The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-25 00:00:00

THE ALLIES AND THE SIEGE OF

SEBASTOPOL.

Titg Moniteur publishes the following :
The capture of Sebastopol has caused the greatest joy in
England as well as in France. In fact, it was just that, after
having shared the dangers and the sacrifices of this war, the two
people should take an equal share in the glory of the triumph.
Since the commencement of the struggle, France and England,
united by an intimate community of views and efforts, have
shown a sort of emulation in providing each according to its
resources the means of assuring success. If France was able
to send out more soldiers, England provided a greater num-
ber of ships, and, nevertheless, sent successively to the Crimea
80,000 troops, collected from all points of her immense empire•
Thanks to the prodigious naval armament of the Allied
Powers, their flags rule on every sea, and exclude Russia from
it. The enemy has seen his ships blockaded or burnt in his
ports, his coasts devastated, his commerce annihilated, his
foreign relations destroyed. From the Sea of Azoff to the
White Sea, from the Baltic to Kamiesch, Russia is imprisoned
by our fleets. While, by force of courage, our soldiers tri-
umphed over the desperate resistance of the Russian army,
the combined fleets destroyed their provisions and intercepted
their communications, at the same time that they kept up
abundance in the allied armies, and brought them daily new
reinforcements.

Our own maritime resources would scarcely have sufficed
for the transport of our troops and of the enormous quantity
of materiel which such a war at a distance of 800 leagues from
the country demanded. The English Admiralty placed fifty
vessels of the Royal and commercial navy at the disposal of
France, which conveyed to the Crimea nearly 40,000 of our
troops, with 2,000 horses, and 7,000 tons of materiel. Every
one knows, moreover, that if Bomarsund fell under the blows
of our soldiers, it was chiefly the English navy that took them
there.

In all the phases of this war, at Alma and at Inkermann,
as at Bomarsund and at Sweaborg, the armies and fleets of
England and France have mingled their blood together and
emulated each other in bravery for the common cause.

At the Tchernaya our allies hastened up to our support as
we hastened up to support them at Balaklava. In the last
and victorious efforts against Sebastopol English and French
equally fulfilled their heroic task. Of several different points
of attack one only was conquered at first ; but the triumph is
not the less due to all the corps of the allied army, which,
mutually supporting each other and sharing the resistance of
the enemy, finally compelled him to abandon the walls of that
town which even his despair could no longer defend. Thus
the Commander-in-Chief of the French army was only just
when he attributed to the English army a large share of glory
in the success of that great day's work.
As regards the pecuniary sacrifices which our allies have
imposed upon themselves, they are equal to ours, if they do
not exceed them. Without speaking of the Turkish loan of
100,000,000 f., guaranteed, it is true, by France as well as
England, but contracted for entirely by our neighbours, nor
of the fifty millions advanced by them to the Piedmontese
Government to enable it to give us the so useful assistance of
her brave soldiers, England has spent in this war nearly
400,000,000 f. last year, and has provided so that she can spend
this year more than a milliard, if necessary.
This enormous burden and all these sacrifices the English
people know how to support, like the French people, not only
with resignation, but with that energy which proves that it
will spare nothing till its object is attained; and it may be
said that, with our neighbours as with ourselves, the nation
is not satisfied with following and supporting its Govern-
ment, but goes in some measure beyond it, by providing it with
all the means for assuring the triumph of a cause the justice
and grandeur of which are equally understood by both peoples. I

IBY ELECTRIC & INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPHS.)

LONDON, Monday Night.
A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office this
afternoon.

THE CRIMEA.
MARSEILLES, Sept. 20.

It is said that the Russians had connected the mines in
Sebastopol with Fort Constantine by electric wires, in the
hope of destroying any of the Allied troops who might enter
the town ; but their plan failed.
Great activity prevailed at Marseilles in the shipment of
military stores and the embarkation of troops for the East.
150 quay porters were sent by a steamer to Sebastopol, for
the purpose of clearing the ruins.

NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE.

The Times' Vienna correspondent writes on the 20th :

The only positive information which can be given respecting
the state of the Eastern Question is that England and France
have not desired, and will not desire, Austria to make any
propositions to Russia.

It is related that the Austrian Government is about, in its
own name, to urge Russia to accept pure, and simple, the four
points as interpreted by the Western Powers ; but its zeal is
likely to be checked by the news that the Emperor has gone
to Nicolaieff.

It is not doubted here that a considerable part of the
Russian fleet is safe and sound in the Bug, which is so deep
that men•of--war can be moored close to the Admiralty.

An Odessa correspondent observes that the Russian Go-
vernment showed its wisdom when, twenty-seven years ago,
it made Nicolaieff the principal depot and dockyard of the
Russian fleet Nicolaieff is the great Black Sea arsenal. Se-
bastopol was the war port, in which the fleet passed the
winter.

INDEMNIFICATION FROM RUSSIA.

The Times' Vienna correspondent also says :—The Austrian
papers mention a new arrangement made between the Western
Powers and Turkey, respecting indemnification from Russia
Well-informed persons greatly doubt the details given
relative to the arrangement between the Western Powers and
Turkey for indemnification from Russia. " I have been posi-
tively assured," says The Times' correspondent, "that Russia
will not, at present, at least, consent to pay any indemnifi-
cation."

40,000 men of the Militia of the Empire are now assembled
in the neighbourhood of Nicolaieff and Cherson.
Cholera is declining at Vienna.

OPERATIONS IN THE CRIMEA.

SEBASTOFOL, September 16.

The Russians are fortifying the north part, and are con-
structing new batteries. The French are advancing cavalry
and a column of infantry towards Bakshiserai, by the Baidar
road.

A fearful tempest has occurred at Sebastopol, accompanied by
torrents of rain,
Sebastopol is to be razed, and the basin filled up.

THE WAR.
MAnsErLLEs, Monday.
The steamer Carmel has arrived. She left Constantinople
on the 17th, and brings Crimea advices to the 15th.
General Dulac has arrived. Despatches leave at A, a.m.
Shell and cartridges are being shipped.

THE PENINSULA.
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday.

The steamer Madrid has arrived. Dates : Gibraltar, Sept.
14 ; Cadiz, 15 ; Lisbon, 19 ; Vigo and Oporto, 20. She brings
specie value £7,000.
At Lisbon money was scarce. Exchange on London, three
months, 544 to I.

DESPATCH FROM PRINCE GORTSCHAKOFF.
(From the Express)
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 23.
Prince Gortschakoff reports from Sebastopol, that the Allies
have attempted nothing yet on the north side ; also, that the
enemy is concentrating his forces between Balaklava and the
Tchernaya, and constantly reconnoitres our left wing from
the Baidar Valley.