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      The War. The Degree Of Influence Which T...

      hawke »« We Boe & wel y ta ascertain , is , tfert Lipawdt * tssissassiifym &* - * — - mSfc say * *&»* ' ** l 0 Mea <* thet AOlie * ws * e a * folfow Vlrek *—» 7 kiBe # ; 27 Zw * mnde 6 i French *—Skilled ; 9 winded . Total combatwits —tOJL killed : } £ 86 ; woan < i « L Tartar populafcwait—13 hflled ? 11 wounded . Hereea of tire Taridab Army—79 killed ; L 8 wounded . "

      EUPATOBIA . Of the Russian force and plan of attack Omar Pacha says : — " As far as one could guess , and according to the information furnished by prisoners , the enemy mustered 36 battalions of infantry , 6 regiments of cavalryr 400 Coaaacks , 80 pieces , of artillery in position , and some troops of horse artillery , -which were in reserve . " The enemy continued his fixe , without ceasing , from the position held by his artillery , supported by a powerful fire of skirmishers , and then his infantry , carrying planks and ladders , three times tried to storm the works-Each time it was repulsed , and obliged to retire under our fite ,, but it was enabled to effect this retrograde movement under " cover of its . artillery , and of heavy masses of cavalrr . -

      '" Our cavalry , which at the present moment only musters about 200 or 300 horses , and which charged the Russian infantry at the commencement of its retreat , did not dare to pursue it in the face of sucft heavy

      masses . " This superiority in artillery and cavalry prevented our disturbing the Russians on their retreat . After four hours and * a half fighting , they commenced retiring in three different directions , towards the bridge of Lake Sasik , towards Top Mamai , and towards the Perekop roadl " During the engagement , tlie Turks were aided , "by the French , detachment , and by the English ships in . the hay . Omar Pacha makea honourable mention of these , and also of the energetic conduct of the Erench steamer "STefoce .. The Kussian loss , it is thought ,, must have amounted to 453 . The wounded were carried away , and ---only seven prisoners , were taken . Omar Pacha states " the Turkish loss in killed at only 87 . _

      The- ThiKa- correspondent at Eupatoria says- the action lasted about three hours , and adds the following-interesting particulars : — - _ ^ Among the Russian dead on the field were found the bodies of a woman , of the Greek Bishop of Eupatoria , and . of the commander of the Greco-Slave Legion , which was formed by the Russians last year out of the Greeks settled in . Mbldo-Wallachia , and out of the Bulgarians who followed ! t & e Russians after their retreat from Silistrfa . Another , woman was . likewise killed , but carried off . .

      " According to the latest , information , we have to do with Oaten Sacken ' a corps , under the immediate command of Liprandi . Prince Menschikoff himself was present at the battle , and , according to an on dit , hi the very carriage which was fired upon by the Turks from one of-their batteries ,- and narrowly escaped-being hit . Menschikoff is said to have returned . "

      PROFITS IN THE OIUWEA . A Maltese tailor , who for some months sold clotftes ani mended them , has shut up his shop in the High-street , Balaklaiva , and gone back to Valetta . Those who ought to- know say that he netted 2000 / . Abraham , a Jew , who a » a civil servant got wages to the Amount of 150 ? . a year , complained of the stinginess of his master , and struek for higher wages . Sent away , he opened a shop in November last . JHe too r has retired from business with something like 3000 L or 4000 / . A French , soilorv who- had at . ewe time been a baker , established about three months ago the first bakery in BuLaklava . He got possession of two ovens in one house ; , he hired gangs of French soldiers ) to bak & for him ,.

      and- to take thenrtuxns day and night . In London his loaves would sell for 2 d . or 3 d . In Balaklara they soldv and readily , as fast as tliey were sfaot outv for 2 a . Nowy . reckon the flour ( from Vaxm * to Constantinople ) ' as highi as * you will , and put a very high figure onv the price- of labouit , still a loaf which aloivdoaibaJcev care with profit sell for 3 d . cannot eoat the Biilaklavai bakes more than is . So there is . Is . profit on « adk foa £ , andi I am < credibly informed that above 1000 ) loaves * werebaked in twenty-fouB hours * Tlie week , iitcamp Ims aevon working days , and tho profits of a week amount . to 7000- shillings ; those of a-mouth to 30 , 000- shilliagn , or 15001 The bskev has driven , thia ^ trade aboutitfatwe months—profits , 45001 . —Boify Nemtt Correspondent .

      XmSFXtOSZ FROM TJ 1 K BLACK . SEA . Th * Xondon . Gazette of Friday ,. March 2 nd ., publishes a , despatalk from Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons , ( ram wfiich It appears that , from tho 1 st of February , last ,. " tho mouth of the river Dniester , the ports of Akermonu , Ovidiopol ,. Odessa , all tlie ports situated * between . Ochzakov Point ; and Kinbourn Point , including ; the ports of Nicolaiow and Kherson , the riv « cn , Boug , an ( l Dnieper ; also the ports between

      allied fleets of France and England . ports of Eupatoria , Strelzka , Kamiesch , Kazatch , and Balaklava were , and are , and will remain , open and free from all blockade until further notice ; and it is hereby further notified , that all measures authorised by the law of nations , and the respective treaties between her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French , and the different neutral Powers , will be adopted and executed with respect to all vessels which may attempt ta violate the said

      That the Kiabaam Point and- Gape Tjurkanf including the ports iJitibeGuI £ « f Pesefeop ^ th * perf of SebastopoL the ports comprised between Gape Ai m and : the Strait of KeBtea & i . i « ilttdiBS those a £ Yatta , Moasttba * Soui *<& , TCffir , or Tueorfaaiaf tho peefc o £ Kertachv tbe Strait of Ke »* sch > tlie entrance to and aU ; the ports in the Seaof Azoflv including especially the ports of ' . Berdiansk , Taganrog , and Arabat ; the river Bon ^ > . and also the ports of Anapa and Soudjak , were ! strictly blockaded by a competent force of the

      blockade . encounter of the trench with the Russians . Lord Raglan , in . his despatch to Lord Panmure , dated Feb . 24 , giv « s the following details of an encounter of the Frencln with the Russians : — " The troops of the ( Russian ) garrison having lodged themselves on the point of tbe spur of the ridge from Inkerman over the Careening Bay , at about 300 yards from the new French parallel , on the extreme right , General Canrobert determined to dislodge them ; and

      this was gallantly effected at 2 o ' clock this morning by 1500 men , under the immediate- command of General Monet , and the direction of General Mayran , with however , T regret to say , some loss , the consequence of the heavy fire which was brought to bear upon them from the enemy ' s batteries- and' the shipping , whilst they were engaged in demolishing the works . When this object was accomplished , they withdrew- to the trenches , as had been their intention . The gallant General Monet is , I am mucft concerned ta add , among the wounded .

      . THE WBATHJBIB IN" THE GKJBIEA . The latest accounts say that there has been some return of the severe weather , and that the Tartars hint-that there will even , yet be more frost and

      snow ; - the Arcsnr op ahatoixx . A letter from Erzeroum , published ii * the JPresse , complains of the miserable state of the army of Anatolia , which , but for the exertions of Colonel Williams , an- English officer ; would have been utterly desperate . Some of the regiments have received no pay for more than two years ; and this not for lack of money , but , as the writer affirms , from the proper funds having been intercepted by avaricious pachas . These- gentlemen have , of course , strongly opposed

      themselves to the colonel ; but he hns received the appointment of a general of brigade in the English army , and that of a general of division in the Turkish service . To him has been confided the difficult task of reorganising the Ottoman army ; and he will probably obtain ~ the . cammand . __ Baron ^^ SjcWartzenberg , a GieEmany has , been appointed inspector of tire cavalry ; the ocLeneL of avtiLEery is Calandrelli , an Italian , who distiagaadslied : himself by hi * defenca of Rome ; andi other posts aare occupied by other fczeignersw The advanced- posts of the Anatolian army are beyond Kars , in tlie direction of Gumri .

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      War Miscellanea. The Times Berlin Corres...

      WAR MISCELLANEA . The Times Berlin correspondent ,, writing on . March G , says : —" The deceased Empxiror Nicholas , had already recalled Prince Mensckikoff from the-Crimea , and given tlie chief command there to Prince Gortacliakofl ; and the second to General Oaten-SftcienJ' Other aacounta say that Qsteia-Sackenr was to have tlie chief comiuand . We also find in the Tunes Berlin' correspondence of March 6 ,. the following : despatch , of . Prince

      Menschikoff . *— " On the night between the 21 st and 22 nd of February we erected a redoubt on the left flank of the : fortifications of SebastopoL This , was dono-ao promptly and unexpectedly that we received no . annoyance from tlie enemy ( the Allias > On the night between the 2 . 4 tli and 25 th the enemy ( tlie AUies >) i attacked tlie redoubt with ? considerable tbrccs * Two regimental repulsed them . Tlio enemy lost 600 men . Tlia . mining' operations of the Alliios havo been suspended . Up to the 26 th of February nothing new had occurred at Eupatoria . "

      SwjKMBsa in tub Fkbncix Abmx . —Tho last accounts received at Marseilles from : Kamiesch state that cenaiderAble sickness still , prevails among- the Foench army before ScbostopoL I saw- a . letter yesterday from the captain of a . large steamer to his ownerd , in which ho states that 10 , 000 sick had been convoyed from the French camp to Constantinople during tho month of January laat , anil that he fears the number will be equally groat for tho montli of February . Tlie writer is an excellent authority , as his stoamor has been freighted by tho French Government ^ and employed during aomo months in tUo

      conveyance of troops- aadl stores—Times Marseilles Cortiesponderrt . Letters from Eupatoria , received at Constants , nopleoni ^ e t 8 & . alt ., state that © tear Pasfia was then at tlie head of 42 , 000 excellent troops . Tbb Fihe Bkeqadb fob the Cra ^ BA . The Edlna ( s . Si ) chartered by Government , i & Ibading iui tlie river ; off Horsteydown , for the Crimea . Slie will takeout the body of firemen , selected fromtlie London fire-brigade force , and- engines , for the protection of the hospitals at Scutari , The Raising of the Bx . ocka . de op the Danube is considered certain .

      Continental Notes. Latest Foreign News. ...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . LATEST FOREIGN NEWS . We learn from St . Petersburg that the decomposition of the body of the late Czar is so rapid as to render impossible any public lying ia state . Various rumours are ia circulation aa to the causes of his death . A deputation of Prussian military men will be present at the funeral obsequies at St . Petersburg . Vienna , Thursday March 8 . Yesterday afternoon the first preliminary conferences- took plaei ? . Prince Gortschakoff was not present .

      The Porte has received M . Barozzi , the envoy of the King of Greece . It is probable that a , Turkish . ambassador will ba accredited , to tlie Greek Govern' - ment . The Kurdish insurrection is almost suppressed . The Pacha , governor of the province , has restoreJ to their families seventeen Circassian children who . had fallen into slavery . The intelligence from Athens is to the- 2 nd of March . The English troops ia Greece were preparing to proceed to Malta to complete the forces destined for the Crimea . The editor of tlie journal . Esperance has been arrested by order of tlie Greek Government , -for- having published an insultingarticle concerning- tlie AHIed Powers .

      According to accounts from Asia , the Kurds , increased by th & junction of" several thousand Bashibazouks , had pillaged and set . fire to the town of Month . The courier of the French , Consul , at Erzeroum is said to have been massacred .

      The Times Paris Correspondent Says That ...

      The Times Paris correspondent says that tfie French Emperor ' s intended journey to the Crimea is- objected to by Austria out of a . fear that , should ! any catastrophe happen to-his Majesty , the position of Austria ; would be extremely critical . Im that case , either the Kepuij-Gcaa party , or Henri V ., wouldoomC ' into-power ; and it is feared-that the latter would form 1 an alliance with-Russia rather than ; with . Austria ^ and that the former would" be likely to revo 5 uti » nisetb « - Austrian- states * . - It is believed that remonstrances- of thisj nature have beenaddressed to the French ; Government , but with no efleet . Letters from the Crimea , it ia said * , state that the army ardently longs for the presence of the Emperor-It is thought he- will not start till the end of the present month , if , indeed , tlie death of the Gzac should not altogether change his intention .

      Speaking of tho Boulogne confeiencej between iho French Emperor and Lord , Clarendon , the Doily Nms > Paris correspondent says" The room at Boulogne in which the conference was held , was not , it appears , protected by those close shutting double doors which , giuurd the aecrets of tha Council Chamber in the Tuilories . A pact of the discussion waa ao animated as to excite , and . partly to gratify tho curiosity of persona in tho . ante-roem . No entire sentonces were indeed heard , but some stray words , pronounced in a tone of considerable excitement , reached ears for which they were not intcndeil ,. and conveyed the impression that Lord Clarendon waa remonstrating unsuccessfully against th * Emporor / a proposed voyage to the- Crimea . " 1

      Fxcnu Spain we hear that tho Cortes have voted , by . a majority of 200 against 52 , the baaiaof tho new constitution . Tho JUapcnia says that the Carliats havo resolved to abandon their projected insurrection , in consequence of tho opposition of tho French authorities ; and it adda that the French ambassador had informed tho Minister of Foreign Affairs that thoso authorities had received orders to remove' from the frontier any suhpioioua parsons who muy be uidiaated . to thorn by tha gpaniah Government . General Heal , whose arroat has been , announced , haa been set at liberty . He protests tluUi thor © wa * tbu slightest rouaonabla pretext fax taking him into custody .. The Greek ambatwador , M . Skinga > h »» lately had . several intcrviowu with Count Buol ^ in . oonjunotioii wftJt the Turkish envoy , Arif Effondi , which , inaotin ^ at » said to have romovodr . in a great meaemce » , tha oxiatiug dmicultiea boUvoon Groucoaiul tha I ? ojcto .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), March 10, 1855, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10031855/page/6/