The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-07-05

that Lord Raglan omits to mention how the
! British were engaged, or if they were engaged
at all. General Pelissier's dispatch informs
us that his English allies carried the rifle works
! in the quarry.
+ Pellissiers latest dispatches are:
= June 10, III p. M-The combat of the It'll
was more advantageous for us than at first
! announced. 1t placed in our hands 502 prison
! ers lot whom 20 are officers) and 73 pieces of
3; cannon"
| "June ii, ii p M-We are consolidating
| ourselves IN the new works. We have been
| able to lire with the Russian mortars on their
! ships, which have gone still further off, We
Sare preparing new batteries. PELLIssIER"
: PRINCE GoRTSCHAKOFF'S ACCOUNT.
Prince Gortschakoff telegraphs to St. Peters
: burgh, evening of the 9Th of June:
AFTER two days of heavy bombardment, three
French divisions attacked redoubt No. at 6
O'Clock last evening, and occupied redoubts
kamtschatka Selenghinsk, and Volhynia, and
"a battery between Selenghnsk and bastion No.
i. Our troops retook the Kamtschatka redoubt.
but the French poured in fresh reserves and
took it once more. We finally remained mas
i, tiers of that battery the French holding lod =
ment near, whence we hope to drive them
! Our soldiers fought admirably, in proof of
which | may state that the enemy's loss ex-
| ceeds ours. He has lost $500 men. and we
/ have taken 275 men and officers prisoners, as
| well as French cannon
HEIGHTS OF THE TCHERNAYA
The French lines are now so far advanced.
that the Allied cavalry water their horses in the
| Tchernaya, without molestation. The Russians
| do not show in force. They have constructed
two batteries-one toward the bridge and the
other on one of the spurs running out from the
| ridge of Inkermann. On the allied side a
work has been constructed for Che defence of
the bridge. Access to the river certainly Sc
cures water but the position is described, in
1 correspondence from the camp, as "more ad-
| vantageous in a moral than strategical view"
" Geographic accounts state that the Russians
! have already abandoned Anapa, and are sup.
posed to have crossed the Kouban. This re-
!. quires confirmation.
FURTHER SUCCESSES AT TAGANROG. MARIOT
| POL AND GHEISK.
| The British Admiralty make public the fol.
lowing
! "Captain Lyons, of the Miranda, and Cap
tain Sedaiges, (French.) report that the naval
operations against Taganrog, Maroupol and
Gheisk, which took place on the Sd, 5th and
9th of June, have perfectly succeeded. The
| public buildings and numerous Government
| VI pIONlSlOliS nave U6eH burned, ana
thus an immense loss of supplies has been in
| fiicted on the enemy. The operations were
conducted with great vigor and rapidity-the
| Allies having only one man wounded, although
| opposed by $500 soldiers at Taganrog."
| Details could not be received in England be-
| fore the 18th or 10Th of June.
| An extensive boat expedition is being fitted
out at Portsmouth, for service in the shallow
waters of the Sea of Azoff. The Russians are
about to build railroad through the Isthmus
| of Perekop.
| Miss Nightingale is on her way to England,
on board the Cunard steamer Jurd. She is
convalescent from her attack of fever, but is
recommended to recruit her strength at home
| for a season.
Admiral Boxer is dead. He is succeeded by
| Admiral Fremantle.
The Viceroy of Egypt is enrolling a force of
| 5000 blacks in the Soudan.
! Correspondence gives account of the miser-
able state of Eupatoria. War and called &C.
cupation have despoied the inhabitants of
everything they possessed. For some time past,
| the citizens have been subsistng on a scanty
allowance of flour, given them by the British
Forty or fifty deaths from exhaustion and low
fever take place daily, and around the town
new ground has been broken for cemeteries.
The houses are mostly in ruins and the air
putrid.
Seventeen hundred Turks have been sent to
General Vivian, as the first instalment of the
Turkish contingent with English officers.
An Imperial manifesto, dated ST. Petersburgh,
June 2, ordains that in case of the death of the
present Emperor Alexander, the Grand Duke
Constantine shall be Regent during the minori-
! ty Of the Crown Prince-the Regency to con-
time doing the minority Of the second son,
should the eldest die. The Empress is to be
! guardian.
Letters from Trebizonde, of May %, mention
| that the Russian General Bassiheff, with a
numeroos suite. had arrived at Tabriz to notify
| to the Shah Of Persia the accession of Alexan-
der H. and to persuade the Shah to keep steady
to his neutral policy.
| THE BALTIC-THE FLEET OFF CRONSTADT.
On the 9Th Of June, the English fleet, con-
Sisting of sixteen line-ofbattle ships, including
three French, was anchored close to Cronstadt,
and forming line across the bay from shore
to shore. Admiral Dundas had gone in very
| close with the surveying steamer Merlin, and
afterward with boat, but was not molested by
the Russians All the ships in Cronstadt were
dressed in their colors, from which it was in
ferred that the citizens were celebrating either
a fete day or the visit of some distinguished
person.
Admiral Baynes's (Englsh) squadron, num-
bering Is sail, anchored in the Great Belt on
the 18th inst.