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Pacha detached Osman Pacha with six battalions to a ford
which had been discovered about a mile and a half lower
down the river. Here they found themselves warmly
received by the enemy drawn up in force upon the opposite
bank. Notwithstanding the velocity of the current and
the depth of the water, the Turkish troops, after firing a
volley, dashed across the river in the face of a cruel fire,
and in splendid style drove the Russians into the woods
behind at the point of the bayonet. At almost the same
moment Colonel Simmonds, at the head of two battalions
of infantry and three companies of rifles, crossed the river
in front of the fort, and assaulted it under a murderous
fire, Here his aide•de-camp, Captain Dymock, was killed,
while gallantly charging at the head of his battalion, while
a Russian cclumn which attacked them in flank was
promptly met by the column under Colonel Simmonds at
the point of the bayonet and completely routed.—Times
cor., Nov. 7.

This decided the day ; the Russians fled in great
haste, leaving five guns, ammunition-waggons, and
about fifty prisoners in the hands of the Turks :

The ground was strewn with killed and wounded ; their
loss must have been very great, though so many escaped
into the woods to die that it is difficult to form any just
estimate. Upwards of three hundred have already been
found, among which were the bodies of eight officers and
two colonels. I counted twenty-two horses lying dead in
one heap. Our own loss amounts to four hundred killed
and wonnded, of whom about 130 were killed. The rifles
alone lost twenty-six men killed and seventy-five wounded.
—lb.

The English officers in the Turkish army appear
to have been remarkably prominent throughout the
action. The Russians were in full retreat upon
Kutais, and Omer Paella expected to follow closely
on their heels.

THE FRENCH EMPEROR is distinguished for inge-
nuity of invention ; and observing in July last the
inconvenient bulk of flour in sacks, ordered experi-
ments to be made, with a view of ascertaining
whether compression would not render it more port-
able. The experiment was immediately made with
an hydraulic press of 300 tons, effecting a compres-
sion in volume of upwards of twenty-four per cent.
The flour was then packed in zinc cases, and put by.
A large quantity of non-compressed flour was simi-
larly packed, and both samples opened and examined
a few days since, when the compressed flour was
found to possess manifest advantages over the other

PRINCE PASZIEWITCH, according to intelligence.
received from Warsaw, is suffering so severely from
cancer, which defies all remedy, that there no longer
remains much hope of saving him.
THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA has issued an ordre du
jour thanking General Todtleben and the officers
and men who assisted in constructing and arming so
rapidly the fortification of Nicolaieff. One rouble
(about 4 fr.) was &wailed to each private soldier.

PRINCE GoRTscHAKoFF, Russian ambassador at
Vienna, has declared to Count Buol, according to
the Augaberg Gazette, that Russia wou;d protest
against any decision being taken with respect to the
principalities without her consent; neither will she
recognise any conditions which may prejudice her
rights.
THE EMPEROR or AUSTRIA was so pleased at the
conclusion of the Concordat that he immediately
sent 250,000 francs as a contribution towards the
construction of a monument of the Immaculate Con-
ception at Rome.
THE COUNT DE MONTAEEMBERT is about to publish
an Panay on St. Bernard, and the eloquence of the
middle ages.
THE DEPARTMENT OF THE GIRONDE lately raised a
subscription for the purpose of presenting a quantity
of tobalco to the English army in the East. A cor-
respondence on the subject has taken place between
M. de Persigny and Lord Clarendon, in which Lord
Clarendon expresses the lively satisfaction of the
English Government at this public testimony of
sympathy on the part of the French people, and
promises that the intentions of the subscribers shall
be faithfully carried out.
THE NUMBER OF FOREIGNERS AND PROVINCIALS
who visited Paris during the Exhibition are stated
by the official returns to have amounted to 579,549
persons-410,945 French, and 108,004 foreigners.
Those visitors, however, who took up their residence
at Versailles, St. Germain, and other places in the
environs of the capital, as mere daily tourists, are not
included in the returns.

THE REMAINS OF GENERAL MARKHAM were con-
veyed 10 Moreland, neer Penrith, the deceased gene.
ral's seat, on Saturday last. Although an immense
concourse of villagers attended, the funeral was
strictly private in other respects,—Captain King, the
gallant general's aide-de-camp, and Captain Burns,
of Orton-hall, besides the members of the family,
being the only strangers present. The gallant
general is buried, by reluest, at the root of a tree of
his own planting; and it was only a fortnight before
that he sent word to have this tree pruned and
dressed. It is stated that, two days before his death,
General Markham admitted that the command of
the army in the East was offered to, and would have
been accepted by him, had his health been restored
sooner.

SATURDAY,

lortign gorrtsponblut.

FRANKFORT, Nov. 28.
CERTAIN republican symptoms have lately trans-
pired tending to keep in mind the events of 1848,
and the Red-Radicals considered the anniversary of
the day when Robert Blum, the Paul-Kirche deputy,
was shot at Vienna, to be a fitting opportunity for a
republican display. A black flag was planted in the
plain of Bornheim, having an inscription in red
letters, " Robert Blum died for the liberty of (3er•
many, November 9, 1848." Underneath, as in in-

surgent and Roman Ireland, were the death's head
and cross bones, with the appropriate motto," Ligne
dela Mort." Universal extermination is preached to
be the grand panacea for all governmental evil, the
"no, nothing" of the Westminister Radical in
sharper practice. But these anarchical aspirations
have ceased to have any charm for the people. The
utter worthlessness of the Republicans to benefit
their fellow-creatures, or to command respect, was
fully proved, and none, save the veriest dregs of
humanity, the pariahs of diseased mortality, are now
to be found amongst the frantic followers of a com-
munism, one, indivisible and fraternal. If political
madness he their apology, then let them be caninely
treated. But the reconstruction of the Germanic
empire by a reform of the Confederation is depen-
dent upon the rapidly-increasing party of Gotha. It
is an utter mistake to assail the members of that
league with the reproach of " republicains doctri-
naires," for they are joined by the ancient noblesse,
the country party, and the middle classes of Ger-
many. Many of the feudal privileges bore down
unfairly upon the people ; these have been ceded
and repealed, but the inclination of the agricultu
rists, and Germans generally, rests as of yore in
favour of their hereditary nobles. The Russian, Aus-
trian, and "de la Croix" principles find favour
chiefly amongst those who are accessible to improper
influences, and are content that their covetousness of
personal distinction and grosser advantages shall
stand them in need of higher motives. Unscrupu-
lous Courts, an Hebraic noblesse, and a purchased
allegiance, cannot long make successful head against
persevering energy and acknowledged right.
A political pamphlet has been lately published by
the Chevalier Bunsen, " La volx du temps," and it will
be followed, probably, by a periodical entitled " G. r-
mania." The coadjutors of M. de Bunsen in this
work are said to be M 111. Henri de Gagern, the
author Gervinus, the Professors Wangerow and
Hisser, the Cntq• Zitter, and MM. Mohl and Meyer.
No period could be more propitious for a work of
this nature. A second Martin Luther is not re-
quired--the advantages he fought for and obtained
are a public possession ; and it is merely to extend
the arena of toleration, and to resist papistic sum-

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sion against the rights of conscience, that Ger-
many is now called upon for national exertion.
Man, to be honoured must be true to himself ; and
an honour emanating from brave resistance to undue
power is immedia'ely productive of that constitu-
tional and popular suzerainty, in the best sense, that
is the sure safeguard against Boman ambition and
Jesuit malpractice. Henceforward Transylvania,
Lower Hungary, Sclavonia, Croatia, and Gallicia,
are made aliens from Austria by her own act. They
will be a fruitful source of anxiety to the Govern-
ment—that is, a purely Austro-Ministerial affair—
but it is the duty of Protestant Germany to embody
her interests in such potent array as effectually to
bar a sudden assault upon those liberties, spiritual
and temporal, which pontifical ambition is preparing
to invade.

J. E. L.

BRUSSELS, Thursday.
A PERSON of a questionable celebrity lately died
here to whom funeral honours were paid of a marked
description. Possibly this was without other mean-
ing than a compliment to his military rank. The
person alluded to is the late General Croquembourg,
formerly aide-de-camp to the Prince of Orange,—the
same who in 1818 was made notorious by being one
of the chief agents of the plot to assassinate the
Duke of Wellington. According to the evidence pro•
duced before Mr. Vanderfosse, the Procureur- General
of Brussels in that day, and conveyed officially in a
letter from Lord Clancarty to Lord Castlereagh, it
was proved that the plot for the murder of the Duke
of Wellington was contrived at Brussels (vide " Cor-
respondence and Despatches of Viscount Castle-
reagh," vol. ix.). The names of the principal
conspirators were :—Count de Croquembourg, aide-
de-camp of the Prince of Orange; Canchois le Maire,
et femme ; Gnyet, Mite. Guyet; Sausset, Brice,
Collionon, Alexandre Bastide, Itaumy, Publar, anti

DECEMBER 1, 1855.

Marinet. They held their meetings at the hotel of
Mme. Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, with whom was
associated a certain Mme. Beranger, an intimate
friend of the Prince of Orange. It was substantiated
by the revelations of Bastide, Balmy, and the de-
moiselle Fremont, that Cantillon was the man who
fired the shot at the Duke in Paris, under the direc-
tion of the Croquembonrg committee. To the shame
of England be it spoken, that the late Lord Kinnaird
was, without doubt—lamentably, without doubt,—
cognisant of, and thus by tacit consent au abettor
and an accomplice in, the projected act of assassina-
tion. His criminality was not a jot less flagrant than
that of M. de Croquembourg and the other friends of
the Prince of Orange. The Great Duke thus states
the affair, in his usual terse manner, to Lord
Clancarty, the English Minister at the Court of the
Netherlands :

Paris, March 24, 1818.
My dear Clancarty,—l have already informed you that
the Governor and police here are loud in their oomplaints
of the Government and police of the Netherlands, for their
want of activity and energy in the investigation of the Mr.
cumstancea attending the attempt against me, particularly
since the discovery of Cantillon ; and the Duc de Richelieu,
who writes this day to M. de la Tour do Pin upon the sub-
ject, has requested me to write to you.
In bringing this subject under your consideration, I beg
you to reflect a little upon what grounds the King [of the
Netherlands] will stand in this affair. For years the
French Ministers, and the Ministers of the allied powers at
Paris, and the allied Sovereigns themselves, have pointed
out to the King the inconveniences and dangers resulting
from his allowing those proscribed by the united voice of
all Europe, and the criminate who escaped from the vengeance
of the laws in this country, to resort to his dominions, there to
receive the encouragement which his Majesty afforded them.
The mischief foretold has occurred : a plot has been
formed in the Netherlands, by these very people, to UMW.
sinate me ; not, 1 presume, because they did not like my
face, or my manners, or the colour of my coat, but because
I was the general of the allies, and the main support of the
system of tranquillity and order which it is wished to
establish in the world. And then the Ministers and agents
of the Government of the King of the Netherlands, instead
of their doing everything in their power to aid those of
this country in bringing to light this transaction and to
justice those concerned in the plot, appear to exert every
nerve, and to make use of every chicane which the law can
admit, to prevent the seizing and to screen and to save the
criminals.
Why are not all the French men and women named as
being concerned in this affair seized and sent into France,
to be dealt with according to law ? They are in the Nether.
lands, in spite of the King's engagements and his orders
to the contrary ; and surely there could be nothing un-
justifiable in making an exertion to hand them over to
the tribunals which can and will make them speak out and
punish them.
J beg you to speak seriously to M. de Nagel upon this
subject, and tell him I write to you for the sake of public
justice and of the King's reputation. I consider my own
safety to be quite out of the question; if it was involved in
the decision of it. I should, perhaps, scruple to write so
strongly upon the subject ; but, as it is, I have these
motives alone for troubling you.—Yours,
WELLINGTON.

These observations would fairly apply to the Jersey
refugees, and to those in Belgium. So defective
were the laws of the Netherlands, and so inconclu-
sive the police regulations, that no correctional re-
sult, beyond temporary detention, followed upon the
notorious attempt at a systematised assassination of
the Duke of Wellington. The guilty, by proof and
confession, were ultimately acquitted, from the name
of the Prince of Orange being closely mixed up with
the affair, many of the con ipirators being his inti-
mate friends, and others in his employ. The whole
matter conferred the reverse of credit on him, and it
was smothered on this account. A tribute of respect
has been paid to the last of the conspirators that
might well have been omitted. It is unusual amongst
generous and enlightened. Governments to pay
honour to those whose antecedents have coupled
them with the crime of conspiracy to do murder;
but it must be urged in Brabancon defence that the
late Lord Kinnaird, although an accomplice by
cognisance, thoroughly proven, to this attempted
assassination of the Great Duke, retained the honours
of the English peerage and escaped condign punish
went. But he was a Whig. E. R.

SIZNA, Nov. 26.
THE great gainer by the Oriental war will be—
Turkey ? No ; the Jesuit. A Roman dignitary, an
Irishman, and a Roman member of Parliament, an
Englishman, have passed through this place during
the week, and have had private communications with
the secretary of the late archbishop and a relative of
a cardinal of this town, whose historic name belongs
to the military annals of the German cmpire. It
has been resolved at Rome that the Roman members
of Parliament shall be forcibly urged to support the
war party to any extremity; that the " brass band,"
as these Roman Roundheads are named in England,
shall systematically and obediently wage holy war
by parliamentary vote against the heretic and