Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-12-02
THREE DAYS
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA


80, $50 bales. Wheat declined a Sd for the
week, and flour Is. Corn unchanged. Bread
stuff market quiet.
There is nothing in her news really later or
important. A pause has ensued in the field
lighting before Sebastopol. Dispatches from
both English and Russian sources, say that
the siege is proceeding with regularity, and
that preparations are making for the assault.
Both parties are in want of reinforcements,
the besiegers much more so than the besieged.
The Russians begin to want ammunition. The
Allies are reduced by battle and disease to fifty
thousand men, which causes much alarm in
England and France, and the utmost efforts
were making to send instant reinforcements
All the mail steamers are chartered to carry
forward the troops for the relief of the allies.
Winter was setting i'll with great severity,
and the weather on the Black Sea was very
heavy. Two Turkish frigates had been
wrecked
The great hospital in Sebastopol, which con-
tanned 1000 wounded Russians, had been set
fire to and destroyed by the bombardment of
the allies.
There will be no mail from England until
the sailing of the Pacific on the 10Th, the Gu
nard steamer Niagara, which was to have sail
ed on the 10th, having been taken off the
Halifax route by the government for the tran
sport service.
1t was expected in the French camp, that
an assault would be made upon Sebastopol the
9Th instant, and it probably would have been,
had not the Russians so fercely attacked the
Allied positions.
The British were to lead the assault on the
storming Of Sebastopol, and eight thousand
Frenchmen had offered themselves as volun-
teers in the assault, but only four thousand,
under the command of Prince Napoleon, had
been selected. The first attack was to have
been made upon the cemetery.
On the 4th of November, the firing was
slack on both sides. Preparations were ac-
lively made on that day for storming, and
scaling ladders had been ordered.
Four Russian ships, one, the Twelve Apos-
ties, the largest ship in the Russian navy, had
been sunk.
Typhus fever had broken out in Sebastopol,
in consequence of the great number of un-
buried bodies which were lying about i'll all
directions, and purifying.
CONGREGATIONS were continually occurring
in the city from the red hot fired by the allies,
and water was getting exceedingly scarce.
The Russians were preparing for street
fighting, and posting to sweep them, fortify
ing houses, &c.
The English official account of the action of
the 9Th is as follows:
"CAMP BEFORE SEBAsToPoL, Nov.6 - The
enemy, in immense force, attacked MS yester-
day in the dawn of morning, on the right of
the English position before Sebastopol, which
was defended by the second division and the
brigade of Guards of the first light division,
the fourth division and part of the third, and
subsequently by Gen. Bosquet's division, and
other corps of the French army, who, by their
gallant conduct, contributed essentially to the
decided success of the day.
'Gen. Canrobert Immediately came to the
spot, and gave me the support of his assis-
lance. and of his excellent counsel.
1.-The battle was extremely obstinate, and
it was not until past noon that the enemy was
definitely repulsed, and forced to retreat ,leav-
ing the field of battle covered with his dead
and several hundreds of prisoners in our
hands.
'Fhe number of the enemy much exceeded
that which was opposed to us at Alma, and
the loss Of the Russians has been enormous
Our loss has also been very great. Gen. Sir
Geo. Brown, Major General Bentinck Briga-
der Generals Adams, Butler, and Torrens,
have been wounded.
''rhe conduct of the troops in the face of
an enemy so superior in numbers, has been
excellent. RAGLAN"
A Russian official letter says the arrival of
the Grand Dukes produced such enthusiasm
in the ranks of the army, that the General in
command thought it well to turn it to account.
Consequently, on the 9th, the garrison Of
Sebastopol made two sorties, the first at one
o'clock in the afternoon, against the English
camp; the second at two o'clock, against the
French position. The affair with the English
was of the most desperate kind, and it is said
the Russians succeeded in spiking their guns.
On the side of the French, the Russians claim
to have also spiked fifteen guns. The Rus
slams mustered three battalions. After the ex-
ecution Of this bold attempt, those batta lions
retired in all haste, when French division,
that Of Gen. Forey, pursued them with much
vigor, and, carried away by its ardor, the di-
vision arrived under the very walls of the
place. 1t was received, however, with muir
derous fire, and had TO fall back before a SUI
perior force. A most sanguinary and obsti-
nate struggle ensued, and was prolonged until
nghtfall.
Mepschikof admits in his report loss of
four thousand killed and wounded, and he
adds that the loss of the allies was at least
equal. According to his account twenty
two thousand Russians were engaged in this
affair.
reported dead, is said to have recovered from
his wounds, and resumed his duty.
The great hospital in Sebastopol was,set on
fire by the shells of the allies, and was burnt
to the ground with all its inmates, 1000 sick
and wounded.
A Vienna despatch of the 10Th, says, de-
spatches from Balaklava dated Nov. IL, have
been received this evening, according to which
another great battle has been fought. The
Russians are said to have lost nine thousand,
and the loss of the allies was also great but
they remained masters of the field.
Heavy weather had occurred in the black
Sea, and Turkish 80 gun ship and frigate
had sunk in n gale.
From the Danube the accounts are conflict
ing, one statement being that Omar Pacha
had received orders to carry on operations
vigorously; while another says that all the
men he can spare are to be sent to the Crimea.
Fifteen hundred cavalry had already been sent
from Shumla to Varna, to be embarked for
0ebastopol.
st. Petersburg advices report the English
feet to have left the Baltic, and that two Fin
land ships had been chartered, and were load
ing with wheat.
Winter had set in with unusual severity.
There 10 nothing of any Importance from
Asia.
The uery Latest Iptelligence.-London, Sat
urday morning.-1he Crimea-The Battle of
Nov. 5.-Lieut. General Sir George Cathcart,
Brigadier General Strangeway and General
Gooldie, were killed in the action of the 9TH.
The news was received by the Duke of New
castle, and is official.
Tie Duke of Cambridge had horse killed
under him. The English had two thousand
killed and wounded. The loss Of the French
is not accurately known. The Russian loss