The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-30 00:00:00

THE AIaLIES IN THE CRIMEA.

Writing from the Camp of the Allied Armies, on the
Tchernaya, in reference to a rumour that the Russians are
preparing to evacuate the Crimea, the special correspondent
of the Times, on the 7th instant, says :

The rumours circulated by the German papers, which seem
to have originated in Europe the idea that the Russians were
preparing to leave the Crimea, seem rather suspicious, con-
sidering the sources whence they come, and principally as
they are not confirmed by the actual movements of the enemy.
Large camps are still seen on the plateaux opposite to us, and
the country up to the head of the Belbek is still occupied by
them. The only news which we hear tending to confirm this
rumour is, that the fifth and twelfth divisions have gone from
our immediate neighbourhood northward ; but it is more
likely that this change took place in consequence of the
sign of life which the garrison of Eupatoria showed lately,
than as a preliminary step for a final retreat. While the
Russians were convinced that they had nothing to fear from
the activity of the Turkish garrison of Eupatoria, and when
the energetic pursuit of the siege operations forced them to
bring down all their available force, a small body of cavalry
was the only corps d'observation which remained about
Eupatoria, and there was scarcely any infantry in the whole
country between Perekop and Simpheropol. Now that they
might apprehend something from that side, it is natural that
they should make their preparations accordingly.
RUSSIAN DEFENCES ON THE NORTH SIDE.
Writing on the subject of the Russian works on the north
side of the harbour of Sebastopol, on the 9th, the same autho-
rity states, that—
On the Sebastopol side of our line (for now there
is no more front and rear, as when the siege was going
on), everything remains in statu quo. The Russians are still
busy throwing up intrenchments on every available spot of
the north side of the harbour. The ground is, as all over this
neighbourhood, particularly fit for a display of engineering.
From Fort Constantine there is a succession of promontories
extending towards the head of the harbour, which have been
all taken advantage of to construct works upon, notwithstand-
ing our fire ; but this firing seems only intended to impede
the construction of those works, and not to prevent it alto-
gether, as the large batteries commenced some time ago have
again been counter-ordered, and you can see the Russians
working in spite of the occasional shot or shell pitching among
them and scattering them for a moment. They are likewise
modest enough in replying—an occasional shot from Fort
Constantine, from a little earthwork a fleur d'eau, with eight
embrasures, between the second casemated fort and some
buildings, evidently stores, and some rather more frequent
ones from a little redan in front of the Telegraph Battery, and
an earthwork on the eastern promontory of the Soukhaya
creek, being all. Lately, however, they have begun to fire
more frequently from the Inkermann batteries towards the
French redoubts there. Most of their shots from the har-
bour are directed against the town, rather than against the
French mortars behind Fort Nicholas, and against the head
of the Dockyard Creek. The regularity of the town rather
invites this manceuvre, the streets running parallel down
towards the harbour, and thus showing plainly all those who
pass through them.
Under the same date, the Times' correspondent says, in
relation to