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d. ....l.L New YoRK. Oci, 20.
The latest daIes from SeVastOPol are To Sept
aslh.
The reported CAPTURE of Sevastopol was very
gradually broken to the public. and il was not
known until the afternoon of the 9Th that the
Allies we're still considerable distance from
SeVastopol.
A dispatch from Paris states that the Rus
sian enirenchmsnts on the Belbeek were car
ried after three days battle, and the Allied
Generals were preparing to lay siege TO Sc
Sastopol in regular form.
On the 30th Of September the Russian
Ambassador at Vienna had received intelli-
gence that two forts had been taken, but
whether they were merely advance fOrls or
near Sevastopo is not stated. The lndspen-
dence publishes the following despatch:
BERLIx Oct. ga despatch from Aenscha-
kOff dated Sept. s5th TO the Emperor Of Rus
sa announces, that the Prince with the troops
under his command moved opposite from the
position which he occupied before Sevastopol
on the road to Bakschiserai, where he was to
unite with reinforcements brought TO the Het-
man Homcoulaf who was coming nom Per-
ke:
| The Allies had not attempted any thing aga
inst Sevastopol on the 96lh. and every measure
had been adopted for the defence Of the place.
1t is thought that the above despatch is wrong
ly dated, and that the movement OF Menschikoh
was in allu sion 10 his advancing on Alma.
A despatch published in the Cologne Ga
zelte admits that a despatch had been received
via Moscow, sta ing that on the s0ih the Rus
sian force, after ,angunsry conflict, was re-
The Ista,la of ths. hat IL.
at Alma would not be announced before the
9Th Cwing 10 the non arrival of messengers to
reports.
Gen Boret was killed. The Russians num-
bered 40 OOOO and 100 guns.
| Letters from Vienna, 2nd, states reliably that
the reserves Of the allies we're not brought
into action, and the work was 50 we'll done
that the Russians never bad chance TO do any
thing, .......
In the retrea. Of the Russians Menschikod
was hotly pursued, AID only escapet by the
feetness OF his horse. Russian loss estimated
from six TO ten thousand.
A large number of Pol is deserted to the
allies.
The French loss was 140O, Eix officers En-.
glish, 1855 rank and file, 95 officers, ia ser.
! geanls, and 23 drummers, killed and wounded.
Both ST. Armand and Lord Raglan issued Or
ders of the day praising the conduct of the
troops.
ST. Arnaud informed bis men that be expects
to lead them as cOnquerers into SevastoPol.
| The Cnnard steamer Andes conveyed 800
of The woun4ed to ConstantinOple, and the
! Vulcan So.
! Operations between goth and s8th not
known.
i One part of 0mer Pascha's army will pro-
ceed TO the coasts of the Black sea. All the
roads leading to the Bulgarian coast are crowd
ed with infantry and artillery making double
marches to embark for the Crimea. Baron
Hess entered Jassy, ocr End, at the head Of
the strong Austrian force.
Cholera very severe in Garrison at Sevasto.
pol. City provisioned for three months, and
screws of fleets put on rations'
LONDON The firm oil Allen d Anderson the
largest house engaged in grain trade have fail
ed. James McHenry also suspended.
Dispatches from Marscilles state that 5000
prisoners we're taken at the battle Of Alma.
Among the passengers of the africa was
Jerome BOnaparte.