Southern shield., 1855-05-26
Additional by the Baltic.
HIGHLY INTERESTING DETAILS.


 There is a rumor that a aAseperate treaty between Turkey and Russia has been signed, forming part of the Flu ropean treaty of peace.
 The first division of the Austrian army had received orders to march.
 France has ordered another levy of 20,000 men, for the Crimea.
 Appearances at St. Petersburgdenot great activity, and an energetic contin- uance of war preparations. The Czar deyotes his whole time and attention to military affairs.
 The Russian peasantry in the prov ince of Ukarine have made an insurrec- tionary movement.
 Six thousand Turks have been sent to join Omar Pasha at Balaklava.
 The latest dispatches from Sebasto- polreport that the French, on the 10th, were cautiously advancing on the Rus sians, and had carried the entire works which protected Bastion No. 4, at the bayonet. The Russians, on the fol lowing day, attempted to recover the lost ground, and g, terrible conflict en- sued, in which the Russians were re- pulsed.
 On Sunday, the magazine number one of eight, was attacked and explo- ded.
 On Saturday, the French fired three mines under the Flagstaff Battery, with partial success. The Russians, fearing an assault, opened a furious cannonade along the whole line. The French lost six officers and three hun dred men. They Russian loss was ln- considerable.
 Every night the men-of-war vessels fired broadsides against the town.
 The Russians received provisions daily. The were constructing immense works to the North and East of Sebas- topol.
 During the first week the English alone fired 2,200 tons of shot and 200 tons of powder. The total consump- ton of the allies for the week amount ing to about 5000 tons shot and 1 ,500 tons powder.
 Accounts from Vienna say that an Imperial Manifesto, relating to the re- cruitment of the army, so as to raise it to the full war complement, would be issued immediately; and a decree all officers and soldiers absent on leave, to rejoin their commands, had been published.
 GREAT BRITAIN.
 The Loan bill of sixteen million pounds, was read for the third time and passed, on the night of the 1st, by the Commons. On the the same night it was ordered to be committed to the Lords.
 The monthly returns of the Board of Trade were published. They are five days short as entrusted with the month ofApril, 1854, and show a fall- ing off of one million pounds. Metals have experienced the greatest decline, owing to the diminished demand for railroad purposes in. the United States.
 The telegraph between London and the Crimea is perfect except a small portion across the Danube.
 Dispatches reached the English gov ernment in few hours, bp.5W1ep,;;1s bp. not ss oHllE-l9l5cated to the public,,} although nightly questions were asked in Parliament as to the news. Min isters declared that they should exer- else due discretion in the publication of the news.
 The Vienna negotiations are, of course, at an end. Russell has reap peared in his seat in Parliament. He stated the substance of the negotians, and intimated that the Protocol would be submitted to Parliament.
 The following are the latest dis patches from the seat of war:
 Sharp engagements on the night of the first of May. Whole affair brilliant for the allies.
 PARIS, 4th. Reported to-day that on May 2d the besiegers took posses sion of some important Russian works, after a fierce engagement. On the Sd the Russians attempted to retake the same.
 CoNsrANTNopLE, 2d.- -Stratford de Radcliffe had returned to Constantine pie.
 Canrobert speaks to his troops of immediate operations. Orders have been received to prepare transports.
 BEFORE SEBAsTopoL, May 4.-On Wednesday night the French under Gen. Pellissile attacked the advanced works of the Quarantine Bastion, and carried them at the point of the bayo- net, taking twelve mortars and estab- fishing themselves in the conquered po- sition.
 On the following night, the Russians made sortie to recover their position buAwere driven back after bloody en- counter. r>