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THE WAR
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There is very little news . from - « Hke Crimea . The great storm of the 14 thiie # esErit » e < i elsewtere . A despatch from Balaklava , dated Sbv . 25 , says : — "The Russians made a sortie . -Hie English reputeed them , and took permanent possession of a 9-gan battery . The Allies have landed 146 ship-guns . " Another accountjwreases afae aehievemeTMts The Presse makes mention of the sortie xm tlie 25 th , and states , on tlie 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 French lines , but was routed with a loss of 230 men . The French lost 75 men , three of whom were officers .
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The Journal de Si . Fetersbourg of the 28 th ult . announces that Prince Menschikoff , 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 day , and the approaches of the enemy were entirely ^ suspended . The Russian loss - ' for several days had been onlyfour killed and fourteen wounded . The English had attempted to establish themselves near the head of the dockyard * but had been repulsed with loss . Prince Mensehikofly ¦ writing again on the 27 th . ult ., states ir—¦
" The Allies continue their bombardment of Sevastopol ^ but their fire is weak , arid 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 News of "Wednesday says : — " ITurthfer friendly advices from before Sebastopol , of the 22 nd , state that the defensive works of the English , between the right of their line of attack and Balaklava , was nearly , completed . An 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 Segirhents , to the number of 1200 men , landed at BalakUwa . French reinforcements-were also continually arriving . The firing from the batteries of the Allies was kept up . "
The Moniteur of Thursday contains tlie 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 state of the roads and trenches , will now assume a new vigour . " Our reinforcements continue to arrive , and I have just received the sixth regiment , of Dragoons , the sixth battalion of Chasseurs a pied , besides various detachments of different regiments .
" The enemy still shows no signs of activity , but continues to protect the town by repeated entrenchments . "
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THE PRINCIPALITIES . 3 IORAX COTJTRAGE OX OM \ U PACHA . A COHRB 8 PONDEN 1 of the Daily News , writing from Bucharest , says : — " An incident occurred at the opera hero which has excited considerable attention , and ia the talk of the town . Omar Faclia made his appearance in his box , accompanied by the -wife of Ids nephew , Tefwik Boy . The lady was completely unveiled , and sat thua listening to the music with the most perfect composure . This is , I believe ., the first instance on record in which tlte wife of a lytuBsulnvan lias displayed her features before men , and above all befoio Giaours , and is consequently a
tremendous innovation , of which I am very anxious to see the result . It displays groat courage on the part of Omar Pacha , but will , I am certain , when tho news reaches Constantinople , c ^ oci to tho fiercest ire amongst tho old Turks . Mussar Pacha ( Sir Stephen Lakomuh ) came into the box Boon after , and ontored into conversation 'with mudame ; and while this wub going on , Ismail Paclia ( not ho of Kalufat ) arrived , and took his ylace on . tho opposite aide of the hovmo . Glancing across , ho nuluted Omar Pacha , but on sooing tho lady , suddenly became deadly pale , remained motionless for two or tlireo minutes , and then rose up , saluted flgnin , loft the box , and returned no more . "
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Austrian rnon-m versus Austrian TiusATims . Wo quote tho following from a correspondent of tho Datly News at Bucharest , nB being tho opinions of an intelligent Englishman on tho Bpot : — " I will glance at a few of tho events -which hnvo occurred hero sinco tho month of August . On tho 1 st of September luufc Mnssar Pacha ( Sir Stephen I- * lcom « n
received the tonunm of 4000 of the Turkish cavalry and twelve ^ ans . He had orders to press on the rearguard of the enemy , and repair all the roads and bridges on the Hae of march towards the Pruth , Omar Paciia int ^ eSang to advance imaDedaately . Mussar JPaelia accordingly left Bucharest o » e or two days « fter , attacked and routed tShe Cossacks under Colonel Bontesqps at Beua&ii , and continued bas mareii . General Aaxpqp was at this time « £ Rumnick with the rear-guard and nine guns , and < j € » eral Liiden& was at Ibraila with &&W men , and also some artillery , . tout t&e number of grans is unknown . Mussar Pacha pushed on between them to Martineschi , when Aurep , fearing he might be sur-Tounded , retired precipitately into Moldavia . The
former than marched towards Ibraila , hoping to fall in with Laders' force wlen in the act of crossing the IPrntli , and when , being encumbered with sick , and baggage , and plunder , it would have . fallen an easy prey . He was -within iwenty-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 , who had formaDy 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 Mm 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 , bad 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 tit Constantinople would have disavowed , and consequently humiliated , him . After the arrival of Count Coronini , Omar Pacha made another attempt to go forward , and actually issued orders for the march of the whole army , with the vieiv . 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 following these orders were all countermanded , in consequence of another protest from Count Coronini , and of the intrigues here of the Russian spies and partisans , who fill 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 Dobrudseha . Prom Rustschuk to Toulteha or Matschin is for an army at least three weeks' inarch , through a country perfectly desolate , and in which . a man inhales pestilence at every breath ; and , on arriving in front of the enemy , it would have been necessary to construct abridge across the river under their fire . They in superior force , and the Turks without sappers or engineering staff , and the bridge at Kustschuk which has cost so much time and labour would have been rendered almost useless . This is -advice to give to an ally j here * is counsel from an enemy of Russia ! ....
" Another order fox tho march of all the Turkish troops was issued . Two battalions set out , but owing to tho dreadful state of the roads , were obliged to halt in a village sixteen miles distant , after Buffering three < lays of great hardship . A countor-order was accordingly issued , as the transport of artillery and bnggago was impossible . Ycsteiday Bairam Pacha ( General Cannon ) and his staff started for Ibraila , atul the snow began to fall to-day ; there is a hard frost , and , perhap s tho march of tho troops will be resumed , should the ground prove sufficiently hard . It is aaid that Omar Pacha will soon follow , and < Mtabliah his head-quarters at Ibraila . Coronini has not yet returned ; if ho arrives before the Turks have all gone , very likely he will protest . Tho movement haa , however , now lost most of its importance—it ia like locking the stable door after the steed has been stolon . Sevastopol by this timo ia either
lost or won Tho conjecture which I ventured to make in the concluding paragraph of my last letter has turned out to bo well founded . Coronini has again protested against tho advance of tho Turks , in a letter addressed to Omar Paclia , in which ho declares his willingness to tolerate ( tolorei ) their movements in an onward direction , as far m the Soreth , but no further , and between two lines drawn from Bucharest to Maximony on one side , and Bucharest tto Sevoriny on tho other , tho ( distance between those places being- three miles . So that , unpposing tlie Turiie bo imprudent enough to avnil themselves of \ m pormission , raid attempt an advance in tliia narrow flpaco , and that Coronini is determined to carry out hie intentions with a stronghand , tho Russians knowing tho fonnor can make no flank movement ; , havo only to concentrate « . strong forco botwoon those two points , and annihilate Omar Facha ' u army . "
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TIH 3 AtrSTWUN AM . 1 AN 0 I 3 . Tho Times of Thursday gives , officially , tho fi > llo-vving negatively explanatory account of the treaty ;—" Tho ratifications of tho treaty nignod « t Vienna , on Saturday last between Austria , Franco , i \ nu England will doubllcHH bo exchanged uh speedily as possible , and t ; hc treaty itttelf will then bo mudo known to tho world . In
JthemeanKtanaa variety of conjectures have beonhazarded an ifibis tajgportajit subject , some of which have been transnutteflrto us by our own correspondents abroad ; but we aaas-fiaiaafied that the real substance and purport of the tn « $ y bas not yet transpired . Whatever may be its provisions , we undertake to affirm , from our knowledge of ^ be policy of the allied Governments and of the intentions © P Austria , that it does not postpone fora . period < arf 44 aMee « nonths-tlie decision of a question of vital interest to the «© nduct oftthe war and to the future peace of Europe ; thsit it does nafftcontain any guarantee , either direct or indirect , of the possessions of Austria ; that it has never teen 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 thendemands 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 gTeat 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 our information be correct , although this convention is not an actual treaty of offensive and defensive alliance between Austria and the Western 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 coiild 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 the belligerent States against Russia , unless peace upon the terms exacted by all the Powers be concluded before the termvnationofihis current month qfDecembe ?*; 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 prolongthe contest . Such an act of surrender on the part of the Czar is at present highly improbable . "
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The following is from the Daily News : ¦ — " Bucharest , Wednesday . " 40 , 000 Turks and 100 guns will be embarked at Baltschik and at Varna next week , for the Crimea . " One regiment remains at Bucharest . " Danisk Bey replaces llussa Pacha as commandant of the town . " Mussa Pacha superintends tlie embarkation . " Omai' Pacha will leave in a few days . " The Morning Chronicle announces that the following are the essential dispositions of the 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 . " The three contracting parties engage themselves not to accept any proposition for peace without having deliberated in common . "
The Daily Ncw . i confidently announces further intelligence : — f Russia is to be called upon immediately to accept of a peace on tho basis of the four points , as interpreted in the Treaty . This interpretation includes the throwing open of the Black Sea to the fleets of tho Western Powers . Russia is not to be allowed to maintain more than six ships of wtir in that sea , and France and England arc each ( as wo understand it ) to bo allowed the sumo number . A European port ia to bo established either at Itatoun or Sinope , as a counterpoise to Sebastopol . As a guarantee
for tho aree navigation of the Danube , the fortress of Ismail , and nil tho IliiBsiiin forts noar th « mouth of tho river are to be destroyed . Each of tho Five Qrcnt Powers is to protect separately its own subjects in Turkey ; and tho protectorate of tho Christian subjects of the Torto is to bo exercised by them collectively . If those conditions nro not accepted by Itussia before the 1 st or 2 nd of January , tho Austrian Minister « t St . Potorxburg is to bo recalled ; and if Russia continue obstinate till the 2 nd of March , Austria will declare war , send 20 , 000 men to tho Crimea , and enter Bessarabia with tho rost of its diflposablo forces . "
A telegraphic despatch received last night from Berlin states tlmt tlio new Treaty botwoon Austria and tho Western Powers had been sent tlioro , and that ut a Council hold on tho Oth , by tho Xving and his Ministers , the adhesion of Prussia to the Treaty was determined on .
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INC I DENTS . IUititowB iron tub Crimea . —Mr . Sulton , ot Derby , has received orders lo make mi unlimited supply of " navvy-barrowa" fbr tho Crimea . They will bo ready for shipment on Tuesday next .
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1154 fHE LEADER . [ Saturday
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 9, 1854, page 1154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2068/page/2/
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