The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1854-08-05
Four Days Later from Europe.
The steamer Alps arrived at Boston the 81 st
IT., with news from Liverpool to the 10Th.
WAR NEWS

ul:., with news from Liverpool to the 10TH
WAR NEWS.
The Monteur announces that the Russian
ports OF the Black Sea and Of the sea of ABORT.
will he blockaded at a date to be afterwards
fixed uIon
SIR James Graham stated in the House Of
Commons. in reply to question, that orders
had been transmitted to the A,mirals com.
mandn. in the White Sea, to institute a
.trt blockade Of the ports in that sea from
III. iir., day of August next.
Three hundred persons had been arrested
4. St Petersburg. in apprehension of an ont
break. The police told them that no posi-
tive accusation could be made against them.
on, that political opinions had rendered their
imprisonment matter of necessity.
From Wil1in, July II, we learn tina. the
Turkish troops had crossed the Danube at sew
cra i'onts,and occupied the principal places,
IN order TO prevent the Russians from cross
Ing the Aluta.
The allies were in full march for the Dan
ulc: on the 9Th only French troops had
reached Rustchuk. The English were at
Embc!cr, little place midway between Sch
umIa anu Kustchuk.
The number of allied troops arrived from
Shuna at Giurgcvo is 10000. The Turk
ish army. of $4,000, is advancing on Bucha-
rest in advance. Letters from Bucharest
state everything to be in confusion and alarm.
Omar Pa>ha is said by the Presse to state
his loss at 'iiur@evO on the 9TH and 18th at
200. The Russian at Fratcschti are 10000
with artillery, and continually being rein
'orccd
The whole garrison of Braia is marching
to Bucharest
1t is said that while 5000 Russians were
marching from Bucharest. one half were
struck down by sun strokes or inflammation
ofthc brain.
From Or>ove it is stated that Mehcmctl
Pasha defeated the Russian Brigade at Car
navo'ia in the Duhrulcha. on the Sth. after
FIVE hours battle, and took possession of the
place
On the 9th and 10th the Turks attacked
t'ri"adIer Pau!Off and Soominotf, with other
Russian dfrarhmcnts,at Fratcschti, north of
l,iurgevO. The Russians were completely
routed.
Nv guy III consequence or
Of a dispute between the Gar and his heir.
the latter will not join the army. The differ
sncc is SAID to be owing to the opposite way
in which each proposes TO carry on the war
on the Danube
According to letters from Bucharest. of the
10th. the state ofpnblic feeling in that city
was one ofindcScrbablc alarm and confusion
No one there doubted that Wallarhia was A.
bout TO be purced of the Mu>covi,cS. but il
was feared the town might he laid in ashes in
the meantime. The wounded Russians. of
whom ljr wagon loads had been conveyed to
Bucharest, had increased the general anxiety
by their dismal account of the state of thin"s
at t,iurgevO.
|IENNA.-Letters from Vienna state that
1t was known there that the forward move
mrnf ct the Ottoman army and that OF the
allies was resolved on and commenced a.
soon as 1t became evident that the Austrian
Government did not mean honestly TO tnlfl
its treaty with the Porte and enterW allachia.
to turn out the Russians. tits stated that the
minister Ofthe Sultan at Vienna has request
cd that the Austrian government will not.
under the circumstances. sen,: its troops into
any other provinces ofthc Snltan's ,lomnions
under the supposed authority OF the Convcn-
ton, or Of the notes which have been since
exchanged.