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fcfljlaS I SiE BY JAMES GARDNER. FOREIGN NEWS. Additions’, per Atlantic. 7','re Nregrr/ S-fiesLyeZ—27re 11 .'u.'e Jore 'c B'oi.--*: k,i t>y L'lt British— Quarantine Fort silenced by 1 (6< trench. Some impression has at length been made on i tue besieged fortress—how much, miy be learn tl from the following dispatches The Paris Moniteur publishes a letter from | Varna,dated Oct. 21, and says: ■■ That the tire of the allies' land batterie- was ’ opened at 14 o’clock on the Ist against Sebas- ; topoi. At the same time the allied fleets attack- | ed the I’otts at the entrance of the port, the En- ‘ g'isii those at the left, and the French those on | trie right. The English blew up the outer for- . tific .Cions on the left, ( Ins is supposed to mean the White Tower,) while the French silenced! the Quarantine Fort on the light. “Visiisa. Oct. 28. Lord Westmoreland re- i cetv: d a dispatcli r esterday, according to which lr.e guns ot the two forts at tne entrance to the Lun bor of Sebastopol were dismounted :>y the ar- ■ tillery of the allied fleets. The allies had about , 105 men w< traded, and one-tnird of that number : killed.” Vienna. Sunday, Oct. 29 —The Fremden Blatt (-tews-;>aper) yeatetday received news nt i •let 19tu from the Cri t ea. It was said that i the ships discontinued the bobardnaeut, because the battery and Q laiantine fori, at which they : iired, were silenced. The loss on the part ot ti e ' allies was nearly 90. From the camp ueb re Sebastopol, October 19. it is s nd: re silence the Quarantine bat'ery, at I continue their at-' tae'e aga:n«‘ Fort Alexander, an I the loop-holed a'.: 1 that defends 1 r-e ‘own of Sebastopol on the south-western side. It was not. without lore that the allied rqnadror s assisted in this com bined and concentrated attack; they lost alto gether one hundred killed <»... two ■ i--'l woui ii An ai l-de-Camp ol the French Admiral was stiuck by a shell or. the decK-of the Vi!!.; de Pans, the fligstp. The A pitrremnon, bearing the flag of Sir li imor d L;. ous. had suffered sverely, an I tire IWiiiU tion. Captai ' Drummond, hr. i dig »’■..» away. O: trie casualties on lan : we Live ■> account, out the Russians confess t ■ live hundte . killed, isclu ling Admiral Korn tie 3" It wilt be see.', i.om the above that tl.ss r suc cessive iep:i .... refer to the assault et which we had the Russian statement, per last steamer, item Etiiope. Summing up these dispatches, the London I'.mes says, editorially: "vVe are stiil without the means of adding any fart of importance to the intellige ce previously ,rom the seat ot war. The dispatch forwarded by Lord Westmoreland on the 27th had been six days on the road from Varna to Vienna, end it conveys a very incomplete notion ot the opera tic: s which commenced on the 17th. Some ships of the French and English squadions, in cluding Admiral Hamelin’s flag ship, the Ville de Paris and Admiral Lyon’s flag-ship, Agamem non, undoubtedly took part in that first attack, and the combined squadrons lost about three hun dred men in killed and wounded: but we are left t» conjecture t and real effect of this engagement. Unfortunately, the official tele graphic despatches, on which alone reliance can be placed, are so unskillfully framed, that they rather increase than diminish the uncertainty under which we ialrer. and we must wait lor the arrival of our own correspondence and dispatch es ” Private information leads us to suppose tlrat the “qijerantine battery,” leported to have b-ea destroy.rd by the French, was an earth-work .» ?-re R ■■ st': ■> I ■ i thew s.re.i wire a.u wing effect m the French j tr chef. Rt-sivs say Tile r :.r> Draw, u Donh— i *i i Ku-srau embassy at Vienna bat received a dispatch dated from Czennwitz, morning of 28‘.h October, stating tuat the bombardment of .Se bastopol had been carried on vigorously to the 20.1 i. but w.tho-t much damage to the defend s: A so from O 1 s-a, Oct. 25, s.iyii g: “fr.e bombardment ol Sebastcqiol was con tinued up to the 23d, but nothing decisive had occurred.” The Russian official statement reads thus: ‘Sr. Pe<eksbi;ho, Oct. 20.—Prince Menschi keff writes under date of the night ot the 20th. *We ret-uin the fire ol the-enemy with succes Ire damage cvi, 3 . to the foitification is trifling. The fire from to..- enemy’s ships has not beu.i len-wrd. A part of our revive has arrived ri 1 t -i remain-- ra expect’d. A Brkach Effected.—-The Paris Moniteur the 3'.' .< confirms previous intelligence, by aa*. A letter from Varna informs us that a Frencti steamer wr.icli lei- the Ciimea on the 21st, eou fn ns ' i news respecting the destiuctirm of the two outer forts ot Sebast pul. Moreover the land batteries have made a breach. The allied armies were only waiting lor the opening of a sci'Ob'i Breach, in order to nuke the assault.” biccf.ssfcl Sortie of rnr. Russians. —Ac- cording to a Russian official despatch published in the Kreuz Zeitung, dated St. Petersburg, Oct. 28, the seige continued uninterruptedly up to the 23d, the fortifications had suffered but little. The attack from the sea had not been renewed. The Russians had made a successful sortie, and a bat tery of eleven guns and eight mortars had been destroyed. Lord Clanricaide’s son. Lord Dun keliin. was taken prisoner. The Czar sends his Sons to the War.— | Michael and Nicholas, youngest w ns of the Czar, arrived at. Odessa on the 15th. Thence they would proceed, in course ot a day or two, to Kaischeuoff, Prince Gortschakoff’s headqi arters, rn order to take active service in the aimy.— Previous totheir leaving St. Petersburg, a solemn religious seivice was fiel I in presence oi 3*a,000 of the army ; the Czar, bis sons, and the troops knelt on the field arid invoked the blessings of Heaven on their arms. Alexander is at War-| saw with the guards, and Constantine is the only eon now remaining with the Czar. The Baltk . Mostcf the French ships have reached hbme. The British are yet cruising ■ .about. . I Ostentatious jvrepata’ions are being made in , England lor the seige ot Cronstadt. which, it is stated, will be the first act of the Spring cam-, e'a:'’n. The British war department has order- ; Zd tne construction ot 129 gunboats; carrying, each two heavy guns, and of 40 11 rating batte- i t,f» carrying each 79 guns—total 2,800 guns—to I w : sdy by tne opening of r.avigation in the : Uprii •; Th" Fienci are iikt i.e making pre- | jraraimn*. , There is r;i * no; -. 1 ' r ; k.lrn, lb.l*. the B.- t"-fl--:, will next Spring I, ■ I »ader the command ot Sir Edmuu J Lyons. I |.’a > r H sick—unable so leave b.-i'.ip. Tan iJAy’ rr. 'relat.r. letters of the 15thsay, t’. Fr-- r ‘ the ■* tne force has incieas- j »i r rar Tult’sba, and a portion of it has crossed j the Danube to the right bank. The Turks that were a‘ Puiteba have fallen back on Babadagh; endtbosenear Matechin have crossed the nver m aonsiderable force, and have entered the Du bruuseba Tney say that all the Russians mean by this manoeuvre is to force the Turks to leave toe Pruthand the Lower Danube. Merischikoff’s carriage, taken aft< r the battle of Alma, ill on public exhibition it Constantino pie eta trophy, end, it seem«. is the identical ve faicie in which hedrove through the city during ins insolent embassy of Ja-t year i bis h what Kiners n wou'd cal! “compense. i. >i AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1854. One hundred thousand pair oi wooden sheet* ! are to be shipped from Lyons for the . Frtlnch army. Ships continue to load cargoes of linseed at the , B ack Sea ports. At Revel, and elsewhere in the Baltic, the . b ockade is considered as removed by the depar- . tore of the fleets. Russian Defeat in Asia. — According t a letter in-the Paris Moniteur, dated Mossul. Sept ; 25, the Musbir of Van had attacked the Russian ! corps which covered Gumri. and completely dis- i peised it, with the loss of its tents, baggage and i ammunition, and 30 guns ARu siau General ' was killed. The Turks then began to besiege i the citadel, when the Russian corps which had i i formerly beaten the Turks at Bayazid advanced 'to the rescue from Erivan. It was, however., ' completely repulsed and shut up in a defile, | i where it suffered eonsideiable loss. Action of the German Sta ins.—Advices ] j from Vienna continue to express confidence that ; : the Germanic States will take pait with Aus- : tria. It is noticed, as an indication of how the' ; wind blows, that the Berlin New-Piussian Ga- i • ze‘te has been ordered, under threat of confisca j tioa, to cease its attacks on the French Govern ' m-nt. Rumors are again very current in Vienna that J a Bavarian a: my u ill occupy the Austro-ltalian , Provinces, tor the purpose ui enabling Austria to ; have her whole force available in case of hostili : ties with Russia. [Frcwi London Tinies, October 3!.| P?ogress of Attack at Sevastopol.—The . latest telegraphic intelligence winch has been re -1 ceived by the French and English Governments i r dated from the Crimea on the 20th inst. At that time the siege was going on favorably , the bombardment from the trenches bi the besieging ' armies had been resumed on the 19’h with ef fect; but the enemy is not reported to h>*ve sus -1 tained the loss of any e*s sb ial pait o: the fvr- ■ From the moment that it was clearlya*- | cer*aired that Sevastopol could rot be reduced, I even from the south side and by land, without the eperations of a regular siege, there is no rea son to fee! surprise at the jength of these pro i' ceedings. It is peuectly true that we had been ! fed. in common with all chief military aut’iori ! ties, to anticipate an easier termination of this gr* - ..’ ‘‘n’erprise, when once the place should be ! invested on the south. Fhe bills above the town i were supposed to command the most important positions, and the accounts of the most recent travellers. well as the careful survey*- uitdrr- ■ taken by officers of nur own H-er, bad failed to ; dixovrt ait the resources which the Russians had ' prepared for resistance. Every fortified town ! has its weak points as well as its strong ones; i but. in the present instance, the jealous and se cret policy oi the Russian Government had to a | great extent succeeded in withholding from our generals a full knowledge ot the place they were a uout to attack. For instance, it has been found that the deep and broad ravines which extended down to the harbor arid the dock yard in front of the British j lines not only increase the difficulty of driving our approaches and parallels within a short range ol the walls, but also present serious obstacles to an assault in that quarter. Hence the principal ' reliance of the right attack lies in the facility we have acquired fb*r shelling the town w ith our ; heavy guns, while the attack on the garrison and | the forts is brought more nearly home on the other side. The Frenc > were enabled to open • their first parallel nearly three hundred yard* i nearer to the town than our advanced lines, and I below the stony surface they found a layer oi ; clay serviceable for the purpo e of entrenchments. rheir position is therefore m >e favorable tor ! rin urposes ot an assault than that of the Brit ! isb a my; and it will probably be found that . to the east, the decisive attack will l>e‘ Le t gun tin tr. 4 western extieirn yof the lines G’ .u ■ C *nrohert has succeeded, with the assistance : • of the French navy, in erecring a strong redoubt ; on the extreme left of the position, which has • been armed with no less than five batteries, i mounting in all 56 guns. Many of these pie ces are of the largest calibre, and have been ta ken out o! ships ot the line for the purpose.— This work has the double advantage ot afford ing an effectual shelter to the French army, in the event ot a strong *o tie of the garrison, whi'e, on the other hand,some of these batteries ; are so placed as to command the western forts and outworks ot Sevastopol It Was, no doubt, j against this work that the scitie of the garrison jv. . s directed which is menfisned by Prince Menscbikuff*. in his dispatch ol the 23 I, bit we '■ must wait for a better authority than that ot the I Russian Commander in Chiei before we credit the assertion that eleven Fiench mortars and [eight guns ware spi .e.f by the Rutsrans on this On the Russian forts, which are situated near- I est to the sea, the maratime attack on the 17tb of October was made, and apparently with suc . cess; but we still await, with extreme interest, , the particulars <u this '•ugngemre.t, which is the ■ first great feat of arms performed by the Black ‘ Sea fleet. Without forcing tins line oi sunken i vessels and the double Doom which obstruct the j entrance ot the harbor, there is no doubt that our vessels could come in sufficiently near to the | Fort Constantine on the north side, and to the | Quarantine Foit on the other, to test the walls 'of those works by a very severe lire. The Mon iteur states, and the same intelligence is trans ‘ mitted in several forms from Vienna, that the : north battery was destroy ed by the fire of the English ships, and the south battery silenced by that ot the French. Thia termination ot the | attack would account for the fact • l :wt it was not i resumed on tire following day, an we may sup j pose that the ships had acclomplish"d all they ; could undretake at that moment, without forcing i the entrance of the port. Admiral Lyons and the Agamemnon were, as we had confidently : anticipated, in their pluce on this occasion; and i the Retribution, under the command of Capt. j Drummond, has on this, as on all oth- I er occasions, shown her aptitude for every des | cription of service. We have reason to believe , that seven ships of the allied squadron took part j in this attack ; the French Admiral’s ship, the Ville de Paris was one of them, and we trust j that Admiral Dundas was equally zealous in de | lence of the honor of his flag. The Public allusion which the Emperor Louis | Napoleon has recently made, in his letter of con- I dolence to Madame De St. Arnaud, to the “tirn- I id counsels” which at one time threatened to j suspend the great enterprise in which we are ; now engaged, removes in some degree that tv | serve which had hitherto been maintained on I tnts delicate subject. We cannot doubt that, i -ooner or fatter, the facts will be entirely ascer | taiued and generally known, and that every one i <: i.eerned m these memorable events will go |do wn to h stoiy with his appropriate badge ol |< a itio.i or ol valor. Bu , since this taunt has Or-en thrown out by no less a personage than the I Emperor of tae French, an I it may fora time j appear to reflect on the gallantry and well de- I deserved honors of the leaders ol this expedition, , we hasten to add that no one acquainted with the facta can for an instant insinuate that the slighest want of resolution was at any moment discernable in the conduct of Lord Raglan or of Admiral Lyons, of General Canrobert, or of Ad miral Bruat. Throughout the whole course ol the campaign the conductor these eminent com manders has been in every respect worthy ol their position and ol the flags under which they reive, and the progr<-‘;> of tne enterprise fa un queßtionai ly due t<> ifreir eneigy. 11 othere fal tered under the weight oi responsibility or the magnitude of the craped .'icK', we believe thatrhey acted up to the measure ot their judgement and i capacity. j No one knows better than the Emperor ofthe ; Fiench that it was his own Cabinet, and among : ; his own military advisers, that the expedition to ! i the Crimea had to encounter the largest amount j !of opposition and adverse’ criticism; lor it was i mainly in consequence of tbe confident and un ' ’ending resolution ot Louis Na pole? n himself l that these objections were overcome, ar.d the, | propos'd to operate against the stronghold of ' Russia at Sebastopol carried into etlect. We think the firmness displayed by the Emperor on ! 1 this pointdoesthe highest honor to his judgment ; I and his courage, and we have never ceased to I i give our strenuous support to the same opinion ; i ! but it is not less important that the brave men ’ : who have most powerfully contributed to con j duct this vast expedition to the walls of Sebasto pol, and who will shortly, wetrust, reap the gio- : ! lious reward of their exertions, should not be . ; confounded with those whose “tiruid counsels” i ' might have postponed the attack. i I From the. Paris Journal des Debuts, Oct 29 | Trench Accounts of the Latest News. Our positive iotr.illgeiice f.u:n Sebwtopo! ( comes down to the 14th inst., and is of a most ' satisfactory nature. If the obstacles are great, : the means employed to cvercorne them are more ■ than adequate to their removal. The fortifica tions of the Russians aie st onger than was al ' first supposed. The French opened the treuciies on the 10th. bj’ establishing their first parallel at : the distance of between SOO and 900 yards from j the walls oi the place. The work was very I diffici t, owing to the stony ground andjhe rocks 1 which were met with at every step, but with : perseverance and good will our soldiers overcame every difficulty. Pi ince Meuscbikofl’sdespa’cr.- j es slate that the fire was opened on the 17th, ; and teat it continued up to the 20th. The tie ! sieging batteries were constructed near tne firs: i parallel, on the extreme right and the ex'renie I left. It does not appear that the centre was to : be directly i.ttacked, the two extremities being in reality the impc.i.u.t points, either for the at ’ tack or the defence. The besieging army, n. prostcutiiig the works, intended to defend th ‘ tioops against the soities ol an enemy sufH-.i. nt ' ly numerous to effect them wish an overwhelm : ing force. It to provide against an event j ot that nature that General Canrobert ordered t: e construction of a great line, presenting a 1 trout with bastiaus, armed with 56 guns, diviiie-J ; into five batteries. That fo'tification, erected , on a dominating point on the left of our attack, > has the double advantage of protecting the I troops if necessary, at the same time that i s ; battnies may co-opeiate with the others in de- I strovirig the external defences of the enemy. ! On tne same side the navy has constructed a \ I’atteiy intended to enfilade the Quarantine . | Foit, the form of which is that of a star, and which is defended by a smaller fort, erected a , little higher up on a rock. The establishment ol that battery was recommended by Adrniial Bruat, after the perilous reconnoissauce he effec ted along the coast at the he-d ofthe crew ot the Roland. The destruction of the batteries of the Quarantine would be an important advantage, as the port of that name would be in some measure I opened to us. lathe meantime, the battery of i Admiral Bruat, aimed with heavy guns from - the fleet, manned by excellent gunners, will bat ter the tbits and other defences ol the enemy opposite tn u= on the left. At the right extre mity. the English were only able to open the ' Benches at a distance ol 1200 yards, on account j ofthe nature of the ground, and because they had ‘ before them considerable fortifications, which 1 covered the great ravine of the harbor and subuib :of Karabiuaid. Ou the whole the si< g" wiill o ’liflieult and I'lot i,.»j- Outlet' . .. u .r p.i g|,J the [ re!:..-u-ry we-r- Bn ft uen the troops shall be iod. 1 u fly ?e- ■ Coad parallel, where o.h-r >..<ttt u. <1 be con- I stiucted at a distance of 300 o, -100 yards, ;he i energy ofthe means of attack will become more i formidable. A third and last phasis will then ! remain—the attack close to the biink ol the di'ch I —and at that point the attack will become over- I whelming and altogether irresistible. : Great Britain.—We have nothing to relate beyond a lew scraps of news The grand conceit in the Sydenham Crystal j I Palace, in aid ot the fund for the wounded, bad | passed off with eclat. Napoleon 11 Id’s favorite band of the regiment of Guides was the main I attraction of the piogramme. The loss by the recent fire in Molyneux’s | warehouses, Liverpool, is set down at nearly ■ .£200.000 sterling. Admiial Arthui is dead, aged 75. I e entered the navy in 1788 as captain’s servant. : A n auti-Mormon society has been organized I in Dublin. Dining the performance of worship in the -South Parish Chapel, Cork, a ciy aro->e that the I gallery was falling. A rush w..s made for the . door, am! twenty-eight persons were badly ir jn i ed by being trampled upon. i Reinforcements to the number of 4,000 were I to be sent Irom England within a week, (Oct. | 30.) to make up for the ca-.ualtins ol the cam paign. Thisagain br’ugs up the British contin ; gent to ti e strength originally sent out—namely: I 30,000 infantry, with the usual proportion of cavalry and artillery. “Without” (says the Lon I don Observer) “being too much disposed to take ' a gloomy view of the subject, it is impossible to ! deny that great casualities must have taken place I in an army of little more than 30,000 —from war ! and pestilence—to require to be recruited by | 4,000 men to fill up the deficiencies caused in the ranks. So it is, however.” The regiments lately ' arrived from Canada muster no more than 500 to I GOO men, and must be recruited during the Win l ter so as to be ready by Spring. The bounty on I enlistment is now £6 sterlingpe. cavalry soldier, j and .£G 15s. steiling for infantry, and the stan- I ard ot size is reduced on inch'. Lord John Russell had been entertained at a j banquet by the city of Bristol. In his afeer- I dinner speech he gave a detail of the various I steps that have been taken in the war, and con j eluded by saying—“lt is no use, at present, to I speak of peace, until, in the course ot war, we: I have the means of a peace which will be safe I I and lasting.” Among the nurses sent out with Miss Night- I ■ ingale to the hospital at Scutari are the Hon Miss I I Erskine, and other ladies of high social position. I A letter to the Times finds fault with the j Emperor Napoleon’s expression in his letter ol I condolence to Madame St. Arnaud, that “St. ; Arnaid in spite of timid counsels,” &<■. “Timid I counsels,” the wliter urges, can only apply to the | counsels given by th" British Admirals or Gen- i erals. and i e calls on the British Government to ' demand an explanation. » Spain.—G< n. Garcia Carnba is appointed Cap- j tain General of Poito Rico, in place of Gem Niz igaray. It is said that the King ol Naples offered Queen Christina an asylum in nis dominions, and that 1 lie refused, on account of the position occupied by Count Montemolin at the Court ol Naples. China. —Pbocibf.ss of the Insubection. — By the mail Irom Hong Kong, Sept. 11, at Lon don, we learn that Canton is still held by the Imperialists, but constant fighting had been going on with varying success. It was thought, how ever, that the Imperialists might bo able to re tain the city. Fastan was yet in the bands of the insurgents. The province was wholly in fested with banditti, acting in separate bodies, and interrupting all internal trade and inter course. Attempts were made by the tcameH to open communication withabipj ing-plr cison the riv r, but without success, as ther - we eso many different j.arti' sto treat with, end aficr al! no i i ret.!- seQlirity. and consequently there had Bfen ;no oegii arrivals ot tea. The river was full of ' ..iri.tes and some of the forts were in the hands ; ofi’.i" insurgents'. Trade in imports was com- ‘ nletelya st.z*d still. f’uim Sl.ui . . dates are to the 26 th August, ; : at which time fee insurgents had lull possession ot fbe city; there was activity in the export 'true. Ningpo, August 28, was all quiet. At I T, rhow-foo, the export of Teas was acctively g< !■ forward, and several ships awaiting cargos. Th, .« was no appearance of troub'e in the in- 5 t en r. Teas were advancing in price, and the crip wa ; not so abundant as at one time it was reported to be. At Amoy, all was quiet, and at l Narcos affairs w re calming, as two of the rebel ’ chiefs had lerently died. It was understood that iirr'.l' • iipotenliuiies ot the three Powers would ! set >m: immediately lor Pekin. It. was alsore- I pn: h d that an attempt would be made to open ; up 1 urde on the Van-tse-Kiang and at Nankin IWi l mined force. On 25th August, the . li, sfi Admiral Stilling was at Woosung, with !st . nar Encounter and Bairacoutra, intending ;tc pi'icsed to Japan. The Russian squadron had jbt at Qaelpaert, but had sailed north. Com- In.: re I'.T-y was passenger to Southampton in ffn- i! steamer. The clipper ship Comet had , ai ived tioi.i Liverpool at Hong Kong, in 85 j i : A-"?’- I Details by the Asia | r . r.n the second cdiiiju of the Dindon Timm ' r :i;: OajiiiA.—OurConstiritinoplecorrespon- , ■ di'i.t H. graphs on the 20tb October, via Mar- 1 si!j l, ‘‘’ ’ ■i ‘ Ba'.aklava, Oct. 17.—We opened lire this . i,' . ■ ig w’.tii the 71 English and 46 French i I guns, ■ zaiwsi'l3o Russian. At 8 40, a French -. ggazfiie -ixpi.-ded. At 10 45; the fire was re ar.v-J At 12 45, the French ships engaged the . se- ‘ lis. « n i the Agamemnon, the Retribution . a: d tee Britannia. At 1 25, another Fiench .-ag r.'iui blew up. At J 40, a trein -la! n.-. ex . ; u: icok p ace in S -va ; t..|.iil. At 2 55. the , ’'i.jg- ■ . -tue Rus.-iau recenbt blew up: tti" ~R <: ins, however, returne-1 to their guts. At . 5 57. the si ips filed on FortCo: s a-■ 0..- at.-!:<.r‘ , i iri'gt : th? fire was kept up until (5 o’clock, and . '.< at damage to the Russiar .. ' 8..1 : '..ava, October 18.—The Russians have . i .I'i.iiitt-d their guns, which are much heavier t 'I-1 ■ ms. Our loss yesteiday was 96. The j | i’Z. .tuition and London both caught fire, and , 3-vo !:i<! tbeii mainmasts carried aw ay. Tiieie i i d-iiibh end round tower keep up a brisk fire. — I■ V i.> t our munitions up with ilifficiiJty. Moi.-P- jr el to-day (Friday) says.that - < ■’ C.p:roberl’s report of the 23d siatesmat the a'.' x continued w:tr tit any remarkable inci- . ‘ d i- , and that the allies were full of confidence .as o t.ie result. 4 ■ -’. ’ording to further accounts from Sevastopol - t. Je2sth, sume English engineeis employed in ' \ 8 vastopo! bad made their escape, and reported i I town filled with the dead, left unburied, and t ’’o-' provisions were becoming very scarce. The I ; upi -.i woiks ol Foil' Constantine bad been com . | pbjtely destroyed and two ships ofthe line sunk. . 1 The Russian Accounts of the Siege—ln . the Invalide Rasse, ofthe 23d ult., was published 5 t'.e : ifowing abstract ot a despatch dated the . i , (3d,0. 5..) from Prince Menscliikoff’s aid- ; de- amp:—"The enemy’s troops, on the south , : of Sevastopol, have begun tbeir siege operations, . j o'.i ; rha trenches of the English opened at two • idit.’erent points, both at a considerable d stance | . n our fortifications, by means of fascines and . sr iib.:gs, wifoathey have brougiit with them. I ad -nee very slow ly. I -'very day the greater part of their works is i i '• .toyed by the well directed lire of our aitil > ' ' from the ramparts, so that up to the present ■ ! ir : 'he" h»v- -lot cumr-e-ted a single battery. ■ Y ■ them yni.t.rJia'iy.* i i aiimiion to this a ■ ..-.j-icnt-..rour army, have teen mo--ed tor ' ward to the village cl Tcnorgoun, on >he little friv ;i Tchernaya. with a view to cut off the wa- J ter of the enemy, and at trie same time threaten I his communication with Balaklava. From among I the troops which have arrived byway of Perecop to reinforce Prince Merischikoff, the reserve di- , vision of lancers, commanded by Lieutenant- General De Koiff, lias been moved upon Eup.t --; toiia, to observe the garrison left by the enemy j in that town. j On the 30th September (12th October,) at the i approach of our advanced guard, masses ot Arab i and Tartar horsemen issued from the town, and opened a fire of musketry upon them; but the I moving up a lew squadrons to the support ofthe I advanced guard was sufficient to overthrow the i eneiny and diive him back witu loss to the town. ; Ou this occasion Major General Viadislevlevitch, ' in command ot toe second brigade, was wounded by a musket ball in the leg; tins is the only loss Iw - have sustained. The enemy’s troops, en trenAed ill the tow n of Eupatoria, are now com I pletely blockaded on the land side, and effectual- I [ ly prevented Horn obtaining cattle and provi- I sions among the Tartars of the neighborhood.— j With the exception of some skirmishes of the I outposts, nothing else has occurred in the Crimea ; up to the 34 (15tb) of October.” Th# Journal de St. Petersburg contains two I reports from Menschikoff to the Emperor Nich j oias. giving details of the operations below Se- i ( vastopol on the 17th and 18tb. j The first asserts that at nightfall on the 17th, ‘ ! the first day ot the oombardment. the English ] ■! had only two gunsable to return the Russian ! I fire, while the Russian had a few dismounted. I j At noon on the same day, fourteen vessels of the j | allied fleet attacked Sebastopol by sea, directing I . their fire against Fort Constantine and battery I No. 10. The shortness of the time and the 1 I smoke rendered it impossible to furnish complete ■ details ot the loss on either side, but the Russian | cause had sustained a severe loss in the death ot i Admiral Korniloll', whose leg had been carried ' off by a round shot, and who died on the spot. The second report, dated the 18th, says that, I though the allied fire was astonishing by its i power and noise, it had not done so much harm ias might have been expected. The Alexander; i battery and battery No. 10 had notsulferd much; ; but the Constantine battery had been greatly . I injured. On the land side none of the Russian ■ I batterries bad suffered, except No. 3, in which I nearly all the pieces, 33 in number, had been ; dismounted. The Russian loss was estimated at ; 500 killed and wounded—among the latter Ad miral Nacliitnoff, very slightly. During the night ol the 18th the Russians were busily engaged in repairing the damage done to their defenses. I On the 18th the English fire was less active I than on the day before, and the French had j hardly fired at all. Piince Menschikoff attributes - tf.r. to diversions made without the walls bj I Gem "emiakiue, who appeared in the enemy’s rear, and thus diverted heir attention from Se b.i itopol. I I'he vessels which had taken pint in the born buidment on the 17th, aud which Prince Mens ch: koff believed to be al! French, bad gone away in the direction ol Cape Chersonese. The srnoke on the 17th and a thick log on the 18th, had rendred it impossible for Prince Menschikoff to state the enemy’s loss; but he says it would seem that one ship of the line had been seriously damaged, and two steamers set on fire by red-hot shot. Vienna, Thursday.— By Electric Telegraph.— I he Austrian troops are moving from Ibiail to Galatz, whereas the gross of the Turkish forces are at Ibrail, whence they will attack Tulrscba and Jsatscka. under Achmet Pasha, by inarch ing via Matschin. IJI.RI.IN, Nov. 2—A lursian note is said to , bn arrived ben- in wbiciilhe E nperor Nicho las states that even after the fall ol Sebastopol he VOL. 33--NEW SERIES--VOL.—9 -NO. 40. will not in the least deviate from his demand on Turkey. Warsaw, October 25.—Four regiments of the troops stationed at Kielce were ordered to march with their artillery on the frontiers of Galicia and of Cracow. Warsaw, Oct. 27.—The onward march of the Guards has not been countermanded, as was re ■ potted bv the German press. It is true a few regiments only are to remain here, but for no other reason than because Poland has no room I for more soldiers. The bulk of the Guards will! take quarters at Grodno and Bialystock, and in j Volhynia. The Press on the War.—The Manchester Guardian ot the 4th thus comments on the Rus sian reports of their alleged victories in their sor tie. against the allies: The Siege of Sebastopol.—Some excite ment, and perhaps a little alarm, were created on Wednesday by the arrival of a telegraphic message from Vienna, purporting to con’ain the substance of a Russian official despatch from Se bastopol, giving an account of some advantages alleged to have been obtained over the English troops engaged in the siege of thatcity. Ou this message there were two versions, the first alle ging that the Russian general, Liprandi, had at- I tacked the English camp at Inkerman, had taken j five redoubts defending it, and captured eleven | guns; and that, at the same time, the English light cavalry, under the command of the Earl of Cardigan, had been attacked by the Russians and nearly destroyed; the eaii himself escaping with difficulty. As the English camp was certainly not at or near Inkerman, but on the other side ot the river Tohernaya, there was good reason to doubt the authenticity of the message ; and the appearance ofthe second announcement, giving the real of ficial account, showed to what an extent the in genuity of Viennese news writers is; exercised in the embellishment o’, the accounts that pass through their bands. The following is the nar row foundation on which the great superstructure of di'tiiil- I : been erected : ” St. Pf.tkrsbukg, Oct. 31. A report of Pr'i- e Me schikofl’s dated October 25th, states 'l et Ger:. L’pran-fi had attacked on the 25’h a I drt.-.cbed camp ol the English, anil is reported to I have taken four redoubts which defended the I earnp.. At tbg same time, an attack ot cavalry i is said to have caused a sensible loss to the Eng lish light cavalry.” How much loss may be sufficient to justify a Russian commander in calling it “sensible,” we are unable to say, hut we know very weii tha*, in a previous despatch. Prince Menschikoff made great parade ol the important fact of having sur prised and captured a cavalry picquet of three men ! What was the result ofthe attack on th.. English cavalry beyond the “sensible less” is not explained ; whether a Russian victory or a Russian defeat, is left altogether in the dark. Che English loss on the heights of the Alatna was certainly “sensible” enough ; but the Rus sians had nothing to boast of in the results of that affair, where,according to their own account ; their less in killed and wounded was not less : than 4,500 men. j It is obvious enough that Piince Menschikoff wrote his despatch before he had ascertained the results of the attacks of which he was speaking; being most probably at some distance from the scene of operations. Another dispatch, dated a day later, “confirms,” it is said, “that ol.the 25th, announcing the check given to the English cav alry,’’ but saying nothing of the capture of the redoubts by Gen. Liprandi. which we may there ! fore conclude was not confirmed. We have yet l to learn, from some mire truswoithy soutce than ‘ a Russian dispatch, how much truth, if any, there I may have been in the reports which the prince I ’ t-Tp to voni.ueLCidi. ; Liverpool Prices Current of American I Produce —November, 3d, 1854.—Breadstuff's— ’ Indian Corn Meal per bbl.; of 106 Its., 17s 6d a 20s. Provisions. &c. —Beef—Mess per tierce of 304 lbs. 120 s a 1355, Prime "-less, 100.- a 130 s. Pcik Prime Mess. 45s a 82s 6d. Shoulders 22s a 21s. Bacon—Long middles, 34s a 40s. short do., 35, a -l')s. Cumberland cut. 36 a 40s, bulk, 30s a 32s Lard —Fin, in bb's. 54s 61., good, do .53 a 555. inferior and grease,34s 6d a 365. Tallow —Ordinary. 63s a 645. The deliveries ot home grown Wheat continue on a liberal scale, being 144 832 quarters this week, against 84,623 quarters in the correspond ing week of last year. Alter the late excite ment in the Corn trade, a reaction was to be expected, and this week the transactions have been on a very moderate scale, and sales have only been effected at a decline of 2s per bbl. on Flour, 3d per bushel on Wheat, a id 2s per qmr- ■ ter on Indian Corn. At Mark Lane,and neu-ly ■ all the markets in the interior, prices have given i way 2s to 3s per quarter. I At to day’s market there was rather more 1 steadiness on the part of holders, and the down j ward movement was arre ted. The quotations | ale —Philadelphia and Baltimore flour 40s to4ls | per barrel ; white wheat, Ils 6.1 to 12s 9d ; red, . 10s 6.1 to lls 64 per 70 lbs ; mixed Indian coin, i llslo 42 ; yellow and white, 42s to 43s per 480 I lbs. • Cotton.—There Continues a fair demand from I th" trade and exporters, which is freely met by I holders, and the lower grades are difficult of sale, j even at a reduction, but middling qualities being ! most wanted, and scarce, are rather dearer. | Manchester accounts still gloomy. Richardson, Spence & Co. Latest—The Crimea—Attack by 30.000 Russians. Official. —Saturday, 12 45 A. M.—The fol lowing telegraphic dispatch has been received at the Foreign Office : Constantinople, Oct. 28.—The captain ot the Englishsteam transport which left Balakla va on the evening of the 25th confirms in a great part the information brought this morning by a French ship, and transmitted immediately to London via Marseilles. I It appears that the Russians attacked the forts lin the vicinity of Balaklava on the 25th. Their j numbers are supposed to have been about 30,000 men. The attack was unexpected. The Cossacks preceded the Infantry. To resist these at first there were Ottoman and Scotch trosps. The Turks gave way, and even spiked the guns, which, se zed by the Russians, were turn ed against them. The Scotch, on the contrary, remained firm in tbeir position. Other forces arrived, and the Russians were obliged to yield the ground, remaining, never theless, masters of two sorta, from which they fired upon our troops. I hree regimentsol English light cavalry, ex po«"<i to the cross fire o! the Russian batteries, suffered immensely. Th" French to >k part in the affair with admirable bravery. (In the next day tbeir position was attacked by a body of 8,000 Russians, as well ficm the side ot the town as from that of Balaklava.— I They repul ed the enemy with a great slaugh- I ter. The loss of the Russians must have been very great. It is affirmed that the fire of the batte ries of the town had much slackened, according to the report of the wounded officers, some of whom have arrived at Buyukdere. The belief continued that Sevastopol would soon be in the hands of the Allies. This is mere ly what has been gathered on the spot, from sev eral persons who are eye-witnesses o! what took place. Tire names of th" killrd and wounded nr? ie si’. ved for ti e official o< casion; am-ng tire nanren there in Hone of a general offreer. (3ign-d) ErAPROBD dk Rudcliffe.” Lord Dunkellin’s promotion us Captain ar.d Lieutenant Colonel in the Coldstream Guards, appears in the Gazette last evening. Settlement of the Soule Trouble with France. London, Nov. 3 1854 —8 I’. M. Special Despatch to the A i« York Herald. Jambs Gordon Benmtt Esq:—Dear 8tr — Don Piatt,Secretary of the L .. ~ d States Lega tion at Paris, has just come ovi r with despatches for Mr. Buchanan in relation to u sc-i>u l '"sv ofth" French government to ■ :ie .’ merfran Min ister to Spain. Louis N.ipoleo: , Sunday, invited Mr. Mason to a ; riv.r- .. . , ■ ■ ... : - Palace. luthe course oi <li<-cu . . . Mr. took occasion, with great firm-ie— *■,> |e' • s Ma jesty’ undeistand to the tml. the 'i.-asttons conse quences of a war with America, audthat he had no doubt on his mind as to the course which the American Minister to Paris should pursue in the premises. That he sheuld at once, without ; ro- \ per explanations were given by the French court, assume the whole responsibility of the c< nsequence, and ask for his passports. Louis Napoleon seemed as if ji|st awakened to the bear ing of American men and things upon Europea.. matters. He replied almo»t in the words ol tb-- article in the Constitutional, which you will have seen extensively republished in the Eng lish journals. Tiie excitement of the Americans in Euroj.e in regard to this affair had run so high as to at fect the prices of French stocks. As thegenei al impression was that Louis Napoleon w ould not recede, the London operators sold a large amount of French rentes. I he consequence in Paris v. as the fall o‘ stocks nearly one per cent. As such a tendency was particularly dangerous at this time, when the Emperor is in want of money, and the rev:., from Sevastopol so gloomy that the lesti'. ities at Compiegne are a second time postponed, be bad notime for hesitation or dignity Hh note to Mr. Mason, breathing a ’.til! more deprecatory tone than the Constitu'ioni el, was therefore commui.'c. 'ed is snlr.trt c * to the Palis Bcurse. I some hours before i*. was delivered formally to the Legation, in order to stop the alarming de cline ot funds. The note withdraws all objection to Mr. Soule’s free passage through irarne. Louts Naptileon moreover invites Mr. Soule to proceed through, the Empire on his way to Madrid. \ It is certain that the whde influence ol the ' British Ministry has been exerted, through IL id Clarendon, to produce the result I Tat has been attained. The French Govern i merit did not. anticipate so decided as that ta i Ici.-d by Mi. Mason; it was thought that he wouiG referthe matter to the government at Washing ton which was considered too feeble to do any thing. It is understood that George banders gives a dinner to Mr. Soule, previous to his departure, at which will meet the French republicans, Ledra Rollin, Louis Blanc, Victor Hugo and others. On his arrival at Paris, the American citizens there will invite him to a national banquet Thence he goes to Bayonne, and leaves for Spam in the United States steamer San Jacinto. It is said that Louis Napoleon has beer, so fu.- ly convinced, by the turn this affair has take, ot the impolicy of attempting to put a bridle on the wild Yankee nation, tnat he has resigned himself to a perfectly amiable behavior, at least until Sebastopol is really en prise. I From the New York Herald \sth inst.] The Latest Accounts from the New Era The office of Messrs. Duncan & Company was crowded from th', moment of open ng yes terday morning with the friends and relatives Ci the untbituna'-e p””? 1 ■ c-i board the wrcc.':c.l .j- *’• a- . . 11 .’ Ultiiuot cu *|>CllUCj, owing to the necessity oi replying to their scr rowlul inquiries for information. The following despatch was received by Messrs. Duncan:— Long Branch, Nov. 14, 7 A. M —One hun dred and thirty passengers were landed this morn | ing, and fifty dead bodies have been picked up. There are two tug boats here, but they cannot assist us any. A number of persons left the city in order to go down to Long Branch, to look alter their friends, ar.d find if they were alive or arnougs'. the dead. The poor people here by whom the passen gers were;expected are greatly excited. Captain Fountain, ol the steamtug Hector, has just arrived in the city, having left the wreck at nalt past nine this morning, up to which time the ship lay as before, full of water, the masts standing, and the sea making a steady breach over her. The ca;>tain, officers and crew, with the exception of the steward, were saved, and of the four hundred souls on board only ore hun dred and two are saved. They were taken off ami landed en the beach by the surf boats from the beach. Captain F. says there are a great number of dead bodies lashed to the rigging. The lighter schooner is at anchor near by. Letter from the Underwriters’ Agent. The following letter from the agent of tire insurers was received yesterday by Elwood Walter, Esq., the Secretary of the Board of Un derwriters : Deal, Nov. 14, 1854 —I arrived here last eve ning, and endeavored to board the ship, but could not succeeded, owing to the heavy surf. I oun 1 her lull of water, broadside on the b-i 'h. a.af the rigging full of passengers. She i« the New Era. oi Bath, from Bremen for New-Yoik. w ith 384 steerage and ten cabin passengers. Her cargo consisting of 600 tons of chalk, taken in at Liu don, and the balance of Bremen gon ’s. She >s principally insured in Boston About 140 ol tire passengers and crew are saved. I’hete were4l6 all told. Her decks and rigging are filled with the mutilated remains of the dead, presenting the most hurrying spectacle 1 ever witnessed. The inhabitants here are don g everything in their power for the survivors. 1 shall remain here with the Excelsior, to save sails, rigging and whatever is possible. She came on Saturday morning at 6 o'clock I’he captain mistook the soundings for Long Is land. He informs me he sounded at 5.30 A. M. in sixteen fathoms. The spars, with close reel topsails set. There is too much sea on to do anything at present. J. L. BOWNE, Barnum’s Book—The indications are that Barnum’s Autobiography, concerning which so much has been said of late, is likely to have a wider sale than any work ever published in this country. Having had lire privilege of looking over Mr. Redfields “order” book, we found that the orders from booksellers and travelling agents, called, up to yesterday (the 14th) afternoon, for th'.- • xti jordinary number of ninety odd thousand copies. I’he orders received by each mail are almost incredible—varying from 600 to 3,000, I verging more frequently upon the latter than the I former—and all this without the slightest pros pect ot abatement. Booksellers whose general orders for new books rarely exceed a half-dozen each, order this work in hundreds and fiv? hun dreds. Travelling agents seldom call for less than 100 copies, and frequently as high ire 1,000. Were it not for the extraordinary sale of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which,as we understand, reached a total sale of 312 000 copies, the foregoing (acts would be perfectly amaz ng —as it is, they ap pear comparatively astounding. Should theor ders continue lor the next two months in the same rati-i, as the publisher confidently ant-ci- I ->tea tire copyright of hin autobiography fi r tire Uui.’rel States alone, will net Barnum ove 5'0.'000 -f York Express