Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-18

sian loss at the battle of the Alma was 4500 killed and
wounded; that powder magazine had exploded at Se
bastopo that fort Constantine had been much damaged
by the re Of the feet and that bastion No. had had
thirty three guns dsmouned Another letter states that
the number Of dead in Scbastopo is SO great as TO infect
the air. 1t is known that the inhabitants suffering
severely from the Of water The Russians be-
eyed to have gained advantage in their attack
upon an English detached camp; but it is not even
alleged that the detachment which occupied it was
obliged to fall back. The main body Of the besegng
army appears have been approached on the
occasion.
The from the frontier Of Bessaraba though scanty
is encouraging. OaER PAoHA is in full march against
the enemy. SADYK PAoHA, who leads the advanced
guard is about be reinforced by 10000 from Ka
arasch and sKAspER BEY had left Rassova at the head
Of 900 cavalry to scour the Dobrudscha These demon
stratons have alarmed Prince GoRTscHAKoFr and he has
recalled several regiments which had crossed the Dneste
on their way the Crimea So long the Turks keep
the field the army at Sebastopo may look in vain for fur
ther reinforcements from that quarter and it will be long
before any portion Of the Army of the Northwest be
pushed forward into the Crimea though it could be
spared from the frontiers Of Gallicia and Poland.
It is ascerained that an order in Council will be short
y issued, ipstituting much strctsr blockade in the
spring Of the Russian ports in the Baltic and the adop
ton of to prevent the introduction either di-
rectly Indirectly OF Russian produce in the United
Kingdom Measures will be taken to prevent the trans
port OF Russian staples the Prssan frontier This
year the supplies Of articles, taow for instance,
have been as large though blockade had existed
with the additional disadvantage that the here
had to pay higher price for them than usual 1t GER
tainly is very legitimate object Of the British Govern
ment to cripple the trade of Russia by every in
its power and the policy of the Prussan Government has
been such to deserve any favor from the Allies
Commercial in London understood to be unani-
mously in favor Of the projected measures.
We have already stated the great deficiency in the an
nua produce of wine at 0poro We have now to report
still greater deficiency from Bourdeaux The vintage
has been unfavorabe that the Chateaux Magaux has
yielded only twenty tons the average produce being one
hundred and twenty Chateau Laftte produces twenty
five instead of the average quantity one hundred
and forty Chateaux Latour fourteen against average
Of ninety; and various other vineyards in like or still
worse proportion The total returns show less than two
hundred against the usual production Of nineteen
hundred The consumption Of wine of all descrp
tons in Great Britain and Ireland is rapidly diminishing
In fact the quantity Of wine entered for homo consumption
at the beginning of the second half of the nineteenth
tury positively less than the quantity entered at the
commencement of the frs, half And this nowithstand
ing the population has nearly doubled in the interim
is shown by the following figures:
Gallons.
Wine entered for home consumption in the
United Kingdom. 1900. 1924 752
Average 1900 1904 O4. 6993, ,806
Entered for home consumption 1858. 6,Sl8SoO
Average 1649, 1S53......... 642oI I46
Population Of the United Kingdom 1s00. 16,14S 400
Do do do 1853...... %, $40
Annual consumption 1S00-lS04 was about gallon
to every inhabitants all ages included annual con-
sumption ls491s53 about gallon to every four
inhabitants, all ages included. We have room for
speculation upon the of this great falling off The
ultra reetraders say it the customs duties which have
produced this change the temperance advocate says It
is the substitution Of and Coffee and higher degree
of moral restraint We have stated acts and they
worthy the consideration Of Parliament, and will prob
ably lead to modification of the wine duties, if not to
their complete abrogaon between England and France
The Bank of England makes the following returns:
Circulation 80. e20, 81 $50 Increase G293, sos
Public deposites IL 1893 4S7 Decrease .661, 1856
Private do .....11, ,702ss7 Increase. 4s6, ,3o3
Discounts &C. Ia 742463 Decrease ........373, 999
Coin and bullion 13 4O597S Increase. 1878
The money market has become decidedly easier There
is considerable increase in the amount of bullion,
which the increase of circulation is based The amount
of bullion in the bank and the circulation have for the
present and the succeeding years been follows
Bullion. Circulation
1852 October 2443l5 GA, Coz, ,775
| 1853, g 22....... 1495O,20 24,5l6,209
| 1854, !" 21........... 13, ,405,978 526
The corn trade was again dull yesterday. Notwith-
standing the great crop of English wheat the most expe-
renced in the trade admit that supplies from
abroad viii be required to meet the very much increased
consumption. Orders have in consequence been sent to
New York, to Egypt and to the Baltic to buy corn; to
the latter for spring delivery In these purchases the