Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-10-18
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ARRIVAL OF THE nALrIc

-iO.o00 OF TIE ALLIES AND Is, 900 RUSSIANS
| KILLED AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS RoUr OF
| THE RUSSIAN
NEw York. Oct. lG.-The American maiI steamer Baltic
arrived here this afternoon advices from Liverpool 10
the 9TH inst. being three days later.
Tho accounts Of the highest and most tbr Killing i'm
potnnce Tue allied forces have attacked and red
Sabastopo completely routing tho Russians with .wGI
slaughter on both sides The allies are said to have os,
,eh .nousAna Killed aud Wounded and tho Russians not
less W an eighteen thousand killed.
The hrst grand battle took place on the 2ad ut when
or constantine was destroyed aud other forts h
slhureu guns were taken Six vessels OF tho Russian
/ ct were sunk anil many lives lost.
oae account says that Meuschkon after lighting re-
tred to Battan bay with the remainder OF his orces ,
eatng 'hat lie would burn the city II any attempt was
N 'de 10 capture them. Tho allies however gave him
t hours to surrender aud the latest ruor was ,h. he
| mad eodered.
| finally annihilated. ~ " WV
Another account says the fall OF Sebasopo took p,c,
on tue 2oth That there 90 900 Russians
~ ,na oato oil Alma They were defeated by the allies
anu forced TO retreat Sebastopo. The allied forces
occupied the heights aud three Eugsh
tue passage OF the Alma during tho battle The assault
upon Seoasopo' followed on the go, and the battle
| fightul. was
The garrison, 1t Is said, offered permission to re-
retreat, but preferred to remain prisoners OF war
The loss at tho battle OF Alma was reno,,.d n, ono
French and English, 800 Turks and G 900 Russians
| Marshal ST. Arnaud and Lord R,,I,n .,o.,.Is - "
| sonaily. per
| Three battere, were storrned
dispatch was said t. have been received by Gorts-
| ehakou, confirming the surrender OF MenschskcH
| Austria. P WIN W
Tho first news OF the fall o! Sebasopol was brought h,
tartar who arrived at BscharIs Considerable, doubt
| however, was cast upon his account but the French
government said have received con6rma.orv .J
wees OF the affair from N. De Bua.
Inc Iutksh Ambassador at Vienna also telegraphed
'no turkish Ambassador at London confirms previous
accounts Full Details however are wanting md the
telegraph dispatches somewhat conflicting The cws
however, had caused the widest excitement all over Eu-
rope French aud English funds advanced under it
pier in the Baltic.
omer Pasha was about to attack the Russians at Bessa
| ,ubia.
Another dispatch states that battle WAS Tough, at
Alma. which lasted four hours, in which the French
lost liOo; English osS not stated.
Prince Napoleon had three horses killed under hin, -
Gene al Thomas killed aud General Clurobert badly
sounded.
The allies in the Baltic preparing to attack Reve
aud C,onsadt.
Afrs in France aud England were TRANQUIL. e,csn,
great r'Joicings over the fall OF Seb.stupol.
Aus.a anu Russia remain as before. maintaining the
'ame attitude towards Russia and the Allies
SECOND DE PATCH
The Baltic Left Liverpool O'Clock ON the p,orp,, NJ
ne ith with 222 passengers On the 2h oil Cape Race
P"h" anu was bodrded by the British schooner John Glenn
ems, cruising for the missing boats &c of tho Arctic and
'aInt from her tho particulars of the catastropn
The Africa arrived OUT on the morning OF the Is, inst
The steamer brandon arrived out on the 30 instant
The T. s. steamer San Jlcnto PIT back to Soutbsmn
ton with her machinery damaged. having or Fexel broke
QUE OF 'nc iahS OF her screw aud would detained for
repairs five or six weeks. "
CAPTURE OF sEBAsToPoL.
hgt hours alter the departure oil the Europa official
news was received Of the great battle at Aim, river in
the Or mea. ' "
On the 2st ut the allies stormed the Russian emb,,k
ments alter four hours hgrinc In this battle the An
lost $500 killed and wounded and the Rus
Private dispatches supply the rest Of the news viz
That the Russians under nschkoH personally rallied
Tue RIVER k'h'cha Oh the 2d and again gave battle TO
renchmrnts Dehind S'ta topoi,
Ih'y az lin rallied however ani fought the third battle
al "ere third time defeated aud sI into S,bosonoI
'hIeh was b'eagured by laud aud sea.
Fort Constantine blew up, and the other f,rts x.r,
'toimed The Russian he t burned and the ships
sunk The Russians lost Is 900 killed and wounded and
Jristuers
M'nsc koi with the shattered remaius of his army.
we're oa rcaded IN the inner harbOr and refused to sur
rendei' Six hours had been Abs him. and IL /. re-
ported, but not officially that he had surrendered
On the 96th Fort Constantine invested by sea ard
ani am alter an obstinate defense carried by storm
The allies then bombaded the city and fleet, and ten
HuSsan ships Ct the line burnt ard sunk The re-
naming oits were carried after the other and 500
Gun, were sienced, aud $4,000 prisoners taken.
The Russian loss in dead aud wounded il estinstod n,
roi less than 1000 IN Sebasopol alone
henshakoi with the shattered remains of his forces
had retired into position in the inner harbor
unless the vietors would grant him honorable
TIE allied generals demanded his surreneI
ana In the name OF humanity. gave him six hours con-
sderatiou.
later dispatch says that MenschikoT had surrendered
aud that the British aud French flags wave over SeLas
topol. ~
The entrenched camp of the Russians on the heirhhs
OF Alma contained $4,000 men, aud numerous cty,lTy
and artillery aud was carried ct the point the bayone
alter four hours hard lighting.
No general officer Of the British force was wounded
General RIpIa ,l.,l
person General ThomassOu French officer il thought
70 have been fatally wounded. Gen Caurobert was woau
ded in the stouder.
The second engagement the plains of lln,a lasted
erera hours, aud was very siugunay. Ii ended in the
total dcea' of the Russians who we're pursued to the
trenchments before Sebastopol.
The dispatches that tho garrison of Sch,s,onol
we're offered free withdrawal, but surrendered IA prison
of f
The dispatches were very conflicting. Jne dated Ber.
I'm a. says that tclcgraphc dispatches had been receiy
cd there direct from st Petersburg to the effect that Mon
schikoh has teesraPhed under date of September IS
that lie had withdraw his troops unmolestel from he
ore Scbas'opoi towards kstih Screi and that he will
there await reinforcCmen and adds that Sebastopo had
not been attacked up TO the Goth
The Russian do conceal the facts of severe
reVerscs in the Crimea Dispatches from Berlin TO the
29h say that the Of the French fleet from the Raj
tic has been countermanded.
despatch dated KEEL October ID, states tina, the feet
had lett that harbo ojoin Napier in the Baltic Napier
was before Reve on the 23d ult.
Another account states that Russian ship, of war
were SUNK with many on board Also that the allies cap.
tuLed over one thousand of the enemy's guns
The very latest accounts from Vienna by telegram
states that the city Ct Scbasopo In flames and in ali
probability had been reduced 10 ashes sacrificing msny
lives '
THE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Oct A. Messrs Brown & Shipley report
cotton a having advanced lsd The sales of the three
days had been but 10000 bales the advance being in
consequences oithe untvorable report of the growng
crops aud tho victories in the Crimea
, Bfeadsluhs-RlchaIdson reports BreadsiuiTs aciet-
for retailing good was firm, and inferior triHe easier
Corn-hcMncken quotes advanced s the quotations
telng S9s Western canal flour is quoted at 3ls, and
Ohio at 3is
Provisions hcIienry quotes Bicon unchanged in ey-
cry respect Cheese wanted. Lard and Tallos dull
Rice, nothing doing
Consols are quoted at 95 l-2 q5 6.s
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH
dispatch from Bucharest, dated the SOth ui states
that 1t s again asserted that 10000 Russians were IN
Drobudscha under Gen Luders and we're constantly re.
ceivng renforccments.
Omar Pssha was only waiting ST. Aruauds orders to
attack Bessatabia
All the arrangements in the Turkish army ;ndics,, an