THE CRIMEA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 380, 25 June 1856, Page 4

THE CRIMEA.

The Gazette contains a despatch from General C.ulvington, dated Sebastopol, Fe!n;nary 4th, which describes (he destruction of Port Nicholas on that day by the French. 106,000 lbs.'of powder were in the several mines. At 1 p.m. the explosion look place, and a lon<r line of rinns was all that remained of Fort Nicholas. The health of the army was excellent. Measures were being taken at Sevastopol to blow up the Russian vessels in the port. The ice having ceased in the Sea of Azoff, the vessels.of the Allies were about to re-enter it. The German Lejrion had reduced the Bushi-Bazbuks to cider at Siuope. Crimean letters to the Oth of Febvnsny had arrived. Fort Alexander was shortly to be Mown up.'atul it is s-,ud the Ftenoii will destroy tome of ilie principal buildings. I(. is also

stated that the prospects of peace are entirely unpopular with the French army there, and as Louis Napolenn cannot afford to be independent of the army, this feeling may have a very important effect on the negotiations,' Educational lectures had commenced in the 3rd 'division,'and were well attended. Scm'Risrc of a Battalion of Turks by Russian Tkhops.—Despatches from Berlin da led the I7ih, mention that intelligence had reached that city by way of Vienna, which speaks of a battle between the Turks and the Russians, on the sth of January, near iZugdidi. Six battalions surprised a single Turkish battalion. The Turks got off with a small loss in men, but left 10 guns and all their baggage in the enemy's hands. The Russians then plundered the towu, and set lire to the Piince's palace, and the neighbouring- villages. Another despatch says, that the Russian Government, ill drawing up the budget of the Marine Courts, has omitted the usual grants for those of the. Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff. The omission is not without importance. ASIA MINOR. The last accounts state tiiat a Russian convoy, with provisions for the garrison at Kars, was buried in a, snow storm. The Russian army had suffered from the same cause, their j supplies having been nearly cut off. The situa- * lion and condition of the Turkish army was all that could be desired.' A Frenchman, recently arrived at Constantinople from Alinsrrelia, brings very reassuring accounts of Omar Pacha's arriving. He states that with ths finest weather the Russian army could undertake nothing against it, and the inhabitants are more disposed towards the Turks than they were. TURKEY. By the Ganges, which has arrived at Marseilles, we have Constantinople news to the 10th. Ali Pacha was to bring the decrees of the Sultan sanctioning the reforms in favour of the Christians. It was said that the Sultan was about to declare that Christians might hold real property.