The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-21 00:00:00

" In our share of the day's proceedings _
engaged on both sides. The losses have been great ;
has been about 4,000 men, and that of the enemy at least
as great.
This sanguinary affair has been only one of those
accidents which occur so frequently in war. Had our
forces been concentrated, we should, without doubt, have
reduced the enemy to the utmost extremities. We are
now getting all our reserves up from Simferopol, Bakschi-
Serai, and Sutachiva. We are about to resolutely assume
the offensive, and we shall not allow one day's repose to
the enemy. Their forces are diminishing visibly. The
partial reinforcements which they successively have
received have not been sufficient to fill up the voids which
war and malady have made in their ranks. Their number
at present cannot be more than 50,000 men. This army
cannot escape us ; we have for us the moral ascendancy
and a great superiority in numbers. We are on our own
ground, and we are fighting at the same time for our soil,
and for the most holy of causes."
A Russian despatch gives news from Sebastopol to the
Bth instant, from which it results that, notwithstanding
all the efforts of the enemy, the siege operations continued
and were extended. The French were entrenching on
their left. Nothing had occurred since the 6th to furnish
matter for a Russian bulletin.
The French papers publish telegraphic news from Mar-
seilles, brought there by the Sinai from Constantinople.
The most important is, however, the fact, -that General
Mayran's brigade, from Greece, and 2,000 Zouaves from
Africa, both corps destined for the Crimea, had been met
at sea, and according to all probability would have joined
General Canrobert's army by the time the Sinai reached
Marseilles.
A gale in the Black Sea on the night of the 28th, and
which the Russian despatch described as terrific, and as
causing great damage to the fleets, appears to have tried
the seamanship of the Turks, and, it is said, has cost them
an 80-gun ship and a frigate.
The following summary of the news by the Sinai is given
in La Presse MARSEILLES, Nov. 15.
The Sinai has just arrived, with news from the Crimea
to the 3rd. It had been decided that the assault should
take place on the sth. 4,000 men, headed by Prince
Napoleon, were to direct the first attack against the Rus-
sian fort near the cemetery. The moment of assault was
waited with impatience. The state of Sebastopol is de-
scribed as frightful. The want of water is severely felt,
and typhus fever prevailed in the city, infected as it was
with the dead bodies which the sea. cast upon the quays.
In the burning- of the hospital of Sebastopol, 2,000 sick
and wounded were consumed. The first division was de-
tached from the besieging army in order to reinforce the
corps charged with observing the Russian army. Three
attacks attempted by the latter had been repulsed. Rear-
Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons had cut off the communica-
tions between Tamana, Anapa, and the land, and was
watching the Sea of Azoff; not a ship passed without
being rigorously searched. On the 26th, Rear-Admiral
Bruat landed near Yalta. The inhabitants received him
in a friendly manner, and supplied him with provisions.
The Cacique and the Spitfire, which were cruising before
the Dneitser, signalled the passage by Perekop of Russian
troops on their way to Sebastopol. The fire of the Rus-
sian guns had become languid. It was thought the
internal defence of the town would be energetic. The
houses were barricaded, furnished with cannon, and
transformed almost into citadels. Four ships of the Rus-
sian fleet were sunk. The weather was fine in the Crimea,
but at a distance the sea was stormy, and disasters were
feared. The Allier, Tisiphone, Ville de Marseille, Jena,
Albatross, Charlemagne, Napoleon, Taif, and the Tedjare,
which had been at sea, had returned. Some apprehensions
existed about the Suffren, the Madmouje, and the Abad-
jihad. The Bahira was said to be lost. The squadrons
under the command of Admirals Hamelin and Dundas
were in Katcha bay. The troops and the division under
the command of the rear-admirals are at Balaklava and in
Kamisch bay. The fleets render important services. It
was announced that the Russian flotilla Ismail would soon
be attacked.