Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-12-30
THE GALE IN THE BLACK SEA.

rRcm THE LONDON TIMES OF DECEMBER 5.
OF the many and great losses suffered by the Anglo
French Expedition from one cause or another the STERN
on the 18h of November Of which have at length
melancholy Details may almost be regarded as the worst
It is true that the immediate loss Of is not to be com
pared With the numbers placed hoes de combat at the bat
ties Of the Alma and Inkermann still less with the vic
tins Of cholera Il may also be admitted that, for
country 50 rich as ours and with such power Of rapid
production the loss Of material is usually little more
than temporary Inconvenience. In this instance how
ever the losses come in form and in time the most
fortunate that could be desired BY the worst enemy Of the
expedition The total loss of the various stations
on the Of the Cmea the disastrous 18th cannot
be less than thousand besides those that have fallen
thirty British and French wrecked and half many dis
mased at Balakava and eighteen wrecked or dismased
at the mouth Of the Katcha Our Of war, thanks to
the precauon Of frequently trying their cables, have
come off with further damage than the loss OF guns
or Of mass or Of rigging the twisting Of their rudder
or the sprngng some leaks The French have lost the
Henry w. q noble three-decker and fayorite war
Thus far We have sustained no loss beyond the
ordinary drain Of war; but the greatest calamity is that
Of which We scarcely know the full The Prince, mag
nfcent Of 2700 tons, carried to Ba
akava the 46th regiment ell the winter clothing for the
troops engaged in the siege, including forty thousand
flannel suits under clothing socks and Gloves
beef pork and other provisions hospital stores for Sou
tart and vast quantity Of shot and shell to carry on
the SIEGE These are wholly lost ana nothng remains
of the Prince but half dozen Of her crew. who
managed to get the cliffs when she was broken to
powder against them. The Resolute, with nine hum
dred tons of gunpowder, also went to the bottom Thus
seems all the materials for carrying the siege and
providing against the severity Of the winter have been
carried off at fell swoop and, even IL we think to
content ourselves with merely maintaining position
on the heights before Sebastopo it is evident that
not in condition to stand worst foe, the coming
winter
Every thing to have conspired, under mystic
rious dspensaon Of Heaven to make the loss of the
Prince the greatest possible disaster She could not stop
at Scutar to land the hospital stores greatly wanted
there. When she arrived at Bslaklava 1t blowing
fresh and she did venture within the toruous
channel Of the harbor All she did was TO land the 46th
though il lie said that besides very large crew. some
sappers and medical and other officers still on
board On attempting to anchor the whole Of the cable
out, not being properly clinched second cable
shared the same fate. The Prince then steamed out
while third cable got up from the hold and with
this she brought to, though with smaller anchor
than those she had lost. This answered for awhile
On the dreadful morning Of the 18h however, 1t proved
utterly inadequate The Prince cut away her masts and
put her but the wreck Of the fouied
the screw and the noble vessel becoming helpless imme-
diately dred against the rocks Figures are but feeble
Language for the description Of such catastrophe but
the value Of the Prince "a she foated Is put down at
e160O00 and her cargo at half million. There must
l have been nearly two hundred souls ON board The
thirty transports utterly lost with most Of their crews at