Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-05-24

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! Breadstuffs--The British FUND.-
| Steady.
NEW York. May 18, P. N.
! The steamer Baltic, with sdvices fren
Liverpool and London, to Saturday, The
! 5sh inst, and from the Crimea 10 Fri
fday evening, the 4th inst, arrived al
this port at half-past FIVE O'Clock Chi:
evening. 80.
The news by her from the seat oI
War, though not of q decisive charae-
ter is highly interesting. ~
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
/ Adyices from the Crimea were re-
ceived by telegraph up TO Friday even
ing, the 4th inst, and dispatches were
being received daily by the Govern
ment, by this means, but only small
portion Of the news thus received, was
permitted to be made public, the Gov
ernment retaining the exclusive use of
the lines.
The allies were gaining ground, and
had taken most, if not all the Russian
outworks, together with a large num-
Der Of guns and mortars. The encoun-
ters had been frequent and sanguinary.
A large number of the Russians had
been taken prisoners. Notwithstanding
these advantages, the effects produced
by the bombardment were not of such
character as to justify an assault, and
the bombardment of the allies not hav-
ing produced the anticipated results, had
slackened off very decidedly for the
purpose il is stated. of not exhausting
the ammunition. There can be no doubt
whatever that the situation of the allies
was generally regarded as critical in
the extreme. Immense Russian forces
are reported concentrating in the vicini-
ty of Sevastopol, amounting, it is ad-
mitted, to one hundred thousand men.
A most determined attempt had been
made to assassinate Louis Napoleon, by
an Italian, while he was. out riding. He
fred two shots at him, and his escape
is represented as exceedingly narrow.
The only object of the assassin was said
to be private personal revenge.
Lord John Russell had returned to
London from Vienna, and the French
Minister Drouyn L'huys to Paris.
The British budget passed both
Houses of Parliament.
The King of Prussia is i'll of fever.
Lord Ragland, in an official dispatch
admits that the bombardment of the al
lies has not produced the expected re-
suit.
The number of the allies killed and
wounded is not large.
The impression in England was be-
coming quite general, that the seige
would be abandoned for the present,
and that the whole of the defences of
Kameisch and Balaklava would be left
to the defense of few corps, while the
main portion of the allies would try and
penetrate into the interior, and attempt
to cut off the supplies from Sevastopol,
and then completely invest the city
Numerous reinforcements of the allies
were continually arriving.
The French reserve of eighty thou
sand were near Constantinople, and
were expecting to be sent to Balaklava.
The Russian official accounts of the
progress of the seige are to the 25th.-
1t says the damage sustained had not
been heavy, and had been repaired with
promptness and facility, while the skir-
mishers were generally successful. The
loss sustained by the garrison from the
18th to the 18th April, were seven
subalterns and four hundred and fifty
six men killed, and six superior, thirty
four subaltern officers, and eighteen
hundred and ninety-nine men wounded.
On the night of the 18th the Eng
lish captured the first Russian rifle pit
after desperate encounter, in which
Col. Graham Egerton, the field officer in
command, was killed. On The Goth,
an attack was made on the second Rus
sian rifle pit, and it was almost immedi-
ately abandoned.
According to the statement of two
Polish deserters, one hundred thousand
Russian forces were in the vicinity of
Sevastopol, sixty thousand of whom
had arrived from the forts at the north
side of the harbor, and had taken part
in the cannonade, carrying the balls
clear into the enemies lines. The tele-
graph lines from London to the Crimea
were completed, except small portion
over the Danube, and dispatches were
being received every four hours by the
government, but few of them were
made public, though questions in re-
gard to the nature of the adyices were
being duly asked in Parliament, but the
ministers declared that due discretion
should be used in regard to the publica-
ton of the news. Lord John Russell
had again taken seat in the House,
when he. stated the substance of the
negotiations and intimated that the
protocols should be submitted to Par
lament.
On the night of the first of May, a
sharp engagement occurred; the front
and left Of the Russians right pits were
attacked and taken, with eightlight NOR
tars. The affair is represented as a.
most brilliant one for the allies.
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