The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-12 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

'rho Victoria and Albert royal yacht resumed her station
at o:ewes yesterday, in attendance on her Majesty. She will,
with the Fairy and Elfin tenders, remain in attendance
till hex Majesty leaves for London and the north on Wed-

nesdr y.
Th, t merchant steamer Nile, from London to Jersey,
Plymouth, Penzance, and Liverpool, came into harbour
yesterday, having about 60 Royal Artillerymen on board.
She sai led this afternoon with the detachment.
The London, American liner, arrived at Spithead yes-
terday morning from Gravesend; and having embarked
passe)agers, &c., sailed in the afternoon for New York.

LIB ERlCS.—Staff-Surgeon Mackey, of this garrison, yes-
terday received an order to proceed forthwith to join the
army .in Turkey.—Linterick Chronicle.
CAB LOW.—On Friday Captain Thompson's troop of the
7th Dragoon Guards left for Dublin, and were replaced by
a serg► ,ant and seven mon of the 14th Foot, who will occupy
the barracks for a few days, and will bo relieved by a
party of the local pensioners, who are in future to per-
form garrison duty. The loss of the army, in a pecuniary
point of view, is felt in every garrison town in Ireland.

THE BATTLE OF KUBACKDERE.

THE ALGIERS
Orders were received on Saturday morning by electric
telegraph, countermanding the orders for the Algiers being
docked, preparations for which were making. Sho is
ordered round to Devonport, and lighters are engaged
shipping off her lower-deck guns, carriages, &c. She will
leave on Wednesday next.

THE ROYAL FLOTILLA.
The cause of the lateness of the Malacca, Hornot, and
Salamander's arrival at Bolougne, when they accom-
panied Prince Albert to that place, is explained
of to-
day. The bearing of the Malacca's machinery gso
heated as to compel her to dispense with the use of
her engines, and she had to be taken in tow by the
subs Salamander for some hours. q uently,
ad also the Hor-
net's engines got disarranged, a she hto
be taken in tow by the Salamander whilst the
repairs were effected. They, in consequence, did not ar-
rive at Boulogne till twenty-four hours after the yachts,
although they left six hours before them.
and
beatings of the bearings of the machinery, and th
" slight" derangements of other parts, would be serious
matters on an enemy's coast. The Malacca was taken into
dock yesterday in order to have her screw, its aper-
ture, shaft, bz,c., examined, although she was in dock for a
similar purpose only seven or eight days since.

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THE RUSSIAN PRIZES.
Yesterday advices were received that another Russian
prize, the Anna Maria, had passed Elsinore for England,
in charge of Prizemaster Bathurst. The Thomis, also a
prize to her Majesty's cruisers in the Baltic, has passed
Elsinore for the port of London.
The High Marshal of the Court of Admiralty gave pub-
lic notice yesterday on the Royal Exchange that within
20 days from that date the ship Rapid, seized in the port
of Hull by her Majesty's officers of Customs, under simu-
lated papers, and of which Hansen was late the master,
would be condemned as a Crown droit, the same being the
property of the Queen's enemies.
The Russian prizes John and Industrie were sold by
public auction at Hull yesterday by the Admiralty broker.
They realised very good prices.

The Royal Sappers and Miners are employed completing
the range of new field works opposite New Brompton, and
they will soon be finished.
Private Andrew Anderson, of the Royal Sappers and
Miners, who was with the late Lieutenant Burke, Royal
Engineers, and bravely stood by him to the last, although
he could not save him from. the Russians, is now out of all
danger from his wounds, and is employed as a confidential
orderly to Major George Bent, Royal Engineers, at Varna.
It is expected the Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance will
bestow some substantial mark of special favour upon him
when he returns home, should nothing be done before that
time.

Th.© following interesting letters have been re-
ceived from the seat of war in Asia
" IK.ARs, Aug. 7.—1 have at length to report a great
battle and a shameful defeat.
" My last letter, containing only an account of some
recent skirmishes and fresh illustrations of Zarif Pasha's
utter unfitneis for the post which he here fills as Corn-
' rnancler-in-Chief of the army, was more than half written
when an advance of the Russians toward& our camp set
everybody in motion, and myself among the rest. This
was on Friday last. On came the hostile battalions in
formidable and imposing orders across the plain which
separates the two camps, their artillery, infantry, and
cavalry being clearly distinguishable as they rapidly
advanced. On reaching the mid distance between their
own an d the Turkish outposts. they halted, in seeming
expectation that their apparent offer of battle would be
accepted by the 111ushir.,_ but, this being declined, after
an hour or two's delay they slowly returned to their own
tents, and we in.the Turkish camp added another to our
already numerous • imprecations loud and deep' at this
seemingly fresh instance of Zarif Pasha's cowardice.
The interruption, short as it had been, put it out of my
power to finish my half-written despatch and forward it
in time for Monday morning's post from Erzeroum ; and
I, accordingly, breathed a supplemental `blessing' on
the author of our disappointment, At that time, how-
ever, T. know not the special cause of the Turkish gene-
ral's refusal to accept the proffered challenge ; but a few
hours later I and the rest of `the many' learnt that this
time It had a justifying reason, and was to be followed
i forthwith by action on his own part.
" For the sake of completeness in my narrative of what
followed, it is necessary to mention that oa the 3d inst. an
aide-de-camp arrived from Bayazid with the double intel-
ligence of the defeat of 8,000 Turks under Selim Pasha (do
not confound hint' with the commander of the same name
on the coast of Circassia), by a superior force of 11,000 Rus-
sians, and of the advance of a body of the enemy 8,000
strong upon Erzeroum. With reference to the former piece
of news, I may mention that this defeat, which cost the
Turks, 1,800 men in killed, wounded, and prisoners, re-
sulted directly from the disobedience Of the commander
to certain explicit orders sent from this by Khourschid
Pasha (Guyon). The latter general had directed Selim
Pasha to stand entirely on the defensive till the occur-
rence of a specified and expected movement of the enemy;
but " wise in his own conceit," the Turk—like many
others of his fellows—set at nought Guyon's instructions,
attacked the Russians, and suffered the predicted conse-
quence of a defeat. But this news was of less moment
than the reported advance upon Erzeroum, which was
soon confirmed by the arrival of spies and scouts, who
affirmed that the hostile division had already reached
Toprakah3, and what was of greatest importance of
all— was a portion of Bebutoff's army (our neighbours
at Hadjivelekey), which was intended to attack us in the
rear, while Bebutoff himself fell upon us in front with
the remainder of his force. Here was startling news
for Zarif Pasha and his fellow-imbeciles. Their flurry
and alarm were amusing to witness. • What was to be
done ? The Mushir himself, unable to conceive a step in
any direction, called together his Turkish generals and
besought counsel ; but their suggestive faculties were
little clearer or more lively than Isis own. Pasha This
proposed one thing, which Pasha That declared to be
suicide and advised something else, which in its turn was
overruled by Pasha The other, who denounced both
plans as certain to end in defeat, and yet was unable to
suggest a third. Orthodox advisers, therefore, failing to
get him out of his difficulty, the Mushir at last was
driven to the unwelcome necessity of falling back upon
his dernier ressort—Guyon. This general had already
seen at a glance the only course suggested by the cir-
cumstances, and consequently counselled an immediate
attack upon the now weakened force of Bebutoff ; and
then, after its defeat, a similar course in reference to the
column which was behind towards Erzeroum. Taken
thus in turn, there could be no reasonable doubt as to
the destruction of both. This was on the evening of
the 3d. Guyon's plan was to make a night march
that same night, and attack the Russians at dawn
of the 4th. The nervous Commander-in-Chief, with a
faint heart and sinking pulse, agreed to the proposal,
but declared that its execution must be put off till the
6th, as the 4th and sth were unlucky days in the Turkish
calendar, being in the sign of the Ram or Crab, or some
equally fatal and not-to-be-thought-of conjunction. It
was in vain that General Guyon endeavoured to override
this superstitious objection. Zarif Pasha had made a
wonderful concession in consenting to a fight at all ; but
the Ram and Crab were considerations not to be yielded
to any amount of argument or persuasion Khourschid
Pasha could call to his aid, and so the attack upon the
Russians was finally fixed for the dawn of Sunday, the
6th, On Friday, as already mentioned, the enemy ap-
peared in the plain, but for the reasons now specified
were allowed to exhibit themselves to no purpose.
"Accordingly, on the evening of the sth it became
known in the camp that the Mushir had at length
" screwed up his courage to the sticking place," and
that sunrise on the following morning would witness a
trial of strength between the two armies. He himself
rode through the camp personally to communicate his
intention and encourage the men, who heard the news
gladly. Ammunition was distributed, on the backs of
mules, from the magazine to the various regiments; arms
- were individually " looked to," and little groups were
i assembled at all points in eager and seemingly confident
discussion of the probable result of the coming fight.
• At the evening parade, the cries of "Long live the
Sultan" were given with such a strength of lung as the
hills around Hadjivelekey had never echoed before, and
OFFICERS FROM THE EAST. the men retired to their tents to eat their—to many
following officers come home from the East on me- their last—pilaff in spirits of uproarious satisfaction
n Leet, 815th Regiment; Assistant-Surgeon was, that the army should march an hour or so after
diThcalaccrtificate :—Lientenant Stevenson, 20th Regiment ; with the morrow's prospect. Khourschid Pasha's plan
Assistant-Surgeosunset, so has to have the benefit of the moonlight en
Capt.
route, and be ready to make the attack at early dawn.
ford
Pack Beres , BA. ; Captain G. Rhodes, 94th Regi-
The ' importance of this was forcibly impressed th
went, attached to the commissariat department, and Major
and peut.-Colonel Tierney, Mushir,but his evil genius--or, in plainer phrase,upen hise
Atkinson, let Royals; Major-General Cater, R.A. ; Ca
Reginlhaeenet'permission to proceed forthwith 1 stupidity—could not sufficiently perceive it to secur his
1 attention to it, and the appointed hour came, but
to England
on very urgent private affairs. Second Class
Staff Surgeon Dr.'Mapleton N
Coldstreamrth e Y '
surgeon of the brought no order for the troops to move. This was
is appointed to act as staff blunder No. 1, and its fruits will be seen in the sequel.
first class, with pay and allowances of the 1 "For a novelty during the last fortnight, the night
IdaY. Ikutilher Mrciloote I Plums be wee Nam ass doudito, and the moon olear and softly
4lostuards,
toils from the 30th Y. ...