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      T H E W A R. Expectation Is Still The Do...

      SaSablHf ^ S vi . ib ? e that the mild wither was drawing to a close . __ It would seem that the Russians are making a desperate effort to repair their navy , as we hear from Odessa that they have lately launched several vessels which had'been on the stocks at NicolaiefF . Detailed accounts of the battle of the Tchernaya , from a rariety of sources , have come to hand . The substance of these will be found in our leading

      commas . DESPATCH FROM GENERAL SIMPSON . The English Commander-in-Chief , writing on August 14 two days before the Russian attack on the Tchemaya , says : — / " During the last few days , considerable activity has been exhibited in the movements of the enemy , both in the town and on the north side ; and , from the information we have received from the country , as well as the -ixamination of deserters , I have reason to believe that u the-Russians may attempt to force us to raise the siege \ hy a vigorous attack from without . Every precaution % rtaken on the part of the Allies , and the ground

      occupied by the Sardinians above the village of Tehorgoun and in its front has been made very strong through the energy and skill of General Delia Marmora , who is unceasing in his precautions , and shows the utmost disposition to co-operate in the most . agreeable manner with the Allies The firing on our side has been directed in a great measure against the large barracks , dockyard buildings , and the town , all of which show visible signs of the admirable practice of the Royal Artillery . .... Draughts for the Light Division and 71 st Regiment , to the number of 800 men , the remainder of the Carbineers , and one squadron of the 1 st Dragoon Guards , have arrived . "

      The death , from a fragment of shell , of Brevet-Major Hugh Drummond , Scots Fusilier Guards , is mentioned with deep regret .

      LETTER OF THE FRENCH EMPEROR TO GENERAL PELISSIER . The following has appeared in the Moniteur : — " General , —The fresh victory gained at the Tchernaya proves , for the third time since the commencement of the war , the superiority of the Allied armies over the enemy in the open field ; but , if it does honour to the courage of the troops , it evidences no less the good arrangements you had made . Address my congratulations to the army , and receive them also yourself . Tell your brave soldiers , who for more than a year have endured unheard-of fatigues , that the term of their trials is not far distant . Sebastopol , I hope , will soon fall beneath their blows ; and , were the event delayed , still the Russian army ( I know it through information

      that appears positive ) would no longer be able , during the winter , to maintain the contest in the Crimea . This glory acquired in the East has moved your companions in arms here in France ; they all burn to have a part in your dangers . Accordingly , w ith the twofold object of responding to their noble desire , and of procuring some repose for those who have achieved so much , I have given orders to the Minister of War , that all the regiments remaining in France may proceed in due succession to relieve in the East others which will return . You know , General , how afflicted I have been at being detained away from that army , which has again added to the fame of our eagles ; but at this moment my regrets diminish , since you enable me to perceive the speedy and decisive success destined to crown so many heroic efforts . " Whereupon , General , I pray God to have you in his holy keeping . " Written at the Palace of St . Cloud , August 20 , 1855 . " NArOLEON . " THE BALTIC . A writer from the fleet says that on August 17 th they saw the first symptoms of a return homo . At 5 . 50 p . m ., the Basilisk took the four mortar vessels , Growler , Redbreast , Blazer , and Havoc , in tow , and left for England . " On the same day , tho Cuckoo , the Harier , the Tartar , and tho French steamer D'Assas , were cruising off Biornoborg , a place protected by several earthworks , and having about two thousand soldiers . Tho boats belonging to tho above-named ships went within a short distance of tho town , and had a short interview with tho burgomaster , who promised if they would sparo tho place , to deliver up tho shipping in tho port . They stipulated for a certain steamer of which they had notico , but tho existence of which was at first denied by the burgomaster . Afterwards , ho said it should bo sent to tho intruders , if tho boats' would go away . Thoy accordingly loft ; and , as thoy wcro pulling back to their ships , a distance of eighteen miles , tho steamer , of 180 tons , overtook thorn , and it was taken into tow and brought oafoly oft " .

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      War Miscellanea. Turn War In Ahia.—Throo...

      WAR MISCELLANEA . Turn War in Ahia . —Throo long articles liavo appeared in the Augsburg Gazette , which aro presumed to bo from tho pen of tho celebrated Oriental traveller , M . Boclonstttdt , and which relate to tho position of tho Turks in Anatoliu . Tho writor observes : —" Tho last movements of tho Russians in Asiatic Turkey aro of oxtromo importance , as woll in a political aa in ft

      strategic point of view . It seems as'if the Russians , by proceeding with such energy against Kars and Erzeroum , are resolved to alarm the Allies for the safety of the Turkish possessions in Asia . The Russians are now in possession of Molla Suleiman , Topra-Kaleh , and the table-land of Alischgert . From Molla Suleiman , Erzeroum , the capital of Anatolia , is directly threatened . " It will be seen from recent telegraphic despatches that the ' Russians have retired from Erzeroum . The Anglo-Italian Legion . — " When the Anglo-Italian Legion shall be disbanded ( says the Piemonte ) , a free passage will be granted to those who may wish to return to their country , or emigrate either to North America or the Cape of Good Hope , and they are

      besides to be allowed one year ' s pay . When the Legion shall have left Italy , the soldiers will be afforded every facility to forward their savings to their families or friends . The English Government is to give them on their landing in the Crimea an extra pay of sixty-five centimes per day . "—Colonel Ribffi , an Italian patriot who took part in the insurrections of the Romagna in 1843 and 1845 , and in the movement of the Calabrians in 1848 , and who has just left the prisons of Naples after an imprisonment of six years , has been named commander of a regiment in the Anglo-Italian Legion . Colonel Count Zambeccarri , of Bologna , who is the terror of the retrograde governments of Italy , has also arrived at Turin , to take service in the Legion .

      The Jasper Gunboat . —A letter from an English offic 3 r confirms the account already given by the Russians of the grounding , off Taganrog , of this vessel . Notwithstanding the merciless fire of the Russians , the crews contrived to carry off their large guns . " We might have mowed . down the same party , " says the writer of the letter , " houYs before we struck ; but we were ordered to spare them , because they were ' defenceless villagers . '" Nine Hundred Russian Prisoners arrived at Constantinople on the 20 th ult . The Investiture of the Bath in the Crimea . — A telegraphic despatch from General Simpson , dated August 27 th , says :- — " We have just concluded the ceremony of the Investiture of the Bath . Nothing could have gone off better . The naval and military commanders of the Allied forces assisted at the

      ceremony . Antiquities from Kertch . —A large quantity of articles from the Kertch museum have found their way into Southampton . They consist mainly of ^ ancient coins , pottery ware and glass , and metallic vessels . The pottery and vessels are specimens of vases , lamps , bottles , pitchers , tear vessels or lachrymatories , of Etruscan , Greek , Roman , and other ancient workmanship . The pottery is sometimes stained , glazed , and elaborately ornamented . Round the necks of some of the vases there are marks which may be either simply ornamental , written

      or may represent the letters of some extinct , language . The outside surface of some of the vessels is adorned with a tesselated pattern . One of the vessels is formed of a singular vitreous substance , which is transparent , and another of metal , which has been wrought by a hammer into a gourd-like shape . This latter vessel is very ancient . The most ancient of the vessels are of a very elegant form . The coins in the possession of Mr . Stebbing , who also owns the vases above mentioned , are believed to be of Egyptian , Assyrian , Greek , Roman , and Arabic origin . Many of them are very rudely manufactured , and exceedingly curious .

      The Last Of The Petes. The Brilliant Ser...

      THE LAST OF THE PETES . The brilliant series of fetes with which the Emperor Napoleon has welcomed the Queen of England to his dominions , has come to a conclusion , and Victoria is again in her own land . Taking up the brief summary in our last publication from the point at which we left off , we have now to record the entertainments of Friday week . In the morning , Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales accompanied the Emperor to tho Military School at Vincennes , and witnessed some ball and shell practice . Subsequently , the three , together with the Queen and tho Princess Royal , visited tho Palais do l'lndustrie , and then witnessed a grand review in the Champ do Mars , on which occasion , General Canrobert formed part of her Majesty ' s escort , and was loudly cheered .

      After tho review , tho Royal and Imperial party , notwithstanding tho doubts which had been expressed , visited tho tomb of tho great Napoleon at the Hospital of tho Invalidos . In tho midst of a thunderstorm , the Queen of England stood beside the mausoleum of him who was in himself a thunderstorm , not only to England , but to Europe . Saturday opened with a drive to St . Germaina , on which occasion the Queen visited tho tomb of James II . During tho morning , at St . Cloud , Prince Albert received tho English jurors and commissioners connected with tho French Exhibition , nnd conversed with them for some time . The most splendid of all the entertainments of tho week took placo in tho evening at Versailles , where a grand bull woun d up tho list of ffltcs with a gorgeous climax . We append from tho Times a brilliant sketch of the festivitios : — "A lovely autumn night has set in , and tho moon is shining pensively in a sky which is not altogether froo

      from clouds , and yet not overcast . As you approach the home of the sovereigns of France , wherein , in times gone by , so many wonderful persons have lived , and so many strange and great scenes have taken place , you find the long avenues lighted up , and the architectural outlines of the building itself indicated by lines of gas illumination Imagine the effect inside . The windows are all open , the night- comes in refreshingly , and you turn to look out upon the terrace , when , behold , you find its verge of ballustrade illuminated with coloured lamps which have converted it into an arcade of variegated splendour , in which three sets of arches with terminal crowns over them form the most conspicuous objects . The fountain basins in the

      foreground have undergone the same process of decoration , and their surfaces tremble under the murmuring flash of gas jets like lakes of molten silver or gold . Arab chiefs move about with the slow , solemn gait which they appear to have borrowed from their own camels , admiring the wonderful spectacle within the palace and outside . Suddenly , towards the south , a gun is heard ; the bands in the great mirrored ball-room play ' God save the Queen , ' and a movement among the crowd shows the fireworks have commenced . On the further verge of a fine sheet of water , with the shadows of the Park behind to bring out its effects , and the thunder of the cannon countenancing authoritatively the streams of soaring rockets , the pyrotechnic display takes place . A double bouquet , the first springing from a transparency of Windsor Castle , and the last , still more magnificent , from ships

      of war , brings the fireworks to a close , and causes the ball to open with everybody in a frenzy of admiration . Then the Emperor , wearing the ribbon of the Garter , takes the Queen into the circle prepared for her , and Prince Albert leads as his partner the Princess Mathilde , and Prince Napoleon the Princess Royal , and the Prince of Wales and Prince Adalbert of Bavaria join in the stately quadrille , which is danced while grave Ministers of State , like Lord Clarendon , and Count Walewski , and Lord Cowley , and soldiers like Canrobert , and Vaillant , and the Arab chiefs , already alluded to , some in white bournous , some in red , look solemnly , on at a spectacle such as few of those who witnessed it can ever hope to see repeated . It was midnight when the Emperor took her Majesty and the rest of the Court to a banquet , which was magnificently served in the Theatre of the Palace . "

      Rest and religious devotion on Sunday afforded a little relief from these overwhelming splendours . On Monday , the Royal visitors left their temporary home at St . Cloud before ten o ' clock , and at halfpast eleven proceeded to the terminus of the Strasbourg railway . The Imperial carriage was drawn by eight horses , each of which" had a running groom , leading him by a gilded bridle . ' A second carriage with six horses conveyed the Prince of Wales , Prince Napoleon , and two ladies . The suite followed in five other carriages ; the whole being preceded and followed by an escort of Guides , Cent Gardes , and Offlciers d'Ordonnance . A clangour of trumpets and drumsmingled with the Bhouting of the people ,

      , accompanied the cavalcade to the station . Soon after twelve o ' clock , £ he train departed , amidst enthusiastic cheers and the music of " God save the Queen . " At all the intermediate stations , large crowds were found assembled ; and at Amiens and Abbeville there were special military demonstrations . At five , the train reached Boulogne , where there was a review of the troops on the sands . The camps at Honvault and Ambleteuso were then visited ; and a farewell dinner was served at the Imperial Pavilion Hotel . The embarkation was effected at eleven o ' clock , amidot a salute from the fleet ( which is said to have been heard at Folkestone and Dover ) and a magnificent display of fireworks .

      The Reception At The Hotel Do Ville On T...

      The reception at the Hotel do Ville on Thursday week was briefly mentioned in these columns last Saturday ; but the details had not then been received , and wo therefore now add from tho Morning Post some particulars of the g-orgeous decorations which the civic hall presented . Tho outside was adorned with flags , shields of crimson velvet and gold , coloured lamps , and countless jets of gas . But the chief splendours were observable in the Court of Louis XIV . " This court , which was formerly exposed to tho inclemency of tho seasons , had been covered in , and was transformed into a hall of wondrous beauty . From tho

      centre of each open arcade below , six at each sido , was suspended a beautiful chandelier of crystal , bearing sixty wax lights . Between each marble pillar , a fountain of sparkling water played , fulling amongst Howora and shrubs , and escaping through hidden passages to a wide case of shrubs and flowers below , covering- tnem with its glittering dew , and preserving tlioir fTO 0 * noaB and beauty . Immense cawlolnbra stood At tho « ° ™«* each presenting a blase of light . In « do the . » rcndcj encircling tho hall , ran a corridor , tho walls be "S *} to the arch above with flowers and ^ ersrW attachca to a gilt trellis-work . Wide p « - «« J » ^ jj ^ £ j SSTJi Srway 5 Z ^ j ^* £ »

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 1, 1855, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01091855/page/3/