintain more than six ships of war in that sea , and Franco and England aro each ( ns wo understand it . ) to bo allowed the same number . A European port is to bo established either at Itatoun or
Sinopo , as a counterpoise to Sobaotopol . As a guarantee for tho free navigation of the Danube , the fortress of Ismail , nnd » 11 tho Russian forts near tho mouth of the , river are to bo destroyed . Each of the Five Groat Powers is to protect separately its own subjects in Turkey ; and tho protectorate of tho Christian subjects of tho Porto is to bo oxcroisod by them collectively . If these conditions aro not , accepted by Russia before tho 1 st or 2 nd of January , tho Austrian Minister at St . Petersburg' is to bo recalled ; auid if Huswia continue obstinate till tho 2 nd of March , Austria will doularo war , send 20 , 000 men to tho Crimea , and enter Bessarabia with the rest of its disposable foTces . "
A telegraphic despatch received last night from Berlin atntos thafr the new Troaty botweeu Austria and tho Western Powers lm < l been sent tliore , and that at a Council hold on the Oth , by tho King nnd his Ministers , tho adhesion of Prussia to tho Treaty wns determined on .
Inoid E 1* T S. Baknows Roil Twj3 Ciumea...
INOID E 1 * T S . Baknows roil TWJ 3 Ciumea . —Mr . Si it ton , of Derby , hna received orders to malco nn unlimited supply of " navvy-bajTowa" for tho Crimea . Thoy will bo rendy for shipment on Tuundny no * t .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 9, 1854, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09121854/page/2/
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