The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-11-10

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adUancod ia France aud EhgIand-Sebastopet
again Fortifed-eaOaIry engagement at E'pdtorid
Siege and Capture Of hin6Hrn-Ltasstdn
Repulses at Kara
The T. s. mail steamer Baltic, Capt Comsock,
from Liverpool, at 8 Is A. NJ. Saturday, Oct 20,
reached her warf at New York Saturday morning
at " A. NJ, with weeks later news from
Europe.
The Baltic left Liverpool at 3l5 P. NJ on Satu7-
day. 10Th ult, and encountered heavy westerly gales
and heavy seas for eleven consecutive days, being
repeatedly reduced to speed Of Only three miles
hour
AT midnight of Wednesday, cath, in lat So, lon
25 passed steam ship Pacific On Tuesday, Both,
81 miles N. Z. of Cape Race, saw large iceberg.
The Baltic arrived at Liverpool Oct IA. The
Ericsson left Southampton on the 18th.
The allied expedition which left the Crimea on
the 9th, efter making show before Odessa bonn
barded and captured Knburn, an important Russian
position at the mouth the Dnieper and Bong.
The allies have also destroyed two towns, Lamar
and Phanagoria, in the straits of Kertch.
According to the fastest from the Crmea the
advanced posts Of the allies within five leagues
of Bakschi Serai. The Russians were retiring SLOW
ly, General Lprsndi intending evidently to defend
the line of the Bebec battle is soon anticipated
here.
The north of sebastopol has been surrounded
with new fortfcations and placed in state to cup
port a siege.
The Russians, 10 an attack made upon KSrs, were
repulsed with immense slaughter; 1000 reported as
living dead under the wall.
Tbs War.
Important cavalry engagement at Eap1tOria -Ne!!O
Leyy Of Russian troOps-Sebdstopol to be DefeTi>
ded
An important cavalry engagement at Eapatoria is
Thus described by Marshal Pelssier, in a despatch
published in the Moniteur:
"a brilliant cavalry engagement took placed on
the 29th September at (Koughill FIVE leagues north
east OF Equatorial in which the Russian cavalry
under General Korf was completely defeated. The
action maugurates very suspicously the series Of
operations Of which Eupatona will now be the pivot
As the result of the action, we have taken six guns
three cannon three mortars IL csssons, and one
field forge, withtheir horses and harness; l69
prisoners of whom one is an officer, and 25O
horses The enemy left on the field about 90 killed,
among them Colonel Andreawski, who has the repu-
tation OF being cavalry officer OF great merit
We have 6 killed and 9 wounded
The Russian accounts state that the Russian force
concerned in this action was corps OF observation,
consisting of a regiment OF Lancers and battery
of horse artillery under Gen. De Korf, and at an
other point regiment of Lancers, commanded by
Gen. Tervelensky. They had instructions to fall
back if attacked by a superior force. Gen. Korf,
having lost sight of the enemy, who was pursuing
Teryeiensky's Lancers, halted and caused his men
10 dismount Not having placed videttes in proper
order, Korf was surprised by between 1000 and
5000 of the French cavalry appearing suddenly Gu
his rear and right flank and be had neither time TO
get his force in order prepare for combat
The Iancers were therefore compelled to scatter,
and fall back fighting. Loss $50 Lancers, a subal
tern officer six guns, and some Of the gunners.
By an imperial ukase, the embodiment of the
militia in the provinces of OrenbeTg aud Samara is
70 commence on the 18th November, and end on
the 18th December-the proportion OF men being
% in every thousand souls.
commission has been instituted by the Empe
ror at Kef TO examine all prisoners from the foreign
lepio1s in the service Of the Allies They are not
TO be treated as prisoners Of war; but handed over
10 their respective governments
Accounts from the Crimea TO the 18th state that
on the l2Sh the advanced posts Of the Allies were
within five leagues OF Bakschi Serai; that the Rus
SLAMS were retiring slowly, and that every thing led
70 the belief that Gen. Diprandi intended to defend
the line of Belbec aud to rest upon the corps CON-
manded by Prince GortschakOf.
The battle which would definitely decide the pos
session Of this ground expected shortly TO take
place.
Other accounts state that the Russians have sur
rounded the North side Of Sebastopol with a chain
of new fortfcations and placed it in state to sup
port a siege All the plateaus on the north side
are il is said, covered with redOubts and earth
works, and on the line Of the Belbec, new works,
constructed in the form of the Mamelon, have been
raised
The Allies are extensively engaged in road ma
king and hut building, not only along the plateau
de Ia Chersonese, but all along the Ichernaya line
up TO Alsa The line of the railway has been adopt
ed for the main road from BalaklaVa to the camps
in the neighborhood of SebastopoL
The English have found in the Karabelna i'm.
mense Russian stores of ammunition and clothing,
valued at 40, 600 pounds.
The Daily News says that Gen. Eyre has been re-
commended by Gen. Simpson as his successor, but
that government will not accept Simpsons resigns-
ton.
The Allied Expedition in the Black Sea.
COMMANDMENT OF KISBURN
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