The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-06-29
Foreign News.
ONE WEEK LhTFR IRON EUROPE


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Of RuSs5anS-N Nothing done JY tie FYectS
improvement iR Cotton aasd tie Mon
cy Marhd.
. HALIFAX: Wednesday, June 81, 1854.
The royal mail Steamer Canada, Capt
Stone, from Liverpool oo Saturday, the
loth instant, arrivedsat New York, Ell
route for Boston, l J O'clock this morning.
THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
The advance of the Russians toward
the position of the allied armies is an
nounced, and has created considerable uu-
casiness in the moneyed world at Paris.
1t is said that all the better class Of
persons are flying from St. Petersburg,
fearing that the troops now arriving are
composed of Cossacks.
TIE Times Paris correspondent alludes
to the existence of an injurious intrigue
in the Turkish Councils, and the misman-
agement Of the war Department at Con-
stantinople. Russians bribery is binted
at.
Progress OF the War.
Int ensc anxiety hangs on the fate of Sill
istria. The Russians were making des-
perate efforts to take it, and Marshal St.
Arnaud had sent 60,000 troops to relieve
it, namely, $4,000 French, $1,000 Brit
tish, and 10000 Turks of Omer Pasha's 5
force. The Russians had 10000 men on
the spot, and beseiginc and assaulting
were continued day and night. The Rus
slams had made a practicable breach, but
freshet in the Danube prevented the
storming. Advices Of the 2jth of May
reported that the fortress might hold out
for fifteen days. The commandant, Mes
sa Pasba, says he will blow himself up and
the fortress rather than surrender.
DuIing the night of May Goth, the
Russians made three attempts to storm,
but were repulsed with fearful loss, leav-
ing 800 dead beneath. the ramparts.--
The Turks also made sortie, and effect
ed dreadful massacre OF the Russians,
900 being reported as the number of
their wounded and slain.
There has been considerable fighting
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elsewhere.
The Governor of Widden writes that
on the 3Ist of May, severe affair occur
red at Slatina, when the Turks DEBATED
1000 Russians, killed 500, and captured
their artillery.
Other encounters, more or less sanguin-
airy, are reported.
All the Russians at Bucharest are or
dered to advance to the Danube
Prince Pashewitch was at Kalarash on
the lst Of June
Gen. Wysocki advises the Poles not to
90 at present into Turkey, as the forma-
ton of Polish Legion was delayed.
The Black Sea.
\ dispatch from Admiral Hamelin, da-
ted May 2lst, states briefly, that during
the twenty preceding days nothing had
been done except cruising about Sebasto-
pol, without meeting with the enemy.
y letter from the Doctor captured by
the frigate Tiger, says "The Russians
treat the prisoners with great kindness"
The Baltic.
Nothing further has been done in the
Baltic. Admiral Napiers' own division,
in leaving The Hango Roads, would pro-
ceed along the northern coast of the Gulf
Of Finland TO within twenty miles of Hell
Admiral Corry's division, in
cluding the french squadron, would cruise
off the southern coast until arriving near
Con-tra9t, when both divisions would u
nite and anchor in line across the Gulf,
thus cutting off the enemies communication
with St. Petersburg by sea.
The French squadron, % strong, pass
ed Runge on the 4th, steering north
east.
4 force of steam gun-boats was hastily
fitting in England. Five English ships
of-war were on their way to blocade the
White Sea.
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