Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-06-06
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Liverpool dates to May l9.
The siege Of Sebastopol was almost unchang.
ed. An expedition of $4,000 allies had embark.
ed at Kamiesh and put to sea in the direction
6f Azoff but returned without landing. No
details Of the movement were known.
Large reinforcements for the Allies were ex.
peeled ut Sebastopol within ten days.
The negotiations between Austria and the
Western Powers were unchanged, but between
Prussia and Austria they were more intricate
than ever
Russia notifies the German State Govern.
ments that the Gar will only hold to the first
two guarantees on the condition of the perfect
neutrality of Germany.
France and England have presented an'ulti.
matum 10 Sweden, which that Power seems in
clined to reject
The French Exhibition had been opened, but
the ceremony was rather dull.
pianori, who attempted TO shoot Napoleon,
hed been executed.
Marshal Cnnrobert has resigned nominally, on
account of ill.health. Ho is succeeded by Gen.
Pelissier.
Previous to Lis resignation, Canrobert review
ed the entire French army, and assured them
that they would soon enter Sebastopol, either
by the door or the window.
A combat occurred on the night of the 24th
between the Russians and the French, which
proved most desperate affair. The Russians
attempted to dig new rife pits, and the French
partially prevented them. Two hundred French
troops were put hors du combat.
| A despatch of the lst of May says the nd.
vances of the allies are approaching Sebastopol
surely though slowly.
Lord RagIans despatch of the same day says,
the Russians have constructed a new battery
TO the left Of the Mamelon, and there is every
appearance Of the establishment Of very large
camp on the plateau above Bebeck, on the
North side.
The French government is understood to
have received desputches announcing heavy rains
in the Crimea, and the trenches of the allies full
of water, 40 as TO cause suspension! OF hostii-
ties.
Count Caronine, the Conmander-in.C Chief, has
proclaimed martial law in the principalities.
A new manifesto Of the Car orders another
levy of twelve men in every thousand in the
seventeen western provinces, to be completed
by the end Of July.
There nre indications of 4 more intimate re-
Iatonship between Austria and Prussia, and the
publicity of, an armed neutrality is becoming
more apparent. A conference between the
representatives of these two powers is in pro.
gress.
LIVERPOOL, Friday Evening, May, ls.
la----- ---oiGl--l--:--r,
active and bouyant Sales of the week 10000
bales, including $4,000 to spectators and 5000
to Exporters. Fair Orleans Gid, Niddling SID.
Fair Upland 64d. Middling SID
BREApsTUFr-The market is quiet, and
prices are wholly unchanged.
Provisions had advanced.
Money easier. Consols 69}
VERY GooD.-The Petersburg (Va) Intelli-
gencer, the K. N. organ, meets his defeat in
very good temper. He moralizes:
The contest being over, it, is now fulllime
10 let Tie acrimonious spirit, which has charac-
terized it in unprecedented manner, subside.
To our brethren of the press Of both parties
wo would say: We have all had our faults
(none is more conscious of his own than the
writer of this arliclc)-we have all gone too
far and have used language too incorporate,
indeed scurr!lous, for u press which, in theory
at least, is the guide and instructor of the pub
lie, and therefore douby responsible for the
example it set. The campaign over, the press
of Virginia will have ample rime to Look into
other matters than mere party politics, and mat
ters too of infinite Importance. We have our
noble old State and her multiform interests TO
attract our attention and engage our most earn
est efforts, and this should invite the honorable
contest among the members. of the profession
as to who shall contribute most to the glorious
work Of making Virginia what she ought to be
and what she can and will be if her sons are
true TO her.
RuFN lUa lou am MN fob I,ou
TO say that we are not soft enough to suppose
that We shall escape repeated gjbes, jeers and
jokes fired off by The successful party. Well,
Of this we shall not complain, inasmuch as we
should have done these things ourself had the
boot been on the other leg. He may laugh
who wins, is u maxim as old as the hills, and we
shall call philosophy to our sid and bear our
pictimization Of broad grins with all possible
Hon. JEFF DAvIs.-Hon jefferson Davis has