Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-03
EUHOPEAN AFFAIRS.

The steamship Pacific has arrived, with dates
from Liverpool to the 18th of December. The fol
lowing items embrace the more important features
Of the news;- .s~.> -
Kars had fallen into the hands of4he Russians
the garrison having been starved out. When Gen
Kenehy escaped from the city, to hasten the vance
If Omar Pasha, Gen. Williams was sending in flag
of truce to offer terms of capitulation. Nothing
further is known, but it is believed the place had
surrendered, the garrison being too weak to cut
their way through the Russians. Omar Pasha was
near Kutais, which was held by, o strong force Of
Russians.
In the Crimea, the Russians had attacked the ex-
tremity of the French lines with 5000 men, but af
ter an hours fighting, withdrew. Both armies are
comfortably housed. The firing continues between
North and South Sebastopol. W.
Russia has negotiated new loan of $4,000, 900
roubles. The Austrian army was being reduced to
the peace footing.
More rumors regarding race but certain negotia-
tions made no progress. difficulties are known to
exist in ne English Cabind. Lords Palmerston and
Panmure urging continuance of the war, while the
rest of the Cabinet suggestions for
peace.
Cotton opened active but closed quiet at l-16d
advance. Sales of theHeek Sc, 900 Bales, including
$4,000 to spectators md exporters
1t falls out very stnngely that LOUIS NAPOLEON
is now suggesting consels Of peace, and thereupon
the English government hesitates! How suddenly
and unaccountablythe aspect of affairs have chan
ged. But yesterday England was bleeding at every
pore and grooming )erily with the weight of the
burden while Fracc, elate with victory, asserting
the supremacy an grasping at conquest, decreed
loudly for the wa! 1t passes our feeble compre-
hension. The sggestion comes from France, and
is first limited Il France from the Crimea, by the
Marshal PELLlER, who has informed his Majesty
that another cfnpaign in the peninsular will prove
fatal to the any, and must not be sustained. Here
IN extract firm letter of the Washington corres-
pondent of .te Now York Post comes in aptly, and
may serve tgve an insight into the secret of these
strange metmorphoses -.
''The lot news from Europe, in official as we'll rs
in unofcI circles, is deemed to be of unusual sig
nifcance. tits thought to presagc an early disrup-
ton of tb alliance between England and France
The despato financial condition of the latter gov
ernmentthe malprospcct of famine this winter
among tc French people, together with the well
known net that there has never been for the last
half ceIury famine without revolution, OF rev.
outiorIithout famine has naturally alarmed and
disineed Louis Napoleon to risk any further drains
uponis resources, and, accordingly, we find the
presbf Paris Ginning in concert for negotiations
whp may lead to peace. The withdrawal of the
FrGh forces in the Crimea at points where they
cape of no service, and the demand of Gen. Pes-
sic who is ut Paris, for the complete evacuation of
tb Crimea by the 100000 French troops, on the
gund that further operations would be fruitless,
pst augur reversal of the late warlike policy of
e Empire. Iobserrc also that your sagacious cor
spondent at Paris predicts tho adoption of Pelis-
lier's advice.
''Thc recent ferocous attack of the London Times
apon the French Marshal, charging him with cow
lrdice and imcompetency, and its studied eulogium
Of England at the expense Of her ally, with its in
situations that while, at the end of two years. Eng.
and, which started with such disadvantages in point
of standing army, finds herself in an improved
condition to prosecute hostlities, while her coadju
tor, after one prodigions military splurge by which
she was enabled to bag all the glory of the campaign
aow ignobly backs. out with exhausted resources