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. THiE LEADER. [No. 279, Saturday,
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THE WAK.
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. Thie Leader. [No. 279, Saturday,
. THiE LEADER . [ No . 279 , Saturday ,
The Wak.
THE WAK .
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feg S £ SBFfi 3 « - £ . -o « however , progresses most favourably . Siv SS ' day ? tS hasfae ^ proaches lessen the dis-SS ^ SreS theinselves and the ™ ter fortifications , and the frequent sorties of the enemy seem to evince the amountof his apprehension . The fire of the Kussian ships in the harbour disturbs our men to a considerable extent , but does not prevent them from pushing forward . On the 10 th of July , General Simpson writes that at five o ' clock a heavy fire was opened upon the Kedan by the Allied batteries . A from Marseilles of the 21 st that the
despatch , says English contingent has been increased , and that six thousand men , undeT the command of General Niel , will shortly leave the Bosphonis for the Crimea . Another communication of the same date states that the Allies are preparing an expedition with troops on board for landing ; bat the destination , has not transpired . More gunboats have been sent to the Sea of Azof and the Putrid Sea . So far all goes well ; but it is anticipated that the next attack upon the Malakhoff will not take place until the end of the present month that is to say , until about the present time . In the meanwhile , the Russians are occupied in constructing new works for the defence .
From Kars , we hear , in the first instance , that the Russians had commenced the siege , at a time when the Turkish force only amounted to 18 , 000 men ; and , in the second instance , that General Mxmravieff has abandoned the attack . A reinforcement of 20 , 000 Turks is to be immediately sent thither , and the Pacha of Trebizond has ordered a levy en masse for that purpose ; but the Christians are said to have refused , or at any rate to have set conditions to tlieir co-operation . So much for the privilege of fighting lately accorded to the non-Mahometan population of Turkey . It is speculated that General MouraviefTs object in retiring froni Kars is in order to surprise Erzeroum , or to attack the Turks in the field . An article has appeared in the Moniteur de la Flotte , in which we read as follows :
" The construction of the battery at the extremity of Careening Bay , which is intended to prevent the Russian shipping from bringing their broadsides to bear against us , as in the attack of the 18 th of June , must now be nearly completed . That battery , if we be correctly informed , will be armed with guns of the largest calibre , and mortars d plaque , the terrible fire of which will oblige the wmnant of the Russian fleet to seek refuge in some remote corner of the immense bay , unless the commanders resolutely accept battle , and prefer , for the first time since the beginning of the siege , to have
their BMps sunk by other hands than their own The Russian army in the field has been ordered to attempt a diversion . A letter from Baloklava states that a Russian corps of from 35 , 000 to 40 , 000 men , supposed to be nnder the orders of General Luders , had made its appearance on the heights of Mackenzie . The enemy evidently intends to make a diversion in favour of the Malahkoff Tower , which we so closely menace . Be this as it may , this new move of the Russians has in nowise interrupted our works ; and , if they think proper to offer us battle , they will be well received . "
In the want of certain intelligence , a great many rumours have been flying about , to the effect that Ismail Pacha has announced to his troops the approaching opening of a campaign in Bessarabia ; that the inhabitants of Odessa are in a state of considerable fear of an approaching attack from tho Allies ; and that General Simpson , feeling himself " not strong enough for the place , " has requested to be relieved from the chief command . In the midst of these shadowy phantasmagoria , which dilate and contract , appear and disappear , in the fluctuating cloud-land of gossip , comes the detailed Russian account of the French and English attack of the 18 th , describing over again , only from a Muscovite point of view , the bloody realities of that ghastly deathwrestle .
The health both of the French and English armies is improving , cholera being far less than it was ; but a despatch from General Simpson mentions , in terms of the deepest regret , the death—we believe , though it is not so stated , from the pestilence—of Lieutenant-Colonel Vico , French Commissioner to the English army . A later despatch from the Commander-in-Chief speaks of the death , from wounds , of Captain Maunsell , of the 39 th Regiment . Death has also carried away General Todlebon , the defender of Sevastopol , and a man of genius and marvellous energy . Tho death of Sehaniyl is now considered certain ; not so the cause of it . Rumour , however , speaks of his having become Russianised since the release by the late Czar of his son ; in consequence of which , it is said , his subject chiefs have slain him . Raglan , Schamyl , NachimoflfJ Todlebenall gone within a few weeks ! A RUSSIAN SORTIE AGAINST TUB FRICNOH . '_ The Moniteur of Friday morning announces that tho
Minister of War has received the following despatch from the Crimea , dated July 25 , 8 A . M . : — " After a brisk cannonade , the Russians made a sortie , about midnight , on the left of the Little Redan . As we are now quite close to them / it did not take the enemy one minute to reach our gabionnades . They were vigorously received by th % Chasseurs-a-pied of the Imperial Guard , and by some companies of the 10 th Regiment of Infantry of the Line . •« The Russians beat a hasty retreat , leaving some -wounded , and eight killed , between our ambuscades and the fosse of the place . A very dark night enabled them to carry off the others . " This affair does honour to Lieutenant-Colonel de Texis of the Infantry , and to Captain Lecocq , of tho Engineers . General Bisson was on duty in the trenches . " THE SULTAN ' S LETTER TO THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH GENJSRAXS . The Sultan recently addressed an autograph letter to the late Lord Raglan , and another to General Pelissier , thanking them respectively for the valour and heroism of their troops " I experience , " writes the Sultan , " a feeling of high satisfaction that a thing so terrible as war should have been the means of uniting my people -with the great nations of the west by indissoluble bonds . As long as the noble thirst for glory shall make the human heart beat , those who have struggled with fraternal emulation , those who have mixed their blood together on a foreign soil , will remember companions whom they regard as brothers . What has hitherto been the scourge of mankind will have procured the satisfactory result of bringing nearer to each other the people whose Governments were already allies ; this war will bear the germs of a durable peace , rich in wholesome fruit , between nations who desire to appreciate one another . " The letter concludes with this sentence : — " I pray God to give you the most glorious success , and to have you in His holy keeping "—words which become singular from being addressed by a Mahometan to a Christian . At ' the bottom we find the date as follows : — 11 Palace of TcheYegan , the 12 th Scbewal , 1271 . " THE HANGO MASSACRE . The Journal de St . Pe ' tersbourg of July 7 th publishes another long statement relative to the Hango affair , in the course of which the writer remarks f — " No signal was made to give timely information to our authorities of the approach of a flag of truce to parley . No consent was asked , no permission granted , to authorise a landing : the boat ran on shore , the crew landed , the officer advanced into hostile territory without permission , without any legal recognition of his quality—in a word , at his own risk and peril . He fell into our power , exposing his life and the lives of his crew to the chances of a surprise . " The old accusation is repeated , that the English had made use of " artifices ; " and the Russians , it is added , are justified in counteracting these . " We have done so at Hango . We declare it openly . " The writer then says that the English no doubt regret the failure of an expedition which they sought " to carry out with impunity under cover of a white flag . " The existence of the white flag is therefore admitted , and Russia is selfconvicted of violating it . The gist of the complaint against our countrymen lies in the assertion that , after the delivery of the prisoners , and when the legitimate mission of the party was at an end , the intruders walked about fifty yards towards the village . Nothing , however , can be advanced in defence of the sudden and treacherous nature of tho attack .
Tho Journal de ! St . Pe'terabourg also publishes a letter from Prince Dolgorouki to Admiral Dundas , dated July 11 , informing him that , in addition to Cronstadt , Sweaborg , and Revel , flags of truce will bo also received at Libau , Windau , Wasa , and Tornea .
Wak Miscellanea. The Ska Of Azof.—Colone...
WAK MISCELLANEA . The Ska of Azof . —Colonel Ogilvie , commanding a Turkish brigado at Yeni-Kalch , returned a few days ago , on account of his health , from the sea of Azof . According to his account , things are going on pretty smoothly there . The fortifications are assuming daily a more reassuring character . Tho Sphinx , Captain Willmot , and the little gunboats , are diligently searching after liussiun vessels and stores in the sea of Azof . Moat of the Greek and Russian inhabitants have quitted , and tho Tartans have siezed tho opportunity to possess themselves of their lands . The Russians are fortifying the Isthmus of Arabat . The Circassians tiro said to have returned to Anapa . —Times Correspondent .
Russian Aoenth in IIavama . —A letter from Nuremberg , in Bavaria , of the 8 th , says : — " The police yesterday arreuted two Russian agents as they woro about to leave by railway with two gunsmiths whom they had engaged , and a Kuusian officer who has arrived here has been placed under surveillance . Several of our gunsmiths have , it is saitl , been engaged for Kumhiu hy tho promise of a fixed salary of five hundred silver roubles ( tho rouble is about four francs ) and many contingent advantages . " The Austrian Army . —Tub Pamuiik . —Tho Vienna Minister of Finance estimates that tho saving which will be effected in tho course of the present year by tho reduction of tho army will ho 60 , 000 , 000 florins ( tho florin
is about two francs fifty cents ) . The same letter eta that the corn merchants at Vienna had learned fr < Galatz that the fears which had been entertained oi blockade of the Danube were unfounded ; but that t Iowness of the water formed an obstacle to exportatio Tub Foreign Legion . —A Prussian paper publisl the terms of agreement between the Foreign Legion a the English Government . We read : — " M . de Stutt < heim , on ex-officer of the Brunswick army , has und < token to raise 10 , 000 men , including » officers , at the ti of 10 / . per head . The men who enlist are to take
oath of fidelity to the Queen , ore to engage to serve i the whole war and a year lunger , and are to go where \ they may be required . At the expiration of their peri of service , the non-commissioned officers and soldiers a to receive a yeAVa pay , and to be conveyed either to thi own country , or to Canada , where land is to be ceded them . The officers' pay is to be tho same as that officers in the English army . No provision has be made for officers and soldiers who may become unfit 1 service , but they may receive " pensions from the genei sity of the Queen . *
The Engush Prisoners in Russia . —An extra from a letter respecting Colonel Kelly , Captains Fram ton and Clarke , and Lieutenants Clowes , Duff , Cha wick , and Byron , has appeared in the Times . T writer complains of the slowness of our Government exchanging them . The French prison ors , it is said , a all exchanged already . Arrival ok more Russian Prisoners at Lewes .-On Friday week a party of Russian prisoners from S bastopol , consisting of four officers and six men , arrin at Lewes .
Sir Edmund Lyons , under date July ^ 10 , encloses report from Lieutenant Hewett , describing the deatru tion of the floating bridge in the Straits of Genitcl under * a heavy fire of musketry . Joseph Trewava ordinary seaman , who cut the hawsers , is mention * with particular encomium . He was wounded , but u seriously . Admiral Duxdas encloses a report from Capta Yelverton , having reference to the operations of th . officer in the Gulf of Finland , when sonic of the Russii defences were surveyed , and a contest was kept up f an hour with soldiers on the shore . The death of M Story , midshipman of the Arrogant , is mentioned by ti Admiral with great regret . From a non-official accour it appears that Mr . Story was killed by the accident ignition of a rocket on board the boat , which blew hi into the water , where , it is supposed , he sunk . One the sailors was also killed , and otbers severely
burnt-Sik George Brown arrived in London at the latt end of last week . Reinfouckments ok French Troops continue depart from Marseilles to the scat of war . Contraband of Waic . —The English Govern me has forbidden the export to Prussia of iron plates 5-16 tha of an inch and over , and of half-inch bar-in and steel , as contraband bf war . The Prussians thii that we have in these instances stretched our interpret tiou of the prohibition to an unwarrantable extent . Mirolawski , the leaderof the insurrection inPrussi . Poland in 1846 , is mentioned in the literary circles Berlin as the author of the celebrated Brussels pamphl on the War , which was attributed to Prince Napoleon , The Neapolitan Government has refused to alk the exportation of grain and biscuits for tho army in tl Crimea , and has given an impertinent reply to tl application of the English Minister on tho subject .
Admiral Naciumokf . —The report of tho death this commander is confirmed . Rear-Admiral Pamphilc has succeeded him in the command of the vessels oi port of Sevastopol . The Russian Reinforcement * . —The Vienna Mil tary Gazette , in the course of an article presenting deliberate survey of tho posture of affairs in the Crime asserts that two of the Grenadier divisions which he marched from Poland have already arrived before Scbm topol . The Gazette considers that tho Allies are alrcad over-matched in the Crimea . A Russian Foreion Legion . —It appears from a n port just addressed to the Swias Chamber * that attempl have been made on tho part of Russia to obtain recruii in the canton of Zurich .
I uk Cholera in the French Ahjiy . —Cholera ( sa ) tho Paris correspondent of tho Times ) has nlinoat entircl disappeared , and fever has not supervened , among tl ; French troops . During tho month of Juno , tho loss ( by cholera amounted to 8000 deud ; but few cases nooccur . I am enabled to give you on official authorit tho exact loss the French sustained iti tho affaire of tli 7 th and ltith — 400 men loft dead on tho field ; nml < nearly £ 000 who woro wounded 650 died . The Approaches to Suhastovol . —It is snid tht one hundred u » d forty metres is tho distance at which tli French now remain from tho walla of Sevastopol ; an not forty indtrca , as was lately announced . Tim Aia . ikh nra preparing to rondor permanent tli blockade of tho Ruhmuu ports , and to establish seven camps at ConHtantinditlo and on tho Danube
Hai iz Pacha has loft Trobizond on his way to Ki zoroum . Ho had with him about 1500 men ( Turku an Rayuhw ) . One thousand five hundred more will whortl depurt . Ilnfiz Pacha hopes to recruit eoveral thousan on the road .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 28, 1855, page 712, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_28071855/page/4/
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