Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-18

home on the other side The French were enabled to
open their first parallel nearly three hundred yards
to the town than advanced lines and below the stony
surface they found aayer ocay seryceabe for the pur
pose Of Entertainments Their position is therefore
avorabe Tor the purposes OF assault than that OF the
British army and il will probably be found that while
our troops are making powerful diversion to the east
the decisive attack will be begun the western eItre
NIFTY OF the lines Gen. Canrober has succeeded with
the assistance Of the French navy in erecting strong
redoubt the left Of the position, which has
been armed with no less than i've batteries mounting
10 all ftty-six guns Many of these pieces of the
largest cabr and have been taken out of ships Of the
line for the purpose. This work has the double advan
tage OF aordng eecual shelter to the French army
IN the event OF strong sorte Of the garrison. while
other hand Of these batteries placed as to
command the western forts and outworks Of Sebasopo
was doubt against this work that the sortie of the
garrison was directed which is mentioned by Prince
Menschikof in his despatch Of the 23d bat must wait
for better authority than that of the Russian
der inchief before credit the assertion that eleven
French morars and eight guns spiked by the Rus
slams on this occasion.
'tOn the Russian forts which are situated nearest to
the sea the maritime attack of the 18th of October
made, and apparently with success but still await
with extreme interest the particulars Of this engagement
which the first great feat Of performed by the
Black Sea feet Without forcing the line Of sunken
sells and the double boom which obstrucs the of
the harbor there is doubt that vessels could
In sufficiently TO Fort Constantine the north side
and to the Quarantine Fort the other test the walls
of those works by very fire. The Moneur states,
and the same intelligence transmitted in several forms
from Vienna that the north battery destroyed by the
fire Of the English ships and battery slenced
by that of the French. This termination Of the attack
would account for the fact that it resumed the
following day. and may suppose that the ships had
complished all they could undertake that with
out forcing the entrance Of the port We have every
to believe that ships Of the Allied squadrons
took part in this attack"
Later dispatches received in London after the above
article printed say that the British miners before Sc
ho1o haya
Of submarine mines 1t is also reported via Vienna, Oc
ober SOh that Russian renforcements to number of
thirty thousand troops have entered the Crmea making
the total Russian strength in that quarter ninety thou
send men.
The English and French papers contain tele
graphic dispatches processing give from the seat
Of war; but find little worth adding the letters Of
our London correspondent
vienna, OCTOBER 29-Lord Westmoreland received
despatch yesterday according to which the guns Of the
forts at the entrance the harbor Of Sebastopo
dsmpunted by the artillery Of the fleets The Allies had
about hundred and i've wounded and third
of that number killed
From the camp before Sebastopol October 10TH it is
!, said:
antne battery and continue their attacks against Fort
and the loophole wall that defends the town of
Sebastopo the southwestern side 1t not without
loss that the Allied squadrons assisted in this combined
and concentrated atackhey lost altogether han
dred killed and two hundred wounded in three days. AN
aidde-camp of the French admiral struck by shell
the deck of the Vile de Paris the flag ship. The Aga
memnon, bearing the flag of Sir Edmund Lyons has su
fered severely and the Rerbuton Capt Drummond hAd
mast shot away Oft casualties land have
account The Russians confess to five hundred killed. in
= Guiding Admiral Kornileff' t
The Paris Moniteur of the Both confirms the previous
intelligence by saying:
: GA letter from Varna informs that French
steamer, which left the Crimea the 2ls confirms the
respecting the destruction Of the two outer forts Of
Sebastopol Moreover, the land batteries had made
breach The Allied armies were only waiting for the
opening Of second order make the assault
The Russian official statement reads thus:
est. PETERsBURGH, OCTOBER 26-Prince Menschikof
under date Of the Goth We the fire of the
enemy with The damage caused to the ortfcs
tons is tring The fire from the enemys ships has
renewed part Of has arrived and the
remainder is expected T"
According to Russian efical despatch, dated St.
Petersburgh, October 28th the siege continued unnter
rupedy the 2Sd The forfcations had suffered but
little. The attack from the had not been renewed
The Russians had made successful sore and French
battery of eleven guns and eight had been de-
stroyed Lord Canricardes son, Lord Dunken of the
Coldstreams, taken prisoner.
8 THE PRINCIPALITIEs AND THE DANUBE.
Gaatz letters of the 10Th say that since the 5h the
Russian force has increased Tusha, and portion
of it has crossed the Danube to the right bank The
and those Matschin have crossed the river in
force and have entered the Dobrudscha They
say that all the Russians by this man9uvre is
the Turks leave the Pruth and the Danube
According to the latest accounts the Russians had not
entered the Dobrudscha had evacuated it immediately
: THE BALTIC SEA.
Most of the French ships have reached home The
British are yet cruising about
At Revcl and elsewhere in the Baltic the blockade is
considered removed by the departure Of the fleets
OStentatOuS n Encl nd
the siege of Cronstad which is stated will be the
first act Of the spring campaign.
The British War Department has ordered the construc
ton Of 100 gunboats carrying each two heavy guns and
OF forty floating batteries, carrying each 20 guns total
$500 guns be ready by the opening of navigation
spring. The French likewise making preparations.
There is rumor, but il from Stockholm that
the Baltic feet will spring be under the command Of
Sir Edmund Lyons.
: Napier is SICK unable to leave his ship
The last post from Finland that the English
had approached Crstianstadt that the tele
graph shore had them carry off schooner
English prisoners who had been kept at Osterboten
were removed to Abo
RUSSIAN DEFEAT IN ASIA.
According letter in the Paris Monteur dated Mos
sul September 25h the Mushr Of Van had attacked the
Russian corps which covered Gumr and completely dis
persed it with the loss Of its tents, baggage and
niton and thirty guns. Russian general killed.
The Turks then began to besiege the citadel when the
Russian corps which had formerly beaten the Turks
Bajaxid advanced to the from Ervan. 1t was,
however, completely repulsed and shut up in dcfe,
| where it suffered considerable loss.
! GREAT BRITAIN.