, 1855-11-16
The War in Europe.

INC war IN Europe.
The mail steamer again brings stirring
news from the seat Of war in Europe. The
Allied fleets in the Baltic have shaken of
their lethergy and have struch a blow that
has inspired them with confidence and their
countrymen with enthusiasm. Many had
come to think with Lord John RusselL
that wooden walls were powerless against
ramparts Of stone. The declaration Of, Sir
Charles Napier, after his return last fall,
that 1t was madness for feet pit itself
against the granite fortresses on the Baltic,
was accepted as conclusive, and little else
was therefore expected Of the Armada
than TO hold the Russian rluadron in
check, cut up Russian commerce, and
throw shell occasionally into some Of the
minor towns. The French and English
are therefore the more elated that their
success was not anticipated. The formi
dable fortress Of Sweaborg, upon which
the Cars have exhausted The art Of de-
fence and which was so strong as To be
styled the Gibraltar of the North, was
bombarded by detachment Of the Allied
feet on the 9th of August. By the llth,
the town and forts had been burnt to the
ground, the batteries and earthwurks
knocked to pieces, the dockyards destroy
ed, the magazines exploded, and the place
reduced to rGins. This'is certainly a great
triumph, and must exert Q strong moral
influence upon the result. 1t was accom-
plished, too, with Insignificant loss to the
assailants, and has already excited the en-
thusiasm Of the naYies to such pitch that
they are clamoring for an attack upon
Cronstadt. That, however, is impossible
the present season. The water around
that worldrenowned fortress is too shallow
to allow the approach of ships of the line,
and the attack must be deferred until o
multitude Of gun boats and floating batter
les can be prepared. 1t was vessels Of
that character that proved so destructive
before Sweaborg. While the navy has
been gathering laurels,in the aNorth,lthe
Allied armies in the Crimea have fought
and won great battle. On the 10th OF
August, the Russians, between fifty and
sixty thousand strong, attacked the AllieS
lines on the small river Tchernaya,o empty
ing into the harbor of Sebasiopol, aud
after three hours hard fighting were driven
ouSh VIII beIIlpic eiuuBuieI uuu what -
still more significant Of the character of
the defeat, with the loss OF four thousand
prisoners in the hands of the Allies Its
folly for the Russians to attempt-to cope
with the French or English ia the open
field They fight wei behind their ram
parts, but on every occasion they have
faced the enemy in the field, they have
been dsastrously, defeated. The Allies
were preparing 10 follow up their success
by grand essault on the Malakoff Tower,
which gained, they expect the evacuation
Of the southern part Of the fortress win
follow as matter of course. They had
advanced their lines So close to the works
of the Russians that, hand grenades had
become the faEorite weapon Of the COM
batanis Batteries Of tremendous power
had been completed by the French, iand
were to open on the 10th ofqAugust. 1t
was expected the assault would be made
the instant breach was effected by these
new destructives. The next steamer win
bring US news Of the result. The Vienna
papers, that have heretofore leaned To-
wards the Russians, now predict the soc
cess Of the ASSAULT Saa Fy4neiseo Herald.