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

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Victoria and Albert royal yacht resumed her station
at Cowes yesterday, in attendance on her Majesty. She will,
with the Fairy and Elfin tenders, remain in attendance

her Majesty leaves for London and the north on Wed-

n esd ay.
The merchant steamer Nile, from London to Jersey,
Plymouth, Penzance, and Liverpool, came into harbour
yesterday, having about 60 Royal Artillerymen on board.
She sailed this afternoon with the detachment.

The London, American liner, arrived at Spithoad yes-
terday morning from Gravesend ; and having embarked
passengers, &c., sailed in the afternoon for New York.

LIMERICK.—Staff-Surgeon Mackey, of this garrison, yes-
terday received an order to proceed forthwith to joie the
army in Turkey.—Limerick Chronicle.
CARLOW.—On Friday Captain Thompson's troop of the
7th Dragoon Guards left for Dublin, and were replaced by
a sergeant and seven men of the 14th Foot, who will occupy
the barracks for a few days, and will be relieveg 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.

Tia BATTLE OF KURAOLCDERE.

The following interesting letters have been re-
ceived from the seat of war in Asia :
" KARS, 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 utifitneqi for the post which he here fills as Com-
inander-in-Chief of the army, was more than half written
when an advance of the Russians towards our camp set
everybody in motion, and rny-etlf among the rest. This
was on Friday last. On came the hostile battalions in
formidable and imposing orders across the plain which
eparates the two camps, their artillery, infantry, and
cavalry being clearly distinguishable as they rapidly
advanced. On reaching the mid distance between their
own and the Turkish outposts, they halted, in seeming
expectation that their apparent offer of battle would be
accepted by the Mushir , 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
seeming'y 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, I knew 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
forthwith by action on his own part.
" For the sake of completeness in my narrative of what
followed, it is necessary to mention that on 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 him with the commander of the same name
on the coast of Circassia), by asuperior 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 explioit orders sent from this by Khourschid
Pasha (Guyon). The latter general bad 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
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the remainder of Lis force. Here was startling news
for Zarif Pasha and his fellow-imbeciles. Their flurry
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any directicn, called together his Turkish generals and
besought counsel ; but their suggestive faculties were
little clearer or inure lively than his own. Pasha Tnis
proposed one thing, which Pasha That declared to be
iei de and
nelse, which in its turn was
plans as certain to end in defeat, and yet was unable to
overruled dby advisedpasha something else,
other,
who denounced both
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 (fernier 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 •iimilar course in reference to the
column which was behind towards Erzeroum. Taken
this in turn, there could be no reasonable doubt as to
the destruction of both. This was on the eveHing of
the 3d. 3ds.ain
11Guyon'sight, planand
attack the
niaknussians at dawne a night march
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of the 4th. The nei vous 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
cal:Aadar, being in the sign of the Ram or Crab, or some
equally fatal and not-to-be-thought-of conjunction. It
atk upon the
it
was in vain that General Guyon endeavoured to override
this superstitious objection. Zarif Pasha had made a
'wonderful concession in consenting to a fightaitloaullrB;ebbuidt
Earn the and Crab were considerations not to be yielded
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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 th?, various regiments; arms
were individually " looked to, and little groups were
assembled at all points in eager and seemingly confident
discussion of the probable result of the coining 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 eohoed before, and