The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-02-13
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The foreign papers contain but little of interes
in addition to that heretofore given. The leading
feature is that relating to the ministerial crisis
England and the resignation of Lord John Russell
of which the London Standard says:
We understand that an attempt viii be made te
patch up affairs in the Cabinet It 10 said that the
Duke of New Castle will become President of the
Council, In room of Lord John RUSSELL Lord Pal
merston is to be War Minister in place Of the
Duke of New Castle, and Mr. Sydney Herbert will
be Home Secretary, In place of Lord Palmerston.
Such are the latest rumors.
The London Times continues to assault the Min
istry and its management Of the war; 1t says in q
rscent article:
'We ere all to persevere with the whole force
OF the empire In carrying Lord Raglan and his
stan through with it, and enabling them to redeem
their credit at the risk of another army. That is
what Government is prepared to ask what Parlia-
ment IS expected to grant, what the press will be
thought very disloyali If it does not back up what
tne british people are expected to swallow, as 1t
mas swallowed many another desperate policy
For our part, whatever others may please 10 do
we will take no further part in such an affair. We
wipe our hands OF the war under the existing man
agement II Government If the House of Com.
mons or the British people, choose to sell them
serves 10 the aristocracy, and through the aris
wipe our hands of the national suicide All that
we can do is to protect, and to warn, and that we
WIN not cease to do though hitherto we have done
1t In vain."
Inc following paragraph shows the cond ition of
affairs in the Crimea. English soldiers are dress
ed In French uniforms. Canrobert has presented
looO0ceats to the British soldiers 1t asserted,
TOO, that General Canrobert satisfied with the nu.
merlcal strength of the force under his command,
mas written home to request that no more men
may be ssnt-a state of things which differs mate
Rally from that of the British army Indeed, the
London Times states that if the present rate of
mortality should continue there will literally be
no army left by the 18th of March nothing but
Lord Raglan and his staff The weather was yery
Observation-Disclosures snow, rain and frost.
The following letters appear in the English pa.
pers. They are from the East:
JAN. 5.-An extremely hard frost began about
midnight, and the Thermometer this norninc was
at III degrees 10 seconds, or more than 10 degrees
OF cold. The result may be imagined The ca gal-
division lost about sixty horses during the night
ana dread to think OF the number of our pSble
SOLDIERS VINO VIII receive their coup de grace rom
this weather, II it lasts | am credibly informed
that, out OF one division alone one hundred and ff
ty men were taken out of the trenches to the hos
pta tents. seiz ed with oramps and half frozen, not
OF proper clothing, and the inability to move about
to circulate the blood. Lieutenant Ramsbottom,
of the 9th Regiment was found dead In his tent
this morning, from the vapors of charcoal in a
stove; and Mr.. Wears, OF the same regiment was
discovered in precarious state from the same
cause, but is now better
JANUARY 7th,-Words cannot describe the suf-
feriAgs OF the men last night. The snow is knee
deep, with north wind, bed-clothes frozen Men
going on duty 10 the trenches have actually been
observed crying. Total sick list, 1882.
Below we give French account of the Siege
1t is copied from the Moaiseur de YArmes.
"BEFoRE SEBAsToPoL, Dec. 3l-All along the
lines we are ready for the attack The batteries
only await being anmasked to send forth their vol
leys. The tower in front of the English our brave
allies and the Flagstaff Battery and the Quarantine
Fort, In front of u.s. are the three points the occu
patton of which is most important The town.
however, seems prepared for a vigorous defence
Mud batteries and entrenchments stare us in the
face. Traps OF every description are prepared for
US But nature has done more than man to DELAY
the ruin OF this wonderfully situated city
"Thus, behind the flagstaff Battery there is a ra
vine, which will have to be descended and then re-
mounted, under cross fire from the quarantine
battery, and from part OF the harbor to enable one
to establish footing on the pateaux Of the cityx
This plateau is covered with defences, bate
and obstacles. The streets are barricaded, Tie
town itself is deserted, SILENT melancholy; the
houses appear to have been all abandoned and the
windows are all open. At intervals a sentry
may be seen on duty, or q workman at his labor
There Is nothing stirring to indicate that there
are living beings In this great city-not sign de
note the presence OF an army the voice of the
cannon is the only voice that is heard. Yet pris-
oners assure us that there are battaliiOns bivou-
acklng in every square,"
magnificent screw steamer, the "City of Bal
taore" the largest vessel ever built ON the Clyde
was launched on the Goth ult She is intended for
the Liverpool and Philadelphia line.
In consequence of her great size, and the break.
ing OF two OF ber hawsers, she came in violent coll
lison with the opposite bank of the river and was
slightly injured. 1t probable that this accident
may render 1t necessary to place her on the
stocks, in order to ascertain the extent of her In
juries.
The Queen of Sardinia is dead. Queen Maria
Adelaide was only in her SD year. having been
born in June, 1922. She married his majesty Vic.
tor Emmanuel, in April l842, and by him had seven
children, six of whom survive She was the
daughter of Renter, Archduke of Austria.
EXECUTION ON AN AMERICAN MAN-oF-wAR.
MALTA, January 19-The American corvette
Levant, which arrived In our port on Friday
last, from Alexandria, has on board seamao an
Irishman by birth, upon whom sentence of death
has been passed ior murder. Objections to the
carrying of the sentence into effect having been
raised the Levant will, we understand. leave this
port In few days, aud the execution is to take
place on the high seas on the 10th of the present
LuOntu. Inc PSiicCtiJ udIuSncu, anu iii
efforts to bring him to sense of his awful situa-
ton have proved truitless. Times
MIscELLANRoUs FOREIGN ITEMS.
Mr.. John B. Cough, the Apostle of Temperance,
or rather of teetotalism, has been interdicted by
Sir John Hay, Bart, sheriff substitute at Stirling,
from delivering an Grafton in the East Established
Church, in that town The consent OF the minis
ter and the session had been previously obtained
but heritor petitioned for an interdict, and it
was granted.
Barthelemy, the murderer, was hung In front of
Newgate JAIL on Monday, January 22d. He was
attended by a Roman Catholic priest, but he re.
mained hardened to the last and his conversation
was of most blasphemous character. Although
the weather was inciement, great crowd wit.
messed the execution.
Rear-Admiral Martin, now Superintendent of
Portsmouth Backyard, Is talked OF as successor TO
Sir Charles Napier In the command of the Baltic
feet next season. Rear.Admral Michael Seymour
will probably be second In command.
Count de Motmirail an ha5itue of the Paris
Bourse, has been sentenced by the Court of Cor
rectional Police to six months Imprisonment and
5O0f fine, for circulating false news and calumnies
against the Emperor.
The Hotel de Lauriston, In the Avenue des
Champs EIysees, has been sold to the Duke de
Alba, for $50, ,000f On the same day, the Hotel
Lsfebvre Deumer, in the Alice d'Antin, which cost
more than 750 ,000t, was sold by auction for only
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