THE WAR.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIII, Issue 695, 23 December 1854, Page 2

THE WAR.

THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL.

[From the Melbourne Age, Dec. 7 ]

By the arrival of the Argo, bringing H.M. Mails, »\e have English news up to the 4th of October, together with the latest intelligence from the Seat of War, which is by far the most important which has come to hand. The taking of Sehasfopol is the most dis- - tinguishing feature of the intelligence, and of immense consequence to the final success cf the allied troops. We observe also ti.at 10.000 Russians were ! b.ried in the blowing up of Fort Constantine. Prince Mi'i.schikoff fled to Fort Alexander, where 1 8,000 Russians !■ shortly surrenclt.-red.

Times Office, October 4.

On the 23rd of September Fort Constantine was destroyed by the Allies, and Fort Alexander taken. * On the 24th, all the redoubts and forts around Sebastopol, and all the batteries of the arsenal, were in the hands of the Aliies. The flags o I the Allies were hoisted on tbe tower of the ( hnrvh of St. Viadimar. It is believed that the day on which Prince Menscliikoff surrendered at discretion was the 2(>th. It is said that the remainder of the Russian fleet is safe in the hands of the Allies. The Turkish army will at once cross the Danube into Bessarabia. This glorious intelligence is confirmed by way of Paris. A private telegraphic despatch states that at the end of the second battle gained by the Allies, they bombarded Fort Constantine, the Citadel, and the Fleet, all of which surrendered. The following telegraphic 'despatch has just been received, and confirms the (all of Sebastopol :— Bucharest, Sept. 30. "This day a courier arrived here from Constantinople, with despatches for Otner Pacha. '•Sebastopol is taken. 18,CT0 Russians have been killed, and 22,000 taken prisoners. Fort Constantine is*destroyed, and all the other forts have been successively taken, with 800 pieces of cannon. "Six Russian ships of the line have been sent to the bottom. Pnnre Menschikoif has retired into the second port, with all the other ships of the line, and has declared to the commanders of the allied troops that he will blow up the whole of these vessels rather than surrender. A delay of six hours has been given him for reflection, with a recommendation, in the name of humanity, to surrender. "One French and three Russian generals have arrived at Constantinople, wounded. " The city of Constantinople is to be illuminated for ten days in succession. M. de Hubner,the Austrian Minister in Paris, waited upon M. Drouyn de Llhuvs to-day, in the name of the Count de Buol,to offer his sincere congratulations on the success of the allied armies in the Crimea.