Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1855-02-24
Gbe 1Dolpnesian.
The Losses by the storm in the BLACK Sea !.


The London Times The total loss of
men at the various stations the coast of the Cri-
mea on the disastrous I3th cannot be less than a
thousand, besides those that have fallen into the
hands of the Cossacks. The loss of vessels was
thirty British and French wrecked, and half as
many dsmasted at Balaklava, and eighteen wreck
ed or dismasted at the mouth Of the Katcha. Our
men-ot-war-thanks to the precaution of frequent
" trying their cables, have come off with no fur
ther damage than the loss of guns, or masts, or
rigging the twisting of their rudders, or the SPRING
ing some leaks. The French have lost the Henri
w., noble three DECKER and favorite war steam
er. Thus far we have sustained no loss beyond
the ordinary drain of war but the greatest calam
ity is that of which we scarcely now know the full.
The Prince, magnificent new screw steamer of
ZOO tons, carried out the other day to Balaklava
the 10th Regiment, all the winter clothing for the
troops engaged in the siege, including 40 900 great
coats, flannel suits, undershirs, socks and gloves
beef pork and other provisions hospital stores for
Scutari; and vast quantity of shot and shell TO
carry on the seige. These are wholly lost and
nothing remains of the Prince but half dozen of
her numerous crew, who managed to get on the
cliffs when she was "broken to powder" against
them. The Resolute, with 900 tons of gunpow-
der, also went to the bottom. Thus, it scems all
the materials for carrying on the siege and provid
ing against the severity of the winter have been
carried off at one fell swoop and, even if we think
to content ourselves with merely maintaining our
position on the heights before Sebastopo it is evil
dent that are not in condition to stand our
worst foe the coming winter.
The Prince cut away her masts, and put on her
steam, but the wreck of the mzenmast foued the
screw and the noble vessel becoming helpless, i'm
mediately drfted against the rocks. Figures but
feeble language for the description of such cat
astrophe but the value of the Prince, she float
ed, is put at El50,000 and her cargo at half mil
lion. The 30 transports, utterly lost, with most
of their crews, at Balaklava, put down at Els,
600 each. So here, at once, a million of money
went to the bottom, In a form of which money
conveys but faint idea. The other losses
enumerated above, the French ship-ofthe-line
and war-steamer, the transports lost on the west
ern coast, the many vessels of all kinds disa-
bled, make up another million to be added to
the naked pecunary estimate of the loss But the
true way of stating it is, that the army is utterly
disabled for the present, and left to no other
protection than Heaven and that vaor which the
British soldier is ever to display in the face
of the greatest difficulties the drest prvations, and
the most overwhelming numbers. Yet never was
the ancient valOr of race put to so tremendous
trial. The tempest which is said to have been the
most terrible ever known in that part of the world
and which overthrew three of the minarets of Sui
tan Achmet's Mosque at Constantinople, besides
driving large vessels from their mooriDgs before
that city, did not spare the allies land. 1t
blew down and greatly injured their tents, feeble
as they against the cold Crimean
winter at the height of seven hundred feet above the
surge. Such is the situation in which
the army finds itself suddenly deprived Of the much
wanted supply of clothing sent out for The winter,
md the equally needfu ammunition for the siege.