The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-31 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR.

MARSEILLES, Saturday, July 28.
The Alexandre, which left Constantinople on the 10th of
July, has arrived. .
The advices from the Crimea are to the 17th.
The Alexandre has brought 66 wounded.
A regiment of Lancers has arrived for embarcation.

The Moniteur of Sunday publishes the following :7

A despatch from the Crimea, dated July 27, 11 p.m.,
announces to the Minister of War that the Phlggethon had
arrived at Kamiesch, bringing French prisoners, exchanged
at Odessa against Russian prisoners, which this steamer had
taken on board at Constantinople.
The exchange of prisoners of war is to be continued.
The French officers speak in high terms of the manner in
which they were treated by the Russians.
The despatch concludes with these words—" Nothing new
has occurred before the place."

The Semaphore, of the 24th instant, mentions the arrival
at Marseilles on the 23rd of 500 men of the 6th Begiment of
the Line, and 500 of the 9th. The packet Indus sailed on the
23rd for the East, with 650 soldiers belonging to the different
corps ; and the Athenian and Golden Gate, with 125 artillery-
men and 122 horses. The four-masted steamer City of Man-
chester, which was then loading 300 horses and an immense.,
quantity of projectiles, was to clear out for the Crimea on the
25th, and to take in tow the clipper Balance.

[BY ELECTRIC & INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPHS.]

LONDON, Monday Night.

POLICE COMMISSION. - Evidence was given by several
gentlemen to-day in favour of the police.—At the Guildhall
Police-court to-day, Davidson, Gordon, and Cole were fully
committed for fraud.

THE WAR.

The Times' correspondents' letters, to the 17th inclusive,
have arrived :—" There was heavy rain on the 15th. The
Russians made a sortie against the French on the 14th : the
Russians were repulsed. The French works are so close to
the abattis of the Malakhoff, that a man may throw a stone
into it. The abattis is described as truly formidable :it is
formed of trunks of oak and beech from the woods of the
Crimea, and is more than six feet high. Before making a
fresh assault attempts will be made to destroy it. The Rus-
sians are still at work on the position, and are also repairing
theßedan. The exchange of shot and shell is almost incessant.
The French are very sangine of their ability to reach the
shipping from their new battery at the White Works, and
the Russians seem to he afraid, and fire constantly into the
works. There is but little sickness in the Allied camp. The
British wanted mattresses for the wounded. On the night of
the 16th there was a sortie from the Malakhoff, during a
pouring rain. It lasted about a quarter of an hour. The
French talk of all being ready for another assault in about a
fortnight."

DESPATCHES FROM GENERAL SIMPSON.

The Gazette contains despatches from General Simpson,
dated 17th, with enclosures from Lieut.-Colonel Campbell, of
the 9th Foot, and Colonel Shirley, of the 88th Foot, also the
weekly medical report.

Siege operations were steadily progressing. On the night
of the 16th, the Russians made a sortie on the right of the
French works, in front of the Mamelon. The cannonade and
fire of musketry was exceedingly heavy.
General Simpson regrets the loss of Captain R. A. Frazer,
42nd Highlanders, killed in the trenches.

There had been an increase of fever cases, but a marked
decrease in both the frequency and severity of bowel affections.
Lieut.-Colonel Campbell's first letter refers to his own per-
sonal services, and a second to those of a party of the 55th in
the capture of the Quarries, on the night of the 7th of June.
He shows that he not only commanded the storming party,
but, having been twice wounded, he retained the sole command
in the Quarries, during the whole night, until relieved at 7
a.m. on the Bth, and respecting which affair there appears to
have been some omission in the late Lord Raglan's despatch.
General Simpson writes with regard to Lieut.-Colonel
Campbell's own services : He finds, upon enquiry, that the
charge of holding the Quarries was confided to that officer
after he had led the assault, and was a separate command from
that of Colonel Shirley, who acted as General of the day in the
trenches of the right attack.

Return of casualties from 13th to 15th July inclusive :
killed, four rank and file ; wounded, Captain T. Roper, 47th,
slightly, and 34 rank and file.
Return of casualties in Naval Brigade on the 13th and 15th
July : killed 1; wounded, 1.