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3 , 000 soldiers . A revolver and spade wouiu -iss-r- ™ "s ^ sstss ^ sd Viacount Molyneux , son ° fn L . ?™ Guards » without I gazette ! to an ensgy >"< £ <* $ '*• a » d ss ^^^^ -s ^ SLsasa
BH 9 HHH Ktste ^ g Sir officers expressed their opmions freely , poxngd &&i *? awrat ^ SA £ S ¦ 7 Qth who had a more practised ear than ms comtaw excited ^ spicion
^ t a ^ reSian , would no r ^ S ^^^ o ^^ eS ^ he S ^ Stfsfr Golin CampDell to ^ 7 that he suspected there was a Eussian spy amongst them . The fcffiSSHKSE ? towards the valley , but in a manner so natural as to Ss » i a& ^ Ba 5 gg ^ assa £ 5 * 5 i s i ^ Sionfor hadthe gentoanm ^^ to ^ been he
, . c ^ urea / wlrnld assuredly have been hangeo . a ** spy The Erench executed speedy justwe theother day oa a spy , whom they found disguised as a Tartar Sbj ? e w £% n their lines , aad shoUixm ^ Bfft Sey had found out all ^ ^ . ^ Sbefore theBe Russians are very ruses . | he sentmei Deioxe the house of the Provost-Marshal in BajaMa ^ a ros astonished to see a horse , with a sack . of corn pn its mmmm had recovered his speech— Times Carrespondent .
TtaRbvMl WHEm ^ -We deeply regret to I announce the death of the Bev . John Wheble , one of S ^ Zman Catholic ch aplains to the > army irlueh ^ s ^^ s ^ st ^^^^ ^ ^ oWehhr ffood and amiable disposition and we doX&Slose of his own faithwho loved hm , for his devotion to it were mot equalled by liis menus of other SrsuasionB , who admired him fox his genial , frank andTolerant mind . With the army he was 5 &Sfflttffi 5 «? ftS 5 B
r « mmerev eryman mou « s him as a friend Mr . WhebTe wa 7 a young mar , well off as regards the SoStfSs world , ! nd when , last sp rig ^ volunteered to leave his quiet curacy at Chelsea to ? encounter the hardships and dangers of tl e war , ho ass « sa ^
Hunter Blair , of the Scots ttuailior Guards , M . J .. lor ^ IUtssian Bahhmuty xn BA-m . B ^ -In the battle of theX aBuasiaa major w » . discovered by n . Bwnoh I officer who understood the lftn . S ttll « VoVronch and ordorinff his men to cuD to pieces the French ana iSSf wounded in tlio action . Our own poor SisearJ ^ saSS ^ SSSS
Constan tinopk Correspondent . ft ^ Siri ^ ^ or rather Jj HjJj mod * of carrying it on , that . Iohwvoh Uh « vt ^ ° » l every Englishman , as Moll uh Mh «* -Ocratio . Agnm and a ain , Bnuntea oQloore , « s well aa men , &k ^
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THE HTJSSIAN ARMY . The Morning Chronicle , in an article full of
informa-! irattlSed i ^ a certain prop ^ n r but ^ ve sh ^ con--aw- thft resources of the Government -wlnoli it serve 3 . Se fllreTSate , in Bet , accordi . « t o the m . mm-Sious inconsisttnev to «
K ^ STSS S ^ g TK ^ TSSfSSSf £ ??? S . « s-SS sf ^ - ^ . rs ^ sp « s ^^ s ^ teon ^ HH ^ l ISSSiSSSS&ag di of reserv is
rose ^ ba Aliens . The stribution ^ e SSISEH ^ s ^ rsi ^ r ^ 'ss ^ s ^
f ^ KSTS ^ I ^^ SfiSE bablo that , tor many weeks to come , ho will be able , to ¦ replace tho Iobbob which ho then sustained Ve do not doubt that every effort will be made to ™ tog £% *" beflicffors ; and , for that purpose , tho Russian troops SI tho ' southern frontier of the empire arc ***« & £ llTiallv shifted , eastward—tliu * drawing nearer to tho sconoVaotualwar , while , at the « n » . U ^ tonufcing tlie army which has excited tho uneasiness of Austria .
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THE ALLIED FORCES IN THE PACIFIC . Wb have boon hearing , for along time , of Russian incn-of . vmr" dodging" British antl launch mon-ofwar in tho Paoiflc-, and have thus hcon somewhat prepared for what has now occurred . Tlw French and English vessels had joined com-I pony in the cruise . On tho 28 th of August the ecmadron arrived before 1 ' otropaulo vski Petropau const of Knmschatko
lovski ie situated on tho eastern , near its southern extremity , in latitude 5 » north , ana longitude 159 oast , from Greenwich . It is a fortified town of flomo 25 QO inhabitants , aud is 0110 of those ( vdvanccd posts which , for tho last half century , it has been tho policy of RusBia to establish on tho iron-I tier of hor dominions , In time of peace for the convc Lionoo of her commerce , and in time of war as places from which operations by soa might bo ewpportcO . I The admirals dcciUod on an attack . On the 29 tu
the Russian batteries opened on them . Behind tlie batteries were three Russian men-of-war . There was an interchange of bombarding during the whole day Nex t day the fight was resumed , and in the middle offthat day the English admiral ( Price ) was killed by a shot from his own pistol , which , said the sailors , went off accidentally . The French admiral then took the command . On the third day a . land attack was made , and a battery was taken , but the Slants had to re-embark . Next day a second tand Stackwas decided on in a council of warj and 700 men were landed on the 4 th of September : —
" Every man was to receive 60 cartridges , and an additional supply of ammunition was to be placed m sloops . Stain de la Graiuliere for the French , and Captam Burridge for the Eng lish , were to be in command of the froTOS on land . The day was passed in making prepa-3 ns On Monday , the 4 th of September at three Sock in the morning , the drums called all hands to ouarters , and the troops for the landi ^ ere tak en on hoar d ? he vlra-o , which lauded them on the low portion of
th troops took up the march , the English Marines in the lead On arriving at the battery , the guns were spiked The troops , leaving the T > attery mounted the hill S ' a quick step , and entered into a thick brushwood . Se the ? "vere received by a lively fire of ^ ketry . to which they replied in the midst of the brush . . The Virago , leaving the troops , went to the point attiw rmrth from which a constant fire iras kept up . Here , onlbS nea ? the town , a battery of five guns was unmasked and then silenced by the Tirago , j U ™ In the meantime the fight in the ^ brushwood was very severe The sailors fought like madmen , under the destmctivefireofthe Hussians . Captain C . A Parker fell , KffiSte Wof the English Marines , M . Baurasset fell atnis side . Lieutenant Lefebrc , of the Eurydice was SS& £ Howard aide-de- ^ p of the Engl ^
ad-* , , SS ^ SSs from the . vrood i-. of which the size was mliown wouldVve required a Siege . The troops re-SedSowly . One company of 100 men , hidden among SSSTS the battery , gave the advancng ^ ussians a under this protection the lish and French
check a ^ d Eng . SrVfe ' d off their WOunLd . _ On board the Forte the car-T . enters were busy in repairing damages . On the ; next ? ay Se 5 th , those killed in the assaultwere buried « fc Scnski On the 6 th the squadron made ready to de-S and on the 7 th departed . During the day two ? es e £ were seen , one a three-master , the other a Sooner . The Virago took the schooner , and the President took the Sitka , a vessel of 800 tons , from Ayan , In Okhotsk Sea , with provisions and arms for Petrottaidovski . The cargo of the Sitka was valued at ? 00 So dollars . The schooner « burnt oh the high
There are various accounts as PetrowuIovBkL It is said there were eight batteries mou itiug 80 guns , besides the two men-of-war , Scl ? d " good service as batteries ; in all 144 guna Th ? population ifl reckoned at 2 O 0 O sinoo the , l « tto s ^ s S ^ aSs iH JtfeSiiiH . « ™ Si » SiSvveS ' tho Prildont , 50 , the Pique 40 and Jim Vlroeo 6 wirry together 208 guns , which , added J ^ wSSd , nmkc an aggregate of aiOgnns on tho coneiaorau
to the toeat ^' During the whole course of the expedition the most thorough good feeling prevailed between tho French and EnS On land and sea , in the harbour of Honolulu and under the fire of Petropaulovski , the officers and SorTof the two nations have learnt , by continual intercourse to love and esteem each , other . The two nations , rivals Ux other times , now friends , obey the same thought , nnfl mbc their blood upon the field of battlo . In the Pot Seas oflsia and I the shores of Bomaraund they , h& fTtiS ^ onrTttp ^ of tho earth . " _ ,, „ .
i , i , of 110 Aiiios . The English loss was . c . It is well umlorstood that the allied floot would j . avVdcniiiahed Petropavlovski bad it not been for n lack of provisions . IJy some oversight there was « o storoship attached to tlio fleet , and tho sq uadrons wo « obfiged , by the shortness of their provision * STto a port whore they could replenish tbo » atom otherwise the bombardment would have been continued until tho place wus reduced to ashos .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 25, 1854, page 1110, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2066/page/6/
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