The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-12 00:00:00

THE WAR:

A telegraphic despatch of November 28, from General
Canrobert, published in Thursday's Moniteur, announces :
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 6th Regiment of Dragoons, the 6th. 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 retrenchments.
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 entrenchments, 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
Baltschik 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, men-
tions that Prince Menschikoff, writing on the 27th of
November, states :

The allies continue their bonabardment 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 November,
appears in the Times of Friday as received from their
correspondent in the camp. His letter is dated " Bala-
klava, November 21st :

On'the r4th 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
Katscha when they came down to makeprisoners of the
crews, and forced them back, is clismaNted, and will have
to land her heavy guns. Admiral Lyons visited Lord
Raglan; having come on shore from the -Agamemnon 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 de-
pressed. Lord Burghersh has arrived: in the Colombo
(laden with ordnance stores).
Nov. 16.—The mails have not arrived. The siege fire
is very slack on both sides. A fine work is completed,
overlooking the Inkerman-road. The French have re-
ceived reinforcements. The Jura completed landing troops
and stores at Kamisch Bay.

Nov. 17.—The Tonning left with Colonel Bateson, 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 hut 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 Minkellin with a
Russian captain of artillery taken at Mackenzie's Farm.
The Czar declared, through Prince Menschikoff, 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 Rus-
sians repairing a great quantity of tumbrils, gun-carriages,
&c., damaged by our fire on the 6th of December. More
reinforcements 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 with 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
Bamisch 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 Balaklava, were nearly
completed. An English regiment, from the Piraeus, ar-
rived on the 20th, and the next day detachments from
the Guards, Ist, 7th, 23rd, and 95th Regiments, to the
number of 1,200 men,, landed at Balaklava. French re-
inforcements were also continually arriving. The firing
from the batteries was kept up.
An Odessa correspondent of the Fremden Blatt writes,
that a train of several hundreds of waggons, laden with
provisions and munitions for the Russian troops at Bloke
Semi, was " surprised by the frightful snowstorms in
the steppes south of Perekop, and annihilated." Sebas-
topol is provisioned for not more than fourteen or-sixteen
weeks, and the Russian, relieving army altogether de-
pendsfor its support upon the supplies sent from Southern
Russia. These are conveyed in all descriptions of vehicles,
principally drawn by oxen, which are as much exposed. to
destruction in, the Tanrian steppes as the ,ships of the
Allies in the Black Sea.

A Vienna despatch of Thursday says :—" Advices from
Sebastopol, of the 27th November, have been received
here, The siege was zealously continued. The Russians
had sunk another liner near the mouth of the harbour.
Reinforcements to the number of 9,000 men had reached
the Allies in the Crimea. The Duke of Cambridge was
expected at Constantinople." 500 French have gone to
Bucharest and Ibrailia.

Colonels Plea and Mirecourt have• gone to inspect
Isaktcha and Toultseha.

It would appear (says the Globe) from later and detailed
intelligence, that the Russians engaged at Inkerman were
more numerous than was at first supposed. Calculating
the battalion at 700 men (according to Dannenberg's
account), the whole of the troops engaged on the sth
would amount to 66,900 men. The grand-attack on the
English position- was made by 35,400 men, or 501 bat-
talions, with a reserve of 11,200 men. This attacking
army consisted of the 4th corps, comprising the first and
second brigades of the divisions Soimonoff and Pauloff,
with one battalion of rifles, in all 17,500 men ; and the
6th eorps, comprising the first and second brigades of the
divisions KeVitsenski and Kirjakoff, with a battalion of
rifles and half a battalion of sappers, in all 17,900. The
reserve of 11,200 was formed` by a regiment from each of
the divisions of Soimonoff, Pauloff, and Kirjakoff, and four
reserve-battalions of the 13th division.
The sortie from the bastion No. 6 was made by a force
of 6,500 men, that is, two regiments of the 14th division,
sth corps, one regiment making the sortie, and the second
acting as reserve..

The demonstration upon the right flank of the British
was carried out by the first and second brigades of the
12th, or Liprandi's division, under General Gortschakoff.
A regiment was detaehed from Dannenberg's corps to
assist Gortschakoff. This regiment and one battalion of

Tchermonoff rifles included, the number of men employed
in the demonstration was 14,700.
H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, bearing the flag of the
commander-in-chief, Royal George, Nile, Hogue, and
Blenheim, left Kiel at noon on Thursday, under weigh
for England. The Edinburgh and Euryalus remained

there. -
The flag-ship, with five British steam line-of-battle
ships and the steamers Driver, Rosamond, and Bulldog,
were, on Friday, compelled by stormy weather to anchor
off Knuds Head.
Admiral Hamelin has returned to France, and has
relinquished the command-in-chief of the French fleet in
the Black Sea.
The Ost Deutsche Post publishes the followin
Ultimatum addressed by Austria to Russia.
Austria has sent her final summons to Russia
No modification of her territorial pose
manded.
Besides the four points, an indemnification for the war
,•

dons is de-

expenses is to be a basis fOr peace propositions.
A futttre Russian protectorate over the Greco-Cathol

I inadmissi

Tur

and equal

fering with the Sultan's sovereign rights.
F The five Powers guarantee the privilege,
rights of the Christians. The Russian protectorate in flu
on Danubian Principalities, and in Servia, is declared
Sze. The navigation of tt -Sr

tie Blacx oea is to be guaranteed 13;
the razing of Sebastopol, and by converting the othe
arsenals on its coast into common harbours. The Russia]
fleet to be reduced to four frigates and two line-of-batti

ack Sea

The free navigation to be ensured by a formal declara
Lion. The Salina mouths, with the environs, to be
declared neutral territory.

The troops embarking' for the Crimea are provided, by
the order of the Secretary-at-War, with the following
articles of warm clothing :—One fur helmet, one pair
Napoleon boots. one nair loather mica_ with fnr +wn

pair of lambs' wool drawers, two woollen Guernsey frocks,
two pair worsted socks, two pair warm gloves, two flannel
shirts, and warm lining for the great-coat.
MEDALS FOR THE CRrMEI.—We are glad to find that
instructions have been given for immediately striking
medals for the troops serving in the Crimea, and which
are to have clasps with the words "Alma and Inkerman."
The regimental colours are also to have those actions
inscribed upon them.—United Service Gazette.
FRENCH TROOPS Ix LO3DON.—A small detachment of
French Sappers and Miners, seven men and one sergeant,
under charge of Lieutenant Latreille, officer of the Legion
of Honour, traversed the streets of London, on Friday, in
heavy marching order, en route for Gloucester, to take
charge of a number of wooden huts constructed ;here for
the French army in the Crimea. The lieutenant and his
men were sumptuously entertained in the Great Western
Hotel, free of charge, and, by the kindness of Captain
Buckley, were forwarded to their destination by the
express train at ordinary fares.
CRIMEAN ARMY FUND.—We understand that, in ad-
dition to many other liberal donations, the committee of
the Crimean Army Fund yesterday received from the
Duchess Dowager of Cleveland one fat ox, eight sheep,
and six pigs, with a large quantity of game; from the
shareholders and directors of Price's Patent Candle Com-
pany, a contribution to the'value of £6OO, in patent swing
ship lamps and candles ; and-50 hogsheads of stout, from
Messrs. Trueman, Hanbury, Buxton, and Co.
ANOTHER GREEK CONEIFIRACY.— The Lloyd of
Vienna says :—" A letter from Constantinople states that
the Government authorities are still pursuing their inves-
tigation into the circumstances of the plot which was dis-
covered some weeks back. It had been organised, it
appears; in the fortresses of the Danube, and had ramifi-
cations in the whole of the peninsula as far as Pera,
Salonicar and the Greek frontiers. The conspirators sup-
posed, or'perhaps knew, that the Russians would make a
second diversion towards the Danube in the course of the
winter, and at that moment all the mountaineers of
Roumelia, Bulgaria, and Macedonia, and Epirus, were to
rise."

LORD DUNICELLIN-EXCHANGD OF PRISONERS

The following is a translation of the original French
text of the letter• sent by the Russian Minister of War to
the Marquis of Clanricarde, with reference to the setting
at liberty of his ibrdship's son, Lord Dunkellin

,
" My Lord,—Tbe Emperor, my august Master, recalling
to mind, with pleasure, the time in which-your excellency
occupied at St. Petersburg the post of ambassador of her
Majesty the Queen' of Great Britain, experiences a real sa-
tisfaction in restoring to you your son,whom the chances of
war have delivered into our hands. His Majesty is gra-
tified at being thereby enabled to anticipate the proposi-
tion just made by Lord Raglan to Prince Menschikoff, to
exchange Lord Dunkellin for a Russian artillery officer,
who was taken prisoner by the English troops near Sebas-
topol. Conformably to his Majesty's will, I now give the
order to send your son from Kalouga, where- he is at pre-
sent, to London, by way of Warsaw.
"As for the Russian officer, above referred to, who, I
suppose, is Captain Kousovvleff, I invite Prince Menschikoff
to request Lord Raglan to deliver him to us in exchange
for Lord Dunkellin, who will very soon be at liberty.
"If Captain Kousowleff happens to be already in Eng-
land, he will, we have every ground for hoping, be sent
back to Russia, just as your son has been authorised to
return to England.—Accept,

V "PRINCE
BASILE DOLGOEOWXY
"Minister of War."
"October 24 (November 5), 1854."

ANOTHER NESSELRODE NOTE

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Tnnfollowing is the text of a note by Count Nesselrode,
respecting the contents of which speculation has been for
a time very busy. It is addressed to the Russian Ambas-
sador at the Court of Berlin :

St. Petersburg, Nov. 6.
M. le Baron,—lnformation which reaches us from various
quarters proves that at the present moment nearly all the
German governments are possessed with a common fear,
that of seeing a schism arise between the two German
powers•respecting the affairs of the East, an event which
might endanger the tranquility of the common country,
and even imperil the existence of the Germanic confedera-
tion. Faithful to the policy which it has pursued from
the commencement of this deplorable complication, and
desiring_tocircumscribe its disastrous ansequences within
the narrowest possible limits, the Emperor, our august
master, has wished, in the present conjuncture, and as far
as on him-depends, to preserve Germany from the curse
which would menace it in such a case.

You are therefore, M. le Baron, to declare to the Prus-
sian Cabinet that the Emperor is disposed to take part in
negotiations which should have for their object the re-
establishment of peace, and for which the four propositions
set forth below should serve as a starting point—namely :
1. The religions and civil rights of the Christian po-
pulation subject to the Sultan, without distinction of rite,
to be assured by the common guarantee of the five Powers.
2. The Protectorate of the Principalities exercised in
common by the Five Powers on the sameconditions as our
treaties with the Porte have stipulated in their favour.
3. Revision of the treaty of 1841. Russia will not
oppose its abolition, if the Sultan, the principal party con-
cerned, consents to it.
4. Freedom of navigation on the Danube, which
exists de jure, and which Russia never had the intention
of obstructing.
This determination is founded, of course, on the suppo-
sition that the Western Powers will faithfully fulfil the
engagement they have contracted in the face of Europe,
to secure the future weal of the Christian • populations of
the Ottoman empire, that their religious and civil rights
shall be placed henceforth under the guarantee of all the
powers, and that thus the chief object Russia has in view
in the present war shall be obtained.
. .

If the. sentiments that have dictated the present declara-
tion to his Majesty the Emperor are appreciatedinGermany,
as we are bound to suppose, we think we may indulge in the
hope that the Confederation, reunited on the same ground,
and completely re-assured as to the German interests en-
gaged in the question, will profit by its unanimity to
weigh in, the balance of Europe in favour,of a peace, of
which Austria and Prussia have presented spontaneously
to us, in the four points, a basis that that will perfectly
satisfy them.

If, on the contrary, this union maintained once more by
the care of Russia, has been desired to be used as a pre-
text for advancing fresh conditions incompatible both in
substance and form with her dignity. The Emperor has
no doubt that the States of the Confederation will repel
such pretensions whencesoever they may proceed, as con-
trary to the loyal sentiments they are- animated with, as
like:wise to the true interests of Germany.

The Emperor thinks that, in return. for the deference
with which he has accepted the prayers addressed to him,
he has a right in all justice to demando, them a neutrality
maintained with all firmness and perseverance, such as was
proclaimed at the commencement.of the present contest.
Receive, &c., D. NESSELRODE