Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1855-03-10
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5, ard six days later from Europe.
| The Royal Mail Steamship Africa,
Capt. Harrison, arrived at Boston with
dates from Liverpool down to II o'cl'k
A. NJ. Both inst
THE WAR.-There is, remarka BILE
scarcity of intelligence respecting either
the progress of the seige or progress of
negotiations for peace. The chief in
terest now centers in the proceedings of
the Congress at Vienna. Hopes are
entertained that negotiations may lead
to peace hut equally well grounded
apprehensions prevail that the present
negotiations will fail TO re-establish
peace, In which event all occur that the
war will assume vaster magnitude.
The French and English Ministers al
Vienna have received the necessary
powers to enable them TO reopen nego-
tiations. This intelligence is derived
from IA tlegraphic despatch, dated Vi
emma, the 18th inst. Letters from that
city state that the allied powers will re-
tard negotiations, IN The hope that in the
meantime the fall of Sebastopol will
happen to influence the decision of the
Gar
Prince GortsachoG is understood to
have received written instructions from
his government in regard to the pending
negotiations. The extct contents are
of course secret, but rumor from we'll
Informed sources, SAYS that Russia
again expresses the Czar's readiness en-
ter into negotiations for an honorable
peace, and also his earnest desire to put
an end to all present difficulties.
Prussia it will be remembered has
formally refused to mobilise d place
part of her army in .Prussian Silesia to
cover the left flank of the Austrian
forces now in Gallicil, assigning as a
reason her confidence in the Pacific in
tcntiens of Russia.
Both from Berlin ard Vienna it is
stated that great efforts are being made
to obtain the consent of the western
pow ers to an armistice.
The Prnssian Cabinet is urging with
peculiar carnestncss, the necessity of
saspendng hostilities, until the belliger-
ents shall have pursued further the pres
ent endeavor to arrive at an underStan-
ding. These are mere rumors but no.
thing els is at present within the reach
Of the Public.
An approaching congress of nations
is more confidently talked Of. The
London Daily News says eve may be
induced to repose some confidence in the
result of that Congress deliberations if
the United States are invited to tax
part in them and accepts the invitation.
Letters say that the Swedish army is
Immediately to be p accd on war foot
ingby the addition of $4,000 Swedes
and 5000 Norwcgians.
From THE CRIMEA The news from
the crimea is not very important. The
works outside Sebastopol are progress
sing towards completion. The dispatch.
es via. Mars iilles are to the Sd. They
state that the French 3 tteries were
daily approaching nearer to Sebastopol
and that the last English battery was in
course of termination The Telegraph
ic accounts are to the 10th of January.
| Up to that date nothing of Importance
had occurred. We make some extracts
from camp correspondents showing the
situation of affairs.
A letter in the Pays, dated Constan>
tinople, January 5, says !: GA column
IF rfemen had taken possession of the
important position of Camera, near Bal
aklava, after dring out the Russians who
occupied it. The enemy in this affair
experienced severe losses. They were
completely pat the rout, and fled pre-
cipitately, burning their forage and tents.
The loss of the Russians at Sebastopol
and neighborhood, during the last days
of December, is estimated at more than
/ 5000 men.
THE DAHUBE-We are withot any
thing respecting the invasion of Drobu-
dscha, excepting the following from the
Wanderer of Viennn
The Russians crossed the Danube at
Tultscha. and favored by the obscurity
of the night, they reached the right
flank in their boats, and surprised one
of the weakest garrisons, and after max
ing great carnage, recrossed the river
laden with booty, and taking with then
a number of prisoners. There was con-
siderable loss on the part of the Russi
ans, as the Turks fought with desperate
courage. Among tue slain is a Pasha,
but his name is not mentioned. The
inhabitants of Tultscha fed into the
country with their wives and children,
and did not return again unit long after
the departure OF the Russians.
The Turkish force now in the Dobrud-
scha is estimated at more than 10000
men, mostly raw recruits, however-the
flower of Omar's army having gone to
the Crimea, against which, ii is said,
Omar strongly protested, and still re-
mains much dissatisfied
! --LATEST NEws.-The Times in a lead
ing articl- draws most depiorable pic
,ure of the state of the Army In the
Crimea At the beginning Of January
] it could only MISTER $4,000 bayonets.
The a. ii lcry and engineers had been
reduced in the same proportion, and the
cavalry no longer existed as force. The
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