Latest News of the War.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 55, 6 October 1855, Page 3

Latest News of the War.

Paris, Saturday, June 16. The following despatches were posted at the Bourse to-day : — " General Pelissier to the Minister of "War, June 7th, 10, p.m. To-day, with our allies, we opened fire against the external works, and to-morrow, please God, we will take them.

"June 7th, 11, p.m.

"At G#3o,G # 30, our signals for assault were given, and an hour afterwards our eagles floated over the Mammelon Vert, and over the redouhts of Careening Bay. The artillery of the enemy fell into our hands. We are said to have taken 400 prisoners. Our legions occupy the conquered works on their sides. Our allies, with their usual resolution, carried the works in the quarries and established themselves there. All the troops showed the most admirable devotion and intrepidity." War Department, 10th June, 18.3.5. Lord Panmure presents his compliments to the Secretary of the Electric Telegraph Company, and has great pleasure in transmitting the enclosed intelligence, dated Bth June, which has this day reached him :—: — " The success of last night was very complete, and the gallantry and steadiness of the troops cannot be too highly spoken of. The French succeeded in securing the works of the ; M*mmelon and those on its right, the ouvrages Manes, and in these they took (52 guns, in- | eluding 8 cohorns, and 4UO prisoners. " Nothing could be more brilliant than the advance of our allies. We have lost about 400 men in killed and wounded.

" I have just received intelligence of the continued success of Captain Lyons and Captain Sedarges in the Sea of Azov. Taganrog, Marianopol, and Genitchi, had been attacked, the public buildings and numerous magazines burued, and only one man wounded."

Prince Gortschakoff reports that the French loss up to the Bth June, after the two days' attack, was 2,500 killed and wounded, and the Russians made 2/5 men and 7 officers prisoners, and took two French cannons.

A letter from Kertsch, of May 28 th, states that the coal captured there has been sold by auction, and has produced a sum of £ 100,000 sterling, which is to be divided among the troops.

The Sim says, in the corn market it is stated that British merchants will suffer largely by the destruction in the Sea of Azov. One party had 40,000 quarters of wheat at Taganrog, purchased at 10s. a quarter, consequently there would have been an immense profit if the article could have been got away. The Military Gazette of Vienna, of the Bth, says — "The troops which left Astrakan last autumn for Boku arrived at their destination. General Mescheninoff commands them in the absence of General Perowski. It is said that this detachment of troops is intended to protect the new Khan of Khiva against the brigands of Khokan, and against part of his own people, who have rebelled against him at the instigation of English emissaries. M. Anitchkoff, the present Charge d' Affaires of Russia at the Court of Teheran, has succeeded in bringing about a durable peace between the Schah and the Khan, the inviolability of whom is partly guaranteed by Russia."

Makseili.es, 11th. — Advices from Constantinople state that General Morris had made a reconnaisancc, with the cavalry, of the large entrenched camp of the Russians beyond the Tchernaya, and estimates the strength of the enemy's array at from 80,000 to 100,000 men. General Canrobert, before advancing, threw bridges over the river, where he has established batteries to defend the passage ; he has also turned off the waters of the acqueduct which feeds the Careening Bay. Letters which had passed between the governors of Sebastopol and Kertsch, and which were found by the Allies at the latter place, state that the Russians were tired of the war and the numerous privations to which they had been subjected. A despatch from the Czar, which reached Kevtsch the day before it was taken, orders fresh vessels to be sunk in order to prevent the passage of the allied steamers. Large depots of coal, as well as numerous droves of cattle, were found by the allied flotilla on the coast of the Sea of Azov, and the gun-boats were seeking for other depots in the neighbourhood of Arabat. Letters from the Crimea continue to speak of an attack against Anapa. Riza Pacha has, it is said, been sacrificed to Omar Pacha, who had threatened to resign. The Paris Moniteur also contains a despatch from the French General acting with Sir G. Brown. He says — "We may compute 0,000 men the strength of the Russian troops charged with the defence of the Peninsula. General

Wrangle, who commands them, had repeatedly demanded reinforcements. A letter from Prince Gortschakoff, that has fallen into our hands, states that not only will General Wrangle not receive the required reinforcements, but that he will have to send on all his cavalry to Sebastopol. The town of Kertsch is very rich, and I think an advantageous market for the army might he found here. The inhabitants, who are industrious and commercial, have nearly all remained in the town. The inhabitants of Yenikale, on the contrary, formed the garrison; but forty families returned yesterday."

G,OOO English troops are to join General Caurobert on the Tchernaya. More men have been sent to Kerfcsch. The Piedmontese are fortifying the position on the Tchernaya, and building bridges.

Vienna, June 9. — Reliable news from St. Petersburg is at present so very rare, that the following perfectly authentic information will hardly fail to be acceptable to your readers — " The war seems to weigh heavily on the inhabitants of the Russian capital, and particularly on the imperial family. There is no amusement of any kind at the Russian Court, and tlie middle and lowev classes appear to stare the uneasy feeling which is evidently felt in the higher ranks of society. A change is remarked in the Emperor Alexander's countenance, and heoftenappearsverythoughtfulandevensad. In high official circles a strong impression prevails that peace is not so far distant as is generally believed." Although the source at which the foregoing intelligence was acquired cannot be mentioned, you may be assured that it .was a good one. Up to yesterday, it was believed that the Emperor of Austria would pass some weeks at Laxenburg, but it is to-day related in military circles that his Majesty will leave for Gallicia on Tuesday, the 12th. It is also said that Baron Hess will leave Cracow tomorrow, hut without Generals Letang and Craufurd. The great public is of opinion that the reduction of the army will take place immediately after it has been inspected by his Majesty, but if such should he the case, it will probably be done without beat of drum. Yesterday, or this morning, a copy of the final protocol of the Vienna Conference was sent by the Austrian Government to each of the Federal Allies, and therefore we may Boon expect to see it in the columns of one or other of the North German papers.

The Importance of otjr Conquests in the Sea of Azov. — The fate of an army and the maintenance of a struggle like that which is going on before Sebastopol are but imperfectly known or comprehended by the bulk of the Russian nation ; but the destruction of the Imperial magazines at such places as Taganrog, Berdiansk, and Marianopol will be known to every trader who frequents the fairs at Nishni Novogorod ; it will spread the terror of the British navy beyond the confines of Europe, and it will show the population of Russia that, even in the inland waters of the Sea of Azov, the Imperial Government has not the means of saving its own property from destruction. It is evident, from the scanty array of troops met with on these coasts, and the total want of adequate defence, that the available resources of the empire have been thrown upon the northern and western frontiers, for, while the shores of the Baltic are bristling with troops and fortifications, the towns on the Sea of Azov were deliberately left to their fate. The attack on Taganrog must have been made by the gun-boats and boats of the squadron, for the roads are so shallow that ships even of moderate draught cannot approach within several miles of the shore. The town stands on a lofty promontory, overlooking the Sea of Azov to the mouth of the Dou, and crowned hy a citadel on the heights. As it is said to have been occupied by 5,500 men, we can hardly suppose that our forces landed or captured the place ; but, as the greater part of these Russian towns and their storehouses are built of wood, they are liable to be destroyed with great rapidity from the sea. No doubt, we shall be told by those who in this contest reserve their sympathies for the sufferings of our adversaries, that the destruction of these places is a painful act of rigour, but our object is to terminate the war, by rendering it intolerable to the people of Russia, and by depriving the Russian Government of the means of carrying it on ; and we cannot profess to feel regret that the calamities of war which Russia has so often and so wantonly inflicted upon other nations, and which she has rekindled and prolonged upon the present occasion, should fall heavily upon her own subjects and her own resources. If, but six weeks ago, Prince Gortschakoff had assented to the limitation of the naval power of Russia, in pursuance of her own engagement, Taganrog, Berdiansk, and Kertch would still have been flourishing cities, and the allied squadrons would not have discovered that the vulnerable heel of the Russian empire is to be reached by the Straits of Yenikale. — Times, June 14.

The Sea of Azov. — Letters from Paris state that it was understood, in circles generally well informed, that the allies will not occupy Kertsch, but fortify Yenikale, and leave 5,000 Turks to defend it. Our flotilla will keep the Sea of Azov, and probably visit Rostock, Marianopol, and Taganrog. In the Russian arsenal, near Kertsch, the allies found incendiary buoys, and the electric wires to fire them, which the enemy had prepared against our arrival, but had not been quick enough to lay down. Foss's Gazette, of Berlin, states, on the authority of travellers who have arrived from Russia, that the frequent levies of recruits for the army have much exasperated the people pf Poland, whose feelings are more than ever hostile to the Russian Government.

On the night of the 19th April, Herr R. Luther, of the Observatory of Bilk, near Dusseldorf, discovered a new planet of the eleventh magnitude, describing its orbit between Mars and Jupiter. This is the forty-third planet of our solar system.

Continental papers announce the death of the Rev. Father Lambillotte, a Jesuit, who was of considerable repute as a musical composer. He has left the music of 250 hymns, four masses, six oratorios, two tragedies, and other works. He also wrote esteemed treatises on church singing. He was a native of Belgium, and passed the greater part of his life in Switzerland.