The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-04 00:00:00

THE WAR.

Prince Menschikoff has given permission to Governor
Osten-Sacken to exchange the surviving officers and crew
of H.M.S. Tiger for eight Russian officers and 167 soldiers,
recently taken by the English off the coast of Circassia.
The Journal of Constantinople confirms the success of
the Turks at Silistria.

Three thousand Bashi-Bazonks, who had taken a Rus-
sian outpost, had been attacked by a Russian force triple
their number. After a desperate struggle 1,500 of them
were killed. Asham Bey among them. The Russians
lost 1,400.
Bucharest to the 20th, we learn that not only are
The Wanderer of Vienna of the 23rd says :—" From
the operations before Silistria suspended, but that the
Russians continue their retreat from Wallachia. In their
own camp the rumour ran that their present movement
was not caused by the note from Vienna, but it had been
ordered some time before that note arrived. They seem
to expect to be attacked near the mouths of the Danube
they are constructing three new batteries on the right
bank of the Sulina, and as many on the left. The troops
which were at Ismail, Galatz, and Braila have been ordered
to the Crimea, which country is expected to become the
the theatre of an active war. June 10th, 80 pieces of can-
non of large calibre arrived at Varna in French transports.
It is supposed that they are intended for an attack by land
on Sebastopol. A letter from Sophia announces that Col.
Dieu arrived there on the 15th to inspect the fortifications."
The Turks continue to make successful advances in Asia.
Letters from Erzeroum state positively that Urzugeth
has fallen into the possession of Selim Pacha, and that the
Russians had evacuated the place without resistance.
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side they are harassed by the Circassians; and it is con-
fidently stated that Schamyl was at the moment this ac-
count was written, within eight hours' march of Tiflis.
After the fall of Urzugeth 20,000 Georgians submitted
voluntarily, and swore allegiance to the Sultan ; and Selim
Pacha assured them that the slave traffic should be no
longer tolerated, and named also native chiefs to preside,
Rider the authority of the Porte, over the newly-acquired

districts,

Varna despatches to the 19th have arrived. The Dr
of Cambridge had reached a spot between Varna
Sebumla, on the Balkan. The English forces are esti!
at 20,000, the French at 40,000. It was on the 13t1
the second division of the British army, under the
zaaud of the Duke of Cambridge, left for Varna, II

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The light division, which was already at Varna, under
the orders of Sir George Brown, consists of the Ist brigade
commaded by Brigadier-General Airey, 7th, 22nd, and
23rd regiments ; 2nd brigade commanded by Colonel G.
Buller, Rifle Brigade, 19th, 77th, and 88th regiments.
The 2nd Battalion Rifle brigade, will be attached to the
light division, to be employed in the field as Sir George
Brown shall direct, either by wings or in one body, but
they are to be encamped together.
The 17th Lancers, Bth Hussars, and sth Dragoon
Guards, have likewise gone to Varna.
The 2nd division, under the command of Sir D. Evans,
is still quartered at Scutari, but is expected shortly to
follow.

The 3rd division, commanded by Sir Richard England,
consisting of the Ist brigade, commanded by Sir John
Campbell, the 38th regiment, Ist Royals, and 4th regiment ;
2nd brigade, commanded by Brigadier Eyre, consisting of
the 29th, 44th, and 50th regiments, are still at Gallipoli..
They are, however, expected to move up to Constantinople
very shortly.
The Earl of Errol is under arrest at Varna for disre-
spect to his superior officer. A general court-martial has
been ordered, which is thought will result at least in his
receiving a severe reprimand. The earl, who is a captain
in the Rifle Brigade, is a young man, and hereditary Lord
High Constable of Scotland.

As soon as the Highlanders landed in. Constantinople, a
rt was circulated amongst the Turks that the soldiers'
had arrived armed cap a pie. Thousands and tens
of thousands of Stamboul's fair maidens crossed over to
Scutari to see the Amazons ; but alas ! they found that
they could not fraternise with their new friends.
Orders have been issued from the Admiralty for the
unch of another 90-gun ship, to be called the Exmouth,
m Devonport dockyard on Wednesday, the 12th inst.
ig of Portugal, the Duke of Oporto, and other
_gmished personages are expected to be present.
atooPs FOR THE EAST.—On Saturday the following.
regiments were ordered to embark immediately for Turkey,
to reinforce the British army in the Black Sea :-2d Dra-
goons, Scots Greys ; 4th Light Dragoons ; 20th, 21st, 34th,
46th, and 63d Regiments of Foot ; and Ist Battalion of the
Rifle Brigade. Every one of these regiments is prepared
and ready to embark at a day's notice. Each regiment of
infantry will embark 1,000 rank and file, besides officers,
non-commissioned officers, drummers, band, &c. The
rifle battalion will be 1,200 rank and file. The infantry
"1 form a fourth division, with a general and two bri-
, the latter to be selected.from the senior colonels
of the regiments. No general of division is yet appointed.
It is not unlikely that Sir George Cathcart, who is daily
expected, may arrive from the Cape of Good Hope in time
to take the command. The whole of these troops will go
out in steamers, and will proceed direct to the Black Sea,
without making any stoppage by the way. The 2d and
4th Dragoons will not be formed into a separate cavalry
brigade, but will be added one to each of the cavalry bri-
gades already with the army. The two cavalry brigades
in active service will then consist of five regiments
instead of four regiments each. The entire Britio
land force in the Black Sea will now consist of someth:
like 50,000. Before this last addition there were
one regiments, besides artillery, staff commissarial-
Each of these regiments it now at least I,OCC
Last week 450 men and 12 officers of the Guards were eL
barked to reinforce the three battalions at Varna, 15C
men to each battalion, to brink them up to 1,000 men
each. Letters were received on Saturday at the War Office,
giving the most cheering accounts of the health, condition,
and spirits of the expedition. We learn, also, that the
French continue to send large reinforcements from Mar-
seilles and from Africa to their force in Turkey, which, by
this time, on the Black
is Sea, the Bosphorus, and the Dar-
danelles, little short of 100,000 men.

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The government have completed the purchase, for
£5,000, of the old Sussex House of Correction, at Lewes,
as a place of confinement for the Russian prisoners of war.

MOVEMENTS 'IN CIRCASSIA.
achamyl Bey is again about to attack the Russians
He has seized the Caucasus road, and not a drummer boy
can be sent to reinforce the army except by the
the Caspian. He is said to meditate an attack on Tths
with a force of 20,000 men ; and there is little doubt but
that if the Turkish army were in a state of efficiency
Geoigia might be invaded on two sides, while there is
every probability the population would rise against the
Russian dominion. Baradagh, a province torn from Persia,
almost disaffected, and, on the whole, an auxiliary force
Europe might be of great service if employed in this
The expedition of Sir E. Lyons to the coast has
eat moral effect, and the inhabitants of the eastern.
shores of the Black Sea are looking forward to great
changes from the war in which their oppressors are en-
gaged. Late advices state that Schamyl was a few marches.
from Tiflis.

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_...etters from Constantinople of the 15th ult. bring ac-
eonnts from the Circassian coast of the 3rd. At that date
a Turkish frigate had landed a considerable quantity of
-ns at Redout-Kaleh, and reinforced the garrison of that
which now consists of 1,700 regular soldiers and 800
Souchum-Kaleh was occupied by a sufficient
.o defend it against a coup de main. The intelli-
gence from the army in Asia was not very satisfactory.
Disease and typhus fever decimated its ranks ; medical aid
was wanting, most of the physicians having taken the
fever and died. The troops had left Kars, and were en--
camped six leagues. from the town on the road to Gumri.

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