The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-11 00:00:00

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villages of Godrisrow, Biate, Sot, Dabrovica, k:
and also in the borough of Bitgoray, 12,000 men have been
stationed, and located in parties of from ten to fifteen in
the different granaries. The staff and the paymaster's
office are at Janon. A camp is being marked out between
Krzemienice and Janon, in the neighbourhood of Sofianke.
All the dwelling-houses, agricultural buildings, farm
houses, and granaries in those districts have been taxed;
and an official declaration made at the same time that
everything which might be destroyed or burnt
event of a war, would be made good

government. All the sub
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Austrian frontier at Borow, opposit
and Brezow districts of Galicia, and have remained there
ever since.—Advices from Brody, of the 23rd, state that
two regiments, lately arrived from Poland, have been
located in the vicinity of Luk, in Volhynia."

The Russians suffered so Much at gilistria that several
roghnonto have hod to be entirely renewed from the re-
serves of Bessarabia. According to the best accounts,
Russia appears to be concentrating her strength on the
southern theatre of war, fronting Turkey and Austria ;
and at the present moment the forces are occupied in

taking up very advantageous positions,

The Vienna correspondent of the Cologne Gazett,
writes thus :—" Official reports hare just
_arrived her

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from the Russian army of the Danube, aleordinb

its discipline is entirety broken up. As every retreat acts
fatally on the morale of the vanquished, so in this case
discipline, order, and obedience to authority have ceased ;
the soldiers roam about in gangs, robbing and plundering,

listening no longer to the word of command. shootin,-
their own officers if they attempt to enforce subordination ;
and the scene of all this is poor Wallachia, already ex-
hausted by Russian exactions. Prince Paskiewitsch only
left the Danube because nothing more soul;' be done with
this army. He made a full report to that effect to the
Czar, who is said to be in so excited a mood that not a soul
ventures to whisper even a breath about peace to him."
A German paper gives a curious statement, furnished
by a traveller who had lately been in Warsaw, regarding
a trick of the Czar for supporting his armies as they figure
on paper. Troops are marched backward and forward
with a little shifting of costume, just as a needy stage-
manager obliges the same set of men to march off in blue
cloaks at one wing and return in red by the other, and
vice versa. The King of the Beggars has found a suitable
companion in this imperial Artful Dodger. The same
writer treats as a piece of stage shifting the 60,000 men
set down as forming the army of the Baltic, there being
only a few thousands, with considerable variety of caps and
extra marching legs. According as Nicholas is found out,
apprehension of his power and fear of his wrath give way.
Even Prussia is beginning to hold up its head and be the
first to contradict rumours of differences with Austria.
Nay, the King of Saxony, one of the chief movers of the
Bamberg Conference, has ordered home his ambassador
from Vienna, to give him a scolding for having allowed
himself to be duped by Russian agents, and for having led
his royal master into mistakes which have embarrassed
his Saxon Majesty amazingly.
The Presse of Saturday says :—"The answer of the Em-
peror of Russia to the Austrian note has not yet been
received ; but we have reason to believe that its contents
are not altogether unknown. It will not in any way re-
semble those opposite versions of its import which have
been given, with equal authority and positiveness, by
English journals of considerable character. The Austrian
note was not an ultimatum. The reply of the Emperor
of Russia will recognise the result of recent events, and
will indicate, in a spirit of conciliation, the basis of even-
tual arrangements. The anticipated collision between the
Russian and Austrian armies is at present imaginary.
The mission of Count Leiningen to Constantinople, which
was the prototype of that of Prince Menschikoff, was
undertaken with the knowledge and approbation of the
Emperor of Russia. It is not, therefore, probable that
the consequences of Prince Menschikoff's mission, how-
ever deplorable, will lead to any material misunderstand-
ing between the two Imperial Courts. The state of health,
of the heir to the Russian empire, the Czarowitsch, occa-
sions the greatest anxiety at St. Petersburg. His disorder
is that of rapid decline. The accounts from our own
forces are not satisfactory. The anticipated attack on
Cronstadt has no foundation. In the Baltic the want of
gunboats, and in the Black Sea the total breakdown of
our commissariat, have crippled all our operations. Ad-
miral Dundas has reported to the government that it
would be as useless for the fleet alone to attack Sebastopol
as to attack Gibraltar ; that the great fortress must be
assailed, at the same time, by an army, and that army
must consist of not less than 100,000 men. It is not
likely that anything of importance will occur at the seat
of war in either quarter during the present year. In the
meantime, the proposition of an armistice will shortly
ensue."

PROPELLING VESSELS.—Mr. S. Wilkinson, of Holbeck,
informs us that he has discovered a plan to supersede the
present screw and paddle-wheels used to propel vessels of
all kinds on water with less steam than is used at present;
and that he will describe his plan to any person who will
assist him to obtain a patent.—Leeds Intelligeneer.
IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT IN SHORTENING THE SAIL
or SHIPS.—In almost every department of our ships,
latterly, great and serviceable improvements have been
made. Every clipper now built is intended to sail a " little
,faster" than the one which preceded it, and every ship
launched is built to excel, in strength and beauty, the
one which went before. This being so, it is somewhat re-
markable that the present inefficient and clumsy method
of shortening sail and working the whole rigging of ships
has been so long overlooked, only one really valuable im-
provement having been made during the past fifty years.
This consists in the arrangement of the trusses, and chain
top-sail sheets. Capt. L. 111clia,y, the well-known ship.
builder of Boston, has now taken the matter in hand, and
will doubtless make some important change in the whole
gement of the rigging of ships. He says that lahm,r_

saving appliances may be adopted, which will not merely
lessen the pulling and hauling, but will accomplish more
rapidly and with greater certainty the operation of making
and shortening sail. He thinks he has discovered a process
by which the three topmasts of a ship of 1,000 tons
be reefed by a crew of twenty men,. in ten mh,-'
the same reefs shaken out and the sails set
time without sending a man above the rail.
ship fitted with sails after this plan can be
sailed with one-third less seamen than and
rein--unction in tl,-

rain, in 1
He thinli

yet so great a „
undesirable, for various reasons, one of which is, ti
heavy weather the furling of a ship's courses frequent
quires the presence of au entire crew, and even t.
'accomplished only by severe labour. But, in any
`5 per cent. of the item of victualing and manning
saved, and the ship sailed with less risk and more
+to the crew under this deduction. A small ma

f
the riggit

g lie proposes to adopt is on exhibiti,
ge Reading-reems in Bolton.--New YorA