The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-11-02
Pour DAYS Later ron England.
sEBAsToPoL STILL STANDINGS
RElSToEcEMESTs BEING DESPATCHED TO rHE
ALLIED ToRcEs.
LARGE ADVANCE N BREADsruFFs,
MORE HEAVY FAILURES.

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N. YoRk. Oct. 3o-The steamer Pacific,
with advices from England to the I8th
inst, has arrived at this port.
GENERAL ISTELHGEscE--Thene news from
the seat Of war, by this arrival, is not Of
much positive interest. The latest au.hen-
tlc advices are up to the 9th inst, which
say that nothing had been done in the way
Of batteFing down the walls Of Seyastopoi
Ibe allies iG the Crimea, at the latest dates,
numbered 10000 rank and file, they occu-
pied strong position on the South side Of
Seyastopol, and had all their besieging ma
chlnery landed. Menchikof still bolds the
held North Of Seyastopol, at the head Of
$1,000 Russian forces, and at the last ac-
counts, was daily expecting reinforcements
Of 90, ,OOOmore.
Ten thousand additional French forces
are to be dispatched Immediately from
France TO the seat of war
The Baltic feet well return home with.
out further operations.
Omar Pasha was making preparations
to attack the Russians on the Pruth and in
the Doburdsha, and the Russians were Oh
their part concentrating forces on the Aus
trian frontier.
1t is reported and believed that England
and France are at present discussing the
right Of establishing Poland as an indepen-
dent kingdom.
Perrins & Wright, and FIVE other firms
in Dublin have failed, but it was thought
they would be able to go on again after
little.
The City of Manchester arrived out on
the 18th inst, in twelve days and half
| from Phil, and the Arabia on the same
evening; and the screw steamer Ottawa on
the 18Th inst
Lord Raglan's latest dispatch says he
Expected to open his batteries on SeYasto-
pol in few days.
Private dispatches say thatthe attack on
the out works was fixed for the 9th inst
The seige artillery had all reached the
camps. On the 4th inst, a canonade took
place between some English steamers and
the quarantine fort at Odessa, but no re-
suit Of consequence was achieved.
A dispatch from Vienna says a secret
treaty exists between the Gear and Prussa.
The dispatches from Sebastopol, pub
lished in the London Journals, are quite
unsatisfactory, and positively contradictory
according to some of them the place had
been half taken on the 9th, and to others
the bombardment had commenced, but
the only reliable information is that before
given.s
The garrison of Sebastopol consists OF
$1,000.
| Samuel Phillips, the novel writer is dead.
The continued commercial failures were
producing considerable excitement, and had
already brought about most disastrous con-
sequences.
A dispatch from Copenhagen dated Oct
18th, says the House of Representatives
Estados had voted by majority of 80 for
the appointment Of a committee to draw up
articles of impeachment against the Minis
ters for the promulgation of the July Or
dinance.
AT the great fire at Meme, last reported,
the whole city would have been destroyed,
but for the exertions of American and En-
glish sailors, who were in port at the time.
Later advices from China say that three
attempts have been made to take Canton
by the insurgents, all of which failed. An
attempt to effect compromise had also
failed, and the insurgents had made but lit
tie progress towardsrecapturing the city.
A dispatch from Marseilles says each
.l,, of tI,a o1l;nI at g t,,
pany ofmarines and eight guns, making a
total of 200 guns, to assist in the Seige Of
Sebastopol. ss
Advices from Hamburger, dated 18th
inst, say immediate steps are to be taken
to stop the traffic with Russia through
Prussian ports.
The cholera is rapidly abating in Lon
don.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
LIVERPOOL MARKET.-The Cotton mar
ket is steady, and in some instances slight
advance had been obtained. The sales for
three days were $4,000 bales.
The market for Breadstufs was greatly
excited ahd Flour had advanced three shil-
lings per bbl Wheat six to nine pence pei
bushel, and Corn one shilling per quarter,
since the previous Friday.
Western canal Flour is quoted at 56s to
36s Cd, and Ohio at sos. The supplies
continued very light and the business do
ing was chiefly to supply immediate wants
There was no change in Provisions
Lard is quoted at 52sa52s 3D. Tallow was
firm ot n further advance