EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 232, 20 January 1855, Page 3

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

HE "TIMES" & the FOREIGN OFFICE. (prom the Times, October 6th.) THE CRIMEA. [From tho London Gazette Extraordinary.] War Department, Oct. 5. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has this ay received a letter, of which the following is copy, enclosing, by direction of the Earl of ilaremlon, a copy of a telegraphic despatch ■om Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, Her Mai s ty's Ambassador at Constantinople :— " Foreign Office, Oct. 5, half-past 10 a.m. "Sir I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon o transmit to you herewith, for the information ,f the Duke of Newcastle, a copy of a telegrailiic despatch from Viscount Stratford de Rediliffe, dated Sept. 30,9| p.m., and purporting ,i have been forwarded from Bucharest by Her lajesty's Agent and Consul-General on Sept. SO, 3| p.m., and containing accounts frcm the Crimea. " lam, &c, " E. Hammom'd. "Col. Muiidy,&c." * Translation of the exact copy of a Telegraphic Despatch, received October 5, 10 a.m., and transmitted by the agent of England in Wallachia, at Bucharest, the 30th September, 1854, half past 3, p.m. }'Lord Stratford, Constantinople, to Lord Clarendon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, London. "September 30, 1854, at half-past 9, p.m. "The allied armies established their basis of operations at Bahiklava on the morning of the 28th, and were preparing to march without delay upon Sebastopol, The Agamemnon and other vessels of war of the allies were in the port of JBalaklava. There were facilities there for disembarking the battering train. "It is stated that Prince Menschikoff was in the field at the head of 20,000 men, expecting reinforcements; that the fortified place of Anapa has been burnt by the Russians ; that its garrison was marching lo the scene of action : and that a convoy of ammunition, escorted by Cossacks, had been taken and destroyed by an English detachment.' " The Banshee, bearer of this news, left the Crimea ou the evening of the day before yesterday. [ " Stratford De Redcliffe." \ [It will be observed that the clerks of the j Foreign-Office, from which this precious document emanates, have actually made the despatch j arrive at Bucharest six hours before they repre- | sent it as having been sent from" Constantinople, ouch perverse stupidity is seldom found even in the most inveterate tapists. Even in the foreign-office it must be known that Bucharest is nota sea-port, that the despatch was not transmitted from there to Constantinople, and that | [ue journey between these twoT'places could not |»c performed in six hours. And yet these gen«emen, so profusely praised last session, have actually, m the most authoritative form known !,fi i V7" raei,l '-in !l Extraordinary, Published tins most asioundhuf statement. enn,r«ierroMM t,le- v ,mvo c»"n«ni»ed is palpable ," n > , J, he dei!l>atch was sent from ConCS? Peri y I"ml St™f»«l 'le Redcliffe on bVvnnJ of September, but, with' a carelessness toCi xcuse' ll>ey have transferred this date /i|tr4 l ht:t. tl' edespiUchi,robabiyartlieearlL 1, 10- 1 lV" y anxiet Jr t0 P'^e the public tl uios , -T '"encc °» ;l «*Jeot on which oftW J T\\ „,,ereal is fdt > tl,ilt the Forei ff»at \J,L, , des,P J,tch, it seems, was received early eZ *°" c,ock- yest™l«y morniii ff — the kl l *\ but n was.not until late in G«^ I:? l, hilt tins very Extraordinary S«ce to^ir red: Stich a Plication is. a dis- «•»» ke wf •' f aS U0 rellKh for thestupid pracT0»«» in D. ,'• m Q a yPas» ™><entin the clerks' »a D».vning.Street.]~77TOM, Oct. 6