The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-03 00:00:00

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practiceel w hoof
medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thurs-
day December 1, 1853 :—Charles Slater Adams, Wed-
nesbury, Staffordshire ; William Roberts, Mynyddy-
Gof, Anglesea; William Henry Ludlow, Leir, Leicester.
shire.
In our report of the proceedings of the Metropolitan
and General Freehold Land Society, yesterday, the
number of rights to choose allotments should have been
about 800, and those the society had marked off, by
supplying them with land valued at 15,0001., to about
600. The capital of this flourishing society amounts to
olose upon 100,0001.
SUSPECTED MURDER IN SCOTLAND.—On the even-
ing of Monday the 21st instant, a man in the prime
of life, named M'Donald, holding a small farm in the
parish of 'St. Fergus, near Peterhead, left his home
to proceed on some business to the blacksmith's shop,
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situated at some little distance, and as he did not
gdet
ande aboutinsaamheifimeul.
return
ly alarmedin
side, by a bullet from which, it was evident, he had
come by his death. It was at first conjectured that ho had
committed suicide, but when tidings of the event reached
Peterhead, the agent of the Northern Insurance Com-
pany there—in which office M'Donald's life had be
insured for 500/.—was led to suspect, from the 7cir-
cumstance that the insurance had not been effected.
M`Donald himself, but by another person,
a pflillenifoul
residing in St. Fergus, that there had been,„ much
play in the matter. This suspicion wasp n''
that the life
strengthened when it was ascertained.lesame per-
of the unfortunate man was insuredby I
e third, the Cale-
son in a second office for 5001.,
and
int
the term insured
donian, for 1,000/. ; and further,tha
De
year,
and that
for in this latter office was only:/e:pi in the course
the period of the policy '
wrt date, and, consequently,
of a few days from the p
- resee twelve months the pre-
if M'Donald survived Phu. would be lost money.
mium paid on the
l'°who discovered the dead man
Moreover,
the parties
inion that, from the position
began to express an :lying,
and the way that the
in which the
body elit was next to impossible that the
shot had taken effe
en fired by M`Donald himself. The
pistol could have
the
been concerned
of Peterhead, on the charge of hav-
ing h
d in the death of the deceased.—Edin-
bur94 °°"
lug rant.

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Sheep's wool lbs. 70,336038
The total declared value of all the exports amounted
to 6,168,0261., which, as compared with the like month
of last year, shows an increase of 1,312,360/.

THE WAR IN TIIE EAST.

(From the Times.)

By the latest intelligence from the banks of the
Danube, we are informed that the Turks made an ad-
vance from Kalafat on the 25th ult., and constructed a
large intrenched camp at a point about 12 miles distant
from the river, in the direction of Krajova. Nothing
can better illustrate the uncertainty of the reports from
these parts than the announcement now made. For
some days past we have been positively assured that the
retirement of the Turks from Oltenitza had been fol.
lowed by the evacuation of all their posts on the left
bank of the stream, and, though it was admitted at first
that Kalafat formed an exception, and was still held by
a detachment of the Ottoman army, we are told no later
than Tuesday last, that this position had also been
partially abandoned, that 8,000 of its garrison had re-
crossed the Danube to Widdin, and that the Turks were
undoubtedly concerting a general retreat to Bulgaria.
This retreat is now converted into an advance, and, so
far is Omer Pasha from designing to evacuate Wallachia
that he has marched, it is said, some distance up the
country, and has established a fortified camp capable of
holding three times the number of his force which was
so successful at Oltenitza.
Though we have reason to believe in the authenticity
of this latter statement, it is no more than prudent to
reserve our conclusions for a time ; but, if the intelli-
gence before us is correct, it certainly discloses inten-
tions on the part of the Turks of very material impor-
tance. It is true that the advance of 12 miles is not
considerable, and that the construction of a camp might
appear to indicate designs rather of passive than of ac-
tive operations. Still, if the plans of the Turkish com-
mander involved nothing more than the mere mainte-
nance of a position near Lesser Wallachia, it is difficult
to see how his new camp could offer much improvement
on the strong and convenient post which he already
occupied at Kalafat ; and in any case it is clear that he
neither intends to remain inactive, nor to retire altoge-
ther before the assembling forces f Prince Gortschakoff.
At some future time we shall probably learn more dis-
tinctly with what motives both Turks and Rus-
sians have continued so long without any material
movement in this part of the principalities. Accord-
ing to the best of our information, strong divisions of
the two armies must have confronted each other at
Kalafat and Krajova ever since the close of October,
whereas, excepting some accidental skirmishing at the
first passage of the river, we have heard of no operation
in this quarter until the present movement. General
Dannenberg, who at one time commanded the Russian
force between Kraj ova and Slatina, left, we are told, to
assist at the attack on Oltenitza, but it does not appear
that he took with him any considerable body of troops,
and it is certainly remarkable both that the Turks at
Kalafat should have abstained from attempting any
diversion during the protracted conflicts at Oltenitza
and Giurgevo, and that the Russians, after acquiring 3I
length the ascendancy at the two latter points, should
have directed no operations against Kalafat.
Now, however, if our intelligence is trustworthy,
affairs in these parts seem to be undergoing a change,
and we must needs conclude that the advance from
Kalafat is preliminary to some operations of a more de-
cisive character. This much, at any rate, is plain, that
not only the war, but the campaign, is to be prosecuted
without intermission, anu 'e C ua. j , ~..-1, .r. , b.o,
when Prince Gortschakoff's reserves have come
up, of a grand attack upon the Ottoman positions
in Lesser Wallachia. What may be the result of
this conflict can, of course, be only conjectured,
but, from the details of the battle of Oltenitza, which
have at length reached us in a well-authenticated shape
from eye-witnesses of the engagement, it is impossible
not to infer that the Russians may encounter a most for-
midable opposition. We now know that a force of at least
8,000 Russians was repulsed with serious loss by some
3,000 or 4,000 intrenched Turks. The stories of the
bayonet-charges and the close fighting of the troops
prove to be pure fabrications. Our correspondent,
whose account of the battle we published on Wednes-
day, says that the Russians could never get within 100
yards of the Turkish works, and Omer Pasha himself, in
his well-written official despatch to the Ottoman govern-
ment, describes the enemy only as "advancing with cool-
ness and resolution almost to the brink of of the trench."
But this, though it does not quite prove that Turks are
a match for the Russians in the qualities demanded for
the manoeuvres of a pitched battle, prove, at any rate,
that Omer Pasha can take up such positions as are invin-
cible against double his numbers under Prince Gorts-
chakoff. These very tactics he seems now to be pursu-
ing in Lesser Wallachia.
As further evidence of the unremitting energy with
which hostilities are continued, we receive a succession
of interesting reports from Giurgevo. This, it will be
remembered, is the fort opposite that of Rustchuk, and
the only point at which the Turks, at the opening of the
campaign, failed to accomplish the passage of the Danube.
They never, however, entirely relinquished the attempt,
but maintained themselves for some time on an island
in the stream, half-way between the two forts. This
positions the Russian repeatedly and at last successfully
attacked ; but on the 21st ult., as we are informed, the
Turks recovered the island and held it, in spite of two
distinct assaults, until tho 24th, when the Russians once
more got possession of it. The desperate fighting at
this point indicates that both parties foresee events in
which its importance would be extreme. Whether the
Turks desire to secure the position for an attack still
contemplated upon Giurjevo and Bucharest, or whether'
as is perhaps more likely, the Russians wished ti estab-
lish at this point an available communication with the
right bank, we do not stop to conjecture, but in either
case it is plain that no intermission of hostilities is at
present probable.
This, in fact, unless an armistice can be imposed upon
the combatants by the mediation of independent Powers,
is the conclusion to which all the intelligence of the
last few days unavoidably conducts us. " whole of
the Polish army"—that is to say, of the The
the Russian force
g
quartered in that part of the
Imperial do
reported to be under orders for the Principalities,inonlas
cir-
cumstance which must necessarily betoken
onthe part
of the Czar a resolution of continuing the war to extre-
mities, since months must elapse before troops ad-
vancing from the Polish provinces could be available
for operations on the Danube, On the other side, al-
though no considerable Turkish reserves are known to
exist, the army of Omer Pasha has suffered as yet but little
from the campaign ; it is flushed with unexpected success,
and, if the Russian reserves now on the nificchh experi-
ence ence any such decimations as those
to
wexposed, it is
Gortschakoff's division is said to have
possibily that the disparity betw
forces, even some time hence, y
than the results of former P
gested. We cannot, indeed
that the quality of the Tu
ficiently approved, nor
a conclusion as that
known power of the
with
that Omer Pasha 100
prospects, atrial
the test of
have argued e.e
positio tile pl, .
depriv
that he in . be considerablybeen belligerent
less
Pla'ence would have sly:,
excoenr:ider, upon the whole,
k'ish troops has yet been suf-
dor we see how to reconcile such
their ultimate success with the
of their
empire ; but it is obvious
with some confidence on his own
tends to bring these chances to
1 rt of the Porte, while it would have
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clotheidgist-
Russians of any
~, - the state of war ; advancebiumtmtehdisiaep
retexett
the
r
r`j of' the Danube, is evidence that
Tagugrkr-s.attoiwn-ards Kri.ova coupled with their activity
along the whole me
we are only yet at the beginning of the Wallachian
campaign. ---....----
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SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE ELECTION.--Sir W. E. C. :
Hartopp, Bart., the High Sheriff, has fixed Saturday
next, the 3d inst., for the election of a representative
for the southern division of the county of Warwick, a
vacancy having occurred by the elevation of the late
member, Lord Brooke, to the peerage, by the title of
the Earl of Warwick. The only candidate at present
in the field is Mr. Evelyn P. Shirley, on the Conserva-
tive interest, and there appears to be every probability
that he will be returned unopposed.
ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS. WoOLWICII, DEC. 2.
—One serjeant, three corporals, and six privates of this
corps are under orders to embark for a
Au-
stralia, where they are to be employed passage to Au.
Mint established in that country, as coiners in the
The non-commissioned
officers and privates have been selected for this special
service owing to their intelligence and
duct, and have for several months past been employed
ledge of the art n°ll'in acquiring a thorough know-
-1 °
1 country. Coining the current coin of this