The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-20 00:00:00

THE CIRCASSIAN WAR.

DEFEAT OF THE lIUSSIANS.

TRIMZOND, JULY 3.
Important intelligence has arrived from Drgbietau,
of further looses by the Bogie., la their war with Shang!
Bey. It will appear that Bhunil Bey has erased the fron
tier at die head of a large force, aid carried divagation and
pillars ansorg the Tartar villages south of Az terhan.
General D hruroutv, who commands the Russian army, ha
not time to concentrate his troop!, which were for the most
part cut up, discaur..glel, hall-starved, and toiling their way
through rocks and roads nearly impassable, and rendered
more so by the tramping of thousands of men and heists at
bsr.ien on • narrow leads from which they eared not to
deviate. Beside, these difficulties, Shanoil's active and in-
defatigable mountairders harass. d them at every step, and a
g t disorganisation spread itself among the Russian
ranks They reached Eskitleverebs, some 70 nib s or., the
frontier, during the night of the 6th of May, and fell upon
an sabot ide of the DaAhltes, commanded by Shamil in
parson. Tao mountainein being short of nnimunition,
wire soon among them agent in head, and the Russian host
was quickly pat the rout, with the loss of a pen.rid, en
aide cie-camp, 70 officers, tour guns, and most et their am-
munition and baggage.

ITALY.

SARDINIA.

The Eedmentese Unzette cf the 15th publishes two
laws, one authorising the goverment to farm out cer-
tain custom duties flr a period of three years, end
another prohibiting the establishment of banks of
circulation without being authorised by government,
and regulating the same.
The decree proroguing the Chamb:r at Turin till
the s:h of November, was read in tho kitting of the
13zh inst.

PARMA.
A regency of three persons is spoken of as in con-
templation.

TUSCANY.

FLORENCE, Jut.Y Grand Duke loft
Vienna en the Bth, to return by the Tyrol to his
dominions.
ROMAN STATES.

The Pope has named Cirdinal Ludovic Altieri Pro-
tector of the Academy of Noble Eccles.asticd.

THE LEVANT

*ALTA, JULY 13.

Oa the 2nd, the Superb and Bellerophon put to sea
in tow of the Terrible. Tte following morning, the
Queen, Caledonia, Powerful, and Ganges, were towed
out by the Fireband and Terrible, and goad away to
the N.E. The order., in the event of separation,
were, to rendezvous 23 miles N.B. of Valletta. The
fleet kept in eight until the .sth, when the Firebracd
came in for any letters or papers brought by the
French steamer of the 4th. Alter receiving the
letters &c , the Fireband and Scourge went out to
join the admiral
Now that the whereabouts of the Avenger is ascer-
tained to a certair.ty it would be as welfor the Admi-
ralty to order a small steamer to go and see what part
of her machinery could be recovered.
The Hogue came in on the 11th at 1 p.m. from
Gibraltar. Also her Majesty's steamer Oberon, from
Corfu with the mails; and the John Maul, screw
steamer, from England.
Our correspondent, in his letter of the 13th inst.,
mentions. u a warning to passengers to India, that
the passengers of the ltipon were subjected to a qua-
rantine of 10 days at Alexandria, although the lupin
had no communication with Mali, on her way out.
The cholera has ceased in Tula.

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Oar correspondent communicates the answer of the
governor to the petition mentioned in a former letter,
begging that the inmates of the Ospizio might not
be allowed to leave that asylum. His excellency re-
fuses distinctly to comply with that request, since the
poor ought to be allowed equal liberty with the rich, to
go where they plcase for the benefit of their health,