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London, England, 1854-09-11 00:00:00

triev'e the blunders of British diplomatists. We
must now " stake our all upon a cast, and stand
the hazard of the die." When we have taken posses-
sion of the Crimea, captured its citadel and arsenals,
and destroyed its fleet, then, and not till then, will
Austria act up to her professions. Then will she
discern a casus belli in the contemptuous refusal
of Russia to listen to her advice, her entreaties,
her *threats. Them will she be prepared to join
the allies, and to struggle for advantages for her-
self which she has not merited, for conditions
which it would be as dangerous to entrust to her
hands as to those of Russia herself.

The commercial difference, we all know, to be
vast indeed, and we and they are equal gainers
by the change. We anticipate, with entire confi-
dence, the same results at the Cape of Good Hope.
It will certainly cost us no more millions for
miserable border warfare ; the colonists will know
better how to protect themselves. On the other
hand, a resident Parliament, acquainted with the
country it governs, interested in its prosperity,
and trusted by its, inhabitants, will remove every
legislative obstruction to prosperity, will faci-
litate every improvement, will inspire confi-
dence in English as well as Colonial capitalists,
and, by diffusing feelings of self-reliance and
security, will impart a new energy to all classes
in the colony—a colony which, with its new Con-
stitution, is now emphatically the Cape of GOOD
HOPS.

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR.

The following are our latest telegraphic de,

spatches :

DESTRUCTION OF ODESSA.
VIENNA, SUNDAY MORNING.

General Krusenstern has ordered the inhabitants
of Odessa to reduce the city to ashes if the allies
should attempt to take it, and then to retire to

It appears that the expedition against the Crimea
had departed from Varna and Baltchik on Satur-
day week ; that it consisted of about sixty thou-
sand of the allied troops, of which about three-
fifths or thirty-six thousand were French,
and about two-fifths, or twenty-four thousand,
English. In addition to this powerful body,
there would be a Turkish corps of from ten to
twenty thousand. A body of Marines, too, were
at their own special instance and request to be
allowed to co-operate with their military brethren;
so that about eighty thousand picked men—per-
haps the finest troops in the world—would be
brought into the field, supported by a correspond-
-1 ing park of artillery, and in some instances by the
broadsides of our ships of war. There is nothing
which the AUTOCRAT can oppose to such a force
with any reasonable prospect of success. The
Russians may embarrass our landing, but that is
all; and we have but little, if any, doubt, that it
has already been accomplished, and that the Rus-
sians, if they dared to show in the field, have, as
our Yankee brethren would remark, received " a
pretty considerable tarnation thrashing." The

Tiraspol.

The proclamation concludes—" Woe to those
who remain behind or attempt to extinguish the
fire."

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, SEPT. 9,

Her Majesty embarked in the royal yacht Fairy yes-
terday afternoon, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal,
Princess Alice, and the Earl of Aberdeen, and proceeded
to Southampton, where her Majesty and the Royal
party went on board the Egyptian steam-yacht, }ult by
order of his Highness the late Pacha of Egypt. The
Queen inspected the Yessel, and the officers on board had
the honour of being presented. The Duchess of Wel-
lington, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Lord Charles
Fitzroy, the Hon. Colonel Phipps, and Major-General
Berkeley Drummond, were in attendance.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta
Bruce dined with the Queen.

ENTRY OF THE AUSTRIANS INTO
BUCHAREST.
VIENNA, SATURDAY.

Letters from Bucharest state that Count Coronini
entered that city on the 6th (Wednesday), at the
head of 4,000 Austrian troops, and that they were
enthusiastically received by the population.
Dervish Pacha had established a Provisional
Administrative Council, and named Prince Canta-
cuzeno the President.

The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town on Saturday
from Osborne. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived at Black-
heath on Saturday from a ♦isit to the Queen.
Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial
Office to the Governors of Hong Kong, Ceylon, and
Malta.

THE 'EXPEDITION TO THE CRIMEA.
The expedition of the allied forces was to con-
centrate off Sebastopol yesterday (Friday).

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SAILING OF TIM ALLIED FLEET.
All the ships left Varna on the 2d September,
and those at Burgas 13f.3, sailed on the 31st August
with an immense number of transports in tow. It
would not be in sight of the Crimea before the
Gth, at the earliest.

DEPARTURE OF THE KING OF
PORTUGAL FOR LISBON.

eyes of England, of Europe are now upon them.
Relying on the valour and enthusiasm of our
gallant forces (French as well as English), certain
that they will vie with each other in deeds
of gallant daring, we patiently abide the issue,
confident that the cause of justice and of honour
will prevail to the confusion of the blood-thirsty
oppressor.

The steam-yacht Mindello, with the King of Portugal
and Duke of Oporto on board, attended by the Vis-
count Carreiri, Count Sarmento, &c., left Cowes Roads
on Saturday, at 4 p.m., for Portugal. She got under
weigh at 2 o'clock to await the arrival from Southamp-
ton of the Brazilian mail-packet which is to accompany
the Mindello to the Tagus. Her Majesty the Queen and
Prince Albert went into Cowes Roads in the Fairy to bid
adieu to the King of Portugal, when his Majesty's fine
band on board the Mindello played " God save the
Queen." The Portuguese Ambassador, Count Lavradio,
with the Countess and suite, also Consul-General Van
Zellan, and Mr. Priaulx, the Portuguese Vice Consul
at Southampton, were in attendance at the departure of
the Portuguese Sovereign, with Mr. E. P. Perry, of
Portsmouth, who has been the interpreter during the
King's short sojourn in England.

EVACUATION OF GALATZ BY THE
RUSSIANS.
Accounts from Hermannstadt state that the Rus-
sians evacuated Galatz on the 4th inst.
The navigation of the Danube is free.

FRENCH TROOPS FROM THE. BALTIC.
"PARIS, Sunday.—KlEL, Bth.—Six ships, hav-
ing on board French troops returning from the
Baltic, have anchored here.
"The greater part of the fleet is in sight,"

The Cape of Good Hope is now added to the
ist of British Colonies.. British, not in the sense
of which St. Helena or Labuan are so, but
because it participates in British liberties
maintained by British institutions ; and because
it is united to our Crown, not by military force,
but by the interchange of loyalty on the one part
and protection on the other. All self-governing
states have a common bond of sympathy, just as
all despots and aristocracies sympathise with each
other against their peoples. Such states may
quarrel amongst themselves, but they will be as
one against the monarch who would enslave
them by Russian or Austrian notices of order ;
or even against the interference of any external
power. Witness the American Union. The
result will be the same in the case of our numerous
colonies ; just as they become free, and united,
in reality, only federally with the mother country
and each other, will they all be interested
in the weal of the great whole of which they form
a part. They may have, possibly, some angry
dispute now and then, with a pragmatical and
conceited Colonial Secretary, just as some part of
England or Scotland may quarrel with the admi-
nistration of the Home Secretary ; but just as
little will they think of severing connection.
Downing-street is beginning to know its place ;
it will cease to intermeddle where the only re-
wards are rebuffs, and humiliations, and will limit
itself to the formalities and the simple realities in
which colonial connection will henceforth consist.
The first of July was, indeed, a proud day for
the - Cape Colony, the day of its emancipation
from clerks and red tapists at home, and the birth-
day of its admission to British franchises, a result
gained by the patriotism of its Srocrauctsonts and.
FAIRBAIRNS, and the firmness of its populatio
But for this Earl GREY and his worthy successors
might still have been the distant Czars of a sup-
pressed and bureau-governed community, and the
moral atmosphere of South Africa have been
tainted by the vices of shiploads of English con-
victs. It is interesting to imagine how the gene-
rations of some disteent period, when the colony
shall have swelled into a populous state, will read
with admiration of the holy struggle of their pri-
mitive forefathers for the purity of their native
soil, and with, feelings we will not describe of the
tyrannical temper of ignorant Colonial Secretaries.
They will then thank HEAVEN that there were
British !douses of Parliament and a British press
where their complaints could be heard, and the
domineering compelled to give way ; and what-
ever may be then the precise political relation to
the mother country, attachment and pride in
their origin and inherited Constitution are sure to
be among their chief sentiments. It is not easy
to see, indeed, what now remains to engender
serious quarrels b.:A ween Britain and her Free
Colonies. If they chose to ask the power to fix
their own civil list, and to take their own course
in Church and State matters, no Minister now
dares refuse them. Free Trade has put an end to
the most futile of all causes of disagreement, and
there is scarcely conceivable ground for a diffe-
rence. It is just possible an unpopular Governor
might be nominated, but he must soon be recalled.
Indeed there seems no reason why the old prac:
tice, of the Colonies electing their own Governor,
subject to the approbation of the Crown, should not
be restored. Even on the present plan, however,
of the Crown nominating the Colonial Governors di-
rectly, the instances of favouritism and nepotism will
become much fewer. It will not suffice that 1a
young man of high connexions needs to be
weaned from gambling. If our aristocracy
retains these appointments, for this is what is
really meant by keeping them in the hands of the
Crown, it must do so by sending out governors
qualified by character, ability, and thorough
respect for the principle of Parliamentary su-
premacy, to govern these little free sub-kingdoms.
In them, as at home, the central authority must
be of no party, but be content to hold the balance
between the ins and the outs, and to give effect
to the decisions of the majority.
We said the Ist of July was a proud day fOr
the Cape—we might have said it was so for Eng-
land. It is surely the glory of our Empire to see
all its parts pervaded by the great political sys-
tem which is the boast of Britain itself. In-
deed till this is the case, till there is a circuz
lation throughout of the vivifying principle of
constitutional representation, .our dependencies
are rather attached to us like ornaments, or more
frequently like burdens, and form no living part
of the whole body. It is our justest pride to give
birth to free communities, not to little despotisms.
NICHOI,AS unites Finland, Poland, Bessarabia,
the Cossacks, and the whole list of his circum

DESTRUCTION OF THE FORTIFICATIONS
OF BOMARSUND.
The Aftonbladet of Stockholm, of the sth, an-
nounces that the allied forces began on the Ist to
raze the fortifications of Bomarsund.

THE PRINCIPALITIES—THE PROCLAMA-
TIONS OF DERVISH PACEIA AND GE-
NERAL .EIESS..
BUCHAREST, Aug. 30.—Annexed is the procla-
mation of Devish Pasha, dated the 29th instant,
the terms of which have caused much displeasure
to the inhabitants of Bucharest. It was issued a
few days afte' that of the Austrian General Co-
ronini, the coitents of which, on the contrary, had
given a great deal of umbrage to the unfortunate
people who vere promised the blessings of peace
and order at their hands. There is something
mysterious about the fate of this proclamation ;
a copy of is is not to be procured by either of
the means generally successful in procuring any-
thing in - this world—love or money. Anxi-
ous inquirers are informed at the stationers'
shops that it has been suppressed, that its circula-
tion and ?lacardation (a word humbly suggested
for adoption) are prohibited, and that one unfor-
tunate individual has been made a prisoner for
having read it aloud. Of the terms in which it is
conceived) your correspondent is only aware of those
which, in addition to the handsome promises above
mentioned, direct. the Wallachians generally, and
the Government in particular, to lay all their
wants and'complaints before the general who signs
the document, and who is or will be in a position
to administer to them in every respect. The feel-
ings of the people on reading this document may
be well described by the vulgarism of "out of the
frying-pau into the fire ;" the Russians being well
represented by the culinary utensil, and the Aus-
trians by the devouring element.

' The Austrians, to the number of about 25,000
men, have actually crossed the frontier. One bri-
gade has been directed on Krajova,• and two others
are within two or three days' march of this place.
Their entry is looked forwarded to by the curious
with great anxiety.

DERVISH PASHA'S ADDRESS.
" Wallachians,—His Imperial Majesty the Sultan,
our gracious Sovereign, in his great and fatherly care for
all his subjects, without exception, has been pleased to
give a fresh proof of his goodness in naming me his im-
perial commissioner for the principality of Wallachia, in
order that I may watch over your welfare, and restore
that order which has so unfortunately been destroyed by
the injustice and despotism of the Russian Government.
While I hasten to communicate the gracious decision of
his Imperial Majesty, I make known unto you the follow-
ing _

The Sublime Porte having entered into a convention
with his Imperial Apostolic Majesty, as previously with
the Governments of France and England, we therefore
make known unto you that in accordance with that con-
vention the Imperial Austrian troops will provisionally
occupy both principalities. The presence of these troop,
in Wallachia need cause no uneasiness to you, for they
enter the country as one of the friendly powers allied
with the Sublime Porte. These troops will be in no
way a burden to you, for they will pay for everything
purchased in ready money.
"After the Russians have positively evacuated the
principalities, the former Government of the country
will be restored. Your ancient privileges are and will
be scrupulously preserved; and in this you will recog:.
nise the fatherly and benevolent cares of your Sovereign,
all earlier treaties being declared annulled. May God
bestow happiness and blessings on our Sultan !
" Wallachians, your country has suffered much, but
under the glorious rule of our Sovereign all will again
prosper. Trusting that circumstances will soon permit
a more happy development of it, you must continue to
obey the laws under which you are governed, and to
preserve for them that sentiment of respect which is so
indispensable to the happiness and prosperity of any
country. Under such circumstances, nothing will be
more easy or more agreeable than to maintain the public
order and tranquillity, with the care of which I have been
charged by our august Sovereign,
"I place all my reliance in your sentiments of devo-
tion and fidelity to his Imperial Majesty, our beloved
Sovereign, and in your loyal affection for the country
which has given you birth.
(Signed) DBRVISH,
Imperial Ottoman Commissioner,
and General of Division.
"Aug. 17 (29),1854."

GENERAL HESS'S PROCLAMATION.
The following is a copy of the proclamation o:
General Hess:—.

"Inhabitants of Wallachia and Moldavia—ln virtue
of a convention concluded between his Majesty the
Emperor, my august master, and the Sublime Ottoman
Porte, the Austrian troops have entered the principali-
ties. They are called there to turn aside (ecarter) the
flames of war, and to restore among you the blessings
of peace. Receive then with Confidence these guarantees
of your future safety and tranquillity ; they will know
how to merit it by their conduct, which will be governed
by the perfect order and discipline which they will ob-
serve.

"The privileges which are assured to you by the Sub-
lime Porte remain in full force. I expect, further, on the
part of the authorities of the country, the necesesary
assistance in reference to the quarters and victualling of
the troops, for which they shall be regularly indemnified ;
as well as the strict observation of order and tranquillity
on the part of the population, remembering that, in the
contrary case, we shall proceed with all the severity of
the law against every attempt to disturb or even to
menace public order.
"At the same time all the authorities are invited here-
after to address themselves on all suhjects (en toute chose)
to Lieutenant-General Cur, nisi, who is appointed by
his Majesty the Emperor commander of all the troops '
in the two principalities, or the military organs whom
he has authorised in this regard.
(Signed) "BARON DE HESS, ALF., Comman-
dant-en-Chef de la 3nie. et 4rne,
arindo, and General d'Altillerie.
"August 18, 1854."

vented territories, to Moscow and St. Petersburg
by universal slavery. The order of serfdom is his
boast. We assimilate by enfranchisement, and
glory that our offspring can everywhere govern
themselves. Even if we have conquered a posses-
sion, as in Canada or the Cape of Good Hope, we
feel that the conquest is incomplete, and we do
not regard it with unmixed complacency, until it
is perfectly free. We regard liberty, not slavery,
as the consummation of British conquest. We
do not despair of such a consummation even for
India itself. Sir CIIARLES WOOD ma
to admit the idea ; but y he unable
India will never be what
it might, what it ought to be, or even a secure
appanage of our Crown, until our Statesmen take
for their leading principle, that India is to be as
soon 23 possible governed by its natives, and not a
mere theatre for the freaks of fortune-hunters.
We have already felt the advantage of free colo-
nies. Unofficial thinkers had demonstrated it years
before official heads could understand or relish
l circumstances.n g Canadian b y
the
entire change in i
it. It is impossible now, however, to deny the
vigour infused
into
pol e v ri
ye
ath i
reproach of the miserable contrast between the
Canadian and United States shores of the same
We are assured by all
waters is fast vanishing.

authorities that the visible change is marvellous,

THE SUN EVENING SEPT.EIVIfic_.ER 11, 1854.

ships of the line will form the fighting bori.y ouiir naval
force, being more than suffici,nt to beat the fourteen
ships at S,,lnstopol, shoul,l they dare to meet us. 3,000
pieces of cannon can, in the three, hnnss i•eituited
for thsembark.ing the troop,, .;306,000 balls and
shells on the shore. An immeiliate battle is looked
for. The dash of the French, the imperturbable
courage of the English, and the emulation of the Turkish
di-fi:ion, insure our success. The siege of Sebastopol
will then be only child's play. As at Toulon, in 1793,
the fate of the Russian fleet will depend on the capture
of a work of no great strength. All the materiel for a
siege is on board—fascines, gabions, and earth-bags ;
and never in any war was the body of Engineers and
Sappers and Miners more numerous or better instructed.
How is it possible to doubt of the success of an enter-
prise entered on with such means I Suppose, next, the
army of Omer Pacba to be at Perecop, and say what
the Crimea becomes ? We are entirely free from cholera.
Not a single case er:tered the hospital during the night."

CONSTANTINOPLE.
Our letters from here are dated the 30th. The
expedition to Sebastopol must have precedence of
every other subject in any communication from
from this capital. As the day of departure ap-
proaches, the extent and nature of the expedition
become more definite, speculation is changed into
certainty, and the whole proceeding stands clear in
its aims and execution. On the 2d of September
it is intended that the allied forces should rendez-
vous at Baltchik, and thence sail to the shores
of the Crimea, if the weather be favourable and
no unexpected causes of delay arise. The small-
ness of the French contingent is to some extent
the effect of the terrible ordeal through which
the army of Marshal St. Arnaud has passed. The
troops who left France and Algeria are stated to
have attained the number of 73,000 men. Of these
7,000 are dead, and some 5,000 more are unfit for
service. There are detachments at Athens, Galli-
poli, and a few at Adrianople, and 265000 will in a
few days sail to meet the enemy. Those which
remain in the country will, however, form a con-
siderable force, from which reinforcements may be
drawn as the enterprise may require them. It re-
flects great credit on our officers and the discipline
of our regiments that so large a proportion of the
British force should be ready for immediate ser-
vice. The epidemic has passed over them without
serious effect, and hardly a regiment has lost so
many men as to be crippled for the ensuing ex-
pedition.

MODIFICATION OF THE MINISTRY.
In a Constantinople letter in the Pays we find
the following :—" On Sunday last we had a modi-
fication in the Ministry, but it has no political bear-
ing. Namik Pacha, the Minister of Commerce,
has been replaced by Kiamil Paella, the son-in-
law of Mehemit Ali, the Pacha of Egypt. There
have been also some changes in the household of
the, Sultan. The Kislar-Aghaci and the two first
Chamberlains bare been replaced, but this is
nothing more than a palace revolution. From in-
formation which I have received, and on which I
think I can rely, there will be no important change
in the Ministry during the continuance of hosti-
lities."

TURKISH FORCE IN GREAT WALLACHIA.
A telegraphic despatch from Bucharest, of the
sth, in the Austrian, Correspondence, states that
Ismail Pacha left that town on the 2d, with the
political refugees under his orders for Asia. The
Turks intend, it is said, to keep the line of the
Jalommtza, but not to push further. Their forces
are stated to be in Great Wallachia 30,000 men,
under Hassan Pacha, 30,000 under Tossum Pacha,
14,000 in reserve under Gritly Ogla, 14,000 Bashi-
Bazouks, and 2,000 artillerymen.

THE MOLDAVIAN ARTILLERY AND
CAVALRY.
The Wanderer of Vienna, under date of Jassy,
28th ult., says :
" On Saturday last, the Russians wished to compel the
Moldavian cavalry and artillery to follow them beyond
the Pruth, but the officers declared that their duty was
to serve their country, and that they could never ac-
knowledge Russia as such. General Baron Osten
Sacken threatened to bring them all before a court-
martial, which would not fail to condemn them to
death. They replied that he might do what be thought
proper, but that they were forbidden by their oaths from
serving Russia. Ail threats and promises remained
without success, It was then that Baron Budberg took
Captain Philippesco, who had spoken in the name of the
Moldavian officers, by the arm and gave an order
for his arrest, and all the other officers, with the ex-
ception of one, the son -of -nn old officer in the Russian
service, met the same fate.. The Moldavian Hetman,
Maurokordato, was ordered to declare to the soldiers
of the Moldavian militia, in the name of General Bud-
berg, that the humblest among them was worth more
than Captain Philippesco,' to which the soldiers unani-
mously exclaimed that it was a falsehood. The soldiers
then wished to rescue their officers by force, and were
only prevented from the attempt by the entreaties of
Captain Philippesco, and they retiree! to their barracks
uttering curses against the Russians."

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The state of affairs in Little Wallachia is said to
be extremely unsettled, and the government of
Sarni Paella causes great discontent.

THE WHITE SEA.
The St. Petersburg journals contain the
.ng intelligence froth the White Sea :

"The village of Pushlata, in Oneiga, district, consist-
ing of 40 farmhouses and a church, has been burned down
by the enemy. Six Er itch were killed. The Russians,
did not lose a man. Three ships laden with flour were
burned opposite to the village of Susma, another laden
with fish worth 980 silver roubles, and another taken
with 150 silver roubles. The vessel was sunk, whkh
causes a loss to the owner of 1,400 silver roubles. On
the Kusk coast a vessel laden with 800 pods (28,8001bs.)
was detained, and another worth 900 roubles burned.
Finally, another was found with a cargo of wheat worth
3,000 silver roubles."

THE ATTACK ON THE CRIMEA.
The following letter from her Majesty's steam-
sloop Fury contains an interesting account of the
cruise of that vessel to the spot on which it was
intended to land the allied forces in the 'Crimea,
the narrow escape of the steam-frigate Terrible, 22,
Captain M'Cleverty, and an important notice of
the embarkation and landing experiments at
Varna :

" H.M.S. Fury, at Sea, Aug. 25, 1354.
"As we shall join the admiral to-day, and a mail per-
haps, will be leaving, I will give you a brief account
of our cruise these last four days. Terrible and
Fury left Baldjick on-the morning of the 21st for Sebas-
topol, in order to ascertain if any batteries had been
thrown up near the place chosen for the landing of
troops since our last visit. On the morning, at day-
break, of the 23d, we found ourselves within
ten miles of the mouth of Sebastopol Harbour,
and off we went at a dashing pace to within
about four miles of one Russian line-of battle-ship,
two frigates, and two steamers, the latter were
blowing off their steam. After taking a good sur-
vey of the fleet in the harbour we turned round and
ran down the coast, when the sailing vessels loosed
their sails, but, as usual, not to come out, but
merely to let us see how smart they were behind their
orts, which smartness, in point of seamanship, we can-
not dispute. We had got about eight miles to the north-
ward, and in order to take a good survey of the contem-
plated landing-place were very near the shore, when to
the dismay of all, the Terrible grounded on a sand shoal,
and was about ten minutes ere she got off. The enemy
saw her situation immediately, and was running down
on us with three steamers and two sailing vessels.
Happily, the Terrible got off in about ten minutes,
and the moment they saw Terrible was afloat, round
they went, and the time being so short no opportunity
offered to exchange shots with them before they got
under cover of their forts. We then stood on our
course, and ran into Eupatoria. Boarded two neu-
tral merchant vessels—one Austrian, the other Nor-
wegian. They informed us that the steamers had
been there on the previous evening, and they were
those we saw blowing off their steam, so that
doubtless 24 hours earlier would have given us a
chance of an engagement. However, I consider we
ought to be quite satisfied that we were not all in the
same position as the Tiger's people were. Had the
Terrible remained on shore there would certainly have
been at this time but few of the two ships' companies
alive.
" We have communicated with Niger, 15, screw,
Commander Heath, and Vesuvius, 6, paddle, off the
Sulina mouth of the Danube. 'They had no news. We
also fell in with the Retribution, en route to Odessa,
to receive remainder of Tiger's crew,
"Five p.m. —Just anchored at Baldjic. Found
Commander Tatham promoted to Shown, vice Smith,
deceased.
" A great part of the heavy portion of the military,
horses, &e., are at this time embarked, and all is to
be prepared for leaving on Wednesday next, the
ath inst. They have been trying the time likely
to be occupied in disembarking with horses, &c.,
by rowing off to the ship and making a start from
thence at a given distance, when seven minutes
was- the time occupied from the ship to the beach, and
all landed—smart work, say those likely to be compe-
tent judges. One hundred and five thousand is the
effective strength to be landed against Sebastopol—viz.,
40,000 Turks, 40,000 French, and 25,000 English—a
motley group. It will be a glorious day, and I trust
to live to see it.

sent from daesst, where there now remain very
few •troops, The Riisiians, judging that the late-
neSs of the season would prevent an attack on this
place, which is frozen up for six weeks in winter,
and where an army cannot be fed, have despatched
all their available men to the defence of Sebastopol,
Au English prisoner who formed one of the Tiger's
crew, relates that large bodies of men were sent off
in that direction. weeks ago, and the Austrian Con-
sul estimates the number who have marched to the
Crimea at 40,000 men.
A letter from Therapia, 30th ult., in the Moni-
teur, says :—" Everything leads to the expectation
that the expedition may sail on the 2d September.
The sanitary state of the army and the crews of
the ships continues to improve ; the epidemic
period has reached its end, and cases of cholera have
become rare. The park of siege artillery which
was sent froia Toulon has arrived in the Bosphorus
and will be before Sebastopol at the same time as
the army."

THE WAR IN ASIA.
The following communication has been received.
It is from Erzeroum, and is dated the 12th :
" I have now to announce to you a fact which has
produced a great sensation in Asia, and which is of
great importance after the defeat at Kars. We at
one time feared that the Russians intended to march
on that place ; but we are now almost entirely re-
lieved from that apprehension. Schamyl, at the
head of 16,000 horsemen, has come down from the
mountains into the Crketthy. As the Russians did
not expect such a movement, they were not on
their guard. They have received considerable
injury, 200 villages have been put to fire and
sword. The Circassians made a considerable
booty. Schamyl is only a few leagues distant
from Tiflis. Bayazid has been evacuated by the
Russians, who have entirely quitted the Ottoman
territory, but it is not known whether this move-
ment is caused by the presence of Schamyl in the
neighbourhood of Tiflis, or whether the corps that
occupied Bayazid has been recalled to fill up the
considerable void made in the Russian ranks by
the last battle. However this may be, the com-
munications with Persia, which had been inter-
rupted, are now completely open."