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SAILING OF TROOPS. 
Tlio Flora, Dummet matter, which arrived at Falmouth 
on Sunday, spoke tlie transport No. 28, bound to Varna, on 
the 3rd in’st. Sho had encountered a gate, und lost foie and 
main topmasts. 
TROOPS ON THE MARCH, OR UNDER 
orders FOR FOREIGN SERVICE. 
Major C. C. Young’s No. 2 company, 12th battalion, and 
Captain Alexander Irving’s No. 3 company, 1 2th battalion, 
assembled on tho Guard Mounting-purudo of tlio Iloyal 
Artillery, at Woolwich garrison on Monday forenoon in 
service marching order, and were inspected l>y Major 
General H. C. Wlilnyatce, commandant of tlio garrison. 
These companies arc ready to embark for tho Hast on the 
shortest notice. 
Colonel William Campbell, commanding the 2nd Dragoon 
Guards (“Bays'') at Dundalk, has been recently called on 
furnish IS serviceable troop horses for the 16th (King’s) 
Regiment of Light Dragoons (Hussars). The latter corps 
has just returned from India, alter fifteen years’ service there; 
mid yet It Is said that it is about to bo equipped for Turkey 
with the least possible delay. 
The 4th Di oons have th el loved ft >m Don 
and Trowbridge to Exeter, rn route for Plymouth, to embark 
for Turkey. 
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SOLDIERS’ WIVES AND FAMILIES. 
Shu mi a, June 12. — Freed from tho trammels of packliorso, 
guide, and luggage, wo proceeded on our road along tlio 
hanks of the Dewna, and past tho French and British camp*, 
which extended fur ovor the hills. It was In the lazy hour of 
the noonday heat. Tlio littlo flogs marking tlio encampment 
of each regiment drooped lazily on the stalls ; soldiers in uu- 
vlross lay broiling in tlio sun ; soldiers’ wives, carrying heavy 
jugs of water, came toiling up tho liili, in altitudes of (lie 
greatest dejection, and with words of complaint, scarcely / 
audible from their parched and blistered lips. Solo was the 1 
havoc which their first days of real campaigning hud made 
with tlio proverbial neatness of the British females. Tlio 
bonnets wore gone— Heaven knows how long ago. Perhaps 
they got soaked in tlio violent rains which dronchod the camp 
at 8au tar!, and then they were (lung aside as worthless, hall- 
rotten tilings, which only bout the head, but cunnot protect it 
from sunshine, wind, or rain. Those women that worked or 
loitered about the camp at Dewna, went with their wretched, 
needy- looking shawls drawn over their head*, their faces wore 
flushed with tlio sun, und perhaps with strong drink, and 
their features worn that settled expression of suffering, 
discomfort, and despair, which ut length, linrdened and 
bronzed with depravity, slumps tlio face of the confirmed 
camp - followers. And wliut else can thoy become, 
those poor women, whom a cruel kindness bus 
allowed to attach tliomsolves to tho baggage-train of 
tlio army? How they hvo and what they live oil is a mystery 
to the world, to the soldiers, and perhaps to tlio women them- 
selves, for it would appear that alter giving them a passuge 
■out, tlio Wat- office lias made no further provision for tlio 
support of tlio regimental women. They ronlly and truly 
wander about, and know not whoro they shall lay tlioir 
licurls. It appears that no touts nro provided for thorn, ami 
that with the cavalry no provision is made for tlio transport 
of tho women from place to place. They tiro u burden to 
themselves, to their husbands, und to tlio officers, and in a 
groat many lnstuneos the poor croutures are hated and scouted 
by tlio soldiers generally. A groat many of them uro oven 
now heartily tired of tlio life they have led, and tlio worao 
lifo which they foresee. It scorns a strango luwnsistoncy in a 
manner to lcgullso tlio women joining tho expedition, to lot 
them draw lots for the privilege, to grant them a passugo out, 
and then all ut once to treat them as strnngois, und persor e 
who have no business to be whoro thoy are. I am convlnr 
that this matter need but bo known in England to rccciv e ' lt9 
immediate correction. Those who did so much fbr tl* ^ 90 j. 
filers’ wives that remained at' home, will raise tlioir vo lc) , 8 0 „, 
behalf of those that have been permitted to follow th $r hus- 
bands. If those woman have no business in the c Atnpulgn, 
and most nssm'odly I atm not one of those who say t /, ( . y j lllvc ’ 
why then let them lie sent lmck; hut do not, for ' salcc* 
for your mothers’ and sisters’ sake, who nro wo /ben as well, 
condemn them, yolir countrywomen, to a life of U |„p oa Uuble 
misery and vice ! 
Soldikhh’ Widows and Ouimians. — I t i 8 a significant 
fuel for the Czar that this country, in four i no „tir-, has most 
cheerfully given tho astonishing sum of i£7fl ( oOO for tho 
especial benefit of her soldiers' wives and fr ^{ijes, and tills in 
tlio face of ii doubled income-tax, an in- £ru<isinjj rise In tho 
prico of provisions, und tho prospect of a £hgthenod struggle 
by sc i and laud with one of tlio most ir ^qHtnry nations in tlio 
word. Wo aro informed, and wo doub ^ it not for a moment, 
that, should there bo any general net’ 6|1 in vv ),|cli gl . e(U loss 
of life will bo inovitablo, tho samo re benevolence is pre- 
pared to double tlio amount for tho w 7|j ovva nn ,j orphans of out 
bravo and patient defenders. Wo ' 0 t ho word “patient” 
advi&edly, thoroughly appieciatir { j ie endurance of 
our soldiers. From tho pocuh / Qr p OS m on G f tho soldier, 
and the very necessary ami r ^ m j rn b|o state of discipline 
»>f the British army, coinpluh fa froin t | l0 rnn J ts are very 
much discouraged, and all the /g mU beuovolont reforms in the 
army have originated with el iV i|j,ins — the rcgimentul savings- 
bank, the good conduct rewr rd ^ Je feudlug-rootn and barrack 
library, limited service, the ailt | j u3 t rotation system, and 
the almost entire exlincth 0 f flogging. But has crime in- 
creased in the army, or • /^scipllno been reluxod, bccauso the 
soldier has been enconro g r) , to roa(1 aiM | not to drink, to save 
and not to squander ! j There is si regiment now in India, 
upwards of 1,000 stw ■ w hich, in tlio course of one month, 
had only two soldiers p, ought Up for drunkenness— a regiment 
as notorious for stt ' ct dj SL . ; plino ns it is romarkublo for the 
amount of saving- fiej)oslted in the regimental bunk. We 
must now save tl 0 w j dow and orphans of the soldier from 
pauperism. At j thero ii no homo for tho widow but 
t lie workhouse, > )0 p c .,r*i 0 n but a few weeks’ outdoor Poor 
I.uw relief. V \ Try community, every body of tradesmen, 
mechanics, -or aVtlficcVs lias some asylum or benefit club for 
their widows- ortihms ; for the army there is nothing of 
the kind, ex-- . C[)t t]lu Cambridge Asylum, where there is only 
10 jm for 21 ^ ;( j ows without children, and no widow 'finder 50 
years of a? . ‘ Is it right that the five widows and 
1 1 orpliai g (if |lie n)CI , who went down with their colonel in 
the Euror , a transport should liav- no national fun 1 to look to 
their n bl? 1Jail jt „ ol been for the ready and effecte d 
ussistan ^ f t tll0 <j en tr U l Association for Soldiers’ Wives and 
\\ idov /B Woterloo-place, which lias grunted the sum ol 
£ 415 for tho permanent relief, these poor penplo must have 
THE FIELD. 
become pauper*, although their husbands were among tho best 
non-commissioned officers of ibis regiment. 
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THE TURKS AND RUSSIANS. 
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CoNHTANTINOfLH, .iuno 20. — Tho Russians did not suc- 
ceed in taking any of the outworks of Silistria. The heroic 
defence of that city and its detached forts, by tho Turks, re- 
flects the greatest honour and glory upon the Ottoman arms. 
A Turkish bulletin lias just been published, and is circulating 
about Stamboul, announcing these welcome tidings to the 
population, who are to-day celebrating the festival of the 
Buiram, at tho close of the forty days' fast of the Ramazan. 
Burly this morning tho Sultan repaired in state to the palace 
of the old Seraglio, where lie was met by all the Ministers 
and high officials of tho realm, who on this day prostrate 
themselves at the foot of tlio Ottoman throne, and declare 
their allegiance and devotion to tlio Padishah. As may easily 
bo imagined, the news from tho Danube has added a zest to 
this ceremony, and the hearts of the people are elated at the 
success of tho Ottoman arms against the Russian armies. 
Wo read in a letter from Shumlo, of the 29th ult. : — 
“Omar Pasha ha* lately recoiveri the following letter from 
Abd-cl-Kader, dated Brouasa, the 18th : — 
“ ‘ My very dear Brother, — The gates of Paradiso opened 
themselves for mo when I had a conversation with the only 
Prophet in a dream on the eve of tho 1st Ramadan. I heard 
all the great and holy souls who repose in Abraham’s bosom 
procluim your name with shouts of joy, and I saw a large 
rainbow extend across tho striking ranks of the holy souls when 
they called you by name, God is with you, my brother. 
Wherever you go glory and victory will attend you. I envy 
you. Carry off the camps of your enemies by your troops. 
May my blessing accompuny you. Tlio enemy will fly before 
you like jackals, and our children’s children will glorify your 
name. Do not draw back, but march your troops forward. 
Tlio Prophet wills it. The day of expiation is arrived for tho 
Giuours of Moscow. Blessings on you, my brother. 
“ ABD-EL-KADER.’” 
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*■ THE WAR IN EUROPE. 
An Ottoman brigade, consisting of a regiment of infantry, 
a regiment of Lancers, and 20 plebos of cannon, commanded 
by Mustapha Pasha, has been attached to the 3rd division of 
tho French nr/ny commanded by Prince Napoleon. This force 
attracted particular attention at the late review of the troops 
at Dnoud- Pasha. Tlio regularity of its evolutions, the sturdy 
make of tho incn, and tho cleanness of their attire, were the 
subject of general praise. The new gaiters— which, in imi- 
tation of Napoleon’s soldiers, and perhaps as a compliment to 
his nephow, lrnvo been introduced into tho Turkish military 
wardrobe — soein very serviceable. 
The French, under General Bosquet, have quite taken pos- 
session of Adriojiopln. A military mass cumo off at this place 
on the 18th. Tlio Consular corps and the most distinguished 
Catholic families were invited to attend the ceremony, which 
took place in the park of the city, the nltar being fixed under 
tlio shade of a Jnrgc tree. General Prim was among tho 
notables on tho occasion, mid the ceremony was followed by a 
collation given by the General to the distinguished visitors. 
Tlio enmp occupies an Island formed by the two arms of tho 
river Tundja a nd ulso tho left bank of the stream. Tlio dreary 
town has become quite cheerful through the preseneo of the 
active and energetic Westerns, who, however, are said to give 
no cause of complaint as to their general behaviour. 
On *’,rte 19ih three battalions of Chasseurs d’Afriquo had 
arrlv f ro m Gallipoli. 
TOE WAR IN ASIA. 
General Osten-Sacken is to ho Governor-General of the 
4'aiicasiia vice Prince Woronzow, whose retirement, at first 
announced as temporary, now assumes its true character of n 
resignation. According to the tenor of the news from Cir- 
cassia, tlio new Russian Governor may look to bo soon 
relielcil of his duties. Tho Turks will soon have a powerful 
ally in the field. Tho union of all the Circassian tribes 
against tlio common enemy is rapidly going on. Already 
Schamyl hangs on tho slopes of tho Caucasus with 30,01)0 
men. Tho Russians aro preparing to defend Tiflis, the capi- 
tal of their govcriniTcnt, against tlio expected attack. Tho 
mountain tribes concentrated by Schamyl have _ entered an 
entrenched camp between the rivers Kur und Jori, and their 
incursions already extend to the immediate neighbourhood of 
the Russian head- quarters. 
Baudane, Coast op Ciucassi \, May 25.— It was here, 
between the Russian forts Golovino and Navaighinski, now 
abandoned, and some twenty miles apart, that some month? 
ago Mustapha Pusdia, with a division of steamers, landed 
powder for tho Circassians— an event brought forward by tlio 
Russian commander as an excuse for tho destruction ol the 
Turkish fleet at Sinope. Bardano was now chosen as the 
starting-point of tho first British expedition into tho interior, 
as most likely to afford greater means of communication, 
and also because it was the native plnco of Ismail Bey, 
the principal man appointed by tho Turkish Govern- 
ment to accompany Captain Brock. Ismail Bey wont on 
*horo immediately after our arrival, and was honoured 
with a salute of nine guns. Sir Edmund Lyons and our- 
selves soon followed him, and wero cordially received 
by tho Circassians. After palavering some time with 
thorn, and wandering a littlo along tho beach, whoro tlio fur- 
row of a Russian shot was pointed out to us, we returned to 
our ship, to dine once more with tlio admiral, before em- 
barking on our somewhat venturous expedition. It was late 
in tho afternoon before we took leave of the Agamemnon and 
Sir Edmund Lyons, and tho moment our boat touched the 
beach, bang went nine guns from tho Agamemnon. Sir 
Edmund was saluting au old friend, Capt. Brock, with a 
view, at the saino time, of increasing his importance in the 
eyes of a somi- savage nation, by giving this further mark of 
official character to his mission. Ismail Boy had procured 
horses to tuko us to his house, where wo were to remain until 
wo could complete tho necessary uvrungemonts for journeying 
to tho interior. Our luggage, and the five sappers and 
miners that wore to Accompany us, had already preceded us 
thorc. "Wo were soon in our saddles, and soon disappeared 
in the thicket, losing sight both of ship? and sen. 
Hkzeroum, Juno 19. — Along their whole line, fi'om tho 
Caucasus to Bafazid, tho Russians seem at length in motion, 
1 and so far as wc can glean from nil Wports, are concentrating 
on positions where defensive warfare enn bo easily converted 
into any measure that the event may invite. Gori, at the 
distance of about 40 miles from Teflis and 150 from tho coast 
ut Chefketil, is the point to which the moving bodies seem 
converging. It is a wide level plain, capablo of containing a 
prodigious miss of troops, and furnishing ample forago for the 
cavalry, while its positiou , at the junction of the Koorwith a 
large stream from the Elt urz range, covers it on the west and 
south, and places the for*:e occupying it on the flank of any 
army moving upon Teflis 1 >y Akhaltzik and the inviting valley 
of the Khram. It is at th o same time directly in the way of 
any attempt of Selfm Paslu i by the passes in front, from which 
his troops, should an advunce be attempted, must either de- 
bouch in detail upon this ve ry plain, or must, by endeavouring 
to turn it, expose themselve > to an attack in flank from a con- 
centrated and powerful forci ?. All estimates of the enemy’s 
force at this point must be merely conjectural. - Even to the 
public authorities the actual 1 number of the enemy in Gumri 
(only a few miles from Kars') is as great a mystery as the 
squaring of tho circle. Ferrari Pasha (the German Colonel 
Stein), who has been recalled from Kars, through General 
Guyon’s instrumentality, arrived here on tho 11th, and re- 
ported that, after maturediges. 'ion ofall the information gained 
during a long course of espionage in Georgia, ho could esti- 
mate tho whole availablo forces of the enemy at 54,000 men, 
and not one bayonet more. He- himself rode into Gumri in 
disguise, with five meu, and penetrated so far as actually to 
count the tents, and oven the houses, and he positively states 
that 10,000 men is the greatest number possible to assign as in 
a garrison. 
♦ 
NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE BLACK SEA. 
{From the Monitevr.) 
Vice-Admiral Hamelin has addreiised to the Minister of 
Marino and tlio Colonies a report, dat?d Baltschik, June 23, 
giving an account of various operations of the squadron. 
To this report is annexed that of M. Darricau, Captain of 
tho Descartes, of which the following are the principal ex- 
tracts : — 
“ Admiral, — Conformably with your instructions, I left tlio 
squadron on the 10th inst. in company with the English fri- 
gates Furious and Terrible. 
“ I placed myself under the command of Captain Loring, 
of the Furious. We arrived in sight of Sebastopol on Sun- 
day, tho 11th, about five o’clock in the evening. Wo ap- 
proached the entrance of the bay near enough to take a good 
view. Everything there 'appeared to us to be in the same 
state as ut the preceding inspections. Wo coanted eighteen 
ships of large dimensions — viz., twelve ships of war, four 
frigate^ two steam-frigates, and also a great many masts 
belonging to ships of smaller dimensions. Wo imagined that 
three steamers, which we did not perceive, wero at sea, and 
perhaps in tho direction of Nicolajef. We, consequently, sent 
cruizers to tho Gulf of Pfireccop, to the north of Cape Tarkan. 
We inspected the coast everywhere with care. I was able to 
convince myself that it was guarded with vigilance. Through- 
out its whole extent a service of inspection and transmission of 
despatches was established. As soon ns wo appeared two 
Cossacks left with their horses at full gallop in tho two oppo- 
site directions of the coast. 
“ Wo were expected, and, besides, tho Russians, I believe, 
wanted to get us into a snare, which wo avoided. Three ship.? 
of war kept towards land at a very short distance, going ia the 
direction of the north ; six steamers, two of which were 
frigates, wero placed a little to the west of tho Quarantine 
Bay, without allowing their smoke to appear. The object 
was to allow us to approach, and then to endeavour to hem us 
in, so as to tako us between the frigates and the ships of war. 
We came from the north, the ships were under tho land to 
tlio north of Sebastopol, the frigates were in the bays situated 
between tlio port and Capo Chersonesus. Wo steered at first 
to the south for a vessel signalled by the watch, when we per- 
ceived the six steamers and the three ships in the positions 
under tho land which I have just indicated above. 
“ Our route then became more oblique. We made use of 
the variable wind from the S.S.W. to the S.W. to render the 
presence of tho ships useless. The Russians had allowed us 
to go beyond their parallel, when they sailed upon us. Wc 
formed ourselves in a front line, the Descartes in the middle. 
The Russians imitated this manoeuvre, and steered upon ns 
in tho same order, the Cape to S.W. one quarter S. At ten 
minutes past 12 o’clock a frigate, recognised ns the Vladimir, 
fired a gon at a great distance. Wo replied by hoisting our 
colours. Tlio fire wa9 not continued, the distance being to<> 
great. Wo had slackened our course. It was only when 
the bullets could reach with full power that wo began the 
firing. It was half-past one o'clock. We than took -aim, 
directing oar fire upon tlio Russians, who took to flight a* 
rapidly as possible. We pursued them with all our steam 
up, firing upon them in the direction of Sebastopol. We did 
not discontinue the fire till half-past 3 o’clock. 
“ It was with a feeling of pleasure, and I may almost say of 
pride, that wo saw in the presence of this squadron of vessels 
the flags of six steamers disappear behind the walls of the for- 
tifications of the port. 
“ Tho Russians must have had the idea of tho vessels run- 
ning foul of each other, as the decks were covered with 
soldiers. 
“From Friday, tho lfi'.h, to Monday, tho 19th, wo pro- 
ceeded, with little steam up, to the south of Bolaklova. In 
this interval wo only saw one three-masted Sardinian vessel, 
proceeding to the Sea of Azof!'. 
“On Monday, at daybreak, wo wero under Capo Cherso- 
nesus. Tho weather was hazy and rainy, so that wo could not 
make the reconnaisnnco we desired on that day. At Intervals 
of better light wo perceived several sail in the horizon, with- 
out being ublo to distinguish their number. In the afternoon 
the weather improved, and we saw four vessels beating about 
at the entrance to tho port. Wo immediately made for that 
division, which was composed of two frigates and two ships of 
the lino, one a three-decker ; but, although we approached 
within reach of a cannon shot and a- hall to offer buttle, they 
did not accept it, and the steamers remained at anchor behind 
tho lino for boaring upon us at the extremity of the roadstead 
of Sebastopol. We were near enough to be able to judge that 
the numbor of the ships in thepbrtof Sebastopol was the samo 
as at the period of our first visit. 
“ After leaving Sebastopol, we passed the mouths of tho 
Danube and Kostendje.” 
Vice-Admiral Hamelin sums up tho abovo report in tho 
following terms : — 
“ Your Excolloncy will see, in short, that our three frigate- 
in cruiso could not indrtee three Russian frigates and three 
corvettes to measure their strength against them, beyond the 
protection of the ships of their squadron.” 
The Attack on Odessa. — Tho Moiriteur pfrt>i>he- ' 
despatch fftim Vice-Admiral llnmelm, commander-in-chi' 1 
of the French squadron in the Blrfek fVa, §!Wfg MOrne'detu'l 
of the damage done to Odessa (luring the late bombardment 
— Tlio ten pieces of artillery that defended tlio eutrauco and 
heads of the mole were all dismantled ; tho powder inagozi'" 3 
constructed to provide the wants of the battorv war* Wp» n » 
. . Atiaiu - 
v~.Ul/.— V cl « ii, ism. 
