Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-11-08
THE NEWS BY THE ARABIA.

By referring to Geographic column this
ming it will be seen that the steamship Arabia
rived at New York yesterday morning, with three
days later advices from Europe. The news is inter-
estng, although not of decisive character The
allies had opened their guns Sebastopol the
18th ultimo; and although a report had reached
London and Paris that the place had fallen, which
was followed, of course by heavy speculative move
ments in stocks, inclined to doubt its cor
rectness. The Arabia sailed on the 21st of Octo-
Der, which would not afford time enough for the al
lies to capture Sebastopol, unless the Russians made
a most feeble resistance The commercial advices
by the Arabia will be read with great interest on
this side of the Atlantic Large sales of cotton had
taken place at full rates. For the week ending Oc-
tober 81, flour had advanced from 81 30 to 81 70
barrel. No change in consols.
The impression appears to be general in this coun-
try, well as in England and France, that with the
fall of Sebastopol the Gar will for peace-will
humbly acquiesce in such terms the allies may
choose to dictate in the first blush of victory Judg
ing from the disposition which the Gear has made
of the immense masses of troops which he has in
the field, it would if he did not attach the
same degree of Importance to the possession of Sc
bastopol as is entertained by the western powers.
For weeks, if not months, he that the al
lies were accommodating their entire force for de-
monsration this celebrated fortress; and in the
place of throwing into the Crimea-which he could
easily have acknowledgements sufficient to have
enabled him to assume offensive operations his chief
care seems to have been Cronstadt, and to accumu-
late such force in Poland to be equally prepared
for foreign invasion civil instruction In late
number of the New York Tribune there is an elab-
crate article, founded, the editors assure us, upon
authentic reports of the amount and disposition of
the Russian Grand Active Army" The Tribune
says:
Since the beginning of the war with Turkey
the following troops have been successfully engaged
against the allies the southern frontier of the
pre-
l. The Sd, 4th, and 9Th corps of the line, with
some of their reserves, which are, however, mostly
still on the march. :,
2. The whole of the three Caucasian corps
8. The two divisions two-thirds) of the first
corps of the line without reserves.
4. portion of the third cavalry CORPS (dragoons)
in the Crimea.
This makes total of about 24O, 900 men before
entering the campaign but now reduced to 1884,
600 men at the outside, of whom "a 900 may be ia
ken as the strength of the army in Bessaraba, 3d.
600 in the Crimea, marching toward it, and 49,
coo in the Caucasus. On the Baltic there were up
to the end of August:
In Finland, the reserve of the 9Th corps 16sO0
The Finnish corps 1900
The guards and their reserves 66soO
vi the grenadier corps at Revel 10000
Total 1856
There were in Poland, on marching for it:
The remainder of the grenadiers and their
The 1st and I'd coaps and their reserves $4,000 5000
Cossacks and cavalry of different corps $4,000
Various reserves $4,000
-. ~,--s.- 1859 .s.. E-s. ID .tss -
=, Total i. $50 900
This would make grand total of nearly six hun
bred thousand men; and of this immense mass, only
.ttty:four thousand men-supposng Osten Sacken
has formed junction with Menschinkof- now
engaged in fighting the allies in the Crimea. Speak
ing Of the probable fall of Sebastopol the Tribune
holds the following language:
"Why, Russia has not played one-third of her
trumps yet and the momentary loss of Sebastopol
and of the feet is hardly felt at ali by the giant to
whom Sebastopol and the feet were but plaything
Russia knows full we'll that her decisive action does
not lie along the sea-shores within reach of de-
barking troops; but on the contrary, on the broad
interior of the continent, where massive armies can
be brought to act concentrated on spot without
fterng away their forces in ruitless coast defence
against evanescent enemies Russia may lose the
Crimea the Caucasus Finland, St. Petersburgh,
and all such appendages; but as long as her body,
with Moscow for its heart and fortified Poland for its
ssword-arm, is untouched, she need not give in an
iota." -ar . ae-eZ Wash. Union.