Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-18
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT
Paris, NOVEMBER 2, 1854.

PARIS, NOVEMBER z, 1904. s
The French heart is becoming sick with hope
deferred Those ademoralized Russians that
were so soundly beaten at Alma ridiculously per-
sist in the defence Of Sebastopol We have now
authentic intelligence up to the 25th ultimo from
before Sebastopol. For nine mortal days have the
terrible batteries, that were to do their work and
open breaches in four days, been battering with all
their power and, for aught that appears, they Will
have to continue battering for nine mortal days to
come. Our latest and best intelligence concerning
operations in the Crimea still continues to reach US
VIA ST. Petersburgh The dispatches received IN
this way do not probably contain full intelligence
of an unfayorable character to Russia they nights
but hitherto, if the Russian intelligence is incom-
pete it has generally proved exact as far as goes
The want of news through French and English
channels is very astonishing and is IN fact strongly
con6rmatory of the correctness Of the rather un-
favorable news for the Allies which has reached US
through Russian channels. The latest intelligence
via St Petersburgh is as follows:
esEBAsropoL, Oor 23-The siege and the lombard
nent continue The damage done by the enemys FIRE is
but OF little Importance In sorte made by the garrison
eleven and eight cannons Of French battery
spiked From the side of the sea the attack has
not been renewed"
Another despatch from St. Petersburgh, dated
October i, says:
at Kckpef Bessarabia and states that on the 10th
October Gen. LiPRANDI attacked the detached camps OF
che English and took the four redoubts which protected
It. Eleven pieces of fell into our hands At the
same moment smart attack of cavalry took place The
English lost nearly half of their lighthouse under Lord
CARDIGAN, who himself with difficulty escaped capture "
We received this morning from Berlin another
despatch, dated St. Petersburgh, November l, con-
6rming that just above given, and adding:
sThe entrenched camp Of the enemy attacked and
carried was Baakava. At the time October 25
French battery before Sebastopol was destroyed by
cur fire."
We receive also this morning from Berlin, via
Varna, the Allies account (not, however, official and
suthentic) up to the 25th October, from before
Sebastopol:
sat this date" says the intelligence, she fire was
continued with extreme rgor especially the part OF
the assaans. 1t had ceased since the 18th. The
losses we're enormous on the side Of the Russians The
number OK the dead bodies great in Sebastopol
that pestentia masmas beginning TO arise from
them, and it had become impossible to bury them The
besegers were moreover making great progress when
Che courier left they had approached SO near the city IS
to direct their cannons against the very city gates"
It is remarkable that this last note from Varna,
though protesting to date from before Sebastopol
ON the 18th, does not speak Of the attack on the
Allies camp mentioned in the two last Rus
sian dispatches as having been successfully
made on that day This fact deservedly throws
suspicion on the intelligence from Varna. The
troops before Sebastopol the English especially
are saIl to be suffering dreadfully from disease,
dying by hundreds daily. They not SO well
provided with the camp cquipage necessary to health
as the French troops.
Upon the whole, the news up to this date from
the Crimea is rather discouraging. Some even
begin to doubt of success | do not as yet rank
myself with them. A little sooner or little later
the place is, think bound to fall into the hands Of
the Allies | have conversed however, with more
than one Frenchman and Engishman of less SAN
guine temperament who painfully opine that the
Allies have, in more senses than one, caught a
Tartar = in the Crimea.