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NEWS FROM EUROPE.

5th inst. We have news from Europe a week La
ter than previous advioes. The Hermann
brings Liverpool dates TO the Goth of June,
and the America to the aSrd. The news are
Of an important character. The N. Y, Tribune
sums them up as follows. -
The great point in this intelligence is that
the Allies have attempted 10 storm the Redan
aud MalakOf towers at Sevastopol and have
been repulsed with great slaughter. The ..
vent took place on the 18th ult,. but SO disas-
trous was the result that on the a2d nc details
had been allowed to transpire at Paris or Lon
dOn--the Black Sea telegraph being as our
readers will remember, under Government con.
troll. According to one account the British
l,ss alone was 1000, including Gen. Sir Colin
Campbell and above seventy other officers. This
however is thought to be. and probably is, ex-
aggerated. An assault against a single work
like the Redan tower, which alone was ex-
posed to the British attack, the Malakoif being
further to the right before the French, would
naturally be decided one way or the other, and
either carried or abandoned before such ex-
irene carnage could occur. Still it is possible
that this report my be true, or even less than
truth On this subject we shall hope to OBJ
tain some light from the mail of the America.
The bombardment of the Russian lines on
the east of Sevastopol, or rather in front Of the
Karabelnaya suburb, began on the 9th ult on
the 7th the Mamelon and other advanced
works were taken, with loss to the Allies of
some 2, 500 men according 10 their account but
as Prince Gorchakof says, of 1000 This
success was Of course followed up by cOntn-
uous canonade against the Russian forts com
manding the newly won positions. Our last
Iprevious advices were to the 10th; when the
bombardment against the Redan and Malakoff
towers, which had been still kept up with a
large number Of guns than had ever before been
directed against these two points, was about
to be strengthened by some new batteries,
whose effect Pelissier said would be terrible.
These batteries were appearantly placed on
the Mamelon and on Mount Sopun, since Cor.
chakotf telegraphed on the l2sh ult. that the
Allies had reconstructed the Kamschalka
lunette, or course turning it against the Rus.
sian lines. II would seem that after twelve
days incessant firing Of the kind at much less
distance than either Of the general lombard.
ments, the two principal forts ought to have
been destroyed. But at any rate they were
either so much diapIdated that the assault was
thought to offer the needed chance of success.
or else the army had got into such a state that
decisive action Of some sort was necessary.
However this may be, the check the Allies
have received is evidently serious one, or
the facts respecting it would not so long be
hidden from the public. 1t should not be
forgotten that this was no gen eral assault upon
the entire town; but only on these two forts
on the Karabelnaya side. A special cannon
ade had been maintained on these works and
special assault was its sequence. Had they
been carried, the result would have been great
gain to the Allies, by means of which they
could have pushed the siege on that side to a
conclusion with much greater rapidly. 1t
would also have enabled them to destroy with
their guns the remaining Russian ships in the
port Yet il would not have rendered certain
the fall Of the main or western part of the town
which is separated from Karbelnaya by the in
ner harhor. But on the consequences of the
allied reverse we abstain from all reflections
until we haYe so me more accurate report of the
facts.
A great deal is said by the English papers
in denuncatlon of an outrage committed by a
Russian force at Hango, on the Baltic in firing
into the flag of truce and killing lieutenant
and fifteen men as they were going ashore TO
land some Russian prisoners, taken on board
Of ccasIing vessels, whom the Admiral had or
dered to be liberated. 1t appears that of the
English party only one man escaped alive, and
that the narrative is derived from this single
witness. If his story be entirely true, ard fI
AS is alledged there was no prcvocation for the
act, it is indeed an enormous outrage meriting
the indignation it excites, But in every case
it is well to hear both sides before forming de :
cisive judgement, and as yet the Russian ver-
sion OF this tragedy is lacking.
The proceedings in Parliment have had rare
interest, but have produced no result of any
moment, the Ministry being sustained in spite
of all the speeches made against them The
Sevastopol Committee have made their report:
IL adds nothing to the stock of public informa-
ton. but fully confirms all the charges of inca
pacity and imbecility brought against the late
administration Of the British army.