New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-07-28
NUMBER 80.
DAILY CRESCENT
Further Foreign News.

urbner EOfelgn NEWS
Fromsthe Paris correspondence Of the New
YORK Times we extract the following:
Paris, Thursday, July S, 1855.-The dispatch
OF den Pelissier, giving q detailed account OF
the assault upon sMalakof and the Redan, was
published in the JNonitenr yesterday. From,
this, and from reliable private sources, I gather
the following points, from which it will Sc seer,
that the defence WAS conducted with immense
ability and address, while the attack was both
sloyenly and confused
First. The Russians were aware Of the pre-
else moment at which the assault was to be
made. II eHze :. 7sst Of Z n y
bombardment indicated clearly enough that an
assault was to follow, but we are not told how
the Russian commanders learned that the hour
was three in the morning This shows conclu-
sively that the Allies will never find the enemy
off their guard.
Second Gen Meyran mistook fusee dig
charged from the MameloH, for PelisSier'a sig
nal, to be sent up from the Lancaster battery
His division therefore marched to the attack
before the other two, and the Russians conse-
quently had divided and successive assault to
repel, instead Of united and simultaneous
onset. S s=T
Third. Gen. Brunet was not ready when the
genuine signal was given, and was actually
twenty five minutes behind Meyran, who was
himself quarter of an hour in advance.
Fourth1Malakoff and the Redan. the two
works especially to be assaulted had nratended
the evening before to be 80 badIy usei that thcv
could no longer reply to the enen,y's FIRE BotH.
Pelissier and Raglan we're completely deceived;
the former saws SIT is possible these worka had
not really suffered as much as we had the right
to suppose they had, from the effects of our ar
tillery.s The armament of Malakof had been
4 H.. a. 4
for grape had been substituted for the ionp
range canaons of the day before
Fifth-During the night the Russians had
sunk the ditch lining the exterior of Mals .of a
couple of feet, and the French scaling ladders
were found at the critical moment, to be consd-
erably too short!
Sirth-Ihe Russian feet locked up in the
| harbor, which Pelissier had given us to under
etand was radically damaged, did the Allies the
most serious injury. One letter saws that there
were spots in part of Malakoff, which the fleet
rendered positively impossible; "niue men out
| of ten were swept away BIZ it's blowing fre''
SeuenM-There were 20 900 men under arms
| behind Malakoff alone, with so field pieces. be.
sides the armament of the bastion itself.
Efehth-A battery of terrible power was nm
masked upon the assaulting columns.
Pelisser recognizes and acknowledges all
| these errors and misconceptions He saws that
with Spartan coolness and ensemble in the
attack, the object might have been attained ;
| but an inconceiyable fatality defeated our
plans'' He speaks of the success and the ad-
dress of the movements of the Russian flee.
| Lord Raglan never saw in his life such dis
charges Of grape, and that, too, from works
| that had been reduced to silence the night be.
| fore The Russians, having learned that % ,OOG
| men were to be employed against them, were
ready to send 10000 Of their own into action
Thus, the assault has been made; and at the
| moment of commencing the attack, not single
individual in the Allied camp doubted for an in
stant Of its success What are the inferences
/ to be drawn from its failure In answering
l this question we must remember that the death
of Lord Raglan seems to have been FASTENED. il
not determined, by the defeat, and that Louis
Napoleon, having withdrawn to country seal
near Versailles, is living in isolation, and, al
may be easily believed, in alternate fits of ragt
and dependency -..... =
The inferences are, evidently, that the Rus.
slams can never be taken unawares; that, as
| the London Times declares, they have agents in
the heart of the Allied camp; that they are
more than match for the French and English
in those rttsses de guerre which neutralize the
| best advantages of valor, number and position
that their resources are still exhaustless; that
their invention is yet lively; that there is ne-
| ther lack of provisions nor of ammunition; and
l that the regular Notifications of the city will
be defended with ten-fod the vigor which char
acterized the defence of the exterior works. or
of the heights Of Alma or the Valley of Inker-
mann The Allies have suffered a severe de-
feat; have undergone sudden and violent
check, and are laboring under natural disap-
pointment, and under what is much worse-the
consciousness that they have overrated them.
selves and moderated their enemy. Pelissiel
was never famous for prudence, and he has nov
lost a portion of his credit for sagacity. An
other charm has also been destroyed--the happy
influence Of famous anniversaries. Louis Ma
poleon is especially superstitious on this point
as is we'll known The 18th of June was tn,
anniversary Of the battle of Waterloo, and wa
chosen, and indeed waited for, in order that
victory gained in common, might obliterate al
old grudges, and dissipate, at least for present
purposes, any yet active preJuaices. Ihe an
tloipatea victory was uistssfoas anu eson ALL, Ii1
graceful defeat A husslan asked an IA Any
during .he 1rucs Ior sns uurali "a VIZ as,a
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