Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1855-05-22
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.
Assassination Of Louis Napoleon.
New YonK, May IS.

from Liverpool and London, to Saturday
the 5lh inst. and from the Crimca TO
Friday evening the 4lh inst arri, cd at
this port at half-past five o'clock this
evening.
The news by her from the Seat OF war,
though not Of decisive character Is
highly interesting.
General Intelligence.
Adyices from the Crimea wcrc rcceiv'
ed by telegraph up to Friday evening
the 4th inst, and dispatches were being
received daily by the Government, by
this means, but only small portion OF
tho news thus received, was permitted to
be made public, the Government retain
ing tho exclusive use Of the limos.
The allies were gaining ground, and
had taken most, il not all the Russian
out. works, together with large number
Of guns and morlars. Tho encounters
had been frequent and sanguinary. A
large number Of the Russians had been
taken prisoners. Notwithstanding these
advantages, the effects produced BY the
bombardment were not Of such CHAR
scter as 10 Justify an assault, and the
bombardmcnt Of the allies not having
produced the anticipated results, had
slackened off very decidedly for the
purpose. it is stated, Of not exhausting
the ammunition. There can be no doubt
whatever that the situation Of the allies
was generally regarded as critical in the
extreme. Immense Russian forces are
reported concentrating in the vicinity OF
ScvastopoI, amounting, it is admitted,
TO one hundred thousand men.
A most determined attempt had been
made to assassinato Louis Napoleon, by
an Italian, while he was out riding
He fred two shots at him, and his escape
is represented as exceeding ly narrow
The only object Of the assassin was said
to bo private personal revenge.
Lord John Russell had returned to
London from Vienna, and the French
Minister Drouyn L'huys TO Paris.
The British budget passed both Hous'
es of Parliament.
The King Of Prussia is i'll Of fever.
Lord Raglan, in an official dispatch
admits that the bombardment Of the Al.
lies has not produced the expected
result.
The number Of the Allies killed and
wounded is not Large.
The impression in England was be-
coming quite general, that the siege
would be abandoned for the present, and
that tho whole Of the defences OF Ka
'meisch and Balaklava would be left to
! the defense Of few corps, while the
main portion Of the Allies would try and
penetrate inte the interior, and attemp
10 cut off the supplies from SevastopoI
and then completely invest the city
i Numerous rein(orcements Of the Allie
were continually arriving.
| The French reserve OF eighty thou
sand we're near Constantinople, ant
we're expecting to be sent to Balak!aya ',
4 The Russian official accounts OF tn
progress Of the siege are to the 25th.-
| 1t says the damage sustained had no
been heavy, and had been repaired wit
promptness and facility, while the ski
mishers were generally successful. In
loss sustained by the garrison from tn
t l1th TO the 18th April, we're seven sub
alters, and four hundred and fifty.si
men killed, and six superiors, thirty.fo
subaltern officers, and eighteen hundre
I. and ninety.nine men wounded.
t On the night Of the l7,h the Ensls
, captured the first Russian rifle pit after
, desperate encounter, in which Col. Gra
ham Egerton, the field officer in com
(, mand, was killed. On the Goth, a
+, attack was made on the second Russia
rife pit, and it was almost immediatel
abandoned.
According to the statement Of tw
Polish deserters, one hundred thousan
Russian forces were in the vicinity
Savastopol, sixty thousand Of whom ha
! arrived from the forts al the north sid
Of the harbor, and had taken part in th
=. cannonade, carrying the balls clear ir
J, to the enemies lines. The telegrap
$ lines from London TO the Crimea wei
:, completed, except small portion ov'
=. the Danube, and dispatches were bein
= received every four hours by the goverr
I. ment, but few Of them were made publ
!. though questions in regard to the natu
IT OF the adviccs we're being duly asked
Parliament, but tho ministers declare