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

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right,

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to take' and keep
up the hill, and
.om all points ; but

alstreams held their ground, fighting with perfect
desperation. The battery was now completely encircled
111 front, flank, and rear, and, as the Coldstreams say,
every man in the place gave himself up for lost, and
determined to sell his life dearly. Three times did the
Russians throw themselves upon the battery, and by the
sheer weight of their masses surmount and cross the walls,
yet each time they were driven back again. The meige
was frightful. •So close were the antagonists, that after
once firing the musket there was no time to load. The men
then stood up and charged with the bayonet, or beat each
other down with the butts of their muskets. Each time
the Russians were repulsed they left heaps of dead behind,
and it was over the corpses of their comrades that 0-

advanced each time -t43 L'afresh attack. Every now and
then the Russians made a desperate dash to enter by the BATTLE WITH THE RUSSIANS IN THE
embrasures, but were bayoneted in the attempts till the
PACIFIC.
embrasures were choked with corpses. All this time the
Coldstream Guards alone, almost unaided, and only 500
Strong, had been keeping at bay nearly 7,000 of the enemy's BY the steam-ship Pacific, Captain Nye, which arrived
00ps. But at last they were compelled to retire. The in Lirerpool on Tuesday night, we have news from New
Russians came round hi rear of the battery, and kept np York to the 11th inst. She brings 59 passengers and
from a distance a tremendous fire of musketry. The 593,648 dollars. The most interesting feature, by this
Coldstreams did not abandon the place while the least hope arrival, is the intelligence received at New York, by the
remained of defending it successfully. They then charged North Star, from California, respecting the proceedings
°at in a body on the enemy in their rear, leaving eight of the allied fleets against the Russians in the Pacific.
Acers and nearly 200 men killed and wounded in the The authentic news of the declaration of war by Eng-
-I?attery behind them. All the wounded were instantly land and Prance against Russia reached the allied squadron
bayoneted by the Russians. Some of the officers' bodies in Callao just after the departure of several Russian
Were found with as many as 20 bayonet wounds and their vessels from that coast. The Russian vessels went to the
skulls completely smashed with the butt-ends of muskets. Sandwich Islands, and thence, as it was supposed, to
‘..e,_aving the battery, the Coldstreams fought their way to Petropaulowski, or the port of Peter and Paul, in Karns-
aere the Fusiliers and Grenadiers were coming np to chatka, in lat. 53 deg. N. Thither the allies went in
their assistance. The three battalions, which then did search, leaving the Sandwich Islands on the 25th July.
t
of muster 1,000 men, tried to charge up to where the They found the northern ocean covered with heavy fogs,
Russian artillery was firing but it was a useless attempt, which compelled the vessels to sail very slowly. The fog
as the enemy had then nearly 35,000 men upon our right was very often so thick that it was utterly impossible to
nic- The handful of Guards drove three entire Russian see the signals a hundred yards off; and the Eurydice was
rents,,na back at the end of the bayonet ; but, in the act parted from the other vessels in the fog, and was not seen
doing it, such masses of the enemy hung upon their again until they met at Petropaulowski, at the end of
flanks that they were compelled to retire, and with diffi- August. The season admitted of no delay, and the yes-
:Y could extricate themselves. All this time the regi- sels prepared for immediate action. The place
themesnnder the wall hid being keeping the numbers of unexpected obstacles. It was supposed that the .
em at bay ; five or six different times Russian bat- would find a town with' few soldiers, and few fortifications
dons advanced to take it, but after literally losing thou- or defences of any kind ; but they found a formidable for-
t BelugaUll under our tremendous file-fire, fell back in disorder. tress, protected by eight detached batteries, containing in
i this wail the Guards rallied, and forme 1, as if on all more than 120 guns and 1,800 men. Three days after
the' to meet the enemy, who was coming down from leaving the Sandwich Islands, the admirals, having no
the „.,„?- Battery on our right flank, and in rear of thought of finding
.a Gibraltar at Petropaulowski,
"‘2l. The duke kept always at the head of the Guards ; spatched two of their squadron, the Amphitrite and the
• A 4-A menial? on this coast.

presented
fleet

they were be
aot
'ghst mi aeulous. The I
igtaek. They no longer
4tit swarming .up by the
111)°,4 the right flank in tree
Izkt thls moment there w,
4%3'1 to oppose pposewhomnam
ulforls Aides.de.p w
11 eemeas from the Fre
~,Den their line of tents.
Ur, men retired the enemy
Z4l mosttack. The b and 41st
and
30b17 they behat

Petropaulowski is at the foot of a small and narrovc
bay, the shores of which were protected by numerous bat
teries. Before the town could be reached if - -
necessary to silence three of these batteries.
given the place a protection, by the erection
of sand in the midst of the bay

pourea (

a mounc

itched for

This mound of sand leaves to the vessels but a narrow
channel, and hides the view of the principal fortress to
vessels at a distance. On the 30th August, the six ves-
sels of war, the Forte, of 60 guns ; the Eurydice, of 28
guns ; the Obligado, of 12 guns ; the Pique, of 40 guns ;
the President, of 50 Asa and the Virago, steamer, of 6

►ed to engage the enemy
hting their ground inel