Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-06-04
LATE NEWS BY THE MAILS.
interesting Additional Foreign News,

At the opening Of the great exhibition in Paris,
the Americans were treated with great courtesy.
zach one was furnished with twenty ladies' tick
ats being a greater number, ii Is said, than we're
distributed among the English. Reporters for
,bs American press were also presented with
season tickets a were the representatives from
the pr,ss of NJ other ontrirs. The American
ions Of the building, aud there were four stream
ers, bearing the words New York, Philadelphia,
Boston. and Baltimore The United States we're
represented by the following gentlemen:
Mr. Mason, our Minister, aud his family; the
members Of the Legation and their ladies Mr.
Melane, Minister to China.
Col. Delafeld, Capt. McClelland aud Mai. Nor
decai of the L. :. Army. on their way to the
Crimea, Gen Thomas, L. :. Army.
Mr. Belmont, Minister at Hague; ex- President
Van Buren; Mai. Cass, Minister at Rome; Mr.
MoRae. L. s. Consul at Paris
The number of exhibitors in this exhibition is
about 10000, of which 1900 are French and TO-
800 foreign The number of exhibitors from the
T.. States registered at this moment Is about 10.
But small proportion of the articles have
rived and some of these are very seriously dam.
aged
Mr.. Flei,hman is the acting Commi ssoner for
New York Virginia and North Carolina.
The eruption of Mount NesuYius continued
The King, Ministers and people were all at Ma
Piles A letter from there, of May 10Th, says:
"Whele | walked on Sunday night was now
sea of fire. The side road by which had come
down in the main stream from Pollena and Mus
saldi Somme was now full of blackenpd coke
The houses on the borders of the village had ial.
LEM in one thirty poor people lived. \ small
chapel was swallowed up, q gentlemans villa.
and "A sad extent of vineyard and garden ground
On the other side of the great lava bed another
stream brnnched off to San Senastano. The
fire had begun to enter the burial ground of the
little town, but was diverted from its course by a
wall. On the opposite side of the wall were the
King and all his royal family. The banks on
either side were thronged with curious and anX-
ions multiiudes, whose faces were ligtrd mp with
the blaze of hundreds of torches, and with the
more respondent fame of the rapidly descend
ing lava. Since the morning it had moved
mile 1t was like a vast river OF glowing coke
A. it moved ON, the tens of thousands oflumps
rolled and tumbed one the other. cracking
anl grinding and grating;and when from the very
face of ita large lump fell off, the appearance
WAS that of aniron furnace when the iron is being
drawn"
MOVEMENTS OF TIE ALLIES
Various expeditions of the allies to different
points III the Crimea are said to have been un-
dertaken. One of these, composed Of II 900
English and French troops, left B1laklaya on the
It'll, commanded by Gen. Sir George Brown, des-
tined for kertsch. \ part of the allied fleet sail
ad to that point but returned after landing some
troops in kamiesch bay. The French army at
Sebastopol is to be reinforced by $4,000 addition
al troops. They have been throwing stinkpots
into the Russian lines, but the example was set
by the Russians themselves, as appears by the
dispatches of GnrtschakoH.
Besides the French reinforcements, there are
expected 10000 more Sardinians and 10000
Egyptians, and Omcr lacha is fast organizing n
Tartar force at Eupatora. With all these, ii Is
said the allied forces will number nearly 100000
men. From Eupatoria the news is that Sual is
occupied by p 900 Russians and large quaint
ties of warlike stores. The Ru>sisns are fortiiy-
ing the road from Eupatoria to Scbastopol
FRENCH AND RUSSIAN OFFICIAL DISPATCHES
"Despatches, (says Il Paris journal,) have
been received from General Canrubert dated
May IL. Two sorties of the enemy on the night
of the i4th were vigorously repealed The works
of the seige are continually advancing. Several
camoufets (stnk pots) have been employed by
us to annoy the garrison, with complete success.
Our troops are fun of ardor and conf lcnce.
Prince Gortschakoh's latest dispatches, via st
Petersburg are dated st. Petersburg, May Il, in
which he says:
.In the nights of May I'd and 9TH, the besieg.
ers sprung two mines. to unite the old craters
formed by previous explosions. The garrison
made use of several CdmoufetS.
I'm the nights of May ) and & we made little
sortie, and on that occasion took an English
officer and three English soldiers prisoners
ENGLAND.
A frightful accident took place at the Atlas
Iron Works, where the shot and shell are being
manufactured for the The whole building
came down with crash. 1t rather strange Coz
incidence that this is the third firm working for the
government ON material for the war that have had
their premisen destroyed. Nearly fifty persons
were injured
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