The Press. — London, England, 1854-07-29 00:00:00

JULY 29, 1.854 had been caused in consequence. In the Punjaub the electric wires have been carried across the Sutlej and the Beeas, and it is expected that in a very short time they will be extended to Lahore. Business at Calcutta was limited. The crop of indigo was expected to prove most s ati sfactor y . At Bombay trade was very dull. Large waterworks were being erected at Vehar for the supply of Bombay. Reports from Afghanistan and the countries ad joining affirm that the Russian and Persian agents have been carrying on intrigues in Central Asia, but with what success does not yet appear. The steamer Douro, with the China mail of the 22nd of May, was lost on the 26th of May on the Paracels. Mails, p a ssengers, and cargo were saved, an d were forwarded to England by this mail. The news from China calls for no particular notice. The war continues between the Imperialists and the insurgents ; but with little advantage to either side. Commercial affairs are gloomy. The riots at Singapore, which are attended with the murder of several Chinese and Malays, have entirely ceased for the present, but danger of their renewal was still apprehended Corps of volunteers have accordingly been formed at Hong-Kong. Two Russian frigates are reported to have been seen in the Chinese seas, and English vessels-of war were in pursuit of them. AUSTRALIA. The accounts from Australia are much of the same character as those previously received. In some places the yield of gold was steadily improving, while others were all but deserted. Upon the whole the prospects of the gold-diggers were most cheering. The produce of the Sydney gold-fields remains steadily at 3,000 ounces per week. UNITED STATES. The Royal Mail steam-ship Europa has brought advioes from New York to the 12th iust. A Catholic church at Bath, Maine, has been burnt by a mob. Several more failures of stockbrokers have oc curred, and the New York market was still agitated by the recent gigantic fraud.:. Railroad stocks were down, and in bad odour. Good commercial pape r could not be discounted under 12 per cent. for short dates. _ _ . CANADA. The Old Countryman, a Toronto paper, says, " A new feature in Canadian politics is likely to be in troduced. Viscount Bury, eldest son of the Earl of Albemarle, is anxious to represent s Canadian con • stituency. We are glad of it. There is the grossest ignorance of the wants and advantages of Canada in the British Houses of Parliament." CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The Euphemis, from Bombay and the Cape, ar rived off Plymouth on Wednesday. She sailed from Table Bay on May 23. It was supposed in the colony that Sir George Clerk would be the governor. The post was offered to him, and he refused, but it was believed that he had subsequently accepted it. He had arrived at Cape Town from Graham's Town after leaving the sovereignty. The elections were concluded under the new con stitution, and the results altogether had been satis factory to the Government. The house was to meet in the course of the present month (July) for its first sitting. Some small nuggets of gold had been found on the frontier near Graham's Town ; but there was nothing positive known as to there being large de posits of gold. Government has offered 1,000/. reward for further discoveries. The copper-mines are said to be prosperous, and shares were selling at considerable premiums. 'sI:VERAI. new men-of-war have been ordered to be built at Pembroke, and will soon be laid down. The proposed ships are the Revenge, 00 guns, screw, 000- horse power ; Alert, 10 guns, screw-sloop, 100-horse power ; Pelican, 16 guns, screw-sloop, 100-horse power ; Cordelia, 8 guns, screw-sloop, 60-horse power. Four line or battle ships, four first- class heavy frigates, and four sloops are also now building or ordered tt be built at Pembroke. Of these, two line-of-battle ships, ene frigate, and the four sloops are to be fitted with the screw-propeller. A PARLIAMENTARY RETI'MN has been issued of the Government loans grante 1 from time to time toWest India proprietors, distinguishing the respective estates on which the advances were made. Most of these loans took place between 1883 and 1836, and it ap pears that the total amounts were, to Jamaica 4 14,1061.,' to THE PRESS. THE WAR. THE ARMIES. The combined force remains at Varna or the en campments in its neighbourhood. Frequent move ments take place for small distances, but intended merely, it would appear, to practise the men in the various evolutions attendant upon a lia-ty departure. Rumours are incessant and most discordant as to the spot where the troops are actually to meet the enemy, but nothing is yet known, and the forces, officers and men, alike languish under a tedium of delay and im patience. Lord Cardigan has returned from his reconnaissance upon the Danube. His party went through many fatigues, bivouacking without tents for seventeen nights and losing seventy horses. The results of their ex • Floring tour are not known. Omer Pacha has moved his head-quarters to Rutschuk, where the bulk of the allied forces would effect a junction, if so it pleased the commanders. The general impression in the camp, as iu England, seems to be that everything waits for the Austrian demonstration. The great query is—How long ? Prince Napoleon is stated to have proceeded to Giurgevo, where he met Omer Pacha. Advices from Constantinople of the 17th state that some deaths from cholera had occurred in the fleet and among the French troops. A letter from Constantinople states that eighty siege-pieces from England had been landed at Varna. The allied forces concentrated on that point are esti mated at 00,000 French, 30,000 English, and 10,000 Turks. 705 wich to the Baltic ' for Rear-Admiral Chads. This gun will command a tango of no less than 7,600 yards, or something over four miles and a quarter. By virtue of an order by Admitala Napur and Parsival Deschenes, neutral vessels are authorised to come out of blockaded ports. THE WAR ON THE DANUBE. On the 16th there was a warm affair between the advanced posts beyond Giurgevo, in which General Buturlin and the Hetman of the Cossacks were wounded. in this affair the Turkish loss is reported at 2,000, while the Russians suffered far more se verely, hating 5,000 killed. Messrs. Arnold and Meynell, officers of the East India Company's ss.r. vice, and a third Englishman, of the name of Blake, who had volunteered their Fervices to the Ottomans on this occasion, and distinguished themselves for their daring and bravery, are among the slain; the body of one only had been found. A Russian camp of 50,000 men is to be formed at Urziiseni. The Turkish outposts are at Parapajni, where a most sanguinary engagement was fought on the 10th. Prince Gortscliskoti is confirmed in the command of the Moldo-Wallachian army. His head. quarters are in Slobodzie. It is announced that the prince will maintain possession of both principalities, if necessary, with 100,000 men. To all official docu ments published in the principalities, in which the name of the Emperor Nicholas occurs, the words " Protector of the Danubian Principalities" must be added. _ _ _ . Russian reinforcements are moving from Moldavia and the Jalomnitza. The right wing of the Russians has advanced to Slobodsie. General Luders has concentrated his forces at Kalarssch. Omer I'acha has selected Oltenitza as tl'e centre of operations. Up to the 21th 00,000 Turks had crossed the Danube. They were employed in erecting batteries on the island opposite Silistria. The advanced posts of the Russians and Turks were near Frateschti on the 25th, within half a league of each other. No confirmation has as yet been received of the rumoured entrance of the Austrians into Wallachia, but the Comtitutionnel alleges to have private in formation that such a resolution may be considered as decided upon, with the consent of the English and French Cabinets. Three Austrian officers of rank arrived at Schumla on the 10th as commissioners of the imperial army. They afterwards left for Varna. The navigation of the Danube is free down to Giurgevo. THE ARMY IN ASIA. Several English and French officers are to be sent by the commanders-in-clief of the expeditionary army to Kars, to endeavour to put the Turkish forces in fighting order. General Klapka, well known in Europe as a cele brated Hungarian chief, has been sprinted La the command of a Turkish division of the forces at Kars, in the room of General Stein (Ferad Pacha). Three thousand men and fifteen guns have been embarked in Turkish vessels fo: Batoum ; eight thousand for Tachuruk. Colonel Thorn, who had just returned from Kars, died suddenly on the 11th inst. THE REINFORCEMENTS. Major•Ganeral the Hon. Sir George Cathcart, Adjutant-General to the Forces, and Colonel Torrens, Assistant Quartermaster General, will shortly em bark to join the troops serving in Turkey. The Scots Greys left Manchester on Tuesday, and next day embarked at Liverpool o❑ board the Hima laya for the East. This splendid stL timer will call at Constantinople for orders, but afterwards proceed to Varna, where it is expected that she will land the regiment in about fourteen days from her leaving the Mersey. In the bargain entered into by the Government with the Peninsular Company, for the purchase of the Himalaya, it was stipulated that the 140,6001. that was to be paid for the steamer was to include all the expense of hiring her tor the conveyance of troops previous to the purchase. The 46th Regiment, now doing duty at Windsor Castle, is under orders to move for the East. They will embark in the Golden Fleece at Southampton probably on Tuesday next. Notice has been given to the metropolitan police that fifty men are required for special service at the seat of war. Thcse men must have been in the cavalry, as they will be mounted, the duties being to look after stragglers from the vat ions regiments. The pay is fixed at. two guineas per week. Should the system succeed, it is understood to be the intention of the Commander-in-Chief to increase the force ma terially. I I THE FLEETS. The admirals commanding in the Black Sea have ordered fifty lighters of immense size to be constructed at the arsenal, and they are all to be complete by the 10th of August. Ninety French workmen have been sent from Varna to assist, and the greatest activity prevails day and night at the arsenal. The plan of campaign has been totally altered ; and the occupa tion of the Crimea seems not at all unlikely. The latest news from the fleets does but repeat the announcements of several past weeks, that they were "still at Baltschik." The exchange of prisoners of the Tiger has taken place at Odessa. One hundred and eighty English men have been given up against an equal number of Russians who were in the power of Admiral Dundas. Some officers and sailors still remain at Odessa, waiting a further exchange. According to a letter from Odessa in the Lloyd of Vienna, the Anglo-French cruisers in the Black Sea do not keep a very sharp look-out. It is stated that on the Bth a Russian steam-frigate entered the port of Odessa from Sebastopol, and that this is the sixth Russian ship of-war which has arrived in the same manner. An opinion prevailed at Odessa that the allied fleets would endeavour to get possession of the port for a winter station. Every etlbrt was making to increase the means of defence. In the Baltic, as we learn by a Dantzic despatch of Thursday, the Hecla and Valorous have cannonaded Bomarsund,withoutloss to either vessel. The lore= got ashore, but was got otf, though with considerable damage. The English and French admirals are at Ledsund. Rear-Admiral Martin is at Helsingfors. Rear-Admiral Plum ridge, with blockships and paddies, was at Bomarsund. Nicolai arrived at Dantzic on Thursday. There were then three ships at Barosound, eight cruising between Helsingfors and Cronstadt. The rest were near tlo Aland group. No cases of cholera had occurred since the last news from the fleet. The Dauntless arrived at Copenhagen on her way to England. She brings home Admiral Corry, who was invalided, and many other sick and wounded from the fleet. The first squadron of ships with the French troops on board arrived at Kiel on Wednes day. General Baraguay d'Hilliers arrived on the , same day at Copenhagen in the Reine Hortense, but sailed again almost immediately. The following is the number of men of zhe French army on board the war vessels and transports des tined for the Baltic :—Hannibal, 891 me►, ; Royal William, 1,353 ; St. Vincent, 1,271 ; Algiers, 950 ; Sphinx, 123; Stromboli, 90; Termagant, 307 ; Belgravia (transport), 629; Clifton (transp((rt), 344; Columbia (transport), 377 ; Julia (transport), 221; Prince (transport), with twenty-one horses, 1,142; Herefordshire (transport), 820; Edwin Fox (trans port, 477—total, 9,064. The number of officers ac companying them is 242. There are besides 550 engineers and artillery, and 78 artillery horses. The grand total of the embarkation is 0,856 officers and men, and 90 horses. The Constautionucl announces the proximate de• parture and embarkation of a second division of the I I 444,1001., of which 300,0281. is still outstanding ;to parture ana emnarication 01 a seconu ambiou Barhadoes 303,5501., of which 148,2481 . remains; to expeditionary corps of the Baltic. That division is I St. Vincent 104,7501., of which 57,4101. remains; to to consist of the following regiments;-Ist Brigade— The official information of the declaration of IVRY St. Lucia 18,800/, of which 111.020/. remains; and to B th battalion of the Chasse u rs do Vincennes, 15th agein , t Russia was received at Hong K oti g on the Dominica 76,9501., of which 72,3541. remains. The and 23rd regiments of the line. 2nd Brigade--ilst 25th May by the mail sh anier, and the admiral im- agaregate was therefore 048.1501., and the proportion and 50th regiments of the line. medintely put to sea with the Winchester and Bar • still outstanding is 00,9031. An immense gun has been forwarded from Wool- racouta, to look after the Russian fleet under Admiral , ,