Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-12-15
Arrival nf the Union.

By the arrival of the United States mail steamship
Union, Capt Adams we have dates from Hasfe TO
the 2ls and Southampton and London to the z2d ult
The Union experienced very heavy weather the
last four or five days.
Lord Raglan has been raised to the rank of Field
Marshal
Lord Pamerstcn had arrived in Paris and had daily
interviews with the Emperor, Louis Napoleon
Lord Dudley Stuart died at Stockholm on the 18th
November.
THE WAR.--A despach from BalakIava of the 18th
November, received via Vienna, states that reinforce
ments for the allies ware arriving at the rate OF
thousand men daily, and they were overoyed at the
arrival of these anxiously expected detachments-
Both armies had completed their third parallels which
were connected together by means OF trench
The allies were Obliged TO form countermines.-
The miner town was strongly barricaded.
The Russian news states that the allies having
received considerable reinforcements the 9th, 7th
and 8th made demonstration against the left flank
of the Russians The latter retired from the plateau
to the right bank of the Tehernaya.
Fifteen thousand men OF the garrison OF kichenon
had marched to Odessa. Prince PaskewItsch has
ordered another corps of 20, 600 to the Crimea
A despatch from Prince Menschikof, dated Sc
bastopo November IL, states that at that date the
bombardment continued. The allies Che says) had
not advanced on their operations since the 9Th, and
were still fortyng their lines in the of Balaka
va. General Lprand wounded on the 5th.
Fuller details Of the battle of the 9Th OF November,
called the battle of the nkermann had been received
by The arrival of the steamer Telamacque at Marsel
les. They state that the attacking force of the Rus
slams $4,000 men. The British batteries were
taken and retaken several times. At noon the Rus
slams made sote from Sebastopol against the French
pysition, but repul<ed. They were also repul-
sed ultimately towards lnkermann, after bloody
battle which lasted eight hours. Their loss was -
900 killed and wounded. General Canrohert was
wounded The English loss very great; tour
Generals-Cathcart Strangways Godie and Torrens
were killed and wounded-Brown, Bentlnck,
| Butler and Adams 80 officers were killed, SO were
wounded, and two were missing: 442 rank and file
killed 1850 wounded, and 1856 missing. The Guards
alone lost 20 officers. The French had one General
killed and two wounded IA officers killed and 81
wounded.
| The Russians, it is said, fired on the wounded az
well as on the detachments sent out to bury the deal
on the 7th. The Russians were pouring IN large mas
from the north, and reinforcements were requir
ed.
| The French accounts states that everything wa
prepared for the assault, but the allies had determin
ed to postpone il till the arrival of achievements
Prince Napoleon had left the camp owing to the stat
of his health.
/ The Duke of Cambridge was slightly wounded
despatch from Vienna states that the Russian en-
voy, Gortchakof, has intmated to the Austrian Cab
met that Russia is willing TO negotiate peace oi
the basis of the four guaranteed conditions.
The despatch of reinforcements to the seat of wa
continued without intermission. Every avalabl
steamship taken up by the government for tn
purpose, and it is stated in the London Times tina
the British government is now paying at the rate
three million sterling per annum for the charter c
steamers alone. besides the of fuel The Magyar
and Arabia having been taken up by the government
! the Cunard Company had issued notice that n
vessel belonging to their line would leave Liverpo,
till the 9th December, after which date the commu
nicaon would be every alternate Saturday. Th
Collins line to change their days of sailing afte
the departure of the steamer of the goth Nov. frOr
Wednesday 10 Saturday, in order that the Commerc
on both sides of the Atlantic might be inconvenience
as little as possible The West India and Brazilia
Hines of mail steamers were also to be temporarily r
: terruped.
S The British War Office has issued a circula
q calling upon all the embodied well as disenbodc
militia to give many volunteers possible 10 tn
regiments of guards and the line, and to the roy&
marines
The alarm in England seemed to be subsiding a
10 the position of the allied armies in the Crimes
= which, with the reinforcements arriving deem
ed 10 be sufficiently strong 10 carry out the object
" the campaign successfully winter campaign i
e the Crimea will EVIDENTLY take place, and woode
barracks for twenty thousand men were being ship
ped by the British government.
A despatch from Hamburg states that a Russia
squadron of fourteen steamers made reconnOis
sance as far as Dagoe without encounterng any wa
= ships of the allies.
The main body of the British feet was at Keil O
the Goth.
Commercial Intelligence.
o At the Liverpool market wheat difficult sell
Sd to 4d . b decline Indian corn 1sower Flour Is
r Dbl. lower.
The reports from the English manufacturing distrc
show continued tendency to inactivity and caution.
Manchester the demand less than the supply prize
e were lower
= The money market in Londen was UNCHANGED; Conso
, had improved to 9l3. Turkish scrip also better
Liverpool cotton market fat Prices in favor of the bu
the 20th when the sales amounted 5000 bales
S Sales 2lst 5000 bales
= From New York.
J. New YORK Dec. 7.-Ex-Governor Wood, OF Clev