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THE FIELD. 
Woolwich, Tuesday.— One hundred men of tho Royal 
Artillery proceeded from Woolwich garrison at 4 a.m., yester- 
day, to "the Royal Arsenal to assist in loading tho Australia 
transport steamer with large guns and warliko stores for service 
in tho East ; they were relieved at 1 o’clock p.m. by an equal 
number of men, as it is desirable that she should be able to em- 
bark Major Young's company, 2nd company of the 12th battal- 
ion, and Captain Irving’s 3rd company, 12th battulion,to.duy, 
these companies being under orders to proceed with the Biego 
guns for service In Turkey. 
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leagues distance. A battle was expected every day. A letter 
from Trebiz.ond states that Nafiz Pasha, who had commanded 
the Turkish army at the battle of Nezib, has boon named 
Governor of Trebizond. Three Turkish steam-frigates, having 
on board Admiral Aslimet Pasha, had arrived in that port 
with 3,000 regulars from Varna, 45 pieces of cannon, and a 
certain number of horses. These troops were to set out imme- 
diately for Batoum. A glance at n map of tho Black Sea will 
Bhow the importance of Batoum us a port and entreptit. 
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NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE BLACK SEA. 
SOLDIERS’ WIVES AND FAMILIES. 
Important to Wives and Sweethearts. — A letter 
from Vania, dated July 21, says : — “ It is delightful to praise 
any brunch of our administration, and it must bo said the 
home Post-office has conferred a great benefit on the service 
by organising the British army post-office, und sending out 
two such intelligent, active, and able officers as Mr. Smith and 
Mr. Angoll to superintend it. The former is ut Constantino- 
ple and the latter at Varna. Our letters now are delivered 
regularly, and conveyed with safety and economy, and the 
men are delighted with the boon of cheap and speedy postage. 
Tho mails are made up in London on the evenings of the 3rd, 
8th, 13th, 18th, 23rd, and 28th or 20th of each month, 
and uro delivered at Varna on or about the 3rd, 5th, 13th, 
15th, *23rd, and 25th of each month. Tho mails are rnado up 
at Varna for England on tho 4th, 9th, 14th, 19th, 24lh, and 
29th of each month. Postage both ways, three penny stamps 
under a quarter of an ounce,, and so in proportion. Letters 
may bo paid or not, at the option of the sender.” 
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THE TURKS AND RUSSIANS. 
(Continued from page 738.) 
The cholera lias appeared among the troops at Varna, but 
the English forces uro as yet tolerably freo from it. Sixteen 
Trench soldiers have died from this terrible scourge out of 
25 who were attacked by it. A good deal of sickness prevails 
among tho Turkish and Egyptian troops. There has been 
some mortality among the cavalry at Devno also, and tho 
chaplain performed six funeral services among the two 
cavalry brigades this week. A sergeant of the 8th Hussavs, 
who had been suffering for some time from an affection of tho 
head, committed suicide by drowning. The poor fellow, who 
was one of the best nou-commissioned officers in the regiment, 
is greatly regretted. Several officers are invalided, and will 
bo sent home by the first opportunity, among them Messrs. 
Balfour and Alexander of the Rifle Brigade. Lord Dupplin, 
who has been seriously ill, is now much better, but it is said 
that he also will be obliged to go to Englund. Dr. Mac- 
donald who bus been sent in, to the general hospital, is 
also somewhat better. Three officers of tho Guardsnre unwell, 
but not seriously so. Diarrhcea is only too prevalent. 
Nearly every one has it in his turn. The quantity of apricots 
(“ Kill Johns ”) and hard crudo fruit, which are devoured by 
the men, may in some degree account for the prevalence of 
this debilitating malady. 
Captain Gordon, R.E., has returned to Varna in the 
Vauban from the Circassian coast. It is reported that the 
Russians are employed night and day in strengthening the 
defences of Anapa, and in fortifying some small redoubts 
south of it. Their vessels often take a peep out of Sebastopol 
and run in again. 
THE WAR Tn EUROPE. 
ENGLISH ARMY IN TURKEY. 
The Light Division at Devna consists of — First Brigado: — 7th, 
23rd, and 33rd regiments. Second Brigade : 49th, 77lh, and 88th 
regiments, and the Rifle Brigade. 
The First Division nt A lauy n— First Brigade ; Grenadier, Fusi- 
lier, and Coldstream Guards. Second Brigade: 42nd, 78th, and 
93rd Highlanders, 
The Second Division half way between Alndyn and Varna — 
First Brigade :• 4Ut, 47th, and 49lh regiments. Second Brigade: 
30th, Shlh, at»J95th rogiments. 
The Third- Division at Yuma — First Royals; 28th, 38th, 44th, 
and 50th regiments. The 4th are left at Gallipoli. 
o.mah Pasha’s Proclamation to the Wallaciiians. 
— A jlotter, from Bucharest Buys: — “The Russians appear to 
dread an j|isgi>Ttcrion, at Bucharest on the approach of the 
Turks. They conjecture this from a passage in Omar Pasha’s 
proclamation of the 15th ult., which has boen plentifully dis- 
tributed here .during the last week, in spite of all tho vigilance 
of their police. There are copies of it in French and Roman- 
esque ; the text, which is very concise, is as follows: — 
* Rorpapeu,— ,\Vhen the Russian troops before Silistria learned 
that I was marphing against them at the bend of 80,003 men, 
they retired. I am uow going to cross the Danube, and hope 
by God’s help to drive back our and your enemy to Bessarabia. 
Be united one -with another. Your situation will shortly im- 
prove. — Omar.’ ” 
ARRIVAL OF THE TURKS AT BUCHAREST. 
BUCHAREST, August 7. 
The Turkish vanguard, under Skender Beg, lias just entered 
the city.. . i , , 
The rearguard of the Russians, consisting of sexen regiments 
of Hussars and Cossacks, is only two miles distant. 
Authentic information says that Moldavia will ulso be eva- 
cuated. .... 
Russian regiments are already retreating across the Pruth. 
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THE WAR IN ASIA. 
BATOUM. 
The Russians, since tho time of Catherine, have coveted 
Batoum. We give an illustration of that port i» “ The Field’’ 
of to-day, page 753. Batoum is the best plpce eastward of 
Trebizond for ll/c trade with Peniu. It ia destined to 
become ,a groat placo, apd hot for tho allied fleet, another 
Sinope massacre would ere thin have been enucLod there by 
the Muscovites, those ‘fonibbfgnttou knaves iu Kcndul Greoti.” 
Mo have nows from Suchoum Kale, and from Redout Kali. 
Naib hflhiidj.i nc of the companionsof Simmy 1, .had arrived at 
Vardou, end hud bad a confer once with pie English officers 
relative to. tending 10,000 Circassians to Batoum, and their 
incorporation with the Turkish army. Nuib Effendi appears 
doing everything to succeed in this, but does npt conceal the 
difficulties there will bp in persuading the Circagiium, to join 
theai my of SelinijRaihq. Thppojvsfroqj Epzerp.utn coincsdown 
to the Oih ult. The Russjan army of Alcxondropol, 25,000 
strong, and I. living 80 pieces of cannon, had crossed the 
Aiputehui, and were within six leagues of Kurs. The Turkish 
aimy, 80,000 strong In regular troops, 15,000 Bashi-Bazouks, 
and with 100 pieces of cannon, was pussod by only a few 
Euekli. — Admiral Dundee is again permitting the Russians 
to have their own way in the Black Sou. The telegraph an- 
nounces that the Russian war steamer, Vladimir, was chasing 
her Majesty’s steamer, Cyclops, ncur the Bosphorus, just at 
tho time our admiral fondly thought that every Russian ship 
was cooped up in Sebastopol. The Cyclops escaped, and so 
her adventure ended. It was otherwise with three Turkish 
merchantmen, whose fato the Constantinople correspondent 
of the Independence, of Brussels, thus describes : “ An occur- 
rence which has just takon place in the Black Sea, only a fow 
miles off tho mouth of the Bosphorus, has caused the pro- 
foundest sensation. Three Turkish vessels, while at their moor- 
ings in the harbour of lleraclca (Erekli), have been burned 
by u Russian steam-frigate that came from Sebastopol and 
was able to cross the whole of the Black Sea without being 
seen by the Anglo-French cruisers! The ships destroyed 
were laden, one with Indian corn, a second with wood, and 
tho third with coal extracted from the mines at Heraclea.and 
intended for the allied squadrons. Their captains have been 
carried off prisoners to Sebastopol, the crews being put into 
a boat and turned adrift iu the roudstcad. The very day 
before this bold deed was performed, the French advice cor- 
vette, the Mouettc left the port in question in order to return 
to Therapia. This littlo incident shows how well the Russians 
are served by their scouts. How will it bo now, when the 
Greek vessels are again permitted to revisit the harbours in 
the Black Sen. 
Odessa. — M.M.S. , July 19. — Furious and Terrible 
have succeeded in destroying Tiger’s cylinders and driving the 
field-pieces from their position. Furious had one shot which 
passed through both funnels, and one man slightly wounded. 
Tiger’s ship’s company have been drafted to the following 
ships — Britannia, Albion, Vengeance, Trafalgar, Belleroplion, 
Retribution, Niger, Inflexible, Sampson, and Fury — all ships 
likely to return to England the full of this year, the steamers 
all being done up. The purser’s steward of Tiger (considered 
the Jonas), who was wreckedjin Thunderbolt und Birken- 
hendbefore the Tiger, was sent to Agamemnon, which ship 
appears to be unfortunate with her stewards, having hud 
some five or six under her new paymaster. 
Varna, July 30. — Sir George Brown has returned in 
tho Fury, iu which vessel he entered the harbour at Sebastopol 
in the night and remained till dawn. The Fury was fired at 
both with shot and shell, but she suffered no damage. Ves- 
sels from Varna are subjected to a quarantine of five days at 
Constantinople. 
THE BALTIC, 
[From our own Correspondent.) 
FAno Sound, Island of Gothland, 31th July.— All are long- 
ing for the attack on Booraarund, which it is expected will tako 
place cither on the 2nd or 3rd of August. The Termagant has on 
board 360 men of the Chasseurs de Vincennes, and towed two Eng- 
lish transports, the “Columbo” with the 51 de Ligne 300 jn 
number, and the Julia with 307 of "the 3 do Ligne, and 80 Eng- 
lish Sappers and Miners, iu all, 1047 men. 
The best understanding, good feeling, and unity prevailed 
among the English sailors and French soldiers, the latter ever 
cheerful, wiling away long evenings by making tho Swedish shores, 
echo their song of love or glory; tho enclosed song was composed 
by a private of the 12th Chasseurs. — [The song will appear next 
week. — E d.] 
A Lost Prize. — A large merchant brig under the Russian 
flag arrived in tho Elbe on Sunday, from Sitka, on the north- 
west coast of North America. Why was the Tartarus or some 
other British cruiser not off Heligoland ? The brig is the Nanny, 
of Brashetad. We hear she is to be sold at Hamburg, and that 
the captain and crew will return to Russia by land. 
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FRENCH NAVY AND MERCHANT SERVICE. 
Marseilles, August 5. — A portion of the guns of the 17th 
Regiment of artillery has been shipped on board three transports, 
which have sailed for Varna. The remainder will quickly follow. 
The enibarcation of provisions and military stores for the army 
of the East continues without intermission. There are between 
40 and 50 vessels in the port of the Joliette waiting to receive 
their cargoes for the Black Sea. 
A letter from Toulon states that there are nt present iu that 
port eight steam-frigates, three corvettes, and three cutters. 
Other ships of war are expected. These are sufficient to convey 
10,000 men, which, it is, believed, will be shortly embarked. Tbe 
screw line-of-battlo ships Fleurus, Navariu, and Souverain are 
nearly ready for sea.*; I, u , 
A correspondent from Malta, writing on the 2nd of August, 
says, — 
“The most important intelligence received yesterday' by the 
French steamer Sinai, from the Levant, consists in the departure 
from Bnltschick and Varna of a large portion of the .troops, in 
14 ships of the line, towed by as many steamers, besides tran- 
sports, both sailing and steam. The total number of troops em- 
barked is reckoned nt- 4U,UCM). but whetben their destination be 
the Crimea or Odessa ilpes- not seem to be accurately known. 
“ Seven French and four English vessels alone remain at Balt- 
scliick. . ; 
"General Brown is mentioned as being on board the Aga- 
memnon, (lag of Sir Edmund Lyons; and General Canrobert on 
board the Napoleon-” 
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^STEAMKj:^ . 
Liverpool, Sunday, Aujr, Urr-ThyAsia arrived this morning 
with the mails from New York of tlm, 2<ith of July. She has 
brought 120 passengers. The Simate had ratified a treaty with 
Russia, securing tlm neutrality of the United States in the Eu- 
ropean War, and acknowledging tho pruieiplo tlmt the neutral 
ling protects vessel and cargo. Tlie.Yt w York V< t'tdd walm* the 
positive announcement, that, despatches fcouj the Russian, Govern- 
ment arrived in the I’acific mi the 25th of July, offering to tlm 
United States the whole of the Russian territory in North 
America. ' _ n.. 
Hamburg, Aug. 7- — Two English steamers, after having de- 
stroyed the Russian convents on .the chores of tho White Sea, 
have entered the Gulf of Onegskuiil, near Archangel. 
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CAPTURES FROM TIIE RUSSIANS. 
A Rumoured Capture. — By the last advice* the Russian 
frigate Aurora had left the port of Callao for the Sandwich Is- 
lands, and the allied ships Forte, President, Eurvdice, Obligado 
and \ irago were then about to leave the same port (Callao), their 
destination being unknown. There is a rumour the Muscovite 
haR been caught. 
Condemned Prizes. — The Carl Magnus, the John, the In 
dustrie, the Emilie, the Carolina, and the Gebroeders, Russian 
ships captured by Her Majesty!* cruisers, have all been con- 
demned as lawful prizes by the High Court of Admiralty. 
Sheerness. — The Devonshire, receiving-ship for Russian 
prisoners of war, is increasing her medical stores, &c., anticipat- 
ing in a short time an arrival of prisoners and wounded front the 
Baltic. She is being fitted with every possible convenience for 
them, as suggested by her commander, Lieutenant J. H. Lloyd 
and approved by the Cummauder-in-CliieL. 
[From the London Gazette of Tuesday.] 
WAR OFFICE. Auocst 8. 
St afp — W alter Colquhoun Grant, Esq., to bo Captain Commandant 
of the Mounted Staff Corps to be uttuclied to the Army now serving 
Turkey, with the rank of. Captain in tbe Army while so employed. 
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, August 7. 
Royal Regiment of Artillery —Second Lieutenant A. H. C. Hamilton 
to be First I.ieutcnant. vice Burrowes, deceased; Second Lieutenant h’ 
C. Cnthbert to be First Lieutenant, vice Sir W. Johnson, resigned. 
Memorandum — The dates of promotion of the undermentioned officers 
have been altered as follows, viz Lieut. Walker to July 14, 1851; and 
Lieutenant Hamilton to July 17, 1854. 
Stores for trk East.— Contractors have received orders for 
a fresh and a large supply of knapsacks, sick-carts, medicine, and 
other necessaries for the East; the order to be carried out at once. 
The new clothing measure will come into force at the end of the 
year. 
Military Execution in Canada.— Tho Kingston JTeruhl 
says that a soldier was shot for desertion on Jane 20th, at tho 
garrison, Fort Henry; and adds, that the articles of war will bo 
for the future, in the case of deserters, most rigidly executed. 
Baltic. — Letters from the Gulf of Finland announce that tho corps 
of the Imperial Guard there has been recalled to St. Petersburg, 
and is to bo replaced by Finnish militia. All the guards are to bo 
quartered in St. Petersburg, for tbe defence of the capital. 
‘‘Sharpen Swords!”— M r. Lamprey, of 29, Wcstmoreland- 
street, Dublin, sharpened the swords of tho 2nd Dragoons (Scots 
Greys), preparatory to their departure for the Russian campaign. 
Military Savings-banks. — The amount lodged in military 
savings-banks amounted on the 31at of March, 1853, to £140,287. 
Of this sum, £117,667 belonged to 9,890 depositors from tho 
cnvnlry and infantry, and £28,620 to 1,812 of the Ordnance corps. 
Russian Generals Killed and Wounded.— Without hav- 
ing fought any great or general action the Russian army has 
had the following officers of high rank put hors de covibat from 
the time when it open tbe trenches before Silistria to its discom- 
fiture at Giurgevo Field-Marshal Prince Paskiewitcb, wounded at 
Silistria, and invalided ; Lioul. -General Scliilder, mortally wounded 
at Silistria (dead); Lieut.- General Selwan, killed nt Silistria ; 
Lieut. -General Dreschern, died of disease nt Roman ; Lieut. -Gen- 
uerl ChruletT, severely wounded at Giurgevo (dead) ; Lieut.-Gen- 
eral Anrcp-Elmpt, shot himself at Bucharest ; Licut.-Goncrnl 
Bebutoff, wounded at Giurgevo ; Major-General Popoff,, wounded 
nt Silistria : Mcjor-Gonernl Stolpakoff, killed at Silistria; Major- 
General Meyer, killed at Silistria ; Major-General Buterlin, 
wounded near Frateschi. The name of Lieut.-General Liiders is 
not included iu the above, although reports of his having been 
severely wounded, and since dead, having been repeatedly calcu- 
lated, and are again renewed. 
Beards. — An order was issued a few days ago allowing the 
troops in the East to wear the moustache, and the beard also, if 
they please . — Daily News. 
The. following circular has been issued in Portsmouth garrison 
“circular memorandum. 
“ A large part of the army being employed in Turkey, where it 
has been found beneficial to keep the upper lip uushaven, and allow 
the uioustaclio to grow, the General Ccmniandihg-ia-Cliicf.is please ) 
to authorize that practieo in the army generally* suited to the fol- 
lowing regulations, which are to bo strictly obeyed in home and 
colonial service : — ’ou !!■ * 
“A clear space of two inchea must.be left, between the corner "f 
tho mouth and the whisker, when wliiskora ,are grown ; the chin, 
tho under lip, and at least two inches of the upper part of the throat 
must be clean shaven, so that no hair can be seen abovo tho stock 
in that place. . ...... 
“The wearing of tho moustache ia to be optional with nil 
ranks. 
“ The troops serving in the Bast will be allowed such- further 
latitude in respect to shaving their beards and whiskers as iho 
general officer commanding that army may deem it expedient to 
sanction during the continuance of that service. 
“By command, 
“ G-Gathcaut; A.G." 
gwmattts ititS glilitiit. 
Commission* 1 SiO-xBD bv Lours LikutknanTi 
G loucestershire.— Boynl South Gloucestershire Light Infantry Rcfil- 
nieut «>!' Militia. — T. Li(vlo,TJont.,to be Ensign. • 
Staffordshire - 1st Regiment of King's Own Stnffordsliirc. Militia 
Lieut. C. N. Lane to bu Captain, vice Pnyntcr, resigned; Etisigti Hie 
Hon. E. H. Lcgge to be Lieutenant, vice Bunney, resigned; It. Mills, Gent, 
late Quartermaster, to be Ensign. ’ 
Shropshire.— Shropshire Regiment of Militia. — R. Doil, Gent., to ' 
Ensign. ictduru !►;• ” „ 
Warwickshire. -Warwickshire Militia (2nd Regiment).— B. D. Moore, 
Esq . late Captain 89tltFoor,to bd Captain. 
Somersetshire.— 1st Somerset Militia.— Ensign G. F. Bullock to be 
Lieutenant, vice Standcrt, resignod. 
West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry.— Corflet A. Seymour to be Lieu- 
tenant, vice Browne, promoted'. \ . 
The Queen's Own Worcestershire Regiment of - Yeomanry Caraln 
Cornet Richard William Johnson to bo Lieutenant, .Vico 'l)|icockniortou 
deceased; Robert Hubnc, Gent, to be Cornet, vice Watson, deceased 
The West Essbx Yeomanry Cavalry, Commander Major 
Pulman, mot at Chelmsford, on Monday week, for drill aad 
training,. , '»« - ; 
Tiih 'East Kent, Militia, which arc at present doing duty « 
Chichester, will shortly bo removed to Portsmouth for permanent 
'"tue Hampshire Militia is to ho embodied. It is irodersio^i 
that tho Marquis of Westminster, in -consequence of ill beoltHj 
intends to resign the. compand of this legimont. ' . 
Tub .Bedford Militia mustered for permanent duty on ' 
day, August 1 ; they go into garrison at Portsmouth. 
Thh Fast Suffolk, Artillery Regiment of Militia havtiv 
completed their 56 days’ training, have been dismissed to tm< 
homes. - * ' 
Thu. Bai.tr iFi.kkt. — The cholera, I am happy (W_.sn.Vi is 
suppenviiig. The Austerlitg. at one period laid 150 cases 
nird. The Majestic went to sea to recruit the health "• 1 
ew. A very singular feature regarding the <Js*qaie is, 
rew ships only have been attacked by tho epidemic, the saiiw * 
?ssels enjoying perfect immunity. Diluted sulphuric . 
id camphor mixture is a favourite remedy. The better ven ( 
itiou of tbe engincroouis becomes a serious consideration, 
lould enforce itself upon the attention of scientific men. 
