The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-11-29
sEBASTOPOL NOT YETTAKEN.
HALIFAX TELEGRAPH OFricE,
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Southampton sth, for New York, with
l75 passengers, and a fair cargo.
The U. S. steam frigatc San Jacinto
sailed from Southampton 9TH, for Dor
deaux. to take on board Mr.. Soule. the
American Minister to Spain, and convey
him to Santandor. Mr.. Soule would ar
rive at Bordeaux, from Liverpool, via
Paris.
The African Royal Mail Steamer
Forerunner was wrecked on Lorenzo
Point, Madeira, Oct. %, and II passcn-
gers out of 30 were lost.
Thirty-fvc ships, belonging to Edw
Oliver. are advertised TO be sold at Liv-
crpool, 23l inst.
THE WAR.
Sutastorol still holds out %stoutly. and
the substance of the news from that
quarter is that the Allies had met with
an important check and bad not made
much progress since the last accounts.
Gen. Canrobcrt sends officially to the
French Minister of War dates to Oct
%, in which he states that
The French approaches towards the
walls Of Sebastopol continue to advance
ogreeably with his previous plans of
working but the difficulties met with
are twofold first. in the rocky nature of
the ground upon which the parallels
have to be formed and second. the ex-
tremely heavy calibrc of the ship a%rtill.
cry Which the Russians have mounted
profusely upon the walls, against which
the French have only to oppose their
GS Founders and IL inch mortars. This
fully explains the delay in the progress
of the siege.
Son the night Of the goth. the enemy
made an attempt to spike the French
guns, but failed signally. whatever Rus
Sims did enter the batteries being killed
The losses Of the French are not so great
as might have been expected, and their
wounded are all sent to Constantinople.
where hospitals are i'll effective condi-
ton.
The health Of tie army is, on the
whole, satisfactory. although some sick.
ness had appeared among the gamers
from the ships.
[Signcd CANnopnR1."
The total loss of the French forces
from the 18th to the 2Sth Of October
was 500.
Private accounts in the Monitour con.
tain French narratives of the progress Of
the siege to the Both of October. Or
the 18th, 10000 Russians attacked the
French rear, which was defended by the
Turks, drove them FROM it, and took pos.
session. The English immediately at
tackled the Russians, and sent a messcn
ger to Gen. Caurobert, who FASTENED,
with the second division Of the army and
a squadron of chasseurs, to their relief
The French and English cavalry united
and quickly repnlscd the enemy by q
brilliant charge, in which the combat was
maintained for about five minutes with
the sword. The positions were retained.
The loss Of the English was 400, but the
French loss was not quite so great
Mcnschikoff's statement is that Gen
Liprandi took four ~redoubts, two OF
which he destroyed. retaining the other
two, which he had fortified. The Rus
siaus estimate the loss Of the English
cavalry at 500 Sixty of the English
were taken prisoners.
On the Goth. the French had advanc
ed their trenches within 500 Yards Of
the fortress, aud the Chasscurs de Vim.
ccnnes picked off every artillery man
whose head appeared above the cmbras.
urcs.
The following despatch from Odessa.
dated Oct. 20, was received this morn.
ing -" Nothing decisive has as yet hap.
pencd. The grand assault by the allies
was looked for by the besiegod during
the night of the 2Sthn
The steamer Ban>hce brought news to
I Constantinople to the 3Oth. In to that
time the ~cannonado was violent on both
sides. and the damage done was great
On the LIST November the allied siege
works were 50 far advanced ,hot H.
third parallel was opened and the whole
line would be completed in eight or Ter
days.
Menschikoff reports via st. Peters
burg. that nm to the evening of Nav al
the siege continued withou. results. The
fire from the English side had became
weaker. and the damage to the Russian
Notifications was not SO great but tina,
they were repaired Immediately.
Nothing can be attempted against TIC
Northern side of Sebastopol' and III,
communication on that side still remain,
open to the Russians 1t was reported
that the Grand Duke Constantine WASH
the CITY but the REPORT was doubted.
The. English reports say that the city
of Sebastopol is in ruins tina, the un