New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-07
One Week Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA AT HALIFAX.
MORE FIGHTING I'M SPAIN.

500 tons of cargo.
The screw steamship Brandon sailed from
Havre, via Southampton, on the 18th, for New
York, full of freight and passengers.
William Lettson is appointed Secretary Of the
British Legation ct Mexico.
The Latest.
The Anglo French land force at Bomersund is
$4,000 strong, supported by the feets
BERLIN, 16th.-The Vienna Conference is ex-
pected to re-assemble next week.
PARIS, 18th-Evening The following dis
patch has just been received Orders have been
issued for the Austrians to enter Wallachia, and
they have commenced crossing the frontier at
Vurun. SEVERN.
Odessa letters of the 7th soy that no real
blockade exists, either at Odessa or in the Sea
of Azof. -
MADRID, 16th.-The Juntas of Malaga and
Lerida refuse to recognize the new Government.
LONDON, Saturday.-Fort Tee and Fort Not
itch, at Aland, have been taken--one by the
French and the other by the English. The loss
Of the Allies was small
The Basilisk arrived at Dantzic. H. @
Surrender Of Bomersund.
tBy Submarine Telegraph
The British steamer Basilisk has arrived
at - from the Baltic, and brings the news
that Bomersund surrendered on the 10Th inst
Two thousand Russians were taken prisoners
The French lost one hundred and sixty killed.
The War.
From Vienna the 10Th, it is telegraphed,
"There is reason to believe that Prince Alex
ander Gortschakof this morning notified the
Austrian Government that as long as the Turks
are in Wallachia, the Russians will retain GER
tain strategic points in the Principalities
Austria has given up the intention of propo-
sing to the German Diet to put the Federal
army on war footing.
The Baltic. 0y.
The Paris .Moniteur announces that on tie
7th and 9Th Of August, the French expedition
airy force was landed on the island Of Aland,
| north of the fortress of Bomersund. At the
| same time force of English and French ma
rines landed south of the fortress. The disem-
| barkation was covered by war steamers, and
| was effected, as the yMoniteur says, without a
man getting his feet wet. They then erected
their batteries, while the Russians destroyed
theirs and fell back on the main fortress. By
| the 18th the fortress was completely invested.
| On the 18th the Russians made q sortie, but
were driven in. On the 18th the French car
ried a redoubt of eight guns without losing a
man. Another account says it was a strong
fort they took, after several hours fighting
| The bombsrdment of the main fortress was to
begin on the 10Th.
| Reports in the English papers say that the
inhabitants of Aland had risen against the Rus
slams, and it was proclaimed by order of the
French Admiral, from the pulpits Of all the
Churches, that the Russian sway over the
Islands had ceased.
The Danube.
| The aspect Of affairs on the Danube Ia quite
unchanged.
| The Russians continued to fortify all strate.
| gc poins as they advanced.
The London Daily News contains remarka-
BILE special correspondence, stating that the
British troops in camp at Monastir, near Deona
are decimated by malignant cholera, totally
destitute of medicine, furnishing for lack Of
food, and are disconnected and almost disor-
ganized. The Times correspondent partly con.
firms the statement
| Prince Paskiewitsch returned to Warsaw OF
the 18th, and will again take command of tn,
Southern army
The Black Sea.
As yet nothing has been done.
Constantinople letters speak of the expedition
against the Crimea as still in progress, but EN-
barkation is deferred ON account of the cholera
Important news from the East is not expects
before the first week in September.
A Russian dispatch from Odessa, August 6
says:
stThe allied fleets tried to land troops a
Balaklawa, Crimea.a
At sebastopol it was reported that Admira
Lyons had bombarded Anapa for "a hours. TIL
result was unknown.
The Sultan's daughter, Princess Fatima
was married to Redschid Pacha's son at Con
lstantinople, on the 10th inst.
The Russian feet came out Of Sebastopol, an
was seen off Odessa, but they returned in safety
Asia.
On the 4th Of August an offensive and dc
| n Ua
Porte and schamyl The terms have not trans
PRED. 1t is however understood that SchamJ
insisted that the Porte should recognize the in
dependence of Circassia, he, in return, oferin
the assistance of 10000 mountaineers to act i
concert with the Turkish forces.
1t is said that Schamyl has obtained grea
victory over the Russians but Russian report
state that General Wrangel had advanced wit
the Russian troops from Ervan, and defeate
the Turks near Bajazid with great slaughter
captured eight guns, and afterwards occupie
| Bajazid
;, Mercantile letters from Bagdad say that cor
tracts have been made to furnish supplies an
, transports for a Hindoo- British force, whic
would arrive via the Persian Gulf and |
landed at Baza, mouth of the river Tigris.
The Emperor of Morocco has announced
intention to present the Sultan with thirty mi
lions piastres and twelve thousand troops al
nually, while the war lasts.
!, Great Britain
The British Parliament had been pr
, rogued.
The Turkish Loan of 95,000000 sterlin
( guaranteed on the Turkish revenue and Egg
tian tribute, has been opened at Paris al
9 London, at per cent G3 ,000, 900 at 80 no.
and the balance five months hence, at 85 II
E loan is already taken at 2 to per cent. pr
MUM
The last African mail brought intelligent
d that two American banks, detained for not ha
t ing certificates from the New York Custom
t house, had been restored, with costs, by Il
: Vice Admiralty Court at Gambia.
The United States sloop- war Marion lie
Gambia on the 9th of July, for the Cape
i. Verbs.
Accounts of the potato disease in the north
Ireland are more discouraging. 1t seems to
s spreading, though not rapidly.
Cholera was prevailing with considerable $
T verify in Belfast.
}; The poor rates just struck for the requir
= ments of the present year show an increase
|. the greater number of the Irish Unions.
7 France.
The fete of st. Napoleon on the 10Th in
!, e passed off quietly. The decorations were
y ;. great splendor. Marshal Magnan reviewed q
II 900 troops A grand military spectacle was e
l 's acted in the Champ de Mars, representing t
!, 70 siege of Silistria.
: The Emperor's absence was much regrett
- by the Parisians; there are, however, rune
# that conspiracy had been discovered, and t