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tries were posted all around on the ramparts, but a picket was wot thought necessary. Che men of course lay down Joaded, | and with accoutrements on. About 4 p. m., L was awoke by loud * poy-p ypping’ unpleasanily near, so l Jumped up and got { my clothes en, aud om going out found the men all out, liming the top ef the ramparts, und those all about the field gun ke tog ap a sharp fire ; but LT eould see nothing of the « nemy. liow se, at seems the Cossacks crept down a ravine and fired | w voluy of six or eight rifles at the sentry Bear our gun, a eulor, and hit him in the foot (mot a bad wound) ; the other | eentries fired, the men turned out and fired tov, and sa on, | though most of them, I fear, wer only firing because * the | others fired!’ The Cossacks, however, did not show them- | selves again ; so, after leaving a party at one point where we

thought a rush might be made, we all turned in again. Noth-

ing mere heppened that night, and in the morning at it we

went tooth and nail, tearing down the roofs, up the flooring, | and heaping up anything in the shape of wood near the cliif,

ready to be curried away. 1 went with a party to make a} jetty to put the wood into the boats, which I was trying to | make a neat job of. It was made with hedsteads principally, but afterwards, much to my disgust, a breeze coming on i the

afternuou, the end part of it was carried away. The working

parties went on all day nearly, and among ether things, bar-

ricaded the opening in the rampart. The Cossacks kept about

she village of Tamau as near as they could without being

seon, for the moment they appeared, whiz went a shell from a

yunbuat. The French, however, were all through the place

{taking their firelocks with them as they always do.) LT went nto the village in the evening te try and get some grub, as the French were shooting pigs and catching fowls right and left. I found everything gone—not as if taken by the French, but remoged by the people ; indeed, a letter found bere froma tussian to his wife said, * You had better move and take every thing avith you, as I soon expect the ganboats over here.” Soon | ufter getting into the village I saw a most ludicrous pig hunt. I heard a shot fired, followed by. the furious squealing of a pig, se I rushed on with my servant (whom I had taken with iwe, with his musket) ; before [ came up to the French, [heard pop, popping, in all directions, but the pig seemed to have at charmed life, and was only wounded. | came up to him vianding at bay, in the middle of a pool of water, aud took a_ deliberate shot with my revolver, but missed him, My ser- | vant then fired, but missed him. I rashed on to get another | shot, but fell flaton my face in the mud, The pig then got

int» the middie of the French again, who all fired one after

the other, missing him, and firing as usual without caring the

least in what direction, so that one heard the not very plea-

want * ping’ of the Minie balls going in all directions (1 think | one servant who went in, of ours, get a slight scratch on the hand from a slug out of one of their pieces). Well, the un- daunted pig rushed on, followed by the French, stabbing at | him with their bayonets and cutlasses, and falling over on thetr | faces afterwards.” You never saw such a scene; at last, in doubling back, some one again wounded him, and immediately | wbout twenty sailors’ cutlasses and soldiers’ bayonets were dusted into him, As they carried him past in triumph, he looked more like a pineushion than anything else, On ‘Tues. | day night we had another alarm, but 1 do not think there were | more than one or two Cossacks, and we saw nothing more of | them ; by the way, the first day after they had guing about two miles, as | suppose they thought out of the range of our} xuns, they collected on the hills about three miles off, to wateh | vur proceedings, when, after a little time taken in given it the proper elevation, up went a Lancaster shell right into the | wniddle of them, and must, I should think, haye done some | damag:; they then retired, leaving only a sentry here and there to look at us, Last night and the night before we were not turned out, which I wouder at, as one Cossack riding down | and firing his piece has the power of attacking the place, to be |

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)sides,and bringing up their horse artillery. They had, how- ‘ever, with a ‘Turkish commander, no more to do, and a suc-

fner, broke them, and took six guns and 200 prisoners.

‘all communication with Perekop if they send him a division

‘which is now at Eupatoria may inflict losses on the Rus- sians in the immediate neighbourhood of Eapatoria, but it is

'not be forgotten that this isthmus is not the only line of com-

‘its precarious character, can scarcely be reckoned as a per-

‘manent line of communication, the Kussians constructed in the |

course of last year a military road across the peninsula of

'10 or 12 miles ahead, fell in with a body of Russian cavalry

‘to fatigue the horses, he could only arrive at nightfall, at the

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inland from Sasik they formed in three columns, with the Frencl cavalry in the contre and the Turkish cavalry on both wings, and pushed forward. The Russian outposts |

fell slowly back, drawing up by degrees their reserves on all

cession of well-direeted manoeuvres, forced them to stand, When the French cavalry charged in the most brilliant man-

The French and Turks followed them up nearl 15 miles inland, and then returned with their trophies to fupatoria, It is stated that General d’Allonville, the French com mander of this expedition, has pledged himself to cut off

of French and English infantry, or some moye cayalry. This statement is not so surprising as the fact that for nearly four weeks after the fall of Sebastopol no measures haye been taken to effect this object, which must be always of the utmost importance, whether one is of opinion that the Rus sians intend to evacuate the Crimea before the winter or not. In the first place, a large eavalry force on the flank would be much more efficient in hastening a retreat than large columns of infantry, or even cavalry, in the rear ; and, in the second, a considerable force in Eupatoria, principally | of cavalry, at the present moment—when the harvests north of the isthmus of Perekop afford the best opportunity for filling the Russian magazines ia the Crimea, and when the | state of the roads facilitates the convoy of provisions—would | force the Russians to send an army with every conyoy, or else | convinee them better than anything else of the impossibility | of remaining inthe Crimea during another winter, The force

scarcely sufficient to injure seriously and permanently even the communication by the isthmus of Perekop. Now, it must

munication of the Russians with the north. Without taking into consideration the spit or isthmus of Arabat, which, from

Tehongar, to the east of Perekop, which leads down direetly to Simpheropol, ranning nearly parallel, but uot uniting with that coming from Perekop to Simpheropol. Half-measures, therefore, cannot greatly hinder the Russians in their com- | munications, Sach encounters as’ that on Saturday last will | undoubtedly inspire the Russians with considerable respect for | the eayalry of the allied armies, or rather for the French | cayalry, for there is not a man of our splendid cavalry. in |

'Eapatoria. They will, unless they have an immense advantage |

in numbers, most studiously ayvid them, but as soon as they retire the Russian cavalry will come back, Some days ago the detachments of Chasseurs d’ Afrique and of the 10th Ilussars went out for a reconnaissance, the former as first column, the second in support, The Chasseurs d’ Afrique being as much as |

numbering nigh 600 men, and, not being able to encounter them with such odds, being only a troop of scarcely 100 men, they sent back te the place where the ifussars were stationed to ‘vet reinfureements. The commander of the latter, un- willing to leave the position which was to insure a safe retreat | unprotected, left one troop there, and advanced with the other ; but as the distance was considerable. and it was essential not

appointed spot, The French Chasseurs, in the meantime, had found means of retiring, and when the morning broke the troop of Hussars found itself alone, and its retreat cut off by the Russian cavalry, which in following the French had come into their rear. So nothing remained but to break a way through the enemy’s squadrons, and this was done most

joining the French stationed there; but on their way they

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the onemy by operating ou the Belbek. The Crimean cam- paign, it is clear, is carried on with vigour, and gommences under fortunate augpices,

PRINCE GORTSCHAKOFF’S REPORTS FROM THE CRIMEA.

The following is an extract from Prince Gortschakoff's journal of military operations in_ the Crimea, from September 22 to October 1:— From the 22d of September to the first of October the enemy has continued to fire shells against the north side of Sebastopol ; the fire does us seareely any dainage. The allies have constructed works on the ms near the Nicho- las Barracks, on the place of the Carabelnaia suburb, and at the Battery No. 8. They have besides carried away the gabions of the old Kamtskatcha Lunette, and filled up their trenches near the Malakhoff-hill and the No. 4 Bastion. They are raising new fortifications on the Fednikhine heights. Our artillery tires with effect on those buildings in the south part of Sebastopol which had not been injured, and which afford a cover to the enemy. On the 27th of September, at 3.30 p.m., the fire from our batteries on the north side caused an explo- sion and conflagration on the Martonoff slip; on the same day there was another explosion in the ravine between the Bastions Nes. 4 and 5. During the whole of this time the loss among the troops which defend the north side has not exceeded seven men killed and 15 wounded. The enemy has continued his reconnaissances against our left wing, in the direction of Aitodor and Kokkoulouz, skirmishing with our Cossacks and infantry. The purpose of all these moyements 1s, im all pro- bability, to cover the parties engaged in felling wood, and to mask the construction of redoubts, which are being raised in

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or I had apy knowledge, he advised me to oblige the Captain to enter all the goods on his Manifest which he had taken rm Salem, except sueb articles as he could show, by Permit, from out-pert Collectors, he had paid the duties on, Thig the Captainintimated his willingness to do. Preventiyg Offiver McKinnon, who was anxiously waiting until a de cision had been arrived at, when informed of the result, seemed very much displeased, and talked of seizing the vessel for smuggling at Tracadie. I advised him against doing so; but said that he might prosecute for the penalty if he could proye the Captain was guilty of violating the Revenue Laws,

(that I was of opinion if he sold liquor be could be fined

a breach of the License Law ; but 1 did not ask the Atto

General respecting these points, nor did I hear him give

oninion on the matter, About 10 o'clock in the evening ¢ the day on which the * Dragonet” arrived, McKirmon callea

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her, and would do so in the morning. I then, in presence Mrs. Clark, who well recollects the conversation, forbid him doing so. The next morning, however, he made the sei and left a notice in the Lmpost office to that effect. He then placed the vessel in the hands of Constables, and had her stripped, when, upon examining the cargo, the Gunpowder was discovered. Upon my return from the country, Whither [ had gone two (not to sell a horse, but on business conneeted with the office,) or three days after the seizure, I found, “upon consulting the Customs Lmperial Laws, that Gunpowder

the pass of the heights near Kokkoulouz, as well as the for- | was prohibited to be imported from any foreign port. Phe

mation of a road in the direction of the heights of Ezenbaschik. According to the intelligence we have received, the enem has from 8,000 to 10,000 infantry in the Valley of Baidar, with 30 pieces of artillery. The guns are posted on the extreme rive of the heights. “Several considerable camps are established be-

‘tween the roads that lead from Ourkusta to Kourene, at Kok-

koulouz and at Kzenbaschik. Lieutenant-General von Wrangel, commanding the troops in the south of the Crimea, reports that Major-General Soukohtine, who commanded the advanced euard of his detachment, having, on the 20th of September, received intelligence that the enemy’s cavalry had lett Kerteh and occupied the villages of St. Elie and Saraimine, despatched

towards those places two patrols, each supported by two troops |

‘following clauses of the Imperial Customs Act will better ‘explain this point :— Clause 169. “ Gunpowde:, Ammunition, Arms, or Utensils of War, except from the United Kingdom or any British Possession, and base or counterfeit Coin, are hereby absoe _lutely prohibited to be imported or brought either by sea or inland carriage or navigation, into the British Possessiong in America or the Mauritius.”

Nause 203. “If any Vessel or Boat shall be used in the /importation, landing, removal. carriage or conveyance of an ‘uncustomed or prohibited Goods, the same shall be forfeited;

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of the combined regiments of Cossacks of the Black Sea and | and the Owner and Master of every such Vessel or Boat the 65th Regiment of Cossacks of the Don, under the orders /shal]l each forfeit and pay a penalty equal to the valueof

of Major Kourgauske and — Seha voschuikof, The first of these patrols, led by Ensign Koulbedine, finding the _English Hussars near St, Elie, succeeded, by a feigned retreat, in draw- ing them towards our reserve. The two troops of Cossacks of the Black Sea. under Major Kenrganski, which formed the patrol, attacked the English with impetuosity, and put then to flight, taking 17 prisoners, with their horses and arms. The routed enemy retreated towards Saraimine, in the hope of

were met by the troops of Cossacks of the Don, under Major Schaposchnikoff, which had commenced a skirmish with the French Chasseurs d’ Afrique. Our Cossacks pursued the Eng- lish to Saraimine, whence they also drove the French, taking eight of them also prisoners. In this affair we had one Cos- sack killed and three wounded, The enemy lost about 15 men killed, in addition to 25 prisoners.’’

DESPATCH FROM MARSHAL PELISSIER.—THE CAVALRY ATTACK oN THE 20ru. Head-quarters at Sebastopol, Oct. 1, 1855. Monsieur Je Marechal,--In giving you an account, in my despatch of the 29th September, of my sending General d’Allonyille to Kupatoria with three regiments of his division

successful, or to have a chance of it, they would require about | gallantly, with the loss of only 16 men, a new proof that Rus- 2,500 or 3,000 men, whereas there are only a few Cossacks | sian cavalry has not the least chance, even with such great and about 1,000 men, between this place and Temrouk (20) odds in its favour, in encountering English cayalry, whether iuiles off), which place the Sea .of Azoff squadron bombarded | Dragoons or Hussars, light or heayy; but it is likewise a the day we landed here, and tried to set fire to, but found there | slight memento of the often-experienced, one might say, stale were some troops there, as they could not. Fancy, we heard | truth, that divided command is just as bad, if not worse, for the firing here quite plain! We have gota good many houses | cavalry than for infantry, and that it does not answer better down, and the wood colleeted on the beach, and have sent ever | in field than in siege operations, Nothing new on the Teher- our Minna full of wood, but are not getting on so quickly as;naya. The time passes in drilling, and rifle and band practice, we expected, and instead of leaving to-morrow, shall, I dare | enlivened occasionally by a shot from one ot the Russian cliff say, have to remain till Tuesday or Wednesday (this is Fri- | batteries on Mackenzie's ridge. They greet us every morning day). On Wednesday morning some French officers going | ct daybreak, as if to refute the idea of an intention of the down to the village too early by themselves found the Cos-| Russians to retreat. The Piedmontese are busy with the rail-| sacks and some on feot (about a dozen), who had been spend-! way and with hutting. [f one sees the huts gradually rising, ing the night there, bad not left, and got fired at; one was|and seemingly without trouble, one cannot help aking | slightly wounded in the foot, the other had his cap knocked on | melancholy reflections, remembering the difference from last | vue side; and the first day some of our navy officers got hem-| year, when trenches, and want of tools and materials, made | med into the church, and had to dodge the Cossacks. We! the construction of the most wretched hovel appear a work of have sent armed parties out in different direetions the last few | gigantic efforts. But the difference suggests, on the other cays to burn some houses a distance off, kc. One that started | hand, an agreeable prospect for the winter; plenty of wood yesterday went to a splendid vineyard, but all the best grapes | and leisure enough for the construction of a town. The liad been shaken down by the Russians to prevent our getting | Sardinians have evidently followed in the construction of their them. The vineyard is a long way off, and here even—far as | huts the system of Tartar sheds—sticks planted in the ground, it is—one unfortunate Frenchman had strayed with that in-| and interwoven with branches, the whole plastered over with eatiable thirst for plunder, and was found murdered (not shot) ;|} mud, and then the roof covered with earth, on, "if possible, ue was lying nearly naked, and struck in the side and neck } with tiles collected from the ruined houses in the neighborhood. with a lance or sword. ~ J suppose there were Céssacks in the The French have now nearly completed the road Sores the place, and that they first fred at and wounded him, and then } valley which connects the Feduikhine heights on the banks of jnurdered and robbed him, ‘This is the first man we haye had | the’ Tchernaya with their main road from Kamiesch, which ekilled here, A great treat here are the mushrooms, of which | hitherto did not go further than the Col de Bala Clava. : The | there is a large quantity, When several! of us were out pick- | Turks alone have not made any arrangements for the winter, ing them the day before yesterday we found the place the Cos, | except serying out tne short sheepskin coats to the men. Yes- sacks fired from, and a little further on I found one of their terday, in riding over the position, I was told a tragie story of

of cavalry, 1 expressed the hope that the usual activity of) that general, cheerfully seconded by the Muchir, Ahmet Pasha, would succeed in dispersing the troops that Russia maintained around Eupatoria, and would afierwards menace | the grand line of the enemy’s communication from Sim-

such Vessel or Boat, not in any case exceeding five hundred pounds.” ,

‘he above are taken fiom the 16th and 17th Victoria, cap. 107, Customs Consolidation Act.

As to MecLean’s idea of my having nothing to do in the matter more than placing the powder upon the Manifest, it shews his ignorance of the Imperial Laws, which he should understand before he taxes others with not knowing their duty, and more particularly before charging me with a de- sire to wrest the vessel from the Preventive Officers. The reason I took her outof their hands was because their seizure of the vessel was illegal, and would involve them in a Jaw. suit, the expense of which, if the Government had allowed them to retain her, would have to be borne by the Colony, Mr. McKinnon, in an article in a late number cf the Islander, makes several statements, all of which are false, except the one, that they were not paid for the truckage of the powder, I tendered the amount to LePage and he refused to receive it without he got all they were claiming, which I believe they would have got but for McKinnon’s refusing to obey the order of the Government, to the effect, that all things seized were to be delivered up, including the vessel and cargo, on the Captain paying into my hands a penalty of £100,

which he did. The Captain having paid the penalty, I went

on board the vessel for the purpose of delivering back the

articles seized, the list of which MeKinnon had Jeft in the

pheropol to Perekop. A brilliant affair of cavalry, which took place on the 26th September at Koughil (five leagues north-east of Eupatoria), and in which the Russian cavalry of General Kort was completely routed by ours, has in- augarated very happily that series of operations of which | Eupatoria is the pivot. According to an arrangement. between Ahmet Muchir Pasha and General d’Allouville, | three columns left Eupatoria on the 29th at three in the | malicious assertion, that I was bribed by the Captain, while morning, in order to march against the enemy. The first | it is well known that he went or sent to the American Consul. column directed its course to the south-east, in order to take/to say that if the Captain of the Dragonet would give him. up its position at the extremity of the isthmus, towards Saki. | thirty pounds he would deliver him his vessel that night, at It had only before it a few squadrons which it easily held in the same time he was a sworn officer of the Government. check, with the aid of two cannons, which supported it with As regards the £100 penalty, I never pocketed one penny. their fire, The second column, commanded by the Muchir of it, although I had much trouble with all concerned, in person, passing by Oraz, Atehin and Teiech, advanced | solely on account of the misconduct of McKinnon and cthers. upon Djollchak, destroying in its course all the provisions of Jike him.

the enemy. The third column, at the head of which General Regarding the charge put forth by a writer styling him- d’Allonville placed himself, consisted of 12 squadrons of his self « Looker-on,” in reference to an error on my part in an division, of the battery Armand (horse artillery), with 200 entry of goods made at my office, I understand that the entry. irregular horse and six Egyptian battalions. It traversed | alluded to is Mr. Martin Hozan’s, the facts of which are as. one of the arms of the Lake Sasik, and marched by Chiban follows; Hogin imported a quantity of Liquors, Tea and upon Djollchak, the common rendezvous, where the two last | Tobacco, and other articles, in the Isabella, Turnbul! master,. columns were re-united about ten in the morning. These! from Boston, and brought to the Impost Office his Invoice

Impost Office. To my surprise several of the articles. were not forthcoming, and among them a gun belonging to the Mate, the possession of which McKinnon acknuows ledged, saying it was worth $20, but neither I nor the owner should have it. And yet this fellow will turn. round and try to injure honest men by making false state- — ments! He and his colleague have tried to propagate the

eartoach-boxes, which they had dropped the other night, with | 48 rounds in it of Minnie ammunition. It is made of sheepskin, | and I mean to keep it as a tobacco pouch. They are to send us down hats, I believe, from Bala Claya, but only 25, which will not be nearly enough, so that we shall have to build some, and shall not be able to keep all the wood we get here for fire- wood; so that, I dare say, some of that will have to be sent’ down to us from Bala Clava. While they are about it, they | night as well make us comfortable, but I fully expect that the

officers will have to pass the winter in double tents, which is | by no means a pleasant look-out, though I almost question if dow Dy _ Fan Seen, 2 ) «double tent to oneself would not be better than a hut with ; hin, wounded him in the shoulder, and then carried him eff.

: j afi ace j four in it, as-by digging down very deep, putting a fire-place in the side, doubling one tent over the other, digging one ditch

close round, afid another further oat, banking up clay to keep | the wind out, boarding the bottom, &c., one can make oneself

pretty comfortable after all,” TAMAN AND PHANAGORIA, Taman and Phanagoria, which arc situated at only a short distance from each other, are built on the slopes of hills form-

ing part of the uninterrupted chain that bounds the horizon on the eastern side of the Strait of Kertch. The distance separat-

ing the two shores is about nine or ten miles ; the passage of)

heavy waggons from one to the other on the ice is perfectly wacticable in the depth of winter, and it is well known that fast winter the Russian army in the Crimea received the great- er part of its supplies by that road from the egast of Asia. The existence of Taman and of its vast buildings, which might this winter again shelter a considerable body of troops, was a perpetual danger to our possession at Kertch, and more par- ticularly to Yenikale, which cannot be protected by the flo- tilla. Taman was a free town, and siidepebBent of the em- pire, and was admitted to certain privileges of neutrality. Only a few days ago.it was a yast depot of corn, of provisions of all kinds, of timber, and of clothing. There were also a large number of wooden huts for barracks, and the refusal of the town to deliver them up to us, to meet the pressing wants of our troops, led to the expedition. have now in our possession a large quantity of corn and tim- ber, allthe wooden huts we require, as well as storehouses full of camp equipage and clothing. These last named articles are not the least valuable, and we shall this winter see our soldiers proudly wrapping themselves up in the large Russian great evats, or, as one of them expressed himself, ** We shall have comfortable dressing-gowns.’’ The island of Taman—for the river that encloses it hetween two of its branches gives it an insular eharacter—is about five-and-twenty miles long and as many broad. The inhabitants are almost all Cossacks. The island possesses springs of petroleum, a kind of dark brown or black uaptha that throws out a considerable amount of odour and smoke when set fire to. On the island may be seen the fort of Phanagoria, and the ruins of Tmoutarakan, which place was built un the site of the principal town of Taman,

THE ALLIED ARMIES AT EUPATORIA.

Camp or THE ALLIED ARMIES ON THE TenERNAYA, OcToRER 2.—On Saturday last the French and Turkish cavalry went out from Eupatoria on the road to Perekop. After | aving eros the stuue bridge which leads over the ereck running

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one of the Tartars employed by us, which seemed to have pro- duced a great sensation among the people, although, as you | will see, he, and not Fate, was in fault. He was a native of | the village of Baza, and was engaged to some Tartar beauty at | Markoul. When the French occupied the heights and the }

‘roads, and when the Russians were no more seen in Markoul

itself, his desire to see his bride was greater than would be warranted by prudence, which is, under ordinary cireum- stances, the prevalent feature of the Tartar character, and a natural consequenee of 70 years of Russian rule ; so he went He was seen by some prowling Cossacks, who shot at

THE CAMPAIGN IN THE CRIMEA.

_ The despatch of Prince Gortschakoff enables us to follow jaccurately the progress made by the Allies in the interior of | the Crimea. A long chain of mountains, from which suc- céSsively descend the Tchernaya, the Tchoulion (a tributary ,of the Tchernaya), the Belbek, which owes its origin to the | Junction of the Ozem and the Ozembash, and finally the Kateha, runs in a parallel line with the northern coasts of the Crimea, All these rivers, forming in their course eoneentric 'semi-circles, flow from the south to the north-west. <A little below the point of junction of the Ozem and Ozembash, the Belbeck receives the Jannissalla, on its right bank, the Sukulussa, The Russian army was posted along the Tcholion. | extending from the village of that name to Aitodor. It had its left wing along the Belbek; its extreme left to Kokkoz, at! the source of the Ozem; and its outposts at Kokuloussa, at | the source of the river of that name. We

e aware that | the vanguard of the Allies under the orders “of General De Salles, had left Sebastopol in its rear, and descended to Varnutka toe Baidar, on the great highway which extends | along the southern coast of the Crimea. At Baidar it changed | its direction, turning to the east, passed the little river Baidar, and ocgupied all the upper course of the Tchernaya, establish- | ing itself strongly at Bink-Miskomia, at Tellion, at the meet- ing of the rivers Baidar and Tchernaya, and lastly at Savatka, near the source of the Tchernaya. The extreme vanguard was pushed on to Baidar, about five leagues beyond the river, at the base of the range of mountains which separates the upper valley of the Techernaya from the yalleys of the Tchoulion and the Belbek. The despatclmof Prinee Gortschakoff leads us to believe that the advanced guard of the French army had crossed without resistance this ridge of mountains, and that, driving back the Russians, from Kokulussa to Jannissalla, it had made itself master of all the positions along the river Kokulussa, and had ultimately arrived at Belbek itself. If the French sueceeded in establishing themselves at Jannissalla, or in its enyirons, the extreme left of the Russians would be | seriously compromised at Kokkoz. It could only avoid being cut off by falling back on the Ozembash or on the Katcha. However that may be, it is clear that the French are in pos- session Of the district surrounding the source of the Tchoulion, and have penetrated into the upper valley of the Belbek. hey have crossed the chain of mountains which was’the chief obstacle to their movements, and renders a campaign in the interior of the Crimea very difficult. Supposing that they have not yet oceupied Jannissalla, hey can, whenever they,

two last columns had driven before them some Russian

for the purpose of having an entry made. When I read the

squadrons, who successfully fell back upon their reserves.| Invoice [ stated that the Liquor must be guaged, that the While General d’Allonville rested and provisioned his horses weishts of the Tea and Tubacco must be arrived at, and that he observed the movements of the enemy, who, with 18 when the things were landed on the wharf I would go down squadrons, several sotnias of Cossacks and artillery, were and sce that all was right, as I was not satisfied with the endeavouring to turn his right by advancing between him | Invoice. and the lake. General d’Allonville, whom the Muchir sup-) went down to where the goods were landed, took a nole of ported in the rear by two regiments cf Turkish cavalry and the weights of Tea and Tobacco, got the Guager’s certificate the six Egyptian battalions, advanced immediately on the! of the Liqaor, and an entry was made up. Hogan called at point of the lake, in order to surround the enemy himself. | the Office and asked if all was ready. I answered that the: The promptitude of this movement allowed the Hussars, led) Bond had not been filled up, as I was not certain that we by General Walsin-Esterhazy, to fall on the enemy with | had all the articles specified in the entry, that he might have

Hogan said he wanted only what was right. [-

their naked swords, while General Champeron, with the 6th’ some things which were not in the Captain’s Report or bis

and 7th Dragoons, engaged the Russian Ublans, and forced Invoice.

them to a precipitate retreat, during which they were harrassed for more than two leagues. The enemy no longer main- taining himself on any point, and flying in all directions, General d’Allonville recalled his squadrons and collected, before retiring, all that remained on,the field of battle. We captured 38 cannons and 3 howitzers, 12 waggons and one forge; and took 169 prisoners, (one officer, Lieutenant Poreepwitch of the 18th Uhlans), and 250 horses. The enemy left on the field 50 killed, among them being Colonel Andreouski, a cavalry officer of much merit. Our losses were comparatively very trifling, viz., 6 killed and 29 wounded M. M. Prigade, aide-de-camp of General Walsin and Sibert de Cornillion, an officer of the same general, were among the latter. This brilliant affair does great honour to the regi- ments engaged in it ; also to General Walsin and Champeron, and to General d’Allonville, who has much to congratulate himself on the assistance of Ahmet Muchir Pasha, and of the Offoman corps that he commanded. Accept, &c.,

The Marshal Commanding-in-chief, PiLISSIER.

Correspondence.

INR Renn nnn nnnnnnnnrns TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER.

Sin,—My time of late has been so much taken up with the business of the Impost Office that [ have not had leisure to reply to the false statements put forth in the Islander respecting the seizure of the “ Dragonet,” and other false- hoods regarding the way in which the business of the Office is conducted by me. Jf

With regard, then, to the seizure ef the « Dragonet,” it is altogether untrue that [ ordered McKinnon to seize the

pos- | vessel on her arrival at Charlottetown, for immediately after her coming into port the ene delivered to me his papers,

which [ examined, and by which I found he had reported the vessel and cargo at the ports of Georgetown, Grand River, Souris, and New London. I then consulted the Attorney General as to the best mode of procedure in the

please, descend either of the two valleys, and attack the.

I ther read over the different items, when he said he had other things of which I had no account. I said to him that the items were taken from the Invoice, and int? mated that I had no confidence in its correctness. Accord- ingly I entered the items be named in addition to those tak from the Luvoiee, and on adding up the different ‘intion food they amounted to £105 8s. id., for which amount the Bond was filled up and signed, which fact Mr. Bremner and his son are prepared to attest. It will ‘be made evident from this fact that the statement in the Islander is a gross fabri- cation, and was, I believe, written and concocted by & person who has of Jate done his utmost to injure me, with- out any provocation on my part, than an earnest endeayout ‘to carry out the laws which govern the department of which I have the honor to be the head.

| Lu relation to MeLean’s assertion, that Tam totally in- competent to discharge the duties of the Office held by me, ! take leave to tell him that he who makes statements about ‘matters he knows nothing of, must often state falschoods,— \and that McLean is ignorant of the manner in which bu ness is conducted in the Impost Office, Lam quite certai. But if, durimg a pressure of business, an error should occu, (and errors have been made and will occur in the best ma- naged business establishments in the world,) he is not an honest intentioned person who will refuse to correct it.

Yours, &e.,

WILLIAM EB. CLARK. Charlottetown, Nov. 12, 1855. aj

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Wrru the exception of the following telegraphic despath,™®

: intelligence from Europe since our last issue, The events ## | ‘seat of war have assumed so momentous an aspect since the

matter, when, after due examination of the facts uz far as he | of Schastopol,—the achjevements of the Allied fleets and armi@

at my residence and told me that he had decided on seizing —

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ceived by the American Mail on Friday last, we are without 97