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OPERATIONS on THE DANUBE-THE LATEST Eat
TIE OF THE RUSSIANS AGAINST THE
RUSSIANS, OR TIE BATTLE OF



THE EILKENNEY CATS.
There is nothing new from the Dannbe, so
far as the relative position of the two armies
is concerned. Operations Of magnitude are re-
tarded hy She bad weather, but constant sue
cession of minor encounters are reported. Tn
almost all these conflicts the Turks are aggrcss
ors and generally come of'victors. From all indi-
cations, however, the Russians, slowly as they
move, are preparing for a grand stroke.
On the 10Th of February a conflict took
place v mistake between Two columns Of the
Russian army. The Turkish positions ere cx-
lage of Cuipercen, which is about mile dis.
tant from kalcfat. For. several DAYS Tur.
kish corps, 4 ,0G0 strong. under the command of
Col Mirolai, had been posted III front of this
village, and in the direction OF the Russian
outposis. On this corps The Russians deter
mined to MAKE an onslaught during the nia hit
of the lGth. For this purpose two Russian col
umus were brought up, each from 1900 to ), 900
slrong, one By the road which leads to kulelat.
frcm about the village Of Stril lezi, and the
other from the left side of it,. from about PCis-
ia, prince Miloschs property. to advance I'M
expectcdly upon the Turks, to surprise, enclose
them, and cut them to pieces. The Russian
columns commenced their march at three
0 clock in the morning, and by four O'Clock
reached position Whence they were only halt
an hours march from the Turkish plckets.--
The second column seems either to I'VE missed
he direction by mistaking the road, OF to have
come up long after lis time
BE this as it may, the latter column; in The
ohseurity of loggy night, concluded the form
er TO be body OF hostile Turks, and instantly
opened upon them terrific cahnOnadc, which
the others, who lahored under the same mistake,
returned with yet more deadly effect. Pressing
towards each other, it came ere long to a close
fire Of small arms. This Ill omened combat
lasted for an hour and a half, until, when day
dawned the comiatants saw with horror the
error they had committed. The loss in killed
and wounded, i'll the course of this nights en-
tounier,is reckoned by the Russians themselves
at several handredS. The Turks were natur-
ally alarmed at every point;and at Wddin.whleh
is but a league al d a half distant, Omer Parha,
on hearing the cannonade, took AL the requisite
measures for defense. The Turkish corps sta
toned at Cuipcrceni stood to arms. in readiness
for action at any moment, but did not advance
as it was at loss t imagine or comprehend
what the Russians were about numbering one
another in that style. 1t was not till between I
and A. NJ. that the Russian columns with
drew to their respective positions, carrying their
wounded along with them.
-Four Turkish and two Egyptian ships of war
very well manned, had arrived at Orfauo, i'll
the Gulf of Cotessa, and FIVE other men of war
one of which was English, had run into the
port of Salonico, in Macedonia.
RUSSIA.
Advices from St. Petersburg are to Februa
ry q, at which date scarcely any thing was do
ing in produce. Telepraphic accounts from
Odessa represented business as almost suspen
ded, and further stated that an order had been
issued totally to stop the expectation Of wheat
The Gazette de la Baltique announces. under
date St. Petersburg, Feb 27 that the Russian