The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-28 00:00:00

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if Russians were concealed. ,TI
serous fire upon the French and English, who, after a short
resistance, fled with the loss of about 150 men killed and
wounded. They left their dead upon the. field. They

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was supposed that the Aurora was so much in,....... -.
several months would be required to repair her; and the Derryboy.
Dwina, a vessel of about 18 guns, was considerably in- On the 15th inst., at St. Paul's Chum-,
jured. The winter, however, has now set in at Petro- then ev. H. W. Marychurch, Mr. J. P. Re(
paulowski, and the ice will have completely closed the manufacturer, of Blackbur
harbour of the port of St. Peter and St. Paul long before of Henry Leigh, Esq-, all
this, so that no trouble to French and English commerce On the I6th inst., a
lan, Joseph Appleton,
is to be anticipated from the Aurora and Dwina until
next April at least. The frigate Pallas was taken up the Miss Jeffreys, of Thor!
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th, Blackburn, I

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On the 20th inst., at St. John the _
attack, Gibson Gray to Miss Elizabeth Thomas.
_..... signally in their secondary object, the destruc- On the 20th inst., at St. Nicholas's, R. C. Chapel _
in of the fortifications at Petropaulowski. The purpose peras-hill, by the Very Rev. P- '- Mr. William
,vas not to take the town, which they might really have Baxter, of Clitheroe, to Anni,
taken or destroyed without loss, on the second day. Its Mr. J. Hughes, Byrom-street.
conquest, however, offered nothing of benefit. The loss of On the 21st inst., at the Presbyterian Church, Gra._,_
life in the allied fleet is differently given by those who lane, Birkenhead, by the Rev. James Towers, Mr. James
were present. More Englishmen than Frenchmen were Pearson, plasterer, Brook-street, to Mrs. Anue Shell.
killed and wounded. Several unlucky balls, as they are On the 21st inst., at St. George's Church, Douglas, Isle
styled, struck the English vessels, killing, not solitary of Man, by the Rv. Edward Forbes, Mr. S. J. Bambe•
• ---------- Aft' whole. files. The French vessels nrofessor of music. to Eliv9h.#l, -...__

The assailants failed in the main object of the

Two days

ovost Crook
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unlucky" balls, although a number of the of Mr. John Armstrong, of Douglas. -
shot were sufficiently injurious to the vessels. The Forte On the 21st inst., at St. Pelves Church, Everton, by
received 40 balls, and, though she was in the thickest of the Rev. T. Robinson, incumbent of St. Bartholomew's,
the fight, only six of her men were killed and 10 wounded Mr. J. Hewitt to Miss Elizabeth Wilson, both of Everton.
on the vessel. On the 22nd inst., at St. John the Baptist's Church, by
The Russians handled their guns with a skill which the Rev. James Hassan, M.A., William, eldest son of Mr.
-.led the admiration of the allied forces. 1,600 of Jackson. shipbuilder, to Elizabeth, third daughter of John

received no

comman,—
the men in the fort were veterans from the Caucasus,
Wilson, Esq., of this town.
sent out through Siberia and down the Amoor within a
On the 22nd inst., at Farnham, Surrey, by the Arch-
year, and 600 of the number had arrived within three bishop of Canterbury, the Rev. Robert Newman Milford;
months of the attack. fourth son of John Milford, Esq.' of Coaver, near Exeter,
Among the prisoners taken were a number of persons of to Emily Sarah Frances, youngest daughter of the Bishop
intelligence, including Germans, Danes, and others, who of Winchester.
had been in the Russian service. A Russian general, now On the 2Snd inst., at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic
on the frigate Forte, in this harbour, was captured in the Chapel, Grosvenor-street, Mr. James Brown to Miss M
Sltka. He •was going to take command of the fortifica- Matheson.
Lions at Petropaulowski. While the allied fleet was before On the 22nd :
that place, a Russian admiral, formerly on the Pallas Rev. H. H. Westmoi
frigate, arrived from the Amoor, off the harbour, in a this town, to Ma
small screw steamer, and was about to enter, when he Esq., of Greenheys. - -
by the public. I sincerely trust that you win _
discovered the hostile vessels, or was signalised, and, put- On the 22nd inst., at St. Martin's Church, Guernsey. sufficient confidence in my undertakings as to place the
ting about, succeeded in making his escape. by the Rev. H. De Sausmarez, Gilbert Hamilton, Esq., of whole of the amount in the hands of M. De Buit, 41,
Hamstead Villa, Barr, Staffordshire, to Charlotte B. De Rue de la Victoire, one of the first bankers in Paris, and

A., Williamß. Lupton, Esq., of
...aret, daughter of Richard Atkinson,

S.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT, has, we are informed, ordered Sausmarez, Esq., of Sausniarez Manor, Guernsey. tions for my reinstatement in Her _Majesty s service,
a ,seal-Skin fur coat to be supplied, at his own expense, to On the 23rd inst., at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, or any appointment under Government, I should most
every officer in the Crimea or about to proceed thither by the Rev. E. Vernon, Granville Edward Vernon, Esq., respectfully decline accepting. I shall ever be thank-
Some officers on the eve of departure have already received to Lady Selina Catherine Meade. - ful to the public and to you, who have been so kind in
these acceptable gifts, which reflect equal credit On the On the 25th inst. at St. Alban's Church, Limekiln-lane, endeavouring to place me in the position in which I was,
consideration and bounty of his Royal Highness.—The by the Rev. F. A. Power, Mr, Wilfred Hodgson to Miss but so unjustly deprived. I have other and surer modes
Press. Anne Swan, both of Cockermouth. of gaining a livelihood. Again, many thanks to you and
TURKEY.—Our consul represents the resources of Tur- On the 25th inst., at Trinity Church, Westbourne- the public." Perry, in a letter to Mr. Bedborougb, denies
key at Euren-keuy, both in vegetable and mineral produc- terrace, Loudon, by the Rev. L. J. Bernays, M.A., W. C. that he had been indulging in extravagance and folly at
lion, as inexhaustible. He can get Turkish labourers for Hussey Jones, T.
three pounds a-year wages, besides their keep ; but he 1 second daugv

aris, and states

3ernays, of

man per

,
finds it more profitable to employ Greeks at ten pounds a-
year : there is the present history of the two races. He
thinks, very decidedly, that it is the best thing for the
Christian races themselves to preserve the existing state
of things for the present, till their growth has secured its
own result. A Turk himself had told him the other day
that it was becoming inevitable that gradually all the
chief employments, and the army itself, must be recruited
from the Christian population ; and then, some day, the
Ministers would tell the Sultan that he must become a
Christian, and be would do so. Will it, then, be a convert
or a conqueror, a Constantine or a Ferdinand, who will be
first crowned in Saint Sophia P—Lord Carlisle's Diary
ME CHARGE AT BALA KEA:VA.—The charge
Light Brigade of Cavalry on the batteries of the ent

of the

guns strong, though brilliantly

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was mostdisastrous in its consequences to that gallant
and devoted band, for it seems that out of 700 who went
into the fray. only 130 answered their roll wl

over ; and it appears to have been done under a misappre-
hension of an order from the Commander-in-Chief. Lord
Cardigan pointed out to his superior officer the immense
difficulty of charging a battery, flanked by another, into a
sort of a cul de sac, with the hills lined with rifles and
guns.; but, receiving the positive order to charge, at it he
and his splendid brigade went, and as they approached
within a few hundred yards of the big battery a shell
burst close to him, and struck Captain Nolan in the chest,
which caused the poor fellow to scream awfully, and his
horse turned and galloped to the rear, when his gallant
but impetuous rider was found lying dead. The Light
Brigade still kept sweeping on till they were right iii front
of them, when a 32-pounder went off within two feet of
Lord Cardigan's horse, quite lifting him off the ground,
but he got in among them, and was, where he always will
be when it comes to the point, in the first rank. It seems
they rode right throught the guns and turned, after kill-
ing the men who were serving them. His lordship's extra

aide de camp, it is • supposed, was wounded and tali-en
prisoner, for be has not since been heard of. Mr. Womb-
well, of the 17th Lancers, had a most extraordinary escape,
showing a monstrous deal of pluck. His horse was—it is
said two were—shot under him, and he was taken prisoner,
but while being marched off he saw an opportunity,
mounted a Russian's horse, and galloped back, rejoining
some of his brigade who had reformed, and charging again
without sword or pistol. Mr. Cook, of the llth, also had
a regular run for his life of a mile and a half, pursued by
the Russian cavalry, to avoid whom he ran under range of
the guns of one of their batteries, and finally escaped.
Major Clarke, of the Greys, in addition to a bad cut in the
neck, had his horse's tail almost cut off by a sabre cut; •
and the gallant Adjutant Miller, an unusually poWerful
man, did extraordinary execution when he got to close
quarters with them. Lord Cardigan was attacked by two
Cossacks, who with their lances gave him several pricks, •
and rather staggered him in his saddle ; but his lordship
being well mounted, and a good cross-country rider, and, '
moreover, as cool as brave men ever are in real danger,
parried their thrusts, and escaped with the aforesaid lance-.
pricks in his leg.
PERILS OF THE BALTIC.—Of all seas the Baltic is one
of the most dangerous to shipping and harrassing to crews.
Sudden and frequent changes of the wind, shallow waters
off shore, innumerable shoals and insulated rocks, with
currents divided by these obstacles, branching off in
different directions to be re-divided by the same cause,
till, meeting from opposite. quarters, the waters are em-
broiled in the hurly-burly of a sturdy conflict ; there are
almost constant sources of anxiety to the mariner, for the
navigation is most beset with such impediments precisely
in those parts which are eminently the highways of com-
merce. Hence the proportion of maritime casualties is
much greater in the case of vessels sailing to the Baltic •
ports than in the instance of merchantmen passing be-
tween Great Britain and America. In the month of May,
when the navigation opens in the Gulf of Finland, flags
are planted, by order of the Russian government, at the
extremities of most of the shoals, which are red when
placed on the north side of the channel, white when they
are to be left on the south, and half red half white when
they may be passed on either side. The hydrographical
officers of the Czar have not performed this duty, for
obvious reasons, in the present season. Nowhere have
the waves the magnitude and grandeur which belongs to
those of the ocean ; but they are not less furious, and far
more difficult to manage, breaking abruptly, owing to the
inconsiderable depths, and succeeding each other with ,
greater rapidity. The long-rolling billows common to the
Atlantic are seldom seen, even in the more open parts of
the sea; but sandbanks soon terminate their unbroken
sweep ; when, rent into a 'thousand atagonist columns,
the fragments of the shattered wave are thrown together
in unimaginable confusion. A " chopping sea," or one
without any definite right-onward movement, but tossing
up and down, to and fro, hither and thither— a chopping
performed in a most vigourous style—is eminently cha-
racteristic of the waters.—The Baltic, its Gales, Shores,
and Cities.

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MILITARY TECRNOLOGY.—SOMe of our readers may
perhaps find to their convenience the following explana-
tions of French Locutions :—" Hors de combat"—literally
out of combat—is a very comprehensive phrase, extending
to all the men disabled in a fight from continuing to take
part in it, by being either killed, wounded, or made pri-
soners. The metre is a lineal French measure, equal to
the forty-millioneth 'part of the earth's circumference. Its