The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-06-21

GREECE.

, neutrality and effected a complete chang
in his ministry.
Letters from Athens of 22d Nav. stat
that the Queen was in a state borderin
on frenzy, and that it required the tear
of the king and of the ladies in waitine
to keep her from placing herself at til
head OF the army. Her baggage was al
packed for departure on this Quixoti
enterprise; but, on second thought sh
has had the boxes uncorded, and consent
to remain at peace.
IL The official correspondeneeI in til
Greek question has just been laid befor
the British House of Commons. It
extremely voluminous. The Russian
Envoy at Athens, acting in conjunction
with the Court, planned the insurrectior
in the Turkish preVineesszandxfron
Athens directed its movement. An in
~tercepted letter to Gen. Tsavellas, VIII
had ostensibly withdrawn from the King
service to take command of the insurr
gents, was addressed from Pera, Apri
25th, to NJ. Behtlan, King Otho's pri
vate secretary, asking for further assist
ahce, and recommending that at Ieast
two battalions of the frontier guard
chosen from the first and eleventh regi
ments, should be sent to Anino, where
they were to have orders to desert forth.
with and join the Instruction, being al
SO paid regularly that they might re.
main firm and uushaken. The Ioniap
detachment is described as being dis.
persed in several places, and divided I'm.
der fourteen different leaders. It was
even proposed to raise the whole military
force of the country, and openly to. de.
clare war upon Turkey, but, Of course,
the occupation put an end to this pro-
ject and dispcls the delusiye hope of a
Greek empire of the East.
THE ALLIED FLEETS IN THE, BALTIC N
,-s WHITE SEAS. f,{ u
We have received the following de-
tails of most the operations to the Bal
tic, at Hangoe Roads, on May 23d
The allied fleets, with the commander
in-chief, arrived on the goth ult., and
anchored within the range (extreme) of
the enemy's guns. The walls and en-
brasures were crowded with the Russian
soldiers, who stood at their quarters as
they approached. They did not fire.
The ships and fort thus remained SILENT
ly watching each others movements un-
til May 22th, when the programme was
altered for n of more exciting charac-
ter.
Three insuar forts protect the en-
trance to the harbor, massive structures
composed of huge blocks of granite,
casemated, evidently heavily armed with
guns as well as mortars. Oh,
The principal fort, called Gustavus
Svard, sweeps the approach to the har-
Dor with a long tier of guns, en- 6ar6ette,
and also from casemate batteries be-
meath. Two other forts, DOMAINS Holm
and Gustavus Adolphus, to the eastward
of the central fort, rake the entrance,
and are pierced with embrasures looking
to seward. The shore all around Is
covered with masked batteries, raised in
commanding positions, concealed by trees
and branches, and not very readily dis
tinguished.
In the afternoon of May %, the B.
s. Dragon, Capt. Wilcox, was ordered
take up a position close by an island
She Immediately opened fire. The first
shot 1.-THE experimental ene,) was good
in direction, but fell a very little short;
the second struck the fort about the
centre of the wall the succeeding ,ones.
commenced pioughing up the4urf-fe-A-
ing the breastweFk On the summit of the
walls and sending the facines and sand
bags flying into the fort in profusion.-I
After the second or third shot the fort
replied. The ship and fort thus con-
tinued the engagement for about three
aud a half hours, during which several
of the Dragons shells burst right over
the centre of the fort, and must have
caused severe loss zsia-- f5sra=if.,i!, xs
The Magicienne. was ordered, some
what later in the day, to a corresponding
position on the opposite-.side of the
small, narrow rocky island in question,
and opened an effective fire upon one of
the masked batteries on the land side,
into which she threw several shells. The
battery replied with shell, and, it is
thought, with red hot shot, but the
1lasacaenne was evidently out of range.
The Bas hsk next joined the group
The Dragon alone hadsany casualties-
one man killed and another wounded.
She was struck three or four times. Tf-
The arrogant and III ca took a fort
of four guns, and a spirited engagement
with the Russian troops. on the banks of
a narrow river, succeeded in capturing a
beautiful b, TX. -4-s.,. .f9
ai COUNCIL CT WAR.
The COMMANDMENT in Chief of the al
lied forces in Turkey, Marshal st. Ar
and Lord Raglan, accompanied by
the Seraskier or Minister of War of the
Porte, proceeded in separate steam yes
sells, ON the 18th of May from. CONSTANT
to Varna, to hold a Council of
War, and to determine the operations of
the campaign. According to some ac-
counts it was expected that Admiral
Hamelin and Dundas would also attend
this meeting, but at any rate it is known
that the French and English Generals
have had an interview with Omar Pasha,
the result of which was highly satisfac-
tory to the chiefs of the allied armies,
and probably equally SO to the Turkish
General
We may presume, therefore, that the
next operations of the troops have been
and determined with the par
ticular knowledge oft e of the
Turkish army and of the nature of the
country which Omar Pacha possesses,
while Marshal ST. Arnaud and Lord
Raglan have considered the subject with
the science and judgment of their res.
pective stats. This conference must have
taken place at the very time when the
Russians under Prince Paskiewitch
were directing their ~iercest attacks
against the fortress of Suistr;a and |