The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-08-02
Foreign News.

Foreign News.
The steamship Africa, from Liver
pool Saturday, July Is, arrived at
New York Thursday morning. Her
news is quite important.
The political news continues impor-
tant. 1t his now past doubt that the
Russian troops have received counter.
orders, and do not quit Walachia; and
and that the Austrians have for the
moment entirely relinquished the idea
of peaceful occupation of the Princi.
palities. The French army Of the
North is embarking in English ships
of-war at Calais and Boulogne. There
has been severe fighting on the Dam
ube. The Spanish insurgents maintain
themsel yes, and may carry on pro-
tracted guerilla war.
TUE DANUBE.-The Paris Presse
states that ON the It'll July the Turks
took Mokan and Qlneika Islands /; and
on the 9Th Omar Pacha, with 10000
men, surrounded the Russians, and
took Giurgevo. The Russians cut their
way through, with the loss of 900 hors
du combat. Gen. Chruleff lost an arm.
Prince Gortschakoff was advancing. at
last accounts, with 5000 men, by
forced marches, towards Giurgevo.
Fifteen thousand Anglo French ,roo,s
being at Rustchuk, it is i ,ught the
Turks will risk pitched battle. The
Turks have also crossed in the face of
the Russians at Oltenitza. Details
are wanting, but one hundred and fifty
Wagons, with wounded, have already
arrived at Bucharest. Among the
wounded are so officers. A dispatch
from Belgrade calls the island Kama
dan-Seymonof, and says that the bat
tie lasted nearly - hours. In evac-
uating Giurgevo, the Russians burned
some Of their ships.
There is no longer any doubt that
the withdrawal of the Russian TROOPS
from Wallachia is suspended. In Mol
davia the Russians arc terrifying all
the passes, and have destroyed all the
bridgcs,and by damming up the rivers
have rendered the roads impossible.
Since Wednesday, June %, they have
completely closed the Transylvanian
frontier. All indications seem to tcs-
tify that Bucharest will be defended.
Rcschid Pacha has resumed Office as
Turkish Minister Of Foreign Affairs.
Gen. Ostcnsacken has been deprived
Of his command-so at least it is re-
ported.
TIE BALTIc.-1he fleets retired
from accommodating Cronstads on the
9th July. Cholera had broken out on
board several SHIPS; the French ship
Austerlhz had seventy cases. Such,
at least, is the reason assigned for the
withdrawal of the ships. The feet is
now anchored at Barosound.
A private letter from the Gulf of
Bothnia of 30th June, states that the
small Russian island of Siguiskar, had
been attacked by the British frigatc
Pdlorous. The tower Of the light
house facing the coast Of Sweden had
been destroyed.
BLOCKADE OF THE GULF OF FIN
LAND. An effective blockade Of the
Gulf of Finland is officially announced
from and after the Goth of June -
that is to say the whole of the ports
on the Gulf of Finland to the East
ward Of lIelsingfors and Sweaborg on
the Finland shore, including Borgo,
Lovisa, Pythias, Fredcrikshamn, Wer-
olax Bay, Wyborg, Biorko Sound, and
all intermediate ports, roads, bavcns
and creeks to Cape Lubbock in latitude
Coz s. North, and 29o ST. East.
From Capc Lubbock the line of block
ade crosses to Tolboukin Light imme-
diately off Cronstadt, then across
Southwark to of the town of Borki in
the Province of St. Petersburg in lat
itude $50 81 North, longitude go
2S' East. Thus a complete blockade Of
Cronstadt and St. Petersburg has
been effected by the combined fleets,
which anchored off CIonstsdt on the
26th June. Proceeding Westward,
the line of blockade extends from
Borki to Karvalii Island, thence to
Dolgoi Ness. and from Dolgoi Ness to
Kolgenpia Point, which includes the
Blight of Kopovia, thence to Kour-
goulo Point, which includes Louga Bay,
thence to the river Narva, aud the
whole coast of Ei,honia and adjacent
islands to Ekholm-Light situated in
latitude 599 49, North, lalsitudc %"
As East. Aud all measures author
lied by the law of nations, and by
treaties with neutral powers, will be
put in force against all ships attempt
ing to violate the said blockade.
Cholera continued to prevail at St.
Petersburg and in the garrison Of
Cronstadt. At St. Petersburg, on
2Sth June, the police report stated the
number of cases at 405, on the day
preceding, it was only 113, and on the
LIST July there were $50,
The BLACK SEA.-According to a
dispatch frcm Odessa on the 18th, the
combined fleets, fifty sail strong, had
been seen proceeding in the direction
of Sebastopol.
From the London Times, July II.
The Danu and Rumors
The last intelligence from the seat Of
war on the Danube leads us to the infer