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[[Saturday, 
and that the allies must not only drive him out of the 
Principalities, but destroy Sebastopol and take from him 
the Crimea. 
Fno>i St. Petersburg we learn that an order of the 
day has been published commanding that 12 frigates and 
corvettes shall be prepared for sea at the breaking up of 
the ice, aud appointing the officers to command them. 
THE TURKS AND RUSSIANS. 
(Continued from Page 159.) 
The Vienna Press publishes a letter from Constantinople 
of the 2nd, representing the insurrection of the Samiot 
islanders as of a serious character, and of a nature to threaten 
the supremacy of the Turks. The intelligence of this cor- 
respondent is not corroborated by letters of the same, and 
telegraphic despatches of later date. The hand of Russia 
has been detected in this as in so many conspiracies in 
Turkey. Some of the Berlin journals of the 15th mention 
a rumour that the Czar hud had au attack of apoplexy, 
which had left him in such a state as to compel him to keep 
his bed. Wo learn from Constantinople that at the last ball 
at the French Embassy, Count Zamoiski, the nephew of 
Prince Czartory6ki, appeared in national Polish uniform. 
This is significant. 
The Monitcur (Paris) says : — “ We announced that the 
Emperor Napoleon has received an answer from .St. Peters- 
burg. The Czar in his letter to the Emperor discusses the 
conditions of arrangement which had been proposed to him, 
and declares that he can only enter into a negotiation on the 
basis which he lias made known. This answer destroys all 
chance of a pacific solution, and France must prepare to 
maintain, by more efficient measures, the cause which the 
persevering efforts of diplomacy have failed to conduct to a 
successful issue. In defending more energetically the rights 
of Turkey, the Emperor reckons on the patriotism of the 
country, iho intimate alliance with England, and the sym- 
pathies of the Governments of Germany. These Govern- 
ments have constantly declared that they desired to maintain 
as resolutely ns ourselves the balance of power in Europe, 
nnd to cause the integrity and independence of the Ottoman 
empire to bo respected. There is no other question engaged 
in the discussion. Attention is directed towards Austria, 
which is culled by her position to play an active and impor- 
tant part. Austria has always declared herself, with great 
firmness, in favour of points which were established in the 
protocol of the conference of Vienna of the 5th of December 
last. We have every confidencein the loyalty and chivulrmis 
character of the young Emperor of Austria ; we find also 
a guarantee of the dispositions of his Government in the 
interests of his people — interests which ure identical with 
our own. In tho general circumstances of European policy, 
France, strong in virtue of her loyul and disratc-e.-ted in- 
tentions, has nothing to dread from the struggle which is 
preparing. Siio knows, moreover, that she may rnlv on the 
energy as much as on tho wisdom of the Emporor.” 
THE WAR IN EUROPE. 
The Greek Frontier, Janina, Feb. 8.— Several bands 
of insurgents have joined in the neighbourhood of Arta, 
near the station of the “ Five Wells,” where they have 
taken up a position, and cut off the communication between 
Janina and Arta. The provincial government lias sent 
provisionally 1,000 irregular troops against them. The 
tradesmen in Arta have fled for safety to the citadel, 
taking their property with them. A letter dated Athens, 
Fel). 10, states that the inhabitants of the large township 
of liudobitzi, in Epirus, had adopted the desperate resolve 
of taking up arms and expelling the Turkish authorities. 
The principal men of the place issued on the 1 5th (i, e n 
27th new style) of January a proclamation, which was 
signed on t he very same day by four hundred fighting men. 
On the following day the Laka (districts or parishes) of 
Suli, Lamara, Campoti, and Zoamerko joined the insur- 
gents. All the last named places abound in young men 
accustomed to the use of arms. Already some small 
battles have been fought at different places, in which the 
Greeks have come off victors, although they have already 
lost one of their most efficient leaders, Bei Pata. The 
Greeks are pressing on against Arta, and already they have 
laid close siege to it, lor news to that effect arrived 
here yesterday evening. What Turkish troops there 
are appear to be collected in Arta, to which place they all 
fled for safety. The Greeks have occupied the defile of 
Ponte Pegadia, the only road from Arta to Janina, and it 
will he hardly possible to send troops to Arta. It could 
only be done by making a long detour, aud marching 
through the revolted districts, supposing it to be prudent 
to empty Janina of its military force. While this move- 
ment took place on land, there was an action in the port 
of Arta between the Turkish guard-ship and a Greek cutter. 
A Greek merchant vessel, laden with corn, wished to leave 
the harbour. The Turkish inhabitants made an outcry 
about this, and threatened the crew. The guard-ship 
added fuel to the flame, for it threatened to send the mer- 
chant ship to the bottom if it dared to leave its moorings. 
Of course the Greek cutter, that happened to be at anchor 
there, took the part of its countryman ; so, alter some pros 
and cons, it poured a broadside into the guard-ship, and 
the latter went down. A lieutenant of the Greek borderers, 
the son of a celebrated chieftain in the war of independ- 
ence (ICnraiskalis), lias quitted his colours, taking with him 
some soldiers of his battalion, and on the 9th they went 
over and joined their countrymen now in arms. Most 
likely he will soon be made their chief. The Greek 
Government is not in a condition to prevent the thousands 
of Epirotes, living at Athens and all over Greece, from 
expressing their sympathy with their brethren in arras. 
Letters from the Principalities of the 11th state that two 
Greeks, convicted by a court-martial of having betrayed 
Omar Pasha’s plans to Prince Gortschakoff, had been 
sentenced to death, the Greek Bishop of Schumla and an- 
other prelate being members of the court-martial. 
Several Russian soldiers, convicted of having disobeyed 
the order directing them not to go beyond 1,000 paces 
from their Wallachian cantonments, had been punished 
with 500 blows, and had died in consequence. Command- 
ing officers had been ordered to enforce the observance of 
the new regulation with great severity, in consequence of 
the increasing hostility of the inhabitants of the provinces, 
reduced by misery and the cruel treatment of the Russians 
to the last stage of despair. 
The Wanderer of Vienna says, the Emperor of Russia, 
to restore the morale of his soldiers, proposes to go in per- 
son to the army of the Danube. The Sultan will also join 
Omar Pasha and then return to Adrianople. 
Despatches received at Constantinople from the Pasha 
of Varna on the 4th inst., announce that Omar Pasha’s 
health had considerably improved. Having been informed 
that the Russian Generals proposed to turn his position at 
Ivalafat, Omar Pasha had concentrated a strong corps of 
reserve at Sophia, and was resolved to make this place his 
centre of operations. Sophia is situate in a vast plain on 
the road from Belgrade to Constantinople, and is the key 
of Bulgaria. The Ottoman army, resting on so formidable 
a position, would infallibly stop the Russian armv, 
already exhausted by the battle it would have to fight 
with the Turkish corps which guards the Turkish frontier 
on the side of Servia. 
On the 8th and 9th inst. a revolutionary movement 
occurred at Salonica, but the Turkish troops attacked the 
Greek insargents at the point of the bayonet and seized 
the ringleaders. Public tranquillity has not been disturbed 
since. 
THE WAR IN ASIA. 
A loiter from Odessa says: — “ Osman Pasha is not dead. 
Ho had his foot amputated at Sebastopol. He suffered 
a good doal, but the operation was indispensable, for 
gangrene had commenced. He had requested to be removed 
to Odessa, but the government of Sebastopol dared not take 
on itsolf to lot him go, and it has applied to St. Petersburg 
for orders. Osman Pasha has obtained permission to address 
a letter to Ahmet Pasha, of the Liman Odassi, in which lie 
makes known his situation, and that of his companions in 
misfortune. This letter, which was given open to the 
authorities, has, it is said, been sent to Constantinople. 
The prisoners who are bore and at Sebastopol aro to bo sent 
in a few days into the interior, tho Christians to Kietv, the 
others to tho neighbourhood of Moscow. Some of them, 
however, uro to bo sent to St. Petersburg, and amongst them 
are to bo the four officers and physicians of the Egyptian 
steamer, and ten men of the commercial steamer the Meduri- 
Tldjaret.” 
General Guyon is displaying extraordinary activity in 
organising the Turkish army in Asia, who are in the best 
spirits, and seem strongly attached to their chief. 
THE ATTACK ON SHEFKATIL. 
Despatch prom Selim Pasha. — “ Batoun, 21 Rebiul 
Acliir. — On Saturday last, 14 Rebiul Acbir, about one 
p.m., a Russian force, consisting of four battalions of infantry, 
1,001) Georgian soldiers, and two pieces of artillery, was 
observed to advance in the direction of Shefkatil. As soon as 
they appeared in the wood without, a sufficient number of 
regulars and irregulars, under the command of Ismail Bey, 
colonel of the army of Arabia, issued forth and attacked 
them. The combat lasted about an hour, but the enemy at 
last gave way, and fled with great loss in killed and wounded, 
having been totally unable to resist the fire of our musketry 
and fortress. The loss on our side was small, relatively 
speaking; but, tlianks to the Most High, wo gained our 
point, and routed completely the enemy, who, however, 
having assailed us in vast numbers, was enabled to carry off 
a portion of his dead and wounded.” 
Despatch from Ismet Pasha, Governor op Tre- 
The last accounts from the Black Sea stute that, in cons' 
quence of orders received from St. Petersburg, the Russian' 
had despatched troops and ammunition to Kafla, where th* 
authorities are occupied in placing the forLs round tho to* 9 
in a state of defence. Theodosia, or Kafta, is a muritimo tow 
nf the Crimea, situate in a bay of the Black Sea. Its port ^ 
large and much frequented. It is situate at about a lna 
kilometres east of Simferopol, chief town of the government 
of that country. 
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COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. 
Troops in the Colonies. — In estimating tho amount 
of our available military force, it is obviously necessary t 0 
consider vtliat number of troops are required in the colonies 
The return laid before Parliament of the number of troops 
employed in the colonies comes, therefore, opportunely 
Tho Adjutant-General’s return shows that there were so 
employed at this time lust year 1,785 officers, 2,918 sergeants 
aud drummers, and 37,5G6 rank and file — a larger number 
by about 2,000 than in the previous year. Tho Ordnance- 
olfico return states that the number of Sappers and Miner* 
employed in the colonies last year was 1,005, of officers of 
tho Engineers 118, and 3,699 officers and men of the Royal 
Regiment of Artillery. Excluding from our calculation 
regiments taken into the pay of the East India Company 
these figures show that one-third of our military foice is 
omployed in our various dependencies. 
British China. — Sir John Bowring, Governor of 
Hong Kong, and Chief Superintendent of British Trado i Q 
China, lelt town on Saturday afternoon for Southampton 
an route to the seat of his government. 
Malta, Fkb. 12. — For tho last few days the authorities 
have been actively engaged in making inquiry as to the 
amount of barrack accommodation available in any part of 
tho island, siuce u large body of troops is expected to arrive 
here from England to await the turn of events in the East, 
The large stores of the Lazaretto, capable of containing 
1,500 men, and tile lofts in the dockyard, where 800 may 
be accommodated, are ordered to be got ready. The Fun- 
cibles, it is possible, may he ordered to Civita Vecchia, and 
their present barracks turned over ; the new fort of Vordulali 
will contain, perhaps some 1,500 men over and abovo the 
47th, there stationod; and room in various positions will 
be found for the accommodation altogether of tho 5,000 
men said to bo the amount at present likely to reach tho 
island. 
« East India Company. — On Wednesday a Court of 
Directors was held at the East India-house, when tho Right 
Hon. Lord Harris was appointed Governor of Madras, 
AUSTIIALIANA. 
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 
1st December, 1863. 
Dear Field,— Tho first sporting event which came off nfter mv 
landing here in October, was n cricket match, on the 8th of November, 
between the ‘ Adelaide ’ nnd the Union Clubs, in which the former win 
victorious by 54 runs, mainly owing to Mr. Cocker s world-wide skill 
in computation, nnd the destructive manner in which Mr. \V. Fisher 
went bail for the non-appearance of his antagonists. Tho following 
is the score : — 
ADELAIDE CLUB. 
bizond. — “ Trebizond, 24 Rebiul Achir. — During the last 
night, at nine p.m., two Russian steamers were observed off 
the port of Surm6n6. The battery signalled thrice without 
effect, and the Russian steamers endeavoured to enter the 
port. The fortress then opened fire, whereon they imme- 
diately retired without further incident.” 
NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE BLACK SEA. 
Constantinople, Feb. 7. — Eighteen Turkish vessels 
sailed yesterday for Batoun with 6,000 men and a large 
quantity of material of war. They are accompanied by elovcu 
largo English steumers. 
The Massacre at Sinoi>e. — The Vengeance, 84, 
Captain Lord Edward Russell, was at anchor in the bav of 
Sinope on tho 30th ult. The bay presents a melancholy 
spectacle, as the masts of tho vessels recently destroyed by 
the Russians are seen abovo the water, and the burnt 
remains of some of the Turkish vessels are lying on the 
shore. Tho following is an official list, furnished by lislim 
Boy, who escaped from the Kaid, 50, when ho caused her 
to be blown up after the action, and reached tho shoro him- 
self by swimming. Eslim Bey, although only in command 
of a 50-gun Turkish frigate, was in the act of hoarding a 
120-gun ship of the Russian fleet when another 120-gun 
Russian ship came up to her assistance, and overpowered 
him and his gallant crew, aud placed 300 Russians on 
board the Kaid. The gallant Turkish officer still remained 
undaunted, and having previously arranged with one ol the 
men of his crew, the magazine was exploded, and tho Kaid, 
with tho 300 Russians on bourd, went to the bnttom, and at 
tho same time so injured one of the Russian line-of-batilu 
ships that she also sunk and was totally destroyed. The 
captain of the Kaid reached the shore safely by s\viininin> r 
duriug the confusion. 
THE TURKISH SQUADRON, TAKEN BY SURPRISE BV THE RUSSIAN 
FLEET IX SINOPE BAY, ON NOVEMBER 30, 1853, WITH T1IE 
NUMBER OP GUNS, MEN, AND OFFICERS, UNDER TWO FLAG 
OFFICERS. 
Ships. Guns. Men. Capts, and their fate. 
Tlrn Amiah (flag). ..60 
GOO 
Hassan Bey, killed. 
Nuirk 
500 
All Bey, uncertain. 
Nesuir 
,...52 
500 
Ilessin Bey, killed. 
Kaid , 
500 
Eslim Bey, escaped. 
Derrnat (Egyptian) 51 
500 
Aorndnli 
...36 
400 
Aran l'aaha, prisoner. 
Trosldal (flag) .. 
400 | 
[ Rescind I’usha, esep. 
[ Ali Must! Bey, nncert. 
Gut Lcssit 
200 
Toby Bey, uncertain. 
Lnizle lfalbort .. 
240 
Isel Bey, uncertain. 
Nedgliflsham 
,...24 
200 
Hassan Bey, prisoner. 
Talf 
300 
Gaza Bey. 
Ereglc 
.... 4 
150 
Esmial Bey, escaped. 
Total 432 4400 
Ship's fate. 
Blown up after 
a Tion. 
Blown up nfter 
action. 
Burnt nust day. 
Blown up utter 
uetion. 
Burnt next day. 
Burnt next day. 
After trying to 
tow off, was 
burnt next day 
Got foul of Eng. 
inert, bg. How- 
ard, both but. 
Burnt, next day. 
On shore, disin,, 
can’t be got off. 
Got awny. 
Barm next day. 
.non. 
Brought by Retribution to Constantinople wounded as 
Ditto ditto not wounded f,i 
Brought by French steamer Mogadorc, wounded r>0 
Ditto ditto not wounded 50 
Taken prisoners by tho Russians 120 
Loft behind incurable jo 
Crow of Taif, escaped 300 
Supposed escaped to the shore l,ouo 
Total accounted for as above ],649 
Total misslug, not uccounted for 2,841 
Total actually engaged 4,11)0 
1st innings. 
G. Giles, c Hunter 11 
Cocker, not out 63 
Coleman, b Tunbridge 9 
W. Boothb.v, stumped ditto 3 
Mudaock, c ditto b Tunbridge 0 
W. Fisher, b Dobson 8 
Maddoek.jun. b Lodge 0 
Lawrence, 1 b w, b Dobson 2 
Ii. Smith, b Dobson *» 
U. Fisher, b ditto 5 
Hamilton, b ditto 0 
Byes ^ 
105 
2nd innings. 
c Cairns, b Dobson 0 
b Dobson 0 
c and b Ditto 8 
run out 0 
b Dobson 1!) 
c Hunter, b Dobson 2 
b Dobson 12 
b ditto 0 
b ditto 0 
b ditto 1G 
not out 3 
0 
60 
1st innings. 
Waits, b W. Fisher 
Futclier, b ditto 
Tunbridge, b ditto 
Dobson, b ditto 
Lodge, b Cocker 
Hunter, b W. Fisher 
Uren, b Cocker 
Miller, c Boothby, b Cocker 
Bilker, c Cocker 
Cairns, b Cocker 
Lower, not out 
Byes 
UNION CLUB. 
2nd innings. 
3 c Coleman, b W. Fisher 11 
lb Cocker 2 
10 leg before wicket 0 
0 b \Y Fisher 0 
7 c Coloman 3 
0 not out 1 
0 run out 0 
II ditto 12 
2 c Giles, b Cocker 2 
0 c Cocker 0 
0 b Fisher 13 
8 Byes , 4 11 
42 GO 
Wc have three days' racing, over a very good course, lying eastwnrd 
of the town in the Park Lands, on the 28th, 29th, and 30th of this 
month (December). 
I11 tho way of shooting wo have, in the immediate vicinity of 
Adelaide, opposums, black swims, wild ducks, Quail, cockatoos, ami 
parrots in immense numbers, nnd twenty or thirty miles up the 
country, kangaroo and emus aro to be found, though not in any 
quantity, without penetrating a long wav into the interior. An act 
lias been just introduced into the Legislative Council, for the preser- 
vation of quail and wild duck, during the period of incubation ; this j* 
much wanted, ns every person possessed of a gun and leisure time, is 
biasing away at all seasons of the year, and only lust Sunday evening 
1 met a wretch, who had tire unparalleled audacity to call himself a 
sportsman, ids bunds being yet reeking with the blood of 24 brace oi 
quail, butchered in the middle of the breeding season ! 
There was a gush of pride to my heart when I saw, by chance, that 
one of the gallant old Argonauts had carried otV the sculls; it was the 
first club 1 ever rowed with, and still I feel the forco of “ Afontvr 
moriens dulces reminiscitur Argos." \Vc have a crew in petto for tho 
regatta, consisting of an Union, a Thetis, a St. George, and an Argonaut, 
and with ne dieite mori on our ting, and the honour of Father Thame* 
In our hearts, please God ! as old Bob Newell used to say, wo'll give 
some of tlio Colonial gentlemen a brush for iho cup. 
As I cannot hope to claim any more of your valuable space, with iho 
promise of forwarding you a more interesting despatch by the next 
steamer, and my best wishes for tho prosperity of the “Field,” 1 will 
subscribo myself, 
Your Antipodean Correspondent, 
Onr of me Smiths. 
Victoria Freehold Land Society. — This society is 
demonstrating the necessity of an organisation for putting 
the people in possession of tho lands. At the end of little 
nioro than a month’s existence they have about 3,000/. m 
their exchequer, and are looking about for desirable pur- 
chases. We perceive that a meeting is called in tho hull 
of tho Mechanics’ Institute, when the Melbourne public will 
lmvc another opportunity of houring its operations explained* 
and members can be enrolled. As this society is in ft" 0 '* 
hands, and calculated to advance the proper settlement " 
the country, and the supply of the humbler classes will 
land, wo caunot too warmly recommend it to those unable to 
enter the land market nlono and unassisted. — Australian 
and Neto Zealand Gazette. . ... 
Tub Adelaide LandandGold Company. — T his, whic 1 
is one of ti.e numerous English undertakings carried on 
nominally at Paris, as a societe on commandite to avoid tm 
obstacles of the law of partnership, lias issued a report ol 1 • 
proceedings up to the present date. Ol the available cap' H 
