CIRCASSU.

Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 84, 8 March 1854, Page 4

CIRCASSU.

The f~ireaßsian» are baid to have approached within 45 English miles of TiflU. They were 20,000 men with CO guns, and for some time I'rinco Woronzoff could only oppose 15,000 mm to them. Fortunutely for lum, Gcnemli NVsterow and J'njatinsky came up with a reinforcement of 15,000 men ; the bntllu was renewed, and Schamyl Bey obliged to retire into his mountains. The Circassians are said to huvo lost 2000 men j but the Russians confens that they left 5000 men on the field of battle, from which I'iinco Woronzoff sent Count Nicolai to St. Petersburg with an urgent demand for leinforcemenis, without which lie should be obligeJ to evacuate not only Tiflis, hut Georgia.

A communication fiom Constantinople ntu'es that the mokt perfect trnnquility prevailed, and I that the piy of tho fuiictioiimics and the army was roßiilnrlv kept up. On the 2nd of November the English and French (loots, under the comnnnd of Admirals Dmdnsand llamelin, nnnhorpil in the Bonphorus, and the commandeis proceeded to Constantinople. We learn from private sources that orders had been issued from the Horso Guards that no officer in Her Majesty's service shall be allowed to sell his commission ; and it is also stated, we know not with what truth, that thirty thousand men will be sent to the Levant. This last rumour can scarcely be taken as true, the available forces in Grout Uritain and Ireland not amounting to more than fifty thousand men ; but the existonce of such rumours is in itself a proof of the activity which prevails in military circlci at homeSydney Herald, Feb. 7.