Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-13

LAIEh fkOM kOhOPE.
THE NEWS By TIKI STEAMER ST. LOUIS.
The Turks Not Defeated NJ Kars.
STRANGE OFFER TO KING OF SWEDEN!
By the arrival of the u. 8. mail steamship
st. Louis at New York, yesterday afternoon,
We have advices from London and Southaup-
ton to the 30th ult., and from Paris to the 18th.
The political intelligence 10 not Of an i'm
portant character.
The commercial I'D vioes possess considerable
importance. Flour had declined one shilling
and sixpsncs to two shillings. Wheat had do.
clinsd eight pence. Corn had advanced one
shilling. Cotton had advanced one-sighth of
q penny on the lower grades. In the other
leading articles Of the market no material
change. The London money market was easier.
Among the passengers by the st. Louis is
Miss Nav, from the Grand Opera, Paris, an
American lady.
The Royal mail steamer Abrato with the
West India and Mexican mails, and 81 654 600
in specie, arrived at Southampton on the 10Th
inst
The expedition to the Crimea was appointed
to sail On the 10th August although some re-
ports stated the 30th 1t was composed of
1000 men, of whom 10000 were Turks. The
cholera was rather les virulent.
The damage done by the fire at Varna was
estimated at half million sterling and the
allied troops were put to great straits by the
destruction of part of their Commissariat
Dates from Constantinople to the 18th Aug.
do not confirm the defeat Of the Turks at Kars
On the I'D Omar Pacha, with Is 600 men and
30 guns, entered Bucharest. His reception
was enthusiastic
The cholera was very bad at Boma-sund,
particularly among the French troops.
It is stated from Copenhagen that General
paraguay d Killers had offered the King of
Sweden IA ,O00, 900 Of francs for the first mouth,
and ,0O0, 600 for the succe eding months, as a
subsidy to be paid on his actively joining the
Western Powers.
The British envoy had had several audiences
of the King. A large portion Of he French
troops were said to have re.embarked from
Bomarsund, and that it has intended to make
descent on the coast Of Finland to the west
ward of Helsingfors. A part of the feet, con.
sisting of the heavy ships, had sailed in that
had proposed petition to the King, to take
measures to prevent the Aland Islands from re-
turning to Russian dominion.
The German papers announce the approach
ing conclusion of treaty offensive and defen-
sive with Austria and the Western powers
The preiiminaries were said to be settled
There was also question Of an additional
article to tho Austria Prussia convention of
April which would perhaps place Prussia on
better footing with England, France and
Austria.
The Hannibal, Royal William and three
ships-of- all laden with Russian prisoners,
passed through the Great Belt on their way to
England, on the 10Th ult.
A telegraphic despatch from Brussels an
nouncss the resignation en- nasse of the Bel
gian ministry.
The Emperor Louis Napoleon arrived In
Paris on the 10Th ultimo, but was to return to
return to the Pyranees again in q few days
after the Transaction of important business
From France there 10 no news The export
trade of Paris had experienced a marked i'm.
provement and considerable orders had been
received from Portugal, the Brazils and South
America.
The tendency of tho corn markets was IRE
sistibly downward. The advices received from
the vine districts were deplorable, and in sew
eral the vintage will be totally inadeu uate to
the ordinary consumption. The price of wine
was therefore augmenting. Gen. paraguay
d Killers has been raised to the dignity of
Marshal of France
An official notification of the blockade of the
White seas appears in the London Times.
THE VERY LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
The London Times, of August 30, contains
the following dispatches from Paris, dated
August %:
Letters from Madrid of the oath announce
that the Royal decree has appeared suppressing
the 80 called Juntas Of Safety and Armament
which had been formed in the provinces
amt oil -
clubs.
Three per cent, "a 40.
despatch from Bayonns Of the Goth an
nounces that the Spanish government has OBJ
tanned loan Of 5,0o0, 900 of roais, secured on
the revenues of Cuba. =
Letters from Constantinopls of tho 10th an.
nounce that great battle had been fought on
the 9TH before Ksrs
The result of the combat was indecisive.
The loss on both sides was reckonsd at {, 900
men. Hassan Pasha was killed and Nusta ph q
Pashs wounded in the action.
Three Russian Generals disabled.
THE TURKS NOT DEFEATED AT KARs.
The Paris correspondent of the LONDON
Times writes AZ follows:
The last dispatches from Constantinopls
| state that the account of q defeat of the Turks
near Kars had not been confirmed. The re-
PoA'e, oooAooo, usdSIeoO o8 70 the place and
| time: According to one, the battle had been
fought st Bayazid, and according to the other
near Kars. The two armies, by our most re
cent advices from Trsbizond, were confronting
each other at Subahan, in the vicinity of Ears
The Turkish army was more numerous. but
the greatest division prevailed among its lead.
ers, and General Kappa had not arrived to
assume the chief command and silence their
| rivalriss. The Russian General Andronikoff
is well informed of this state of things but
will not probably risk battle until he is able
to strike decisive blow, on the arrival of the
achievements, now on their march to Geor.
gia.
Marshal Paskiewitch, it is said, has bro.
posed plan of campaign, adopted at St. Pc.
| tersburg, which consists in remaining in Eu.
| rope on the defensive and carrying on the
| war in Asia with the utmost vigor. General
| Andronikof has been chosen as the man most
| competent to execute this plan He is d.
| vested of the political scruples of his prede-
cessor, General Woronsof. and does not want
for military talent. He is Greek by birth.
His real name is Andronikos, which he has
thought proper to Russianize by the substitu-
| ton of two 'f's' for the g."
THINGS In NEW YORK.