The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-19 00:00:00

THE WAR.

No offiCiai intelligence has arrived since- the despatches
from Lord',Raglan, which we published last week. The
following are the telegraphic accounts which have since
been received :

The Sti, Petersburg Journal, of Dec: 7,

states that a

report had been received by the Emperor' from Prince
Menschikoff, dated Nov. 27. At that date.the fire of the
besiegers had,slackened to such an extent that the Rus-
sians had sustained no loss at all for some days. The
enemy were strengthening their position, and constructing
fresh batteries,but the fire from those new works had not
yet opened.
CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, DEC. 3.—Rain. is falling
in torrents. Oar roads are cut up, our trenches filled with
water, and our • siege operations, as well as all our works,
remain in a state- of suspense. The enemy remains im-
movable, for the same reason as ourselves. In spite of
these trials, the-spirit of all is excellent, and we remain
firm and ready to resume our operations as soon as ever
the weather and 'the state of the roads will allow us to stir.
General de Montebello arrived on the 6111 at Constan-
tinople, and left the next day for the Crimea. The-health
of Prince Napoleon was improving.
A letter from Bucharest, dated Dec. 11, says —" Omar
Pasha left this morning for Varna, where they were busily
occupied in embarking the rest of the 19 Turkish bat-
talions, a portion of which has already reached the Crimea.
The steamer Europa, which left Sebastopol on the 7th,
brings information- of the arrival of four regiments and
numerous French . re-inforcements. Great activity was
observable, between, the town and the northern- coast of
the bay. The investment of the town is almost complete.
The new siege guns belonging to the fleets had not yet
been placed in position?'

A 'Marseilles- letter of the 12th has the following:—
"The ship Indiana,.whieh left on Saturday, takes out 170
officers, 1,016 soldiers and 28 horses. The transport
Nubia, which sailed on!Monday, has on board 17 officers,
1,093 soldiers, 24 horses, three barrels of gunpowder, 207
barrels of artillery stores, and a few camp articles."
The packet which -left Constantinople on the 4tlt had
arrived at Trieste on. Thursday night. The accounts from
Sebastopol state that the allied armies were occupied in
preparing their barracks to winter in the Crimea.. On
the 2nd, 1,000 English soldiers passed through the-B.os-
phorus to reinforce the English army. The Duke of
Cambridge was still ilt„ and confined to his bed.
Six vessels full of troops left Constantinople on the-3rd
for the Crimea. Cheri Pacha has been named Minister
of Finance.

A despatch from Ralaklava, through Varna, has been
received at Vienna, stating that Lord Raglan has caused
some siege pieces to be embarked on board the fleet,. for
the purpose of forcing the port of Odessa, and usingit as
a winter station for the fleets. The despatch is without
date, and has not as .yet been confirmed.
From St. Petersburg a despatch has been received at
Vienna, dated the 12th, stating that if negotiations do not
produce peace at the commencement of the new year, a
conscription is ordered throughout Russia of 16 in every
1,000, producing an army of 1,000,000 soldiers. .
The ratifications of the treaty of alliance between Austria
and the Western Pewers were exchanged at Vienna,. on
Thursday evening; between the plenipotentiaries of
Austria, France, and. England.
A convoy of 800,Tiwkish prisoners, taken by the. Rus-
sians in one of the late battles in Asia, proceeding to the
Don, were surprised by the Caucasians in passing the
mountains. The escort, were destroyed, and the prisoners
thus found themselves delivered.

Seven captured sailors of a Russian merchant vessel,
who contrived to escape from Hull, have been arrested at
Hamburgh, on their arrival in that port, at the request of
the English ambassador. Hamburgh professing.to be a
neutral power, this places it in an awkward position.
From a telegraphic despatch in the Presse, dated Con-
stantinople, December 4, it appears that the Russians at
Sebastopol have retired to the second line of defence. They
have quitted the, Quarantine' Battery, and are conveying
the guns to their

PAnce Napoleon return to the Crimea in :a day or
two. Kamiesch is to be fortified. The Turkish, amp will
be removed from Churuk-su to Batoum.
MAnsEILLns, FRIDA.Y.—The Sinai has arrived here
with Government despatches from Constantinople, which
she left on the. sth inst.

Accounts from Balaklava of the 3rd state that a new
battery of 36rins had been established against Sebastopol.
The bay of Kamisech was fortified.
A fresh,Russian corps had arrived near Perekop.
The Hannibal and Golden Fleece had arrived with
English. roops.

The Moniieur of Friday says, " Some of the journals
have lately alluded to propositions of peace alleged to have
been made•by Russia to France and England. The Courts
of Paris and London have not received any proposals of
the kind from the Cabinet of St. Petersburg."
BERLIN, FRIDAY.—Baron Vincke's motion for an ad-
dress in answer to the King's Speech.has been rejected.
M. Bentham Hollweg's motion has been withdrawn. The
expectations that Prussia would join the treaty of alliance
with the Western Powers are becoming fainter.
BUCHAREST, DEC. 11.—By the arrival at Varna of the
Europa, we have news from Sebastopol of the 7th. A
great movement of the enemy between, the town and the
north of the bay was observable. The investment of the
place was nearly complete. Four French regiments and
numerous reinforcements had arrived. The new siege
guns from the allied fleets had, not been got into position.
This morning Omar Pacha left Bucharest for Varna, where
preparations are actively made to embark the remainder
of the nineteen Turkish battalions, some of which have
already gone to the Crimea.-
A letter from Lyons, dated. Wednesday, says the army
of that place was about to march to the Austrian territory,
and thence to co-operate with the Austrian troops in Bes-
sarabia.

It further states that a brigade of cavalry was about to
leave Lyons for Vienna, with the same object. It is
affirmed that the French army in the Crimea will be in-
creased to 12 divisions,. or about 120,000 men, which, with
the English and. Turkish reinforcements, will raise the.
total force to 200,000 men,

Advices from Warsaw, of the 7th inst., published in the
German papers, report.the entrance of the Russian guards
into Poland. The Cuirassier division •of the Russian
guards, which it was expected would go• into cantonments
in the neighbourhood of Warsaw, and reinforce the garrison,
already so large, of the Polish capital, had arrived at
Miedzynrec and Siedlee. The commander of this division
of heavy cavalry., Lieut.-General Von Essen, went to see
Marshal Paskiewitch, who was expecting also the generals
of the two brigades, Besobrasoff and Tumanski. No less
than 17 Russian generals, who had arrived from various
points of the empire, were assembled on the 7th at Warsaw.

It is affirmed that the French army in the Crimea will
be increased to 12 divisions, or about 120,000 men, which,
with the English and Turkish reinforcements, will raise
the total force to 200,000 men. . _ _

JUSTICE TO THE ENEMY.—Russian exaggeration of the
numbers of the allies who beat them at Alma and Inker-
man may not be entirely wilful falsehood,, After the raki
and rum with which the Cossacks were primed for fighting,
no doubt they saw two Frenchmen and as many English,
men for every one.—Punch. _

One of the 24-pounder brass guns, captured at Alma,
has been awarded, in division orders, to the 95th Regi,
'meat, having been. cla!med,_ andtake.n possession of by