The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-26 00:00:00

TEE WAR.

On Saturday, the 16th inst., despatches from Lord Rag-
lan and Marshal St. ArnivclureachLLCaaatnitinoßle
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iiirFrance that on Thursday, the 14th, a completely-snc-
cessful landing had been effected on the enemy's coast.
The intelligence was inmediately communicated to the
embassies of friendly powers, and at 11 a.m. of the 16th
Baron Bruck sent off a Tartar with the following message
to the head-quarters of Count Coronini, at Bucharest :
" CONSTANTINOPLE, Sep. 16.
" On the 14th, 25,000 French, 25,000 English, and 8,000
Turks, disembarked at Eupatoria, without encountering
any resistance. They immediately commenced their march
to Sebastopol. The transports have returned to Varna, to
fetch the reserve corps."
This dispatch arrived at Bucharest on the 19th, and at

Vienna on the 20th. On its arrival in Paris it appears to
have been distrusted by the Government. The Moniteur
published it only as a private and unofficial message, and
under " toute reserve ;" but afterwards an official note
was posted at the Paris Bourse ratifying it with the au-
thority of M. de Bourqueney, the French Minister at Vi-
enna. To complete the authentication of this most im-

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portant intelligence, it is added that telegraphic accounts
have been received by Her Majesty's Government from
Vienna and Bucharest announcing that the allied forces,
consisting of 25,000 English, 25,000 French, and 8,000
Turkish troops, landed on the 14th at Eupatoria, without
meeting any resistance, and had commenced marching on
Sebastopol.
It has been stated that shots were exchanged and lives
lost during the landing ; but this is not true. The enemy's
preparations were founded on a misconception of the plan
of the French and English generals, and were directed to
the wrong point.
The chief French and English naval force was at the
entrance to Sebastopol,' eeping guard on the enemy's fleet
during the landing. It is said, upon less certain autho-
rity,that ships, with troops, are off the fortress of Kinburn

anal island ofTendra, near Odessa, with a view of inter-
cepting any Russian reinforcements intended for the Cri-
mea. The whole of this news came to hand by telegraph,
and is necessarily brief.

Rumours respecting the bombardment of Odessa have
been very rife during the week. The town itself has been
subject to increased consternation, as may be seen from
the following letter, published in a Vienna newspaper,
and dated from Odessa, September 7 :—" Many inhabi-
tants of the town have sought refuge at Tiraspol, the
position of the hostile fleet being a threatening one.
Half the population of this city has already hastened into
the interior of Russia, in order to escape the terrible can-
nonade which has more than once wounded our ears-
Since yesterday several ships have been collecting in front
of our city. To-day some of them got into order of
battle, and began to fire for practice. At first the com-
mander, Count Annenkoff, thought the enemy was about
to attack us, and the garrison was kept ready for action,
but the real state of things soon became evident. The
enemy has not yet attacked us, but we are in hourly ex-
pectation he will do so. A great many ships are sailing
in a westerly direction. The enemy will certainly menace
all the places on the coast of the Black Sea at one and
the same time, in order to keep our army fully occupied.
Akermanu, Odessa, Oczakoff, Kinburn, Perekop, Eupa,-
toria, Sebastopol, and, indeed, all the places up to Anapa,
will become targets for the enemy's artillery.'

The same letter contains the following respecting Se-
bastopol :—" Prince 31enschikoff has exhausted all means
of defence in order to render Sebastopol impregnable, as
well from the land as from the sea side. Between Sebas-
topol and Balaklava there are five strong detached forts,
which arc garrisoned by a sufficient number of troops.
The road from Balaklava to Yalta is rendered impassable
and partly mined. The coast between Sebastopol and En-
patoria is defended at unequal distances by batteries con-
sisting of six howitzers. There are three forts at Enpa.
toria, one on the north, a second on the east, and a third
on the west side. That place is garrisoned by 15,000 men.
The heights in front of Sebastopol, which are encircled by
redoubts and trenches, are armed with eighteen batteries
and defended by 20,000 men. The garrison of Sebastopol
is only 10,000 strong, but, if we add to this number the
crew of the fleet, the fortress is defended by 25,000 men.
Prince Menschikoff issued a proclamation on the 3rd, In
which he prepared the people for a resistance to the very
last. lam unable to give you the proclamation literally,
but I can give you the sense of it as it was communicated
to me by a friend. The prince first enumerates all the
victories gained by the Russians in the course of this cen-
tury, and then calls on his soldiers to show themselves
equal to their predecessors in bravery and power of en-
durance. If the enemy, as a consequence of the inscru-
table will of Heaven, should obtain a victory, then let the
whole store of powder go with him into the air. The
conclusion of the proclamation is Rather let us die than
surrender to the enemy.' Our army is very much cast
down. The news of the fall of Bomarsund has much de-
pressed military men, as well high as low. From the
interior of Russia, especially from the neighbourhood of
Novogorod, reinforcements have arrived within the last
few days, but they do not remain here, as their destination
is Oczakoff and Kerson. Troops have also arrived from
the Danubian army."
A rumour, extensively circulated at Varna, but far from
credible, is that the garrison of Odessa has contrived to
send a very strong reinforcement to the garrison of Sebas-
topol. The naval officers assert it is absurd to say so, and
that if any reinforcement was sent, it must have been de-
spatched by land round to the neck of the isthmus ; but
there are many persons who insist on the truth of the story
that these men were sent by sea while our fleet was at
Baltschik—that they gave the blockading squadron the
slip by night, and that they were conveyed in the large
shallow vessels and floats used for loading ships with corn
at the Danubian ports, which keeping close in shore,
managed to evade our cruisers.

To arrive at Sebastopol, theallied army will be obliged
to make a detour towards the left, and then to bend to
the right of Simferopol, where they may probably fall in
with the enemy. The Allied troops will have to cross two
rivers, the Kaltcha and the Belbeck, and it is not impro-
bable that the existence of these two streams has been one
of the causes which have determined the General-in-
Chiefs to select Eupatoria for their landing-place, in order
to ensure plenty of water for the troops; for in other parts
of the Crimea there is no water fit to drink, except in
wells, which the Russians could poison if they pleased.
About two or three days will be required to effect the
landing, and entrench the position taken up. The move-
ment on Sebastopol could not therefore have taken place
before the I7th or 18th; and as the distance to be gone
over requires at least three days' march, it is only the
21st, or the next day, that the first encounter of the
Anglo-French troops with the enemy will probably have
taken place, unless, indeed. the latter should have thought
fit to come forward and meet them. But that supposition
is not very probable. It seems more likely that the
Russians, not having been in a position to oppose the
landing, will await an attack by supporting themselves
on Simferopol and Theodocia.
Accounts from Rutschuk mention a severe encounter
between the regular Ottoman troops and the Bashi-
Bazouks. Omer Pacha had a large body of the latter
surrounded. They refused to give up their arms, and
fired upon the soldiers. Artillery was brought out, and
a regular engagement ensued, ending in the destruction
of 400 of these marauders. The rest have been disarmed
and sent home.

Trebizond letters ttate that a hundred villages in.
Georgia have been surprised by Schamyl's Lesghian
cayalry, and that a large booty had been made. The
castle of the Princess Taharshavasde, vigorously defended
by the Georgian militia, was taken by storm. Two
children of the Princess, with their French governess,
Mme. Drancey or De Raney, perished.
Despatches from Vienna announce that the Russian
army had entirely quitted Moldavia on the 17th, and had
destroyed the bridges over the Pruth. Tne Austrian
troops were to enter the Principality without further
delay.

ANOTHER MIRACLE.-A letter from Pleaux (Cantal),
iu the Ami de la Paine of the Puy-de-Dome, eitys:—
" A very affecting ceremony has just taken place in this
neighbourhood. Yesterday, being the fete of Notre-Dame
d'Euchanet, there was a pious pilgrimage into the midst
of a real desert. At an early hour in the morning a crowd
of persons of all ranks and conditions were seen to arrive
from all parts of the country, and at ten o'clock a simple
but numerous and devout procession was seen advancing
along the narrow path over the heath. It descended
s far as the bottom of the wood of Rastiffonnieres, and
stopp 3d before a large rock in which was cut a niche con-
taining a venerated Madonna. The Abbe Laden was
standing on the upper point of the rock, addressing the
an
crowd of persons. He had just made use of those words of
Scripture, ' What comest thou into the wilderness to see 1'
when suddenly a voice exclaimed `.A miracle!' A young
foundti lllembusledllrruindwha ad
person belonging to a neighbouring commune had just
recovered her sight. . The crowd wept with joy and grati-
tude at seeing this young person cured in such
extra-
ordinaryamonghe manner.rninber Nofotpoenrseonsincreasds
been any, they would only have met with' ' • - 'ere
—Galignani,

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