ti c bitterness of heir doom was yet far ther iicirravaud to the wretched prisoners by he firt that ou the day cftcr ihe sen tence was pronouncecd the witnesses wioc testimony would have restored them to love ad liberty were seen publickly in the street of loudon the semencc of the star chamber was however irrevocable and the public were only left to their own cmiiccturc as to the reason of he sudden disippcamoce and the as sudden reappear ance of these much sought after witnesses some beleived that by bribes and threats elizabeth had kept them out of the way and others that hertford and catherine con scious that the evidence of these people could not benefit them had resolved to ap peal to their testimony when they knew that it could not he procured having them selves taken care that they should not be forthcoming when cilled upon in tho mean time elizabeth could not entirely stifle cither her love for seymour or her fears of catherine the hope that the confiuemcutof the former and his separa tion from he latter might io time alienate his affections from her and commucd with the hope ef regaining the qtiecus favour might prevail upon hiui at length to disown bis alleged marriage induced the queen still to retain him in custody although her heart as well as her conscience often smote her when she recalled to her mind the grace ful form aod manly features of her prisoner and reflected on tho injustice which she was committing still the reports which the lieutenant of the tower made to her of the stale and conduct of the earl of hertford evinced neither change nor cold ness in his affection he was continually soliciting sir edward warner to grant him an interview with his wife nud as often received tho lieutenants assurance that the extcusion ofsuch an indulgence towards him was impossible for his liberty he expressed noi the slightest anxiety but said that the whole world would be but one gloo my prison to him if deprived of the society of catherine the queen who held her court in the same building which contained his duogeon sometimes made inquiry twice or thrice in the course of the day as to hertfords hohavour and the only reply which his gaoler could make to her waste the effect which we have stated the queens love and hatred were alike goaded nlmost to madness by this information sometimes she determined to sacrifice the life of the lady catherine gray secretly but from this she was as often deferred by the obvious impolicy ofsuch an act and often very often did she resolve to visit her mgrate favourite in prison to unbosom ber sporet soul to him and to adjure him by his duty his loyalty ay even his love to qtkcu tospurn lady catherine from his he it and to enthrone there a far more illutrious being in her place catheriuc continued incessantly to assail the lieutenant with importunities that she might be allowed to visit her husband or that she might be permitted to see him in her place of confinement the lady was as the reader has already been informed young and beautiful she was also eloquent at least her suppliant posture her stream ing eyes the thrilling tones of her voice and the mild pale beseeching expression of her countenance had the effect of elo quence upon sir edward warner sweet madam heat length exclaim ed your suit is granted it is a fearful res- rnnsibility which i am incurring yet sure st evcu queen elizabeth may pardon that so slight a boon should have been extorted from uie by the charms of that face whose beauty makes her tremble on her throne sayest thou my suit is granted said catherine falling on her knees before him aud pressing his hand to her lips now may the blessing ofthe distressed and of the captive light upon your head cease cease these transports gracious madam even stone walls and iron bars havehetrayed the most important secrets in ucsegloomy vaults stay thy fluiter- n ieffrtioy riiotsroisou autlilluu silall clasp the earl of hertford in thy arms short was the period which elapsed be tween the lieutenants departure from ca therines apartment and bis return leading t earl of hertford in his hand but that short period seemed to the lady to be an ae oflooger duration than the entire term of her captivity which had preceded it- no newly imprisoned bird ever fluttered more wildly in its cage than did the lady catherine gray hurriedly and impatiently pace up and down the low roofed and nar row apartment iu which she was imprison ed whose small dimensions seemed pain fully 10 confine the beatings of ber heart at enth however the door ofher dunge on flew open aud the earl of hertford rushed into her arms we will not attempt to describe the rap ture of that meeting to enumerate the ca ress nor to repeat the passionate excla mations of joy and love which accompani ed so unexpected though so long sought aninterwew we will therefore accom pany sir edward warner who after be seeching the lovers not to make the expres sion of their delight to vociferous and to expect a very speedy seperation proceed ed to the presencechamber of the queen from whom he had just received a sum mons commanding his immediate atten dance upon her he found elizabeth a- lone moody and agitated and he thought he could cved trace the marks of tears up on her eyelids 11 master lieutenant she said i am about to take a step that might probably expose me to the censorious prattle of im pertinent curiosity were it necessary to reveal it to any one but yourself on whose discretion and prudence i can rely the lieutenant bowed profoundly and then assumed the attitude of a respectful and attentive listener heaven knows good sir edward re sumed the queen that in the government of my kingdom i have endeavoured to temper justice with mercy and even in the case of the unhappy persons who have lately hei committed to your custody i would rather bring them to a conviction of their guilt by persuasion and remonstrance than by the measure of severity which have been already pcrsued towards them persuasion aod remonstrance gracious madam said the lieutenant somewhat a the course the queens conversation seemed to be taking have been already tried end found unavailing with my infatuated fonsiu said the queen i believe tbat every attempt to induce her to acknowledge her crimes am throw herself on my mercy will bo with out effect the young earl of hertford however will not i think continue to sul ly his fair fame and to shut himself up it the gloomy dungeons of this place for ik love of one who is so unworthy of him would your majesty commission me said warner to reason with the earl and to inform him of your majestys graci ous iutentions towards him nay master lieutenant said tin queen i would reason with him myself and will visit him iu his dungeon to see it his proud spirit can be tamed down by prrpcr uili nls the valid it of his mar riage itno transmitted his inheritance to his son who was the issue of that illfated union miscellany from irish impkis op a kkcknt date- one cheer moke a cheer for the church and a cheer for the state a cheer for the king whom his subjects adore the condescension of a queen this very a cheer for the laws that have made us so great a cheer for them all cheer again oke ciiktr more moment shall thou lead mc to him with my features enveloped in my hood i sha be unknown to all but you thus good sir edward do i intrust you with a state secret to which neither cecil nor walsing ham arc privy the blood faded from warners cheek his knees knocked against each other and so violent was he agitation of bis whole frame that he was forsome time unable to utter a syllable in reply to the queens ad dress how now master lieutenant asked elizabeth what means this my reso lution is perhaps a somewhat singular one but surely there is nothing in it so appall a cheer for peels stainless and true british name whoso hearts for the protestant cause to the core a cheer lor our wellingtons glory and lame a cheer for them both 0e cheer more chce r a gain a cheer for the sagest laud who stands by the martyrs oi yore of heads iu the church like the iug that it should banish the blood from i the stay and the streugth of the protestant your cheek and prevent vour limbs fromi band lead on i say a cheer for lord eldon a cheer one cukkrmork performing their fuuclions ree gracious madam said warner a cneer for lhe um of the fair and pause a moment ere you take this step 41 not an instant sir edward said the queen how do you dispute the com mands of your sovereign the then most dread soverign said the lieutenant seeiug it was impossible to pre serve his secret and throwing himself at the queens feet pardon pardon for the most guilty of your majestys subjects ha said the queen using the fa vourite interjection of her father while his own proud spirit flashed in her kindled eye and lowered in her darkniog brow what dostthon mean the earl of hertford is not in his dun geon what escaped traitor slave hast thou suffered him to escape warner grovelled ou the ground in the most abject posture at the queens feet and bis frame trembled in every fibra as he said he is in the lady catherines a- partment h what ho there t shouted the queen as the white foam gathered on her lip and herown frame became agitated though not with fear but with uncontrollable an ger guards seize the traitor several yeomen of the guard immedi ately entered the apparttncut seized the lieutenant ofthe tower binding his arms behind himbut not deprived him of bis wea- ponsthequeen acting on the impulse ofthe moment commanded one of the guards to conduct her to the dungeon of the lady ca therine gray aud ordered the others to follow her with sir edward warner in their custody anger hatred fear jea lousy all lent wings to her steps the dungeon door was ooo before her the bobs were withdrawn and with little ofthe appearance of a queen in her gait and gestures excepting that majesty which be longs to the expression of highly wrought feeling she rushed into the dungeon and found catherine gray iu the arms of hert ford who was kissiog away the tears thai had gathered ou her cheek seize him away with him to instant execution said the queen the guards gazed for a moment wistfully on each other seemed as if they did not understand the command seizehimisay exclaimed thequecn i have myself taken thedrecaution to be present that i may be assured that i e is iu your custody and led awaj to the death that he has taken so much pains to merit the cuard immediately surrounded the earl hut they yet paused a tnooieot ere they led him out of the duugeou when they satv the lady catherine throw her self on her knees before elizabeth and seize the skirt of her robe have pity gracious queen 6he cried have pity away minion said the queen he had no pity ou himself when he ventured to break prison even in the precincts of ourroyal palace his doom is fixed not yet great queen not yet said catherine still grasping elizabeths robe can nought save him nought save my death said the queen and then she added in an under tone which she did not seem to intend should be audible while a dark smile played on her lip or perchance thine catherines ear caught the last part of the queens sentence and with the quick ness of lightning she exclaimed thy death or mine o queen then thus she added plucking from the belt of sir ed ward warner who stood by her side with his bands bound behind him a dagger and brandishing it aloft thus may his life be spared a cry of treason treason pervaded the duugeon and the guard advanced be tween catharine and the queen whose life she seemed to threaten hut ere they may its protestant oak spread its roots more and more the victor by land and the lord of the sea a cheer for old england i a cheer one cheer more more cons 11 this boy will be the death of me why is a crooked girl like a london begggar 1 because she is a picture of miss awry misery why is a blow on the vision like good music herause it is arm od pf c cltnrmo- nyj why is a donkeydriver like an opinion ated man because he is prone to ass hur- tni assorting why is murder like mirth because it is manslaughter mans laughter wby are ladies that faint at dinner like turtle well dressed because they are paleattable palatable wby is knocking down a man like ice creams because it is a summary pro ceeding suramerry why are men who say nothing apt to conquer in argument because they tri umph tryumph why are conundrums like philosophers because they have whysheads wue heads where should all penitent siuners lives in cease illstreet cecilstreet what actress is like a bluebottle fly buzzing about ones ears humby why are the east india directors all blockheads they are leadenhall why arc buxton xjtg gordon and sugdewi all gluttons they are member for weymouth what celebrated actress is the latin for 1 vestcr is little m p is like the food of a hindoo spring rice why lady llollaud like skimmed milk she is a creamless blue what scotch noble man is allied to the brutes the owner of hinfmens ii thr duke of argyle had a son wby would his estates he desolate they would be all forlork why s the duke of clarences parly on the tdthof june very likedrowniug it was fatebvwati r fete why s a aii rogers like vestris because he deals in rebusses yours what cure for old age from the spanish of ft goo once upon a time as the story goes there arrived in the famous city of zaragoza an itinerant dealer id recipes and prescriptions who gave out that be was possessed of won derful secrets in the healing mc and among other thiols that he could make old women young ii itf account of thematter appear ed so plausible that in spite of all experi ence to the contrary most people believed him in consequence of this great num bers of elderly ladies applied to him and begged he would perform the operation up on them he told them that it was indis pensably necessary to the success of the process that each of them should set down ber name and precise age upon a schedule to bo prepared for that purpose- this was accordingly done with an exactness which perhaps had uot always been observed in ail previous statements outhis important par ticular and septuagenarians octogenari ans and even those of niuety years gave in their true standing without scruple or reserve lest the smallest deviation from the truth should endanger their anticipat ed renovation they were then directed to return to the operators lodgings the next day when they were informed the work would becempleted it is hardly necessa- coiild wrest lhe dagger from her hand she ry to state they were puuetual to the ap- had buried it in herown bosom poiutmenr aud were waiting in anxious now now do i claim thy promise i expectation for the consummation of their o queen she saidasshe sunk to the earth while the blood poured in a torrent from her wound catharine gray can no longer disturb thee spare she life of the princely seymour her last breath was spent on these words her last gaze was fixed upon the queen aud pressing the hand of her hus band who was permitted to approach her in her dying grasp the spirit of catherine gray was released from all its sorrows the sacrifice of the uuhappy ladys life preserved that for which it had been offer ed up the queen touched with the me lancholy termination of hor kius womans existence revoked the despotic and illegal order which she had given for the execu tion of hertford but ordered him to he con ducted back to his dungeon where ho re mained in close custody for more than nine- years the death of elizabeth at the expiration of ihnt period released him from his captivity anl lien although ho was unable to restore the lady catherine to life he took immediate steps iorees1 blivb her fiino in these eflorts be uhh perfectly successful lie proved before tho wislies the grand master spirit at length appeared and with a countenance expres sive ofthe most unfeigned sorrow and dis appointment informed them that a malig nant sorces who envied him the happiness that awaited him had stolen the schedule from him during the night aud it was there fore necessary to make a new one but not to keep them any longer in ignorance of the importance and even necessity of that measure be informed them that the whole process would consist io burning alive the oldest of their number and the rest were to lake a portion of her ashes when they would infallibly become young the asto nishment it ibis information can easily be conceived but their faith and hope finally triumphed over doubts aud fears and they agreed to make another schedule they did so in fact but not with the same scru pulous exactness as before or each ap prehensive of being found tho oldest on the list and being burnt to death made large deductions from her former account or rxailn she who bad vestcrds confessed ii nil i now givc in fifty bic who yesterday sot down three score now wrote thirtyfive cvc the disciple of medea bad no sooner received the new schedule than he drew out from his pocket the pre vious record and deliberately comparing them together said with an air of great sa tisfaction well ladies the work is accom plished 1 find you all have grown young since yesterday you madam address ing one of them were yesterday ninety years old today you are ouy fifty you miss were sixty yesterday now you are but thirtyfive and so went on from oue to another till he got to the end ofthe play anticipated drama tjl coursp of rehearsal at tub t1ieatre royal st stephens westminster ail the worlds a stage and all the men and women merely players scene night a storm without and a stormy debate within spqr now by the pricking ofmy thunibs something wicked this way comes door opens enter amidst thunder and lightning a stranger- attired in a dark green uniform round the collar of which are worked t in mistic characters the words erin go bragh round his neck is a green silk kerchief the corner of which broadly spread over the chest conspicu ously displuys these words hereditary bon dmen know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow on his head the bonnet rouge which he doffs to the speaker sir thomas starting from his seat an gels and ministers looking anxiously at the treasury benches defend us mr speaker i move that immediate steps be taken to vindicate the insulted privileges of this honourable house a stranger beariog an alarming resemblance to guy fawkes has intruded within the sanctuary of these walls and polluted the pure and unsullied benches on which i am in the habit of sitting with his unhallowed per- s1qr order order i hope i shall make myself understood cbecrs if any u member is acquainted with i person or pretensions ofthe stran ger be will state it to the house ser geant be in attendance i solemn silence stranger rises 1 sthanger the chieftain ofthe holy and illustrious order of liberators conse crated by gods vicar upon earth the om nipotent pope of rome to the emancipa tion of seven millions of his subjects from the thraldom of heretics will speak for himself 1 am the founder ofthe catholic association the leader of seven millions united as one man under mycomroaod to reconquer their civil rights their church the only true one and the spoils of their confiscated property from the barbarous domination of the protestant oligarchy of england i present myself at your table s the member for the county of clare and the only true representative for all ireland i come not to violate your privileges but ro claim sanctuary and protection under the roof of that hoisted edifice of your con stitution of which my ancestors were the founders ind the architects i came mr wynne i move thestanding or ders be enforced the honourable gen- tieroaa has not been sworn oconnkll sworn but not forsworn i have been sworn at rome never to stain my 6oul with those abominable oaths which arc fitted only for such degraded be ings as w ii n eld n l nd st the protestant r 1 f m ly of these realms ec hoc genus omne i have sworn that i w il rather be torn limb from limb than take the blasphemous oath against the blessed virgin mary the sacrifice of the mass the luvocatioo of saints thcmys- by the pope- the miracles of the fa thersthe speaker daniel oconnell you are hereby required to take the oaths which the clerk will administer to you omnes the oaths the oaths sir thomas l th oe to himself remember remember the fifth of november gunpowder treason and plot never he forgot 4 tumultuous scene follows during which oconnell is handcuffed by the sergeant at arms oconneh fw he is led away i shall rest happier in newgate than ye gentlemen of ihe house ol commons in your beds this night remember that there are one hundred thousand needy irishmen in london and ye may rise in lhe morning and find your city in flames in a hundred places at once exit the liberator tnd adjourned origin of the term bluf stocking- about the year 1784 and 8 some ladies and gentlemen of rank fashion and litera ry taste agreed to assemble at each others houses for the purpose of rational conver sation and at these partiespersons of eve ry description of gcuius were kindly wel comed i have been informed from what appeared to me good authority that the so ciety owed its peculiar name w the homely dress of one of the visiters uamely that bighlygifted butexcentric ieing james harry professor of painting 1 the royal academy who was at that tie employed on his admirable pictures i the great room ofthe adelpbi and uset lt go to his assembly ofthe highborn an tne intel lectual in the same dress o which he painted in short he appear n his wor sted blue stockings it so happened that whem foreigner of rank who was only just arrived m a- don refused to accompany aoiend to one of their parties on the plea ol being in bis travelling deshabille the geii repli ed oh we never mind drpss on these occasions you may come m hasblue or blue stockings alludiug to tlip usua v dress of barry the foreigner fancying that bas blues wore part of th necessary custom called the moeting ev after the bas blue society tho ladies and gcntleme of whom it was composed were not all authors aod authoresses but they were foil f litera ture aud literary compauy and the good to endeavour to colled together the distinguished in all arts and sciences without regard to their condition in life on these occasions that awful ugly thing a large circle iu an english drawing- room exhibiting as it usually does the men sittiug together on one side of the room the women on the other was wisely broken iuto groups of various si7es nor io london meetings for the purpose of con versation has it ever been resumed it is only in provincial circles that this rem nant of barbarism is still suffered to exist awing the timid into intercourse with their next neighbour only encouraging the su percilious man to talk chiefly to the male friend next him aud enabling the indolent to indulge in the same practice though from a different motive a lady of the name of versey was the original promo ter of this successful attempt to put down the universal practice of card playing by the introduction of conversation parties and she was assisted in her efforts by the widow of admiral boscawen and by the celebrated elizabeth montague the writer of an essay on shakespeare and of a col lection of letters distinguished for their wit and elegance these ladies met alter natively at each others houses and a- mongst their visiters were lord little ton horace walpolc and other celebrat ed men ofthe day and among the female writers who were then already known to fame were elizabeth barter the transla tor of kpictetus aud the admirable han nah moore by the foregoing facts it appears indis putable that formerly men as well as wo men were known by the name of blue stocking that the appelation was given to all who frequented the bluestocking par ty and that this party was formed of cer tain individuals who met for the purpose of rational conversation therefore it may be fairly assumed that men and women who meet in these days for the same pur pose are equally entitled to the name of bluestocking and they alone though the epithet blue is now exclusively and there fore erroneously confined to some indivi duals among women we also know tbat in former days the term designated some of the most distinguished and enlightened men and women of the time but of what description of persons arc the fe males of the present day who are called the blue stockings like their predeces sors they are women who improve their minds by the acquisition of useful know ledge as well as or instead of sliowey ac complishments and who are willing when occasion serves to join iu discussing useful subjects modestly desirous to bring their minds into collision with those ofthe wiser sex that they may profit by their remarks on what has engaged their own attention and by these means improve even the hours which are appropriated to social inter course surely no rational woman ought to be averse to resemble the original ofsuch a portrait as this this lady is now the only survivor of the original bluestockings j she still retains the love of conversation parties which she then imbibed aud has always had power to assemble at her house the firstrates of the present day for the same purpose as led thoe of past days to the house ofthe ladies mentioned above foreign pacha was even preparing to attack them next day in their positions hut thoy had quitted them during the night and fallen back a whole league during these events the division of the russian fleet had at tempted to effect a landing at varna but bad also been repulsed by the turkish bat teries the fire of which had damaged seve ral transports an attack made the same day by the russians on the position of chouinla had not a more favourable result they were beaten off after losing 2000 killed and many prisoners constant inople july 28 the russians appear disposed to pass round the fortress of choumla and march along the coast of the black sea upon adriauople to the latter large divisions of troops are continu ally proceeding the capital alone is to raise a corps of 50000 and no doubt is longer entertained that a vigorous resis tance will be made sixteenth last bllletinof the russian army camp before choumla july 29 yes terday afternoon at five oclock two bri gades of the 3d division of the army before choumla under the command of rudze- mez marched with the right wing in order to occupy the thickly wooded eminences which are situated on the road to silistria this movement was successfully effected under the 3d brigade of horse artillcrysup- ported by the division of light cavalry a brigade of lufantry formed the reserve during the movemeut amass ofthe ene mys cavalry supported by the redoubts e- reeted before choumla and by some pie ces of flying artillery which were directed against us endeavoured to dislodge us from our advantageous position scarce ly however had the enemys artillery ap- peared when it is dismounted the tur kish cavalry surrounded the extremity v our right wing and briskly charged ibi ecusu turkish bulletin constantinople july 2j the hope which the porte had conceived that its po sition tin the northern side of the balkan would form a bulwark against the rus sian armies has been nearly justified by a series of successful engagements fought since the beginning of july it appeared that the russian commanders hud not collected imposing forces upon any parti cular point but lost much time iu partial turks inspired the latter with great addi tional courage and confirming the porte in the system of operations which it had a- dopted the first bulletin from the turkish head quarters arrived here on the 12th it annouueed an attack made by the turks on the position of hadschi-oglu-bazards- chik between cboumla and varna and after says the bulletin the attack was renewed and repulsed as before chiefly through the courageous defence of the re- gulartroops the russians lost in this second action many men and six pieces of cannon the same day a very sharp encounter took place between a russian corps of a- bout 15000 men with 20 pieces of can non and the turks stationed at moldavia opposite widdin ou the left bank of the danube the russians after an obsti nate action offive hours were repulsed and lost on tbat occasion 2000 men in killed and wounded and a great number of prisoners they were even pursued to a considerable distance on the vailachian territory by a column which debouched from kalifat on the 10th a russian corps of 4000 cavalry and from 4 to 5000 infantry was defeated by aliseh pacha at tachilitope aod lost 000 horsemen who were killed and some prisoners among whom was a staffofliccr from the 10th to the 15th there were several conflicts less favourable to the turks here there is a chasm in the com munications made by the porte which leaps at once to 6ome skirmishes iu the en virons of varna and at a short distaucc from choumla on the 15th ifith aod 17th the russians made several attacks ou the turkish po sitions near varna they had succeeded in approaching that town but the arrival ofthe captain pacha with considerable reinforcements compelled them to fall back on this occasiou they are said to have had ft colonel taken prisoner on whose person important papers were found yesterday several couriers arrived from the head quarters of hussein pacha at choumla and from the captain pacha at varna these dispatches announced them victorious the following is their substance the russians had approached within a league and a half of varna and bad at tacked the captain pacha on the 20th with considerable forces but after an obstinate conflict of 12 hours they were repulsed af ter experiencing severe losses mchmed squares of the loth and i6tb regiments of chasseurs which formed there and on the other side made an attempt to get posses- session of our artillery- but all their en deavours were fruitless by a well-sip- ported fire of howitzers and hioskftw the enemy was repulsed at all points with the loss of 200 killed we had 30 killed and 50 wounded on this occasion the emperor present ed a sword ornameoted with diamonds to adjutautgeneral kisielew and the ribbun of theorderof st anne to general berg today we have forfeited the heights of which we took possession yesterday in spite ofthe fire of the enemys redoubts and entrenchments and the repeated attacks of his sharp shooters admiral greig with the whole fleet uo der his command has arrived at havana whence he will proceed to varna to assist in the siege of that fortified silistria is in vested and the reserve battalions of the raillitary colonies have already entered moldavia and wallachia an article from smyrna mentions th arrival of a traveller who states that tho russian general paskiewitch had after a sanguinary battletaken erzerum by storm on the 2d of june and put the garrison to the sword there is no truth in this it is said that the emperor of russia is to leave the army on the 8th and proceed to odessa there to meet lord heytesbu- ry and other diplomatic characters from the several courts who will form a congress upon tho fate of turkey or in other words endeavour by remonstrance aud peruasi- on to induce nicholas to relax in his pur pose of destroying the turkish power in europe epigram fee simplcand a simplefee and all the fees intail are nothing when compared to thee thou best of fees female the chronicle jlua ere t uis tiro iu we are indebted to the new- york commercial advertiser for the follow ing latest from europe the packet ship france captain funk arrived yesterday from havre whence she sailed on the 5th ult she briugs pa ris papers to the 3d and havre to the 4th of september the ship europa cap tain trepka also arrived yesterday in si days from hamburg bringing papers from thatcity to the 30th of august inclusive by these arrivals our advices from the seat of war are five days later and from theturkish capital ten than our prece ding dates there seems to have been no founda tion whatever for the rumours of reverses said to have overtaken the russian arms before choumla from choumla the dates are to the sth of august but the pa ris papers only contain abstracts of the bulletins from that point after the depar ture of the emperor on the 1st of august the emperor pub lished a proclomation from the camp be fore cboumla by which every manoeuvre was ordered to be adopted for the com plete investment of choumla and to has ten the carrying of that place as rapidly as possible hussein pacha is shut up in choumla aod these measures were adop- td to further the attack on that place the march of lieut gen rudiger upon eski stamboul has occasioned much unea siness to the turkb as they saw they were on the point of having the communica tion between the capital and tho interior ofthe empire cutoff the turks collect ed the greatest part of tho cavalry and in fantry and attacked the detachment com manded by rudigcrand attempted to drive them back the turks were opposed by a part ofthe 17th division and after some hard fighting the turks were defeated and driven back upon choumla gen rudi ger has taken posts near eski stamboul and so the great road towards constantino ple is open to ihe russians the last official bulletin of tho russian a rmy received in paris up to the 1st sep tember is published in tho gazette do- france of tbat day from which we trans late it odessa august 0th on the 2nd tho emperor set out on bis march from cho uinla with the regiment of mounted chas seurs which hears his name twelve pieces of cossack artilicryt two squadrons of tho