The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-12-02

Centrated attack. Inev lost altogether one
hundred killed and two hundred wounded in
three days. An de-camp of the French
Admiral was struck by shell on the deck
of the Vile de Paris, the flag ship. The Aga
memnon, bearing the flag of Sir Edmund Ly-
ons, had suffered severely, and the Retribu-
ton, Capt. Drummond, had a mast shot
away. Of the casualties on land we have
no account but the Russians confess to
five hundred killed, including Admiral Kor-
nileff.'
1t will be seen from the above that these
successive reports refer to the assault of
which we had the Russian statement, per
last steamer from Europe.
Summing up these dispatches, the London
Times says, editorily, "we are still without
the means of adding any fact of importance
to the intelligence previously received from
the seat Of war. The dispatch forwarded by
Lord Westmoreland on the 9th, had been
six days on the road from Varna to Vienna,
and it conveys a very incomplete notion of
the operations which commenced on the
18th. Storeships of the French and English
squadrons, including Admiral Hamelin's
flag ship, the Vile de Paris, and Admiral
Lyons flag ship, the Agamemnon, undoubt-
edly took part in the first attack, and the
combined squadrons lost about three hundred
men, in killed and wounded but we are
left to conjecture the duration and real effect
of this engagement. Unfortunately, the
official telegraphic dispatches, on which
alone reliance can be placed, are so unskill-
fully framed that they rather increase than
diminish the uncertainty under which we
labor and we must wait for the arrival of
our own correspondence and dispatches"
Private information leads us to suppose
that the "quarantine battery reported to
have been destroyed by the French, was an
ring the 10th, llth, and 18th ofOctober and
from which they threw shell, with annoying
effect, into the French trenches.
Russians say that no Damage aea8 Done.
The Russian embassy at Vienna had re-
ceived dispatch dated from Czernovitz,
morning of 2Sth October, stating that the
bombardment of SebaStopol was carried on
vigorously to the 20th, but without much
damage to the defences.
Also from Odessa, October 25th, saying,
" the bombardment of Sebastopol was con-
tinued up 10 the 23d, but nothing decisive
had occurred
The Russian official statement reads thus;
St. Petersburg, Oct. 26.-Prince Menschi-
koff writes under date of the night of the
Goth We return the fire of the enemy
with success. The damage caused to the
Notifications is trifing. The fire from the
enemy's ships has not been renewed. A part
of our reserve has arrived, and the remainder
is expected
4 Breach Effected
The Paris Moniteur of the 3Oth confirms
previous intelligence by saying: "A letter
from Varna informs us that a French steam
er, which left the Crimea on the 2lst, con-
firms the news respecting the destruction of
the two outer folts of Sebastopol. Moreover,
the land batteries had made a breach. The
allied armies were only waiting for the open
ing of a second breach in order to make the
assault.
Successful Sortie of the Russians.
According to Russian official dispatch,
published in the kreuz Zeitung, dated st.
Petersburgh, October %, the siege continued
uninterruptedly up to the 23d; the fortf-
ca tions had suffered but little. The attack
from the sea had not been renewed. The
Russians had made a successful sortie, and
a French battery of eleven guns and eight
mortars had been destroyed Lord Clanri-
carde's son, Lord Dunkellin, was taken priso-
ner.
Michael and Nicholas, youngest sons of
the Czar, arrived at Odessa on the 10TH
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