The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-10-21


expected senforcements from Ks'ch msntionsd n hs
despetoh 70 81 Petersburg Iftisevent has oecursed
U.s. perhaps scarcely TO be regretted for tn sisgs OF
Anapa would otherEie have been sas ns aotJ Oh INC
siHes snd II might have proved By no means &C easy
ooe III her from the shslowness OF the water, or from
the necessity Of attending to otoer objects which were
thoueb more I'M the sea Of Az aud the Strait
Of Kerch appear have been hitherto regarded be
yond the province OF the sned fAet: and the coass
auence has tsen to believe this story, tina.
bo6y Of ~ coo men have Joined the Russian army la hs
Cime& II trus that the smaller vessels Of the Aee
have hsd great variety OF duties to PERFORM AMI
know that the French are By no means well supplied
with steamers; but could nevertheless have wished
that the snemy's maritime communications had been
ceiyed consicegAbis ieinf orcement
(Fron the London News, Oet8l
6ebastopoI Ut ths date of the latest depsches fro the
Crmea, had not fanen-had not begn assaued. The
oity il came fromand the "excusve contribution OF
Ausurus 70 the Russian journal turas out to be mere
On Tuesday last ~e took the liberty to descbs the
condition Of the public mind in these words:-sEyery
you meet morally convinced thst the report of
cia ntesenee to suthorre him to believe what he has
already up his mind to believe" In this tea ing
ing tin 7hursday afternoon when the long looked Tor
of6cia intelligence published but only to destroy
tho raspg belief thst had fallen and TO req
der position and prospects of the allies in the Cmea
diff suit to he understood than they before,
The dispatches Of Lord srattord dc Radcliffe
MSrshsi ST. Arnsud and lord Raglan eft the allied
miles, viotors after hard contested ht ths 10th Of
September on the banks of the Alma some thirteen
niles to the north of sebassopol TIE despatch Of
Lord Shauogd de Radcliffe published yesterday
sfterooouif the expressions - he allied armies Is
tablished their basis Of operation" and "were pre-
pairing to msrch without delay Sebastopo,"
are TO be literally consruedvese the 2sth at Bslsk
Lava, nipe miles south of Sehist,pol. The history Of
utter asonishment dnd the allied arGies fs- to
the south OF Sebsstopoas We left hen to the north OF
II How did they get to Be'sklayas Were they re.
embarked at Cape Lukul re- landed at BalsklAv.s
Or d tia march past Sebastopol have the pleasure
O mirchipg tack to It AGAIN. Ihess knot'y profile ms
Lord Srstord dc edcfes despatch leaves the English
ubic 70 .uzzls out for Themselves.
Il seems however. as if-weTs the apocryphsl nara.
lives o ne Tartar who brought dispatches 'om Goa.
French steamer 1ho wrs hailed AZ tie nth Of the Dos
Fhor.s y countryman caryias the news Of the fell
would not be difficult to gesn from the published des
patches Of the allied commanders aud Prince Mentsci'
ko toefaby accurate notion Of the relstve positions
OF the hostile forces on the 2sth of September.
The erst dispatches of Admiral Hamelin Marshal ST.
Arnaud, Lord Raglan and Prince senschikoh, all
Cured IN stating that the 18th Of September the
landing o the invading force had been complies cd without
opposition that the alied troops had not begun 10 ad
and that the Russians bad mustered the banks
of the Anna The next dispatches Of Lord Strafori de
Radcliffe, Marshal st Arnaud AMI Lord Raglan Announc
ed that tbs hsehts Of the Ain. had been carried Storm
at the point of the bayonet after desperate conflict
desra Of Prince HenschikoR ntmsted that after
bloody battle the 20h the russians had fallen back
upon seeastopoi So far the statements OF the allied
Commanders and the Russian senera Tor admrs in
perfect harmony From the goth to the 2Sth No are
without any Information from the allies The subs
OF oes atch attributed TO Prinse Mentschko pub
shsd at ST. Petersburg the I'd OF October Tbs date
assigned to this despatch IL the 26th of September 1t
mss On tns SsS Of could not bsve rescse
st Petersburg the I'd of October TIE mpossibility
Is not so obvious The previous dispatches of Prince
Mentschii of reached st. Petersburg in days
the difficulties Of his position iacsessed greater
tions would b made t. accelerate the
such crisis Of the empires fate is really no such great
matter. This last Mensohikof despatch tates that tho
Prince had been Obliged to draw off his troops from be-
fore Bakcbi Sera where he waiting for reinforce
ments from Kertch and Peekop aud that 10 the 26th
Of September the allies had not attacked sebAs!o-
pol. And nov comes the despatch of Lord Stat
ford de Redclife, informing us thA. on ths 2sth
Prince Mensehikcf Ia the field at the head of
10000 men. waiting to be reinforced by the gavri
son Of AnApA; that the heavy siege artillery Of the
allies landed being land ID at BaakavA and that
the allies were preparing 70 adv anee ebatopol These
they convey toersby exact no.oa Of the relative oos
tons OF the contendiDg forcei They perfectly cohe
rent, and Ieciprocay corroborass cash other Prnss
Aenschkod had 46 Oe0 or 80 900 In the entrsnch
meats the heights above the ords of the lima Driven
from this position he fen back upon sesastcp Des.
pairing Of being able msinain his ground thore he
threw psrt oi his troops into sebaopo and drew oil
With 70 eco men In the direction OF BaktchiS rA This
movement left the allies masters Of the whole pen
try betH the Alma and the south coast to the
the position taken up By Prince Menschikcf But IL had
in a ehocd been found i'm possible to land the heavy
It has therefore been landed in the harbor of Bsaklav
nine miles TO the south Of Seeassopc As it is
brought up the siege will begin Ssbsstopcl will be at
forces Who arc masters Of ths heights which ccnmsni
the forte sad tbe hsTbor with its Russian Gas the
land Pine men The CARLSON Of
anspa !: said TO s. m.rch-s towards him; but il our
straits OF Jsnkae Besides It can scarcely add more
than II 0cO men TO bis army Rsinforcemants sail
to be expected nom Perekop but tsey cannot arrive DC
fore November: ana the expected move nent of Omer
Pacha upon the Besssiaan frontier nay prevent their
being selt off at all The Allies, Il Is true, have hsd
men s put ne &c S ,. We 1e os
them, ard strong boy OF Turks preparing to fol
low. Though sebastopol has not fallen was
belisvsd it, fall ard that at distant date, certain
We have never given more than conditional, hypo-
thetica belief TO tho Of the fall Of sebAstopo We
DO not Say sn svnas the ts ., nos p'sn
should have plenty-Empsrors Ministers Of state, dpo
matists-to keep in oounteuauce; bat because 1t IL
minds Of readers that all the conclusions we draw
from these Hypothetical data quite as legtmatcly
be srs.n from the real facts WIT We sad EsssseTdy
In affected by the stsred aspect that affairs
have assumed As the fall Of Sebastopol is only
regarding the only terms u7on which peace can b.
honorahy and safely TO Russia rests On the
sane basis - before. We have nothing to unssy
From the London Mercantile Gszstte, Oct. 0-P Nj
from Lord stratiord and subsequent desp..ohes 70
ceivsd from Narseiles this morning, proved beyond
the xess confirmed Is il appeared to B, BY tsesspSs
from various continental cities Of the capture Of sebas
topol, without foundation The despatch OF Lord
Sratford dated from Conssntinopls the Goth uh
and processes be intelligence from the CmeA OF the
2Sth conveyed to Consta npope by the Banshee and
Is to the effect that at the last named date the allied
armies had established their basis Of operations ut Ba
upon sebsstopol II ths statement is correct, and Of
which there does not appears to be any doubt the
Of sebAstopsl could not have been effected either
the 2sth the 27th the dates which the event ID
said to have occurred
10 say that hs latest has created the greatest disap
psiWmet Is bat fas t1Tesion Of the uRrersal gloom
tccA has peyvaded al cldsses The public had learned
10 beaeve that many dispatches containing the vet
must Do true; heDcc the disappointment at
dndisg they had been deceived We psrcsive kindred
feeding has been manifested II Paris, which Is thus
described in letter written from thence last
ng-"To say that the disappointment has been great
u not to Say enough. The moment Il known
hat official communication had been made by
the government, hundreds Of persons rushed to the
Bourse to get sight Of the precious document, aud
for nearly an hour . scene Of scrambDg took place
of which i wosh b diAacalt TO give idea. The
Who, ate, having run the gauntlet Of osng, Of kicks
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