New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-06-19
NUMBER 81.
MORE FROM EUROPE.
Particular. Of the Foreign New. By the Pae,ne.

MORE FROM EUROPE.
Particulars of the Foreign News by the Pacific.
The T. s. mail steamer Pacific, Capt Nye,
from Liverpool, on the afternoon of Wednesday,
| May 81 arrived at New York, on the evening Of
the 8th inst
The Africa arrived out on Sunday night, at
| 1Oa o'clock
| The Liverpool cotton market was rather
steadier. but not sufficiently SO to alter quota
tions. BreadstuFs were dan. Money in de-
nan2. Consols and French rentes strong, and
advancing.
The Wharf.-The Danube
| Lord Raglan and Marshal St. Armand. were
to meet Omar Pasha at YarEa, on May 18th, to
arrange the plan Of the campaign.
| The fall Of Silistria was looked for from day
to day, but no reliable despatch had been re-
ceived later than of date 2lst. The loss on both
sides since the commencement of the seige, is
estimated at 1000 in killed and wounded, a
number evidently exaggerated.
According TO Russian bulletin, a series of
engagements was fought below Basardschik, on
the 18th, 18th, l4th and 18th May, between the
Russian division, under Gen. Grothenjelm, and
the Turks, under Ismali Pasha, the latter being
compelled to fall back on Paravady, and this
enabled the Russians to invest Silistria On
Nay 2lst, fierce attack was made on the out
works of Silistria, which face the Danube.
According to Austrian official reports from
Bucharest, one redoubt was taken, but as a
counter statement. that the Russians were re-
! pulsed with loss had reached Vienna, we must
await further accounts. 1t is certain, however,
that the fortress was completely invested
The correspondence of the London Daily News,
says that after some partial successes the
| Russians met with severe repulse on the 2lst
May On the 18th May, fierce but fruitless
attack was made on the new fortress Of Abdul
Medjid, and the Russians lost 1900 whose corpses
were thrown into pits and covered with quick
lime.
The Baltic.
| The Paris Moniteur publishes telegraphic
| dispatch dated Copenhagen, evening Sunday,
2Sth, stating that three British steam frgates
| had destroyed the detached forts at Hango, with
| the loss of only three English killed and few
wounded. The loss Of the Russians was con
siderable. On 23d, Admiral Napier was off
Hango, and was about to attack the principal
| fortress
The French force now in the Baltic consists of
eight ships of the line and four frigates. Eight
other ships are daily expected to join, which
will make the force of the French feet in the
Baltic 1900 guns and IA, 100 men.
Blael. Sea.
| The fleets were blockading Sebastopol --latest
adyices are to May IL. The blockading force
at Sebastopol makes out the Russian force in
side the Notifications to be fourteen to eighteen
sail of the line, with fifteen steamers and seven
| frigates.
On the 11th the Turkish fleet, under Achmet,
| Admiral Pasha, with Vice Admiral Slade, was
off Varna, or its way to communicate with
| Admiral Dundas, and afterwards to proceed to
the East of C:rcassia.
Greek InsurrectIon.
/ The French division under Gen. Forney, has
received orders to proceed to Constantinople, in
stead of to Greece, and another division 70
occupy Greece will be concentrated at Avgnon
The bands of insurgent Greeks who had dis
persed throughout Epirius, were being conceu-
trated near the frontier. They were still main
| tanning themselves although they made DO pro
gress. The Paris .H0niteur indeed announces
that the French Government had received sa'is-
factory intelligence both from Epirius and Ma
cedonia, and that all the villages in Fpirius
which the insurgents had coercei have sub
mitted to the Turkish Commissioner, Faud
Efendt.
Other Incidents OF the War.
The survey for the defences from Buiuk-
Tchekdedje to Derkos are progressing rapidly.
From the Sea of Marmora to the Black Sea, the
projected line extends for twenty seven miles
lake, spread out in some seasons into a vast
marsh, almost joins the sea at the Western end,
and precludes for several miles all possibility of
the passage of q hostile army. The water is
four feet deep, and the bottom soft and muddy
At the other extremity, another lake is situ-
ated which would equally bar an enemy's pas
sage, and between these two, there is q line of
an undulatng hill ard valley, which though
destitute of any strong natural means of defence,
nhy be made impossible by the skill of modern
engineers and the bravery of its defenders Gen
paraguay d Hilliers calculates that 10 600 men
will be sufficient to defend it-of whom 5000
would watch the two extremes, and 10000
would occupy the centre 1t was considered
III 4 = Ia i
permanent defence to Constantinope
Marshal st. Arnaud is Commander-n chief
Of the allied forces. Gen Joussouf is to have
chief command of the Bashi Bazouks Eirregu-
lars) who are to be re-orgnnized with French
officers and sub-officers Intendant Segouville,
with nine other officers had arrived at Adrian
ople, to make preparations for 10000 French
men, expected to arrive there in the course of
the month.
Correspondents of the English press are pro-
hibted from accompanying the British army
Austrian ships are prohibited by their Gov
ernment from carrying articles contrahand Of
war. Austrian ships on the high seas must
submit to be searched, and the only Austrian
port to which captured vessels can be taken, is
Trieste where they can only he sold when con
demned as lawful prizes by competent court
The st Petersburg Gazette states that on
18th April, the corvette Aradne, II guns, and
brig Orphei, 6 guns. with all their arms and
stores, were presented to the Greek Govern
ment by order of Baron Meyendortf, Russian
Minister at Vienna
Notwithstanding that the British fleet is
:. bloekadinge sebastopol, some small Russian
steamers ventured out theiother night, went into
the Black Sea and took an English merchant
man, which they attempted to tow into harbor
Being discovered they were chased and were
compelled to cut their prize adrift, but they
succeeded in escaping back into Sebastopol.
The Montenegrins. 900 str ing, have broken
into the Herzegovina, thus violating the Otto
man territory. They avoided the ortifed points
defended by the albanians, but killed about 60
ofthe inhabitants and carried off 1000 head of
cattle.
May ID, the Neva was free from ice, and the
water had risen so high that au inundation was
feared. Fifteen of the seventy stone bridges
that cross the Neya at st. Peersburgh were to
be broken down, and the remainder we're to be
mounted with heavy cannon. For some days |
previous to date of the above adyiees-the 10Th
the Emperor had been sick.
1t was reported that the vast merchant quar-.
ter Of the city of Riga has Just been leyeled with