The Press.
London, England, 1856-03-01 00:00:00

THE WAR.

THE allied generals are busy in carrying out their
plans for literally leaving not one stone upon another,
except in their inverse order, to mark the site of
Sebastopol and its batteries. The docks, Fort St.
Nicholas and Fort Alexander, have all been blown
up, and the great fort Constantine, the crenelated
wall, and every public] building in the town, are to
share the same fate.
As to the sunken ships, preparations are being
carried out, we are assured, to render them useless
for most purposes, if not utterly to destroy them.
The camp continues healthy, and the army is in
high spirits. The Russians fire heavily at times,
and still push on their works of defence. At Tractir
they have just finished a battery which commands
the position held by the French second division.
In the French camp, the return, for a short time,
of Marshal Pelissier to France was thought pro-
bable.

In the Sea of Azoff a thaw has taken place, and
the coasts for a short distance have reconstructed

heavy mortar batteries ; and other defences had been
completed by the Russians at Arabat and Genitchi.
In Asia Minor matters were tranquil. The resig
nation of Omer Pacha had not been accepted by thr
Sultan. General Williams was reported to be ill at
The Post Ampt Gazette, of the 23rd, states that
intelligence from Batoum announces the speedy
exchanges of General Williams and staff. A British
steamer was lying off Batoum waiting for a reply
from the Russian authorities at Tiflis to the offers
of exchange.
The arrival of the peace news at Eupatoria caused
great consternation among the Tartar population,
because peace may expose them to the most severe
retaliatory measures on the part of the Russians.
It is the same in the valley of Balder, at Kerteh, and
wherever the allied armies have come into contact
with the native population.

The following extract from the official journal of
Russian military operations in the Crimea, trans-
zpitted to the Emperor by General Luders, appears
in the Gazette de St. Peterebourg :
From the With of January to the 4tb of February there
was no change in the state of affairs in the Crimea. The
artillery of the fortifications of the north, and the Carbi-
neer* in the posts estab ished on Mackenzie's-hill, have
continued to fire on the enemy.
Jn the night from the 2Pith to the 29th of January, six
boats (cutters) endeavoured to pass our guard vessel in
the Bay of Sebastopol, near the sunken steamer Vladimir.
The officer commanding the guard vessel gave the signal,
the batteries of the north side opened tire on the boats,
and our troops near the shore stood to their arms, and
proceeded towards the ravines. After a cannonade of half
an hour the boats retired.

In the night from the 29th to the 30th of January, an
tramigtm de mimeos, Borovikoff, was rowing guard in the
Bay of Sebastopol, when his chaloupe was met off the Paul
Battery by moose of the enemy's boats, which endeavoured
to sat off his retreat. To the grapeshot fired from the
small gun on board our chaloupe the enemy replied by a
are of musketry and some grape from a piece in one of the
ratters. At a signal given by the officer of our chaloupe
the batteries of the north aide opened a cannonade, but the
enemy had disappeared.