HASZARLVS

GAZE'I"l‘E,

NOVEMBER 21.

(From the Glasgow Commonwealth.) Annaiiss av Joint MACGRIGOB, Esc., M. P., 10 ms Cousrirusurs.

On Wednesday evening the electors and men- electors of Glasgow met in the Merchant's Hall, for the pur ose of hearing Mr. Macgregor, one of the mem era for the City of Glasgow, deliver an account of his stewardship during the past session of parliament.

Ir. lllacgregor, who, on rising, was receiv- ed with great applause. He said—[ am here in the conscientious discharge of what I consi- der my duty to my constituents. I am of strong belief that the meeting of a member of Parlia- ment with his constituents ought to be attended ‘with beneficial results. The object was, in the first place, in order to give them an account of what had been done since he last had the plea- sure of addressing them, and in order to afford the constituents an opportunity of asking him such questions, as they wished to be informed on, whether with respect to the representation, the condition of the country, or the manage- ment of the war. 1 consider, under these cir- cumstances, that meetings of this kind ought to be followed by beneficial results, and not be more pantominies. (Applause.) Since I had the honor of last addressing you, momentous events have occurred, the results of which may prove, as they are wisely or foolishly taken advantage of, whether just or unjust in their nature, of the utmost importance to the civilization of the world or the degradation of mankind. With your permission, gentlemen, I shall venture to confine myself to the objects which at the pre- sent moment press most hardly on the attention of mankind, and which involve your interests, and those of every living citizen in the em ire. I am aware I will have to crave your patience and good sense while oing over the momentous: events which have ta on place since I last had the honor of addressing you, and which afl'ect so much the rosperity and hop iness of the community. ii'ith respect to the ast session of Parliament, I regret to have to declare to you that not only were there no measures of impor- tance carried into law, but some which might have proved beneficial were either altered so as to be of little or no avail whatever in accom- plishing their avowed object, or rejected altoge- ther. The time of the House was taken up by many long and useless debates, and in brin ing forward measures most of which were alter- wards abandoned. Were it not for the review of the conduct of the statesmen at the head of the afliiirs of the country and the war—-were it not for the personal and individual questions that were brought forward, we might have ter- minated the session in two months, instead of eight. A bill was brought forward, that might have been of great importance to Scotland. I was one of those who supported it at first, but I found it had undergone so many changes that at the last it did not bear the slightest resem- blance to its original bantling. I therefore moved that it be read that day six months, in order that it might not be gone on with ; and two days afterwards the Lord Advocate with- drew it. It was of so sectarian a character that it would have thrown all the religious world into a perfect ferment. I trust that when an educational bill so important for the people ofScotland is again brought forward, it will be devoid ofall these objections which characterized that of the Lord Advocate during the past ses- sion. (Clieers.) With respect to other legisla- tion I have very little to say, except that we were induced to raise money by the means of

north, were slaughtered. There was not a sin- gle soul spared—not one. 'I‘he great policy since that time of those three Powers has been to repress every attempt at liberty in Europe. That has been the great policy. In order to do this, they consider that they must bring all the country bordering on the Danube under the subjection of Austria, or Russia. And Austria, notwithstanding her pretensions agreed to Rus- sia entering the principalities. Austria now occupies the Principalities on a distinct iin- derstanding with Russia. that there sliall be no war betwixt them. Under these circumstan- ces we found that the liberties of Europe were invaded. All the petty princes of Germa- ny were Russian in heart and in policy, and re- lied upon Russia and Prussia _to put down every attempt at their subjects regaining the freedom they had lost, or acquiring the libert they ne- ver had enjo ed. (Great applause) e declar- ed war—di we carry on that war with good faith and sincerity? Did we manage it as we ought to have managed such a war? I say that we did not. Without a hesitation, and in pos- session of full and complete proof. I say that the Government of Lord Aberdeen was never sincere in carrying on that war. (Hear, hear.) They have mismanaged everything cmnected with the war. From their mismanagement, they allowed a great number of bravo soldiers, and those who were necessarily accompanying them , to perish from want of shelter, from want of’ proper clothing, and from want of food, and from consequent diseases—near Varna—in the Crimea— near the cemeteries of Scutari, and elsewhere.—From their criminal mismanage- ment, carelessness. and want of energy in car- rying on the war, before the end of last winter twenty-eight thousand more of our brave fellow countrymenfell. (Greatsensatiom) lam sor- lr , there should have been influences at work that mi ht have been exceedingly dangerous to our eivfi and religious liberties even in this country. From some weakness. Lord John Rus- sel at the Vienna Conference was made ready toaccept the terms of Russia. ([lear.) I re- gret and feel humiliated at having to express anything of the kind, but it was nevertheless the case.—The House of Commons, as indeed all the country, were struck by the narration of the miseries and privations endured b the British army in the Crimea. (Hear.) hen crme Mr. l’...cbuck’s motion. and the ministry were condemm-d by the largest majority that was ever know ii in the British House of Com- mons, and of course retired. Lord Derby was sent for to form an administration, but be abandoned the task as hopeless. Lord John Russell was then sent for, he also failed in forming an Administration. Lord Palmerston was then sent for, and notwithstanding all the difiiculties thrown in his way, succeeded in do- ing that which Lord Derby and Lord John Russell had failed to accomplish. Lord Palm- erston was told at the time, that if he took any of the Aberdeen Cabinet into his Administrati- on the would very soon abandon him and show their ussian countenauces in some other part of the llouse. So it has proved. In a very short time when the Aberdeenites, who had still retained a good deal of influence in certain quarters, found they could make no impression on Lord Palmerston, they retired and took their seats upon the benches with men whom, with one exception. I do not esteem very much, with those in fact, who were for peace-at-aiiy-price, regardless of what the coiisi-qiiciicc might be to the dignity of the poo le ol' this country. They no sooner did so but ticy turned round on Lord

loans and income-tax for the purpose of carry-.

ing on the war in which France and Britain Mt‘ , afterwards stated that he was following the 9

engaged with the greatest tyrant that has ever appeared or nlllicted the earth. If we had not gone to war there would have been a most asto- nishing combination of the military forces of Russia. Austria, and Prussia to prevent any-' thing like an expression on the art of the peo-; ple in regard to civil and re igious libcrty.i Any attempt in the Italian States would be put down in the same way as the Hungarians, who! struggled so nobly for their independence, were crushed b Austria. Il'nny attempt wcrei

made in Polan , the Russian and the Prussian‘ somcient and mute;-in! guarantee for the p(‘:lCc .

armies would immediately join and put down" the revolutionists. I have seen such documcn-I’ tary prool'of all this, that I believe if any war; ever was just, it is the war in which we are nowl in so momentous a manner engaged. (Chccrs.)| With regard to the Empire ofltussia, it is a re-l markable historical fact, that they have ncvcrl yet been faithful to a single treaty into which’

they have entered, and that the breach of faith‘ powers of the West was advance in the civili- 1

with Turkey has been at all times marked by ii} degree of perversity unequalled in the annals. of the inquisition, or the barbarity of the mid-‘ dle ages. (Cheers.) :In the last war, Catharinei instructed her generals, that when they con-' quered or took any place, and wished to be rid? of any dilliculty, they should carry out the prin-; ciple of extermination. Now it is important to remark, that when|the Crimea was taken by force, the whole men, women, and children were put after their surrender to the sword. In

order to put down the early attempts at revolt in l 5'1"”-

Palmerston, and Lord John Russell shortly

same policy. l.ord Piilniorston lioivcver, wiis firm and said,tliat he would make no peace with Russia till he could do so on terius that would maintain the honour, dignity, and honesty ol this country. Lord Palinersioii spoke of many of his confidential friends. and he and Lord Clarendon declared that they would carry on

the war with the utmost vigor, and with a per- koa-

fect understanding with the I-Emperor of the French never to accept of ii peace till they ha humbled the pride of Russia. and secured a

of Europc—until we bring about a peace that will insist upon inatcriul securities from Russia against any future aggression, and that we will continue the war in such a way that our alli- ance with France may be maintained in all its integrity. so that all the commercial restrictions still existing in these two great nations may va- nish with all our traditional hatred, and the

zation necessary for the present age. flnd Becllffi the future happiness and prosperity of man- kind.

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Mii.I:s or Ci.o-riies.—Mr. Ewbank, in one of his mechanical essays, thus speaks of the miles

lofelothcs we wear. He says: “ In winter at I ‘lady is snwrapped in a hundred miles of thread, Ishe throws over her shoulders from thirty to fifty

A gentleman winds between three

in Italy, neither man. woman, nor child was and four miles around his neck. snd uses four

spared. At the last unsuccessful attempt at more in s.pocket. hsndkeichief. At night he revolution in Poland, the whole inhsbitstsnts throws of!‘ his clothing, snd buries himself like :- ‘ Inn in four or five hundred miles of ¢0flV0lV¢d lilsinents. I

of the Prague, which bears ssme relation to Warsaw at the south side of Glasgow to the

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T H E w A n. (Ham the New York Tribune.)

The cavalry action near Eupatoria was fought by twelve French squadrons (fourth hussars, sixth and seventh dragoous). According to , Gen. d’Allonville‘s report, which is plain and ' intelligible, the French and Turks made an ex- ' tensive reconnaissance toward the interior on three different roads—one to the south and two to the north of Lake Sasik. The two latter co- lumns met at a village called Dolshak, where they discovered the approach of the Russian ca- valry. Here the reports begin to disagree. Gen. d'Alonville maintains that eighteen squa- drons ol' Russians—while the French were dis- fmounted, baiting their horses—tried to turn 1 them by the south and cut oil their retreat to , Eupatoria; that he then ordered his men to iiiiount, fell upon the flank of the Russians, ' routed and ursued them for two leagues.

Gortchakolf says that the Russians were only . one regiment (eighteenth lancers) or gig squadrons; that the were surprised by the French after having ismounted in order to un- limber a battery of artillery, and that under these circumstances, they had to run for their lives. He makes Gen. Kort!’ responsible for this mistake. Now what business a whole regiment of lancers lied to dismount and assist in unlim- bering a battery of eight uns, and how it was that the unners, whose usiness it was to do this wor , were not at hand, we are left to guess for ourselves. The whole report of Gor- chakofl‘ is so confused, so unmilitary, so im- pregnated with the desire to palliate this first cavalry disaster, that it is impossible to treat it as a serious statement of facts. At the same time we see en. Kori!‘ made responsible for this defeat, as Sylar was made responsible for Silistria, Soimonofi' for Inkerman, Read for the Chernaya. Gortschakofl, thou h defeated in eve- ry action, is still invincible. t is not he who is beaten, far from it; it is some unlucky subcl- tern who upsets the general’s wise plans b some clumsy mistake, and who generally gets killed in action in punishment for this crime. In this instance. however, the blundersr is un- fortunate enou h to preserve his life. Perhaps he may, herea ‘tor, have something to say to Gortschakofl"s dispatch. In the mean time he has the satisfaction, that his opponent repre- sents him in a far better light than his infalli- able commander-in-chief docs. Since then, the British light cavalry division has been sent to Eupatoria to reinforce the French.

Two other expeditions have been undertaken on the extreme flanks of the Crimean theatre of war. One of these was from Kertcha and Yenikale to the opposite side of the straits. The small fortresses of Taman and Phanagoria have been destroyed, and about one hundred guns ca tured; and thus the entrance to the sea of Azo has been completely secured by the Allies. This operation was merely one of pre- caution; its immediate results are of no great consequence.

’l‘he second ex edition is of greater impo;-- tnnce. The allie fleets, with about ten thou- sand troops, first made a demonstration on‘ Odessa--where, however, not a shot was fired —and then sailed to Kinburn. 'l‘liis place is situated near the extremity ofa tongue of land which on the south encloses the estuarv ol the Dnieper and Bug. At this point, the iestuarv , is about three miles wide, according to the host 5 charts at bar with liftccn l'eet of water closcs its ientrancc. On the north side ol' this entrance : is situated Otshakoll, on the south side. Kin- i burn, Both these places lirst cauic into notori- ety during the Russo-Turkish campaign of , 1787, when the Bug formed the frontier of the I two ciiipircs, and consequently Oczakoll belong. ;cd to the Turks and Kinburn to the Russians.

At that time Suvarolf commanded the left wing l of the Russian army_(under Poteinkin) and was ‘stationed at Kinburn. 'l.‘lie Turks, then mas- I tors of the Black sea, crossed over from 0tsha- . They lirst uiade a diversion by landing behind the town of Kinburii, to the soutli-ea:-it; but when they saw that Suvaroll was not to I led astray by this false inaniruvre, the». landed .with their main body at the north-western ex- L treniity of the spit, exactly opposite Utshakolf. 1 Here they entrenched themselves, and attacked sthe foi-tress; but Suvaroll's:i|licd forth with a , far inferior l]llllI.lM‘l'_()l. men. cngaged them, and. ywitli the help ol rciiil'.ii'i:c-iiiciits drove tlu-vii iii- 1 to the sea. l'iicii' lU.‘~’.~l was ciioriiiuiis .\u'.'.iroll

', lioweicr, was wounded during this ‘action. which was followed up in the following year, 1738. by the storming ol'0tshiikoll'.

! This time the Allies landed, not below, but ,about four miles above the town of Kinburn, so_ as to intercept its comiiiunications by land with kherson and the interior of Russia. Their l gpn-lioats intercept the communications by we- . r a so. The s it of Kinburn, for six miles above the town, is extremely narrow, like that of Arabat,and so low and sandy that on dig-

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ound. Thus, strong fortifications with deep ditches cannot be constructed there in a hurr ; and the works thrown up by the Turks in 17 7 were either stocksdes or sand-bu “aging, The fortifications of Kinburn tliemse ves cannot, for the same reason, he very formidable—no good foundation for masonry sosrps being pos-

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sible, though since that time broad wet di.ehes have no doubt been constructed. Kinburn did not long hold out against the Allies. It opens to tlieiu a perspective of importantoperationg in the direction of Kherson and Niko]uieg}'__ that is, the direction of-the base of operations of the Russian army in the Crimea.

The defeat of the Russians before Kare will very probably prove to be the crowning event of the campaign in Armenia. T'l0 Turks, ],._,d_ ly organized and short of every requisite, had played bu‘ a poor part in this ortion of the seat of war. Unable to hold t e field, they confined themselves to the occupation of Knfg Erzeroum and the country immediately nude; the co nniand of these fortresses. Gen. Willi. ams who had entered the Turk‘sh service com. manded at Kara and superintended tho con. struction of proper defensive works. For the greater part of the sumiuer the whole campai on either side was confined to skirmishes, for. uys and furagin expeditions in the hill country- the general an first resuli of which was thiii the Russians, gradually gained ground, sue. cceded in blockadingKars and oven in cutting of its communication with Erzeroum. Kars is si. tuated in a lateral valley of the Upp« r Araxes: Erzeroum at the source of the Euphrates; Ba- toum on the mouth of tho Churuk Su (Bathys) the upper course of which passes near bothtd Kare and LO Erzeroum, so that one of the roads between these two places follows the basin of the Churuk Su as far as Olti. whence it strikes ofl across the hills toward Kara. Olti, was therefore, the central point for tie Turks, as a, road l'rom llatoun there joins the one mentioned above; and Batoun was the place from which the nearest and strongest reinforcements were to be ex ected, [lad the Russians succeeded in taking are, their first step would have been to establish themselves at Olti, thereby cutting of I-Irzerouiu froiu its nearest and best ioiiimunica- tion with the Black sea and Constantinople. The Turks, however. were so dispirited that they retired as far as Erzerouni, mere] occu y- ing the mountain pass between thr UV or u. plirates and the sources of the A..ixes, while Olti was all but completely neglected.

At last. when Kare was more closely hemmed in, they attempted to form a convoy of provisi. one at Olti, and with a strong escort to torce an entrance into Kars. Part of the cavalry lrom Kars, having been sent away, as it was useless there, actually fought its way through the Rus- siiins as far as 0 ti, and the convoy started shortly afterward ; but this time the Russians were better on the alert-—the Turks were com-'

letely defeated, and the convoy was captured

y the Russians. Kars, in the mean time, be- gun to run short of revisions; Omar Pasha was, indeed. sent to ta e the command in Asia and to organize at Batoum an army lit to act in the field; but this creation of a new army takes a deal of time, and a march direct to the relief of Rats by Olti would not have been the best course he could take, as Kars might any day be compelled to surrender from want of provisions before reliol' could arrive.

In this dillicult position the Turks stood at the end of September; Kars was considered as good as lost, and the Russians were sure b mere- ly blockading the town, to starve it out. at the Russiaiis themselves appear not to have been willing to wait until the lust llour was baked and the last horse cooked in Kars, Whether from the fear of approaching winter, the state of the roads, shortness of provisions, superior orders, or the fear of Omar l’asha's relieving corps. they at once made up their minds to act vigorously. Sicgc—guns arrived from Alexan- dropnl. a fortress on the frontier but a few leagues from Kara, and after a few days of open trenches and cannonading, Kars was as- saulted by the conccntratcd main body of the Russian iirmy under Muravielf. The combat was desperate, and lasted eight hours. The llaslii-Ila’/.ouks and foot irrcgulars, who had so often run before the Russians in the licld, hero fought on more congenial ground. Though the attacking forces must have been from four to six times more nuincrous than the garrison, yet all attempts to get into the plaice wcrc vain. The Turks had here at last recovered their con- rage and intelligence. Tlioiigli the Russians more than once succeeded in entering the Turk- isii batteries, (very likely luuottcs open at the gorge, so as to be ccnimanded by the lire of the second line of defence), they could no where ’l‘licir loss is said to lum- i-lull iiiiiiieiim-; four thousand killed are suited to have been buried by the Turks; but before crediting this, we must have more detailed and precise information.

As to Omar Paslia's operations, he hiida double choice: either to march up the Churuk So, by Olti, to the relief of Kars—-where he would run the risk of arriving too late for this object, while he would have led his army over the Armenian lateau, where the Russians are secure from o ective front attack b a strong line of fortresses, and where Omar asha coul have no opportunity to fall on their llanks: or he would ave to march up the Riva to Kutais, and thence across the hills into the valley of the Kur toward Tiflis. There he would meet with no fortified ports of any conseqiisiice, and would menace at once the centre of Russian power in the South Csuosdsn eons . A more eflective means for recalling Mursvlefl from