The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-06 00:00:00

RUSSIAN ATTACK ON REDOUT-BALE.

A letter dated Batoum, Deo. 3, reports that the
Russians had made an attack on Redout Bale with
a force of 2,000 foot and 300 horse. They were
rigorously repulsed by the garrison of the place,
supported by 630 men who bad been landed that
same morning from the Mansour, a Tunisian steam
coarette.—Dally Aiwa.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Dic. 23.
The Britannia and Trafalgar have left for Eng-
land.
The carp of No. 119 British transport was ►arnt
in port.—Times.

The following is news of the 28th December, from
Weiss, via Csernowits :—" Powerful reinforcements

are arriving. There are snow storms, with frost.
Two companies of soldiers on their march, and 40
waggon loads of sack men, have been frozen to death.
The thermometer (Resumer) is 24 degrees below
zero—equivalent to 22.00 Fahrenheit."—Times.

Adyices from Berlin, under this date, affirm that
Austria has demanded the mobilisation of the Prus-
sian army, and that she has addressed, in like
manner, a note to the Germanic Diet, showing
that there is good reason for the mobilisation of
half of the federal contingents.
It is also said in semi-official quarters, that Proud'
will not accede to the Austrian demand.

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.

JAw. 6.

Austria has farther declared that, if peso• were
net assured by the Ist January, or within • short
period from that date, the moment would have come
for Prussia to fulfil her engagements. These serge.
meats, made in the military treaty of the 20th April,
bind Prussia to mobilise 100,000 men in 30 days,
and 100,000 more in three weeks afterwards.—Post.

Galignani publishes a private telegraphic despatch,
dated Vienna, Jan. 3, attd statiog that during the
fifteen days which the Allied Powers have granted
to Prince Oortchakoff, in order that he may have
full instructions from St. Petersburg, the conferences
between the Russian Envoy and Count Buol will
continue. The same despatch says that the Duke
and Duchess of Brabant will take their departure
from Vienna on the Bth inst.

The Moxitster of this morning announces that M•
de Boarqueney, the Minister of France at Vienna,
has bean commissioned by the Emperor to deliver
the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour to the
Emperor of Austria.
Yesterday, the Council of State met, under the
presidency of the Emperor, to consider a bill for cre-
sting a dotation of the army, to replace military
pensions.—Daily News.

PARIS, FirmAy.

FRESH REVOLT AND EXECUTION OF
BOU-BAGHLA.
AND TILIDDAPIL)
DAILY NEWS.)

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Craox 1

PARIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 8 a.x.
We have received the following intelligence, under
date of Algiers, Deo. 30 :
" Bon-Bagbla has again revolted; but the inaur-
rection has been suppressed, and the rebel has been
beheaded."

OZILWAN PAm MONZT.--The following daises
and amenate of stesey ere ;lately effected by
the Pent est he the drealsties •f psper entrees,
la Trunk : Hiewden of Sassy, state paper 6,200,190
rind.; sates of the Lripti*Mrsoka Railw, 600,000 dad. ;
notes of the Basses Beak, 100,000 rind,; notes ef the
obssanlrs Bank, 300,000 Hod. ; Kingdom of Hassown„
peps gamey of the City of Hanover, nO,OOO rind.; Elsa
heel Hews, State paper wham 2 willing of rind.; who It
the Osersi Osmniesiel Beak, 200,000 rind. ; Saxe 'Weiser,
Saes
banpMIDEM 190,000 dad. ; Brosswishbewslioefo She
assent k MAIO Amt.; thae Coburg elate
pew, 800,001 rind.; Sale Meiningen, Mato paper. ,000
dad. ; gene ithesherg. ditto, 100,000 rlad.; Ashok, hate,
I,Boo,ooorind. • mese of the Deem Beak, 1,400,000 had. ;
notes of the Be'rstresi Kteihseer Railway, Twos rind. ;
Schwavnibesi Raids:at, Nab pre, MON dal.; Besse
ditto, IKON dni, bswevaitsw ast Abs.
the sites of he etiw basks,
whisk seem% new 10 willies s ears.
AnTZAClAL—Lettere frent Astrachan, written
eerie is Deseesber, dessethe a semen that had just bees
gips there. Verdi'a Hahne sad Badmen meter* to
lb. 800 at WIN Med, bee wise ad heir se selreethe se a
rah_maritanerston il wok
war's emus boriluant Ma the verde " Beheld Dabs
n !" am was three doss
sneered. Nobody can persuade. the Bnsians, sap air
eenespeadent, that Lord Plumate. h set the sole Whir
if the pawn war.
caVITAL PALACE, JAN. 11.0-111EILLINO DAY.-. Adiabok4k b: the dome; 2,892; eihdoe try mess tisk*,,
474 CAL
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THE REVENUE.' .

Tax Revenue Returns for the last quieter of the I
year, which we now publish is dna enstelt, arto•ta-
tremsly favourable. Let us initial our readeri that
from the very beginning of feat year the lest Map
don of the tea duty was in operation, which was not
the ease the year before; that the second reduction
has been in operation through three quarters of 1834,
and not in 1863 ; that no new Customs dudes have
been imposed, exespt a small addition to the dudes on
*agar; sad that. notwithstanding, theCustonserevenne
for the last grader has increased by 584,0721. This 's
a conArmation of the statements we have continually
made that is spite of the war the consumptive power
of the people has continued unabated or has Jammed.
In hike manner the Excise revenue has increased in
the quarter 602,9521.; but in the Excise there has
been an increase in the malt duties, which has came
into operation in the present quarter. A run is made
against the use of intoxicating drinks: the people
certainly have not so much money to spare, owing to
the dearness of bread; and it is probable that the
increase in the Exam; revenue does not exactly come
up to the increase expected from the general welfare
and the increase in the malt duties. A part of the
Excise is yet derived from the objectionable duty on
paper, and the scarcity of materials for making it
will have tended to depress this branch of the

It will be emu that the Stamps have yielded in the
quarter 79,4391. more than in the corresponding
quarter of 1833-4, though a reduction has been
made on the rates, while the duties have been ex-
tended to more objects. We may at bout infer from
the increase that those who extended the duties
while they reduced the rates have not been mis-
taken.

In the Taxes there is a reduction of 114,0584 a
sign perhaps that those who feel the weight of addi-
tional taxation, and have the opportunity. are trying
to save something in the size of their homes or in
the use of other articles liable to taxation.

The Property Tax shows an incense of 483,932 k
on the quarter, and 1,887,8831. on the year. But it
must be remembered that the increased rates have
yet scarcely come into operation. They ware dos
only, for the half-year, on October 10, and except
on public salaries and dividends on which the tax
was carefully stopped in July and October. They
are only now in come of collection. Such an
increase as we have mentioned Is an index to the
greater increase which will be shown next quarter.
In the Post-offioe revenue there is a decline, no
doubt in consequence of the greatly increased ex-
pense to which that department has lately been
subjected for the public service. Differing from every
other tax, the Post-office revenue is collected as pay.
meet for certain services, which are u essential to
the welfare of the community as those performed by
railway or steam navigation companies. It is not
surprising, therefore, as the services are made more
efficient and extensive, that they should cast more,
and that a lees net revenue should at present be
obtained from them.

After deducting the decrease, the net incresse of
the revenue on the last quarter is 1,440,6671., which
is, we believe, 2,000,0001. more than was anticipated.
The net increase on the year is 2,291,3681., and the
net increase in the nine months which have elapsed
of the financial year commencing on April 6, 1864,
is 1,928,3161. ; from which we may fairly anticipate,
as the proceeds of the increased rates of the property
and income tax will then be collected, a very large
increase in the next quarter.
The accounts will show the reader that to provide
for all the expense of the quarter, including dividends
on the debt, &c., an advance by the Bank will be
necessity, as is usual at almost every quarter, except
when there is a large surplus revenue. But this
quarter it will be less than in any quarter of the
previous year, 1,619,5341. For this, new deficiency
bills will be issued ; but, as they are always redeemed
as the revenue accrues, the advance required from
the Bank will really be very small, and will be made
for a very short period. If we did not look at the
expenditure of the quarter and the year, as well as at
the income, we should take into consideration only
half the @abject, and might fall into grievous mis
takes; bat when in addition to finding the revenue
on the increase we find that it and the supplies voted
are nearly equivalent to the expenditure--that all

costs axe defrayed, while nobody is oppressed by
taxation and no industry hampered—we have
embraced the whole subject, and have great reason
to rejoice at the condition of the country.
Instead of moaning and whining over our great
exertions and decaying trade, we may exult at our
prosperity and our power. These returns come
appropriately, we think, to rebuke the desponding,
gloomy, and exaggerated views in which a contem-
porary yesterday indulged. The Times, however,
is as mistaken in its facts as it is anti-national
in its sentiments. The slightest inspection of the
Trade Tables would have shown the writer in the
Times that, though consumption continues to in-
crease, the imports do not, u he asserts, increase.
Grain is not, as he says, the only exception to this
rule. In November the imports of cotton, hemp,
linseed, oxen, coffee, dye stuffs, glass, gloves, some
metals, some oils, provisions, thrown silk, spices,
rum, sugar, tea, colonial timber, dc., increased, but
the importations of the bulk of the other articles,
including cocoa, wine, brandy, tobacco—mentioned
by the Times as if they had increased in impor-
tation is well as consumption-sad including
raw silk, wool, some oils, some metals, some seeds,
hides, potatoes, tallow, and grain of all kinds, have
fallen off in the month. In the eleven months, how-
ever, as a slight inspection of the tables will show, the
imports of all animals except oxen, of cocoa, some dye-
stuffs, flax, hemp, fruits, hides, tallow, tobacco,
wine, cotton, wool, frog have declined in
1864. There are not increased quantities, therefore
. .

ultimately to be paid for, as the Times tries to
frighten es by saying, but of many things greatly
diminished quantities. The lime., too, is ignorant
—though it says at the beginning of its leader that
the imports flow in months after the transactions
from which they arise—that, as the rule, most of our
imports are paid for before they come, and that by
our exports credit is given to our customers. The
imports are more likely, therefore, to be payments of
debt than something lent as for which we shall have
to pay hereafter.
Though the declared value of our exports has
diminished in the last month, as compared to the
corresponding mouth of 1853, it must be remembered
that lest year, in November, the gold fever was at its
height, and that the value of the exports then exceeded
the value of the exports in the corresponding month
of 1852 by 1,595,7301. But even in 1862 the gold fever
had began, and the declared vales of the exports in
that math exceeded the value in the corresponding
month of 1861 by nearly a million, actually 844,8141.
Thus the falling off in the declared value of exports
in the eleventh month of 1854 is very small, as com-
pared to the eleventh month of 1862, while
the value of exports in Nov., 1864, exceeds
that of 1851 by half a million. There is no
justification in facts for the gloomy sentimentalism
in which the Times indulges. Of late, that journal
has habitually disregarded facts, and, as in
this instance, aimed only at expressing vulgar and
flashy seniill•Otality by string writing. What the

Count Colloredo, the Austrian Minister, had an btu-
view with the Eul of Clarendon yesterday at the Foreign-
aloe.

The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, Queen's
Counsel, &c., on Thureday next, the first day of Hilary
Turn, at his lordship's residence in Upper Brook-street, at
12 o'clock.

A deputation from the Manchester Commercial Associa-
tion had as interview with the Earl of Clarendon peter.
day at the Foreign-dace on the subject of the Customs
duties at Shanghai. The deputation emulated of Miens.
Leopold MU, Hobert Smith, R. J. Farbridge, and Hugh
Fleming (Secretary) ; and from the Chamber of Commerce
Messrs. Finlay, Worthhsgton, and Ashton; and from
Shanghai Messrs. Kay and Grey.
. _

Despatches for thr Governors of the North American
Colonies were sent last mains from the Colonial-dam

The %ohms of Sutherland, accompanied by the
Deka and Duchess of Argyll, ham boaoared the Turkish
Exhibition with their visit, and seemed much pleased. The
museum has also bees visited and approved of by the
Marchioness of Duwashire and the Duke of Wellington.
The Princess of Prussia is suffering at Cobhate
from a slight attack of erysipelas, bat it ie hoped that she
will completely recover in a few days. •

The Prince and Princess Caridja, accompanied by
their eon, a captain in the Ottoman lonise, have arrived at
Berlin, on their way to the Hague where the Prince will
reside u Ottoman Envoy Euradinery to the Nether
lands Court. All three have been welcomed by numerous
friends.

The Duke and Duchess of Wellington, who have
been receiving a low saint friends and relatives at Strath.
ileidsage daring the put fortnight, are 'spa:tat to return
1 to town at the close of the ensuing week.
_

Lord Wodehoure, Under-S;orehu7 of State for the
Foreign Department, will remain in town daring the recess.
Letters from Darmstadt report that Log Louis of
Bavaria wen visited ea the 30th with a fainting di.
Recovering cemoiousear he expressed the conviction
that his end drew nitit, received the Lord's supper,
sent for his friends and dred at hand, and realised km-
self to death. Oa the 31st be was .till in great danger. At
Munich, prayers have been offered for his recovery, and
all the festivities of the season have been postponed. A
telegraphic despatch
he from Mulch states that on the 2nd
reisaised very ill.

ARRIVAL OP THE BOXIIOL—The Poulain:Mr and
Oriental oempany'a Mem packet Basins, Captain Potts
Admiralty t, Lieutenant Charleston, R.N. arrived
at Son with the India and China mails.
Her dame an: Dee. 10; Malta, 26th; Gibral-
tar, 70th. The Rusin, Wisp 417 peseengere, amongst whom
are Major Goma! Btaiell, Colonel Gough, Lieutenant the
Hon. J. Colbourn% Ca Majendie, Commander R.N.;
Lieutenant lfeaaMy RI. ; Lieutenant Baird, RN. Ships
seen ocapsios with ihstiog as voyage : Dee. 25. if Cape
Bon, a Imp mew chip UMW bine ; hit, screw
transport (1U), sad mow sesmse, visewu ; Jan. 1,
mew tramper% sekarws; ta, eaissaur Natal Move.
nuts of her Meiertyle ships: Off Pentelaria, Curlew;
at Malta, DIA. 25. Osplen and Seaman; at Gibraltar,
Die. 80, EWA asslo3cqpa.

limistipplied out ol the het Insoles tor the Quarter
t
_I 4 inities WWI= dOerberairlies
ye GI 1264,670, the Iletpluo ahareed to:th; aittk4:
Feed hce the meld (hurter, elidlerty applied t2,193,912
Ibl gybed to Supply Itildese in the Quarter
add kaarmy 6, 1639:
00 el the OounOdafad Fund P6,732,746
Owlet Fachepter Heeds 43 09,960
Oat at Zzabooseellills
Chose at the Oneeildated Fund for the Quarter ended 13,390,226
feeeeralfiar, eln.:
et ON Poratenest Debt £3,807,996
Tersdralle Debt. 673,212
Lime et Deishesy Bill 6O
Ile Clidi lit
011er Choose en Oneelleated Fund 367,756
Mennen tor Mks Works, &0...« 196,047
a 1,143,166
Ilikete et Antenut received for Ezelequer B.M. appro.
ritirlilivaitiglbra t t°
Bueli rim' remaijg2l
230,6
16=Dalmee hoptel On ot the Oterolidated
err the theerler mild January 3,1659, do. :
Orest Mak
Irani ......

5464.068
••••••• 464.068

THE CIVIL BERVICE.—Mr. Frannie Roar lias
been appointed mulattos examiner, in the Audit-office,
Somerset-bonne, vice Bidwell, resigned. Mr. George Mood-
eon Ma been appointed mmeyor-general of tonnage, under
the Merchant Shipping Age. 1864, In Leaden. Mr. F.
Dalin has been appointed dueoghlansa Ile the surveyor.
general of tonnage, in Diadem 11r. I. Paxton has been
appointed to be landing wetter in London. Mr. A.
Angelo has been appointed desk for general business in
London. Mr. W. EL rhstilme bks been appointed clerk in
the Comptroller of AoreMete, Loudon Docks. Mr.
W. C. Meeleas, whale pee from the controllership
at Dover to the milesionalp at Tram we announced last
week, has endassod elteedeas with Mr. Ferris the collector
at Portsmouth. Mr. Robert Marc has been promoted
from the mould to the lest dem efsearchers at Leith. Mr.
Peter IL SWIM hes bees promoted from the third clue to
the MONA 11.211 de searchers at Leith. Mr. Valentine
Selght beim promoted from the fourth to the third
elms of megehen at Leith. Mr. F. A. Galledy, clerk at
Corfu, her been appointed depot, ordnance storekeeper at
Malta. Vile rem. Messrs. Mlithell and Baker have been
&WM,' tommaterishills at Um Tower. A clerkship is
Ivaseat et _ dwwier Gaseste. • _

COLIMOSI CRf TIM SCOTTISH CENTRAL. RAILWAY.
—An natertemeb slabs of an express and goods train
occurred at the Larbert Junction of the Scottish Central
Railway, on the Swift of Tuesday, about five o'clock. A
fast paigsw, er aqwees train, wee reseeding is the
oodles* Mogi= b Malaga% ma a pea train was
at the ease See es Ife Iha geksg the merge direction.
The meal dam* Opal was displayed to the ap
=peer, which, stately, seems not to has =aern
or attended to, end the danger was Lambast before the
engine was seemed or the basks applied le the sprees
train which eengetrestly sea Leto ilie
Will train with
such 'fora that Wyse geode trucks were actually shivered to
pieces, and piled up a mars, wreck uges the line, the
tender of the sires Sig, with the grime el the col-
lides, thrown of the lies. t h asesher WS se saddest of
a fatal character took piss. Ws learn SS a Ns. Dunes,
belonging so Larbert, salved some foreleg, thou 6 not
serious ones ; and that the guard, eased Andrew Beaks,
gOOd deal bruised. The passengers, WI re coarse we a
was
a deal frightened, and were Jolted eensid bl; by the
sadder shock II the goilbiOn.—Girisgws Drug Yea

, tootir.:

THE WAR.

MANIFESTO OF THE CZAR. '

In an extraordinary supplement of the Journal de
Polersbourg of the 28th December we find the
following document :
" By the grace of God, we, Nicholas the First,
Emperor and Autocrat of All the Rossi's, &a, &c.,
&c., make known :
" The causes of the war, that which luta, are well
understood by our beloved Russia. The country
knows that neither ambitious views, nor the desire
of obtaining new advantages to which we had no
right, were the motives for those acts and circum-
stances that have unexpectedly resulted in the ex-
isting straggle. We had solely in view the safe-
guard of the solemnly roognised immunities of the
orthodox church and of oar co-religionists in the
East. But certain governments, attributing to us in-
terested and secret intentions that were far from our
thoughts, have complicated the solution of the ques-
tion, and have finished by forming an alliance hostile
to Russia.

" After having proclaimed as their object the
safety of tie Ottoman empire, they wage open war
against us—not in Turkey, but within the limits of
our own realm, directing their blows on such points
as are more or lees accessible to them—in the Baltic,
the White Sea, the Black Sea, the Crimes, and even
on the tar distant coasts of the Pacific Ocean. Thanks
to the Most Bigh,both in our troops and in all classes
of our subjects, they everywhere meet with intrepid
opponents, animated by their love for us and for their
country ; and, to our consolation in these troublous
circumstances, amid the calamities inseparable from
war, we are constantly witnessing brilliant examples
and proofs of this feeling, as well as of the courage
that it inspires.
" Such are the defeats more than once inflicted on
the eaemy's troops on the other side of the Caucasus,
notwithstanding a great disparity of force. Such
was the unequal conflict sustained with success by
the defenders of the coasts of Finland, of the convent
of Solovetsky, and of the port of Petropanlovsky
in Kamchatka. Such, above all, is the heroic de-
fence of Sebastopol, signalised by so many ex-
ploits of invincible courage and indefatigable activity,
as to be admired and done justice to by our enemies
themselves.

" Beholding, with humble gratitude towards God,
the toils, the bravery, the self-denial of our forms both
by land and sea, and also the general outburst of de.
votion that animates all ranks of the empire, we ven-
ture to recognise therein the pledge and augury of a
happier future.
"Penetrated with our duty as a Christian, we
cannot desire a prolonged effusion of blood, and cer-
tainly we shall not reject any offers and conditions of
peace, if they are compatible with the dignity of our
empire and the interests of our well-beloved subjects.
But another and not less sacred duty commands us,
in this obstinate struggle, to keep ourselves prepared
for efforts and sacrifices proportioned to the means of
action directed against us.
" Russians ! my faithful children ! you are accus-
tomed to spare nothing when called by Providence
to a great and holy work—neither :your wealth,
the fruit of long years of toil, nor your lives—not
your own blood, nor the blood of your children. The
noble ardour that has inflamed your hearts from the
first hour of the war will not be extinguished, happen
what may, and your feelings are those also of your
Sovereign.
" We all, Monarch and subjects, if it be necessary
—echoing the words of the Emperor Alexander, in a
year of like trial, the sword in our hands and the
Cross in our hearts—know how to face the ranks of
our enemies for the defence of the most precious
gifts of this world, the security and the honour of our
country.
" (liven at Oatchina, the 14th day of the month of
December, in the year of grace, 18H, and the 30th
of our reign. (Signed) "NICHOLAS."

The As‘gebury Gazette, adding one more to the
already numerous accounts of the conference at
Vienna on the 28th, remarks on the result of that
day's proceedings :

Prince Gorteltaitoff immediately sent off a courier to St.
Petersburg to convey the interpretation of the three powers,
and to demand further instruetioos. This does not be-
token peace; the Prince was already empowered and in-
structed to enter into negotiations upon such en interpreta-
tion of the four points as Russia could consider fair and
natural. Insomuch as be has not taken this course, we are
to infer that be considers the interpretation violent and un-
air, end therefore object. to go further until be receives
new instructions. Meanwhile we hear that the claims of
the three powers have in reality been much toned down in
the process of interpretation, a result which is to be attri-
buted to the efforts of the Austrian Minister.

A letter front Vienna of the 30th ult., in the
same journal, says:
The cernoentrauon of the 4th army in Gailicia will only
take place in the course of the month of January. It has
for object to echelon the troops along the high roads of that
province, in order to dispose of them for all the operations
required. It may be affirmed, from good sources, that
there are from 180,000 to 190,000 men and 60,000 horses in
Galicia and the Bukowins. Lately there were 48,000 men
in the neighbourhood of Cracow, 40,000 near Lemberg, 30,000
in the countries between these two pieces, and 70,000 in
Eastern Galliaa and the Bukowina. The force of the 3rd
army, nearly altogether in Transylvania, is from 130,000
to 140,000 men, without reckoning the 40,000 men of
Count Coronini, in the Principalities. The army of opera-
tion, commanded by Baron de Rees, consequently mounts
to nearly 360,000 men, without reckoning the reserve, and
100,000 horses. It is, therefore, evident that Austria has
prepared herself for the eventuality of mating war on
Russia, without the aid of the Germanic Confederation.
The following, under date of Vienna, Jan. 5, ap-
pears in the Prone of Vienna : " Prince Stirbey ie
raising an auxiliary corps of 10,000 Wallachians, to
assist the Turks against the Russians."
A letter from Cracow, 30th ult., in the National
Gazette of Berlin, says:
The Cue of today states that it can affirm, on good
authority, and on the faith of letters from St. Petersburg,
that the departure of the Austrian ambassador from that
city war fixed for tke 3rd January. The Emperor Nicholas
rejects all concessions which differ from theme contained in
the note of the Count de Nemelrode of the 28th November,
and has decided to continue the war with vigour.

A Constantinople letter of the 25th ult., in the
Semaphore of Marseilles, say.:
For a month past attempts have been snaking to organise
a mixed police at Pere and Goleta. A commisaion, of
which Captain de Courvilla and M. Pottier, side-de-camp
of Manuel Lugeol, Colonel Lord Paulet, and 3d. Chabert,
*dragoman of the British Legation, are members, has been
instituted for this purpose, but as yet without result. It
is time, however, to come to a decision, for if the Anglo-
French soldiers and sailors sometimes sommit excesses for
the repression of which the Turkish police is inefficient,
they an generally the object, and frequently the victims, of
nocturnal attempts at assassination. Oa Thursday night
last, for instance, two French soldiers and an English sol-
dier, were seriously wounded with knives by some men,
who are supposed to be Italians.

The Constitutionnel says :
We have spoken on the authority of a despatch from
Odessa of the 26th alt., of an intended attack on Balsklava
by General Liprandi. Liam from the Crimea of the 22nd
received yesterday in Paris state, that in fact some move-
ments of the Russian general had led to the supposition
that an attack was intended for the 20th ; bat a reconnais-
sance showed that General Liprendi, far from undertaking
anything serious on that posit, was remaining behind en-
trenched forts on the road to Bimpheropol, sad that he had
not 8,000 mea in his advanced posts along the Belbeck. It
was not supposed that there would be anything serious for
some time. The roads were impracticable, particularly
for heavy artillery and ammunition. Ow soldiers are organ.
bring themselves as well as they can for passing the winter.
They have, above all, adopted the system of excavations in
the ground covered over either with teats or with roofs of
wood, or brushwood plastered over with mud mixed up
'with straw. In that way they are protected from the wind.
Already our Zoltan, have made similar retreats for their
friends the Scotch. It is a continual exchange of good
offices. Wiaterelothiag and provisions arrive in abundance
for our soldiers. They have received tobacco and cigars,
and have had distributed to them fresh meat, bacon, wine,
brandy, and coffee. Wooden shoo are expected, which will
be exceediagly welcome. The officers have received sheep-
skin coats, and the soldiers are allowed similar ones for the
trenches. The Russians, on their side, neglect nothing to
fortify themselves in their positions. Everything is in pre-
paratron for a great straggle. The Turkish corps, which is
anteing at Bupatoria, is sent by divisions of 4,000 men or
6,000 men. French cavalry is also belkg expected from
Bourgu. It is a campaign, perhaps, more than a siege
which is in preparation.
The same journal adds :
In addition to the news which we receive by our letters
from the Crimea, we learn from Constantinople that the

Turks have already had a serious engagemeat with the
Cossack' in the neighbourhood of Booster's', bat all that h
yet known of the affair is that the Turks pat the C
en ows*,
entirely to the rout and took from them 600 horses, me
of which were sent to the bead-quarters of the Allies. Omee
Pseha was expected at Varna on the 23rd. The reek
bad conveyed the first body of Turkish troop, to the Crime,
had returned to take on board the remainder as they
arrived. There bas been lately a slight return of the choke',
which appears to have exclusively attacked the years.
soldiers who had recently arrived. The malady was-alea
on the decline, and in fifteen days had oaly made 200 vie,
time. What most prevail are affections of dysentery, will*
attack the English more than the French, bat notwith-
stand's( the number of sick the mortality was not mai.
&treble. Prince Napoleon was recovering slowly. Re het
bad frequent returns of irritation of the digestive organ
which retarded his convalescence. It was thought that be
persisted in his intention of returning to the Crimea.
Captain Roux, one of his sides-de-camp, who had been mat
on a special mission to General Canrobezt, returned to
Constantinople on this 26th.

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