The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-17 00:00:00

(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)

Viinvics, July. 13.—The intelligence forwarded last
night, relative to conflicts on the 6th, 7th, and Bth, at Ci-
tale, on the Danube, nine English miles north of Kalafat,
has been confirmed by despatches received at the French,
British, and Turkish Embassies. On the 9th the battle
still continued, and the Turks had the advantage, having
advanced beyond Citale.
Juic. 14.—A despatch from Widdin states that, on the
morning of the 6th, some 16,000 or 18,000 Turks attacked
about 10,000 Russians near Citale. The battle lasted till
the afternoon, and was very bloody. The Turks took
two redoubts, one of which had been abandoned, but
finally retired into their entrenchments, having lost six
cannon of small calibre. The loss on both sides was very
considerable, but the precise number was not known. The
Russians suffered a great loss in officers killed and wounded,
among the latter General Tuinont. There was a report
that the Pasha commanding the Turks was killed. On
the 7th the battle was resumed, when the Turks under
Mehmed Pasha stormed another redoubt. The loss of
life was very great, and at the date of the last advices the
battle was not yet over. The sanguinary struggle between
the Turks and the Russians at Citale was continued on the
Bth and 9th. The Russians are driven back upon Kra-
jova, leaving four pieces of cannon and an immense num-
ber of dead upon the field of battle.
JAN. 15.—0 n the Bth the Russians were completely
defeated at Citale. According to their own private ac-
count, they had 1,000 killed, and 4,000 wounded. General
Aurep was carried back to Krajova, severely wounded.
On the 13th, the Russian New Year's-day, the attack was
to have been made on Kalafat, but Omar Pasha was re-
solved to be beforehand with the enemy. The Turks were
commanded by Selim Pasha (Zedlinsky.) On the 10th the
Turks retired to Kalafat.

INDIA.—We have intelligence by overland mail from
Bombay to the 14th ult. Accounts from Burmah continue
contradictory ; according to some, the dacoits were disap-
pearing and confidence being gradually re-established,
while others state that we are on the eve of another and a
defensive campaign. The only certain facts appear to be,
that the king himself, having more to lose than any one
else, dreads the resumption of hostilities, and endeavours
to maintain peace, but that there is a strong war party at
Ave, headed by the king's younger brother, Meng-dat-
Meng, which is in communication with the various dacoit
chiefs in our territories, and that the latter, either from a
diminution of their numbers, or from the exhaustion of
the country, or from motives of defence, have discontinued
their depredations in many districts, and are concentrating
at particular points ; Moung-young-gye and another dacoit
chief, with a force amounting, it is reported, to 10,000
men, having stockaded himself near Meaday, while Moung
Beau, with another large force, is in the jungles near
Pegue. The number of these dacoits is probably grossly
exaggerated, but there is no doubt that they are strongly
stockaded at the parts mentioned, and that they must be
dislodged and dispersed before the settlement of the coun-
try can be considered complete. The operations against
the Affredees, between Peshawur and Kohat, have been
successful. They had persisted in closing the pass, though
we paid their chief blackmail for keepin¢ it open. It was
therefore resolved to occupy the defile with a line of posts,
and to build a fort in the middle of it. The Affredees
attempted to break through at one end, but were driven
back, and a few days after the valley was invaded, and
their villages and stores of grain destroyed. The latest
news is that they have been starved into submission, and
entered into engagements for good behaviour in future.
The force at Peshawur, though still called only a garrison
in the Army List, is rapidly assuming the calibre of an
army of observation. It appears that the strength of the
force is as follows:—lnfantry—European, 2,700; Native,
7,100 ; total; 9,800. Cavalry—regular, 450; irregular,
2,000; total, 2,450. Artillery—horse, 400 men and 24
guns; foot ditto rand mountain trains, 700 men and 24
guns ; total, 1,100 men and 48 guns ; and 100 sappers and
miners ; altogether, 13,250 men and 48 guns, a force, it is
remarked, sufficient to sweep Affghanistan from the Kyber
to Khorassan and back again. In the event of a Russian
war, it is reported that the Peshawur force will be aug-
mented to an -army of observation, which will be placed
under the command of Lord Frederick Fitzclarence. Lord
Dalhousie's reinstatement of Col. Outram at Baroda,
though confirmed !by the court of directors, has not yet
been earried-into4ffect.