The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-08-02
ONE WEEK LATER FROM EUROPE.

The steamer Atlantic, from Liverpool, ar
rived at New York on the 25th instant. She
left Liverpool at noon on Saturday, the 18th.
At ii P. NJ. of the same day, passed the
steamer Asia on the 2lst, passed the steamer
Hermann and on the 22d, spoke the America.
The Wdr.-Sebastopol has been subjected
to two days heavy fire without effect, and the
besiegers were erecting immense works against
the Malakoff and Redan batteries. The be-
sieged were also erecting equally formidable
works behind those defences. The probability
is, that another general assault is not far off.
Thirty thousand men are employed on the
works of attack.
The Russians, in addition to other additional
defences, are throwing up formidable star fort
behind the Redan.
Aweak fire was kept up on the 10th and llth.
The cholera was decreasing, and the health
of the allied armies was more satisfactory
The Russians made sortie on the night Of
the 9th, on the works in front of the Name
lon but effected nothing.
There are strong indications of campaign
on the Danube. The engineers have already
been sent forward.
Advices from Kars state that the Russian
demonstrations against the rest Of the place had
been repulsed.
Other accounts say that the Russians had
taken the field, and that the Turks had evacu-
ated the place, and fallen back on Erzerona.
From the Baltic, it is stated that the fleets
continued their cruising, destroying exposed
property on the coast and on the White Sea.
The fort of Archangel has been placed in q
good state of defence, and new battery of
eighty guns has been erected. The foreign
ships in this port succeeded in clearing their
cargoes before the blockade, which is now
strictly enforced
Rumors are published in the papers of dan
gerous Instruction in Russian Silesian regi
ment. Also, Of change in the Russian Cabi-
net.
The British ship Antelope bombarded and
destroyed the town of .Oldtown, Calabar.
Great Britain.-Another crisis has occurred
in the British Ministry.
A despatch was received at Liverpool at the
moment of the steamers departure, stating
that Lord John Russell has resigned. The cir
cumstances which led to his resignation were
the disclosures made by him in regard to his
course at Vienna.
At the close of the debate on the course Of
Lord John at Vienna, Lytton Bulwer moved
that the conduct of the Minister charged with
the negotiations at Vienna, and his continuance
in Office as a responsible adviser of the Crown,
had shaken the confidence which the country
should place in those to whom the administra-
ton of public affairs are intrusted.
Previously to Lord John RusselPs resigna-
ton, it was reported that if he did not resign,
he would take the Grey section of the Cabinet
with him, and that Lord Palmerston would fill
the places with more decided men out of the
Liberal ranks. Also, that Lord Derby was
coming in with another Constitution Cabinet.
Accounts of the crops in all parts Of England
are favorable.
Lord Raglans remains will probably arrive
in England about July 10th, and will be accom-
panied by the whole of his personal staff. The
ship conveying his remains will go to Bristol,
and thence the body will be conveyed to the
|. family burial place, near Badminton.
Spain.-The Spanish insurrection has been
suppressed.
FTdnce-Queen Victorias visit to Paris Is
fixed for August 7th.
Austria-A new Austrian circular is spoken
of, intended as Count Buols reply to Napoleon's
inuendoes, and defending the conduct of Aus
tria towards the Western Powers.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL
Lord John Russell figures as the principal
feature of the English news. The circumstan-
ces which lend him this prominence were the
disclosures he made in his speech of Friday,
the 9th, (received here by last steamer re-
speeding the want of unanimity between him
self and his colleague on the subject of the
warm other words, that he, Lord John Rus
sci, as British plenipotentiary expressed him
self at Vienna in favor of the peace proposals
mooted by Count Buol, and approved of by M.
Drouyn de PHuys; but that on return to Eng
land, he did not communicate those sentiments
to his colleagues in the Government, swallow
ed his peace opinions, and retained office in a
Ministry pledged to war; while M. Drouyn de
fHuys, with a finer sense of honor, resigned.
RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS FROM sEBAsTOPoL.
A letter from Warsaw of the 5th, in the Pa
ris Constitutional, says:
The Councillor of State, de Kotzebue, arrived
bere yesterday, from Sehastopol, and immedi-
sicily had an audience of Prince Paskiewitsch,
to whom he delivered letters from General
Gortschakoff. The picture which M. de Kotz-
eEue draws of the state of the Crimea is far
ffom satisfactory,
General aortschakof, it is said, complains
that the reinforcements, both of cavalry and IN
fantry, and supplies of provisions passing
throqgh -Perekop, were advancing but very
slowly; but in consequence of the want OF wa
ter in the steppes, where the Thermometer at
tines stood at "a Reaumer (93 Fahrenheit) it
way necessary to have the troops followed by
an immense number of vehicles carrying wa
tef. These reinforcements were decimated by
disease on their march, and the remainder, on
arriving at Sebastopol, only served to fill the
hospitals. Simpheropol and Bakshiseral are
80 inIl of sick, that it has been found necessary
to establish ambulances under tents.
The mortality owing to the extreme heat is