The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1854-07-20
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

uC oLedLnel AoldJ WIN LifCIPOOl udtCo
to the lst inst, being three days later than
those by the Baltic, has just arrived.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
The official reply of the Gar to the
summons of Austria has not yet been re-
ceived. Austria will certainly occupy
the Principalities. the battle e.feld seems
to be changed TO the Crimea. The aspect
of the war question has undergone an en-
tire change, and it is difficult to foresee
what new complications may arise.
Austria is ready to march an army of
200, 900 men into the Principalities, thus
interposing between the combatants and
preventing further hostilities though it
is not supposed that she will take any de-
cided stand until the receipt of the Cars
reply, which cannot reach Vienna be-
fore the third of July The action of
Austria will be in accordance with con-
vention between the Emperor and the
Porte.
The whole of the Anglo French army
now at Varna is making preparations, it
is supposed, for an expedition, under the
personal command of Marshal st. Arnaud
10 the Crimea.
The whole of the Russian army of oc-
cupation is falling back in good order,
with all its stores, on the Pruth. The
garrisons of Ismail, Galatz, &C.. are al
ready on the march to the Orimea, and
all the disposabe force will Immediately
follow, as that is expected to be the next
battle field. Nicholas is on his way to
the rimea from Kien.
From the Baltic we learn that. on the
2 tn of June, Admiral Napier was con-
centrating his whole force within twenty
five miles of Cronstadt, in a manner that
indicated an attack on that place.
The ports in the White Sea will be
blockaded from the lst of August
In Asia both armies are motionless
The latest advices from Greece repre-
sent everything quiet.
The Vienna correspondent of the Lon.
don Times is assured that Baron Freed.
dorf had received letters of recall, and it
was believed that diplomatic relations
with Russia will be broken off
Count Coroumi is to enter Little Wal.
lachia by the way Of Orsova, with an ar
my Of $4,000 men.
On the goth and 23d of June, the Turk.
Sh vanguard of 25, 900 men attacked the
Russian rear guard, and drove it beyond
Trajan's Wall.
Advices from Berlin state that despatch
es had been received from St. Petersburg.
containing the reply of the Car to the
requiSition of Austria.
Well informed persons believe there is
no reason to expect negotiations will be
furtherproIonged. In the treaty between
Nustria and Turkey, it is provided that
Austria will not enter into any arrange
ments with Russia, whicl shall not pro-
ceed upon the assumption of the SOW.
reign right OF the sultan, and the integri
ty OF his empire. Austria will evacuate
the Prncipalities on the conclusion of
peace, with the least possible delay.
On the 2lst June, Boursand, on the
Baltic. was bombarded by a portion Of
Napier'I fleet. The attack was made at
about 5o'clock in the evening, and by 7
masked battery was dismountpd and
abandoned; by 10 o'clock the Russian
magazines were in blaze. One account
says the English lost three men, and an
other puts their loss a. four killed and
seven wounded.
Napier's force near Constradt is l2I
screw line of battle ships, frigates, s.
French ships Of the line, and several
French Corvettes.
The Times says that probably Napier
wished to offer battle to the Russian fleet
or reconnoitre the defences of Consradt,
rather than 10 make regular attack on
that place.
At Odessa, on the 10Th Of June, there
was no blockading force, and ships were
getting cargoes as usual
Interesting debates had taken place in |
the British Parliament on the Fisheries
Treaty; and Canadian matters generally. |
Captain Pearson, of the Rose Stand |
ish, has died of his wounds received in
the battle of Shanghai, China.