The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-03-01
Foreign News.

Sd of February. -,
Tn the House of Commons on the 30th,
Mr.. Roebucks motion of want of conf
dence in the ministry, and to appoint
committee to examine into the conduct OF
the war department, &C.. was resumed,
and the vote resulted in 157 majority "a
uainst the Government, whereupon the
the ministry sent in their resignation
which was accepted. On the next even
ing conferences took place between the
Queen and Lords Derby and Palmerston,
and various rumors were afoat as to the
result Subsequently the Earl of Derby
informed the House that he had been In
vited by the Queen to form Cabinet but
could not do so.
Accounts from the Crimea state that
the Russians celebrated their New Years
Day (l3th of January within the city OF
Sebastopol with apparent gaiety; at mid
night all the chapel bells commenced ring
ing. At one o'clock the Russians within
the lines commenced cheering. The
French, taking this as an insult, opened a
fire upon the town. The Russians I'M
mediately replied along the whole line of
defence by the fercest cannondate that
has yet been experienced.
Under the cover Of the firing, strong
party of Russians made a sortie on front
and flank of the British left. The Rus
slams captured the British vidette, and
drove in the covering parties, but on be-
inc engaged, retired towards the town.
Simultaneous with the attack on the Brit
ish, strong sortie was made on the
French, the Russians penetrating within
the parapet and spiking three mortars.-
The French rallied and drove back the
enemy inside the lines of his advance. and
at daybreak the batteries were all quiet.
On the 18th of January, there was
fall of snow to the depth Of more than
three feet. From movements in the town
it was supposed that Gen. Liprandi had
received strong re-enforcements; the Rus
slams had also appeared in considerable
force near Ba!aklava, which place, it WINS
thought, they had abandoned A dis
patch from Menschikoff speaks of sue
cessful sortie against the French centre
on the 10Th, when a number of the be-
seigers were killed and several prisoners
were taken. At latest advices, the firing
was pretty much suspended, and all par
ties we're seeking shelter from the snow.
According to the Vienna papers Sevas-
topol is not to be stormed, but the Anglo
French army is to remain in the old po-
sition up to the time when the Turkish
and Piedmontese re-enforcements arrive
The campaign is to begin with the first
DAYS of March. The Turks from Eupa-
toria the English and French from Bal
aklava, and the Piedmontese from Kaffa,
the old Genoese fortress, are to act in
concert against Prince Menschikoff; a
concentric attack from the periphery on
the centre, that is the plan. If Prince
Menschikoff were indeed man of genius,
he might defeat the hostile armies one by
one, but if he allows them to make one
combined attack, be is lost.
The losses of the Russians in the cam
paign of 1854 are now officially publish
ed. The amount in the active army, ex-
elusive Of Cossacks and of the army in
Transcaucasia, to Ill 1872 men, of whom
29,2O4 are reported as killed in Turkey
and in the Crimea; 1916 died in the
hospital; 55,304, wounded; while 6,46O
are put down as deserters, prisoners, and
missing. Adding to these numbers the
1000 prisoners of Bomersund, and the
killed and wounded at Kola and Petro-
pavoloYsk, we get the enormous total Of
one hundred and eleven thousand and
odd men sacrificed in one year. The to-
tai of the Turkish and Anglo-French vic
tins cannot be smaller, if we remember
that the English alone have lost above
200 men mostly by disease, and add
ing to these figures the victims of Often
itza and Sinope in 1853, and the losses of
Shamyl and Of the Russians in Asia, we
may safely say that the present war has
so far destroyed the life or the health Of,
at least 25O,000 able bodied men, in the
prime of life. And what is the result of
these awful sacrifcesl Has the freedom
of Europe beer established, or has even
the integrity and independence of Tur-
key, the acknowledged object of the strug-
gle, been benefited by it! We see just
the contrary, Austria has been streng-
thened-the opposition of Sardinia a
gainst her has been allayed-the yearn-
ings of Italy for independence have been
kept down-and Turkey put in the most
miserable dependency upon the English,
French and Austrian Ambassadors at
Constantinople.
Unquenchable Fire.
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