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OVET/10
January
ime. Th

its, Captain Paton, which arrived

Mersey, we h-ave intelligence

Thegpv ernmer

new legislative assembly, the

t assume the

mt to the address having been defeated by 57 to
s reported that Sri Edmund Head, the new
duties of his office till

.text, having obtained leave of absence till that
e legislature of New Brunswick met "for the
patch of business" on the 19th ult. The Reciprocity
will be legislated upon as soon thereafter as is
)le. The Hon. Manners Sutton arrived at Frede-
on the sth ult.

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possible.

THE WAR.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.
Vienna correspondent of the Times, under date of
night, says :—" The Wiener Zeitung of this
evening contains the following doubtful announcement,
evidently from a Russian source, which it professes to
have received from Kicheneff, in Bessarabia, on the 29th
inst.:—On the 25th General Liprandi attacked the detached
camp of the English, and took the four redoubts which,
protected their position. The assailants also took eleven
guns. At the same time such a powerful cavalry attack, was-
made, that it probably cost the English half their light
cavalry. Lord Cardigan, who commanded, escaped with
difficulty. The 004terreichische• Correspondez contains
a despatch from Sebastopol of the24th, which states that
nothing decisive hadoccurred up to- that date, but that
the bombardment of four of the forts. continued, and was
answered by the Russians in Sebastopol. The vessels of
the allies were reported to 'have sustained much injury
in their recent attack upon the forts at the mouth of the
harbour, and some stores of powder were said to have
exploded. It is certain thatthe Russians have received con-
siderable reinforcements, though it is by no means so
certain that they amount to 30,000 men, the number this
despatch fixes them at. I%' is also reported that a still
stronger corps is expected from Perekopq but this very
much requires confirmation."'
A subsequent communication says, that the -statement
from the Wiener Zeitung, of the English' army having
experienced a serious reverse,- is a gross exaggeration.
The affair referred to took place 'near Eupatoria, where
the allies were on the look-out for the advancing...reinforce-
ments of the' Russians. The British cavalry was attacked,
but, the French advanced to its assistance,und the Rus-
sians retired. The date is not exactly known,. but the
affair is supposed to have occurred on the 23rd ult.
The Vienna correspondent of the-Morning'Chronicle,
writing on the 29th ult., says:—"This morning adviees
were receivedfrom the Crimea, dated the 21st inst. They
reached Vienna via Varna (23rd) and Bucharest' (24th).
This -despatch, which though a private one, I' know to
have come from an authentic source, iatbrms us that the
English succeeded in making a breach in the wall of Se-
bastopol on the 21st, and that the storming of the same
would not take. place until the French shouldhave.com.
plated the like operation, which up to that date had not
been accomplished. Farther particulars are not stated.
By way of a set-off-to the. above, a telegraphic despatch
had also been received, from Odessa, dated the 21st inst.
According to this despatch, nothing decisive had taken
place before Sebastopol even up to the 23rd: Frem this
assurance e must conclude that the breach made by the.
English on the 21st is-not regarded by the enemy -asany-
thing decisive ; and; strictly speaking, we must.' adina
that they are quite right as fat- as that goes, Mit this
despatch also informs- us that the English war steamer
Firebrand has been completely destroyed (the- Aliatriare
Correspondence carefnlly modifies this statement by
saying that the Firebrand has been greatly injared).; but
it is nob stated when, how, or in what way, and hence I
cannot attach unqualified credence to this piece-of news.
At all events, it comes- from too. suspicious a quacter to be
entitled to belief. Furthermore, it is stated that the bom-
bardment of Sebastopol had: been continued almost daily
since it first commenced, without, however, having caused
much damage to the Russian, fortifications. This despatch.
also confirms the report of the death of Admiral Korniloffi
and statee that it was lotown at Odessa that Prince Mens-
chikoff had detached 12,000 men to occupy the valley-,of
Balder (situated to the east of Sebastopol), in the hopes-
of being able, from this position, to harrass and molest
the right flank of the allies."
The 111buiteur of Thursday states that, according-Ace
accounts free' Bucharest of the 30th ult., Sadik
having marched on the Danube, Gortschakoff had ordered:
the Russian troops, which had, not yet crossed the Dnies-
ter, to take -up a position on the- Pruth and the Danube.
Achmet Pasha had received orders to join Sadik Pasha
with 10,090, men, at the same time that Iskander Bey
entered the Dobrudscha. The- English steamer Trent,.
which left Sebastopol on -tlie 25th ult., arrived at Varna.
on the evening of the 26th...: The bombardment continued-
without intermission, and with the greatest vigour. Some.
batteries had been erected by the besiegers against the
gates of the town. The streets of Sebastopol were still:
encumbered with the deul and wounded. Admiral NachiA-
moff had been killed by a shell.
The Jetirna/ de St. Petersburg publishes two official
reports from Menschikoff to the Emperor Nicholas, giving.
details of the operations below Sebastopol on the 17th and
18th

Tuesda

The first asserts that at. nightFal on the 17th, the first
day of the bombardment, the English had only two guns
able to return the Russian fire, while the Russians had a.
few dismounted. At noon on- the same day, fourteen ves-
sels of the allied fleet attacked Sebastopol by sea, directing„
their fire against Fort Constantine and battery No.lo.
The shortness of the time and the smoke rendered it ink
possible to furnish complete details of the loss on either
side ; but the Russian cause had sustained a severe lose in,
the death of Admiral Korniloff, whose leg had been carried.
off by a round shot, and who died on the spot.
The second report, dated the 18th, says, that though the,
allied fire was astonishing, by its power and noise, it had
not done so much harm as might have been expected.
The Alexander battery and battery No.lo had not suffered.
muth4,' but the Constantine battery had been greatly in-
jured.. On the land side<none• of the Russian batteries
had suffered, except No. 3, in. which nearly all the pieces,.
33 in.number, had been ,dismounted. The Russian loss,
was estimated at 600 killed and wounded ; among the
latter Admiral Nachimoff very slightly.
During the night of the 18th, the Russians were busily
engaged in repairing the damage done to their defencesc.
On the 18th, the English fire was less active than on,
the day before, and the -French had hardly fired at-all.
Prince Menschikoff attributes this to diversions- made•
without the walls by General Semiakine, who appeared in;
the enemy's rear,..and thus diverted their attention from
Sebastopol.
The vessels which had taken part in the bombardment
on the 17th, and which Prince Menschikoff believed- to be
all French, had gone away in the direction of Cape_Cher-
sonese. The smoke on the 17th, and a thick fog on the
18th, had rendered it impossible for Prince Mensehikoff to
state the enemy's loss ; but ha says it would seem that one
ship of the line had been seriously damaged, and two
steamers set on fire by red-hot shot.
The Times of Friday says. —We have received 'through
our correspondent at Vienna a despatch which had
reached him yesterday morning, having been ,specially
forwarded from Constantinople to Semlin, and. thence by
telegraph. It is as follows
"News has been received from Sebastopol of-the 23rd,
that the cannonade had continued incessantly for seven
days. The fire of the Russians was said to be slackening,
but the French works were not strong enough, and had
been much injured. The British are said to., be within
300 yards of the Russian works. A deserter. says that the
loss of the. Russians has been very great. Nachimeff is
said to be killed. A fire broke out in the -town on the
morning of the 23rd, and was burning when; the steamer
left."

A second despatch from the same correspondent, is as
followst—" OfficiaLdespatches, dated the 25th of October,
for the English, French, and Austrian. Governments,
which, have been received here, show that the siege of
Sebastopol is progressing favourably. They mention fre-
quent rencontres, but say nothing oiLiprandi's alleged
victory. The French brigade from the Piraeus had passed
the Bosphorus."' After the very satisfactory intelligence
we have given above, and which may be fully relied upon,
it is only by way of contrast that we publish the following
' official Russian news,' also received,by way of Vienna :
"On the 25th of October General,Liprandi attacked the
allied camp at Balaklava, stormed four redoubts, and took
eleven guns. The English cavalry.was totally beaten, anci
lost 500 men."
The following was received on Friday, by telegraph from.
Marseilles,. as to the operations. of the 17th and 18ch
October :

FIRST DAY OF TILE SIEGE.-114.LAKLANA, 17TH Ovi
—We opened fire this morning with seventy-one English
and forty-six French guns, against 130 Russian. At
8.40 a French magazine exploded. At 10.45 the fire
was renewed. At 0.45 p.m. the French ships engaged
the sea forts with the Agamemnon, the Retribution, and
the. Britannia. At 1.25 another French magazine.blew
up.. At 1.40 a tremendous explosion took place in. Sabas-
topel. At 2.55 the magazine of the Russian redoubt blew
up ; the Russians, however, returned to their-guns. At
5.30 the ships fired on, Fort Constantine, at short range,
The fire was kept up. till ( o'clock, and did great damn-
to the Russians.
SECOND DAY.—R‘I.ANTAVA, 18TH OCT.—The R
have remounted their guns, which are much heavic. than
ours. Our loss yesterday amounted to N. The Retribu-
tion and London both caught fire, and have had their
mainmasts carried away. The redoubt of the Round
Tower keeps up a brisk fire. We get our munitions up
with difficulty.
Additional accounts to the 20th state that some
English engineers employed at Sebastopol had made their
escape, and reported the town filled with dead left un-
buried, and that provisions were becoming very scarce.
The Russian organ at Berlin contains a letter, dated
St. Petersburg, 24th Oct., which says that warlike pre-
parations are proceeding on the most extensive scale.
Guns of long calibre are casting for Cronstadt. The
iland Islands had been re-occupied. The sinking of five
2gest ships of the line at Sebastopol is alluded to
an example of the determined spirit in which the war
will be carried on.
A despatch from Paw, _
News has reached us to-d,
92nd.

of the lar

way of Trieste, to ti
topol, which had c

s continued

assians

1 Friday evening, says :
_ from Constantinople, by
The bombardment of Sebas-
nenced on the 17th by land and
the 18th and 19th only from the
a. magazines had been exploded in

Lve forts,

:hiding Fort Constantine, had

ed. The fire of the Russians was feebly
The son of Osman Pasha and five Russian

Generals had been killed
L.A -

Two sorties by the garrison

seu, an

ships had

ueen aunt in the port. The Sanspareil, the Agamemnon,
the Charlemagne, and the Ville de Paris, were damaged
on the 17th. The last two have had only twenty-five
men put hors de combat."

GAIA.TZ, OCT. 24.--`4smar Pasha's movements are so
menacing that Prince Gortschakoff is ordering the Rip-
sian troops which had reached the Dniester on fl"' Way
to the Crimea to halt. It is said that h7-,'tense num-
ber of corpses in the town and bastova infect*
the air,'

TUESDAY

NoVEMBEI: 7, 1854.

I AI

tench military paper, the Moniteur de before
contains the followinc, account of the allies "rks• rkg of
Sebastopol :—" We have before us a sketch of te7i.ri
tpe
circumvallation executed by the army now 've °-
siege of Sebastopol, and, without pretending'.fit° TOO,
readers a perfectly correct idea of them, we will Dectei
them as summarily as possible. It must first be ree°
that the place is not defended .on the' side of thedavittiath
regular works. The southern side being I.innatifying,
accessible rocks, the engineers charged with "'
Sebastopol never dreamt of the possibility of a 1.4- doe
that direction. There is consequently no enciente co „ed
oa
properly speaking. The town, however,
that side by a crenellated wall, with a ditch and sowthe
vanced earthworks, hastily thrown up, and wite bold
garrison has actively laboured to complete since t Ole
manceuvre by which, after the battle of the 4,11 ti tbe
allied troops moved from the north to the sew" .All
place, At some distance in front of those works,
364
three large towers, faced with masonry, connminlcord
together by works provided with bastions, formiag43t,
of imperfect half-moon. The portion of the CltY tud the
tacked by theallied army contains the barracks anii the
prison, situate. at its highest point. To the se'
harbour, and beyond it the quarter inhabited hY
partica
iarlp
men, against which the E fishattack En .tte
directed.
To the west are a cemetery and the
PrOteCt e
sre
opposite the French line of attack. i'he three tosTre
of
in advance of those positions, and it is on them the ha • ed
our batteries must first The be brought to bear. f
eircumvallation forms a sort of semicircle, the lett
ded oat
rests on the bay of' Chersonese, where we Wicraal*
siege materiel. The right extends to. the river Ichped tie;
in advance of the road- by which thearray mare"- f the
lalsklava when it turned the city. Independently 1) soil
half-moon formed by the. towers, the French o....,inrraltiae,
have to silence the forts of Alexander and'thegunte,
erected for the defence of the place on the sea side•ecesery
however, also protect the south, and it will be n
to silence their fire. It results, from all theiolln-ailieo
vre.can gather, that the task, undertaken by theme to
army, so far from being as easy as some persona errtl, the
fancied,•is attended with obstacles' which will ettax-oneh
merit
6rave
aonfdthaebbr
coccmesms,afuodredsutcrcooeesrs.i,s;

9001
ifke Vinzes, of Thursday says:—" The British se
Trent left the coast of the Crimea on the Preiiee $
arrived' on the following day at Varna, wmt file
despatch; sent for transmission by telegran; o.oerw
nearest station; reached the French and Engrg'
ments yesterday. Up to the time of the depa.rtiOe
Trent the ' siege and bombardment were going cad.the
regularityand success. So heavy had been the firelife iB
besieging batteries,. and so terrible was the lossi°f6i
the town of Sebastopol, that the air wav rePor'e of Oa'
tainted by the dead who had fallen in defblice, tool
devoted fortress: Guns had been brought to poiiica
some of the gates,and Admiral Nachimoff had fiance be;
by the fragment of a shell. If this last ch•cunist4,oo'
confirmed, it is remarkable that the two chief 0 tack on
the Russian nav'yt who planned and executed thetittragt
Sinope should have expiated within one year fbe,'4.°bis 01;
which gave so terrible an impulse to the ravages ° gice
We cannot tell what amount of confidence is4u,",i Ur.;
to the report circulated' at Constantinople! t 50.0
Raglan had expressed' his opinion at a council' „ an
favour of a prolonged bombardment in preferenc3,o
immediate assault, but' there are many obvious re.s.,,ipct the
favour of the former course. Having acconWiPitle,
prodigious labour of conveying the heavy guns a-fal
ammunition to our batteries, and opened a success 0.6011
on Sebastopol, the rednetion of the place is only a:11 veil
of time, and these ogerations are carried on w:„.`11.11f,,,,-°ll,
inconsiderable losses to the allied forces. An a,5%-acce",„;
the contrary, though it might lead to more raft en t'l
would cost innumerabielives and materially lv,',iefeeTf
besieging armies. Sebastopol' is occupied and -j)ai w,f
not merely by the ordinary garrison of a fortress,t
an army. These troops- are.placed at a very gre3,at
vantage so long as they.are exposed to the ineet;tesv,
of our batteries, for it is impossible that the case'a
the forts should be suffiaientlY extensive to allb,r, deg-
shelter; but in an assault their numbers and tlie„"tel
ration would render them. fbrmidable enemies. L'Aeftflf
tinuanee of the siege is so 'far advantageous to Pfrees74
armies that it must exhaust and destroy the res°- e
tll°' the Russians in the Crimea infinitely more than isnrile°'
the French and English camps. But it must beL-';'h", ter',
mind that the fall of Se-bastopell does not neceszogti
urinate the contest in the. Crimea, even at theme
we
'
time ; and that the army of the allies, which will me
trust, enter the place, has also to hold it againsv ips
Td
sibihty of an attack by the. enemy, whose boss' tuere:
forcements are said to be-on the way, and who illaY6ot,e`
fore be able to undertake- with fresh troops 3 fable;
campaign. Such a contim-rency. may not be very yrlef. as'
but it is one against which the.COmmanders-inasoa
bound to provide, and on, this. account, as vrell
,"
motives of humanity and 'prudence, they will oeduartel,
husband as much as possible the strength of' 1°4..004
which has already been so ranch reduced by casus.,,i'lte, al!
disease. Eventually, if the. place does not cat '7ll e rat"
assault will, of course, t. e-made, but not until b c -
teries have been advanced to the nearest point wil.cecilles
be reached before the walls; and the force of our pr
Alto qoogle
brought within the shortest' possible range. reee Yt
.
therefore, the interval which has elapsed since the tees
of despatches is painfullys-long, and the delay
aggravated by the non-arrival! of the Euphrates:,_,,
mail steamer, which was due at Marseilles on Frio`floght
theprogress of the operations- not slower than ober
be antieipated in a siege ef such magnitude.
,The tie long'
were opened on the 13th„., the fire began at a velicirieen'
_
range on the 17th, and the. approaches have to be
tot w...d through difficult 'ground to fresh locigtaeolietlY
each succeeding night, for, the - works are of ceu,rs„e,. latest
carried on by night and. the firing by day. the coin'
accounts are of the 25th, barely eight days fr°
mencement of the attaek----a period within which b leg
regular siege operations. could' be completed, mile te,„
brought to a victorious- termination. 3,leanw.u,,
grand object of the destruction. of Sebastopol "u -t•e
Russian army is steadily. pursued, and at present toed
no reason to believe that. the advantages we haves iO9
are counterbalanced by excessive, sacrifices or bY
reverse."

A SPY ON THE STAFF. r••• The Malta Tines, of the
„i drir
24th ult., states, from, the Crimea, that the prineg,-teci
goman (a Greek) of Lord Raglan has been del'e' f
sending to Russia intbrmation of the proceeding's; of the
be
allied armies, and has been sent to ConstantinePLeortlig
tried. It will be remembered' that in letters 1.1,7 t °PT,
Crimea after the battle-of Alma, it was stated IS-c.liP
particulars of the strength and diStribution of the- ""
forces were found in. Prince Menschikoff's 107
PROVISION FOR THE WOUNDED.—The folio b,
of necessaries despatched', to Turkey has been 1)11 1105;
officially :—Port wine, 600 dozen ;;brandy, 300' ,
preserved meat, 10 cwt..; essence of beef, 10 0017.:0,''
served potatoes, 45. cwt.;: sago, 6' cwt. ; arrow root, "boler:
barley, 15 cwt. ; sugar, 5,0001 b: ; tea, 2,500 lb.; CoTor:
belts, 40,000; blankets, 10,9003 rugs, 6,000 ;
5,000 ; bolsters, 500 ; _sheets, 15,000; hair 1319."'olvet
2,000 ; bedsteads, 2;600; waterproof beds, 1,';,015,;
filters, 20 : muslin, for mosquito curtains, 2,00°_, ' cliti
sponges, 2,000; calico bandages, 37,000; fiara2,,eol3';
9,500; splints, in •sets, 1,00 s); lint, 3,300 lb; cur tile"
tow ; 4,0001 b ; old linen sheets, 700 pair ; Wzt.o,
matters, surgical and medical, in similar proportio,
THE BALTIC FLEET,--The Duke of weilingtelexpy
ten other liners and three paddle-steamers,
..-anclato°°
Kiel harbour„waiting events and orders. Captain J,,
in the Imperieuse, and a squadron of steamers, ale",,ess°u
-
the Gulf. ./bs .there is. no doubt that merchant
will endeavour to profit- by the short period beg°. 00e
ice blocks in the ports, to run out or in,_ there
chance of our people picking up a few prizes... Th,e,g- t,„Po-
Conflict, and.Ataphion are well on the watch NiTiass'""
Courland coast, and keep a sharp eye on the
outport of Memel. 0,
BUCHAREST, Nov.. I..—The English Consul 30, Dishy
on the 28th October, at ten, o'clock
from
announcs the arrival there of the Ili,undal,,ir`"v an,
Balaklava, on the, 25th. The It• ' Ca oc°
assoca:
~ava
Artillery_ advancing, the English Light CavalrY.rcofferee
to meet them. The English Cavalry. charged ant'o-otni°,l
much. The Scots Greys and sth Dragoon Garn'
rotate 00
to their support, the enemy was completely.
retired behind the batteries taken from the fr°.o
the evening of the 26th the Russians made a sc:`"ici `.ere
Sebastopol Sebastopol against Sir de Lacy Evans' division/. '',rotn',J,
repulsed in half-an-hour, leaving 1,000 dead. oull'"tnte
The English lost one officer only, and a few men Vs 1411;
ir
The above is- official. It is reported that the
drew. precipitously, thereby causing temporary
r
awl considerable loss.
THE •WOUNDED.—An Irish seant writes thus by,
met one poor fellow whose. arm had been shatitfie ortte.
round shot—the hand and elbow. were gone, andcosifol'e
stump of bone was sticking out horribly; Ins
meats had got about him in such a manner,
impossible for him to raise himself. I at once ,; fse
difficulty, r and desired my camrades to cut him I,lleS Ito
his bolts ; he was all the time staring at us ; but "fsce
saw the knife produced, never will I forget tb,ristis,ot
drew; he began to bless. himself and mutter
him;CP
Christian ! for he thought it was all up with jet 0
after our cutting him loose, placing his pael;--lta 11ottle,
head, and giving him a drink out of a water'
seemed to think that we were Christians."

PATRIOTIC Frip.—On Thursday, a wee.'" at. 31
merchants, bankers, traders, and other citizelisol
city of London," was held in the Egyptian /13,11„' •0 e
House, for the purpose of raising a subscriPtj-21 `"-"rf
the Patriotic-Fund. The Lord Mayor preside"' 45.11 '`lscis
was a large attendance of bankers and merchtg 111°,0 of
John Russell addressed the meeting furtkrhe'-ie__OrP„°urs
objects, and a subscription list was opened. .10”-nad
tion of the city of London subscribedo2,oo° ;;-1 000 ; -(01-
Englanad, £2,000; the Goldsmiths' CompanY,';:hroo :„-Do
the Grocers' Company, £l,OOO. A number e; -01nbIee
lowed with sums of £2OO and £250; the varioto Fiefrawit
were, agreed to, and it was mentioned that the clete,t
of the Infant Orphan Asylum, at Wanstead,
4, then e'of
mined on recommending to the governmen', B,bildreqed
meetin, the desirability of ng 20 orphan
soldiers killed, in their asylum.placi A committee n 7.3 '
itati;io
for the purpose of procuring further subscriptioountee-
meeting separated. The amount subscribed 31u
near £16,000.

eaguertliPacorifiOir,
tWcell
wha
ME. SMITH O'BRlEN.—Ameng the passengers b•ti,se t
Malta and Gibraltar by the Candia, which /13,5
rived home with the Indian mail,. was Mr. smith of .the
who arrived from Australia, via Madras. lieZted bYt
to leave the Candia, at Gibraltar, as he is prolu.l,:nccionoli
ustd,,
terms of his pardon from visiting the -United
Some-l''pirirt
Italy. He appeared
It was believed that he purposed visiting • All
04,n filleaoVsehiNgvhtohewerste

tryman to call himself
FA

euirl6 fag,
AuL ACCIDENT.—TI►e Sherbourne J the c
~24r, ~.„d
on Saturday, as the Rev. S. B. Pluu'- P' cent
—L. 111. 1_ 11 nvor4Cl;r 0. a _l'rsc.:4, would L• thr

purcuasea, for the purpose ot bE v ----." tar U..n.
BRE2.isto..llLeDafAteGrz.h—ewe
the noise of a passing train, d sudden s , t, p tei.l if.
animal threw him oft' ....an such violence, tiLaiace i!Dg
a short
on his head ri ~cession of the brain took P_er Into
entle•
..„,.....en after the accident. Well- 6
G breathedreadiin
r.no fS gg.
the Og tforo
man being taken-in by some sharpers at 110 - -
haispaplaesrt:, 7 e 0
ents, w
This is almost as bad as the three-P0.4
done, a short time since, at sq.