The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-15 00:00:00

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KPEDITION AND THE CHOLS

VARNA, JULY 2,

ca Pr
.era has.crept froraithei„s

hibited great malignancy. On Monday it broke out
camp of the Light Division. Upwards of twenty:o;4
died in twenty-four hours. The 23rd Regiment si
especially, and it may readily be imagined that great
vailed at such sudden and fatal illness. a
of cholera occurred during the night, elm
.e division struck tents and marched 0,1„0,

'esh cas

.ignt miles Airtl.,lu:did
—ieir camp on a fine piece of lanuFfe ei
“.nwood. The first division has sup
irom both cholera and typhus. Indisposition of the ho
of Cambridge, referred to in some of the accounts,
been of a very trifling character, and he is now qui,te
Eight men of this division have died of fever alma* TY
exact number of deaths from cholera is not known' t),t
second division has been as yet almost free from ar?
malady, but there have been a few cases, and thereu,
unmistakable evidences that it is epidemic there rije
The third division, which lies a couple of miles 00,.,0'pa
s been attacked with severity. The Pr goo
anti uth,) encamped near the beach below, 110,e—a

are they pitched t
ib and b

1 Varna, h

igue par

engaged in t

ly duties-of burying

e French are 10;
4-o ti

aauy men by the disease, bilL9
s. However, their 0 r.e
„

plan of checking the P!'.lo
f the pestilence. They have given the men sometllll-0
do. They have embarked the greater portion 01
Zouaves, and sent them to sea.

'e taken pc:

PREPARATIONS AT VARI%.T4.
Letters received from Constantinople to the 27th 130
state—" The accounts from Varna are to the'is
A considerable movement had just taken place Tot,
allied army. General Canrobert, General Brown, an or
Trochu, first' aide-de-camp of Marshal St. Ammo,
-”ked on the 21st at Varna, in order to reconnoitfe„64
-4 the Crimea and select the best point for eue't
During the time of their absence the firsol
army, with the exception of the de
,lich embarked at Baltchial rva
neighbouring port iu the, of
zd division commands,ll)

the Sint

a landing

meat of Zoua.

ceded by land towards

General Bozquet marched towards BLardjiii, and theT
livision commanded by Prince Napoleon was preParn„iil
- leagues from Varna. '-""
ted at the head of his dig
occupy the new camp assigned to him "

Napoleon

INDITION OF THE

TROOPS

-,:st describes the Russian tro:eg,
..sed most pitifully by perpetual ch3-illt
-.Ls, marches and countermarches, With
rrbefl
deter froth 26 to 28 Reaumur in the shade.
Aideed, be little doubt that the constant employ 1d
the allies, both in the Baltic and the Euxine, of 34
force moving rapidly from point to point along the ;;`i
must end by marching the Czar's army off its legs. 01
--.stint alarins would wear out any soldiers, tht
which is ill-supplied with as

a Buchar

therm(

a force

.equisit

pid movement

DESTRUCTION OF SULINA.
d tea
On the 16th the Vesuvius, Captain Powell, 9,11
Spitfire were cruising off the Sulina mouth of the
when it was resolved by the two captains that they "ier
feel their way up to the scene of poor Captain P3lOO
death. On the morning of the 17th, the little
proceeded up the river, destroying the stockades 0,40
passed, without a show of resistance, and at last aro+
the small town of Sulina, on which the boats opened
Only three musket shots were fired in return, avbeia
three p.m. the place was a heap of ruins, nothing
spared but the church and lighthouse.

THE BALTIC.
PREPARATIONS TO ATTACK DOMA.RSITI'IP.O
The following are the latest accounts from the forte
the Baltic : erg
LED SUND, AUGUST 2.—General BaragnaY fel#
returned from Bomarsund last night in the ImPeioeP
yacht. He was reconnoitring very close to the forts, 00
the masked battery opened fire upon him, and two,iJ
fell over the ship. Preparations are making to-ost'te
land the troops in the paddle-box boats and ships' ell ortif,
&c. Her Majesty's ship Termagant, and three transPoosi
with troops, have just arrived. The Lightning (I', ss
is just gone on to Bomarsund with all the scfentluc is
navigation officers in the fleet. The Holyrood leasf the
few minutes. The troops are healthy: At one 1).„'"A
whole of the boats attached to the combined sq,'"oo'
were employed in landing troops at a distance ;oil
three miles from the fleet. They marched on t° to;
heights, where a signal house is placed, and wel:vdel
t allowed to roam about for three hours, to their 0-o'.
enjoyment, after being cribbed and confined in a Bost
war. From the shore the appearance of the 50114,00
imposing in the extreme. The severe and becrupla,
character of the fleet has been entirely chan,,:opcsff
whereas at Baro it consisted principally of iner'o,4
with their grim broad sides of unbroken lines, voi
the other hand, these men-of-war are intersPegild,
every conceivable craft, differing in size, rig,,,:„,,tori„t
appearance from the handsome Duke of WCILII,c toe'
the Facefnl imperial yacht, down to that most 41,1'3,
specimen of naval architecture, the Gothland tle
sloop. The troops returned on board at six pim
boats, 140 of which were employed for the purpose' op
AUGUST 3. The time for moving the troops tde
Bomarsund will either be to-day or to-morrow. Afell e
delay has occurred, but it is from the humane oesiDere:
saving life as much as possible. For this purPose,tfortl
fore, each ship has been ordered to build two Pl.',
for large lower deck guns. These are to be landeu_hict;
are to be used against the forts on the land side,
are deemed very weak and incapable of resistalnialf
continuous siege, directed to a point that has beenke
discovered,
i!i
will enable us soon to make a breach T., 0!
fortification, without exposing ourselves to the le;
their large guns. The men-of-war, it is thought, ¶!?,,,,b0,1
moor close to the batteries unless of urgent necessli.
will shell the place while the troops are investing
is said the Duke, Acre, Princess Royal, and James
draw too much water to be risked in the passage. $v t"..
11.
ACCIDENT TO THE GRAND DUKE CONST4O tort'HAMBURG, AUG. 7.—lt is announced that in
sion at sea, near Cronstadt, the vessel on board of A v.,
was the Grand Duke Constantine having founderenlir
prince was taken out of the water by the hair, al3cA 104
narrowly escaped drowning. Prince Galitzif Bo'
sailors arc said to have been drowned.
THE WHITE SEA. .
HAMBURG, AUG. 7.—Two war steamers of the ff tl4f
squadron having destroyed the establishments uce
Russian government to the north of Archangel, 119',,,
tered the Bay of Onega, that arm of the White SO
reaches farthest towards the Russian interior.

EVACUATION OF THE PRINCIPALrrIP:OI
The Moniteur of Thursday announces that 3 11-4.1)
Envoy has been sent to the Cabinet of Vienna,
notification that the Emperor Nicholas has orde'lNS
complete -evacuation of Wallachia and Moldavi„3;,,,i, te,
withstanding this declaration, however, Count vi
the Sth instant, exchanged notes with Baron "e.O
queny and Lord Westmorland, in which he saYg_„' j, 0,,1
Austria requires, as well as France and Engl';otMAl
Russia should give such guarantees as shall prey- stl3l",
power from again producing those complicationel
now trouble the peace of Europe ; and Austria !005
that she will not herself be a party to any negoeWbalf
the re-establishment of peace with the Russian
ry
until she has obtained these guarantees "
• tll3t ri"
Private telegraphic advices from Berlin state • 004
the menaced situation of the Crimea and the abet sole
time provinces of Southern Russia, and that alone,o
has induced the Czar to withdraw his troops f 7.1
Principalities. The Russian regiments in BeSSar3
Kherson are to move in all possible haste to the `:,;
while those in Moldavia march to occupy their PIO

DESCENT ON THE ALAND ISLES.—EIGHT f 0
OF CANNON TAKEN. - v
DAcTZIC, FRIDAY.—Three thousand French trooped
six hundred British marines landed near Boma"poTeeet
the Bth, without being opposed. The Russians,le
eight 'pieces of cannon. The large ships o..cr
remained at Ledsund. Sir Charles Napier ',,,aent',"-f)
Bomarsund in the Bulldog, and the bombalu-does'll4
land attack were to take place the next day (Ile

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A FATAL EXPERIMENT .—Hannah Warner, ° „e.IP er
age, the wife of a cabman, living in Maiflge-oe 10
Haggerstone, near London, used frequently to 9133,be °,40
self by practising hanging, for the purpose, Lv "reJ
stated, of " frightening her old man." On T sr:euecce 0,4
ing, however, on her husband getting up, he ebe
that her dangerous joke had proved fatal, for the
hanging in a kneeling position at the foot 01 mi.
quite dead. As several witnesses stated their Pe pay
the deceased had not intended to commit suicide, °0
herself and husband were always on the best of tee d
coroner's jury returned an open verdict. COlll,l
TRH AMERICAN BABY MARKET.—The Stark .
t
(Ohio) Agricultural Society is offering preiniti9
finest specimen of young Americans. Here is at
For prettiest baby, $5 and diploma to mother; ''/Ard>/,11,
Prettiest baby, $.3 and diploma to mother ; for t/ o." 40
and diploma to mother ; for largest and hefordivlviel
under 12 months old, age to be considered, $6
to mother; for second largest and heaviest coliord,
12 months old, $3 and diploma to mother ; for ,1
and diploma to mother. The above is not a fair_,,pleP
the rewards go to the mother ; no enema" Ci
fathers !—American Paper. OCe'CP
IhvELLING.—At the Marlborough-street polices.laiY
Friday, Mr. W. J. O'Connell was chargedlwith __
yo
a challenge to Captain De Villa to fight a d?etiocinto
constable Edwards said lie apprehended the de oe• j
Oxford-street, and lodged him in the stationboo, Olt
defendant was ordered to find one surety in £2O
ff
enter into his own recognizance in the like
keep the peace for 12 months. a spelt
MOVEMENTS OF MEDIUMS.—MTS. Thomas' slaocrefolr
Medium of a superior order, is now holding 0-1..0
this city, and answering the questions of those.._ionl.d,,
to her for instruction on philosophical and rel.., 00101
jects. She claims to be under the guidance, °ArV
spirits who, while in the flesh, dwelt in al- Perioo4;
world, and who have now forsaken former °ova,
attained to a place of celestial truth. The objeclee tePlys
munications given tnrough her are to ration 01011.1/eoj
and spiritualise philosophy; and tlic6 are to be• ell o
for their high degree of intelligence and thelf„. 01,,•
pure and exalted practical tendency. luvostl)P
designs postponing her contemplated visit to
uici 0505
the coming autumn, and in the meantime, ro, jf9
"call" to any of the country towns in -'.`!„ 14crillft
Mrs. French is in Baltimore. She will be 1-,CP
on the 22nd inst., and will remain ten &Pl'
Spiritualist (New York weekly paper).