The daily union., 1854-12-27

inOrCement desphtCntu
the army in the Crimea under the command of General
Bison with every prospect of arriving within reasonable
time Notwithstanding the heavy gales from the northwest
which have latterly prevailed The wind high on
Tuesday night last that British and Sardnian seaman
swept into the dock of the Toilette and drowned The
Alps of Glasgow is still here waiting to embark
troops and the Indiana which has arrived at Toulon is
expected here tomorrow The French Me-
arrived this afternoon from Port Vandres and viii
take troops to the Crmea General Rostoan reviewed on
Sunday last batteries OF artillery previous to their
embarcaton for the East 1t would be utterly impossible
find in any country finer body of men or better equip
ped Their horses likewise in the highest condition
Their ebarcaton in sailing transports has been progress
sing all the week. and continues to-day but tremble
when reflect TO what danger those very small vessels are
exposed, with a fierce northwest wind blowing some
weak steamyesses likewise sailed last week with infantry
for Balakaya who fear must have suffered severely from
the crowded state of the decks The of the port of
Marsees admit that they have here such mag
nifcent steamers as the Ripon CANDIDA and Thames If
anything could have excited the enthusiasm the Marse
lase il would have been the style in which the Thames
sailed of the harbor at yesterday the shining
brightly the band of the 6st regiment of infantry playing
God the Queen, and the officers standing uncover
ed but the few persons on the pier looked on in stupid
Not cheer raised for the gallant fellows
going to fight the battles of their country"
THE TERRIBLE BLACK sEA.-MILLIoSs or PROP
We copy the following from the London Times of the
5th inst;
OF the many and great losses suffered by the Anglo
French expedition from another the storm
the 18th of November of which have at length the
melancholy details may almost be regarded as the worst
true that the immediate loss of men is not to be com
pared with the numbers placed hors dc combat at the bat
ties of the Alma and Inkermann still less with the VIC
tins of cholera 1t may also be admitted that for coun-
try rich ours and with such power OF rapid pro-
ducton the loss of material is usually little more than
temporary inconvenience In this instance however, the
losses come in FORM and in time the most unfortunate
could be desired by the worst enemy of the expedition
The total loss of ut the various stations on the
of the Crimea the disastrous 18th cannot be
less than thousand, besides those that have fallen
into the hands of the Cossacks The loss Of vessels
thirty British and French wrecked and half many dis
masted Baaklava and ls wrecked dismased at the
mouth of the Katcha Our meno-war thanks to the pre-
caution of frequently trying their cables have come OIL
with no further damage than the loss of guns Of mass
or of rigging the twisting Of their rudders the spring
ing leaks The French have lost the Henry iV, no
Bile three-decker and ayore steamer. Thus far
have sustained loss beyond the ordinary drain war;
but the greatest calamity is that of which scarcely
know the full The Prince magnificent new screw steamer
of 700 TONS carried the other day to Balaklara the
46h regiment all the winter clothing for the troops
gagged in the siege including 10000 great coats flannel
suits under clothing socks and gloves beef pork ana
other provisions hospital stores for Scutari and vast
quantity of shot and shell to the siege These
wholly lost and nothing remains of the Prince but half
dozen of her crew, who managed to get the
cliffs when she "broken to powder against them. The
Resoute, with 900 tons OF gunpowder also went to the
bottom Thus it seems all the materials for carrying
the siege and providing against the severity Of the winter
have been carried off at one fell swoop and if
think content ourselves with merely maintaining our
ston on the heights before Sebastopol it is evident that
ing winter.
Everything have conspircd under mysterious
dispensaon of Heaven TO make the loss OF the Prince
the greatest possible disaster She could not stop at Sou
tari land the hospital stores greatly wanted here
When she arrived at Baaklava it blowing resh and
she did not venture within the narrow toruous channel of
the harbor All she did to land the 46th, though 1T
is said that besides large crew. some sappers and
some medical and other officers still on board. On
attempting to anchor the whole of the cable ran out not
being properly clnched second cable shared the
fate The Prince then steamed out, while third cable
was got up from the hold and with this she brought
to- though with smaller anchor than those she had lost
This answered for IA while On the dreadful morning of
the 18th, however, it proved utterly inadequate The
Prince away her mass and put her steam but the
wreck of the izzen-mas oued the screw and the noble
vessel becoming helpless Immediately dritted against the
rocks. Figures but feeble language for the descrip
ton ofsuch CATASTROPHE but the value of the Prince she
foated is put at f50000 and her cargo at half million
There been nearly souls board The thirty
transports utterly lost with crews at Balaklava
put down at each So here at once million OF
money to the bottom form OF which money conveys
but faint idea The other losses enumerated above the
French ship-othelina and steamer the transports
lost the western coast the many vessels OF all kinds dis
abled make up another million to be added to the naked
pecunary estimate of the loss But the true of stating
that the army utterly disabled for the present. and
left to no other protection than Heaven and that vaor
which the British soldier to display in the face
of the greatest difficulties the direct privatons and the
most overwhelming numbers Yet never was the ancient
valor Of our put tremendous trial The tenn
pest which is said have been the most terrible ever
known in that part of the world, and which overhrew
three of the mnarets Of Sultan Achmets Mosque at
stannope besides driving large vessels from their moor
ngs before that city, did not spare the allies even land
II blew down and greatly injured their tents feeble pro-
lection they against the cold of Crmean winter at
the height Of feet above the neghboring surge Such
the situation in which the army finds itself suddenly
deprived of the much wanted supply Of clothing sent out
for the winter and the equally needul ammunition for the
siege. 4I+r
THE PREPARATIONS FOR wINrERISG CRIMEA.
letter from the camp before Sebastopol tells that
"when the expedition landed at Lake Kamsh there was
the campaign would be short and glorious The
guine naered themselves upon wintering in England
whilst the cautious certainly did hope to the
stormy months either in ScUtari Constannople The
idea of winering under in the Crmea would
have been regarded fearful impossbity only too hor
rible to contemplate.
"The campaign has been glorious one Two brilliant
victories have proved the great superiority OF the allies
Owing to the laeness OF the season. which has
rendered any general assault upon the town unadvsab
has been decided to winter in the Crmea and open the
campaign next spring with large reintorcemens on
armed Russian. A sufficient force will maintain the
lines of Perekop and Sebastopo will be completely in
vested The garrison who will be driven from necessity
in the winter to any stores of provisions which
the place may contain will be found TO surrender in the
spring from starvation the town will be carried by
sault Now that the army knows its fate it certainly bears
the idea Of winterng here with great philosophical rcsg
nation. It's confounded bore, but can't be helped
Sustained by this reflection the officers have invested
largely peacets and determined to bear their fate
with gramblng than is absolutely necessary to
the we-being of Briton AT home il is hoped every
thing will be done by the authorities TO render the position
of the army MS comfortable possible Canvas tents
but poor protectors against wet and cold Gould not iron
barracks of kind be constructed The facility and
incredibly short space of time with which the largest iron