The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-17

Settlement or the soude Trouele with France.
LoSDor, Nov 3, Is54-sPM
SPECIAL DEsPArCH TO rME NEW Y0Sk HERALD.
| JAxn GORDON BENNETT, ESQ
DRAR sIR-Don Piatt Secretary Of tie United States
Legation at Paris, has just with dispatches
for Mr. Buchanan in relation to the discourtesy of the
French government to the American Minister to Spain
Louis Napoleon, last Sunday, invited Mr. Mason to
private interview at the Palace In the course of discus
sion, Mr. Mason took occaAon with great frmness to
let his Majesty understand to the full the disastrous
sequences of o with America and that he had no
doubt his mind to the course which the American
Minister to Paris should pursuA in the premises That he
should at once without propa explanations were given
by the French court tthe whole responsibility
of the consequences and ask Il his passports Louis
Napoleon seemed just swsk sned to the bearing OF
American and things upon E,n -opean matters be
| replied almost in the words Of the article In tne
Constiuioxnel, which you will haa Q seen extensively
| republished in the English journals.
The excitement Of the Americans in Europe IN regard
to this affair had high astoa. the prices OF
French stocks As the general mpression was that oui
Napoleon would not recede the Lsndon c orators sold
large amount Of French rentes.
The consequence in Paris the Al OF Sstocks nearly
ono per cent. As such a tendcpss was particularly
dangerous ut this time when the Emperor in want of
money, and the from Sebastopci gle omy that
the festivities at Compgne second time po poncd,
hshsd no time for hesitation dignity His tote to
Aer Mason, breathing still more deprccatory smA than
the Constauonnel therefore communicating sub
stance to the Paris Bourre hours before II: was
delivered formally to the Legation, in order to sra ne
alarming decline Of funds The note ,ciNdrdws aIg ,
ject;or 10 Mr. Soules frS passage through Rra~cs
Louis Napoleon insies M SosSe TO rrocse5
thvop5huse Empire on his uuy to Madrid.
is in hat he WIN nAu or
Ministry has been exerted through Lord Clarendon,
produce the result that has been attained The French
government did not anticipate decided stand that
taken by Mr. Mason it thought that he would refer the
matter to the government at Washington, which
considered TOO feeble to do any thing.
1t is understood that George Sanders gives dinner to
Mr. soue previous to his departure at which will ma9
the Frenchrepublicans-Ledru Roln, Louis Blame Vic
tor Hugo, and others. On his arrival at Paris the
American ctizeus there will invite him to national
banquet Thence he goes to Bayonne, and leaves for
Spain in the United States steamer San Jacnto.
II is said that Louis Napoleon has been so fully con-
vinced BY the turn this affair has taken of the mpolcy
Of attempting to put bride the wild Yankee nation
that he has resigned himself to perfectly amiable
hayor, at least until sebastopol is really en- prise
Our London Correspondence.
LONDON Nov 3, 1854.
The Siege Of Sebastopol- nficing Repsr.s7ne Latest
|
Auies-Adnssral Nachimof Kilied-serere Fighting
0t'erai Liprandi-Fyve thousand French Troops-7ne
Verdta Qusstio-Tne Political Horson-Ru
folicy-This Years. Guy Fdmkes-7ne Entente Cor
diale-"T Tmd" Councils Explained by the Moniteur-
Mr.. SouG Again-Misceaneous Intelligence, dc.
You will see, by the teegraphic dispatches which /
enclose, that the most cont, adicory reports and
counts OF the doings at Sebastopo running about
Europe. We have not in fact, at the moment am
writing ything like reliable intelligence of the actual
state of the siege operations. Tie weather in the Med
erranean has bsen boIserous and tho Euphrate which
left Constannsple the Goth Of October damaged
and did not reach Malta till the 29th She was the
bearer Of dispatches from Lord Raglan which
war'ed at once from Malta by the Hellespont which
latter vessel has been telegraphed from Marseiles.
There win probably be supplement to the GdSeNe
night, with details up to the goth.
We are howaver in receipt OF much later dates
sebastopo and, curiousy enough the latest are
via st. Petersburg Now, considering that the St. Pc
tersburg Gazette claims the battle OF the Alma vic
tory much credit cannot attached the St. Peters
burg dispatches Prince Menschikoa informs the Gar
that French battery taken by Storm and eleven
guns and mortars spiked; that General Iprandi with
900 men, had attacked detached camp of the Eng
lish, taken four redoubts, and destroyed half Of the
English cavalry that Lord Cardigan had narrow
escape and that Lord Dunkellin captured. This
engagement said to hare taken place the 25th;
the 9th the city still held out On the other hand the
English steamer Trent which left Balaklava on the 25th
of October arrived at varna the evening of the 26h
summary of her has been telegraphed from wi.
enna It says that the bombardment was continued
with the greatest vgor that the besegers had brought
against the gates of the city; that sebasopo
encumbered with killed and wounded, and that
another Admiral-Admiral Nachmof-had been killed.
The Trent further that the upper batteries
Of Fort Constantine had been slenced and that two
Russian neofbattle ships had been sunk by the allies
in the southern harbor The despatch adds that fire.
quent conflicts took place between the enemy and the
English troops near Inkerman.
From the above contradictory statements sufficient
truths may be elected to to the conclusion that
sebastopol still held out the 9th that the bonn
bardment continued vigorously by the allies whilst
the garrison still offered the deter resistance
The losses both sides have probably been consider
able.
enclose you plan of the positions the allied dvi
sons the 18th October, previous to the opening of
the bombardment.
Five thousand French troops had passed through the
Bosphorus their to the Crimea. The allied army
consequently in sufficient force to meet any Rus
sian army that can be brought against it.
The rcrdta Qucstio Of Austria and Prussia and their
position towards the Western Powers, towards each
other, and towards Russia, remains unsettled. Baron
der Pfordten, having done what he could at Berlin
Is actually at Vienna. Couriers pass almost daily
between the two capitals Baron de Beust the Saxon
Minister Of Foreign Affairs is at Berlin 1t Is said that
Prussia, to avoid general dissolution Of the Ger
manic Confederation, has been induced by the Saxon
and Bavaran ministers to give in to certain extent to
Austria, and to support her proposals at the Diet The
object Of the two Powers seems to be TO put the
whole Of the Confederation In state of armed neutra
lity Such neutrality far Austria is concerned,
would be neutrality at all moreover Austra is bound
by her recent treaty with the Porte to force requi
SITE should the Russians again attempt to occupy the
Prncipalcs; and BY her treaty with Prussia, Of the
goth April Prussia Is bound Artcle II to regard every