New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-17

eptrepchnents were actually taken a. the poidI
Of the bayonet. The re nander cannot have
been defended with that arm, but must have been
all but abandoned, befors the stOrning column
were in the ditch. The retres. of the Russians
appears to have been executed in good order;
their cavalry would protect them and the impos-
sibiIity Of bodies Of allied cavalry rapidly eros
sing the Alma and ravine, would give them An si-
vantage. But then, the saving Of almost all their
artillery is sufficient proof that they broke of
the battle before any great blow had thrown
them into disorder.
This is all We know about the victory on the
heights to the South Of the Alma which was
nounced in England on the lst inst. by the thur
der of cannon and the ringing OF bells. proclaimed
at the Royal Exchange on Saturday evening,
Sept. 30, at 10 o'clock By the Lord Mayor, pro-
ceeded by trumpeter sounding his bugle; cheer
ed at tbe tbeaters, and registered BY The London
Times as the anticipated effect of the Archbishop
Of CsnterbuV's Thanksgiving prayer. Cores
pondents announce that Marshal st. Arnaud had
been unable to mount on horseback Historian
relate the same of Napoleon at the battle OF
due to the same circumstance az the defeat of
Waterloo
We come now TO the class of more startling
news referring to the capture OF Sevastopol. The
fist announcement of this event reached London
from Bucharest by Telegraph, lie dated from the
latter town, Sept. %. IL stated that Sev.stOpol
had fallen into the hands of the allies after
bined attack by sea and by land. 1t parported to
be derived in the first place from a French
steamer dispatched from Seyastopol to Constan.
tinople with this intelligence, which steamer was
fallen in with by another French steamer en-
route for Varna. fthe captdre of the fortresses
took place on the 18th, as is asserted the news
could have reached Vsrna in the night from the
2Gth to the 9th, and could have been Conveyed
to Bucharest by noon on the 2-th-the distance
between Varns and Bucharest being somewhat
more than 100 miles, and generally traversed By
cOurieYs in "a hours. This was the news on which
Bonsparte founded his address to tae camp of
Boulogne, which will be found in another column.
But it turns out that no courier arrived at Bu-
charest before September 80. The second
news of the fall Of Sevastopol, which is at
least within typographical probability, is
only dated from Bucharest at the very day on
which Bonapsrte made his announcement. This
telegraphic dispatch, received b, the Austrian
Government at z. NJ. on Oct ], and communi-
Gated to The Times By the Turkish Minister at
London on the Sd, is published by the MOniteur
of the same day, with the remark that lit had
"been forwarded to the French Government by
an. de Buel, who had commanded VI. de H1bner
"to congratulate the French Emperor, ia the
"name of the Emperor of Austria, on the glo
"rious success which had attended the French
EARNS in the Crimea." 1t should be observed
that the value of this intelligence entirely rests
upon the verbal statement Of the courier sent
from CoDstantinople to Omer Pasha, which cou-
rieT, not finding Omer Pasha at Bucharest,
started again for Silistria, where Omer Pasha
then had his quarters. According to the state
ment of this courier, Sevastopol had been taken,
Is 600 Russians killed, $4,000 made prisoners,
Fort Constantine destroyed, tie other forts
with with 500 guns, captured. six Rus
sian ships.of-war sunk, and Prince Men
chikoff retired TO the head Of the bay, with
the remainder OF the squadron, declaring that
be would blow them up rs ,her than make an I'M
conditional surrender. The allies had allowed
him six hours for consideration. Constsutinople
was TO be Illuminated for ten days
After what we have witnessed OF Russian for
tifcations at Aland, aud after the success of the
allies On the Alma surrender of Sevast0pol
within something like fortnight offered strong
probabilities But who can think Of an army of
$4,000 en- having had the good fortune to save
almost all its artillery out of lost battle, COM
manded by the most daring officer WAC has yet
appeared on the Russian side during this cam
paign, who can think of such an army laying
down their arms after the frat attack on
the town. Nevertheless, this war has already
offered such imprObsbilites aud eytraor iinary
features, that we must not be reluctant
to "march from surprise to surprise"
as Napoleon did at the receipt of Sebsstianis dis
patches from Constantinople n 1857. The allies
have done everything throughout the war to meet
with an unprecedented disaster. Why should it
not have pleased fortune to force upon them a
triumph without comparison History, never
without grain of irony perhaps desired to re-
serve to the world the curious treat Of lodging in
modest tower of the Bosphorus that old MuseO-
vite RodomsDte who but a year ago left the CAPT
tai of the dying man with the proud threat Of swsl
lowing up his empire. What bitter punishment
for the proud and arrogant Menchikoh, the TO-
menter and beginner of the war, to return to Con-
stantinople aprisoner
If this courier spoke truth, the history of the
Crnea campaign may be resumed in very few
words: On the 18th and 10th the army landed at
Old Fort witbout rpetino resis,.,ca. n, tba IQfb