The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1854-12-22
IMPORTANT FPoM TIE eRlNEi.
Critical Condition Of The .4llies.

IFttCH I ohu0ton 0y tHe .1ftteS.
The National Intelligencer of the 1lth inst, in
speaking of the in the Criuea, says:
Our interest in this awful drama is deepened by
the facts detailed in the annexed letter, (receited
yesterday, } and which not 10 have been pIb-
hcly known in England or France the departure
OF the steamer The world holds its breath while il
gazes on the carnage of the Crimea End as II may,
on which side soever victory may finally declare, II
Will be won at price never before paid for human
triumph.
New YORK, Dec. 0, 1854.
The Union mail steamer has arrived, and you will
see by her adeices that nothing decisive has yet oc-
Cured at Sebastopol. Private adyices BY this ar
rival, however, state that Russian corpse OF 3d.
coo men, which bad been despatched from Odessa,
would doubt be Sebastopo previous to the goth
OF November-a few days after the latest dates from
thence. Besides this, upwards of 30 ,000 Of the Inn
perial Guards have been forwarded by railroad 10
Moscow, with orders to proceed with all possible
haste from thence the Crinea, and will probably
reach Sebastopo by the lst of December, as they
took mp their line of March from Moscow very early
IN October. This distance cannot exceed one thou
sand miles, anG they already had been six weeks az
ro9ts Besides these, further reinorcements were
going from other points of the empire.
The Allies were also receiving reinoreements, but
they those which ere sent forward IN small
numbers with view TO supply the ordinary waste
OF the campaign. None OF those which were SO nr-
geutly called for by the Allied Commanders after
the recent bloody battles. had yet arrived nor was
it probable that they could arrive for eight or ten
days more.
Ii thus appears that it is q race between the Rus
sans and the 4 HES a. 10 which shall receive the
earlirstand largest rentorcemsuts and | am very
mach inclined TO think the Russians Will keep ahead
OF them, FOR Nicholas has bad ample time to put n-
mcAse MASSES OF troops in motion towards the seat
OF war, and though rhe distance they have 10 tTa
verse over his immense empire is very great, and
with none but The old ami ordinary OF trans
port except the railroad from ST. Petersburg to Mos
com, still when they once begin to arrive IN the
Cf;mra, they w probably DO so in overwhelming
numbers and in quick succession.
see nothing IN these late advices which indicate
larger reinforcement to the Allies than fifty thou
sand men, and the Russian corps from Odessa will of
tseli be set-of 10 that force, far, at least,
dets"stre operations are concerned. We may well
believe that Nicholas is il earnest in this war, when
be is sending from his capitol his magnificent impe
rial Guards, and that he will not leave anything to
chance, so far RuaberS concerned
The early arrival of heavy rrieorcements TO the
Allies may save them from expulsion from the Cri-
uea but under the circumstances Of the case, and
the great likelihood that Russia probably in few
days, certainly few arseks will have at least two
hundred thousand men concentrated IN and around Sc
basoFo eave but little hope for the capture of the
city, Tor, by the present adviceS, they would not
make any attempt in the way Of assault until the
great body Of their elnforcemcus joined them, and
could only then make such attempt in the Rus
slans had not been joined by ttair reserves.
y winter campaign it appears is TO he the result,
and though particularly al tins distance, II is npos
SlbIe 10 predict the Of events. of Us
should be surprised if the Russians assume the de-
ensive aud attack or be>iege the Allies The whole
army OF Russia aud the entire energies of the nation
can row safely be directed upon SebastopoI. as the
season renders every other portion OF the Cars ter
ritory inaccessible 10 attack moiestatIon. | in
tended TO have given you some remarks upon the fl
nanc!al and commercial situation and prospects of
things at the close of this, aun'her week, hut am O.
hiiged TO postpone it and confne myself TO the one
great object of European interest-the fate of Sebas
topo.