Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-12-02
cforsign Sntelligfare.
Paris Correspondence OF the N. N. Herald


PARIS, Thursday, Nov. 16, 1854,
French Military Kaaity MODIFIED BIZ practical Les
sOsi- The Results Of The Late Desperate Engago
aasnts before Se6astopot Ezanuined- The Co'oaTaly
CoRdact ofthe Turks VerifcatiOA ejfhs Cars
Conts1P woNS Estimate oftheir Qaaiaies- The
Connie dc Norway Nominated 10 Me Presidency
otths Conncit-G Loomy Aspect Of Foreign AGairs
FEEDING Of England ruth Regard 10 he Ces-
SION Of Caba--Loyd Palmeyston's ViSn 10 Paris,
&C., &C.
The swapping of the electric wire has sus,
pended the communications by way OF Cron'
stadt 10 Bucharest, and we are still compelled
to wait for the arrival of intelligence, the i'm
portance of which can hardly be magni6ed.
Enough however, has arrived to considerably
diminish the gloom which was rapidly lowering
over the public mind, and which is also of in
terest TO dissipate IN toto from the military mind
ofFrance any latent idea that but for the French
the slow and comparatively barbarous Saxon
could scarcely sustain a purely military cam.
paign. The Anglo-Saxon trumpet has rung
throughout the length and breadth of the land,
and the halfdoubting sneers which followed the
battle of Alma, and which from an intimate
knowledge of military men here, know were
INDUCED in to an extent few were aware of,
have been nipped in the bud, for the time OF
the present generation, at all events and to
our English dull mind it is rather ridiculous to
witness the mobile facility with which French
criticism flies from one extreme to another.
The serried phalanx, so superciliously spoken
OF at Alma as too majestic, is now Landed TO
the skies, and termed a living wall of brass
and even that terrific sacrifice of cavalry is cri-
ticised with admiring sorrow.
1t begins to be evident, in fact, that each
nation has much to learn of the other, and nat
nrally possesses qualities peculiar to itself;
and that the much boosted African warfare OF
the French will require a certain degree of
modification before it annihilates the power of
the Gar. The manner in which the labors Of
their engineers was blown to the winds, at the
first lire of the Russian batteries, reducing to
comparative nonentity the French force, while
those OF the English have resisted like wall
OF granite, has produced the most profound
sensation; and now that the history of Bala-
kiava--its eddying fght-its terrible fire-its
brilliant, though disastrous charge of cavalry
Its bold, British valor-the AngloSaxon tug
Is in every ones mouth, from the palace to the
straw-built shed; and it is clear that the pre-
else details of the engagement of the 9th, to
which l drew your attention in my last, and
where some ten thousand Russians were put
hors dn combat, are only required, in the pres
emit half suppressed feeling, to burst forth with
an enthusiasm not less general than generous.
The nation is touched in its best and noblest
sympathies, and Waterloo is almost forgiven,
as the nature and texture of the material which
accomplished it is brought nearer to view.
The moral effect of mutual respect between
the allies, cannot but make itself felt at St
Petersburg The Cars power will only be
really formidable when, by any accidental cir
cumstances, this is endangered; and should
the war endure, as there is every probability,
it is not unlikely that Russia may contrive to
make breach in it AT present, however,
everything is against her. The fixed purpose
of the Emperor, that every means shall be
made available to preserve mistaken the ALI
ance-the peculiar temperament of Canrobert,
now in command, almost Saxon, and so widely
different from that Of st. Arnaud-his relation
TO Napoleon, encountered by no second tie, as
in the case of the deceased marshal, and the
ready Difference he has shown to the Emperor's
wishes, that the special style Napoleonic should
ments against the Gar Just now.
The dispatch Of General Canrobert proves
that the Russians are making the most desper-
ate efforts to save SebastopoL The disposable
reserves have, it is evident, ut last arrived from
the banks of the Danube, the Dniester, and
the Don, and with these troops the Gar sends
two Of his sons to raise the courage of the gar
rison. The truth is, the trenches of the be-
siegers, as is well remarked by the Journal des
Debdts, have advanced within half musket shot
of the place; the preaching batteries were con-
structed and armed two Of the principal bate
ries of the town were already preached by the
English and French guns, and it was publicly
announced that the assault would be given on
the 9th Of November, and it is on this very day
that at the same time, on two points Of the line
Of investment, the Russian army made, with all
its forces, q formidable attack which might
have been attended with disastrous conse-
quences If it had not been repulsed with the
most valiant energy.
The dispatch VI General Canrobert, which
could not at the first moment enter into the de-
tails of this affair, allows the following appre.
citation: That in the affair of Oct. Is, at Bala-
klava, notwithstanding certain untoward events
on the part Of the allies, General Liprandi was,
we will not say beaten, but absolutely frustra-
ted, and something more that in consequence
the Russian generals attacked on Nov. s, close
to the river Tchemaia, with view Of forcing
the siege and getting between that line and thai
Of the line of decentralization, in order to fall
on Balaklava--if this maneuvre had succeed.
ed the Russian army would have taken on the
rear both the trenches and the position on
which the exterior redoubts of defense are
placed. II is easy TO perceive all the conse
quences that might have resulted from so Sc
rious an attack. The large loss that has been
sustained can only be explained by the ex,
traordinary desperation Of the enemy. What
took place on the 5th was only renewal Of
the affair Of the 25th and whilst the corps o.
Liprandi attacked in front the heights defended
by the reserves of the English, sortie wa,
directed from the place against the English
batteries. Prince Menschikof and Genera
Liprandi again endeavored TO give each Other
the hand across the enemy's lines, at the same
time to occupy the French, and to prevent
them from going TO the relief Of the English
army, another sortie took place at the opposite
extremity Of the English army, in such wa,
as TO cut of all the allies communications will
Cape Chersonesus and their depots Of ammu
milton. 1t was grand effort, ably made, Wig
orously repulsed, or the besiegers and the be
sieged might have changed places.
The conduct Of the Turks is in every onei
mouth, and shows with tolerable clearness tina
beyond dying blaze, an impulsiye effort, the,
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