THE FIELD 
90; 
Chatham, is undergoing a cleansing, for the reception of 
about 300 women with their children, belonging to the 
troops now in Turkey. They are from Malta, which place 
they left by steamer. The authorities of the invalid depdt, 
on their arrival, examine into each case, to ascertain where 
their friends reside, so that no time be lost iu conveying 
them free of expense, and the money due to them paid by 
government. A party, consisting of 108 women and 118 
children, belonging to the 68th and other regiments now at 
the seat of war in the East, arrived at Chatham <>u Satur- 
day; and Major Smith, Barrack Master, provided them with 
accommodation inSt. Mary’s barracks, where they will remain 
until they can be forwarded to their respective homes. 
They are to be sent home by the Paymaster of Invalids at 
the public expense. 
THE TURKS AND RUSSIANS. 
{Continued from po<je 8.82.) 
Wallachia and its Government. — The Wallachian 
Monitcur of the 6th inst. contains a letter by Prince Cantacu- 
zene to Sadyk Pasha, commandant of Bucharest, dated Aug. 
19, of which the following is a copy: — 
Excellency,— Upon the entrance into Bucharest of the Cossack 
Tegiment of his Majesty the Sultan, placed under the command of your 
Excellency, good order having been maintained in the capital, 1 take the 
liberty of praying your Excellency to accept a trifling gift on my part 
for the regiment, as an acknowledgement of the perfect discipline which 
it has manifested to this day. to the grent satisfaction of the inhabitants. 
This slight gift consists of blue cloth for the uniform of 100 soldiers, 
300 shirts, 300 pairs of linen drawers, and ten saddle-horses of the 
countiy. 1 hope that your Excellency will appreciate the sentiment 
which Impels me to act in this matter of my own live-will, and pray 
you to give orders for the reception of these objects. 
I have the honour to be, with respect. 
Your Excellency's humble and obedient servant, 
C. Cantaci'zehe. 
The Pasha, in reply, offers his grateful thanks for the welcome 
present, and promises to send off a report to the Generalis- 
simo, who he doubts not will feel equal gratification nt this 
fresh proof of devotion to the Sultan’s throne. 
THE WAR IN EUROPE. 
By a “general order" published on the 29tli of August, 
Omar Pasha sent all the Hungarian, Austrian, Polish, and 
Italian fugitives serving under him as officers or non-com- 
missioned officers to the army in Asia Minor. On the 3rd of 
September the exiles went from Bucharest, by way of 
Silistria, to Baltschik. Said Pasha (Czaikowsky, and com- 
mander of the Turkish Cossacks), will also be obliged to 
leave. On the 6th the last of the Cossacks left Galatz. 
When the Russian rear-guard quitted Wulluchia, it com- 
mitted no excesses whatever. 
Four Hundred Basbi-bazouks Killed. — Accounts from 
Rutschuk mention a severe encounter between the regular 
Ottoman troops and the Bashi-bazouks. Omar Pasha had a 
large body of the latter surrounded. They refused to give 
up their arms, and fired upon the soldiers. Artillery was 
brought out, and a regular engagement ensued, ending iu the 
destruction of 400 of these marauders. The rest have been 
disarmed and sent home. A letter from Bucharest of the 
10th states that the ex-Prince Milosch has been denounced 
as the head of a gang of spies, and that one of his agents has 
been arrested. The matter is being investigated. Notice 
bad been given to Omar Pasha that the Austrian troops 
would enter Moldavia on the 16th by three points at the 
same time. 
THE WAR IN ASIA. 
The only intelligence of interest brought by the Constanti- 
nople mail of the 5th inst. is that received from Asia Minor. 
A letter from Trebizonde, of the 30th ult., states that on the 
23rd a courier, despatched by the Seraskier Mustapka Zarif 
Pasha, had reached that city, with the very unexpected ac- 
count of the retreat of the Russians from the plains of 
Kourouk-Difrd towards Alexandropol and Teflis. In the 
night of the 16th the Mushir of Kars, on hearing that the 
Russians were preparing to abandon their position, ordered 
bis regular cavahy to proceed in that direction. By day-break 
it arrived near the camp, charged and dispersed the rear- 
guard, which was the only force left behind, and captured 
2,500 tents, a quantity of provisions and munitions of war, 
and 500 draught horses. The ordinary tartar, who arrived 
from Erzeroum on the 25th, brought despatches explaining 
the cause of this sudden retreat. It appears that on the 12th 
the intrepid Schamyl, at the head of 15,000 mounted Lesghies, 
invaded Khakhetia, took possession of eighty villages, and 
that detachments of his cavahy had shown themselves within 
eight hours of Teflis. On receiving this information, Gene- 
ral Count Read, Civil and Military Governor of Teflis, sent 
orders to a portion of the Russian army corps operating near 
Alexandropol and Kutais to advance by forced marches upon 
Teflis. 
Constantinople advices of the 7th enable us to give 
some further account of Schamyl's movements. Between 
the 26th of August and the first of September the Circassian 
chief entered the northern part of Georgia with 18,000 men, 
and advanced to the Kour. The centre, which he com- 
manded in person, was at Achalguri on the 28th of August ; 
the right wing, under the Emir Hassan Emin, was at Gori, 
on the Kour, at the same date ; and the left wing, under 
Emir Chupli Emin, were at Mycht, a little to the north of 
Teflis. The Russians were taken completely by surprise, and 
retreated, after a very feeble resistance, into the mountains. 
Schamyl carried off a great quantity of booty, and made 
some prisoners of high rank. An important result of the 
razzia was, that the Russians were immediately obliged to 
relinquish all idea of conquest in Turkish Armenia. The 
Turkish Minister who has left Persia is Baid “ to have re- 
ceived leave of absence," but at such a moment this -is not 
probable. Ferhad Pasha (Stein) has been definitely appointed 
Quarter-master-General in Anatolia, instead of Kourschid 
Pasha (Guyon). 
Trebizonde, Aug. 30. — Immediately after the appearance 
of] Schamyl at Khakhetia, some leagues from Teflis, the 
governor of this last-named town, General-in-Chief Count 
Read, had dispatched orders as well to Alexandropol as to 
Koutais to forward as speedily as possible all the disposable 
troops. This was why the Russian emissaries having 
spread the report in the neighbourhood of Redoubt 
Kale that 15,000 men were coming to destroy the 
■works erected by the English , there was a panic everywhere, 
especially at Tchourouk-sou. [A view of Tchourouk-sou is given 
m The Field of to-day.] The commander of the Wasp, 
Ttho happened to be at that time in our port, wishing to 
ascertain what the garrison of Redout Kale would do in case 
of a surprise, and having found in it hardly forty available 
men, wrote a very polite letter to Selim Pacha at Tchourouk- 
bou, to beg of him to send at least a battalion, and to teU him 
that, knowing that there was not nt ;the anchorage near the 
camp any Turkish steamer to transport them, ho would place 
his <>wn at the 6emc> of the general. Moreover, this 
distinguished officer did not make the slightest allusion 
to the reports which wore circulated respecting the 
Russians, whom he did not even name. He merely 
congratulated Selim Pacha upon the victory which ho said 
had been gained by the Turks in the neighbourhood of 
Kars, and of which no one in the camp had yet hoard a word 
good or bad. This took place on Saturday, the 19th instant. 
Selim Pacha having dispatched an affirmative auswor with 
his compliments to Redout Kale, the Wasp came on Mon- 
day, the 21st, to convey the battalion which had been 
promised — carried them to Redout Kale, and subsequently 
steamed on to Trebizonde, where she arrived the following 
Monday, the 28th. to convey about 506 Rushi- Razmiks 
destined for the army of Tchourouk-sou. The steamer left 
us last night, but the commander has remained here, and 
proposed to go to Constantinople by the Stadium steamer of 
to-day. I must not omit to mention, that during these 
transactions, namely, on Sunday, the 20th inst., the little 
steamer which keeps up the communication between this 
place and Tchourouk-sou had brought to the camp the news 
of the deposition of Selim Pacha. 
Ununl. 
THE BALTIC FLEET. 
Elsinore, Sept, 12. Iu consequence of tho prevalence of 
northerly gales tho roadstead hero presents a most animated 
appearance from the collection of 300 ships of all nations 
windbound at the anchorage. On the 6th inst. tho French 
frigate Vengeance ran back with bulwark stovo in. having 
encountered a heay sea off the Skaw. Tho Mary and Eliza, 
of Whitby, went on shore on the Grounds off Copenhagen in 
a gale, but was got off with little damage. Tho English 
cutter Spnrrowhawk arrived from Bomarsund and Stockholm 
on the 8th. The French Imperial yacht La Rome Hortenso, 
from Calais, heariug the baton of a Marshal of France, to be 
conveyed to General Baraguay d'Hilliers, lias also arrived. 
During the night a gun-boat from England, the Wrangler, 
passed through and anchored at Copenhagen. On the 9th, 
the Hecla, tho Driver, the Gladiator, and tho Asmoddo, with 
five troop transports, tho Herefordshire, tho Julia, the Co- 
lumba, and two others, nrrived from Bomarsund. They 
bring back a portion/ of the French troops returning to Calais. 
The steam-ships having coaled took the transports in tow, 
and proceeded with them the following morning to the Skaw, 
whence the Heolu and Driver return here, to carry each 100 
oxen to the fleet of Sir Charles Napier. The following prizes 
remain windbound : — The Magle, Fortune, and Anna Maria, 
prizes to Her Majesty’s ship Archer, in charge of Lieutenant 
Bathurst, Mr. Nicholetts, and Mr. Gowlland, midshipmen; 
the Thamis and Elima, prizes to the cruiser in charge of Mr. 
Curtis, mate, and Mr. Dickenson. This morning a Sardinian 
frigate anchored from Stockholm. The harvest in the Danish 
islands is reported as being most abundant, and the granaries 
are overflowing. 
Skeletons at Sea. — Captain Klockgether, of the Bremen 
ship Hindoo, while on his passage to New York, picked up a 
boat in which were four human skeletons. The boat was 
full of water, but, being of u light construction, had continued 
to float; A few remnants of clothing were found, but nothing 
to give any clue to tho unfortunates. 
Captain Cook's Clock.- To the muny attractions with 
which the United Service Institution abounds, one that will be 
highly appreciated has lately been presented by Rear-Admiral 
Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.B. It. is a valuable chronometer 
by Larcum Kendall, London, 1771, which was twice carried 
out by Captain Cook, on his voyages to the Pacific, and was 
taken out again by Lieut. Bligh, in 1787. When tho Bounty's 
crew mutinied, it was carried by the mutineers to Pitcairn’s 
Islaud. In 1808 it was sold by Adams to an American, Mr. 
Mayo Fletcher, who sold it in Chili. It was purchased for 
fifty guineas by Sir T. Herbert, from M. Coldclough, at Val- 
paraiso, in 1S40, and has now, owing to Sir Thomas’s gene- 
rosity, found its appropriate resting-place among the valuable 
relics deposited in this institution. British Army Despatch. 
FRENCH NAVY AND MERCHANT SERVICE. 
The French frigates La Virgiuie, Zcuobin, Somillaute, 
and Poursuivaute, as also the Brandon, Fulton, and Cocyte, 
left Elsinore on the 13th of September, towing the British 
transports 115, 116, 117, and 122, with the French troops on 
board, bound to Calais. 
On Monday one of the French war-steamers from tho 
Baltic arrived off Deal with a yellow flag flying, denoting 
cholera on board. 
Hono Kono, July 22. — Her Britannic Majesty's ship 
Winchester leaves to day for the north. Nothing has been 
seen of the Russian squadron. It was reported at Shanghai 
that Hankow had been re taken by the Imperial forces, and 
about 1,000 insurgents killed. We Lave nothing particular 
from the coasts, except that pirates are in great force both 
in the north and on the west coast. Indeed, they are more 
to be dreaded than the Russians. A lorcha wus attacked 
between Ningpo and their river Min, and set fire to. Seven 
foreigners narrowly escaped, after loosing all their property, 
and were stripped of theirclothes. An expedition was fitted 
out from Macao to the west coast, assisted by 100 sailors from 
the French man-of-war Jeanne d'Arc, but, from the want of 
a steamer, the piratical fleet escaped. A casualty occurred 
by the upsetting of a French boat, and one man was drowned 
Our latest dates are — England, May 24 ; Calcutta, June 18, 
Bombay, June 16; Singapore, July 2; Sydney, June 7; 
Manilla, July 9; and Shanghai, July 15. 
STEAMERS. 
New York. — The mail of the 6th will carry out the news 
of the usual number of steamboat explosions and losses, and 
street rows. Among the former are the explosion of the 
boiler of the Timour, on the Missouri, by which six persons 
were killed, and fifteen or sixteen thrown overboard and 
drowned ; and the loss, on Lake Michigan, of the Lady Elgin, 
fortunately without loes of life. 
Turkey. — The Danubian Steam Company have announced 
that the communication between Vienna and Brnilow recom- 
menced on Monday,- the 18th of September. 
Steam between Liverpool and France. — It is intended 
to establish a line of iron screw-steamers between the Mersey 
and the River Loire, in the west of France. A commence- 
ment was made on Saturday by the launch of a new iron 
screw-steamer, named the Loire, from the building-yard of 
Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Son, at the south-east end of 
Brunswick-dock. It is intended that she Bliall call at Bor- 
deaux, Charente, and Nantes; and the object of the projectors 
is to avail themselves of the good understanding which now 
exists between this country and France in order to realise 
the full advantages of commercial intercourse. — Liverpool 
Chronicle. 
The Mails. — Southampton. — The Royal mail steam-ship 
Atrato, Captain Woolley, sailed on Monday afternoon, taking 
out the mails for the West Indies, Central America, and the 
lacitic eighty-throe passenger*. specie value .£18,154, 
jewelry value 11.780, and a large cargo. The Peninsular 
and Oriental Company's steamer Madrid, Captain Weeks, 
has loft for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar- 
thirty -six passengers, and specie value 116,SS0 sterling. The 
liigus is duo here about tho 24th inst., with tho heavy 
portion of the East. India, China, aud Mediterranean mails ; 
1 . Indus will leave ou Wednesday, with the outward 
mails for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria. The United 
. tate-> mail • , team-ship Washington, Captain Lines, with dates 
from New \ ork to tho 9th inst,, i« expected off Cowes, on 
her Way to Bremen, on Friday next. 
A Bad Look-out in the Black Ska. — A private letter 
dated "Bay of Vanin, Sept. 4," has boeu published, con- 
taining the following ugly statement ; About four days 
since, a Russian steamer came off the place under false 
colours, lowered out a boat, which ran amul our ships, and 
saw all that was going on, and then returned to the steamer. 
The fact became known by a master of one of our stoam.ora — 
a trader — having recognised in tho boat, as it passed, an old 
Russian captain with whom ho was acquainted at St. Peters- 
burg. The aftair caused great consternation. Two French 
steamers were immediately sent in pursuit, but, strangely 
enough, were soou recalled. Our general dinod with the 
admiral yesterday, and when he returned to the transport, 
I 10 said, ‘There seems to bo some truth about tho Uussiau 
steamer nud boat."' There has been no effectual blockade lit 
the Black Sea, and there is general dissatisfaction about 
D undos and his fleet. Admiral Lyons him all the manage- 
ment of the embarkation. 
Paris. -The French nteamor Newton arrived iu tho Garonne 
on the 17th, with Queen Christina on hom'd. Tho London 
papers inform us it is uudoratood that Beauumut lodgc, 
formerly the residence of Lord Ashbi-ook, has been taken 
tortlic Queen, as a future residence of herself and youthful 
family, by her second husband, tho Duke do Hianzares. Sovo- 
ral truck-loads of furniture' and other valuables had arrived by 
the South-Western Railway at Datohot, and were immediately 
forwarded to Beaumont-lodgo, which is now being placed in 
thorough repair. Bemimont-lodgo is delightfully situated 
near Cooper's-liill, about three miles from Wind •or-c.mtle, and 
was recently sold to a Loudon solicitor, who in all probability 
was employed by tho Spanish royal family to make tho pur- 
chase. -[Tho lodge lias not boon taken.- Ed.] 
Capture of Pirates in the Levant. — Lottcro from 
Smyrna of the 30 ult,, state that the captain of tho ('liuptal 
French war-steamer, lmd arrived there with seven piintes, 
his prisoners, four of whom were taken during a conlbut on 
tho isle of Loros. 
CAPTURES FROM THE RUSSIANS. 
Tho decrees of tho High Court of Admiralty have beon 
issued for the sale forthwith of tho undermentioned Russian 
ships, they having boon declared lawful captures viz., tho 
Alexander, Woolsgard, lute master, prize to her Majesty’s 
ship Tribune, tho lion. S. T. Carnegie, commander ; fior 
cargo (salt) has been sold, aud realised £276; also tho 
America, Broxborg, late master, prize to the same steamer; 
her cargo (salt aud sherry) realised £480’. 10s. ; and tho 
Mentor Ekiund, late master, also a prize to the Tribune; 
her cargo (salt) has boon sold, anil brought .6653. 
The Russian Hliip Carl, prize to her Majesty's steamer Avon, 
tender to the Illustrious, has been sold by auction at Ply- 
mouth, for tho benefit of her captors. She was built at ltovol 
iu 1847. is 376 tons burden, and realised 61,625. 
The War Prison at I ,i;wi:-. The arrangements for tho 
reception of prisoners of war at tho gaol are nearly complete, 
anil it is expected that they will arrive iu tho course of the 
week. The prison-guard, consisting of a body of pensioner!), 
with u serjeant and corporal, have already arrived. Briijhton 
Examiner. 
Mr. G. Hinohcliffo, a late resident in St. Petersburg, is 
tho gentleman who has been appointed by tho Admiralty as 
interpreter on board tho prison-ship Devonshire, at Hlieer- 
D 08 S. The prisoners have tho entire range form tho “knight- 
heads ” to tho toffroil, and do not abuse their indulgence. 
They are perfectly obedient to a request mode, and very 
respectful. They appear to appreciate the confidence placed 
in thorn, and ull strive to make thoinselvos useful about tho 
docks when required. Divine service wus performed on 
board the Devonshire ou Suuday ; Lieutenant-commander 
J. H. Lloyd officiated. A number of tho prisoners lmvo 
boon supplied with tho Old anil New Ton turnouts by Mr. 
Joseph D. Hahn, missionary to the British and Foreign 
Sailors Society. Tho prisoners seemed fully to appreciate 
the service. They separated in a most orderly manner — men, 
women, and children. Tho clmugu of food (from salt provi- 
sion to fresh), with tho cleanliness carried out promptly by the 
officers, and willingly put in practice by tho prisoners, have 
very much improved their health. 
Jflilitnrtj. 
The Committee of Ordnance iu London have hod their 
attention drawn to a now projectile. It is a shell charged 
with a liquid which, when released by the concussion of the 
ball, becomes a sheet of liquid fire, consuming all within its 
influence, the smoke emitted also destroying human life. 
Gun Cotton. — Some very interesting experiments have 
resently been tried at Vienna, by the Artillery, with “ex- 
ploding cotton" instead of gunpowder, and they have suc- 
ceeded so completely that cotton will in future be used. 
New 6-poundera have been cast, which weigh six cwt. less 
than thoae formerly used, aud they answer the purpose — if 
exploding cotton is employed instead of gunpowder — perfectly 
well. The army is to be equipped with the new rifle by 
the Bpring of 1855, at the expense for alterations of only 
2,500,060 florins. 
Bravery op a Private Soldier. — Intelligence has just 
been received at Chatham, that Private Andrew Anderson, of 
tho 10th company of Sappers and Miners, lately stationed at 
Brompton barracks, who so bravely distinguished himself at 
the siege of Silistria, has been rewarded in tbe name of the 
Sultan by Omar Pasha, who personally presented Anderson 
with a splendid gold medal for his valuable services. At the 
siege in question he was severely wounded, but ho is fast 
recovering, and is shortly expected at Chatham with others 
of his corps. 
Varna. — The embarkation of the troops has been effected 
