Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-10-26
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BalaktaUa.
BOm5a rdmemt OF ScbustOpOI-Dcnth of
Marshal Ste Armand.
SANDY Hook, Oct. a, 1890 2. NJ.
The steamship Washington, Capt Lines,
from bremen via Southampton, has just pass
ed this point. She brings $50 passengers,
and London dates to the llth inst.
The Washington left Bremen On the 18th
inst, and brings 200 tons freight, besides the
usual mails.
Among her passengers are Baron Gerolt,
the new Russian Minister at Washington, and
Baron de Bodisco bearer OF dispatches to the
Russian Legation at Washington, from St.
Petersburg.
The affairs of Edwin Oliver, at Liverpool,
whose failure has been previously announced,
would be adjusted.
The WAR.-In the battle of the Alma, the
English lost 1000 men, killed and wounded,
and the French 400. Nothing but the want
of cavalry prevented this decisive victory from
being turned into a complete rout Of the Rus
slams. The Allies had changed their plan of
operations, and would attack Sebastopol from
the south, where it was found to be weakest.
The base of operations is Balaklava, where the
cavalry and siege artillery are landed.
The Russians had sunk seven ships of the
line ut the mouth of the harbor of Sebastopol.
The bombardment Of Sebastopol began on the
9Th of October.
Marshal St. Armand is dead, and General
Canrobert is now in chief command of the
French army
Memel, i'll Prussia, has been nearly destroy
ed by fire.
The news of the death of Marshal st. Ar
maud reached Paris and London on Sunday,
the Sth.
After the battle of Alma, the Russians burnt
all the villages which they passed through in
their flight. They left about 5000 wounded
behind them.
1000 Russians, who were escorting a con-
yoy of munitions Of war, had been made prs
oners. Menschikof himself narrowly escaped
capture. The garrison of Anapa, which has
already been reported burnt by the Russians,
$4,000 strong, was on its way to Sebastopol.
Sebastopol was completely invested, and a
body of 5000 French and Turkish cavalry was
to have left Narna on the 2Sth of September.
The allied army arrived at Balaclaya on the
Goth, and the port was surrendered on the 18th.
BERLIN. = The following official despatch
was published at st. Petersburg on the 9th !:
Prince MenSchikof has advanced his army
corps nearer to the North Fort. The French
have left the north side withouta contest, and
embarked to join the English, who have land
ed at Baaclava.
NIByNA.-On the 29th of September, be-
tween 100 and 1870 heavy guns were dsem-
barked at Balaclava.
BUCHAREST, Sept. 5th.-Six thousand of
the allies have taken possession of Cape Cher
sonese.
Prince Gortschako off is i'll.
There is great concentration of Turkish
troops at Matschin. Omar Pasha will imme-
diately commence operations against the Rus
slams in Bessarabia.
BERLIN, Yuesday.-According to a Russian
official despatch from st. Petersburg, dated
9th, the allies had made no attack upon Sebas-
topol up to the 3D.. They still occupied Bala-
olava.
LArER.-A teIegraphc despatch dated Par
is, II o'clock, states that according to a des-
patch just received from Vienna, the bonn
bardment of Sebastopol commenced at .
o'clock on the morning Of the 4th.
a despatch from Marseilles of the 10th,
announces that orders had been given to re-
ceive the remains of Marshal ST. Arnaud with
all the honors that were paid him upon his
departure for Constantinople.
The farewell which he had addressed to the
army, dated at his biyouac on the Goth of
September, had arrived at Toulon. He saws
that overcome by the cruel disease against
which he had SO long struggled, he is obliged
to resign his command. He pays the highest
compliment to his successor, Gen. Canrobert,
who, says the Marshal, will pursue the vic
tory of the Alma, and will have the good for
tune which had imagined for myself, and
which envy him, tnat of leading you to Sc
bastopol.