Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-01-17
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


We extract from our files, by the Atlantic, The
following interesting foreign items of news:
FROM THE CRIMEA.
A correspondent of the London Times, under
date of Constanlinople, December 14th, writes as
follows:
AS the French have retired in the presence of
winter, the enemy have thrown forward their adj
vanced posts al Koluluz and Markou 10 The
northeast and from Aitodor and Ozembash TO The
north of Baidar. Sunday morning dark and
drizzlv, and the previous night had been wet and
stormy. The Russians, with their usual feline
aptitude for surprises, crep round the little ase
of Baga in the dark, and just at The dawn rushed
in upon the small party OF French which occupied
II. For Time the surprise was complete; but
our gallant allies soon got together, and at the
point Of the bayonet, siler a smart iusilla5e drove
| out the enemy, who had many horsemen with
| them.
" In the pursuit OF the Cossacks our allies man
| aged 10 capture some 40 hor,e. for these gentry
| fed by a road which in old times good enough
| for run, but they asionished 10 find them
| selves stopped by deep scarp AT pretty spot
where wall of rock closed The road The right
! hand side, and precpice formed the finland
| boundary, they had nothing for il but 10 dis.
mount and scramble across, leaving their horses,
| accoulrements, and all 10 their fate General
Pelssier IN his despatch adds:
:" Al the same time that the Russians attacked
'Baga and Ourkust, 200 infantry and about $50
| Cossscks. descending by the Caden.Ota road,
/ attempted diversion on the left OF Ourkust; but
| they found Two companies of this 7lh Chassieurs-
apsd TO stop their advance, and after Two or three
| bayonet charges they turned heel. Captain p.
| chon, who commanded these companies and who
| killed three Russians with his own hand displayed
on this occasion his usual valor.
| I he Russians left in our hands 10 killed,
wounded, or prisoners. The number of the latter
/ is rs that OF the wounded taken IN All, bulan
/ u
morning so killed had been burned. and search
was going on Tor those that might have fallen
| among the brushwood.
Our loss even including the 10 men Of the
outpost that was surrounded, and four Chasseurs
| dAfrique, captured between B.nga aud OurkcsI,
| is much less Than that Of The enemy. We only
| had two men killed and wounded one Of whom
is officer"
MISCELLANEOUS.
| Miss Nightingale continues AT Scutari, and pro-
poses dividing her Time ali this winter between hat
place and the Crlmea.
A high mass was performed on board the French
| flagship IN The Black sea, for the repose pf The
| soul OF Admiral Bruat.
| An Odessa letter mentions that the Notifications
| OF Nicoaiefsare completed. General Tod chen
was AT Odessa. SO large is the influx ofsirangers
iuto the Ctimea that $4,000 persons are said 10 be
| at this moment al Slmpheropol.
DR.. Huhnagle, American Consul General for
the East. was nj Renkloi, December H.
General Luders Las again taken up his quarters
| in Odessa, and recently gave ball 10 celebrate
| The nupiials Of his darghI-r-ihe only surviving
child out Of family OF twelve--wilh Colonel
| Wemarn.
In the early part Of The prese nj year the Russian
| government ordered that oil persons WHO came 10
| Finland from Sweden must remain there till the
end Of summer. A new order Is now promu gatcd O.,
and foreigners who henceforth visit Finland must
remain there till the end OF the war
RUSSIA
The following is published in the English
papers "A telegraph despatch from Berlin re-
ates an unconffmed rumor 10 the effect that
/ Russia and the United States have concluded a
treaty, offensive aud defensive, in case war should
break out between Britain and America but
another version Is that the agreement merely re-
laies TO the purchase OF ships OF war
| The following Is paragraph in the Vienna
| Austrian Gasette :-"There - good deal Of talk
IN The military circles OF treaty having re Gently
been concluded between the Cabinets Of 81. Peters.
bnrgh and Washington, in which they bind them
selves 10 lend each other effective assistance in
the event OF war breaking ont between the United
| States and the Western Powers. II is further
said, and with greater probability, that Russia
Is negotiating with the United States for As or so
ships Of war;"
ENGLAND.
The Queen has appointed William Miller now
| her Msjesiy's Consul General in the Sandwich
| Islands and other islands in the Pncifc ocean, TO
be her Majrsly's Commissioner and Consul Gen.
| eral ia the Sandwich Islands and their depe nden
| ces.
Mr.. Laird the shipbuder Of Liverpool, ha. re.
| ceived order from the British Government Ia
| build fourteen gunboals, ten Of the class Of $50
tons and loo feet long, and four liz tons and 100
| feet long.
The London and Westminster Bank has sus-
tanned loss Of about f3 600 through the defalca.
ton Of one Of their clerks. who has been about
| twenty years in the service OF The company.
The report e the Highland Society 10 the Board
OF Trade, on the crops Scotland, jdst published,
will strengthen the opinion thaI while there is
ground for prudence aud economy, there is none
| TO apprehend anything like scarcity or famine.
The total strength OF The army 10 Ireland, in
GLIDING all arms. is 32,3l0 men, OF which 1916 are
stationed in the Dublin district
FRANCE.
The late building Of the Paris Exposition is pro-
posed TO be turned into a hippodrome.
The iron works OF M. Cave, which occupy be
tween | 500 and 2 600 persons, have received SC
many orders from Turkey, Egypt Naples, &c.
and from the interior that six years would be re
CURED TO complete them.
"A grand council OF war is 10 held at Paris Of al
the generals who have returned from the Crlmea
Pelissier approves OF il, and the Duke Of Cam
bridge and Gen. Marmora will be present.
The accouchment OF the Empress is expected
+ TO occur about March 9th.