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][RETCH. Nov 11.
The arrival of this force at this late semen ts
an end to the slightest than= of active operations
this year ea their part against the enemy. General
Vivian, =stead of heedlessly wasting most redoes
time ha *eddies= balls and bowers of thellassian
ems= pens ea the banks of the Bosphorus daring
ameba sow comes forth with hiss= is
mesonmeson= this fie the winter in the Crimea. Most
still mot Navas. Snow has set in, and the
=
Madigan will be homed and hutted
probably asst January. In the meanwhile
sickness end the inclemency of the weather
will do its week of decimation, far greater
than the sword of the hussar or the lanes of
the =re=ek, who recasionally show is the neighbour-
hood. Lieutenant-General Vivian, no doubt, while
Stant-Gsneral of the Madras Army, was most
t at the red-tape and pen-and-psper Weiner;
but the utter waste and reeklemeas loo=med in this
faros completely place his capabilities and ideas on
a par with them of the ancient rue of generals of
1793, who led their men to disgrace and defeat.
No weeder that robbery, rape, and plundering of
all deselption have become the order of the day in
Kerte, from the indecision and with on the part of
the Lisatessant.General to soothe a few old Pubes,
by weeder deg the most horrible atrocities ever com-
mitted by the hand of man on the part of the
Osmanli Wears now belonging to the Turkish Con-
tingent.
What little remained of Berta, from its first sack
by the Allies, once one of the most beautiful towns
in the universe, is now a scene of the greatest misery
and doodad" from the atrocious and villanous
excesses of every description by the troops under
On. Vivian-the roofs and flooring of the best houses
torn up and bused for sheer wantonness and a pas.
1 ion for destroying property which ought to have
Imes available for a future day.
The arrival from Buy:alders of a fresh supply of
Imeelmoss was the signal for a fresh display of the
same menet, seasheng of every cairns in the calen-
dar, MI tbe amemlintate few of the poor residents
mho mad not ester with their sere fortunate
aelghbours to a serape place of safety. A minute por-
dea of some of their soldier-like propensities I will
Ism relate for the edification of John Ball, who has
the gratification of paying for those scoundrels.
A few evenings back two of those heroes. a contain
and a private, attacked a small house occupied by
two old ladies above 60 years of age, and plundered
them of all the money and valuables they possessed.
They then attempted a horrible crime, when, an
alarm being given, they eseaped.with their spoil. The
next day. the fellows came again, when, an outcry
being mud, one scoundrel drew his sabre, and out
one woman's bead asunder, while the other
°
her skull in with a hap atone. The
Instead woman being released from her misery in
a my Wirt time, the fellows made towards
their camp _as if nothing occurred, no
Issimise diMe g to notice it for fear of
I meetiageseemo doom. Those murderers belonged
ite a regiment of the Contingent that arrived only a
low days back from Buyakdeve, and. though officially
tepirted at heaftuarters to the Deputy Adjutant-
Geame, Terkieh Contingent, Lis (kcal)
Goma, a captain is the Mathes army, no notice or
endeavonm whatever were taken to find out the
airentille, though this gallant dim of the Madras
maw, era never saw a shot fired during his career,
V he planked an elm oat of regimentals in the
amp or Meet, would order him to return at once to
his quarters, under pain of being placed in arrest and
reported to thelisatiman4'eneral commanding, mak-
ing
a fins perfectly ridwulons to soldiers, while no
nonce is takes of emassins such as I have described.
It is well known that the wealthy portion of the
Russians inter their dead with their rings and jewel-
lery attached to their prams, and it was brought
under the nodes of the =dimities that the graves
and tombs is the berigireemds were exhumed and
the dead bodies expend te imilisicy by the
atrocious ropey of the Tug= soldiers recently
arrived. A smell of the 71st Highland light
infaatry, a and six men-260 of whom are
quartered I. patrolling the town near
the alturagead the ems evening the woman was
manimedoehea they were fired upon by these mai-
legions napkin; they soon returned the fire, killing
a yes beehive the spot and wounding others. Not the
least mese was teen by the contingent authorities of
the eseinet of those men, unless to husk the affair, it
penal% from blaming public ; while the non.eommis-
mimed Mew sad rase of the 71st, for their gallant
conduit, were thanked in regimental orders. The
teen& after this affair, Reschid Pacha, who com-
a brigade of Turks previous to General
Vivian's snivel, had the consummate impertinenceto
send his interpreter with • written order to Captain
A letter from I(enkod aye:-" It is as bard to Hope, commanding the 71st, to plies the picket in
pegs= streams Mee as la Australia. A elms English- close arrest,s= to their being tried by a court.
w
mss la that °say naives from SOL I. BOA a year, with martial for cm of his seam. The gallant
miens; female servants (English), from 191. to 301. The eaPtaler the moment he reed the cede*: crumpled it
wee nu hes bees asked, but not glees. Kamse woo cap, stating to the interpreter these wee no gamer,
base U. • month, sr Mil. a , with rations. Greek but to t the Paoha how he treated his orders, and
elms, shiest all of wheys are worse this mow.. oyes if would continue to do the mine with any others he
dm ma he hawed is moo, are paid 12s, ar Hi. a year, mightsoodonthesulteet. Peaceful meseureawith these
with perquisites."
demi- swages will never teach them their duty towards
The mews for the tepees of the coal of Count may-nothing, lam convinced, but the strong iron
hand of military discipline held over them will ever
Ibli was "Tim" se Ta"day :12 the Church of et' bring them to order. No temporising or half-mea-
Pbillipps Is Emile. As eassuased, the interior of the ___ of misplaced .w..... 0 seehofa.____,_ . „,...‘
=Ms was Masters= into a &spells ardente, satirely 7.1.7..1.1.=, to---_:" .„.._ —z.,—,,,,:-:::
bug with black sad beilliantly likunisated. All the orders tTagi7b;u7"guproio" us f
etter that voni"'''''''ve some
2126 twill" of eh. demi." "" *ma " 119" d ii" design towards him, to better yon out of his au-
estealqus. Tee Bishop of Orleans °Metaled. The family ..„iotriatotes a human being-a fellow little better
se Count Mold woe npressated by the Marquis de Wert& ;is than the larger sit. hah„,„,_ as far
Mess, the Duke Vitra, the Duke de Cammatleforee, se his wad or ht -oe'er go, whe-rTa' Chris-
sad the Dube de Nominee. There were also peseta BIM ttaa is co==rned.
R`baart the Auirial °big"' Gallaral tka Da" I. A slight commotion was caused in the market-
podcool64l* thr
oefp",h,suold" MaattbelktewitrillisteZt!lgt.v.m...lll" Pholl Of Kett& on Friday last. The circumstances
--, cc. G-:,.,ci..- '-- -..a a -v.. 80dy;1,.7-.A.„,,,.-„,..,",,"' are as follow:-The provost marshal, Major
It. -- - --- ----- - ' Guernsey, and the commandant of the siege defences,
Political pereasgm. Major Hill, R.A., Wen walking in the neighbourhood
The Bing of Sardinia, in ceder to testify to the of the eh' f parr:Zoe on the heights of Bench, the
rifiddb clergy MI seas. of the very medial guaPtim which former looking out, as was his duty, for squalls-or,
be met with frees them, has mat dmeratiem to die several vulgarly speaking, to use what was going 00, in the
"galas with wilma Is be. had P"'"°l "aua*"*""a la vicinity of the late dreadful murder. At some die.
Passer--to the Aosithishop of Paris, the Archbishop el tame of, as a hill, he ended five Turkish soldiers,
byres, the Areklitkop of Avignon. gal the Bishop of esepicionsly watching a loves) belonging to an old
Itansnies. man, a Ranee with five children; they soon
A letter from Vienna, of the let, says-" The Em- entered, and, as usual, commenced knocking down
press of Austria is again is sa latereeting ettaatieet." the ma and Widen, putting them in fear of their
OAS 11l Onaorra.-We are very happy to learn life : thou plundering became the order of the day.
that the works of the Orisatal Gee Collapse are salting The provost marshal coming up to the house changed
rapid progress, mad that Prompt marines bay* bee. takes the scene. Two of the fellows, coming out of the
1ip,„,"1,0,.°147 Tthoeutask4.4l Ink stariallot. hoiacan"..T., likakb7 SheisereareSky ...idyl: i„-..teway laden with the spoil, immediately dropped
&seises waseetwa of the aaaartaiwq. as awes an sow it and bolted i. the other three wen caught in a trap
=did from the eighth vessel that bee Imes out la the yard, with all the articles they could carry
eats so the sans is Minna, sad there is every away; two of them escaped, but the third was secured
"Ina la saara la" ilte" will ==tines"mire Water by the provost marshal, and taken to the guard,
gessidlles will he my:lnd. Four sagiesseeoribee• where he received three dozen lashes, which
inn se weeks world rebels be their ilb" Mr( lIIMIPIS. he mom richly deserved. amidst a commotion of
ties, base recently mate eat end are alreadv at work %elan - -
dews males. if weave sightly lammed. The Ifegied %A Turkish Awe and soldiers, of all descriptions and
we bake useilled at the suer et Geversakeet•pleee awl games, who appeared dreadfully annoyed that his
Ike Espienser, des Masere. OM% Them /mar sad Oh, is te person was not allowed to go free as they wished-
'. at -M 62.1 with Pi° se this when us ss"/"Y is for as to knocking down an old man and children,
ready to nook gss, it
is ealy to mensal Memnon
them with Chi -ads. It glee maw *num we patting aside a little lowing, in their eyes cand-
les:, to put ay Pipig in Means. D. Wilson ce.er'sev Med no crime. However the chief leader of the
mesh so that these we probably be the bet ambush. mob outside the prison was a captain of the same
maxis Calcutta VOW with gas. la the Sensor, we wee regiment, the 7th Turkish Contingent, quartered at
deteeshil, then will be 00 Lae lb" tarty MOW. likiab will Fort St. Paul, near Bye miles off from where the
nab" a Inglis" ra " II" =a duhrushi 61 Il• delht. After the fellow received
Olowringhereplain. • bare se gas sum* at sent= were aught.
these two arms wilt be largely didiserek owl this fa hie punishment he was let freewhen an attack was
private reeidsams Menke. ell AM was will glee plass se made by a mob of over three hundred, headed by the
✓alltrit "Whig I"' "P"i"2B4 miss.„.__lllllika LAs a above Wien with Orsini sword : steno throwing and
gna et WI "1". we 7 =sidles, ""` is has bass 1" other steers were vented on the unfortunate pro-
emial:seethed...lighting dm Bowl Olabseste 7001. per ...k marshal and his soderscre, who were knocked
manes, whisk is mood to bee loom seadisn le tzpsoded "--. and would
by My abdi la IMAMS for gm. The heat is csiestee. 001119,
*sea the room Wag se =:sialk hem lbeir beteg 10 on the 'pot, if the former, with a proms= of mind
stlisr_...kaal aluouta.___ "sea Iso the me of as cod (as the saying is) as a member,
a • Pi imr. Pm ilso Erstast • had not pulled his revolver out, and, covering a
anus was esadies, sea be band are a mailer met the
ag goo, as& sew gas* sureas ease mammas. w.... fellow that nearly broke his arm with a stone, shot
bat striper that bane woo, we fogy ow wilt he him through the lungs-repeating the dose to two'
boat in every haps measles is sod fa sassy of otheriedivideab. by clipping a fellow's ear sad shoot-
the mere humble residaasse.-Beepal lbffibars. log a Turkish soldier through the nook, which nearly
Boopancar.floonrry or Lomme-At the monthly settled him. The valiant hones soon tisane the
reed mlb"11.8 bsist_rossodol as the sesietre hew, is smuts. The captain, who tamed the row, threw him-
. Got Minsk a lissadabsosi ILT . Vim esif flat on ;to fround the moment he saw Major
P:s=rilsis reek, E. Illestektea Mile" Beg., M.P.,
ad G. Neekeryirt.a,Lrere sleeted Mews el the mein% Galaraaara pdated towards bins, who bad
sae messes. A. , w thsegiey, lc B. mut lux., magnanimity enough not to shoot the mounded as be
K. Henry. E. Wsowirki J. Eslguy,_ _
_a= Albert fladm, lay en his back fiosodering like a turtle and growling'
wen reeler a ssadidsl" Mshe allewildr• The apses for mercy Ibe morel toot his sword and Woke it.
ansmased the arrival et •OM isnatisa to des reinegerie The provost
las lie Kebsty the Mts. of Pectegrelond a was wounded in the head and
""41 "I" his am malty broken •• oat of his
Z=.1841 bi l'ire=ga Mu"' 4111=1,446= sad wdooa a oorporA of the 71s= his arm
Cut
woretoo Lowey: larm
.mat oaks of raw Mem& seventy eat km a sake: The 4=y-was whaessed

Tim Nauss ostAmalaus.
(nom, pus owls oomeseersiam)
Jouturr,
aa stirs, bee been
skated Proddeat of the wow HMO of Beranek-
tires by 187 rotes. Omit fleltweria,_ the liberal

President of the late Chamber,
Lord Bloosiold Ms undyed.

AUSTRIA.
(MA OVA *WI 00=111

Tnoasn►T.
It was reported on the Ezehanp today that the
Austrian army is to be spin reused by 80,000.
Sir Hamilton Seymour arrived last night at the
Hotel " Boman Emperor."

A report is generally prevalent that the Ruda=
have taken Kam Bemoan Cl pan are also gain-
ing cansistenoy.

RETURN OF THE BALTIC FLEET.

NYBOB.G, Tivs•DAT.

The united squad:ass, with Admiral Dandas, and
eleven ships of the line, have jest panned the Belt
northwards.

RUSSIA.
Peo Cbrrogoodess of Visw boo

the following :
1

"The 011;mea Imperial Cotamendal Bank has sus-
pended its cash payments. Vaplessant manes have
marred in conmegoenee. The Gendarmerie remind
people that by refusing to take bank notes they dis-
play animosity towards the Government.
"The premium on giver is already 12 and 16
per oent."

PIEDMONT AND TUSCANY.
Di* ova ow ooisisroitam.)

PARIS, TIIVISDAT ZYINISO.

By the mediatory influence of Panes and England
the point in dispute between Sardinia and Tummy
has been adjusted.

(now ova owx 001113111.011DIXT.)
BOULOGNE. Molina:.

The Xing of Sardinia landed this morning at half-
past eleven, from the Vivid. The weather was
wretched. The Osborn* and Fire Queen followed
the royal steamer. There was no review, and at
ball-peat one his Majesty left, quits well.

TER BRAZILS. •

•-•-•-••••
OM 110110 TRIO ramompz.)

SOUTHAMPTON, rimy.
The Tamar has arrived with the Brasil mails. Her
dates as.—Rio, N0v.14, and Lkboa, Dee. 4.
Amosgit her passengers is the late Beentui to
the Resin Levities at Rio.

The Indians have attacked the Buenos Ayres
troops I the Indians lost 200 men, and the troops
eighty, in the emonnter.
Sane partisans of General Bone have endeavoured
to raise a revolt at 81-fienador. Bocce were made
prisoners, and two or three were shot. The Bra-
zilians ware to withdraw from Monte Video on the
7th ultimo:

The cholera was damaging at Rio and 'labia. At
Campos, however, it was raging badly.
The cholera has broken oat at Lisboa.

At the time of oar going tepees Booed the foreign
mails had attired.

by !lajoe Hlll. R.A., Captain Geo. Swaby, 39th lint.,
Major F. Miller, 80th Regiment, and Captain Walker,
of the East India Company's service, who all deposed
before a eoart of inquiry that, but for the coolness
and intrepidity of that officer, all the Europeans
would have been murdered on the spot to a moral
certainty. Ha only acted in self-defence, and they
would have done the same. Indeed, the latter officer,
riding up at the moment, cat down a Turk with his
sword, while in the act of felling one of thesergeants
with a stone. _ _ _

Now what follows is a sad reflection on giving
unlimited power to portico not, I may my, having
common sense to command themselves, let alone a
body of men, to say the lag of them, es I have already
stated, little better than demi-mvagos, as they proved
themselves. The officer who is in perform-
roe of his duty, outrageously assaulted by a
mob of plunderers miles from their cantonments—
saving his own life and those of others around him—
is immediately placed in arrest for seven days, and
then coolly informed by the Deputy Adjutant-General
that the Lieutenant-General Commanding cannot
allow him to MVO with this force any longer, and that
he must leave for England at once, and present him-
self to Lord Panmure for his decision of the use,
who it is hoped will take a more honest and just
view of it than General Vivian. The Allem of
the contingent are.highly incensed at the deal=
given against Major Guernsey. He bears with bin
letters from most of the officers of rank in the Mg,
approving of his conduct, regretting his loss, and
indignant at the injustice dons him.
Not a 'ennui* is breathed of Major Guernsey's
ease in the general orders of the day • but in a few
days a letter as sent to the generals of division, &a., re-
questing them to read it to all the officers under their
commemi. Ms purport of it is, that General Vivian
agents and sesamands that no officer will draw his
sword for the Angie sa eaT Turk, under any eircum-
stogies; but if they commit a crime their regiment
is to be found out, and they are to be handed over for
punishment. The Turks now being aware of such an
arise, it all to fear, and act accordingly.
prejudices, more especially when mixed up
with them politically, are to be viewed in a different
light than when large bodies of troops are congre-
gated together, such as are at present in Kertch, &o.
consisting of material scraped together from all part;
of the Ottoman empire. Instead of our bending to
snit their ideas. half barbarous, it should be the ob-
ject of the officer in command, as far as compatible
with the order of things, to bend them to the form
of the civilised portion of the army of the two great
Wises doing duty in Kertch and its vicinity. Ge-
nesi' Vivian may rest assured—and it is the opinion
of the principal generals and officers under his com-
mend—that his soothing systeni,of letting noihropean
whatever interfere for the future with the Turluhas far
as punishment goes, for any mime, will go far to ren-
der the force nugatory and useless. Their own officers,
fess the highest puha downwards, are men so igno-
rant that, if he got the Sultan's dominions, one of
them could not sign his name. An English officer
would be sahained to be seen in a tent with one of
them, so degraded, and vile, and lost to all decency
are the characters of those men; more especially when
we know and rest assured that the souse of their
appointment proceeded originally from a calling so
disgusting and so polluted that it can hardly be
named, or even hinted at. Such are the proteges to
be brought under British rule by mild treatment. I
can give the opinion of 'French officer who witnessed
the affray with the provost marshal. If, says
he, a French officer were treated in a similar manner
to your provost marshal, more esiscialldei in the exe-
cution of his duty, I should feel d if I did not
order out every man of the Prep army in Kertch,
and decimate them on the spot, for interfering with
Ostia). The destruction of public property fresh from
England is disgraceful in the extreme ; only within
the last week I witnessed such havoc and waste that
it is high time John Bull should open his eyes to the
foots. At Fat Bt. Paul I witnessed the landing of
700 sheep on the besoh, per the Tynemouth, hum
Constantinople, ordered there by the command of Cap-
tain Hall, of the Miranda frigate. No person wee pre
sent to receive them ; the consequence was that nearly
see half of them were lost (Captain Hall'. duty ,
seems to be chiefly riding with an aide- '
ds-camp two government horses, provided by order
of General Vivian, through the streets of Kertch)
by. the negligence of giving an order for the ono-
missarist to receive them. The same vessel brouttesz
300 bags of barley, which were landed on the
No person ever came to receive them. I saw a lot se
Turks, each with a horse, the next day feeding out
of sacks ; after they had finished, the remaining por-
tion was thrown away, so that oat of 300 bags only
120 remained untouched. Any person walking es the
beach for the last fortnight raid have perceived sacs-
ral oases of medicine, exposed to every danger, ad.
dressed "Thelnapeotor-General,Turkish Contingent;"
there they remain, and are likely to remain. Thomann
remark applies to the purveyor's stores. I witnessed se-
viral cases of lamps lying in the same condition. the
oases burst open, and any one that chose helping him-
self to what he pleased. instead of Gen. Vivian
showing off through the stings of Kertch daily,
with a guard or escort of Turkish Lancers, if he would
give his attention to these trifles he would far better
serve his men and the country that employs him. In
Maria he never saw service, and it is very unlikely
while he is employed here ?hat he will ever have
the chance of seeing a shot fired, with his Brum-1
magem brigadiers, as Sir Colin Campbell most'
felicitously designated them.
Major Gen. Shirley arrived here a fortnight back
with the cavalry of the contingent, and after re-
maining this length of time and losing several of the
best horses, it is now found out there is no stabliog or
forage for them in Kertch. They are at last ordered
to Eopatoria, where it is pretty certain they will
hardly be allowed to land, and they will most pro-
bably proceed to Bavaria. or Varna. Surely
such wanton waste of public money must be put an
end to,—there is no denying it. The head-quarter
staff of the contingent are inefficient and not up to
their work. General Vivian no doubt mast have
been delighted to have pleased and promoted his
friends from the Madras Army; but if the country
pays for services supposed to be rendered, it ought
to have the best men for the money it affords.
His staff at headquarters consists of the follow-
lag, where they cams from being stated
Deputy Adjutant-General, Lieut.-Colonel Crewe, cap-1
tain Madras Army; Assistant Adjutant-General,'
Major Goldsmid, lieutenant, Madras Army; Deputy
Assistant Adjutant-General, Captain Hearne, lieu-
tenant, Madras Army ; Assistant Deputy Quarter-
master-General, Major J. Luther Vaughan lieu-
tenant, Madras Army; Deputy Assistant Quarter-
master-General, Captain J. L. Parry, lieutenant,
Madras Army. All the brigadiers are from the
Indian army, the lest promoted is Paymaster of,
Worley Barracks, and one of the Generals of Division
is an Indian officer, who commanded a company in
Burnish two years back, bat never was under fire in
his life. One of those staff gentlemen, who got
himself made a Pasha some weeks ago by a commis-
slot from the Sultan, to flatter his vanity, had
the good taste and feeling to express publicly at
Missiri's Hotel, Constantinople, a short time bear,
that Lord Penman had no right whatever to sp.
point an officer from the Queen's service. Having
that opinion, surely discretion should have made him
keep it to himself. It certainly was rather an
awkward expression to ses. However, the oases of
the Queen's army present treated it as it deserved.
Constituted as at present, the Turkish Contingent
can never repay the messy expeedod on it in any
abs way. At a future period I will give you a further
detail of its proceedings in Kertob.

TEE ANERICAN Sally CONrIITIMION.—LIVII2-
POOL, TIIIMIDAY.—Thia visfortnuate vessel bee beea
bused le the water's edp.—every Wort to save her, either
by wattling en otherwise, proving ansuseewhil. Her cargo
is Bootleg about the river, bat that is the lower hold, eat-
siting of wheat in begs, lour, beef, and meta, will, it is
hew, be eared, though in a damaged State. The saute,
spars, to., have beet towed onshore near New Ferry. The
vales of the 'mislead serge is about 30.0001., bet it is tally
fussed by underwriten both in England and the United
that*.
Heonornome.—One of the most dreadful and