Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-11-23
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIgAL OF THE ASIA.

Ihe British mail steamer ASA, from Liver
pool, about 10 o'clock, morning of Saturday,
November 9Th, arrived at New York, on the
the 10th inst at o'clock.
BY the Asia we have three days later news.
Sharp fighting had been going on before Sc
bastopol, but the news to band leaves us alto
getherin the dark as to particulars. Russian
dispatches state that the allies had suffered
two sevcral defeats The French had their
works = armed and sixteen guns spiked; and
the English cavalry had been attacked at Bal
aklava and routed with theloss of 500 horses
British and French statements offer no expli-
cit denial of these reports They merely say
that the Russian story is improbable" and
q exaggerated" Complaints are made that
the allied governments do not publish reliable
information, and very inhammable differences
are drawn from their silence 1t is vaguely
said, however, that Sebastopol cannot hold
out many days.
The Canadian screw steamers Cleopatra and
Ottowa, are embarking troops-the former at
Cork. the latter at Portsmouth.
The Peninsular and Oriental steam Navi-
cation Company have issued special circu-
lar, ordering that-(taking warning by the
recent deplorable loss of the Arctic when
the weather sets in ,hich, so that objects can
not be distinguishes quarter of mile
distant-the ships of Z. and O, Co.-shall
be slowed to half speed; or, if the fog becomes
more dense, the speed is to be further reduced,
or wholly stopped; and the steam-whistles
are to be sounded during the continuance of
the fog. The diminution of speed, and the
sounding of the whistle are to be entered in
the book Any deviation from these or
ders will be punished with dismissal of the
officers of the ships.
THE WAR IN THE CRIMEA.
Private letters from Sebastopol announce
that on the 23d of October the operations of
the French engineer was carried to within 800
metres of the point of attack. Five thousand
French troops from the Pirseus have passed
through the Bosphorus for the Crimea All
the reinforcements about to be sent out viii
increase the French army in the East to at
least IS 600 men.
1t is believed tAat.t position of the Rus
slams at Sebastopol was desperate, that many
of the works were DESTROYED, the town nearly
demolished, the streets covered with the dead
and wounded, and the air SO pesti,ential that
occupy it This corresponds to a certain ex-
tent with the following private telegraphie
despatch from Varna, dated the Goth:
1.-The fire has continued uninterruptedly to
the 25th with great energy The losses of
the Russians are enormous, and the dead bod
les are so numerous in Sebastopel, that pesti-
lential odors arose within its walls, and it was
impossible to bury the dead. The Lesiegers
have made great progress, having come so
close to the town as to be able TO direct their
guns against the gates themselves"
Guns had been brought to bear upon the
gates, and Admiral Nachimoff had been killed
by the fragment of shell. If this last cir
cumstance be confirmed, it is remarkable that
the two chief officers of the Russian navy who
planned and executed the attack on Sinope,
should have both been killed within year.
A report was circulated in Constantinople,
that Lord Raglan has expressed his opinion
in favor of prolonged bombardment in pref
erence to an immediate assault Having ac-
complished the prodigious labor of conveying
the heavy guns and ammunition, and opening
a successful fire ON Sebastopol tho reduction
of the place is considered only question o.
/ time, and the operations are carried ON with
7 comparatively small loss TO the allied force
! An assault, on the contrary, though it might
+ lead to more rapid success, would cost innu-
merable lives, and materially weaken the be-
sieging armies.
The Malta Times of the 24th ult., states
/ from the Crinea, THAT the principal dragomar
+, Ca Greek) of Lord Raglan, has been detected
/ in sending to Russia information of the pro
ceedings of the allied armies. and has beer
! sent to Constantinople to be tried. 1t will b'
remembered that In letters from the Crime;
after the battle of Alma, it was stated that ful
particulars of the strength and distribution o
! the English forces were found in Prince Men
schikoff's s carriage.
OFFICIAL Saturday, 12,45 A. M.-Th
following telegraph despatch has been receiv
ed at the Foreign Office, from Lord Stratfor'
de Redclife, and forwarded to the Duke Q
Newcastle, Minister eff the War Department
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Oct. % The captain
of the English steam transport, which left Ba
laklava on the evening of the 9th, confirm
in great part the information brought thi
morning by French ship, and transmitte
Immediately to London via Marseilles.
appears that the Russians attacked the fort
in the vicinity of Balahlava on the 25th.-
Their numbers are supposed to have bee
about 80, 900 men. The attack was unexpe'
ted The Cossacks preceeded+he infantry
To resist these at first there were Ottoman an
Scotch troops The Turks gave way, an
even spiked the guns, which, seized by tt
Russians, were turned against them.
The Scotch, ON the contrary, remained hrl
in their position. Other forces arrived, an
the Russians were obliged to yield the groun'
remaining, nevertheless, masters OF two fort
, from which they fired upon our troops Ihr'
: regiments of English Light Cavalry, expose
to the cross fire of the Russian batteries, su
r fered immensely The French took part
the affair with admirable bravery. On Il
: next day their position was attacked by boS9
: of 5000 Russians, as well from the side OF q,
] town as from that of Balaklava- They repui