The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-05-24

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER BALTIC
Nrw YoPK Mar f9

NEW ORR may i o
Advices from The Crimea were received by
telegraph up TO Friday evening. the 4th INST,
and dispatches were being received daily OF
the Government BY this means. but only 4
small portion Of the news there received was
permitted to be made public. the Government
retaining the exclusive use Of the Aaes
The allies were gaining ground. and had
taken most. ii not all, the Russian oatworks,
together with a large number OF guns and
mortars. The encounters had been frequent
and mostly sanguinary large number Of
the Russian had been taken prisoners. No.
withs tals Er-r5 these advantages, the effects
produced b. the bombaE3ment were not OF
such character as TO justify an assault, and
the bombardment of the allies not having
produced the anticipated results, had slacken-
ed off very decidedly, for the purpose. Il Is
stated, of no. exhausting the ammunition.
There can be no doubt, whatever, that the sit
uation Of the allies was generally regarded as
critical in the extreme.
Immense Russian forces are reported con
ceu,rating in the vicinity of Sevastopoi.
amounting. il is admitted 10 one hundred
thusand men
A most determined attempt had been ma !e
to aSsassi ate Louis Napoleon, by an Italian.
while he was out riding. He fired two pis-
tolls at him, and his escape is represented as
exceedingly narrow The only object of the
the assassin is said TO be private personal re-
venge.
Lord John Russell had returned TO London
from Vienna, and The French Minister Drouyn
de Hugs. to Paris.
The British budget passed both Houses of
Parliament.
The King Of Prussia is Ill of fever.
Lord Ragean in an official dispatch admits
that the bombardment Of the Allies had not
produced the expected result.
The number Of the Allies killed and wound
ed is not large.
The impression in England was becoming
quite general that the siege would be aban-
doned for the present, and that the whole OF
the defenses Of kemnsch and Balakeava
would be left to the defense of a few corps,
while the main portion OF the Allies would
try and penetrate into the interior and attempt
to cut off the supplies from Seyastepol. and
then completely invest the city Numerous
reinforcements of the Allies were continually
arriving. The French reserve OF eighty
thousand were near Constantluople, and We're
expecting to be sent 10 Balaklaya.
The Russian official accounts of the pro
gress of the siege to the 25th. They say
the damage sustained had not been heavy,
and had been repaired with promptness and
facility, while the skirmishes were generally
cessful. The loss sustained by the garrison
from the It'll to the 9th April. Were seven
subalterns and four hundred and fifty six men
killed; and six superior. thirty four subalern
officers, and eighteen hundred and ninety nine
men wounded
On the night of the 18th, the English cap
tured the first Russian Rifle pit after despe-
rate encounter, in which Col. Graham Eyer
ton, the field officer in command was killed.
On the oOth an attack was made on the
second Russion rifle pit, and twas almost i'm
mediately abandoned
According to the statement of two Polish
deserters. hundred thousand Russian
forces were in the vicinity of Sevastopol, six
ty thousand Of whom had arrived from the
forts at the north side Of the harbor, and Lad
taken part IN the cannonade, carrying the
balls clear into the enemies lines. Tie tele
graph lines from London to the Crimea
completed, except a small portion over the
Danube and 1iepo,s1se o>ia., ts7~>i Cd
svcry tour hours by the Government, but few
of them were made public, though questions
in regard 10 the nature of the adyIces We're
being daily asked in Parliament. but the Min
listers declared that due DISCRETION should be
used in regard to the publication of the news.
Lord John Russell had again taken his seat in
the houses, when he stated the substance Of
the negotiations and intmaed that the protoc-
coils should be submitted to Parliament
On the night of the lst of May sharp
gagement occurred, the front and left of the
Russian rifle pits were attacked and taken,
with eight light mortars and two hundred
prisoners. The affair is represented as most
brilliant one for the allies.
On Wednesday night, the Cd inst, the
French under Gen Pelisscor attacked the ad-
vanced works Of the quarantine bastion, and
carried them at the point OF the bayonet, tax
ing twelve mortars, and establishing them
selves in the position. The following Thurs
day night the Russians made sortie 10 re-
gain the position, and after sanguinary en-
counter Were driven back.
Lord Stradford de Radclitf returned 10 Con-
stantinople on the Cd inst.
Mehemet Ali has been resailed from exile.
The British Baltic fleet had left kell, and
the French fleet was about 10 sail from Cher
bourg.
An instruction in Ukarine, in Russia. had
broken out and twenty landed proprietors
with their wives and families. had been des-
troyed.
Late advices from ST. Petersburgh, say all
articles Of food We're up to famine prices
The monthly report Of the British board OF
trade. including five days less than The cor
responding period last year, shows falling
off Of about one million sterling, the greatest
AaAiit, ~ - owing ~ sit@ SAA-A-A~A
ed demand for iron from the United States.
Sir John Burgoyne, before the Robuck
Committee. gave important testimony, IN re
latlon to the war In the Crlmea.
Strong feeling being manifested through
out England. against the Ministry, and lndlg-
nation meetings were being held, in regard 10
the manner in which the war had been con
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Presidential ELECTION N LIBEEIA.--Thc
Presidential election in Liberia was 10 have Ia
ken place on the Is. inst President Roberts
had declined reelection. Edward J. Roye