True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-05-23
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FOREIGN NEWS.
Arrival Of the Steamer Baltic.

gers. Raglan admits that the lombard
ment had not produced the lOoked-for re-
suits. The list Of casualties of the allies
is not heavy. The general impression in
England is that the siege will be abandon
ed for the present, and the whole of the
works and position entrusted to few corps,
while the main army will cndeavor to pen
citrate the interior, cut off the supplies of
Scbastopol, and then completely invest the
town. Reinforccmcnts were constantly
reaching the allies. The French reserve
of $4,000 men, near COnstantinople, were
cxpectiog TO be sent to Balakava.
Dates to the 9th represent the allies as
gaining ground. All the Russian outworks
had been taken, after many sanguinary en-
counters, together with a large number of
Russian mortars and many prisoners.
Napoleon narrowly escaped assassination
on the evening of the 2Sth, An Italian
fred two pistols at him while riding on
horseback; personal revenge was the OBJ
ject.
Nothing in the siege to warrant salts
factory result. The bombardment not
producing the anticipated effect, the fire
was slackencd on the 2Sth, to prevent the
exhaustion of ammunition. The position
of the allies is regarded as critical An
immense Russian force, said to be 100000
strong is reported as concentrating near
SebastOpol. The telegraphic communica-
tions from the Crimea are cautiously divul-
ged by the Government Russell had
reached London from Vienna. The Brit
ish budget was passed in both houses
The King of Prussia was i'll of fever.
Cotton active; sales of the week 107,-
900 bales at advance; -four advanced,
lu2s higher; lard active. Cotton Or
leans fair 81, middling 5 1-15a5-16.--
London--money easy; Bank reduced its
rates to 4 per cent, causing speculation in
cotton and brcadstutfs Liverpool, Friday
Cotton closing active; brcadstutfs open
ed active and closing steady. Flour; Phil
aaelphia, Baltimore and New York, Ala
42s, Ohio 44a45s; white wheat12sal2 Sd,
red 10 $ d all Cd; white corn AIS Gda49.
Weather dry and ulrsaasonably cold; beef,
adv. v.ncing tendency; pork depressed; ba-
con improving with prospects of an active
demand; lard firm, ,a49a50.
Russian official accounts to the 18th rep
resent the damage sustained as of little ac-
count, and quickly repaired, while in the
skirmishes they were generally successful.
The loss sustained by the garrison from
the 1lth to the 18th was 7 subll'erns and
1876 men killed, 6 superior and 81 subal-
tern officers and 1899 men wounded. The
English captured the first Russian pit on
the night of the l1th, after desperate ell
counter. Col. Graham Egerton, the field
officer in command, was killed. On the
Doth an attack vas made on the second
rife pit, when it was almost immediately
abandoned.
According to the statement of two Pol
ish descrtcrs, 100000 Russians were in
the vicinity of Scbastopol, 10000 of whom
had arrived from Simferopol. The forts
on the north side of the harbor had taken
part in the cannonadc, pitching their shot
clear into the lines of the allies.
The Telegraph between London and the
Crimea was perfect, except a small portion
across the Danube Dispatches reach the
British Government in few hours but
are not generally communicated to the pub
lie, although questions are nightly asked
in parliament.
| The ministers declare they will exercise
due discretion in publishing the news,--
Lord John Russell had reappeared in hi:
seat in Parliament. Druoyn De L Huy'
had returned to Paris. Russell statcc
the substance Of the negotiations, and in
timated that the protocols would be sub
mitted to Parliament.
The latest dispatch states that sharI
engagement took place on the night of thu
LIST of May. A front and left attack wa
made on the Russian rifle pits, they wer'
carried, and eight mortars and TWO hundred
prisoners taken: the whole affair was bril-
liaat for the allies.
CoNsTANTINopLE, May 2.-Stratfort
do Redcliffe had returned to Constantine
= pie. Mchcmet Ali has been recalled from
exile. Conrobert speaks to his troops o
immediate operations: orders had been re
ceived to prepare transports.
SEBAsropoL, May 4.-0n Wednesda
night the French under Gen. Pclissicr al
attacked the advanced works of the quar-
antine bastion and carried theu at tue poin
of the bayonet, taking twelve mOrtars an
- establishing themselves in the position. :
i On the following night the Russians MAD
h sortic, regained the position and after