The daily union., 1854-12-27
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indicated by the great rise the Paris bourse has had
an effect this side and the belief that has produced
great sensation all the courts of Europe has tended at
the time lessen the antcpations previously enter
taned that its terms Whenever they shall anspre viii
be found vague and unsatisfactory Notwithstanding
these considerations however 1t still far from popular
the dread the terrible by which the allies have at
length gained mpregnAble footing in the Crimea should
be by the acceptance of unworthy concessions to the
that has thus in when the worst Is past being
still very prevalent Consos for money which left on
yesterday at 92A to first quoted at 924 to whence
owing TO demand for money the stock
change they temporarily eceded to 92S On the pubca-
ton of the correspondence from Paris describing the opn
ions expressed by the organs of the French
garding the furnished by the present combina-
ton that the will involve European complica
tons the mari again presented signs Of animation, and
the last official quotation was 92} to g. Subsequently,
transactions took place at further improvement Of an
eighth while for the 10th of January the final price was
92k 80, which will be equal TO 9ls to q dividend
The operations during the day moderate in extent
and the attention OF the dealers occupied by their ar
rangements for the settlement which takes place the day
"Frday next the 9Th instant will be the last day
which transfers be made in consos before the dvi
dends India stock closes on Thursday, the 7th
Foreign securities exhibited increased rmness at the
of business but the highest prices were not
subsequently supported
PARIS BouRsE.
PARIS, Monday, Dec. 4, 1854
The negotiations between the Austrian government and
welknown Paris capitalist for the construction OF rail-
roads have been brought to successful termination The
contract only be completed in the event of Austria
and this fact is considered additional proof of the
satisfactory nature Of the treaty.
The commercial position OF Paris Is unchanged Ihs
manufacturers nearly completed their stocks and are
not apprhensve of being surprised by too great number
of demands coming at the same moment on the approach
of the new year. Very few orders received from
the United States and the commercial accounts from New
York of the 18th nl anything but rcassurng few
Partisan and Lyons houses have forwarded OF late large
sian firms trading with Russia The cold beginning to be
vigorously felt the communication by sedges will become
very active by land between Meme and St Petersburgh
The government by prohibiting the export of corn until
the 3s of july 1885, anxious to check the rise in the
price of grain The Decree however, has not yet produced
the desired effect The rates. it is true less buoyant in
Paris than in the preceding week. but in the departments
they continue firm The sale of cattle has been very active
all the markets particularly those of Sceaux and Possy
Prices have increased but they maintain themselves
owing the dsnclinaon of the gazers to abate their
pretensions
The closed to-day at 72 75c for the end
of the month and the our-anda-halfper-cens at 96f
THE FIELD MKERMAsS.-rHE DEAD
AND Observation-Disclosures SIGHTS.
The graphic army correspondent of the London Times
under date of November 7, writes as follows:
went carefully the position to-day, and the
examined it the amazed at the noble tenacy
of when assailed by such vast masses of infantry
though must great credit to the Russians for the OBJ
snacy with which they sought to drive back and the
laborous determination with which they clambered up the
hillside attack The tents of the second division
pitched the verge Of the plateau which we occupy and
from the right flank of the camp the ground rises gently
for three hundred yards to ridge covered with
scrubby brushwood thick that is sometimes difficult
to force horse through It. These bushes grow in tufts
and are about four feet high On gaining the ridge you
below you the valley Of the Tchernaya green tran
quill slip Of meadow, with few white houses dotting 1t at
intervals farm enclosures and tufts of green trees
From the ridge of the hillside it descends rapidly in slope
of at least GOO feet high The brushwood is very thick
upon it, and at times it is almost mpcryicus At the base
OF this slope the road winds to nkermann and thence to
Sebastopol.
The sluggish stream steals quietly through it towards
the head Of the harbor which is shut out from view by the
pItIpc n he tOVnrd A
tance of quarter of mile the valley the sides OF
the mountains opposite to the ridge fhe plateau on which
camp stands rise abruptly in sheer walls OF rock slab
after slab to the height of 1900 1900 feet road
winds ameng those massive precpces to the ruins OF
Inkermanna city Of the dead and gone and unknown
where houses and pillared mansions and temples have
been hewn out of the face of the rock by generation
whose the most daring antiquarians have not
guessed at This road passes along the heights and dips
into the valley of Inkermann the neck Of the harbor
The Russians planted guns along the other day to cover
the retreat of their troops and at night the lights Of their
fires glimmering through the window and door
places from the chambers carved out from the sides of the
precpice Looking down from the ridge these ruins
the sweep of the valley till it closed in from view by the
walls Of the ridge and by the mountains which hem in the
valley of Baaava, and just catch the side of
the ridge the OF the French earthwork
thrown up to defend rear and the position
towards Baakava. Below towards the right of the
ridge at the distance of two hundred feet from the top
towards the valley is the Sandbag iwngun battery in
tended for guns which had not been placed there the
5h because Sir d. Evans conceived that they would only
attack, would certainly DC uncOHnecteu
they would have been with any line Of defence On the
left hand, overlooking this battery there is road from
Balaava right camp through the second div
ions tents their 'front.' which the ridge and
joins the upper road to lnkermann Some of the Russian
columns had cmbe2 up by the ground along this road
others had assembled the left in front and to the right of
the Sandbag battery. In every bushon every yard of
blood-staned grounday dead or dying Russian. The
weknown bearskDs Of Guards the red coats of
infantry and the bright blue of the French Chasseurs
veang each silent horror in the gadcs and marking the
spot where stark and stiff corpse lay contorted the
grass pointed out the of the bOodest contests The
dead were happy; the dull, cold eyehe tranquil brow
the enty-openng lips which had given escape to the
parting spirit it fled from its bleeding sheshowed how
peacefully may die in battle pierced by the rife
ball The British and the French many of whom had
been murdered by the Russians they wounded
terrible rowns their faces with which the agonies of
up the earth their hands, and held the grass between
their fingers up towards heaven All the who exhibit
ed such signs of pain had been bayoneed The dead
who lay with eternal smile their lips had been shot
But the wounded For two days they had lain where the
hand and the ball had eed them There very few
ii is true but all searching had not discovered the Sc
of that blood-staned hllsidc and it towards
to-day the last of soldiers had been found in
his lair and carried to the hospital But the Russians
groaning and palpatng they lay around far
Some OF these placed together in heaps that
they might be readily removed Others glared you from
the bushes with the erocy Of wild beasts they hugged
their wounds. Some implored, in unknown tongue but
in accents not to be Mistaken water holding out
their mutiated and shattered mbs or pointing to the
track of the aceratng ball The sullen angry scowl Of
of these fearful. Fanatcism aud immortal
hate spake through their angry cye-bals and he who
ga2ed upon them in pity and compassion could at least
tunwingy understand why these men, in their savage