The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-10 00:00:00

advantages of civilisation,

tive elemen

is of aggression and war

)ns call to mind that we have to announce
to our readers that Kars has been evacuated by the
Russians, who have retired upon Adrianople. The
ceremony of surrendering this renowned fortifica-
tion took place on the 9th of August. According
to advices from Constantinople of a late date, three
of the English officers attached. to the British com-
missary with the Turkish army in Asia, Major Stuart,
Major Fraser, and Mr. Evans, were present at the
surrender, not in their official capacity, but as spec-
tators. These gentlemen went to Kars before
Hussein Pacha and his force, and were received in

reflect

EIS visitors

attention

Their stay was celebrated by ft

stivals with strew

of champagne and numberless toasts, among them
that of General Williams, with a salute from the
guns of the citadel. As in the Crimea, the Russian
officers seem to have been very communicative on
past events, especially about the main subject of
interest, their unsuccessful attack on Kars. They
say that Mouravieff was entirely against an attack,
and opposed it to the last moment, in spite of the
urgent entreaties of several of his officers. But the
troops were so dissatisfiE

I at this seeming want of
confidence in their leader, that he was in the end
obliged to yield, against his own better conviction,
and ordered the attack. Neither the failure of the
)r the heavy losses sustained seem to have,
;ven for an instant, occasioned the idea of a
etreat, and General Mouravieff, when asked in the
evening after defeat, what his orders were, is said
) have replied, " Draw in your posts and double
When Kars was evacuated the
5,000 men on the territory, under the
command of General Kauhloff
given over with the usual ceremonies
The letter of our special correspondent at Paris,
in another column, mentions that, in consequence
of the remarks of some of the London papers
respecting the Isle of Serpents, many of the
Parisians begin to fear that the alliance between
France and England is threatened with a rupture.
Hopes are entertained that the King of Naples will
see fit, ere it is too late, to attend to the remon-
strances of the allies. The Paris Bourse was quiet
yesterday,and closed at 71fr. 15c. for the Three-
and allalf per Cents.
Affairs% in Spain appear to be more unsettled.
Madrid advices say, that O'Donnell's tenure of
office was fast drawing to a close, and that it was
expected Narvaez would once more become the
ruling statesman of the country. With the view to
maintain his position near the person of the Queen,
we are informed that O'Donnell has brought for-
ward a scheme, authorising a decree to restore to
Queen Christina all her property in Spain, upon
which sequestration was laid after the revolution
of 1854. In this project the measure is declared
revolutionary and unjustifiable, and all that was
done against her at that time is designated as ini-
quitous. The project, we are told, was agreed to
unanimously ; the self-styled Progressistas in the
Cabinet, including Senor Callado, who encouraged
and aided with his purse the revolution of 1854,
finding nothing to say against it. The document has
been sent to Queen Christina for approval, and as
soon as an opportune moment arrives, the decree
will be promulgated. No doubt O'Donnell
intends this sop to appease the Queen, but

Attack

the patrols

Russians had

The town was

they who have studied her character know
too well she will never forget, much less

forgive, the pronunciamento of 1854, and the
extreme anguish of mind which ensued on that
memorable emlite. As a symptom of the hetroge-
nous character of the present ministry, it is stated
that Cantero and Bayarri are likely soon to tender
their resignations, owing to dissensions with their
colleagues respecting the law of dismortisation.
It is said that a Royal Decree will shortly appear,
regulating, pro tempore, the conditions on which
political journals may be published. The jury is
to be maintained, the caution money increased, and
the responsibility of the Editors to be substituted
for that of the printer. A telegraphic despatch,
;list received, states that the French exiles, who

laces, are about to be sent

into the

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Further details

the insurrection in Switzer-

land are to hand, but they contain little of interest
Two clergymen have been arrested

)ortance