New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-13
THE WAR.

THE SIEGE OF EVASTOPOL.
ssme impression has at length been made on
ts besieged fortress. How much, may be leaned
hom the following dispatches:
The Paris MOni'eur publishes:
"A letter from Varna, dated Oct "a, says that the
IRE Of the allied land batteries was opened a,
o'clock, the l7h against Sevastopol. At the sane
Tine the allied fleets attacks the forts at the entrance
Of the port-the English those at the left, and the
Rrepeh those on the right The English blew up the
ester Notifications the left, this suppose to
mean /" the white tower, while the French slenced
the Quarantine fort on the right"
From Vienna, 2eih October: " Lord Westmore-
" land received dispatch yesterday, according to
which the guns Of the two forts at the entrance to
" the harbor of sevastopol were dismouned by the
artillery Of the allied fleets The allies had about O5
"pen wounded, and one.third of that number
"knled"
Prom Vienna, Sunday, goth October: " The
" Frsmdem Bian newspaper yesterday received ne rs
Of date 10Th, from the Crmea. 1, was SAID that the
:" ships discontinued the bombardnent because the
"battery and Quarantine Fort, at which they fred,
I" were sneDced The loss ON the part of tho allies
"wss nearly co."
From the camp before Sevastopol. Ont- ~, 1t is
said lie accounts state tho Fv.en have senced the
"Qnsr.ptGe Battery, and continue their attacks
"aganst Fort Alexander, and theloop-holed vail that
"defends the town Of Sevastopo the southwestern
"sde. II was not without loss that the allied squad
rous assisted in this combined and concentrated at
"hck-they lost altogether 100 killed and 200 wouod
led in three days. An Aide de Camp of the French
admiral struck by ball the deck OF
"the Vile do Paris, the flagship. The Agamemuon,
~besrng the flag of Sir Edmond Lyons, had suffered
Severely, and the Retribution, Capt Drummond
chad mast shot away. Of the casualties on land
"we have no account. But the Russians confess TO
"5oe killed including Admiral KornIef."
II will be from the above that these successive
reports all refer to the assault Of which we had the
Russian statement, by the last steamer from Earope
Summing up these dispatches The London Times
says. editorially:
1--WE are still without the means of adding any fact
Of importance 10 the intelligence previously received
from the seat of war. The dispat III forwarded by
Lord Weetmoreland the 27th had been six lays on
he road nom Varna 10 Vienna, and it conveys very
incomplete notion Of the operations which commenced
Oh the l7th. Some ships of the French and Eagsh
squsdrons, including Admiral Hsmehn flag ship, the
Vile de Paris, aud Admiral Lyons flag ship the Aga
msmnon, undoubtedly took part in that first attack
and the combined squsdrons lost about 800 men in
khed and wounded but are left to conjecture the
duration and real effect Of this engagement. Uafor
tuhately the official teegraphc dispatches 90 which
alone reliance be placed unsk ltully ramtd
that they rather increase IN diminish the uncertain
UNDER which We labor and must wait for the
ARRIVAL Oh our own correspondence and dispatches.
frvsse Information leads us to suppose that the
Quarantine battery reported to have been DESTROYED
~ the French, was earth work which the Russians
threw up during the 10TH llth and l2h October and
nom which they threw shell with annoying effect into
NE French trenches,