Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1855-12-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE BATTLE OF THE INGOUR.  The Times correspondent in Mingrelia furnishes an account of the battle on the lugour which took Place on the 6th. not the sth ef November, us reported in the official telegraphic despatches. The march of the army through the forests and swamps that extend between the Calera and the luguar presented great difficulties. The correspondent referred to joined the advancing troops beyond the Gedava, and fonnd them a miscellaneous multitude straggling by devious paths through the tangled underwood, or ,ploughing their way through deep mud." e There were infantry and cavalry in long lines winding between the magnificent oak and beech : trees of which the forest is composed; Abasituis on wiry pouies dodging in and out, and getting past everybody: mules and pack-horses, in awkward predicaments, stopping up the toad, on whose devoted heads were showered an immense variety of oaths by their drivers, who in their turn were sworn at by the rest of the world. There were some batteries of artillery, which looked no hopelessly embedded that nothing short of British energy, ' as impersonated in the young Englishman who commanded, could have extricated them. There were broken-down beggage-waggous and brokendown mules, and everything but broken-down men. Here and there a Pasha was squatted by the roadside, indulging in his nargithe, enjoying his • kief,' and watching placiy the exertions ot Ids troops." The whole force—the numbers of which are not given—arrived on the right bank of the Ingour on the 4111 November. and Omar Patha reached their camp on the 3rd. The enemy was posted on the left bank, covering the forts. Their right, supported by the fort of Huai, and covered with wood, faced • the river at a point where its bed was two hundred yards broad, but where the stream was much flax. rower. Their centre was pouted behind an intrenchmeat, opposite another practicable crossing. The lett held a ford still further down the river. opposite the fort of Ruchi, by the direction of Omar Pasha, the Turks threw up two batteries, on the night of the 4th, with the view ot occupying the attention of the enemy by their tire, while he crowd the river lower down. 'this movement was secantfully accomplished on the 6th. The day after the battle, the Correspondent gives the following account of what took place sifter the preceding day, :he 6th Nov. 7. The energy with which ()mar Pasha has pushed forward operations has wet with a glorious reward, in the utter defeat of the Russians and the successful montage of the river Ingour yesterday evening, alter unhurt but bloody battle. In the morning the order came for the troops to get under arms immediately, aud at eleven oclock a.m. we creased one br,utch of the river, about two hours lower down, without opposition. We now found out selves upon an island live or eix miles long and about two miles broad, across which the troops marched. Three battalions of Rides, under Colonel Bullard, were sent forward to line the woods, through which we advanced by a narrow path. About one o'clock we reached a large field of Indian corn, and heard (ho Rifles hotly engaged with the enemy in a thick wood in our front. '1 lie Russians were soon driven from this across the river, and opened a tremendous lire from behind a battery upon the wood, of which the Itiflee bud now taken possession. 31cantime, as the leading column of the Turkish army showed itself upon the plate, a battery consisting of five guns opened upon them, which wt.:speedily replied to by our artillery. A path was formed under cover of a steep bank, under which the infantry advanced to the support of the Rides in the wood, who had Leen sustaining and replying in the most determined manner to tho tremendous tire which the enemy had been concentrating upon them. While tlds was the position of affairs opposite the battery, Omar Paella detached ()email Pasha with eie battalions to a ford which had been discovered Rhea a mile and a half lower down the river. }fere they found themselves warmly received by the enemy, drawn up in force upon the opposite bunk. Notwithstanding the velocity of the current and the depth of the water, the 'furbish troops, after tiring a volley, dashed across the river in the face of a cruel fire, and in splendid style drove the Russians into the woods behind at the yoint of the bayonet. At almost the same moment Colonel Simmonds, at the head of two battalions of infantry and three companies of Rifles, crossed the river in front chime tort, and assaulted it Lauda a murderous fire. Here his aide-do•camp, Captain llyiaoak, was killed