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      WAI ! MISCKI . LANKA . Tni ! Oi . i > KatImn ( SitiuvAM'i : i . s worse than over . Kscopt on the I ' i'vii'tf day , tho Uritish surgoons have had no moiit Cur three weeks , and of ion no broad . Tho

      supplies in the bazaar have either ceased or are so totally inadequate to the demand that only the first comers can be served ; and the surgeons have been indebted for their meals either to the kindness of transport captains , the hospitality of naval officers , or to chances of various kinds . A few days since , I met one of the dressers carrying home a small piece of boiled ham , which he was going to eat for his dinner , and which be had bought of a Frenchman for five francs—just onehalf of his net daily pay . The inspector , Dr . Fuller , has gone to England , avowedly to endeavour to obtain the recal of the staff , and there are some floating rumours of his success ; but it is feared by most of the officers here that interested misrepresentation of various kinds will deter the Government from this just and necessary step . — Times JEupatorian Correspondent . Thb New Danger dj the North . — Foiled in the South , Russia would seem to be turning her attention to the Baltic for the site of some new fortress and naval depot from which she may awe the world . " Every improvement of modern science , " says a letter from Stockholm , " is being applied to the Russian navy , under the unceasing superintendence of the Grand Duke Constantine , who long since proposed , and is now actually fitting up , the larger ships with screw propellers . We know that Cronstadt cannot be taken by land , and after seeing what the Allied fleets have been able to achieve in . two campaigns we are inclined to believe it -would be equally difficult to carry it by sea . Two-thirds of the Baltic shores are undeT Russian dominion , besides the Aland Archipelago , which extends to within three geographical miles of the Swedish coast , about three days' march from Stockholm , which is quite open on the land side . Near the coast of Norway , the Russians have long coveted the bay of Varangen , which never freezes , and which , besides its valuable fisheries , has the inestimable advantage of being within one hundred and fifty miles of Scotland . What has failed in the east will most assuredly be attempted in the Scandinavian peninsula , and there Russia will ineet with greater advantages and less difficulties . It is , however , to be hoped that those who govern Europe will not overlook the quarter where the storm Ls gathering , and that energetic measures , taken in time , will prevent a recurrence of the danger , which has been averted in the south by so much bloodshed and such lavish expenditure . " A New Carbixe . —M . Prelaz , a gunsmith of Lausanne , has invented a carbine which will hit at the distance of 4050 feet . Kussia is in treaty for the right of using this invention , and it seems probable she will obtain it . Feench Workmen for the Crimea . —The Moniteur denies the statement that workmen of different trades have been engaged to go to the Crimea . Heligoland . —Huts for the British Foreign Legion at Heligoland , and for the English troops who are to form the garrisou of the island , have just been completed . They can lodge five thousand men , and comprise beds , kitchen utensils , &c . An apparatus has been titted Hp for converting the sea water into fresh water , there being a want of that commodity on the island . Tiik English Foreign Legion xs America . —In the Philadelphia District Court , Charles Herk has been pronounced " Not Guilty , " and E . H . Pekin has been found " Guilty , " of enlisting recruits for the English service ; sentence was deferred . The summing up of the judge was decidedly anti-English . Sitka . —The Aniphitrite has been visiting the river Amoor and Sitku . At the latter place she burnt a Russian steamer , but spared the town . A New Russian Levy . —An Imperial ukase orders the embodiment of the militia in the provinces of Orenburg and Samara . The levy is to commence on the 15 th of next mouth and terminate on the 15 th of December . The proportion id to be 23 in every 1000 souls . The Arrangements at Sebastopol . — The joint commission appointed to report on tho booty found in Sabastopol , and to determine its mode of distribution , ho * completed itd labours . The report was signed by Omj commissioners on the lat ult . & 8 tM > cannon of largw and small calibre , l > steam-eugines , 18 , 000 or 19 , 000 ballsy , bomb-shells , anchors , chains , rigging of all kinds , &c , have been found . The commission has decided that all the booty shall be divided between France and England : but it hoa been agreed at the saino time that , after having valued the different articles according to their weight , the distribution shall take place in . proportion to the number of men in each army ; and that if , on this calculation , England should have a right to only one-fourth of the whole , she should restore to France he value of the additional amount slio may have received , at tho rate of ten centimes per kilogramme , the pri « o of old iron . There is no mention of the Turks in he report . As to tho Sardinians , il id unneoesnary to say that , being included in the Euglish army , they J »« ve a claim to a portion of tho amount assigned t » tho latter . The following arrangements havo been nmdo with regard to tho town :-Tu « t portion of the < ' « , V ^ "'" ^ Uhin tho Quarantine , F ., rt -V U-lu . 1--, »>« * S £ SZ > Harbour , and tho Ma ^ ta ,. ^^ OTnW ^ ; x ^ : ^^^ bttstot'of .

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      tch for Taman with ten gunboats , a despatch-boat , a steamer . On arriving off Pbanagona , he threw e shells into the redoubt , and proceeded to disembark ; bout ft mile from the fort . During this interval , the Isiaua abandoned the place , and the Allies took posion of it , in the presence of a force of cavalry from to 800 strong , which retired immediately a few Is were thrown among them . On the following day , our troops were employed m roying all the houses in Phanagoria that could have i converted into shelter for troops at Cape St . Paul . y-six : cannon and four mortars were found in the ; at Taman , there were eleven 24-pounders buried le sand . By the 2 nd of October , the destruction of lan and Phunagoria was complete . The expedition about to return to Kertch Commandant Bonet uly eulogises the active co-operation of Captain I , with three gunboats . " umours of peace negotiations have been rife Borne time past ; but they have no foundation . Prussian Correspondcnz contradicts the report Prussia is attempting to mediate between Kusiiul ttio Allied Powers ; and adds , that , on soundthe Allies , Prussia found them so disinclined to Hiateat this moment that she made no proposals . THE CAVALRY ACTION NEAR ECPATORIA . arshaJ Pelissier gives the following account of tliis ant affair : — \* had been agreed upon between Ahmet Musliir ia and General d'Allonville , three columns left Euria on the 2 i > th , at three ' o ' clock in the morning , to : h against the enemy . The tirst column , directed le south-east , went to take up a'positiou at the exity of the isthmus , towards Saki . It had only a squadrons before it , and these it easily kept in check , : ed as it was by two gunboats . The second , coinled by the Mushir in person , passing through Orar in and Teiech , advanced on l > jollchak , destroying s march all the enemy's store * . The third , at the of which was General d'Allonville , consisted of e squadrons of his division , of Annand ' s battery c artillery ) , with two hundred irregular horse six Egyptian battalions . This column crossed of the arms of Lake Sa ^ ik , and marched j gh Cuiban on Djollchak , the joint rendezvous , j i the two other columns arrived at about ten j k in the forenoon . _ The two latter columns had j a before them some Russian squadrons , which had | back successively on their reserves . General mville was having the horses baited , when he obi a movement on the part of the enemy ; the latter , eighteen squadrons , several sotnias of Cossacks , anil , artillerv , was endeavouring to turn thre General ' s i by advancing between him and the lake . General j mville , whom the Mushir caused to he supported i rear l > y two regiments of Turkish cavalry and tlic ! uyptiaii battalions , immediately proceeded towards i id of the lake , in order to surround tho enemy . Tho » titude of this movement enabled the 4 th Hussars , i in the first line by General Walsin Ksterha / . y , to u the enemy with drawn sabres , while General pe ron , with the 6 th and 7 th Dragoons , in lecond and third lines , dashed at tho Russian is , ami drove them into headlong Hight , harasshem for more than two leagues . As the r kept his ground at no one point , and vaa in all directions , General d'Allonvillo caused his rons to halt , picking up , before retiring , all that led on the field of brittle . This day obtained for pieces of ordnance ( three of them being guns and 10 withers ) , twelve chests , and one lield forge , with earns ; lull prisoners , of whom one is an officer , mint 1 ' rocopwiteh , of the 18 th Thlans ; and 260 This enemy left on the ground about lifty nmonj , ' whom was recognised Colonel Andreouski , . Itsth l . 'hliiii . s , of General Korff ' s division , who uudeil against us on that day , and who was consi- in tin ? Russian army to be an oiheor of groat Our losses arc , in comparison , extremely trilling , i , it nix killed and twenty-nine wounded . Messrs . i » , A . LXC . to General \ Val . iin , and Do Sibcrt de | lion , ordnance oilicer to tho same general , are f tho lnt tor . " tschakoff attributes the defeat to Lioutenant-1 du K-urff having , in the couisu of fulling Ixu ' k ragourt , halted , caused his men to dismount in to riling tho guns from tho foro-oarriagos . and tcil to dispose his ndvauoo troops in convenient and at "Tho requisite distance from his position . stilt of thin was ( lint tho Kroueh cavalry appeared i right flank and roar of Kuril " * detachment , anil d the fate of tho day . movi '' . mi ; nts in tut . \ iumia . ieral Simpson , writing to Lord I ' anuuireoii October iya : — ineo I last , had the honour of addressing you , 1 seen LliMitoiiuut-GfiitTal Vivian , ami 1 am happy » nn yo « r lordship that ho c | iiito approves of the in 1 Irnd form «? d of . unit ing the Contingent at Kortch . low thouMturi men have already arrived there , and ' exertion is being made to ensure thoin their mi [>» f foo d and fuel for the winter . ho corpH of General di > ISnlles have , during tho past pushed forward their advanced posts to tho hitfh i on tho left bank of tho Hclhok , overlooking I'Vti

      , - » i i I f I > i i i " ' * t t I Sala . Their supports occupy a ridge from thi » place , stretching towards the south to Marfcnl . The main position of the army is on high , bold ground , extending from Aitodar to Markul , with the reserves posted between the village of Urkusta and the Bridge of Tinli . The corps is further to be reinforced , with the view next week of making a strong reconnaissance of the ground from Foti Sala towards Wyenbasb , on the left bank of the' Katcha . " I have omitted to report that Lieutenant-General Markham has been compelled by illness to return to ; England for a few months . He sailed on the 29 th ultimo . " AN KNGLISH riUSONKB IN RUSSIA . An officer of the Light Division writes as follows from I the Crimea , under date of September 26 : — " Captain James Duff , of the 23 rd Regiment , who was taken prisoner on the 5 th of November , 1854 , the day of the battle of Inkerman , arrived here a few days ago , having been exchanged at Odessa . He was taken prisoner while on picket in the White House ravine , ! leading to Careening Bay . He attributes the fault of his capture to a party of men of the — division on his right , who fell back without passing on tie alarm . Duff and his picket were fighting in front , and had nearly expended their ammunition , when , to their surprise , they suddenly found some of the enemy on their flunk . The men perceived that they were being . surrounded , and attempted to fall back . As they did so , one man who kept close to Duff was knocked over by his side . He then tried to make for a path leading up the hill , and had ¦ proceeded a few yards when he met some Russians in j front , directly opposing his further progress . They had I got round them . Eight or nine men then closed upon j Duff " , and , as he still struggled to escape , one man gave him a tap on the head with the butt of his musket , j which slightly stunned him . The Russians then carried i him off in triumph ; they would not let him walk . He 1 soon recovered from the blow on his head , and while i going along was fully aroused by a volley of Minie" rifle ! balls which came -whistling among his escort . Two or j three of them were wounded , and the remainder then ! allowed him to walk with them to the rear . Some of i the men spat upon him , and he thought they would have shot or bayoneted him had it not been for the protection of the soldier -who particularly regarded him as his own especial property . It appears that every Russian soldier who captures an officer , and can produce him alive , gets the order of St . George . During the first part of Captain Duff ' s imprisonment , he was treated badly enough . His uniform was taken from him , and he was supplied with clothes of a very coarse description . He was marched through the country with a gang of convicts—felons of the worst descriptionwho were being removed for transportation to the penal settlements of Siberia . With these men , and with two ; soldiers of the guard , one on each side of him , he slept i at night and had his meals , and they were taught to re- ; gnrd him , and called him , their ' camarade . " As they parsed through some villages , the bigoted peasantry pelted them with stones . There was no opportunity offered for ablution , and the state of dirt and neglect into which they fell became most repulsive . The condition of the prisoners , however , could hardly be expected to attract attention , for it would seem the officer who commanded tho guard over the prisoners of war and the convicts , though unfettered by restrictions , ex- , hibited as little anxiety about the surface of his own person as he did about those of the men he was guarding . When the insect visitors who honoured him with their presence became too numerous and too importunnto , his .--ervant was desired to remove a portion of them , and tho occasions for this interference were rather frequent . Onoo during the long inarch , this officer was seen to have applied soap and water to his person , but only once during tho route of seven hundred miles to Moscow . At la * t , Moscow was reached ; anil here not only the sconci > vas changed , but tho condition of tho British ' prisoner ? " . A house was given up to them , and they > received frequent civilities and attention froin the better 1 classes of society in this city . They were invited tojVtes ' and parties , and in certain circles , more especially ' among tho ladies , were made especial objects of com- ' passion , and became tho lions of tho day . No difficulty i was experienced in getting bills on certain London ' houses cashed , and a premium was given on tho ex .- t change . They found also at Moscow a clergyman of the « Church of England . At . Odessa , they experienced the t . same Kind of civility as at Moscow ; but tin . ' social par- 1 ties and entertainments were wanting . The new a of the * battle of tho Tehcruuyu , and its twrmination had reached < tin * latter place before Captain Dull' left , and . tho at- 1 tempt again *! tho Allied portion was admitted on all ' side * to have luvn tlclVatcd . Tho failure produced go- ] noral ami markrd depression ot' s-pirit * . fcJlrmjgo to nay , ' die Ku .-.-i . iii . pivtend not i >> regard Ahua . and lnkerinaii : ii .- , defeat .-- ; they .-ay that their General ordered the j troop * to retire from motives of policy , but wore- not diivou hack . The hat lie of tin- Tohornuyn , uoeording to i thoin , >\ a .- < our lir .-l real vielorv .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 20, 1855, page 999, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2111/page/3/