The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-24 00:00:00

cons, CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert left Osborne at two
o'clock yesterday afternoon for London, accompanied
by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, the Princesses
Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and the Prince of Leininger.
The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were Lady
Churchill, the Hon. Mary Bulteel, Colonel the Hon. C.
B. Phipps, Major-General Bouverie, Captain Du Plat,
the Master of the Household, and Mr. Gibbs.
Her Majesty and the Prince crossed from Cowes in
the Fairy royal steam-yacht to Gosport, travelled by a
special train on the South-Western Railway, and pro-
ceeded from the private station at Vauxhall with the
royal suite in six of the Queen's carriages, escorted by a
party of Carbineers, to Buckingham Palace, where the
royal party arrived at ten minutes before six o'clock,
and were received by the Marquis of Breadalbane, the
Earl of Listowel, Viscount Torrington, Lord Alfred
Paget, Sir Fred. Stovin, and Major-General Wylde.
The Earl of Clarendon had an audience of her Majesty.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Leiningen, honoured the Princess's Theatre
with their presence in the evening. The royal suite
consisted of Lady Churchill, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, the
Earl of Listowel, Major-General Bouverie, and Captain
Du Plat.

Ensign Roderick M. Campbell was presented, at the
Queen's Le Yee on March 14, by the Hon. Fred. Vil-
liers, on his appointment to the 4th Royal Elthorne
Militia.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Sir
George Couper, arrived at her residence, Clarence-house,
St. James's, on Thursday, from Frogmore.

PITE,SENTS TO THE ALLIED ARMIES IN
TILE CRIMEA.

In the month of January last Mr. Minton, of Wind-
sor, butcher to her Majesty, forwarded three remark-
ably fine rounds of beef to the seat of war in the East,
directed respectively to Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, his
Royal Highness the Duke. of Cambridge, and General
Canrobert. The beef was skilfully cured, and packed in
air-tight tubs, so that its quality and flavour might be
preserved for several months. Mr. Minton wrote to
each of the illustrious personages to whom the tubs were
consigned, begging their acceptance of his characteristic
gifts, and informing them that the beef had been cut
from prime Scotch oxen, fed on the Royal farms at
Windsor occupied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
Yesterday's post brought the following acknowledgment
from Lord Raglan :

"Before Sebastopol, March 5.
"Major Kingston is desired by Lord Raglan to acknow-
ledge the [receipt of Mr. MiEton's letter, of January the
3d, and also of the round of beef, which arrived only two
days ago. Lord Raglan desires to express his grateful ac-
knowledgments of so acceptable a present, which he values
the more highly on account of the kind sympathiesand
noble sentiments which accompanied it ; such expressions
from those at home being most welcome to any one serv-
ing and fighting for their country."
It will be seen by the dates that the small tubs of
beef were floating in the harbour of Bala.klava, or
stranded in the morass which, unfortunately, separated
that port from the English camp for several weeks. In
the meantime his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
was invalided and on his way to this country. The
letter, however, had been received, and called forth the
following reply from his Royal Highness :

" St. James's, Feb. 22.
am desired by the Duke of Cambridge to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2d of January,
which has been this day received, and to express to you
his Royal Highness's best thanks for the round of beef
which you had the kindness to send to the Crimea,
where such good things are most acceptable ; and his
Royal Highness also desires me to thank you for the kind
wishes expressed in your letter.
"I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
" CHAS. TYRWHITT, Lieut.-Colonel, Equerry."
The beef was despAched through the agency of the
managers of the Crimean army Fund. From General
Canrobert, the commander-in-chief of the French army,
no reply has yet been received.

RIOTS IN STAFFORDSHIRE.

NVOLVERTIAMPTON, FRIDAY EVENING.

The colliers of this neighbourhood, who are under
notice of a reduction of wages, have been visited by col-
liers from the Potteries, who have received similar
notices, and, instigated by the latter, the colliers of
Bilston and the locality have today been committing
serious depredations, in one or more instances pillaging
shops, and, in several, forcibly preventing those colliers
from continuing their work who were desirous of retaining
their employment at the new rates of wages. Mobs,
numbering between 3,000 and 5,000, assembled in Bil-
ston and the roads near that town, causing the utmost
alarm to the inhabitants, where, from about noon, the
shops have been closed and business entirely suspended.
The police in endeavouring to disperse them were attacked
and one member of the force received serious injuries.
The constables sharged with their sabres, and after
drawing blood the mob fled; only however for a time, as
now (3 o'clock) their threats have increased the alarm of
the inhabitants. Troops have been sent for. A tele-
graphic message has just been received from Colonel
Shale, of the E,sex Rifles, that 100 of his men will leave
Weedon for Bilston forthwitb. The police perambulate
the streets with drawn cutlasses, and several arrests have
been made. For the protection of this town, where also
the shops have been partially closed, the Wolverhamp-
ton troop of Yeomanry and a body of enrolled pen-
sioners have been called up by the Mayor.

9 o'CLoca.

Several hundred colliers have just left this town with
the avowed determination of forcibly liberating their
brethren who have been arrested.
BILSTON, Mizell 23.
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Yesterday and to-day there has been some rioting at
Bilston. The colliers this morning, after visiting seve-
ral pits in the neighbourhood and compelling the men
to leave their work, assembled in Oxford-street to the
number of 2,000 or 3,000, armed with pick handles,
and took provisions from the shops. They attacked the
shop of Mr. Kendrick and wounded Mr. Kendrick's son.
The police were hemmed in by the mob, and one police-
officer named Devonport was injured by a stone. Mr.
Gettings, ironfounder, and his son, who were passing
down the street in a gig, were attacked because they re-
fesed to give money. The son was struck by the mob
and was much hurt. In another part of the street a
police-officer took refuge in the shop of Mr. Cremonini,
furniture dealer. The mob at once surrounded the
house, and they seemed about to make an attack upon
it, when they were charged by a body of 30 police-con-
stables and the officer rescued. The street was soon
cleared. Six of the rioters, named Josiah Fereday,
Henry Everall, William Cummins, Richard M'Cann,
Michael Doon, and John Welsh, were this afternoon
brought up at the petty sessions charged with rioting,
and all except Welsh were committed for trial at the
assizes. The military have been sent for.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Sir
George Couper, arrived at her residence, Clarence
House, St. James's, on Thursday, from Frogmore.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary, will arrive in town this morning
from Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray.
The Earl Beauchamp arrived in Grovesnor•place yep
terday from Worcestershire.

The Blackwall, from Port Philip, has brought 50,000
ounces of gold, valued at 200,0001.
Loss •F THE SOUTHERN CROSEL—A few weeks since,
tho magnificent vessel the Southern Cross was launched
at Teignrnouth, which port she left on Friday week
last. Intelligence has since been received that she foun-
dered on a rock off Caernarvon, and that she has since
gone to pieces. One man was lost, and two others are
much injured.

WRECK AND NMENSE Loss OF LIFE.—SYDNEY, NEW
SOUTH WALES, Dec. 16.—The Oberon, Truscott, which
arrived here 2d December from Guadalcahar, .spoke the
Woodlark, of this port, which reported the wreck of a
vessel on Bampten Shoals ; she had nearly 500 Chinese
passengers, all of whom were drowned, with a portion
6f the crew, master and eight men only being saved ;
these made for Cape Dennis in a boat, and on landing
were attacked by the natives and five of them killed.

PORTABLE CAMP CIIAIR.—The' following letter was
received by Mr. Colvill, of 62, Queen•street, Glasgow,
from Lord Raglan, acknowledging receipt of one of these
ingenious and useful articles :—" Before Sebastopol,
March 2, 1855.—Sir, I received, two days ago, your
letter of the 11th December, with the patent portable
camp chair, which you sent with it, and I beg to tender
to you my best acknowledgments for so acceptable a
present. The chair is not only a moat comfortable one,
but affords proof of great ingenuity, and I hope it will
be held in as high estimation by the public as it is by me.
—I remain your very faithful Bent, RaciLAY."

MINIOMMOmm

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, SATIIRDAY, MARCII, 24

A decree in the Moniteur announces that the
Session of the Legislative Corps, which was to
have closed on the 25th ins.t., will not close till

the 11th of April.

Thirty-two members of the Council of Public
Instruction will bo zorainated for the year 1855.

VIENNA, MARCH 23

The Conferences are progressing favourably.
The second point was either settled to-day or

will be to-morrow.

It must be repeated that the question of peace
or war is not decided until the third point is

settled.

COPENHAGEN, MARCH 22,

The Volksthing has refused the second reading
of a bill to cover the sum of 58,000 dollars spent
last year without authority by the Minister of

War and Marine.

The session closes on the 31st.

The representatives of Prussia, Wurtemberg,
Baden, the two Hesses, Holstein Laueuburg,
Nassau, Mecklenburg and Oldenburg, Anhault
Coethen, Schwarzburg, Rudolstadt, Reuss (younger
branch), Liechtenstein, Bremen, and Frankfort,
have reported to the Diet that their contingents
are on the war footing.

SIEGE OP SEBASTOPOL.
( From the Second Edition, of the Times of this day. )
WENNESDAY, MARCH 7.
About 100 sick were sent down to Balaklava to-
day. The medical service has sustained a great
loss in the death of Dr. Chilley Pine, for many
years in the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, and
lately acting as Principal Medical Officer of the 2d
Division. His death took place last night at the
residence of Dr. Anderson, in Balaklava, and was
mainly owing to disease contracted on service in the
East Indies, aided by low fever. Dr. Fenwick, a
much loved officer of the 14th Regiment, also died
of fever, to the great regret of all the officers and
men. There is nothing to report concerning the
siege.
THURSDAY, March 8.
Dr. Pine's remains were this day interred at
Balaklava. The whole of the 4th Dragoon Guards,
officers and men, headed by Colonel Hodge, followed
his body to the grave, and a number of officers paid
his memory the same sad token of respect and
esteem. He was a most independent, able, and
active officer, and his loss will be severely felt.
Having nothing else to do to-day I rode over to
Kamiesh, in company with some officers of the
cavalry, in order to see what the French were doing.
The day was worthy of our most genial summer,
and our "leafy month of June" would have been
delighted to have numbered it among her children.
Between Karanyi, from which we started, and
Kamiesh there is a wide expanse of undulating
stony brown steppe, intersected by deep ravines or
by valleys rejoicing in watercourses and patches of
green grass. All these watercourses wore lined by
red breechesbelonging to unencumbered Frenchmen,
intent on washing themselves or their clothes. Why
on earth do they keep their camp so dirty ? " Bono
Inglis," however, is the cry of theso active little
washermen, as one passes, and one must not be
inquisitive and critical. By and by a great
herd of hungry little cows comes in sight with
red-breeched drovers poking them on with an
unpleasant vis a tergo from a bayonet point. They
have just been landed, and as one passes on we see
the ground dotted by the dead bodies, or the
expiring corpses of the beasts which cannot keep
up with the march. Red-breeched butchers are
running about among them anxiously looking out
for the smallest pretence for saying they killed oue
of the beasts, and thus so far rendering its remains
eatable. Plenty of carcases were lying skinned
near a stone enclosure, which served as the head-
quarters of the butchers, and were very nasty
to look at and to smell, and judging from the ap-
pearance of the cattle, they must have been equally
disagreeable to another sense. Then we crossed
flocks of sheep, which would have excited the in-
dignation of the poorest tap in Scotland—and at
last got into Kamiesh. It is a mere meagre beach
of mud, but the sun has baked the mud hard, and
the French hare erected on it streets of
wooden houses, all numbered the odd num-
bers on one side, the even on the other—after
the home fashion. Even the tents and sutlers'
stalls are numbered, and one reads on the street
corners the words "Rue Napoleon," " Rue de
Lourmel," " Rue Bosquet," &c., and sees all kinds
of bureaux of all sorts of authorities. There is a
good deal of drunkenness among the soldiery. Just
as we enter, law and
_order, in the person of a gen-
darme' is down on the ground, under a military
despot in the shape of Private Francois Something
or other, of the —th of the Line, who, greatly to the
approbation of his brother soldiers, and to the edifica-
tion of two mounted officers, who look onand smoke,
is trying to garrote the representative of antiquated
civilisation. But law and order, who has his
sword drawn, is triumphant owing to a charge of
gendsarmie, who carry off military despotism to
the guard-house. Then comes another row :—a
gentleman, armed with a bottle, is intent on break-
ing his friend's head with it for some reason un-
known, and the crowd around are very much in-
terested in the thing, which would have doubtless
come off only for those horrid gensdarmerie again.
"'Pon my word," said au Irish officer of the party
" do you know how this put me quite in mind of old
times in Donnybrook Fair !" he sighed despond-
ingly. Everything is to be had at Kamiesh, from a
but all is regulated—em
IC.eligtich.eaNdTetowaerwe swatch-gryla:san,
and went to our restaurant.
To our horror we were told we could get nothing to
s
eat without an order from the gensdarmerie. This
seemed very absurd, and looked still more ridiculous
whene e nttheed
of that astt respectableate wii
iob p proved
us in n
he did not require any leave to indulge in copious
drinking. Alsatian French not being generally prs representativea
el f
before n
in-
telligible when spoken thickly and with hiccups,
we retired to a trader's shop, who, in consideration
of his daring to break the police laws and of our
being English, charged us about 100 per cent.
on some cheese and claret ; then we got a loaf
at the baker's, and, seating ourselves on the wall
outside the cavalry picket-house, made an excel-
lent meal in defiance of the authorities. We sub-
sequently ascertained that it is a police regulation
(and it seemed very much needed) that nothing
shall be sold to eat or drink after half-past 3 o'clock
in the day, and we had arrived just after that hour.
The harbour is greatly crowded, but the ships are
regularly moored. On the whole, however, except
in the internal arsangement and police of the place,
it did not seem better managed than Balaklava. A
tariff is fixed up in the shops for all necessaries—
luxuries are matters of bargain. The French and
English fleets, with blended ensigns, lie in the twe
bays peacefully together. The bustle, gaiety, and
commerce of the place would make it difficult for
one to realise the fact that a siege was going
on close at hand, only that all the merchants wore
swords, bayonets, and red breeches, and that the
echoes of the guns boomed over the hills from the
French trenches frequently within each hour. The
water of the harbour is dirty, and the wells are
brackish.

of.th.e.l4th FRIDAY
i, MARCH 9.
There was a brisk firing last night. Nothing of
consequence occurred that I can ascertain. A wing
The Lion arrived from Sinope wthve-
Regiment is ordered up to join the Third
Dgetables and cattle. The Redan is firing heavily,
but unsuccessfully, on our new battery.

(From a Second Edition of the Morning _Herald.)
CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, ARCH 10.

The great topic of conversation now is, of course,
the death
the 7th the news arrived at head-quarters by elec-
ef the Emperor Nicholas. It was on
tric telegraph despatch, from Lord John Russell to
Lord Raglan,
dated from Vienna
Empe-
ror breathed his last on the 2d that the
of this month.
Lord Raglan sent in a flag of truce by Lord
Burghersh with the information, to which the
Russians refused to give credit. Nothing fresh
of any consequence has happened since the last
mail left. The firing has been very slack on
both sides. On Tuesday morning we opened
a battery with red-hot shot on a steamer, and
drove her from a position most annoying to
some of our works. It was expected that
the Russians would have attacked the battery in
force, as their steamer was in 'a capital position to
annoy us. However, they
were satisfied with re-
moving the ship from her position. The health
and spirits of both men and officers aro daily im-
proving. The weather is delightful ; occasionally a I
cold clamp day is expen.aced, hut with thisieuep,

tion it is beautiful spring weather. The men are
also re-assuming their military appearance. The
sheep-skin coats have been cast off, and in some
regiments new clothing has been issued. The
Guards look remarkably well, as well as if on guard
,at Buckingham Palace. Scurvy is diminishing
rapidly. Most regithenta haVe potatoes or some
other description of vegetables issued twice a week.
We hear now of races and appointments for dog
hunts. The railway is making rapid strides, and is
already of great use in carrying provisions and am-
munition part of the way to the front. The navvies,
taking all things into consideration) behave re-
markably well. it is quite a treat to look at their
magnificent dray horses; the contrast to the miser-
able cattle we have been used to during the past
four months is very great. The convalescent hos-
pital on the hill facing the sea has now 70 patients
in it, and more huts are being erected. The
general hospital continues crowded. Dr. Pine, the
Principal Medical Officer of the 2d Division, was
buried yesterday. He was followed to the grave
by the officers, non-commissioned officers, and
privates of the 4th Dragoon Guards, in which re-
giment he served for seven years. Fenwick, the
assistant-surgeon of the 14th, who died a few clays
ago, was buried on Sunday ; he was much lamented
by every one in the regiment. The low fever
which has been so prevalent lately has been very
fatal. Several medical officers have fallen victims
to it. Huts aro being erected now, both at
Balaklava and at the front, which hitherto very
distant region seems lately to have diminished its
distance by some miles. The Light Division has
now ten regiments, and they are all very effective
regiments ; only one I believe has less than 500
men. The Naval Brigade, as usual, is in a very
healthy and effective condition. 'lack shows that
he has not lived entirely on requisitions all the
winter, but that he has added something more sub-
stantial. The Tonning arrived yesterday with
Cattle. It is giving them brevet rank to call them
cattle.

The harbour is still very crowded, but greatly
improved. Wharves are being erected for the land-
ing of stores ; the dirty lazar houses recently occu-
pied by the Turks have all been removed. The few
Turks remaining have been removed to some hos-
pital huts at some distance from the town. These
huts are kept very clean, and great care seems to be
taken of the patients. The fortifications on the heights
are being greatly improved and strengthened. Seve-
ral 32-pound howitzers have been substituted for
the 32-pound howitzers originally placed there.
Twelve deserters came over on Wednesday. lam
not aware that they gave any important informa-
tion.

The Highflyer sails today for Odessa. There
IS no news from the fleet.

MARCH 11.
There was heavy firing all night, and innumer-
able rockets were sent into the town by our active
allies. It was a most beautiful sight to witness
the flight of these missiles, some of which, not-
withstanding the calmness of the night, were very
erratic in their course. A heavy fire has been
kept up this afternoon from the Redan, apparently
on one of the new redoubts we and the French
have lately erected in front of the Second Division.
The fire on the steamer from our battery on
Tuesday morning last was anything but efficient.
Red-shot was used, and lam credibly informed
that out of 60 rounds fired only seven struck her.
Another account says that two only hit her ; at
all events all parties say that the practice was bad
in the extreme.

THE TURKISH EXI EDITION
IN THE ORIMEA.
(Front a Second Edition of the Times of this day.)
EUPATORIA, IVIA..acH 3.
The last few days have passed entirely without
incidents, if one does not reckon the daily military
promenades among the number of them. Up to
the time of the last attack it was the Russians who
seemed to be bent on this harmless amusement ;
since then the Turks appear to have acquired this
taste from their enemies. They are as regular as
clockwork—one in the morning and another in the
evening, and always at the same hour. I have
lately seen three of them, and the impression
which they made upon me was as if the Turks
were trying to invent a pattern of a military re-
connaissance, or rather as if they had already in-
vented it, and were so convinced of its excellence
that they knew nothing better but to repeat it
over and over again, like the Indians their shawl
pattern.
They begin by going out always at the same
door, make a plant, march to the first mound
where the Russian videttes are ; these latter, when
they see them approaching, mount leisurely and
retire quietly behind the mound towards their
reserves, which having perceived already half an
hour before, the Turks come up and form while the
videttes are retiring. The Turkish cavalry rides
up in a gallop to the mound, both parties look at
each other, and thoir evolutions begin in the style
of the fight between Viola and Sir Andrew Ague-
cheek. When one party advances the other retires,
and vice versa. The Russians deploy in lines, form
in pelatons, throw out skirmishers, while the Turks
and Tartars make flank movements and all kinds
of unintelligible evolutions. All this goes on at
the respectful distance of from 300 to an incal-
culable number pf yards, which does not impede
both parties. from discharging their carbines and
pistols.
The two commanders salute each •other, and then
the Turks go toward the second mound, where the
whole thing begins Qver again. The other day,
during one of these evolutions, a characteristic in-
cident occurred. A Polish officer who had served
in the Russian army, and who well knows the
Russian soldier, rode in front of the Turkish
cavalry, and, in true Homeric style, challenged the
Russian cavalry to come on. The answer was a
torrent of abuse from one of the skirmishers in
advance of the Russian lino. The officer, adopt-
ing the Russian style of command, replied by an
energetic exclamation, saying, "You —, is
that the way you dare to speak to an officer," on
which the Russian soldier, in the most humble
manner, answered, "Beg your pardon, Sir, I did
not know you were en officer.' This scene, so
characteristic of Russian discipline, reminds me of
similar ones which occurred during the Polish re-
volution of 1831. Thus several times when the
Russians we re charging the Polish cavalry, the
commanders of the latter had the presence of mind
to exclaim the Russian words of command, "Stoy,
nalvoraget, march" (halt, right about, march),
which were mechanically obeyed by the Russian
cavalry.
The activity on the landing-piers is greater than
ever, through the arrival of seven steamers and
nine sailing vessels, charged mostly with cavalry
and artillery. Now that the vessels and the Turkish
authorities—thanks to Mascher Pasha's (Sir G.
Lakeman) exertions—have got into the way of it,
the embarkation of the cavalry at Seropolis is pro-
ceeding rapidly. Thus the Thames went from here
to Burgas, was loaded with horses, and returned
again to this place in four days and a half. A
stage is constructed at Seropolis, from which the
horses can be walked into the barges, while the
steamers themselves are only at one cable's 'length
from the stage. The Thames remained only six
hours, and took in 190 horses.
Colonel Le Dieu, the French Commissioner, has
been recalled by his Government. We do not yet
know who is to be his successor.

MARCH 5.

To-day it was decided that a reconnaissance on
a little larger scale should be undertaken. Accord-
ingly three squadrons of regular cavalry, two of
them of the 2d Regiment of Roumeli, called Hadji
Alay, because it was made the pilgrimage to Mecca,
and the third a squadron of Redifs of the 2d Regi-
ment of Guards, about 30 Bashi-Bazouks, and 150
mounted Tartars, went out under the command of
Iskender Bey.
The Russian videttes occupy a number of mounds
running nearly parallel with those occupied by the
Turkish videttes. The first to our left is close to
the bridge which leads over a creek running inland
from the putrid lake Sasik, while about the centre
of the whole line are two other mounds not far from
each other, one of which has the appearance as if it
had been opened. These three mounds are the
scone of the daily excursions. Beyond them the
Russian line of videttes falls back towards the little
lake to the north of the town, on whose shore the
white ruins of the Tartar village Meskow may be
distinctly seen. For the support of the Russian
vi-
dettes there was a squadron of Lancers hid in a
hollow near the bridge to the right, two sotnias of
Cossacks towards the centre on which the videttes
retired when they saw the Turks coming, and be-
sides this a squadron of Hussare on white horses
appeared sometimes towards the left. Froua the
daily excursions of the Turkish Cavalry these forces
as well as their respective positions, were tolerably
known. On this Iskender Bey, who had always
led these military promenades, built his plan.
He sent the two squadrons of the 2d regiment to
the right in order to keep in check the squadron of
Lancers, while he himself, with the remaining
sjuadron of Rediffs, the Bashi-Bazouks, and the
Tartars, advanced towards the two mounds in the
centre. The Russian videttes retired as usual OR
the grand guard, but before their reserves could
come up, Iskender Boy gave the order to charge,
and Tartars, Bashi-Bazouks, and Rediffs went off
pell-mell to catch the Cossacks, who, keeping their
skirmisher line, made a precipitate retreat towards
their reserves, which were advancing at full speed.
Both parties kept up a brisk fire, and the Turks were
already in the midst of the retiring grand guard
Nvlieu the Russian reserves canae up, Iskender Bey

seeing this commanded a charge against them, and
he himself at the head charged with his acct
timed
courage ; but he was only followed by the Bashi-
Bamouks the Tartars, with few exceptions, re-
mained statiouary, while the Rediffs, after having
followed for a while, and lest a few men through the
fire of the etternyi turnedi back and ran. Now the
Cossacks charged and drove back Rediffs, Tartars,
and all. Iskender Bey, who was only followed by
two Bashi-Bazouks, had to cut his way back through
the enemy, which be effected, but not without re-
ceiving a sabre cut oYer the forehead, which pene-
trated the skull, a lance thrust which glanced of
from his breast, and a cdt O'er the hand which
broke two of his fingers. Four Bashi-Vazouks, six
Rediffs, and one Tartar are lost.

About 2300 yards from the mounds where the
charge took place the Turkish Cavalry at last stood
, and formed. Iskender Bay, notwithstanding his
wounds, which were copiously bleeding, wanted to
remain and return to the charge, aad when he was
with great difficulty persuaded to go back to the
town, Sefer Pasha (General Koscelsrky), a Polish
officer took the temporary command. As yet there
was time to repair the loss, as one of the squadrons
which it had sent out to the right was quite close.
while the other would have checked the squadron
of Russian Lancers by making a movement forward
and threatening their flank. Thus reinforced the
Turks would have succeeded to retake their fallen
comrades and perhaps even some of the dismounted
and wounded Cossacks, without having had any-
thing to fear from the lancers to the right.
Their imaginations were over excited, they saw
in every stone a legion of Russians, so after much
riding to and fro the command was given to retreat
en echelon, which was also executed without any
molestation from the part of the enemy.
When I saw Radiffs, Bashi-Bazouks, and Tartars
running before the Cossacks, I could not help re-
membering the saying of Napoleon, that the only
thing which distinguishes the man of genius from
a madman is to be able to distinguish between
difficulties and impossiblities.
There were the poor Tartars with their formida-
ble infantry muskets and with sabres which they
never had perhaps in their hands before ; there was
a handful of daring Bashi-Bazouks, inimitable in
skirmishing, but by nature I think incapable of
forming a regular line of battle ; and there were
lastly the Redifs, good old papas, who perhaps for
the last 10 years never sat on horseback. How
could it be expected they should charge a well-
mounted, well-armed, and well-disciplined enemy,
scarcely inferior in force. It would have been a
wonder on the contrary if they had not run.
Yet both the Bashi-Bazouks and Tartars, if pro-
perly employed, could be of great service to the
regular cavalry as skirmishers and elcaireurs, but
it seems to me a considerable mistake that of all
other troops cavalry Rediffs should have been
brought over to the Crimea, while so many good
effective cavalry regiments remained behind. They
ase useless as regular and as irregular cavalry, being
neither able to act independently nor to act as a
body.

MARCH 6.
This morning Colonel Symmons went down to
Kamieseh.

Eupatoria begins inside as well as outside to
assume the character of a fortress. After nightfall
patrols are traversing the streets in every direc-
tion, and no one is allowed to pass without the
parole. At the same time stricter regulations have
been introduced about going out of the town.

TURKEY.
A letter from Constantinople of the Bth says :
" The news of the death of the Emperor Nicholas
first reached this city in. the night of the 7th.
The Porte received the intelligence by a Turkish
Major, who heard it 'at Rustchuk, to which place
it had come from Bucharest and Vienna; he brought
it in two days to Constantinople, and for such ex-
traordinary rapidity received the decoration of the
Nichan, and was advanced to a higher rank in the
army.

From the Crimea we learn that the works
of the allies were going on rapidly, but that the
Russians were equally active in constructing addi-
tional defences. The English railway was com-
pletely terminated, and it is said that the French
are negotiating with the contractors for continuing
it as far as Kamiesh, which would imply an idea
of a longer occupation of the country than has been
hitherto imagined. The French army is all on the
qui vive, locking out for the arrival of the Emperor,
the report of which event was received by all ranks
with the greatest enthusiasm.

RUSSIA.
NESSELRODE'S MANIFESTO.

We have received, from Vienna, Count Nessel-
rode's note to the Ministers of Russia at foreign
courts. It professes to be a manifesto to Europe
of the intentions entertained by the new Emperor,
and is the first official paper which has appeared on
the subject. The following is a translation :
" ST. PETERSBURG, MARCH 10.
"My despatch, of the 2d inst., will have informed
you of the accession of his Majesty the Emperor Alex-
ander 11. I also, at the same time, had the honour of
sending you the manifesto of our illustrious Sovereign,
issued on the first day of his reign.
"This document expresses his Majesty's profound
sense of the importance of the duties which he is called
to fulfil. Those duties have been imposed on him by
Divine Providence in the midst of severe trials. As-
cending the throne of his ancestors be beholds Russia
involved in a war, the like of which occurring in a new
reign history cannot. produce.
" Our illustrious Sovereign accepts these trials, trust-
ing in God, confiding securely in the unwavering de-
votedness of his people, and filled with religious reverence
for the memory of his much-loved father.
" In a child-like spirit of piety he accepts as his heri-
tage two obligations, which, in his eyes, are equally
sacred. The first demands from his Majesty the employ-
ment of all the power which the will of God has placed
in his hands for the defence of the integrity and honour
of Russia. The second imposes on his Majesty of steadily
devoting his care to the completion of that work of
peace, the bases of which were sanctioned by the Em-
peror Nicholas.
" Faithful to the ideas which predominated in the last
dispositions and arrangements of his illustrious father,
the Emperor has renewed and confirmed the instructions
with which the Plenipotentiary of Russia bad been pro-
vided from December until the time when the Vienna
Conferences were to have been opened. In this way the
intentions of the Emperor Nicholas are certain to be
fulfilled. Their aim was—
"To restore to Russia and Europe the blessings of
peace.

"To confirm the freedom of worship and the welfare
of the Christian peoples of the East, without distinction
of rite.

" To place the immunities of the Principalities under
a collective guarantee.
" To secure the free navigation of the Danube in fa-
vour of the trade of all nations.

"To put an end to the rivalries of the Great Powers
respecting the East in such manner as to preclude the
return of new complications.
" Finally, to come to an understanding, with the
Great Powers respecting the revision of the treaties by
which they have recognised the principle of closing the
Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, and in this way to ar-
rive at an honourable settlement.
"A peace concluded upon such a basis as this, since
it would terminate the calamities of war, would call
forth the blessings of all nations upon the new Govern-
ment. Russia, however, feels deeply, and all Europe
must acknowledge the fact that the hope of a restoration
of peace would prove vain, if the conditions of an ad-
justment should overpass that just limit which a sense of
the dignity of the Crown led our august Lord to fix ir-
revocably.

"The Emperor will wait tranquilly until the cabinets
called to deliberate in common with Russia on this ques-
tion of universel interest for all Christendom shall de-
clare the views by which their policy will be guided.
" Our august Lord will enter upon these important
deliberations in a sincere spirit of concord ; this is the
declaration which I am expressly commissioned by his
Majesty to make to you in his name.
"Toe general instructions with which you are pro-
vided prescribe to you the course which you are to
continue to follow in your intercourse with the govern-
ments to which you are accredited. The Emperor, in
confirming you in the post to which you were appointed
by the grace of his illustrious father, relies implicitly on
your fidelity and zeal. It is his desire that on all occa-
sions your conduct and language should bear witness to
the loyalty with which
.Russia regards obligations in-
volving fidelity to treaties ; to its constant desire to live
on good terms with all allied and friendly Powers ; and,
finally, to its reverence for the inviolability of the rights
of every state, as well as its firm resolve to maintain in-
tact and make respected those rights which Divine Pro-
vidence has entrusted to the Emperor in making him
the protector of the honour of the nation.
"You are instructed to bring this to the knowledge
of the Court at which you had the honour to represent
the Emperor Nicholas of glorious and much-loved
memory.
" NESSELRODB."

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