The Press. — London, England, 1854-11-18 00:00:00

1090 amount to 14,000, of which, however, only a portion had landed at the Crimea. The divisions of Generals Dulac and De Salles, who had been sent to the camp of the south, received orders last week to embark at Toulon. These two divisions are now on their way to the Crimea. The English Government has placed transports at the disposal cf the French Government, and the greatest activity prevails at Toulon and Marseilles. The dock labourers work on Sundays and fête days, the orders from the Ministry of Marine being daily more and more pressing. Twelve hundred men are working at gun-boats alone. The Sentinelle says that six more ships from the Baltic fleet are, as soon as they have completed the repairs they are making in the ports of Brest and Cherbourg, to come to Toulon totake out troops. Besides the sixteen gun-boats now building at the four naval dockyards, M. Nurmand, the well-known ship-builder at Havre, has received orders to build four gun boats on the same plan, thus making a total of twenty. The steam-engines for these boats are being made at Indret. A number of floating batteries are in progress of construction at Brest. About 20,000 kilogrammes of iron plates, intended for those batteries, have already arrived there, and more are expected shortly. Directions have been given to the military opera fives of the different regiments to suspend for a time whatever work they have on hand, in order to finish off, with as little delay as possible, a supply of great coats for the army of the East. THE CIRCASSIAN WAR. We read in the Times letter from Constanti• nople : The British embassy is endeavouring to recover the Russian ladies who were carried off by the Daghistanees in their late foray on the villages north of Tiflis. Letters have been written to Schamyl, and three persons are se parately endeavouring to open a communication with him. It would be a great thing to be assured of this warrior's existence. He is always named as the supposed leader of the Lesges and neighbouring tribes who inhabit the Eastern Caucasus, but that he is still alive and conducts their movements we have no proof. Such pieces of intelligence as that " Schamyl has offered 50,000 men to the Porte," " Schamyl has totally defeated the Russian army in Asia," are favourite efforts of Perote and Bucharestian invention ; but the fact is, that for some time past we have no certain knowledge of the celebrated leader. Emir Bey, a man who has done much iu the Western Caucasus, was origi nally the Naib or Lieutenant of Schamyl, but no com munication has passed between them for three or four years. The tribes which he used to influence have of late been very active against the Russians, and this gives reason to suppose that he still preserves his rigour and authority ; but he is so little known, and so much that is mythical has been mixed up with his real actions, that an enterprising traveller who could give us some trust worthy information would be a benefactor not only to the cause of the allies but to those who take nn interest in a most singular passage of the world's history. STATE OF THE BESIEGED. A letter, stated to have been received from a Rus sian officer belonging to the garrison of Sebastopol, and dated Oct. 24, is published in the Kreutz Lei- bung : After being bombarded for eight days the town has in deed suffered a good deal, but the fleet is unhurt; only the steamer Vladimir has got two balls in her. The sailors who man the works erected by Col. Todtleben suffer the most. The resistance seems to irritate the besiegers, for, for the last few days, they have been firing with red-hot balls. You cannot escape them anywhere in the town. If the bombardment lasts long the streets of the southern part will be, so to say, paved with iron. The sailors under Todtleben are, as it were, the living bulwark of the Crimea. They are admirable ! Nachimoff, who formerly had never been outside a horse, is now continually riding along the linos of batteries. In his own concise manner he ad dresses his sailors, who adore him. The mural influence of such men makes them saviours in great crises. Men schikoff,' too, does not spare himself. As he was lately riding along the fortifications in the briskest of the fire, the artillerymen called out to him, " This is not the place for your Highness !" The commander of a bastion said to him, " Have you come here because you do not trust us ? I swear to you we shall all of us to the v er y last do our duty." "Then let me also do mine," said the Prince, calmly. I)annenberg will arrive at Sebastopol on the '2nd or 3rd of November. A French officer who had escaped from Sebastopol, after having been taken prisoner, states that he saw several persons hanging—he thought Poles—who had been suspected of treason. Women and children were employed, and forced to work. All who showed the least indifference were immediately hung. EUPATORIA. This town appears to be at present in a state of siege. Its occupation, in deference to the wishes of the admirals, was reluctantly assented to by the ge nerals. The former were anxious to have a footing at a place whence they could obtain stock for the army and fleet, and in this respect their views have been fully carried out, for no sooner was the place occupied than the Tartars poured in with their flocks and herds from all the surrounding villages; great numbers of the males at the same time throwing off THE PRESS. all allegiance to the Russians, and, being supplied with muskets by the French, formed themselves into a sort of irregular horse, who are daily skirmishing with the Cossacks. The place is at present gar risoned by 1,500 Turks and 900 English and French, and the two principal roads leading into the town are defended by earthworks, in which have been placed six 24-pounders from the ships. Meanwhile the fort, the beach, almost the whole place, is crowded with flocks and herds, the place being on the 20th threatened by 4,000 cavalry and four guns. However, it was not supposed that the Russians now dare to make an assault. INCIDENTS OF THE SIEGE. Prince Menschikoff boasts, in one of his despatches, that a body of Russians in a sortie effected an entrance into a French battery and spiked some guns. The following passage, in a letter from Lieut. Image, of the 21st, gives a true version of the affair :—" The night before lust, Oct. 20, a party of one officer and about 60 Russians came out of the town, and advanced to the French works. When they were challenged, the officer answered in French that they were friends, and not to fire on them, and they were taken into the batteries. They appeared to have no arms about them. But they had not been long in the battery before they set to work to spike the guns. This being a most unfriendly proceeding, the officer was seized, and the men were turned over the parapet and shot before they got back, but they had spiked six guns." A series of hand-to•hand encounters go on between our skirmishers and those of the enemy all day long, and in which our fellows are uniformly successful. They go out to these encounters with almost childish delight, and the escapes of some of them seem almost miraculous. In one of these encounters a rifleman was taken on the 26th, and carried prisoner into the Russian trenches. There, in the presence of our army, he succeeded in killing and wounding three of the enemy, broke through all who tried to stop him, scrambled over the Russian works, and though whole volleys of shot were sent after him, and he was pur sued by hundreds, he contrived to elude all, and reached our camp amid tremendous cheers. Lord Raglan, to mark his successful gallantry, made him a present of 51., and paid him a high compliment on his courage and activity. The following details respecting the francs tireurs are given in a letter from a Zouave to his father. They are published by the Journal de liaine•et•Loire:—" I am almost like a poacher ! I go out every day to shoot Russians ! This is the way we do it: As early as two o'clock in the morning, our toilette completed—and that of a Zouave is not long—we leave, carrying with us ammunition, and one or two biscuits. Arrived in the intrenchments we take sandbags, a spade, and a pickaxe ; then, at a given signal, we leap from the parapets with the rapidity of deer, and establish our homes close to the forts. There we dig a hole, a sort of warren to hide ourselves in. We place our bags to protect us, and our residence is then terminated. We remain in these holes all the day, and it is not until night is rather advanced that we are permitted to leave them. This we often do amidst a shower of grapeshot. You will ask me, my dear father, what we do in the holes all day. Very good work, I assure you. We fire almost as fast as we can load, and every discharge demolishes a Russian artilleryman. The other day two officers climbed up a large pole on the summit of a tower opposite my lodgings, and they began to examine our works. With two shots I brought them both down. Then a storm of balls, shells, and grapeshot, was directed against us; but, happily, we were so near the forts that it passed over our heads without touching any one of us." Captain Fellowes, who was despatched with a flag of truce, had an interview with General Cortschakoff, in the valley of Balaklava, on the 25th, and ascertained that Cornets Clowes and Chadwick were prisoners and wounded, but well treated. PATRIOTIC FUND. A PUBLIC meeting of the inhabitants of Westminster was commenced on Thursday at St. Martin's-ball. Shortly after two o'clock the High Bailiff took the chair, and there were present the Earl of Aberdeen, the Bishop of London, Mr. Cardwell, M.P., end several other noblemen and gentlemen. In conse quence, however, of the wet weather and the thin attendance, it was determined to adjourn the meeting until that day fortnight, on which occasion the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, and the Earl of Granville, will speak. In Ireland the subscriptions continue to pour in liberally. The Lord-Lieutenant has contributed 2001., and also subscribed DM. in England. The Provincial Bank of Ireland has subscribed 3001., and the Vicar of St. Andrew's, Dublin, 1001., towards the fund. RETURNS OF KILLED AND WOUNDED. 'The non-arrival of Lord Raglan's despatches of the 18th October left the list of casualties published in our last number incomplete, so far as the returns of loss in the land forces on the first days of the bom bardment were concerned. These despatches have now been received by the War-office, and the follow ing list accordingly comprises the return for the periods between the 13th and 17th and between the 22nd and 211th ult., inclusively. The returns for the inter mediate days (18th to 21st inclusive) appeared in the last PRESS : INFANTRY. Staff-1 officer killed. Artillery-2 rank and file killed ; 1 sergeant, 25 rank and file wounded. 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards-1 officer, Captain Rowley, killed ; 11 rank and tile wounded. Ist Regiment of Foot-4 bracer wounded; 1 rank and file killed, 10 wounded, SATURDAY, 7th Foot-11 rank and tile wounded. 19th Foot-1 sergeunt, 1 drummer, and 10 rank and file wounded. 20th Foot-2 rank and file killed, 6 wounded. 21st Foot-2 rank and tile wounded. 23rd Foot-7 rank and tile wounded. 28th Foot-1 rank and file wounded. 30th Foot-2 officera and 1 sergeant wounded; 6 rank and file killed, 22 wounded. 33rd Foot-1 sergeant, 4 rank and file wounded. 38th Foot-1 rank and tile lulled ; 1 sergeant, 10 rank lied file wounded. 41st Foot-1 officer wounded; 1 rank and file killed, 9 wounded. 42nd Foot-1 sergeant, 1 rank and tile wounded. 44th Foot-3 rank and tile killed; 1 officer, Lieutenant Wood (slightly), 1 sergeant, 5 rank and tile wounded. 47th Fout-2 rank and tile killed, 11 wounded. 49th Foct-2 officers, 1 sergeant, and 1 drummer wounded; 1 rank and tile killed, 16 woundd. 50th Foot-2 officers wounded ; 1 sergeant, 8 rank end file wounded. 55th Foot-1 officer, Ensign Twysden, slightly wounded. 57th Foot-1 officer wounded; 3 rank and file wounded. Ord Foot-1 rank and tile wounded. Beth Foot-1 °dicer, Assietaut-Surgeon O'Leary, 3 rack and file killed and 3 wounded. 77th Foot-2 milk and file killed, 2 wounded. 7 9/11 Foot—l rank and file wounded. 88th Foot-1 officer Mounded; 1 sergeant, 8 rank and tile killed; 1 se. gearlt, 20 rank cud tile wounded. 95th Foot—l sergeant wounded; 1 rank and file killed, 8 wounded. let Battalion Ride Brigade-1 rank and file killed; 1 sergeant, 4 rank and tile wounded. 2nd Battalion Ride Brigade-3 rank and file killed ; 1 drum mer, 12 rank and tile wounded. Total: 3 officers, 1 sergeant, 35 rank and file killed; 12 officers, 12 sergeants, 3 drummers, AVALI C 225 rank an d tile wounded. t Staff-2 officers killed ; 4 officers wounded. 4th Light Dragoons-2 officers, 5 sergeants, 3 drummers. 24 privates, 50 horses, killed; 2 officers, 1 sergeant, 21 privates wounded. eth Hussars-2 officers, 3 sergeants, 23 privates, 38 horses, killed; 2 officers, 2 sergeants, 1 drummer. 14 privates, wounded. 11th Hussars-2 sergeants, 30 privates, 72 horses, killed; 3 officers, 3 sergeants, 20 privates, wounded. 13th Light Dragoons-3 officers, 3 sergeants, 1 drummer, 20 privates, 76 horses, killed; 2 sergeants, 14 privates, wounded. 17th Lancers-8 officers, 1 sergeant, $2 privates, 92 horses, killed ; 4 officers, I sergeant. 2 drummers, 31 privates, wounded. 4th Dragoon Guards-1 pnvate, 1 horse, killed ; 2 sergeants, 3 privates, wounded. let Royal Dragoons-2 privates, 10 horses, killed ; 4 officers, 1 sergeant, 1 drummer, 5 private*, wounded. 2nd North British Dragoons-2 privates, 14 horses, killed ; 4 officers, 5 sergeants, 48 privates, wounded. oth Dragoons-2 privates, horses, killed ; 3 sergeants, 10 privates, wounded. sth Dragoon Guards-2 privates, 19 horses, 2 officers, 9 privates, wounded. Royal Artillery-1 officer, 2 sergeants, 4 privates, killed; 2 officers, 1 sergeant, 23 privates, wounoed. Royal Engineers and Sappers and Miners-9 privates, wounded. Total: 1.3 officers, le sergeants, 4 drummers, 142 privates, 3el horses, killed; 27 officers, 21 sergeants, 4 drummers, 199 privates, wounded. In the Naval Brigade, the following is the list of casualties: — Oct 23.—Wounded, 5. Oct. 21.—Wounded, 6 (one, James Sim. mons, H.M.S. Queen, died of his wounds). Oct. 29.—Nune. O c t. 26.—Killed. James Coleman, TN/Wear; wounded, 2. Total : Killed, 5; Woundecl,l2. The following is the nominal return of the casual ties among officers from Oct. 22 to 20, both inclu sive. Staff—Lieutenant -General the Earl of Lucan, wounded slightly; Brigadier-General the Hun. J. Y. Scarlett, slightly ; Captain the Hon. W. Charteris, killed ' • Captain George Lockwood , kille d or missing; Lieutenants H. F. Masse and A. I. slightly. sth Dragoon Guards—Lieuteuunt F. H. Swiufen, wounded alth t tly ; Huyal T r e g t g t o ie u sHon.atiu.tateavniltiet.;osieovueeritu Yorke, Captains W. de Elnisall cud George Campbell, and Cornet W. W. Harwpp, wounded severely. 2nd Dragoons—Lieutenant-Colonel H. D. Griffith, wounded slightly Captain G. C. Clarke and Cornet Lenox. Prendergast, severely; Curvet H. E. Handley, 4th Light Dragoons—Major J. T. D. lialkett and Lieutenant H. A. Spurke, killed; Captaius U. J. Brown and Thomas Hutton, wounded severely. Bth Hussars—Lieutenant J. C. Viscount Fitzgibbon and Cornet G. Clowes, killed or missing; Lieutenant D. Clutterbuck and 14811/808/1/ and Adjutant Edward Seeger, wounded slightly. Hussar—Captiu E. A. Cook aud Lieutenant It Trey& lyan, wounded slightly; Cornet G. I'. Houghton, neve' ely. 13th Light Dragoons—Captain J. A. Oldham, killed; Captain T. H. Goad and Cornet H. Montgomery. missing. 17th Lancers —Captain J. P. Winter, Lieutenant J. H. Thomp son, and Cornet and Adjutant J. Chadwick. killed or missing; Captains William Morris, Robert White, A. F. C. Webb, Lieute , neut. Sir William Uordou, wounded severely. Artillery—Caption S. Childers, killed; Captain E. Moubray and Lieutenant J. E. Hope, wounded slightly. Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant .1. M. Brown, wounded slightly. 30th Regiment—Captains F. T. Atcherley and P. Bay e)', wounded slightly. 41st Regiment—Lieutenant H. C. Harriett, wounded severely. 43th Regiment—Lieutenant J. A. Conolly, wounded danger ously ; Ensign P. Cahill, severely. 50th Regiment--Brevet:Major Hon. J. P. Maxwell, wounds slightly. 57th Regiment—Lieutenant H. J. Buller, wounded severely. 88th Regiment—Lieutenant and Adjutant L. D. Maude, wounded severely. to B r igadler-General Airey Captain L. E. Nolan, OFFICIAL STATEMENTS of the results of the Public. house Act in Dundee show that, during the period from 15th May to 24 th Octob er, of this year, there have been 663 individuals fewer brought before the police court for Sabbath offences than during the same period of 1853; the number of cases having also diminished by 377. Of the crimes that are with special propriety attributed to the inspiration of public-houses—drunkenness and disorderly con d uc t—there has, during the same period, been diminution of 201, or, as nearlf as ma) . be, fifty per cents