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

(BY SUBMARINB TELEGRAPH.)

VIENNA, .14. x. 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.
JAN. 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 greatloss 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.
J.s.x. 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.

Isrom—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 keeping it oven. 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 •ef observation, which will be placed
under the command. of Lard Frederick Fitzclarenee. Lord
Dalhousie's reinstatement of Col. Outran at Baroda,
though confauned by the ,eourt of directors, has 4aot yet
been carried into •effect.

Can/A.—The intelligence of the rebellion and distur-
bances by this mail is of a more interesting and exciting
nature than we have been able to communicate for some
time past, giving the progress of the rebels north, an
attack on Shanghai, and the re-capture of Amoy. Our
advices from Shanghai are to the 20th of November. The
reinforcements of the Imperial naval force, noticed in our
last, induced the imperialists to make a general attack on
the city with the combined forces on the 10th of November.
They succeeded in capturing two of the rebel fleet, pur-
chased from foreigners, and several junks, but were
vigorously repelled by the rebels on the land side and
with great loss. Being unsuccessful in their land attack,
and unable to capture the batteries on shore, the crews of
the Imperial junks landed up the river, and commenced
pillaging the neighbourhood and setting fire to the houses,
which led to the destruction of a considerable portion of
the south-eastern suburbs. Much valuable property and
treasure was seized and carried off, after which the force
retired, and since then no important attack has been made.
The insurgents in the city- are said to be short of pro-
visions, and, as no sympathy is shown towards them, some
crisis similar to that of Amoy may be anticipated ; and,
if Shanghai be re-taken, fearful vengeance will be dealt
out to the people of the city. Canton remains quiet, but
a large force has been sent to Tong-Koon, not far distant,
where vigorous resistance has been shown to the govern-
ment, which will have some difficulty in quelling the
disturbance. The accounts of the insurgents in the
south-west mention that the capital of Hopili had been
re-taken by them, with great slaughter, and the district
disturbed, and that the rebels were investing the capital
of Oonam, which resisted their efforts before. The
accounts of the atrocities on the capture of Amoy, on the
11th of November, by the Imperial force, are of the most
appalling and horrid character. No doubt the principal
part of the rebel force was allowed to escape, the chief
being probably bribed, but those who were left behind
had no means of escape and were massacred.
SOUTEE AMERICA.-By the steam-ship Lady Eglinton,
which arrived here on Friday, we have advices from Rio
Janeiro to the 10th ult. The Lady Eglinton passed the
Lusitania, belonging to the same line on the 16th Decem-
ber, going into Bahia, in twenty-two days from Liverpool,
and on the 20th, in lat. 5 S., long. 32 W., passed a large
brig-rigged screw steamer, supposed to be the Valdivia,
hence for Rio Janeiro and Valparaiso. From Monte Video
we learn that little of importance took place in political
affairs until the middle of November, when the Minister of
War, together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, re-
signed, not being able to coincide with the other members
of the Government. In the interior the disaffected party
of Blancos had for some time been meditating disturb-
ances, and towards the middle of November they openly
took up arms against the Government in several parts of
the province. On the 25th November they seized upon
Colombo, and forced the authorities to fly to Buenos
Ayres in a whale boat. From Buenos Ayres we have no
change of importance to notice. Business was in a satis-
factory state, and the Government had sanctioned the new
tariff, which was to be brought into force January 1, by
which the import duties would undergo considerable mo-
dification, while those upon exports would be generally
increased. Exchange on London; 665. 6d. per doubloon.