The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-11-01
ADDITIONAL BY THE PACIFIC.


Worcester again.
81 ADDITIONAL BY THE PACIFIC.
ID FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.
ri There is no intelligence from the Crimea
n of active hostilities against Sebastopol. The
"a preparations for the bombardment were ra-
H pidiy maturing, and it was thought that the
ID capture could be effected with fortnight
N Large reinforcements have been dispatched
81 from both France and England TO the Black
81 Sea Omar Pacha was marching his forces
- against the Russians in Bessaratia, who were
E reduced in numbers by the withdrawal of
81 troops to reinforce Mensehikoff at Sebasto.
81 pol The naval forces of the Aliiej were
E preparing to leave the Baltic, except such
81 ships as were necessary to maintain the block
I'D ade.
ID Lord Raglan's latest dispatches say that
80 ne expected to "open fire. in few days, and
E private letters add that an attack on the out
~ works was fixed for the 9th inst Menschi-
"a koff kept the field, to the nOrthward Of Sc
81 bastopol The position of the allies was
81 strong and easily defensible against an at.
81 tack from the landward. The allied ex-
s. treme rights bears on the slope ofthe noun
1 tans East of Balaklava, which run down
81 like immense walls to Aloushta. The body
81 of the right wing is at Kawara, and outposts
M are posted on the Black River The centre
So occupies the roads leading from Kadibo to
n Sebastopol, and from Bakshiserai to Balakla-
81 va The body of the left wing is at Karani
M the outposts at Khutor The allies siege ar
tillery, with 90 900 gabions, fascines and piles,
have been disembarked, and have mostly
III reached the camp. Menschikoff has 100 field
~ guns with his army. On the the 9TH a can
E nonade took place between some English
IS steamers and the quarantinefort at Odessa
81 nothing resulted.
81 A Russian despatch received at Vienna,
81 SAYS that General Canrobert, after having
81 chosen his point of attack, and made. every
Is disposition for the proper service of the
III siege, ordered that the enemy's outposts
81 should be driven in to the main wall before
|. Akhtiar on the 9th instant, and that the con-
III struction of the batteries should be thereup-
FL on commenced.
ia One thousand additional French troops are
Is to be Immediately shipped from Marseilles
ID to the Crimea
M 1t is confirmed that the Baltic fleet will re
81 turn home without undertaking further ope-
q rations.
B Omar Pacha is preparing to operate on
q three points-the river Pruth, the Dobrud
Ia scha and the sea coast.
Ia Lord Raglan's latest despatch says thet he
H expected to open his fire on Sebastopol in
Is few days.
~ On the 4th a cannonade took place between
81 some English steamers and the fort at the
II quarantine of Odessa. Nothing decisive re-
ID suited.
Es are most contradictory. Some reporting
I8 another Russian defeat, the capture of the
I'D Southern heights, etc. But the most relia-
III BILE indicate that nothing of moment had
81 occurred up to the 9th.
81 Russia is amassing forces on the Austrian
III frontier.
iii 1t is surmised that France and England are
at present organizing the reconstruction of
81 the independent kingdom of Poland.
81 Jerome Bonaparte has been re -naturalized
as a Frenchman.
III VIENNA, Oct l0.-A Tumor has been currenthere
E for some days in circles usually well informed on
S political events that secret treaty exists between
ia Russia and Prussia wi respect to the Turkish war;
~ in which treaty the latter State closely defined the
M limits within which (mock) alliance might be con
E& cluded with the other German States concerning
E# this question OF the East
81 In the crowd of SO called dispatches" the fol-
ID lowing the only that indicate any progress
81 in the operations:
l8 "VIENNA, October l6.h-in the evening. Lord
III Raglan has written Omar Pacha that the regular
ri siege of Sebastnpol would begin the 9Th instant
ana he thought the fortress would be taken in ten
II days"
Ell VIENNA, October 18th 1t is reported at Con.
& santinople, 5h, that the Russians, 10000 strong
[& under Menschkotf, have been az ala beaten and
that the southern heights (of SebastopoD taken
The surrender OF the city is looked for between the
Ia 18th and 10th inst
81 Against these set the following received from
Isl Berlin:
81 portanee had been undertaken against Sebastopol
81 TO 9th Oct being last advices ""
ENGLAND The captain and crew of the sh 10
81 Walker K Jones, of Philadelphia has arrired at
81 Londoa, and reported the loss of said ship.
81 Sir Edward Be'cher under trial by Court
Martial, at Sheerneess, for the management of the
q Polar expedition. The trial was, OF course merely
q pro lorna.
81 Wehave to amour ce the demise of the Earl Of
81 Abingdon. His lordship, who was in his 7st year,
- was Lord Lieutenant OF Berkshire and High Stew
3 ard Of the borough of Abingdon. Hell succeeded
q by his son Lord Norreys. who represents the bo.
a rough OF Abingdon in parliament.
III IRELASD.-The cholera continued to spread in
I'D Dabiin-Samuel Phillips the novelist is dead
81 The recent commercial failures continued to &C.
u cupy the attention OF the commercial public and
- have had disastrous effects In Ireland, causing
suspension in Dublin of Messrs Perrins & Wright
Corcoran Cspey, corn merchants, keoge g. Red
cy, provision merchants, and other houses of less
III magnitude.
ITALY-The Sacred Consulta of Rome has just
c9ndemed six persons to death for being members
o. republican committee, viz, Advocate Petropi
honiti, ex Off .er Ut engineers clerk named Ruiz
koset'i major OF the battalion OF students form
ed 10 1885, and two landed propristors named Lee
pho aud Cas@iini. Among the persons condemned
u other punishmepts for the same crime are -
Cesare Mszzopi. secretary 10 the British consul
con emnad 10 imprisonment for life the son OF
rTince Rospoli, 10 year,; and two captains OF arr
uilefy, Is years Imprisonment.
PRUSSIA AT the recent fire ct Meu1el the whole
place would have been destroyed but for the exaf
tons Of the American and English sailors in port
CHINA Letters from China mention three at
iempts having been made by the Insurgents to take
Iauton which failed. Also attempt to effect
compromise with the Insurgents which proved I'M
successful and the fikhting was still going on.
az Shanghai hosiilties were still progressing but
lae imperialists had made but little progress TO
wards recapturing the city,
JAPAN ExpgDITIos--ATTAcK ON SrrKA Com
4 m'aore Ferry was to return home next month
e p,ember3 The American ship L ady Pierce had
arrived at llong Kong Alter visiting Jeddo and So
mod at which places she met with favorable re-
option p, The U. s ship Supply was at Canton
.. l ee British Admiral Stirling remained at Shan.
ehs awaiting the arrival OF the French Admiral La
saefe, In The French figate Jeanne of Arc. On his
arrival the united French and English fleet were 10
pioeeed to sitka to attack the Russian ships and
s9nn spset, indicted for tho murder of Henry
sespaingsr, In Washington county, Nd has been