Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-25

| ing the advance posts of the Russian left flank
Sixteen battaliOns Of the Russians were
| thrown into disorder.
RETIREMENT OF THE RUSSIANS
According to the Frankfort Post Zetung,
the body of the Russian army had been with
| drawn from the plateau ON the north side of
| SebastOpol towards the heights of the Belbec
only lew thousand men now garrisoned the
| northern forts.
In the neighborhood of Nicoaieff some
$4,000 men are concentrated, %, 900 of whom
belong to the newly raised military.
BRITISH FLEET SENT TO THE COAST OF ITALY
Her MaJesty's ships Rodney, Albion, Lon
don, Lesnder, and Wasp, have received orders
to proceed, under the command of Admiral
Stopford, to the coast of Italy. They will be.
gin their mission, it 10 said, in the Bay of Ma
| pies.
FILLING UP THE TRENCHES.
letter from Sebastopol in the Marseilles
Journal, says that one Of the orders which has
been executed by the troops with the greatest
| pleasure, is that Of filling up the trenches 1t
is stated that the troops regard their prospects
| tavOrably-that great number of the SOL
dlers OF the class of lS47, who may now quit
the service, do not wish to do so.
BoNBARDaENT OF ODESSA
The allied feet, which, according to the
last news, had sailed on secret expedition
| from Sebastopol, anchored off Odessa on the
9Th Of October
Prince Gortschakof reports that the force
| consists OF ships-Of-the-line, q steamers
| and one other vessel.
| No news Of the bombardment had been re-
ceived up to the latest dates, but was expected
| Immediately.
| Odessa, since the destruction of the corn
ports in the sea Of AzOff, has formed the chief,
II not the sole, means OF support Of the Russian
| army in the Crimea.
The Emperor Of Russia and suite arrived at
Odessa on the 22d of September, but left again
the neft day for NieOlaieff to attend council
| Of war.
RUSSIAN LOSSES.
The Invalido Russo gives a detailed &C.
| count Of the losses Of the Russian garrison on
| the 9Th September, as follows Killed, 684 /;
wounded, sos Commissions, 205; missing
| l,754-total, IL, 70l. The same Journal states
that the Russians lost 500 men on the 10th Ct
| August, and 200 men per day every day up
| to September 9Th. Thus it would appear that
| the losses of the garrison for the last three
weeks Of the siege amounted to 80, 200, ire
| spectively Of disease.
THE DANUBE.
| According to the COnstantinople Journal,
| the commander of the Turkish army on the
Danube has received instructions to provide
| ratiOns for forty or fifty thousand French
| troops, who are TO arrive at Silstria about the
| end Of October.
A telegraphic dispatch from Constantinople
states that the Anglo-Turkish contingency
has received orders to proceed to Schumla.
MEDIATION.
In circular addressed by the Austrian
Government to its representatives, it is init
| mated that though Prussia is at liberty to act
| as mediator between the belligerent powers,
the present is not n favorable time for such
| mediation-that in fact the Western Pow
ers must follow up the advantage gained,
| and not treat with Russia until they have ex-
| PEELED them from the Crimea. The manifes.o
| asserts that the most perfect understanding
| existed between Austria and France.
THE WAR IN ASIA.
Gen Monriaeff had forwarded to st. Peters
burgh report of a successful engagement in
| which the COssacks, militia and dragons,
commanded by Lieut.. General Kivalenski,
| defeated detachment of 800 regular Turk
ish Cavalry and 1000 Bashi Bazouks. The
| Turks had about 400 killed.
| Ali Pasha, the commander, who took part
| in most of the last wars of Turkey, was made
| prisoner The Turks lost all their guns.
| The garrison at Kars still hold out, though
reduced to great extremes. Part of Omar
Pasha's force was advancing from Batoum to
| attempt to raise the blockade. The Turkish
| ioICc uOW III mars IU,UUO Ueu.
THE BALTIC.
| The Russians are repairing Sweaborg with
the greatest activity, charging the barracks
and building batteries, &c. Further accounts
from Rega, though meagre, of the lombard
ment, state that batteries at the mouth Of the
Duna had suffered little, but the battery at
Ballen had considerably.
| On the 18th of September, three frigates
anchored at the mouth of the river Sulis and
the boats crew set fire to ten vessels
| Rear Admiral Penaud describing the e1pe-
dition to the Gulf of Bothnia by one French
corvette and two English steamers states
eleven Russian vessels, anchored of Burans,
aud q small town on the Finish coast, were
captured, and eight other vessels, making the
tonnage captured $500.
GENERAL NEWS.
| Thursday, the 10th inst was the weekly
board day Of the Bank of England. A pro-
traoted discussion took place, but no change
was made in the rate Of discount.
a meeting of the creditors of De Lisle d
Janvrin had been held, and the statement Of
their affairs was very satisfactory.
FRANCE. -
The Moniteur announces, officially, that the
Empress has entered the fifth month Of her
| pregnancy, and that her health is excellent.