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London, England, 1855-03-08 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

MANIFESTO OF THE EMPEROR OP
RUSSIA.

BERLIN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH

A despatch from Konigsberg, dated th t '7th
inst., gives the following summary of the mani-
festo of the new Emperor of Russia :
The manifesto of Alexander 11. has arlived.

After announcing the sudden and severe illrtess, of
the Emperor Nicholas, which terminated in his

death, it says that, as the deceased devoted. him-
self incessantly for the welfare of his subject; so
do we also, on ascending the throne of Itusaqa,
and of Poland and Finland, inseparable from it,
take a solemn oath before God to regard the. -wel-

fare of our empire as our only object. May Pro-
vidence, whi:th has selected us for so high a, call-

ing, be our guide and protector, that we may
maintain Russia on the highest standard of power
and glory, and in our person accomplish the in-

cessant wishes and views a Peter, of Catherine,
of Alexander, and of our father. May the zeal •f

our subjects assist us therein. We invoke and

command the oath of allegiance to us and to the

heir to the throne, our son Nicholas Alexamdre.

witch."

VIENNA, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

Lord John Russell wars presuut at tho baptism

of the young Princess.

The Vienna Presse has the following :

Advices from Constantinople of the 26th of
February state that there was very fine weather

at Sebastopol.

Tho Russians have disa.ppea.red from the neigh

bourhood of B:-jaklava

The railroad is nearly completed.

During au insurrection at Aleppo the English

Consul was murdered.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.

Lord John Russell had a long audience of the

Emperor to-day.

A conference of the Ambassadors took place
yesterday. The debates had for object to fix the
precise meaning of the third of the guarantee

points.

Baron Prokesh has arrived.

The Oesterreichische Corresponclom publishes the

'ollowing :

SMYRNA, FEB. 28.

A collision has taken place between two steam-
ers of the Messageries. Several persons were dan
gerously wounded.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 1.

The shock of an earthquake has been felt here.
Broussa has been almost destroyed by an earth-

quake, and 2,000 lives lost.

During the night of the 22d of February the
French destroyed the Russian works near Malak-

Koff Tower, after a sanguinary conflict.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

The Moniteur publishes the following despatch,
dated 7th, 4 p.m. :

" A despatch addressed to Count Boul an-
nounces the recall of Prince Menschikoff, who is
replaced by Prince Gortschakoff, whose command
in Bessarabia is given to General Luders."

BERLIN, THURSDAY.
General von Wedell left Berlin last night for

Paris, with fresh instructions from the King.

The following is the complete despatch fro m
Admiral Bruat, a summary of which appeared in
our edition of yesterday :
" KAMIESH, ON BOARD THE MON-
TEBELLO, FEB. 24.

"The Russians appear to have abandoned the
positions which they occupied opposite to Ertl:a-
tm-is ; in their retreat they set fire to the villages
in which they had established themselves.
" In the night between the 22d and 23d of
February the garrison of Sebastopol had estab-
lished important works of counter-approach oppo-
site our works on the counter-fort of the plateau
which descends towards Littlo Careening Bay.
" The Commander-in-Chief ordered these works
to be carried in the night between the 23d and
24th of February by the troops of the 2d corps.
This affair does the greatest honour to our army,
and increases, if possible, the ascendancy which it
has not ceased to excercise over the enemy.
" Our losses amount, it is said, to 100 wounded.
"The Louis IV. and the Marengo are on the
eve of leaving for France."

THE TURKISH EXPEDITION
IN THE CRIMEA.

EUPATORIA, Feb. 20.—Early this morning, about
4 o'clock, we an had alarm, but a false one. The
cavalry videttes came in with the news that the
Russians were quite close, but according to one
accoun they had mistaken some Tartars working in
the Russian cemetery for Russians. According to
another version it was only in imagination they
saw the enemy.
The Russians have quite retired out of sight,
except their usual cavalry videttes on some of the
tumuli further on. One could see the greatest
part of their infantry fall back towards Saki, and
the cavalry towards Ovaz, which is supposed to be
their head-quarters. During the late action our
guns have set fire to some buildings behind, but I
cannot tell you what they were.
There are people kere who believe that the Rus-
sians have given up the idea of taking the place,
and retired altogether. This seems to me a rather
precipitate conclusion, and I am much more in-
clined to think that they are waiting for reinforce-
ments, having found it impossible to take the place
with the forces they already possess.
But even if this latter supposition be the true
one, the advantage will be on both sides, for we
shall have likewise time to prepare and to strengthen
our position. In this respect a great deal has been
done during the last two days.
In going over the ground to- ay I found
all the bodies buried ; numbers of Tartars were
working, under the direction of French soldiers
of marine, to throw down the wall of enclo-
sure of the Russian-Greek cemetery, as well as
of the Turkish burial-ground, both of which had
served the other day as a protection for forming
the columns of attack. Both these cemeteries are
full of solid stone monuments, of several feet in
height, which form an excellent cover for riflemen.
The Tartars were therefore levelling them too.
The parties which have been sent out all over the
field to bury the dead found 453 bodies. If one
reckons now the numbers whom one could see
carried off by the Russians during the battle, their
loss must have been great, considering the short
time the whole affair lasted (about three hours),
and considering that only one attack of infantry,
and that a short one, took place.
Among the Russian dead on the field was found a
woman, the body of the Greek Bishop of Eupatoria,
and of the commander of the Greco-Slave Legion
whiei had been form3d by the Russians last year
out of the Greeks settled in Moldo-Wallachia, and
out of the Bulgarians who followed the Russians
after their retreat from Silistria. Another woman
was-likewise killed, but carried off.
The loss of the Turks amounts to about 300 men,
among whom 70 to 80 killed. Their heaviest loss
is SeEm Pasha the commander of the Egyptian
troops, ono of the most distinguished of the Turkish
native officers, a brave man, and much beloved by
his soldiers.
According to the latest information we have to
do with Osten Sacken's corps, under the immediate
command of Liprandi. Prince Menschikeff him-
self was present in the battle, and, according to an
on, dit, in the very carriage which was fired upon
by the Turks from one of their 1 atteries, and nar-
rowly escaped being hit. Menscbikoff is said to
. have returned.
FRB: 21.—Among the now arrivals are the guir-