19. Choris and Berbust, in Asiatic Turkey, occupied by the Russians. 22. A division of 6 or 7000 Turks defeaied by the Russians in descending the Balkan; 400 prisoners and a considerable number of cannon taken. 23. Capture of Mesembria with 2000 men and 15 cannon. 23. Capture of Achiola, with 14 cannon and 2 powder magazines. 23. Greek National Assembly opened at Argos, on which occasion Count Capo d'Istria made a long speech. 24. Capture of Bourgas, with ten cannon, and large quantities of stores. 25. The new and large Roman Catholic Cathedral in Montreal, Lower Canada, opened for public worship the first time. Ten thousand persons were seated in it without inconvenience. 25. Capture of Aidos, with the whole Turkish camp; 600 tents, 500 barrels of powder, 4 cannon, and 220 prisoners. 25. Destructive hail-storm in the country near Bourdeaux, France. The crops almost entirely destroyed by it. 27. Kamabat, a strong post situated at the junction of several roads on the Balkan, taken by the Russians. 28. Operations commenced on the Baltimore and Susquehanna Rail Road. 28. Karabounar, 40 miles south of Aidos, on the road to Adrianople, occupied by the Russians under Count Pallen. 29. Simultaneous movements by Russian corps from Maraseh and Karnabat; the former against the rear of Schumla, by General Krassowski, and the latter towards Jambouli, by General Sheremetief. 30. Battle near Eski Stamboul between the Russian division under Krassowski, and the troops of the Grand Vizier, resulting in a loss to the latter of 500 or 600 men. 30. Nine persons, several of them of rank, condemned to death for high treason at Barcelona, Spain. 31. Corner-stone of a College Hall for the Pennsylvania University laid in Philadelphia. AUGUST. 1. Capture of Jambouli, and destruction of the Turkish camp, by a brigade of Hulans and Cossacks under General Sheremetief, after having defeated on the road a body of 15,000 Turks, commanded by Halil Pacha. 1. Embargo laid on the shipping in Vera Cruz, Mexico. 2. Marriage of the Emperor Don Pedro, of Brazil, to the Princess de Leuchtenberg. at Munich; Prince Charles of Bavaria acting as proxy for the Emperor. 3. Spanish invading army under General Barradas, having landed in Mexico, at Cabo Rojo (Cape Roque), take possession of the old town of Tampico, with 1500 men, after a trifling resistance. 4. Extraordinary session of the Congress opened at Mexico. Don Pedro Maria Anaya elected President of the Chamber of Deputies, and Don Valentia Gomez Farias, President of the Senate. 4. Severe storm and destructive flood in Scotland. The sudden rise of the rivers carried away great numbers of sheep and large quantities of timber, hay, &c. Eleven vessels were wrecked on the coast, and the crews of eight of them perished. 9. Entire change in the French ministry by a decree of the king. The Liberals or moderate party dismissed from office, and an Ultra-royalist ministry, with Prince de Polignac at its head, appointed in their places. This measure is said to have been effected through the influence of the British cabinet. 11. Attack on the island of Terceira, by the fleet and troops of Don Miguel. The expedition consisted of one 74, four frigates, and a large number of smaller vessels, with 4000 troops on board. The attack was entirely unsuccessful; 100 who landed were all killed or taken prisoners, and the fleet and crews suffered very severely. 12. Selimno, to which place the Grand Vizier had made his way from Schumla, attacked by several Russian corps, amounting to about 27,000 men, collected from different posts by General Diebitsch, into whose hands the place easily fell, the Turks flying in dismay. 12. Mr. M'Lane, Envoy to Great Britain, and Mr. Rives, to France, embark on board the United States frigate Constellation at New York. 12. Tampico declared a free port, for the admission of provisions, by General Barradas, the Spanish commander. 13 & 14. The Mexican army, under General Santa Anna, left Tuspan for Tampico. 20. Capture of Adrianople by a Russian force consisting of 28,000 men, commanded in person by General Diebitsch. The garrison of the city, amounting to 100,000 regular troops, laid down their arms immediately on the approach of the Russians, to whom the Turks also abandoned all their artillery, camp equipape, and munitions of war; 54 pieces of cannon, 29 stands of colors, and 5 horse-tails, fell into the hands of the conquerors. 20. British Parliament prorogued to the 15th of October. 22. The Mexican army, under General Santa Anna, make an un successful attack upon the Spaniards in Tampico. 22. A new levy of troops ordered by the Emperor of Russia of three men out of every five hundred. 23. Rodosto, on the sea of Marmora, captured by the Russian army under General Roth. 24. Mr. Reuben Kelsey of Fairfield, Vermont, died of voluntary starvation, caused by mental delusion. He lived fifty-two days without taking any nourishment, except water. 24. General Vismout appointed governor of Buenos Ayres. 25. Joseph Story installed as the first Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University. 25. General Diebitsch, with the main body of the Russian army, commences his march from Adrianople towards Constantinople. SEPTEMBER. 12. Surrender of the Spanish army under General Barradas at Tampico, Mexico, to the Mexican army under General Santa Anna; the Spaniards to transport themselves to Havana, and pledge themselves not to serve against Mexico in future. APPENDIX TO PART FIRST. True Distances between the Centres of the Sun and Moon, for every third Hour (apparent Time) for the Meridian of Greenwich.* When the distances decrease the sun is east, and when they increase, west, of the moon. *These distances are corrected for the error in Delambre's tables of the sun, which are used without correction, in the computation of the distances, in the English Nautical Almanac. |