American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-05-24

iuS'.' hno from the OT!Inea W riday even
ing the 4tb inst. arrived at this port Al
balf.past s o'clock this evening. The
news by her from the seat Of war, though
not ofa decisive character. shighly inter.
esing.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
Advices from the Crimea were received
by telegraph up TO Friday evening. the
4th inst. and dispatches were beinS re.
ceived daily by the Government by this
means. but only small portion Of the news
there received was permitted to be made
public. the Government retaining the ex.
elusive use OF the lines.
The allies were gaining ground and had
taken most, if not all. the Russian out
works, together with large number Of
guns and mortars. The encounters had
been frequent and mostly sanguinary. A
large number of the Russians had been
taken prisoners. Notwithstanding these
advantages. the effects produced by the
bombardment were not of such charac
ter rs to justify an assault, and the bonn.
oardment Of the allies not having pro-
dueed the anticipated results. had sIacken.
ed off very decidedly. for the purpose, it
is stated, OF not exhausting the ammuni-
tion. There can be no doubt, whatever.
that the situation Of the allies was gener-
ally regarded as critical in the extreme.
Immense Russian forces are reported
concentrating in the vicinity Of Sevasiopo pol,
amounting it is admitted, to one hundred
thousand men.
A most determined attempt had been
made to assassinate Louis Napoleon, by An
Italian, while he was out riding. lie fired
two pistols at him, and his escape is rep
resented as exceedingly narrow. The only
object Of the assassin is said to be private
personal revenge.
Lord John Russell had returned to Lon
non from Vienna, and the French Minister
Drouynde pHuya. to Paris.
The British budget passed both Houses
of Parliament.
The King Of Prussia is i'll Of fever.
Lord Raglan IN an official dispatch ad-
mits that the bombardment of the Allies
had not produced the expected result
The number of the Allies killed and
wounded is not large.
The impression in England was becom-
ing quite general that the siege would be
abandoned for the present, and that the
whole of the defeuses of Kemnisch and
Balaklava 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 Savastopol and then completely in
vest the city. Numerous reinforcements
of the Allies were continually arriving
The French reserve Of eighty thousand
were near Constantinople, and were ex-
pccting to be sent to Baaklava.
The Russian official accounts Of the
progress of the siege are to the 24th.-
They say the damage sustained had not
been repaired with promptness and facii-
ty, while the skirmishes were generally
successful. The loss sustained by the gar
rison from the llth to the 18th April were
seven subalterns and four hundred and
fifty six men killed; and six superior, thir-
ty -four subaltern officers, and eighteen
hundred and ninety nine men wounded.
On the night of the 17th. the English
captured the first Russian Rife pit, after a
desperate encounter, in which Col. Gra-
ham Eserton, the field officer in command,
was killed.
On the 20th, an attack was made on the
second Russian rifle pit, and it was almost
Immediately abandoned.
According to the statement Of two Polish
Il h,,,, L.. 4 a.,
forces were in the vicinity of Sevastopol,
sixty thousand of whom had arrived from
the forts of the nor;h side of the harbor,
and had taken part in the cannonade, car
rying the balls clear into the enemies lines.
The telegraph lines from London to the
Crimea were completed, except small
portion over the Danube, and dispatches
were being received every four hours by
the Government, but few of them made
public, though questions in regard to the
nature Of the advices were being daily ask
ed in Parliament, but the Ministers declar-
ed that due discretion should be used in
regard to the publication of the news
Lord John Russell had again taken his seat
in the house, when he stated the substance
Of the negotiations and intima.ed that the
protocols should be submitted to Parlia-
ment.
On the night the first of May sharp
engagement occurred, the front and left of
the Russian rife pits were attacked and
taken, with eight light mortars and two
hundred prisoners. The affair is repre-
sentated as a most brilliant one for the
allies
On Wednesday night, the Cd inst, the
French under Gen. Pelisscor attacked the
advanced works of the quarantine bastion,
and carried them at the point of the bay
onet, taking twelve mortars, and estab.
fishing themselves in the position. The
following Thursday night the Russians
made sortie to regain the position, and
after asanguinary encounter were driven
back.
Lord Stradford de Radoriff returned to
Constantinopfe on the I'd inst.
Mehemet Ali has been recalled from ex-
lie.
The British Baltic feet had left Keil and
the French feet was about to sail from
Cherbourg.
An insurrection in Ukarine, in Russia,
had broken out, and twenty landed pro-
prietors with their wives and families, had
been destroyed.