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The T, Xi A B Eb, Tna 279, Sattopat,
THE T , Xi A B EB , TNa 279 , Sattopat ,
T12 - - . The War. , T* E *Ews L^ L^^^Ff...
T 12 - - . THE WAR . , T * * ews l ^ l ^^^ ffSJ ?^^ dead lock ; ¦** "Jfgg ? The routine work of place , of a ^ tai **! -JJg ^ most favourably , the siege , however , g £ » hes lessen tlie dis-Day ap ^^^ felviunathe - > uter fortificat ions , tance between themselves au ^ ^ ^^ SSSatch ifrom Marseilles of the 21 st , says that the gnfteh ^ tingent has been ^^^ ntr ^ Nief thousand men , under the command of General JNiei , Sm shorS teave the Bosphorus for the Crimea . l £ > tfcer cimmunication of the same **»«* £ * £ the Allies are preparing an expedition with ta-oopson board for landing ; but the destination has not tran-SgSu More gunboats have been sent to the Sea of A ^ of and the Futtid Sea . So far all goes > well ; but i ; £ anticipated that the next attack upon the Malakhoff £ m no ? take place until the end of the present month ILthat is to say , until about the present time In the meanwhile , the Russians are occupied in constructing
new works for the defence , : From Kars , we hear , in the first instance , that the Russians had commenced the siege , at a time when toe Turkish force only amounted to 18 , 000 men ; and , in the second instance , that General Mouravieff has abandoned the attack . A reinforcement of 20 , 000 Turks is to be immediately sent thither , and the Pacha of Trebizond has ordered a levy en masse tor that purpose ; but the Christians are said to have refused or at any rate to have set conditions to their S "SraSon . So much for the privilege of fighting lately accorded to the non-Mahometan population of Turkey . It is speculated that General Mouravieff ' s object in retiring from Kars is in order to surprise Erzeroum , or to attack the Turks in the field . An article has appeared in the Momteur de la
Flottey in which we read as follows : " The construction of the battery at the extremity of Careening Bay , which is intended to prevent the Russian shipping from bringing their broadsides to bear against vL as in the attack of the 18 th of June , must now be nearly completed . That battery , if we be correctly informed , will be armed with guns of the largest calibre , and mortars a plaque , the terrible fire of which will oblige the wmnant of the Russian fleet to seek refuse in some remote corner of the immense bay , unless the commanders resolutely accept battle , and prefer , for the first time since the beg inning of the siege , to have their ships sunk by ot her hands t han their own The Bussian army in the field has been ordered to attempt a diversion- A letter from Balaklava states that a Russian corps of from 35 , 000 to 40 , 000 men , supposed to be under the orders of General Luders , had made its appearance on the heights of Mackenzie . The enemy evidently intends to make a diversion in favour of the Malabkoff Tower , which we so closely menace . Be this as it may , this new move of the Russians has in nowise interrupted our works ; and , if they think proper to offer us battle ; they will be well received . " In the want of certain intelligence , a great many rumours have been flying about , to the effect that Ismail Pacha has announced to his troops the approaching opening of a campaign in Bessarabia ; that the inhabitants of Odessa are in a state of considerable fear of an approaching attack from tho Allies ; and that General Simpson , feeling himself " not strong enough for the place , " has requested to be relieved from the chief command . In the midst of these shadowy phantasmagoria , which dilate and contract , appear and disappear , in the fluctuating cloud-land of gossip , comes the detailed Russian account of the French and English attack of the 18 th , describing over again , only from a Muscovite point of view , the bloody realities of that ghastly deathwrestle . The health both of the French and English armies is improving , cholera being far less than it was ; but a despatch from General Simpson mentions , in terms of the deepest regret , the death—we believe , though it is not so stated , from the pestilence—of Lieutenant-Colonel Vico , French Commissioner to the English army . A later despatch from the Commander-in-Chief speaks of the death , from wounds , of Captain Maunsell , of the 39 th Regiment . Death has also carried away General Todleben , the defender of Sevastopol , and a man of genius and marvellous energy . Tho death of Sehamyl is now considered certain ; not so the cause of it . Rumour , however , speaks of his having become Russianised since tho release by the late Czar of his eon ; in consequence of which , it is said , his subject chiefo have slain him . Raglan , Sehamyl , Nachimoff , Todlebenall gone within a few weeks ! ' A RUSSIAN 0 OBXXB AGAINST THE FRENCH , The Moniteur of Friday morning announces that the
Minister .-of War has rwserred the following despatch from tta 8 Ei br ^ cSonad " £ ? Wans made a sortie , SjsbiWcfil ^^ SSK ^ SSV some companies of the 10 th Regiment * «* £ ?& ££ W a hasty retreat , leaving some ^^ T ^^ t ^ z , z ^^ r ^ t 0 ? ZL ° affair doThononr to Lieutenant-Colonel da Texis of the Infantry , and to Captain Lecocq , of the EniSrf General Bisson was on duty in the trenches .
fHK SOT . TAK ' 8 LKTTEB TO TUB FRENCH AND ENGLISH GENERALS . The Sultan recently address ed an autograph letter to the late LoVd Raglan , and another to General Pehssier , O ^ Sg tiSn rSpec ' tively for the valour and heroism Bf SfiSSLr ™ the Sultan '" feel i £ i high 3 atisfacSoT ^ a thing so te rrible as war should hav e beeiTthe means of uniting my people with the great oTtionTof fewest by indissoluble bonds . As long as £ nr tdethirst for glory shall make the human heart Leat tfrose Who have struggled with fraternal emula-££ Swho have mixed their blood together on a foreien soil , will remember companions whom they SKJterfta-. What has hitherto been the scourge S mankind will have procured the satisfactory result of bringing nearer to each other the people whose ^ GovernnSnte were already allies ; this war will bear the germs of a durable peace , rich in wholesome fruit y between nations who desire to appreciate one another . The letter concludes with this sentence : — I pray i God to give you the most glorious success , and to have , vou in His holy keeping "—words which become sm- ! Liar from being addressed by a Mahometan to a Chris- j San . At ' the bottom we find the date as follows :- . " Palace of Tcheregan , the 12 th Schewal , 1211 .
! THE HANGO MASSACRE . ! The Journal de St . Pe - tersbourg of July 7 th publishes another long statement relative to the Hango affair , m the course of which the writer remarks r— " No signal was made to give timely information to our authorit . es of the approach of a f lag of truce to parley . No consent was asked , no permission granted , to authorise a landing : the boat ran on shore , the crew landed , the officer advanced into hostile territory without permission , ; without any legal recognition of his quality—m a word , at his own risk and peril . He fell into our power , cxposimr his life and the lives of his crew to the chances of
The old accusation is repeated , that the English had 1 made use of " artifices ; " and the Russians , it is added , « are justified in counteracting these . " We have done so at HauKO . We declare it openly . " The writer then says , that the English no doubt regret the failure of an expcdition which they sought " to carry out with impunity under cover of a white flag . " The existence of the , white flag is therefore admitted , and Russia is self- , convicted of violating it . The gist of the complaint , against our countrymen lies in the assertion that , after | the delivery of the prisoners , and when the legitimate mission of the party was at an end , the intruders walked about fifty yards towards the village . Nothing , however , can be advanced in defence of the sudden and treacherous nature of tho attack . \ Tho Journal de St . Pdtersboury also publishes a letter from Prince Dolgorouki to Admiral Uundas , dated July 11 , informing him that , in addition to Cronstadt , I Sweaborg , and Revel , flags of truce will bo also received at Libau , Windau , Wasa , and Tornea .
War Miscellanea. The Ska Of Azof.—Colone...
WAR MISCELLANEA . The Ska of Azof . —Colonel Ogilvio , commanding a | Turkish brigado at Yeni-Kaloh , returned a few days ago , on account of his health , from the sea of Azof . According to his account , things are going on pretty smoothly there . The fortifications are assuming daily a more reassuring character . The Sphinx , Captain Willmot , and the little gunboats , are diligently searching after Russiun vessels and stores in the sea of Azof . Most of the Greek and Russian inhabitants have quitted , and the Tartars have siezed the opportunity to posscsH themselves of their lands . The Russians are fortifying the Isthmus of Arabat . The Circassians are said to Have returned to Anapa . —Times Correspondent . Russian Aoenth in Bavaiua . —A letter from Nuremberg , in liavaria , of the 8 th , says : — " The police yesterday arrested two Russian agents as they wore about to leuvo by railway with two gunsmiths whoin they had engaged , and a Kuasian officer who has arrived here has been placed under surveillance . Several of our gunsmiths have , it is said , been engagod for Russia t > y the promise of a fixed salary of five hundred silver roubles ( the rouble is about four francs ) and many contingent advantages . " Tub Austrian Army . —Tub Panuhk . —The Vienna Minister of Finance estimates that the saving which will bo effected in the course of tho present year by the reduction of tho army will bo 50 , 000 , 000 florins ( tho florin
is about two francs fifty cents ) . The 8 ame letter states that the corn merchants at Vienna had learned from Galatz that the fears which had been entertained of a blockade of the Danube were unfounded ; but that toe lowness of the water formed an obstacle to exportations . The Fobbion Legion . — -A Prussian paper publishes the terms of agreement between the Foreign Legion and the English Government . We read : — " M . de Stutterheim an ex-officer of the Brunswick army , has undertaken to raise 10 , 000 men , including > officers , at the rate of 10 / . per head . The men who enlist are to take an oath of fidelity to the Queen , are to engage to serve for the whole war and a year longer , and are to go wherever they may be required . At the expiration of their period of service , the non-commissioned officers and soldiers are to receive a yeaVs pay , and to be conveyed either to then own country , or to Canada , where land is to be ceded to them . The officers' pay is to be tho same as that of officers in the English army . No provision has been made for officers and soldiers who may become unfit for service , but they may receive pensions from the
generosity of the Queen . The Enoijsh Prisoners m Russia . —An extract from a letter respecting Colonel Kelly , Captains Frampton and Clarke , and Lieutenants Clowes , Duff , Chadwick , and Byron , has appeared in the Times . The writer complains of the slowness of our Government in exchanging them . The French prison ors , it is said , are all exchanged already . Arrival of more Russian Prisoners at Lewes . — On Friday week a party of Russian prisoners from Sebastonol , consisting of four officers and six men , armed
Sir Edmund Lyons , under date July 10 , encloses a report from Lieutenant Hewett , describing the destruction of the floating bridge in the Straits of Gemtchi , under , a heavy fire of musketry . Josep h Trewavas , ordinary seaman , who cut the hawsers , is mentioned with particular encomium . He was wounded , but not
Ser ADMiRAL Dusdas encloses a report from Captain Yelverton , having reference to the operations of that officer in the Gulf of Finland , when some of the Russian defences were surveyed , and a contest was kept up for an hour with soldiers on the shore . The death of Mr . Story , midshipman of the Arrogant , is mentioned by the Admiral with great regret . From a non-official account , it appears that Mr . Story was killed by the accidental ignition of a rocket on board the boat , which blew him into the water , where , it is supposed , he sunk . Oue of the sailors was also killed , and others severely burnt Siu George Brown arrived in London at the latUr
ml of last week . Reinfouckments ok French Troops continue to lenart from Marseilles to the scat of war . Contraband of "Wak .- —The English Government las forbidden the export to Prussia of iron plates of > -l 6 ths of an inch and over , and of half-inch bar-iron ind steel , as contraband bf war . The Prussians think that we have in these instances stretched our interpretation of the prohibition to an unwarrantable extent . Mirolawski , the leaderof the insurrection in Prussian Poland in 1846 , Lj mentioned in the literary circles of Berlin as the author of the celebrated Brussels pamphlet on the War , which was attributed to Prince Napoleon . The Neapolitan Government has refused to allow tho exportation of grain and biscuits for tho army in the Crimea , anil has given an . impertinent reply to the application of the English Minister on tho subject . Admiral Naciumokf . —The report of tho death of this commander is confirmed . Rear-Admiral Pamphiloff has succeeded him in the command of the vessels and port of Sevastopol . The Russian Reinforcement * . —The Vienna Military Gazette , in tho course of an article presenting a deliberate survey of tho posture of affairs in the Crimea , asserts that two of the Grenadier divisions which had marched from Poland have already arrived beforo Sobastopol . Tho Gazette considers that tho Allies are already over-matched in the Crimea . A Russian Foreion Legion . —It appears from a report just addressed to the Swiss Chambers that attempts have been made on tho part of Russia to obtain recruits in the canton of Zurich . This Cholera in the French Army . —Cholera ( says tho Paris correspondent of tho Titnes ) has almost entirely disappeared , and fever has not supervened , among the French troops . During the month of Juno , tho losses by cholera amounted to 8000 dcud ; but few cases now occur . I am enabled to give you on official authority tho exact loss the French sustained in tho affairs of tho 7 th and 18 th —4 . 00 men loft dead on tho field ; and ol nearly 6000 who wore wounded 660 died . The Ari'itoAOHEa to Suhastoi'OL . —It is said that one hundred und forty mitres is tho distance at which the French now remain from tho walla of Sobastopol ; and not forty wdt / xs , as was lutoly announced . Tiw Almich are preparing to rondor permanent tnu blockade of tho Russian ports , and to establish several camps at Constantinople and on tho Danube Haw / , Paoiia has loft Trobizond on his way to fcrzoroum . He had with him about 1500 men ( Turkn nmi Rayalm ) . One thousand fivohundrcjd more will shortly depart . Unite Pacha hopes to recruit several thousand on the road . m
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Leader (1850-1860), July 28, 1855, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28071855/page/4/
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