New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-07-24
DAILY CRESCENT
Further Foreign News.
BY THE STEAMSHIP ARAao.


| The principal and most interesting feature OF
the details Of the steamship Aragos news is the
account Of the conflict Of the 18th Of june, which
resulted 50 dissstrously to the Allied forces:
The British and North American ROYAL Mail
steamship Africa arrived at Liverpool on the
morning Of the Let inst
The Arago brings intelligence of the death Of
Lord Raglan, Commander in Chief Of the Eng
lish forces in the East. The melancholy news
was received by Lord Panmure from Gen. Simp-
son on the afternoon of the Both ult For some
days previously Lord Raglan had been suffering
from indisposition, but until P. NJ. on the 18th,
his lordship progressed to the satisfaction of his
medical attendants.
Afterward, alarming symptoms developed
themselves, attend d with difficulty Of breath
ing, which gradually increased From o'clock
L. NJ he was unconscious, and from that period
ne gradually sank, until 25 minutes before 8
O'Clock, at which hour he died The event has
plunged the whole army into the most profound
grief 1t is stated that Msj Gen Simpson has
succeeded Lord Ragiand pro tenn.
The Times correspondent, writing from the
Baltic, states that on the 21st ult. the Amphion,
80, screw frigate, while employed in reconnoi-
tering the fortifcations at Sweaborg, accident
ally mistook the channel, and in consequence,
grounded.
The boats we're Immediately dispatched in ali
directions to sound, and while 50 employed, one
of the near forts opened brisk fire upon the
frlgate. Four shots struck her, killing one
man and wounding two others. The Captain of
the Amphion, however, returned the ompliment
With such energy and precision, that he suc-
ceedad in blowing up large Russian powder
magazine, and occasioning other serious damage
to the fort.
frnY rHo1ra okr41o l. kklx~ n
have destroyed Wystadt.
From Copenhagen, July a. we learn that the
French var steamers Pelican and Foesin had
anchored, and the English war steamer Abbe,
towing the Jackdaw and Swinger, had passed
southwark
The journal de Constantinople reports that
the town of Kertch no longer exists, fire
having completed its destruction on the 14th Of
June. sm
A line of electric telegraph has been opened
between Odessa and st. Petersburg, and before
long telegraphic communications will be estab-
Gshed between st. Petersburg and SebastepoI
His Majesty the King Of the Belgians and suite
arrived at Buckingham Palace from Ostend on
the afternoon Of the Sd inst. on visit to Queen
Victoria
Admiral Seymour, who was wounded on board
FL. Nj. ship Exmouth, from the bursting Of an
Internal machine, vas still suffering, and little
eye. az ..s5a.
The detailed accounts of the attack on the
Malakoff and Redan towers made by the Allies
on the 18th ult., have been received, and are
published in extenso in the London morning
journals. The various correspondents aseribe
the repulse and great loss which the French
and English experienced to the want of proper
management and the total absence of that mill
tary knowledge and Judgment go requisite in
oY,nI .p1a rfaIi
The Journal of St. Petersburg publishes
correspondence respecting the outrage at Hango,
whiolf Russia excuses on the ground that the
flag Of truce was not up. Russia accuses Eng
land of making improper use Of flags Of truce
Another !" demonstration against Lord Rob-
ert Grosvenor's Sunday Trading Bill, took place
in Hyde Park on Sunday. July /, and exceeded
in numbers and riot the one which took place
the week previous According to the reporter
Of the Morning Herald the scene is beyond de-
scription. AT the lowest computation upward
of 00,000 men, women and children, were pre-
sent The proceedings were commenced by q
man attempting to address the crowd, which
attempt was Immediately put down by the police.
This gave rise to an extraordinary scene Of con-
fusion. The constsbles hats were knocked off,
and the several carriages which were bold
enough to venture were hooted, and the horses
frightened by the mob. Several Of the ring
leaders were taken into custody, but not with
out giving great trouble to the police, who were
in many instances compelled to use their stayes
in a very severe manner. IS.
In the House of Commons, on the ID July,
Lord Robert Grosvenor withdrew his bill against
Sunday trading
In both Houses of Parliament, on the evening
of the Sd inst, q royal message, recommending
the House to provide come material token of
recognition to Lord Raglan for the services he
had rendered to his country during this and
previous wars. was brought under consideration,
and it was agreed that an annuity of 1000
year should be granted to the widow Of his late
lordship, and $4,000 year to the present pos
SCISSOR of the title, with remainder to his next
heir. 6
In the House of Lords, while discussing the
merits of the late Lord Raglan, the Earl of
Galloway blamed the Government for having
allowed certain charges adduced against Lord
Raglan in Parliament and elsewhere to pass un-
answered, and to this neglect he believed the
premature death Of the late Field Marshal was
in great measure attributable Al.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News
states, that the French Government demands d
new loan of seven hundred and fifty million
francs. 1t proposes an impest Of one tenth on
produce, and on the revenue accruing from the
carriage of passengers and goods by railway.
900 of the class 1856 were called under
arms.
The War-Journal Of the Siege.
Correspondence O Loadpn Ness.
HEIGHTS BEFORE SEBAsToPoL, June 2l.-The
original plan Of attack contemplated join
English and French assault of the Malakoff
which, as commanding the Redan and forming
| the grand key to the whole network of redoubt
| and batteries in front Of the place would, j
taken, have at once rendered the former un
tenable, and placed the town and harbors a
the mercy of the captors. For reasons, however
which no one can understand. this very sensible
and apparently most practical design wa
abandoned, and the plan was changed into ont
of simultaneous. attack upon the two grea1
| works-the Malakoif being undertaken by tbs
| French, and the Redan by ourselves. The frs
manifest disadvantage Of this arrangement wa
1 the spreading Of our forces over field of diff
culties nearly double in extent, and enablin
the enemy to bring vast number of guns int
play against us, which, in the former case
could not have injured man. To vastly en-
hance the chances of failure involved in thi
plan to ourselves, our whole attacking foro'
including supports and everybody else, We
Il limited TO some four thousand men; while IL
French, with much juster appreciation of th
difficulty that fell to their share, told Of tWent.
4 Eve thousand @ m 4