increasing their trenches, but there is reason to believe the Turks will be able to hold out against them till we come to their assistance.

June 20th.-This afternoon Lord Raglan left Pera for good in the "Caradoc," and steamed up the Bosphorus soon after six P.M. The men-of-war saluted him, manned yards, and gave three cheers as the "Caradoc" moved off. On his way up, his Lordship stayed two hours or so and dined with Marshal St. Arnaud at his house on the Bosphorus, opposite Beicos Bay; the Marshal will follow to Varna in a few days. The 2nd Division (Sir De Lacy Evans) has by this time got to Varna, and the 3rd Division (Sir R. England) will arrive shortly. There are only now left two companies of infantry at Scutari as a commissariat guard; and I believe the 4th regiment is to remain at Gallipoli for the present for the same purpose. I hear the English transports are to return and take up two divisions of the French army from Constantinople to Varna, after they have landed ours at the latter place. By-the-by, as an instance that the French sometimes make mistakes as well as ourselves, I must tell you that a French officer of the

“Etat-Major” informed me that Prince Napoor+ division was kept waiting for three weeks at Galipoli for want of shoes for the troops. The Fore Office sent out here a short time ag Genera Bear son and Colonel Lloyd General Beatson is made himself a name in India by his management of come irregular horse; and he has been sent her and get. the Turkist Goverment u give iim te command of some miomed cavary u het m shape: no easy task. I fancy & present the V given him none, but, I understand la pruned pients. Colone. Living

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Herr Walski — Turkish Pasha Silistria Mr. Nasmyth- Captain Butler Defences of city - Omer Pasha - View of Russian army - Danube Interview with Omer Start for VarnaBashi-Bazouks Cossacks Deserted village Forest Balchick - Dinner at Marshal St. Arnaud's - Country described - Arrival of Omer Pasha at Varna - Review

Return of cavalry from the Dobrudscha

George Brown - Lord De Ros- General Estcourt missary-General Kustendje — Difficulties — Death of Captain Hyde Parker - Projected expedition to the Crimea.

THE "Caradoc" arrived in Varna Bay on the afternoon of the 21st instant, with Lord Raglan and a portion of his staff on board. He was received by Lord George Paulet and Lord William Russell (Captains of the "Bellerophon” and “Vengeance line-of-battle ships), and went on shore in the barge of the former. Lord Raglan's head-quarters, like those he had at Scutari, are of very humble appearance; they are in a small house at the back part of the town, near the gate leading to the Shumla road.

There are different houses at various parts of the town told off for the chief departments of the army. Sir George Brown has one overlooking the harbour, above one of the sea-batteries; and near it is a large house (the best in Varna), intended for Marshal St. Arnaud. Sir G. Brown's Light Division is encamped about thirteen miles from here, at Aladyn, on the Shumla road. The cavalry are at Devna, twenty miles from this, also on the road to Shumla. The Duke of Cambridge's (1st) and Sir De Lacy Evans's (2nd) divisions are just outside the lines of Varna. The French have about 11,000 men camped two or three miles north of the town near the sea; and to-day the greater portion of Prince Napoleon's division, about 7000 men, disembarked, and are stationed close by. There are also about 9000 Turks in tents quartered inside the fortifications of the town.

Varna looks well from the sea; it is prettily situated on the north side of the bay, with high wooded hills behind it. The town itself is like all the rest of the Turkish towns, with its ill-paved streets and tumbledown houses, and, as usual,

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smells of every sort of abomination. It is all day swarming with troops, English, French, and Turkish. One great drawback to the town is the want of water, and what little there is is very indifferent. There is a well in the house where I am quartered, but the water comes up green!-not so bad, yet far from agreeable. The fleas are just as bad here as at Scutari, and the rats too, only, if anything, larger -great big grey fellows, that make me shudder to think of. There is a great deal of drunkenness here, I am sorry to say; unfortunately spirits are very cheap, and, I believe, of bad quality. The consequence is, that insubordination is not uncommon. The French have had to make two examples of men who refused to obey some order given them, and, when made prisoners, resisted, and struck a non-commissioned officer; they were both shot. The health of the troops at the present moment is good; but there are a great many cases of diarrhoea, and one case I heard of, a private in the 19th Regiment, died of cholera, after being ill only a few hours.