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enemy were not wi

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second fi

they were

, but turned tai,
for Sebastopol. A running fight was kept till ,
close in with their line-of-battle ships, when ou
hauled off, and the enemy ran into Sebastopol.
were a great many shots fired on both sides, but very
damage done ; to our ships none, and to the enemy
nothing to speak of. They were hit several times with
round shot, and twice with shell ; one of the shells burst
immediately over the forecastle of one of the steamers, the
other shell knocked in the bows of one of the paddle-boats.
Advices from Constantinople, of the 26th ult., have been
received -4 movement of troops to the seat

An impor
&filo. Dla

) Varna

under French, another under English comnruu
Napoleon and Marshal St. Arnaud have gone
Recent telegraphic intelligence from till
the effect that on Tuesday last, the 4th inst.
Napier was still before Cronstadt, with his
squadron, challenging the Russian fleet
rate attempted to engage a steam
behind the batteries, but the Rus
as the shot began to fly.
The blockade of the mout
virtually and substantially been com
belonging to the combined fleets were at anchor E
St. George's mouth, three at the Sulina
Killa mouth. Four Ottom
reconnoitering trip up the
without having been in any way molested by t
Another reconnoitering

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English vessels Up
a like success ; the Russians poste(
there did not fire a single shot, and seemed to intend re-
maining completely on t

defensive.

Berlin correspondence of the 4th instant, says :--Re-
ports arrive daily of fresh concentrations of Russian
troops on the confines of Galicia. Twelve thousand in-
fantry and thirty cannon have been staf
mieniec and the neighbourhood , e
sixth divisions of light ea

ioned at Kaze-

strong, have passed- f
Ekaterinoslaw. The fc
against an attack 1
by the Czar, who expressed his satisfacti
tants of the capital do not regard the forcing of Crons
as impossible.
On the Ist, the head-q
were transferred from 13
Russians have undermined
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Morning Chronicle

The Vienna corresponaeo..v
contains the following particulars about the m
the Russian troops on the Austrian front -
guns, with the usual complement of arti
arrived at Zanichost. In the town of Janon,
villages of Godrisrow, Biate, Sot, Dabrovica, Krzemit._
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 Se-- -
All the dwelling-houses, agricultural buih.
houses, and granaries in those districts have been taxed
and an official declaration made at the saw-
everything which might be destroyed_ or
event of a war, would be made r'-
government. All the sui__
have been attached and sealed up. _
of Russian troops advanced on the 18th,
Austrian frontier at Borow, opposite to the
and Brezow districts of Galicia, and have remain
ever since.—Advices from Brody, of the
two regiments, lately arrived from Pola
located in the vicinity of Luk, in Volhynt

Auous stores

A consid

ings, farm

time t

:oalowiee
led there

id, 'have

The Russians suffered so Much at Silistr
regiments have had to be entirely renewed
serves of Bessarabia. According to the best accounts
Russia appears to be concentrating her et
southern theatre of war, fronting Turk(
and at the present moment the forces

that several

m the re-

taking up very advantageous positions,

and Au

The Vienna correspondent of the a
writes thus :—" Official reports have just
from the Russian army of the Danube, accords
its discipline is entirely broken up. As every /
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, shooting
their own officers if they attempt to enforce subordination ;
will +ht. SLOPYI P of all this is poor Wallachia, already ex-

e Gazett
Tived her

hausted by Russian exactions. Prince I
left the Danube because nothing more cc
this army. He made a full report to tl
Czar, who is said to be in so excited a me

to him

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to the

at not a sou

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furnished

ventures to whisper even a
A German paper gives a curious stateme
by a traveller who had lately been in Warsaw, regar( _
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."

PEorinalica- 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 Intelligencer.
IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT IN SHORTENING THE SAIL
OF 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
fester" 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-

provemeut having been made diving the past fifty years.
This consists in the arrangement of the trusses, and chain
top-sail sheets. Capt. L. McKay, the well-known ship-
builder of Boston, has now taken the matter in hand, and
will doubtless make some important change in the whnln

gement of the rigg

of ships, He si
saving appliances may be adopted, which
lessen the pulling and hauling, but will a
rapidly and with greater certainty the oner

and shortening sari. He thinks he has disco
by which the three topmasts of a ship of
be reefed by a crew of twenty men, in to
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 b
sailed with one-third less seamen than uni
•

so great

un-desiiable, for N

heavy weathei:the.-f;rl

quires the pres
accomplished o

one of v

entire crev
•e labour.

,er cent. of the iieinorvictualing and
aved, and the ship sailed with less ris
to the crew under this deduction. 1
rigging he proposes to adopt is on

a of making
.ed a process

Anutes, and

ain, in less
He thinks a

Readingroom J

A SERIES of extraordinary events have for some time past
excited the attention of persons in various parts of Eng-
land, arising out of the conduct of an infamous young
woman, travelling through the kingdom, avowing herself
to be sometimes the daughter, and at other times the
granddaughter, of the Rev. Dr. Hook, the vicar of Leeds
and stating that for years she had resided in Dr. Hook's
house, and for some unexplained cause she had recently
been expelled from it. This woman, in the neighbourhood.
of Prescot, Preston, Chipping Norton, Lancashire,
Gloucestershire, Matlock, Derbyshire, and other places,
been found apparently in a destitute and exhausted
condition, by which she has contrived to excite sympathYy,
and then by the most artful and deliberate falsehoods, has
been enabled to give to her statements the semblance of
truth, and thus many benevolent and respectable persons
have, from motives of charity, been induced to render her
assistance under circumstances the most extraordinary,
and with a measure of credulity surpassing all conception.
The skill and duplicity of this accomplished impostor have
been so consummate, and the reality of her statements
was so strongly impressed on a respectable family in the
neighbourhood of Matlock, that they have for several
weeks past received and entertained her in their mansion
as the rejected child of Dr. Hook, thrust from his house
without cause, to seek an asylum elsewhere. It seems that
from time to time, for the space of a year and a half, com-
munications of a vague character have reached Dr. Hook
and his friends, at Leeds, but as they were sometimes
anonymous, and at other times were made in the names of
persons whose residences could not be traced, and so much
concealment and mystery were observed in the transactions,
that for the time all the efforts of Dr. Hook and his friends
to trace their origin were fruitless. At length, however,
some parties near Matlock, who till this present week
have extended their hospitalities to this impostor, hearing
that Dr. Hook was vigorously pursuing his inquiries after
her, became somewhat sceptical of the truth of the girl's
story, suddenly appeared with her at Leeds, on Monday
last. Although at this crisis she was warned and implored
by those who had the charge of her, and of whose bounty
she had so long I,artaken, not further to continue the im-
position if there was no truth in the statement which she
bad so frequently and deliberately made to them, yet at
the hotel in Leeds, and up to the very moment when she
was about to be taken to Dr.. Hook's house to be seen by
the family, (Dr. Hook being at that time abroad,) she per-
sisted in the truth of all her previous statements, that she
was the daughter of Dr. Hook, and for many years had
lived with him and his family at the vicarage hoi,
which she was then conducted -

Immediately she was
t into the presence of some of Dr. Hook's family and
, and being thus confronted, she for the fi

•st time

avowed her deception, and declared before the parties who
had brought her to Leeds that all she had before stated
for weeks together was utterly destitute of foundation;
that her name was not Eliza Hook, but Tremayne or
Lyons, that she came from the south, and for a time had
kept company with a girl leading a vagabondising life ;
that they were taken into custody for an offence at Liver-
pool; that her companion was convicted and sentenced to

nine months' imprisonment; and that she (Miss Tremayne)
had the good fortune to be acquitted, since which time she
had practised her deceptions and concocted her narratives
to suit the exigencies of the time. In the midst of this
scene of consternation and mortification to the family which
bad thus been imposed upon and had brought her to Leeds,
and who then for the first time heard from the girl's lips
her repeated declaration that she had imposed upon them
by the vilest calumnies and lies, the Rev. Edwd. Jackson
entered the house of Dr. Hook, and immediately recognised
the woman as a person who about four years ago had been
found at Leeds in the streets in apparent destitution, and
she was then for a time provided with an asylum and 11
situation, but she shortly afterwards absconded, having in
the meantime admitted that she had been in some goal ;
and to this incident all her imperfect knowledge of Dr.
Hook and his family may be traced, upon which she laid
the foundation of her deceptions, which she has practised
down to the present time. This woman had been en-
countered in various parts of England, and it is probable
also in the neighbourhood of Dublin, passing under the
name of Eliza Hook, sometimes pretending to be the
daughter, and occasionally the grand-daughter of Dr. Hook;

practising with the most consummate skill and finesse
one of the grossest deceptions by a relation of incidents
and circumstances for which there never has been the re-
motest foundation. She has now been conveyed back in
-le custody of the friends who brought her from the
cighbourhood of Matlock to Leeds, in order that a proper
zample might be made of her. The whole history of the
irl's successfnl career as an accomplished impostor for the
.st few years, is a mixture of fiction, romance, and reality,
b which the incidents of ordinary life can bear no cow-
' —Leeds Intelligencer.