NEWS BY THE ENGLISH HAIL. 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE ‘VAR. 
     
    

    
     The telegraph announces in brief but ex- 
     
     filicit terms it great victory gained over the 
     
    

    
     ussians by the Turks in Asia Minor, led 
     
     by Omar Pacha. The battle, it is alleged, 
     
     lasted five hours, and the enemy suffered 
     
     severely. The scene of the conflict was 
     
     Ingour, the passage of which the enemy dis- 
     
     puted with 230,000 men, but the Turkish 
     
     Generalissimo forced it at four points, and 
     
    

    
     ressed on to Kutais. Advices from Tre- 
     
    

    
     izondo, four days anterior to this engage- 
     
     ment, state that the Russians had sent off 
     
     from Ktrs, in the direction of Alexandropol, 
     
     the greater part of their baggage, and that 
     
     they were about to raise the blockade of 
     
     Kars. This last-named intelligence is rather 
     
     confirmatory of the fact of a great battle 
     
     having been fought at the point mentioned. 
     
     which is on the road through which Omar 
     
     Pacha and his troops would have to pass 
     
     on their way to the relief of Kars. The 
     
     fear sometime ago was, that the season was 
     
     too far advanced to enable Omar Pacha to 
     
     complete his enterprise; but if the iiitelli- 
     
     gence which has now come to hand be con- 
     
     firmed, the position of the Russians in the 
     
     trans-Caucasian provinces will be even 
     
     more ci-itical, than in the Crimea. With a 
     
     powerful garrison at Kars, flushed by the 
     
     great victory which it secured a couple of 
     
     months back, under General Williams, 
     
     ready to march out on the instant, and with 
     
     the Turlts under Oinar Pacha in their rear, 
     
     the Russian situation in Asia Minor must 
     
     be critical, if not desperate. The details 
     
     are too meagre to enable us to conjecture 
     
     cventiialitics; but enough has transpired 
     
     to prove, that it will require all the skill 
     
     which Mouiavieff, the ablcst of the Rus- 
     
     sian generals, is said to possess, to get out 
     
     of the trap in which he is placed. The 
     
     allies are reported to have applied to the 
     
     Shah of Persia for leave to march an Aiiglo- 
     
     Indian army through his territory into 
     
     Asiatic Turkey, but, assuming the correct- 
     
     ness of this battle and victory of the pass 
     
     of Iiigoiii-, the principal work will be con- 
     
     summated bcfore its arrival. The Shah of 
     
     Persia is not a very reliable personage; but 
     
     as the fortune of war is against the Czar 
     
     and his troops, he is far more likely to con- 
     
     cede, than to refuse the request. 
     
    

    
     The detailed accounts from the Crimea 
     
     state that a belief prevailed in the camp of 
     
     the allies, thata battle there was impend- 
     
     ing; but the assertion rests on very lIl|l't‘ll- 
     
     able authority, that ofa Russian cadet, who 
     
     deserted mi account of some trifling punish- 
     
     ment. According to this youtli’s version, 
     
     the Russians, 70,000 strong, were prepar- 
     
     ing to attack the lines of the allies fi-oin 
     
     Tchergoun, and if the attack did not suc- 
     
     ceed, the army had orders to evacuate the 
     
     Crimea and retire upon Klicrson and Ni- 
     
     cholaieff. This contemplated attack, how- 
     
     ever improbable, was regarded in the 
     
     British army as a thing that might be, and, 
     
     in corroboration of its likelihood, it is men- 
     
     tioned, that the Russians had burned the 
     
     furze on the heights of Mackenzie, where 
     
     they are encamped, the better to facilitate 
     
     their movements. It was conjectured that 
     
     the attack would be made on the 6th or 7th 
     
     instant, but as twelve days have passed, 
     
     the intention, if it was ever entertained, 
     
     has probably been abandoned. At the 
     
     same tiiue, it will be remembered,that when 
     
     the Russians attacked the French and Sar- 
     
     dinians in July last, with such melancholy 
     
     results to themselves, information of the 
     
     attack was communicated by deserters to 
     
     -the allied commanders at least a fortnight 
     
     befiire it was made. The motion was ridi- 
     
     culed at the time, and it was probably the 
     
     recollection oftliis circumstance, which has 
     
     induced a belief in the cadot‘s story. But 
     
     we incline to the belief, that. the statement 
     
     is a ruse to throw the Allies offtheir guard, 
     
     and enable the Russians to retreat the more 
     
     easily. In these kinds of tactics, the Rus- 
     
     sians are unrivalled. 
     
    

    
     Nothing has transpired respecting the 
     
     success of General Canrobert’s mission to 
     
     the King of Sweden, beyond the fact that 
     
     he was most graciously received by that 
     
     monarch and that the leading pcrsonages 
     
     about the Court strongly favoured the al- 
     
     iiance If Sweden should join the Western 
     
     Powers,tlie war would increase in intensity, 
     
     and it is to be feared also in duration, for, 
     
    

    
     Uilling as Russia may be for peace at the 
     
    
   
   
    
     I-IASZARIYS GAZE'I"I‘E, DECEMBER 8. 
     
    
   
   
    
     present time, against the disincmberment of 
     
     her Northern Empire she would fight with 
     
     redoubled fury. Nothing is so likely to 
     
     bring the contest to a triumphant coiiclu- 
     
     sion as the adhesion of Sweden, but against 
     
     the restoration of Finland, the price ofthe 
     
     alliance, the Swedes will have to consider 
     
     the pusitioii in which they will be placed 
     
     whenever Russia regains strength enough 
     
     to be aggressive. To protect Sweden, now 
     
    
   
   
    
     and hereafter, the Western Powers are 
     
     willing to bind themselves by treaty; but 
     
     Sweden will probably remember, that 
     
    
   
   
    
     though she can rely upon England keeping 
     
     her faith, the instability ofthe French throne 
     
     may prevent our Gallic neighbours from 
     
     doing the same. In the meantime, ample 
     
     preparations are tnuking for commencing 
     
     the attack next year in the Baltic and the 
     
     Black Sea with redoubled vigour. Gun and 
     
     mortar boats of the ll,'.',‘l|I(‘.Sl possible draught 
     
     of water,—soine of them only drawing two 
     
     and a half to three feet, —- are being 
     
     built, not only in the Royal dock-yards of 
     
     this country and France, but by many of 
     
     the private shipwrigbts in both countries, 
     
     and these will be ready in the spring when 
     
     the campaign re opens. To the Emperor 
     
     ofthe French, according to the Jllonileiw, 
     
     credit is due for the mortar boats recently 
     
     used at Kiuburn, from which shot rebounds 
     
     as hail does from marble, and all the new 
     
     erections are on this principle. But Russia 
     
     is not idle. She is bracing her nerves 
     
     anew for the conflict, and as winter in that 
     
     country affords the best means of rapid 
     
     travelling, the interval will be devoted to 
     
     the concentration of all her powers. That 
     
     these powers are already considerabl 
     
     strained, there can be no doubt, but her 
     
     resources are yet vast. and while English 
     
     writers wonder how she can sustain the 
     
     expense of the war, few of them linvc the 
     
     foresight to perceive, or the cainlour to ack- 
     
     nowlrdge, that her paper currency in war 
     
     is the l'('ftl source of her strength. 'I‘hc 
     
     London 'l'i.n--s, one of tho strongest bul- 
     
     liouist pup-rs in the liingdoin, was coiii- 
     
     pellcd the other day to confrss, that :1 inc- 
     
     tallic basis in time of war was tint cssciitiail 
     
     to the carrying on of llonit-stic tradi-.. The 
     
     passage is so l'(3ll|lll'l(ZIl)lt', nml afli-rds such 
     
     striking evidence of the truth of the views 
     
     which we have rccoinly tnlu-n of the cur- 
     
     rency, that we cannot avoid transcribing 
     
     it:—— 
     
    

    
     “ For the purposes of internal trade. paper 
     
     may be largely substituted for the precious 
     
     metals without distress to the people; iind it is 
     
     evident that, the more they are disconnected 
     
     from foreign conntrii-s, the more they are inde- 
     
     pendent of the metallic curra-ncy which is ne- 
     
     cessary for international dczilings." 
     
    
   
   
    
     This admission, it is only fair to state, 
     
     leaked out soniewwhat rt-lnctlantl_v, in an 
     
     article profcss='.-dly (lt'Vttlt‘tl to the siilijoct of 
     
     Russian resources; lnit |\'t‘. npprclii-nit, that 
     
     what is true in this case of itussia, is equal- 
     
     ly applicable to England. Many a incr- 
     
     chunt and man of liusiin-ss in this couiitr_v, 
     
     who has been sorely l)l't'.~'.~‘('tl to inci-t llls 
     
     cngageincnts during the last few months. 
     
     owing to the dearncss ofinoni-y,—-wlio, with 
     
     abundance of assets, has llt.'t'll unable to 
     
     procure accommodation by the stringi,-nc_v 
     
     of the money inarkct,—who lnis pussi-d 
     
     feverish days and sleepless nights in indes- 
     
     cribable torturc, may well ask, why this 
     
     easy method of international dealing is not 
     
     had recourse to by us, at a time when the 
     
     absence of gold from the cofli-rs of the 
     
     Bank of England has brought so in:in_\' 
     
     “ dealers and cliupineii" to the very verge 
     
     of ruin, and is every day engulfing otlici-s.? 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Russian Tn/ini«:.—The letters from St. 
     
     l’ctersbIirg state, that in coiiscqncnce of 
     
     the facilities nftransport during frost, it is 
     
     contemplated this winter to export coiisi- 
     
     derable quantities of linseed overland. It 
     
     was also thought, that the general exports 
     
     after the coinzncnceinent of I)t.'CL'llll)t!l‘ would 
     
     be sufficient to produce a rally in the rate of 
     
     exchange. According to the reports ofthe 
     
     trade of thc Pi-ussiiin port ol'l\li-incl, it up- 
     
     pcars that great quantities of sulphur, salt- 
     
    
   
   
    
     petrc, mid other articles contr:ih.ind of war 
     
     coiitiinie to be innit over the frontier to Rus- 
     
     sia. The partii-s engaged in the traffic- 
     
     imdermke for u very small prciniuin to in- 
     
     sure the delivery of the goods on the Rus- 
     
    
   
   
    
     IN'roxIcA'rioN IN ‘nil: ALLIID Cums.- 
     
     The Crimean correspondent of the Daily 
     
     News writes—“ Intoxication has greatly 
     
     increased among the troops since the grant 
     
     ofthe field allowance of 6d. per diem in ad- 
     
     dition to their former pay. Moreover, the 
     
     men are earning sums of money just now. 
     
     which are very considerable, if estimated 
     
     in relation to the amount of intoxicating li- 
     
     quor which caii be purchased by their 
     
     incans. These sums are obtained by them 
     
     either froui being employed as artificers, or 
     
     as laborers in such public works as road- 
     
     making, or from private contracts with oili- 
     
     cers who are permitted to engage a limited 
     
     number of' soldiers to assist in building 
     
     huts, stables, or to help in other camp oc- 
     
     cupations. It does not require to notice 
     
     the increase of canteens in all directions, 
     
     or to watch the clustering of halftipsy men 
     
     at the wine and beer shops, to become 
     
     aware, that a great aiuouiit ofthis money is 
     
     spent in drink. Some ofthe drunken scenes 
     
     about the camps of late have been discre- 
     
     ditable in the extreme. In some parts, to- 
     
     wards the time when the soldiers are sup- 
     
     posed to return to their respective camps, 
     
     one might almost suppose, there had been 
     
     an action with the enemy, from the number 
     
     ofinen to be seen lying about in a state of 
     
     drunken lielplessiiess oi- unconscious stupor. 
     
     ()ii the evening ofthe titli inst. two privates 
     
     ofthe 33rd Regiment were carried home to 
     
     their camp in such a state of inscnsihility 
     
     from drinking, that notwithstanding the use 
     
     ofthe stoiiiacli-piiinp, and every means that 
     
     modical skill and attention could devise, 
     
     neither could be restored. Both of l.ll€.~t‘. 
     
     men died in the unconscious and brutal coit- 
     
     dition into which they had plunged thi-in- 
     
     selves ofthcir own free will. On the after- 
     
     noon ofthe 6th iiist., one ofthe Sf‘l'_it‘al|lS of 
     
     the Grenadier Company of the Connauglit 
     
     Rangers, by name Robinson, a non-coin- 
     
     inissioncd officer who had seen long service 
     
     with the regiment, and who had several 
     
     times been conspicuous for brnvi-.r_v, di libe- 
     
     ratcly coininitti.-il suicide. and it is fe:ircd 
     
     the artificial horror, produced by ti\'t:l‘-lll- 
     
     »dulgcncc in strong drink for some days 
     
     pi-i-vionsly, was the cxciting cause of the 
     
     di-i-adliil act. llc s(‘ll't:l.C(l it time when all 
     
     llI(.‘ll were away froin the lint which he oc- 
     
     cnpird cxci-pting one, and this one llt‘ got 
     
     rid of by sending him to purchaise some 
     
     trifling urtiitlc. llc tlicn dclibt-rati-ly took 
     
     off the boot and stocking froin his right 
     
     foot, and liaving plaiiti-tl the inuzzlc of a 
     
     loaded liri-lock, which he gi~:i.-pt-if firml_v 
     
     with clenched hands, against the lllllwl‘ hart 
     
     of his throat, he pulled the trigger with the 
     
     toe of his bare foot, nnd the coiilcnts ofthe 
     
     wt-apon passed through his brain, lln-ro 
     
    
   
   
    
     more so, than can llt‘ aiccouiitcd for simply 
     
     by the relief from trench dntit-s. ]"-iriin-i-- 
     
     l_v it was it very rare occui-roi;ce to ltiI‘t.‘l :i 
     
     l"r:-iicli soldii-r lll~‘t3ll.~‘il)ly ilriiiik; his liahit 
     
     scenietl to he to halt at the stage of intoxi- 
     
     cation, when an uncontrollable desire to ex- 
     
     crci.-ro his vocal powers was c.\'i-.iti~it, and 
     
     then at certain hours of the day, the tunes 
     
     of lfrcnch ciiaiisoiincttes and snatches of 
     
     Italian iin-lody, with wonderful rouladcs, 
     
     and variations, all fortissiino, were heard 
     
     on all sides; now cxainpli-s of a stage ofiu- 
     
     toxication far hcyoiid the singing stage lll't' 
     
     by no means unfrt-.qiicnt. l’crhaps the pit- 
     
     zcs drnwii from the ruins of Si-hastopol may 
     
     have had soiiirtliiiig to do in causing this 
     
     chainge, for the sales effected by tho l"rt-ncli 
     
     s--ldii-is, innst liaro placed it good tlctll of 
     
     ready inonvv in thi-ir l>ti(',l(t‘l_-€—|I(tl'lHl;‘S thi- 
     
     liquo i-' .-llmDllt‘Il at tho l‘Lir_lish canto:-n-', 
     
     for tln-y have free ill'Ct'§S to !ltt'tl|. ft is it 
     
     niistaki-. to .-Ilppti.~’t.',tl|iIt the l"rcncli solilit-rs 
     
     are so tcinpcratc as they are generally con- 
     
     sidered to be in lfliigluml; intoxication is 
     
     nearly as common among them as among 
     
     our own men, but is not usually carried to 
     
     the same degrading excess. Indeed thi- 
     
     l"l‘UIIClI Zfllltlvcs, like our own Ilig|ilnnd- 
     
     t'l'8, have the character of being hard 
     
     drinkers, men who carry W('ll a large quan- 
     
     tity of liquor; mid most of the line regi- 
     
     ments who have been serving in Algeria 
     
     tfxllllill 11 tendency to the aninc distinction. 
     
     The native Algerian 7,ou..y.-9, “kc um 
     
     Turks and other Mahoninicdan troo s, are 
     
     examples pfthe opposite extreme of tcinpc- 
     
     rance. 
     
    
   
   
    
     sian soil: 
     
    
   
   
    
     roitsms. 
     
    

    
     According to the best reliable authorities, 
     
     General Canrobi.-rt has succeeded admin. 
     
     bly at Stockholm. In Sweeden the popular 
     
     feeling is decidedly in favor of' an alliance 
     
     with the VVe.-tern Powers, and if we cm 
     
     believe the concurrent testimony of Wilncg. 
     
     ses, Swecden has consented to conclude it 
     
     military convention with the Western Pow- 
     
     ers, and to take part in an invasion of the 
     
     Russian IPl‘l'llUI‘iCI| on the Baltic in the en- 
     
     suing spring—tliat, though England and 
     
     France have repudiated territorial aggi-an- 
     
     "' "' for tnemselves, their allies llavg 
     
    
   
   
    
     made no such engagement, and that Russia, 
     
     having broken through the treaties by 
     
     which the division of Europe is regulated, 
     
     has forfeited her right to those Swedish 
     
     provinces she acquired in virtue of them. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A letter from Odessa in Le .:\"ard, dated 
     
     Nov. 5, mentions the town of Mariano ol, 
     
     on the north coast of the Sea of Azofli: in 
     
     having been bombarded by the English on 
     
     the {list ultimo; more than 100 balls, shells, 
     
     and other eoinbustibles were thrown into 
     
     the town, and the fire was suspended oiil 
     
     in consequence of a mercliant there lioist- 
     
     ing the Austrinn flag over his warcliouses. 
     
     Spain is improving her tni-ill’,-—liberalising 
     
     her coinincrcial policy. \'Ve learn that llio 
     
     prohibition at present existing against many 
     
     articles ofcotton goods is to cease altoge- 
     
     ther in five years’ time, iind is at once to 
     
     be altered by the admission ofsome classes 
     
     ofthe coarser kind, which are now exclud- 
     
     ed. Cotton twist is to be ndinittcd to im- 
     
     portntioii from and alter No. 39 and up- 
     
     wards, and the prohibition to import comm 
     
     goods is reduced from '25 threads to the 
     
     quarter inch to those below ‘.20 threads to 
     
     the some measure. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I-‘eat-s prevail at St. l’ctci-sliurg. It is 
     
     believed that, in the spring, the Allies will 
     
     attack the capital, and this impression con- 
     
     tributes to the general uneasiness. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A GIIEAT nussi.i.v ARMY Poll 'l‘llE CIHMI-IA. 
     
    

    
     It is tlioronglily bclicvcil by the war par- 
     
     ty ut St. l’i-tci-.~'.biii'g that l’rinco (iort:-clia- 
     
     koff will hold his position in the Clinton 
     
     throughout the winter, when, it is stated, 
     
     an nriny of .'300,tJllU llll‘lI, forincd of the ini- 
     
     litin, is to l't'llt‘\'l.‘ him, and drive the allies 
     
     from the hiissizxii soil! The iccrniting, 
     
     accoiding to the i-xii-iitlcd ago, as lately 
     
     (lt'(.‘l'(.'(‘tl, would pi-odiicc it ninch larger 
     
     nuinbi-r of tlil'Il than the stzitrtl 500,000. 
     
     A quantity of rillt-s had lll'l'l\'(‘tl from Ame- 
     
     rica, which liavc hi-i-u di.~:ti~ilnitul to the 
     
    
   
   
    
     troops, with cro.~st-:4 said to be lili-sscd by 
     
     pai-ticularsaiiits from llt'it\t'tI. \\'c lll'tll', 
     
    
   
   
    
     M,,_,,m “'5” M have bu," ,, "m,_k,,d im,,,ms(, : says the writi-r, that the I-.inpi-roi- is highly 
     
     in intoxication among the I*'i-cncli troops‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     since the termination of the siege, much‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     satisiii-d with the state of the nriny in the 
     
     lriiiit.-a, and that he has given (inrtsclia- 
     
     kofl'orilcrs to nold his positions, lnit not by 
     
     any tin-niis to attack the allies u.itil the 
     
     spring uriny is at hand. The noblcsnro 
     
     vcrhaitly pi-oiniscd grunt rt-ivairds. The tax 
     
     on slaves is to he l't‘lllUVld, but no one be- 
     
     lievcs much in tlicse assertions. The pub- 
     
     lic finance is in it worse condition tlinii is 
     
     generally known A vcr large issue of 
     
     paper money is expected to take place. 
     
    

    
     Tin: Kmo 0|-‘ S.ii:ni.vi/i’s Visrr 'ro Enc- 
     
     i..iNn.—lt is niiiloi-stooil that the King of 
     
     .":irilinin will :ii'ri\i- in this country in the 
     
     first wccli in llccirinbcr. ' 
     
     .-it is, liowcvcr, unavoidably linntcd. He 
     
     will only l)l' able to t'[tt‘llll five days in Eng- 
     
     land. The Quit-i-ii will rcci.-ivc the King at 
     
    
   
   
    
     . \\"indsor, wll|‘l‘l? pri-p:iratioiis on a scale of 
     
    
   
   
    
     fitting lllll_LlIlll(Zt'Ittft' are: being made Ior his 
     
     iii::_'p-.-_\ ‘s t‘.I'l'IHltllll-(lillltlll. The King, who is 
     
     i,-.~pt-cl.-illy iii-.-irons of bot-oniiiig faniiliar 
     
     with the Eiiglisli people, will pass through 
     
     London, through the ..ti-cots and parks, by 
     
     the same route that the lfiiiipcror Napoleon 
     
     followed. The details ofthe visit have not 
     
     in been completely settle-d, but arrange- 
     
     incnts have been niadu for a visit to the Ci- 
     
     ty of London, to tho (,'rystiil Palace, mid 
     
     V\'i:olwicli. \\'hcn the King leaves our 
     
     shores he will be convcyrd to Bclginin by 
     
     an linglisli vessel of war. Ilis majesty will 
     
     arrive at Dover in a Fri-iicli ship. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ll.LNl‘}SS Uh‘ l’ltlNt.'l') l’ASKll".\\"l'l‘()H. 
     
    
   
   
    
     At-counts from \\'ais:iw it-prim-iit l’iinco Pas- 
     
     liiirwilrli as seriously ill. The King of l’iui-sis 
     
     , h.ni H'||l Dr. Schoob»-in, the court pliysician, to 
     
     [the sulleltlig veteran. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ills iiin_|i-siy’s vi-_