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. 
     
    
   
   
    
     .?_—o90g 
     
    
   
   
    
     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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     . ing a few feet below the surface water is 
     
    
   
   
    
     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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     _ l‘.\l:‘.,illl.*vl| ti viii;-'L‘l\cH. 
     
    
   
   
    
     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