The Press.
London, England, 1855-07-28 00:00:00

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THE WAR.

The latest advices from the Crimea are dated
Wednesday the 25th, and were published in yester-
day's Moniteur. They state :

After a brisk cannonade the Russians made a sortie,
about midnight last night, on the left of the Little Sedan.
As we are now quite close to them, it did not take the
enemy one minute to reach our gabionnades.
They wore vigorously received by the Chasseurs-it-pied
of the Imperial Guard, and by some companies of the 10th
Regiment of Infantry of the line.
The Russians beat a hasty retreat, leaving some
wounded, and eight killed, between our ambuscades and
the fosse of the place.
A very dark night enabled them to carry off the others.
This affair does honour to Lieutenant• Colonel de Texis,
of the infantry, and to Captain Lecocq, of the engineers.
General Itisson was on duty in the trenches.

The English War-office received a despatch of
similar date from General Simpson, but it announces
only that " cholera has not increased since the last
report, and the army continues in satisfactory
health."

General Pellissier had previously reported on the
23rd inst. :

The enemy appears to have taken alarm last night, and
opened a very brisk fire on the right and left of our lines
of attack. Our batteries replied as briskly, and with
success. .

I have good news from Yenikale. Everything there is
going on well, under the direction of Lieutenant• Colonel
Osmont, who has taken measures to prevent any disorder
at Kertch.

The preceding British despatch was of the 20th,
and ran as follows :

Nothing of importance has occurred. The siege opera.
lions progress favorably. The health of the army is
good.
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According to the last advices from Constantinople
the French troops were putting the last hand to the
fortifications of the bay of Kamiesch. The division
of General Cantobert was doing duty in the in-
trenchments.

The gun-boats from England were beginning to
arrive in the Black Sea, and were to be employed, it
wao said, on the coasts of the Sea of Azoff, the Putrid
Sea, and the mouth of the Don.
Prince Gortschakoff writes from the Crimea, under
date of the 16th :—" We made two sorties on the 14th
and 15th before the bastion Korniloff, which were
satisfactory. Nothing of importance has occurred in
other parts of the Crimea."
Official published accounts state at 5,775 men the
Russian loss in the affairs of the 17th and 18th.
Rear-Admiral Pamphiloff has succeeded the late
Admiral Nachimotf in command of the vessels and
port of Sebastopol. The same accounts state that
the Russians are occupied in constructing new works
for the defence of Sebastopol.
The Invalide Busse reports that Admiral Nachi-
moff has sunk under his wounds received on the
18th instant. .

The death of General Todtleben, the Russian
engineer officer, is also announced, and it is stated
that General Melnikoff has been appointed to succeed
him in conducting the internal defence of Sebas-
topol.
Prince Gortschakoff has sent for the Archbishops
of Cherson and Taurida to excite the religious zeal
of the garrison.
English, French, and Sardinian reinforcements
were joining the allied armies at the rate of two to
three thousand men per day. All the available men-
of-war and steamers were under orders to proceed to
Toulon, to convey the French reserve army to the
East-
There is no intelligence of the slightest interest
from the fleets, either in the Black Sea or Baltic.
THE CAMPAIGN IN ASIA.

By the latest accounts, Kars, which was so heavily
threatened by the Russians, has not been even
assailed, General Mouravieff having abandoned the
attempt with some marks of precipitation. Despatches
from Constantinople bring news from Trebizond to
the 9th to the following effect
:
The Russians suddenly withdrew, after approaching
close to Kars and firing some few shots into the town.
They had dispersed some Turkish detachments near
Bayazid, and taken 100 prisoners. Geueral Tlouravielf
intended, it is said, to attack Erzeroum at the same time
that he invested Kars.
Fifteen thousand irregular Turkish troops had marched
from Trebizond, and 5,000 from Batoum, to reinforce the
garrison of Erzeroum.
Some of the caravans from Erzeroum to Persia
have been stopped on the road by detachments of
Cossacks.

REVOLT OF THE BASHI•BAZOUKS.

Accounts of serious disorders among General
Beatsen's corps of Bashi-Bazouks have arrived. In
a letter from Abydos, written on the 12th inst., it is
stated that:—

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On Friday evening last a party of about a hundred of
them (some say more) descended from their camp to the