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

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and wounded. Several unlucky balls, as ~.._.,
styled, struck the English vessels, killing, not solitary
men, but carrying off whole files. The French vessels

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snot were sufficiently injurious to the vessels. The Forte
received 40 balls, and, though she was in the thickest of
the fight, only six of her men were killed and 10 wounded

on the vessel.
The Russians handled their guns with a skill which
commanded the admiration of the allied forces. 1,500 of
the men in the fort were veterans from the Caucasus,
sent out through Siberia and down the Amoor within a
year, and 600 of the number had arrived within three
months of the attack.
Among the prisoners taken were a number of persor

intelligence, including Germans, Danes, and others, who
had been in the Russian service. A Russian general, now
on the frigate Forte, in this harbour, was captured in the
Sitka. He was going to take command of the fortifica-
tions at Petropaulowski. While the allied fleet was before
that place, a Russian admiral, formerly on the Pallas
frigate, arrived from the Amoor, off the harbour, in a
small screw steamer, and was about to enter, when he
discovered the hostile vessels, or was signalised, and, put-
ting about, succeeded in making his escape.

H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT, has, we are informed, ordered
a seal-skin fur coat to be supplied, at his own expense, to
every officer in the Crimea or about to proceed thither.
Some officers on the eve of departure have already received
these acceptable gifts, which reflect equal credit on the
consideration and bounty of his Royal Highness.—The
Press.

TURKEY.-Our consul represents the resources of Tur-
key at Euren-keuy, both in vegetable and mineral produc-
tion, as inexhaustible. He can get Turkish labourers for
three pounds a-year wages, besides their keep ; but he
finds it more profitable to employ Greeks at ten pounds a-
-‘a.r : there is the present history of the two races. He
`-s, very decidedly, that it is the best thing for the

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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
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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 he 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 ?—Lord Carlisle's Diary.
TILE CJIA.E.GE BA.LAILLA.VA.—The charge of the
Light Brigade of Cavalry on the batteries of the enemy,
some 30 guns strong, though brilliantly and bravely done,
was most disastrous 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 when it was
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 in 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

prisoner, for he 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 —shcrt•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 11th, 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 cat ;
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 pneke
d ratl staog.red him in his saddle ; but his lordsv

an _de,
being well mounted, and a good cross-country rider,
moreover, as cool as brave men ever are in real danger;
parried their thrusts, and escaped with the aforesaid lance-
pricks in his leg.
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PERILS OF TIIE 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.

MILITARY TECIINOLOGY.—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-millionth part of the earth's_circumference. Its
nice proportion to the English foot is given by a decimal
fraction ofi many figures; but for the general purpose of

icient practical

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exactitude to consider nine metres as equivalent to ten
yards. Nay, speaking of siege operations, it would often
be practically safe to take the word metre as synonymous
:....e.l-nrina a wit-allele is re-

with yard. For when, tor instanuc, . put ....,....,..,.,.,,
..... ...Au the ported to be at the distance of 200 metres from the town,
such a figure is generally given at a rough approximation,-
which may be often wide of the truth by more than one-
__ ..,, tne foot of a small mud narrow tenth, either in excess or in defect. A parallele is
mg of which were protected by numerous bat- nothing but a ditch made by the besiegers, in a direction
Before the town could be reached it would be parallel to the walls of the town, for the purpose of having
-essary to silence three of these batteries. Nature has there a shelter from the missiles of the besieged, and of
the town.
firing against them from its parapet in comparative safety.
given the place a protection, by the erection of a mound
in a siege,
Usually three paralleles are successively dug, the first at
)0 of sand in the midst of the bay. the greatest, and the third at the shortest distance from
e- This mound of sand leaves to the vessels but a narrow Pacines and gabions are always indispensable
ck channel, and hides the view of the principal fortress to especially where the ground is rocky, as round
as vessels at a distance, On the 30th August, the six yes- Sebastopol. Faseines and gabions are words both of
Italian origin ; the former is nearly. synonymous with
,nd self; of war, the Forte, of 60 guns ; the Eurydice, of 28
ay, guns ;the Obligado, of 12 guns ; the Piqu steam guns ; fagots, the latter means a kind of wicker-work of cylin-
drical form, constructed anywhere, and replenished with
•-,- +l,. President. of 50 guns • and the Virago,r, of 6
: earth or stones, where its use Is required,