Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-21
OUR EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.


Our London and Paris Letters received by the
the Baltic contain their usual fullness of information
and speculation in regard to the movements, plans,
and prospects of the forces of the Allies and Rus
slams; but large portion of these details were SUI
perseded by the important news subsequently re-
ceived from the theatre of war, and already given
in the preceding columns. This portion of our cor
respondence is therefore omitted, and we subjoin
only such passages as retain some interest:
LONDON, OcroBER 2, 1854.
News from the Crimea is the sole anxiety Of the
hour. The eagerness for exceeds any thing that
has been witnessed since the eventfu spring of 1916 In
France the socitude is equal both in description and
degree In Germany the suspense is bitter because
in part Of Germany has the conduct ohe responsible
parties been evidently right in England and France
The Governments Of the Allied countries have in this in
stance, what Governments very seldom have, the sup
port and sympathy Of the whole people of the respective
countries. The invasion of the Crimea clearly the
great business and duty Of the me and has been very
adequately undertaken and very successfully accomplish
ed The attainment of object is the great subject
of anxiety If Sebastopol should fall soon, and without
any exorbitsnt sacrifice Of fe the entire peoples of
France and England will warmly congratulate their re-
spscve Governments if the other scarcely conceivable
case should arise, they would have sympathy less
hearty Their anxiety IL, therefore, Of kind easy to
bear Fresh rumors are rife every hour, but viii not
notice any of them expecting to have something positive
to announce before close There is also plentiful
succession of reports from the Baltic the and sub
stance Of which appear to be that very remarkable
dispatches gone to the Baltic to Admiral NAPIER
Either Cronstadt Revel WILL it is said be forthwith at
tackled Nobody appears doubt the fall Of Sebastopo
and if Cronsadt could be placed in the position the
whole affair would be OF end. If the CxAR were de-
pryed Of his fleets he would be capable Of being mould
ed into safe neghbor There other points in the
Baltic from which radiating light the pros
pect of the Sweden and Norway giving evidence
that they expect the to proceed and that they also
expect from the Allies achievement which will make
it prudent fer them to join the alliance against Russia
That achievement must be the destruction of the Russian
fleets: that would effsctualy cripple the Gar This
done, Sweden would join the alliance against the Gar
and regain the security she lost when Finland was an
nexed to Russia Within the few last days there have
been signs that both Sweden and Norway-anticipatng
the probable and immediate future-are preparing for
active service in the Of the freedom and tranqui
ty of Europe.
So much for and rumors of war. As respects the
interests of peace may safely that the
harvest has been securely gaered and that is bf
exampled quantity and unexceed quality Various cir
cumstances, however, combine to keep up the price of
wheat in the market the principal being the
tanned fact that the quantity of old wheat hand is
usually small The market has had its mechanism
wonderfully improved by modern science The electric
telegraph is used with the greatest where
farmers have steam mills for threshing and dressing their
grain for market Within few days message has been
flashed along the wires from London to East Lothian
the steam engines put in notion ricks Of wheat
threshed dressed measured, and bagged, 1.-THE machine
performing oil the operations simultaneously the grain
conveyed the railway carried to London delivered and
sold within thirty hours Of the time when the message
to :. thresh Immediately" left the metropolis
There is very little change in the money markets the
exchanges The cholera continues to abate in its rayags
in London and very little is heard about it elsewhere
The only literary novelties the forthcoming quarterly
Reviews their announced contents embrace
y all the subjects of present general interest The Moni
teur gives very satisfactory statement Of the customs
duties of France.
PARIS, 0cToBER 2, 1854.
Yesterday afternoon Sunday all Paris was put astr
by the arrival Of the following teegraphic despatch from
Germany:
ceived by Omer Pacha that Sebastopol has
been taken by the Allies, with oil its military stores, and
the feet also The garrison to which free retreat
offered, preferred remaining prisoners of war"
By nightfal, however, the guns of the Invaldes,
which announced noisiy to Paris the fall of Bomar
sund continued silent, the certainty acquired that
whatever the truth might be, Government had not yet
received official intelligence Of the momentous event
and the excited Pssians went to bed comforting them
selves with the that if the Vienna despatch
were not true to-day would beyond all doubt be true
tomorrow or the day after next week at the very
farthest.
This morning all eyes with much interest scanned the
first page of the Moniteur. The official journal contains
in fact the German despatch, but accompanies its
with the discreditng preface Of Sous
respen 1t gave also the somewhat vague despatch
of Marshal ST. ARNAup to the Minister Of War Paris
which here translate:
Bipoudc on the Alma, September 20, 1854.
eve have encountered the enemy to day upon the Al
ma BE occupied with considerable forces the wooded
ravine through which the river flows, and the steep
heights Of the left bank The ravne dotted with houses
could be crossed at only three points The enemy was
strongly entrenched and protected by artillery The
Allied troops attacked these difficult positions with
qualled yigor. 1t was with shouts of vire pEmprsur
that our soldiers carried the positions which were before
them The battle of the Alma lasted four hours 1t is
handsome debut for The French troops have
lost fourteen hundred men killed and wounded have
not yet learned the Of loss sustained by the Eng
ish army which fought vaianty in face Of obstinate
resistance"
The two following reports Of the Marshal, together
with dispatches and items forwarded you by this
steamer contain all the authentic information we have
received from the Crimea since the date Of my letter Of
the 2Sth ultimo: