New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-21


that 10 very decisive victory hsd been giinee At
slI b, the alice, toe Russians bsying retired Ia
Good order with all their guns Lastly, We took
particular care 10 point out how the whole state
mont. 10 90 far ss II exceeded the limits OF TIE
official report on the battle Of the Alms, rested
exclusively on the verbal relation of Tartar
sent TO Omer Psshs si!h sealed dispatches. Thus
we were fully prepared for receiving the news
that the tremendous .. Fall of Seyastopor' was
LotiiIg Ut hn imaginary eXaggersiiOn of the VIC
tory Of the Alma. reported by jocose Tartar St
RuehAress, announced by the melOdrsmstic Louis
Napoleon st Boulogne, and implicitly believed by
that excellent specimen Of humanity the English
stop keeper. The English press in general has
proyed worthy representative Of that class, and
it wtuld seem that the very name Of Sevssopol
Deed only be pronounced In England to putevery
body in fools paradise. Perhaps our readers
will recoect that az the close Of the last Parlls-
mentsry session the destruction Of Seya.topol was
announced by LOrd John Russell 10 bein the ans
Of the English Government, which announce nent,
though in the same sitting day recan.ed, kept
the honorable members five hours in fools para
di,e--to use the words of Mr.. D'Isrselii uttered
Oh thst occasion. The London TimeS has now
written DO less than nine leaders, by actual count
eli conceived, bona fde or maia fde, in this idsa
teal fool's paradise; all, as it would appear,
ouly with a view to entrap Sir Charles Napier
into headloBg attack upon CfOnstads or Swea-
borg. Affecting 10 be drunk with glory sud
flushed with success, that journal even proceeded
10 bombaId-in imagination of course-the Pras-
ian coats on the Baltic as well as King BOnba
at Naples, aud the Grand Duke Of Tuscany, st
Leehorn. In fact il was resdy to make war on
Gil the world, not emitting the rest of man
kind" Of course.
The actual tate Of the land Notifications OF Sc
svastopol is too little known to admit of any posi-
tive proenosticatiOn as to how long that fortress
may be able to hold out. The success on tbs
Alma is an almost certain indication that the
place will be taken, as it must have raised tn.
courage and spirit of the allied troops, aud will
prove powerful preventive against sickness
the most dangerous enemy they have to deal with
in the Crinea, and one which is reported to be
ALREADY at work But it is foolish to expect that
the allies should walk into Sevastopol as they
would into a coffee -hOuse.
After the great mystifcatiOn Of the conquest of
the place, with it's $4,000 killed aud wounded
and 22, eco prisoners-a modification whose like
was never known in all the history of hoaxes-it
would be natural TO expect that the real Official
documents would at least possess the merit of af
fordiDg clear and positive information as far as
Al Cell ba in
on the 9Th Of October in an extraordinary num-
Der of Tie Gazette, and copied in our columns
this morning 10, after all, not free from ambgu
Gus expressions. Indeed, it is most open to
criticisms circumstance which must be as.
crbed to it's proceeding from Lord S:ratford de
Redclfe, one of the Palmerston school Of dipo
macy. This Dispatch, in the first place, purports
to have been sent to England from Bucharest on
the Seth OF September at 81 L. NJ, while Lord
Redcliie dates it from COnstantinople on the
seth at % z. NJ; 30 that the dispatch purPorts
TO have been actually received at Bucharest SIX
hours before it was sent of from Cons antiuople.
In the second place, the dispatch Omits all men,
ton of what passed in the Crimea between the
Goth sud 2Sth of September, telling US that "the
allied armies established their basis Of opera
a. tions at Baloklaya on the morning of the 25th
~ and were preparing to march without delay to
" Sevastopol. The AgamemnOn with Admiral
"Lyons) and other vessels OF war were in the
" Bay of Balsllava. There were facilities there
" for disembaIkiDg the battering train" Assum-
ing this dispatch to be exact, the English press
has naturally concluded that the allied armies
had passed the Bebek aud Sieyennaya, forced the
nights at the back OF the Bay Of Seyastopol, and
penetrated in a straight line to the Bay of Blll-
kleva. We have here TO observe that, on militia
ny grounds, it is incouceivable that an army in
possession of the nights commanding SeyastoPol
should quietly descend from them on the other
side, in order to march to bay eleven miles dis
tant, for no other purpose than to establish
q" base of operations. On the other hand, it Is
quite conceivable that Admiral Lyons should 90
around Cape ChersOnese with portion of the
feet for the purpose of securing harbor of re-
fuge, at once close to SeyastOpol aud adapted to
the debarkation of the siege artillery, which, We
have always contended, had not before been
landed. The guns, of course, would not be land
ed without protecting force, which may have
been either detached from the IN ,in body OF the
army after landing at Old Fort, or may consist ola
portion of the reserve clipped from Constantine
pie and Nsrna.
TIE new dispatch further states that " Prince
" MeIcbikoff was ia the field at the lead of
"2o, coo men, expecting reenfOrcemtn ts. -
Hence the English papers conclude that the Rls-
slams must have lost % 600 to 30, 900 men in the