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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-07 00:00:00

Redan, towards Careening Bay. To interrupt, at least, '
the latter means of communication, the French have esta-
blished a small battery, which is as yet unmasked. It will
play on the covered way on the side of the Little Re-
dan, and to a great extent stop the Russian reserve-
coming up ,whilst the French are assaulting- the works thems
selves. To-day the Tartar inhabitants cf the villages in
the plain of Baidar and along the coast eastward of Cape Aia
began returning to their homes. It is not much that a Tartar
generally possesses, but of the little they left behind them they
will find nothing. Every cottage has been unroofed, and every-
thing that was worth carrying away has disappeared. Even
articles that could hardly be conceived to have any attraction,
such as portions of a wine-press or old - casks, have been labo-
riously dragged away by the Turks totheir camp. On the fruit
trees there is not a vestige of anything edible. However, the
their former fears to be groundless, or re-
Tartars, imagining
ceiving a cold welcome from the Russians who occupy the
range of heights above the valley, have returned to their old
homes, and-no doubt will be unmolested. Theancient Scythians
could not more completely have carried their household goods
with them on their wandering carts than the Crirn Tartar
transports his effects on one or two creaking arabas. Long
lines of these vehicles now crowd the rood which leads from the
east of Baidar, Kamara, and the valley of the Tchernaya. They
may be heard half-a-mile off by the incessant creaking of their
wheels, on which no drop of oil ever comes. These Tartars are
a race physically inferior to the Turks, and seem to be kept
down by ignorance which no ray of education ever enlightens,
and by poverty from which no spirit of enterprise ever raises
them. As they slowly moved past, carrying their beds, cloth-
ink:, and cooking utensils on a miserable cart, it is evident how
vain is the dream to expect any assistance from them in war,
or to cherish any ideas of their - restoration when peace is
gained.

Concerning-the actual position of the besiegers and
the besieged, in relation to each other, the following
shrewd and interesting observations occur in a leading
article in the Morniizy Post of Friday

" It is," it says,. " the north of Sebastopol which feeds, and
all along has fed the south. The passage of the Bay of Inker-
man is necessary to this sustained support. The Malakhoff
Tower commands the passage, and dominates the whole lower
town. Therefore, the capture of the Malakhoff Tower would
lead in its train to the surrender, or gradual and certain oc-
cupation, of-the lower town—to the -sweeping of the Bay of
Inkermann by the besiegers' guns—to the destruction of the
navy therein imprisoned (yet active and powerful)—to the
opening of the port, the breaking of the bar or stockade, and
the probable-subjugation of the fire from Fort Constantine.
Sebastopol would then be no more. There would indeed re-
main a few powerfully situated forts, which would have,
however, to fight for their vivers under new and precarious
conditions. For present purposes, then, we may safely con-
clude that the Malakhoff Tower (which commands the Redan) is
Sebastopol. As the Malakhoff commands all the south, or now
assailed portion of Sebastopol, so the Brancion Redoubt, or
Mamelon, commands the Malakhoff. 'Now, this being so, there
are two interesting particulars; first, what the Russians said
about our getting the original key of this position; and,
secondly, into what situation the captors have, by that
and the ulterior success, been practically conducted. The
Russians in the outset—having made desperate exertions to
defend what was the very door of their safe,' and finding
that our allies, on the night of the 22nd of May, although
victorious, had retired after the first nocturnal battle—pro-
claimed a thanksgiving and sang a pnan, Prince Gortscha-
koff sent, on the strength of the same event, a very curious
report to his government. It is still more curious that he has
sent no report whatever (at least, none that was published) of
what took place on the night following. The mere truth is
that 26 Russian battalions were soundly beaten, in a whole
day's fighting, by 10 battalions of French, collected from all
parts of the empire (African alike and French proper); then
the Russians recovered their ground, only on permission and
sufferance, for a few hours, and the next evening, although
largely reinforced, they lost them definitively. The Malakhoff
Tower, the guns of which certainly do command the Redan,
is situated on a sort of siiveau or level height, the extremity
of which is now in the possession of the French, and is called
the Mamelon. But at the Mamelon this height declines
downward, and looks into the valley of the Tchernaya, bend-
ing from Inkerman towards Balaklava. And between this
conquered point and the Russian ' strength,' the ground rises
again ; so that, properly speaking, neither the Malakhoff Tower
nor the Brandon Redoubt rules the other, although the
possession of the latter by the defender impedes against the
former by the assailants. The French have securely established
themselves in this once formidable outpost, have advanced, by
invisible and underground zig-zags, within 150 yards 4, the
tower. At the mouth of the covered way they have established
a battery of light guns to check sallies. The approach is
sure, though slow."

The following is from The Times correspondent :
KAMABA, JULY 24.
Omar Pasha has not yet returned from Constantinople, and
the idea is more and more gaining ground that he will not
again return to the Crimea. But, nevertheless, he is expected
back by the soldiers with great anxiety.
In the rear—for since all idea of an advance on this side has
been given up we again form the rear—there is nothing new,
except that some English light cavalry had been sent down to
the Vale of Baidar. They are detachments of the 4th Light
Dragoons, the Bth and 11th Hussars, and the 17th Lancers,
and they have occupied an open place alongside an old Tartar
cemetery, near the Woronzow-road, where this latter begins
to ascend towards the sea. _ _

The French have moved on to Tchouliou, near the bridge
leading over the Tchernaya. Here this latter river forms our
boundary. It is occupied in its whole length from the spot
where it comes out of its native mountains, near the village of
Skelir, down to Inkermann. The only exception forms that
part of it where, leaving the Valley of Baidar, it runs through
a precipitous narrow gorge, which defends itself, being only,
and that with considerable difficulty, accessible to pedestrians
down to Tchorgoun, where it leaves this gorge. Our outposts
were, until lately, everywhere on the opposite bank of the
respect.
The Russians had, for some time past, been seen working
on the road leading up to 3lackenzie's Farm. In the begin-
ning it looked as if they were fortifying, but it soon became
clear that, on the contrary, they were repairing the road,
where it had been cut up, in order to make it inaccessible to
any advancing force. Lately they have come down and re-
paired likewise the battery which commands the ascent of the
road, and which had been destroyed by the French on the
occasion of their advance to the Tchernaya. In consequence
of this movement of the Russians, the French outposts retired
over the bridge of Traktir.
All this looks as if the Russians had some intentions to
attack us, instead of waiting for our advance.
On the night of Sunday and Monday we had some heavy
firing in front. According to the accounts which have reached
us, the French were vigourously attacked by the Russians in
the Mamelon works, but repulsed the attack. The High-
landers are spoken of as having taken a considerable part in
repelling the Russians. But you will hear all about this from
your correspondent in the British camp ; I give you only the
version which is afloat in the Turkish camp.

Ox the 30th ult., Patrick Nelson, a mason's labourer, and
another Irish labourer, named Wilkinson, were at a public-
house, in Buyers-green, when the former began to boast how
much he could drink. Wilkinson bet him half-a-crown he
could not drink twenty glasses of whiskey in an hour. They
each put down half-a-crown, and the whiskey was ordered in.
Deceased drunk all off in about eight minutes, and then
offered to drink other twenty, but the landlady refused to
bring him any more. In about half-an-hour he fell off his
seat, and became speechless and insensible, and soon after
died.—Durham Advertiser.
TUB New POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.—Great numbers of
stamped newspapers sent through the post-office have been
charged postage owing to the paper not being folded so that
the whole of the stamp is " exposed to- view and distinctly
visible on the outside." Persons forwarding newspapers by
post would do well to observe this condition of transmission.
On the first day of the new arrangements thousands upon
thousands of papers were cancelled at St. Martin's-le-Grand.
In many instances the papers had not been folded so as to
show the stamp, and in others the postage stamp put upon the
unstamped paper and supplement was not enough for the
weight. The excitement was so great that it actually proved
fatal to the sanity of one of the most respectable news-agents
in the metropolis. The general mixture of his journals,
stamped with unstamped, the mistakes of his news-boys, the
cries of others who came as customers, the lateness of the hour,
and the impossibility of keeping his engagements with his
subscribers, were too much for a mind previously harassed by
domestic trouble, and in the midst of the uproar he went crazy
—literally mad.—Cambridge Press.
TUB TREATY wrrir SIAM.—The Times, referring to the
commercial treaty just concluded through the agency of Sir
John Bowring with the King of Siam, says—" We regard the
conclusion of this treaty as a matter of very real and reason-
able congratulation. Even under the old prohibitive system
the trade with Siam was by no means insignificant, and, now
that it is thrown open, it bids fair to attain very considerable
extension. The country produces very good sugar, rice, and
woods for dyeing, so that it must have considerable purchasing
power, and the accession of 6,000,000 customers cannot fail to
be felt in our centres of industry at home, and add fresh ac-
tivity to the busy mart of Singapore. We hope that peace
and harmony may long prevail between the two nations, and
that our new friend and his successors, content with a free com-
mercial intercourse, will abstain from provoking a power which
desires nothing better than to leave them in undisturbed pos-
session of their crown and territory. Nor in a political point
of view is this treaty less agreeable. The King of Siam has,
no doubt, been subjected to numerous solicitations from Rus-
sia and the United States of America, and if he has preferred
our friendship to theirs it is probably because he thought us
the most favourable to his independence, and the least likely
to interfere with his patrimony. This Prince, had he been
disposed to be troublesome, might, had he sided with Burmah,
have afforded us a good -deal of annoyance, and has, by his
ready acquiescence in our views, considerably diminished the
chance of a fresh rupture between us and the Court of Ara."
PUBLIC HORSEWHIPPING:7On Friday, when one of the
Patrick omnibusses was starting from Argyle-street, a gen-
tleman of high standingin Glasgow made his appearance at
the place, and was about to step into the vehicle. Before he
had time to do so, however, another gentleman who had been
seated on the top, decended to the pavement in great haste,
and taking from his pocket a horsewhip, commenced applying
it with all his might to the back and shoulders of the other.
At this unexpected salute the latter very naturally turned
round, and, trying to defend himself as well as he could, ex-
claimed, " What do you mean, sir ? who are you ? what is the
meaning of this ?" or some words to that effect. His as-
sailant, who seemed to be frantic with rage, replied that he
knew him well enough, and again commenced to lay on the
whip with great energy. The other, who remained cool and
passive under his severe castigation, protested that he did
not know his assailant, that he could not understand what he
meant, and that there must be some mistake in the matter.
The gentleman who wielded the whip replied in very strong
language, branded the other as a liar, and accused him of in-
sulting a certain lady—handing at the same time his card.
By this time some of the police interfered, a considerable
crowd had assembled, and both the gentlemen were dragged
or mobbed into the omnibus-office, where, amid another explo-
sion of anger, and a very free application of not the most
courteous language, the whip was again in requisition, and
laid on with great vigour. At last the parties were separated,
and both proceeded to the omnibus. The gentleman first in-
troduced to our readers as being of distinguished celebrity,
and who had submitted with singular temper to this unex-
pected flagellation, took his seat in the inside. The other, who
is also a gentleman of standing in Glasgow, and moves in the
best circles, took his seat on the top ; and so away went the
omnibus, leaving the astonished spectators behind to form
their own speculations. On the part of the gentleman who
suffered this public assault an appeal is about to be made to
legal proceedinge.--.-Glasgow Gazette.