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ARRIVAL OF rHE BALTIC.

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The Baltic left Liverpool early on Saturday
morning the S0th ult, and reached her dock
here at quarter past SPIN
She brings s2 passengers, including Com.
Perry.
The Africa arrived out al noon on the cath
ult.
The Sarah Sands had put into Cork with
her sails damaged, and would proceed on her
yoySge afler repairing, without returning TO
Liverpool. d.
The Arabia sailed from MarsaiIlss on Dee.
2lst with 1910 French troops for the Crimes.
A diplomatic conference was to be held at
the residence Of the British Minister in Vienna
on the Rsth Of December. The ambassadors of
England, France. Austria, Prussia and Russia
and Prince Gortchakoff we're TO take part in the
discussions. The conference was 70 be Of q
private character.
A Vienna despatch of the 26th says Gorlchas
kof presented a note which he had received
from ST. Petersburgh to Count RAD. II is be-
lieyed to be unsatisfactory, but not the final re-
ply Of Russia.
In regard to the Russian mission to London,
Of which high speculatiOns had been formed, il
was surmised that NJ. Usedon was merely the
bearer Of an autograph letter to the Queen,
and that his instructions are merely TO watch
the course Of events. Nothing certain vas
known.
Affairs before Sevastopol we're unchanged.
The Russians claim to be doing considerable
damage to the approsehss Of the Allies. Never.
theless the French third parallel was mounted
with cannon. The TelnfOTcements of the Allies
down TO the 18th Of December reach 10000.
An official dispatch in the Paris MOniteur
from BalaklaYa says the situation of the Allies
is excellent.
Gen; Liprsndi, however, with 10000 men I.
was manoeuVering In the vicinity Of BalaklavS,
Menchikof was sick and Gen. 0stensacke z
was in command.
Five thousand Turks had landed at Eupa-
toria.
The destination Of Omar Pachs's army was
kept profound secret. 1t was thought they
would invest the North side Of Sevastopol.
The railway material was already on the
way To Balaklszs in seven steamers and two
sailing ships, with all the men for building y
railway from Balaklava to Sevastopol.
The wretched state of the country from heavy
rains had almost put a stop to operations.--
Communications between Perekop and Sim
pheropol was impossible. and a week had
elapsed since courier had arrived at Odessa,
from Sevastopol. At last accounts the wealth.
er had improved; there had been heavy frosts,
and both armies we're renewing their scci-
witty.
Admiral Hamlim, writing on the 18th, says.
that the place had kept upa tolerable brisk
FIRE. The enemy had Insde vigorous sorties
against our lines and those Of the English. As
soon as they reached the parapets they were
received by well sustained fire Of musketry
and repused at the point OF the bayonet--
A skirmish occurred near lnkerman on the
18th.
On December the 18th Omar Pasha left
Shumla for Ccnstantinople. Turkish troops
began TO arrive from Varna on the 18th. A
letter in the Soldala Freend says the defense Of
the fortress is now to be conducted on a new
plan, The costly material will be removed
from the Bastions on the walls and carried back
to the ships. twenty-five ships have been
equipped, and are nov ready for sea- 1t is
probable the garrison have mined the places
which they pretend to have left. The Tremo-
lin BlatE says, likewise, that the defense of Sc
lvastopol will be confined to the forts.
We have farther particulars as to the naval
sortie from Sevsstopol. Two Russian s,aamers,
towing six gun boats. ran out of the harbor on
December 9th. and after firing on French
steamer and bomb ketch were compelled to re.
tire.
The passage left between the sunken vas
only wide enough for one vessel to pass at a
time, The allied fleets moved outside the dou-
Bile bay Of Chersouesus.
Orders had been received at Warsaw to COM
plete the additional works Of the citadel within
the first two weeks Of January. Marshal Pas
kiewitch had ordered the immediate enrolment
OF two parks of flying artillery. The recruits
of the new levy are to create second grand
army OF reserve, to be concentrated ia and
around Moscow. Twenty thousand men we're
occupied in fortifying Kier.
TIE BALnc.-France and England have no.
ti6ed the Swedish Government that all the
Russian harbors on the white Sea are to be
blockaded.
A Russian ukase says that whoever, altar q
battle, shall commit acts ofcruelty on the Woun-
ded or anresisting shall suffer death.
Ostensacken is removed from the command
Of the third to the fourth crops, Woe Damon
berg, disgraced. The Chief Engineer who con-
Quoted the defense of Sevastopol is Gen. Dest-
ren, a Frenchlnan. Sen. 0ChaLelsky is appoin.
ted Government Of Odessa.
Eight English steamships we're taking SCUM
dings off Gtchakoff, Hence, it is surmised the
allies will make an attack on Kinbarn preps.
ratOry to an attack on Perekop,
A levy Of ten men in every 1000 is ordered
in the Eastern half Of the Empire. to be COM
lpleted by March 10.
I THE cRIMKk.
CoxsTANrINoPLE, Dec. 9O--It is confidently
asserted that the resolutions had been adopted
to storm Sevastopol as soon as the Turkish Ie-
inforcements should arrive. The French, il ID
said, are to storm while the British and Tnrks
attach Menchikof.
There isa report that Omar Pasha has re-
turned to the Sultan. making It condition oi
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