Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-07-15

Repeated storning parties directed against the
works and convused the SOIL frequently including in one
common destruction the besegng party and the beseged
On the 18th OF June assault was ordered huge
SCALE under the command Of Prince Gortschakof and
Gen. Schilders Prince Paskewich having already been
compelled to retire from the camp by confusion which
units him for active service and will probably terminate
his life. Again the Turks victorious, and Turk
ish brigade from Shuma succeeded in entering the
tress. The Comnander and the Chief Engineer
were both wounded, and Gen. Luders Is also reported
have suffered. II may easily be conceived what the
losses of the army must have been In its inferior grades
when the senior officers in command were thus struck
down in their attempts to retrieve the disasters Of the
day Mussa Pasha, the Turkish Commander, was also
killed by shell which exploded in his house the I'd
of june days before this attack but the defence
Of the place not the less manully conducted and
the 10th of June, allowing day to intervene for
the repose Of the troops, the garrison reinforced by
detachment from Omer Pashas army, assumed the often
sve with the greatest energy and with complete
Even the Islet Hopa which the Russians had con-
struced batteries annoy the north front Of the fortress
was reaken SO Us to enable the Turks to threaten the
Russian communications the river. Accordingly
learn that the 10th the Russians in full re-
treat and that the siege raised circumstance the
less to be wondered they must have learned about
the same time that Anglo French division had landed
Varna and that the army which had just been defeat
ed with the loss Of its generals by the Turkish garrison
Of Silistra alone, might within week be attacked by
fresh division of the best troops in Europe These glo
rous results belong to the Turkish exclusively and
the soldiers Of the Sultan fought with deyo-
ted and successful bravery than this occasion
ST. Petersburgh the intelligence of these will be
received with for already on the 18th in
slant the Emperor had dispatched his Minister Of War
the of action learn the of the failure
the siege Before Prince Dogorouki reaches the Danube
he viii learn that the Russian army has recrossed it, and
that its chiefs are hors du combat
The capture of Silstria not having been accomplished
by the Russian army within the time during which they
enabled to conduct the siege without interruption,
their whole scheme Of operations in Bulgaria may be
rlpd ah0 1n0t adj nf I'm
derss division and the occupation of the Dobrudscha
which was intended to the attack Rassova and
Sisra The retreat of the invading army follows there
FORE almost necessarily and 1t has probably by this time
reinquished all its positions the left bank Of the Da
nube with the exception of the forts Of Hrsova Mats
chin, and Isaktcha All apprehension Of formidable
advance upon the Balkan is clearly at an end.
This important change in the aspect of the campaign
must lead to corresponding notifications in the plans Of
the allied commanders for the scheme of operations
which might be excellent long the Russians
in force the right bank of the river is nappicate
when they have receded beyond it. and may fall back
within few marches Brailow and their frontier
in Bessaraba We cannot suppose that it will enter into
the plans Of the allies to undertake systematic operations
beyond the Danube in pursuit Of enemy already dis
comfed by the failure Of his exerons. The inva
sion Of the southern provinces of the Russian empire
would be undertaking in which the most complete
cess could lead to no result and the conquest of those
wide plains would be sterile the occupation of the
As it is possible to strike blow, every
sderaon both military and political points to the Cr
mea proper scene SuCn enterprise, ana
in that peninsula the essential condition Of per-
manent peace IT. therefore, when this intelligence fror,
the Danube is fully confirmed it should appear that
further necessity exists for the concentration Of troops
behind the BaRn and at Varna, trust that the allied
commanders will turn their attention to that expedition,
which ought henceforward to be the principal object
this campaign The destruction of that citadel and
sena which the key the ascendancy of Russia
the Black Sea and the East Lord Lyndhurst power
fully declared the other night the primary condition
which may hope to preserve the independence Of the
Turkish territories AS long Sebasopol holds out and
shelters under its guns feet which is the terror of the
weak though it shrinks from encounterng enemy
equal terms, Russia holds perpetual menace the
navigation Of the Danube, the independence Of Cir
cassia the commerce Of Trebizonde and the
imperial city Of Constantnople The destruction Of that
fortress would tend than any victories that could
be in the interior Of the empire to annihate the
policy which Russia has found to pursue for the
last century by her alternate practices the fears the
doubts the Indifference, and the ignorance of the world
Sebastopl is the keystone Of the arch which spans
Euxine from the mouths Of the Danube to the confines
of Mngrelia and such is tho prestige of its strength
throughout the East that the ascendency Of Russia will
not have yielded, in the estimation of the Asatc
tons to the genius and valor of the Western Powers
until the united flags of England and France waving
that stronghold Of the Gear. With this conviction
which believe to be shared by the people of this
try the Crmea becomes the point to which oil force
ought to DO directed from the that armies
longer required to defend the Balkan and the
Danube