The Press.
London, England, 1854-12-09 00:00:00

DECEMBER 9, 1854.

THE WAR.

THE latest news from the Crimea is conveyed by a

telegraphic despatch of November 2H, from General

Caurobert, published in Thursday's Moniteur, as

follows :

The rain has ceased, and the weather seems disposed to
improve. Our works will now exhibit fresh activity. Our
reinforcements continue to arrive, and I have just received
the Bth Regiment of Dragoons, the oth Battalion of Chas-
seurs, besides various detachments of different regiments.
The enemy still shows no signs of activity, but continues to
protect the town by repeated retrenchmeas.
The Russians are stated in other despatches to
have attempted two sorties, one against the French
works, which was repulsed with a loss of 230 men,
the French losing about 75. The second sortie was
directed on the 25th ult. against the English in-
trenchments, but the Russians were so vigorously
repelled that our troops got possession of a battery of
nine guns, which they retained.
The transport of Turkish reinforcements from
Baltachik to the Crimea still continue. One hundred
and forty-six ship-guns had been landed by the allies
to be employed in the siege.
A despatch from St. Petersburg of the sth inst.
mentions that Prince Menschikoff, writing on the
27th of November, states :
The allies continue their bombardment of Sebastopol ;
but their fire is weak, and causes us scarcely any loss or
damage. It is obvious that they are strengthening their
position, and establishing new batteries, but the fire of the
latter has not yet opened.
A brief chronicle of the siege operations, for some
days subsequently to the disasters of the 14th of No-
vember, appears in yesterday's Times as received
from their correspondent in the camp. His letter
is dated " Balaklava, November 21st:"—

On the 14th a fearful hurricane passed over the camp.
All the tents were blown down and the men exposed to
rain and cold and hunger for the day. At night the Rus-
sians attacked the French lines and were repulsed. The
gale and rain abated at night.
On the 15th nothing was done, the siege progressing
slowly. The Sampson, which shelled the Russians at
Katseha when they came down to make prisoners of the
crews, and forced them back, is dismasted, and will have to
land her heavy guns. Admiral Lyons visited Lord Raglan,
having come on shore from the d4gatneninon at Kamisch
Bay. Several of our troops died from cold and exhaustion
yesterday, and many horses perished. The camp is a sea
of mud. The Russians are quiet and depressed. Lord
Burghersh has arrived in the Colombo (laden with ord-
nance stores ).
Nov. 10.—The mails have not arrived. The siege fire
is very slack on both sides. A flue work is completed,
overlooking the Inkermann-road. The French have re-
ceived reinforcements. The Jura completed landing
troops and stores at Kamisch Bay.
Nov. 17.--The Tonning left with Colonel Beatson, Dr.
Dumbreck, &c., for home. Many officers are applying for
leave. Lord Raglan has ordered that no officer shall be
permitted to leave for Scutari without a medical board.
Men and officers are beginning to hat themselves for the
winter.
Nov. 18.—The weather is finer and more temperate.
The Russians in the valley are said to have received rein-
forcements. Arrangements are made by the English and
Russians for the exchange of Lord Dunkellin with a Rus-
sian captain of artillery taken at Mackenzie's Farm. The
Czar declared, through Prince Menachikoff, that he had no
desire to detain his lordship.
Nov. 19.—The Medway left for Constantinople, with
sick, under charge of Dr. Tice. The French made a re-
connoissance en force this morning, and saw the Russians
repairing a great quantity of tumbrils, gun-carriages, Sc.,
damaged by our fire on the sth of November. More rein-
forcements have arrived.
Nov. 20—The Orinoco has arrived in the harbour, with
the 97th Regiment on board, and landed them. It has
been raining all day. The Queen of the South arrived this
evening wih draughts of various regiments, Guards, &c.
There was a good deal of firing to-day on the French and
on our lines, which we both replied to very briskly. The
French are landing men and stores every hour at
Kamisch Bay.
Further advices from before Sebastopol, of the
22nd, state that the defensive works of the English,
between the right of their line of attack and Bala-
klava, were nearly completed. An English regiment,
from the Piraeus, arrived on the 20th, and the next
day detachments from the Guards, lst., 7th, 2:trd, and
95th Regiments, to the number of 1,200 men, landed
at Balaklava. French reinforcements were also con-
tinually arriving. The firing from the batteries was
kept up.
BATTLE OF INKERMANN.—OFFICIAL DES-
PATCHES.

The following supplementary despatch, singling
out for commendation the officers who had displayed
especial gallantry and performed noteworthy services
during the battle of November 5, was received from
Lord Raglan by the War Minister and published on
Saturday night :
Before Sebastopol, Nov. 11,1854.
When, on the Bth instant, I reported the gallant
and successful repulse of the very formidable attack