The Scotsman - Wednesday, 3rd January 1855, page 4

CIJC ( Laa _. r . SIEGE _OF SEBASTOPOL

OFFICIAL DESPATCH .: _FEOM FIELD- _^_IAKSHAL LORD _RAGLAN. {_Fror._taS' ._ipp _^_sWfittQ the _Lsndm _Gaelic _ofFi'lilay _niffht.) Vl'ar _Department, _December 30. 10A _o'clock A.M. _His Grace llie Duke of _Nt-wcastle lias this day recei7ed a _drspiirh. of _winch the _folluwinp _is a copy, addressed l._* _his Grace by Field- _^larshal _the Lord _Raglan, G.C.li. _Before _Sevastopol, _December 12. Mr _LOUD DrSE.—Your Grace will trf happy to hear thai the weather _lias contiiuird tint* sincri 1 _had the _honour to _address ynur Grace on the Slh _instant. _Tht- _' _enemy hss made n_^ _movement of importance, and nothiii_^ of _any material _consilience _lias taken place lipfor_<? _Sehastopol. The _Russians moved upon our _advanced pir (iuet_»_, in _front _<* f our _lefc _attack, the _niaht I_»_ef-Jre _last, _ia some _force; Imi iht_'y _wrre iiist_._iutly driven hark by n _dt'tacliment of the _Ist _Battalion _Ilille _Urig-idf , on the _rieht, anil »y _OIIL" of the 4tilh on _thr _left. _The firinp_', _Iiowevi-r , was kept up for _some tirap, and the Third and _Fourth _Divisinns _were _hf'ld in r_^diness 10 _support, in _case _their _assistance _should have been required. 1 _endos- tlia _return of _casualties to the 10_th inst.—I luve , _&L-. ' _RAGLAN. _His Grace the Duke of _Newcastle, &c. &c. TELEGRAPHIC _AND OTHER DESPATCHES. _CoNSTA_^_Tisori_.E. _Dft-t-mber IS._—The last _news from the Crime:i w;_i-i _broiijrh; here yeMerday by the French _war _" _.tramer _R'dand , _which lefc Cap_? ' _Chers_.m on the _15_:h. After ;t _' )andnnin_; the _batteries they h:_id _taken from the _Turks_, on the _'25;h of Oct,_»lier, to ' _che front of B:i!._ikliv_;i,tht _" _Kiis-ianshiid _taken _up a _newpoMtioii six _miles ftirther _bick, _anil _shifted th" _bulk oi thpir _forces to tilL_* extreme lefc ot' liit _> _li._ilJklava _lines. They _hid since been _di'pliyin _;_: _considerable forces in _tht_; plain_, and a _pood _dralof _skirmishing' had _taken place _between _thi-m _iiiid _the French. _LV' _^_-rAXTlscpL !_: , _December 21.—On the _16th the _Russians nude a h' »rlie by ui_^ht, but vfcrcs _repulsed _by the _French, _after a _severe _strus_?_le- The Kiflcs also repu!<_ed a Ru_'_-dnn sortie. Our m- 'r ;ars and b_. _-itteries are md;_' f) u_^en, but thfa _heavy rains impede _the prn_^r_^_-s of the _sit' _;;eand cause _^_re-it sicknes.s. _tni-. _t-.- _^l Atlams died of hi- wounds on the l?th. Sinr_. _' thy l_^th of _November _'_2-1 ,000 _Kn_^Iish, _French, and Turks _tiiid arrived in _thf Crimea _in _British _vessel' . Th" Turks at _Eupatoria have beea much _sErenglhenL _' _il _front Varna. Tiu Vienni _correspondent of the _Times adds:— "The fnllowid_;; _tri- _^_raphif* npws is in_, _several of our papers ihi_? _(? aturd_»y) _morninS_) _hut does not deserve _implicit _conridence:—• _ODESSA, Dt?cember 25.—A _courier ling _ju-i ; _hroushs iniclligence that General L;pr_;tiili_\ corpi, _pon-erfully _reinfurced, is _attacking _BrUakLiva . _' _1 " _RVS3_IAN _ACCOFXTS. _THE ?3_HiiEj OF _THE lOrn _I_/_ECESICER_. Th_.? _fitllowin_;; Russian news from _the Crimea, _pivin _:: _an _account of the _two _sorties from _riebastiipid _<iri thti 10th, comes to hand in an_, extr_.ior_._Iin-try _s' _-ppleinent of ihi* Invalhic _MUM:—A report fruni tieiieral Prince _Menschikotf, ddted _Di*_._;prol)er 13, infJrms the _Emperor _that _since the Sth of _th-- _s-trne month thf tire of llie _be- _'ifnCr .s ha.I been as _weak _as _brfore, _innicting hardly any Joss upon _the be_<i- _;< _t"l . _Alilmuyh the enemy _was continuio_? his _entr-iirhinent- _* _011 _ilia left flank, _bt-iu _? harasseil by uur _Wfll-p't- _'tt'lt nll_^-men _, he _was not _pushing forward his linf _. in lro;it, _but extendln_._; th»rn _to the l=ft." _The _rfport _<._ifs on t,) say:—"On our _•• ide the defence _is _t-rfii _^_ttif-ned , _^iid wu make _nightly _sorties. On tlie ni _^ hl ; ' _iti- - _- l" ;h _in' _.lant, _amongst _other feats, the u_.iv.il nilet TILHU _' , _of tlie ship 's _coiup_^ny No. 40, _taking ;t,_ivi:it._f_^e of _lli _darkne._'ilietbretherisinRofthemoon , E i>' k _TVilli biin from _oiii_* of _finr rednubtn two mountain ii- >; i _i-7 _.-, Ts w\ _twt-nEy _in' _-u from the lleet. JIe niked _llie Fr_.-iich _trfiicit _where tli_.-ir _mt-n were at work with ui_'co._ir_^_L- < of _cise-shut , anil he then _returned to the _rfiiou _if _without _suiiainiiii_; any _loss. On another side, and _sir-. ii _' _t-itieiiusly , _.MaJur Golovinsky, _commanding ihe !i _ili_^hon _No. 2 of the _Black _Sea Cossacks, at llie lieid oi" a _feiv br_:---ve _Cos-. arksmade a d;_i-ih ut the Fren>_'!i _trenches_, look ei_^ht Frenchmeu prisoners (_one of wii,Tn, _an _otiiciT, _was _wounded), captured _three sm_'ill _moit-ir .s, and spiked llie _larRe _onia. The _mortars thus carried _ofi' were immediately _turned _itgainst tLe _haiiiL' _irc'nches of thy enemy." _MOVEMS-NTSASD _PREPARATIONS. _WARSAW, DrcembiT 23.—The _first _owf's d'ari "_if€, comnmdedby General iiievers_, is _completely _assembled. lit »t;_itf i< _in the _centre of the position on ihu ri_^ht bank _tit" the Vistula, th;* C it at Radom,fuurteen German _mil_*_"_* from _this place . General Rudigeris _Cummanderin-Chiefof the rirst and _third _corps, and of the corps of _pri n _idiers. lie at the same time _acts _as _Governor-Gt'nrr _.il. _Prince GortschakolF is General-in . Chief of threr c'irp _< in the _south. Field- _^Iarshal _Paskiewitsch i* _Gfii'Jraliasimu of all the six corps_, _and _is still at _Uarsaf . sncATio_.. or _THE _nrsaiAS _AESIT. Tlie _Constitutlminci _publishes an article on the war in the Crimea_, from which we _extract _the following_:- — "The Russian army lias this _advantage over those of the Allies, that it acts in its own country, iti noldiers are nccuRtomed to the climateand its generals _and commi_^ariat _are _acquainted with the _ground _and _the _resonrcL'sto be _derived from it_; but, on iheotherhand , tlie BI'ick _Sea li _closed to _the _Russian _army by our flee ;" , _nnd _thai-ca of _Axoffand the _land _road only _are _open to _it to procure alt the _luipplles which it cannot _find on tha _Mil _itself. The _ittpppes, which _are iininh 6'} ltahlp in _the winter, and only practicable by tho roi_*d which leadB _from _Ferekop to Slmpl*eropor » form _t-. _vo._thirdt of the Crimea! the _oth&r third ia a _n'f )ti[it:. _ioou» _region* Prince _^_lenscbikoff' _bai eata_< _blulied _hlmnelf from Simpheropoli _Kara-BOii-Baaer , Anil _llflltrichl_.SarHi to thp _went canst_, A _radius of _about t tv rii' _}•• _five _liifl_^_'uoii . Tha _ordinary _ration of tbo _Hnit _.Lin Bnlillcr i_< _compotfld of _bread i _ifrontfli and _bran.lyi to _whicli _in war _la _added _meat . _This _latter _Is _tht- ' "nly thin_? _that _the Crimea can _supply. The _oxtii &;id _xlu'fp _amply _supply the _wanta of tho _Russian _army , liut _tlia corn_, _brandy, and other _supplies _are _ilrdwn from _Nicolaicn_, Cher _»ioa, and _TacRnrOi_;, where Inrae _rieputa have _been for _Bume time _farmed _cither by the n.ivijralion of the Dnieper, _which _(_raverm _very ricliii-. >v]_ncci, orfroia0_dtna. _Xlcohleffand Char«on _now _sprra _» tlia _bails of the _supplies of _the' _Hmsian _army, ._'inil if _they _were _destroyedPrince _^_lenschikofi won_! I Cnil _liimtelf in a very _embarrasted position. The _lran<port of «upplle« i_» _aitcndeil with crcat diffl. _cultn-i in a country _where no r_^_fiular _efitabJIshmenti for lli " «t _purpoaa _txitt. The _roadt _are very bad, _nitlioui _._'h not quite _impracticable. Ths RuHlan _Oovmimciit _Im _collected _tOBethcr by rcouintion H creat Inumlier of _velilcle. _' , and by _this mma< iccured tha _tin-icenotirillistandin _.r _the _«ei«Bn, the raintha cold_, and _those _dreadful anow _storroB _which _aometimefl _twctp a«_'»y whole _flockiand entire conroTt. Alany _cirrl ._iaei Brc _lo»t_, and many men perlih on tho _toad_, but _tliii _convoy mcceBd each _othnr without interrup. ion, »nd tra_»er_«e tho _llthmui of Perelcop, by which oaa _. _proviilont_, _reinforcnntnti, and _ainmuiiltliin _mint _ome. The S»a of _Azoff _being' free, numernui _cargoei n) »lio _despatched ftOBi T«Banroi_;, _Berdlanild, nd alarianonolli Bnil which, _after _being landed _at Kerlcli, Bra _«mt on by the road which _leadi from th»t _port to Siltinheropol. _If our _accounti ore _there_. _fore, _aa we _liriievn them to be, corract , thB _Hunlani aro _not in want of _provlslona, or, at _least, it II clear that the Ilu««i»n Oovernnient ha« _taken _every raeain for _pciirlni_; a _nupply for them. The troopi _lira _badly, _hut _tlipy do _live. _Not one of onr BoldierB _could _eat the black _bread _and _the half-rotten _blucuit that _Is lerred _nut to the _Rmsiann_, whole _ttomacln, _accustomed f) _misery. can _recelvft and _dieent _It. The real cauae of the Bii!r_<! rin|_r!i of _their army and of the _numerous deaths _Is tha want of (ihelter _and of _clothing _xuitable for the wintrr ; _and the _deathi _are _nlimeroin from the want of _proper care _anii _remeditii) In _illness_, _notwithtitandinff _the enormoul _mmi _expended by tlin OoMrnmcnt _(or _that _piirpnue- The _troops _compoitinp the _relnfurcementu »pnt _till'_rlncellennchlkofi _'_arriTedwItlioutany ba|[|[a_»e. They werr conip;lli>d to _leara «reryllilnK b»hlnd thrm, In _order to trarel quicker* _Nono of the _workmen_, who _t'merallyacrniniianyevi'ry _regiment, coulil follow them. Ther are, _tliwtfore, _without any camp equipi|te_, and _upotBil to _all _thom midden change _* _In the _tefflpprature , _anJ _to thof _torrmtlal _ralni to _which _generally luoceed •» inlc«ne_« of wind _and _violent «now «torm«_. It 1_> on _thnir ncca»lon_« tint _tile _reiiixnatlon of _tha _iiildlen ii _truly _idnilralile; It _might b» _almoit _t»ld _that _they _rrzard _lull_'_erini' al their lot on earth. Never 11 there K murmur _heard i they pray to the _imas'a of _the _Virgin , _anuiun _'iT In _lllincr_, or at _times be»ln,ona of _tli 011_' _interminable «nd melanclioly «one_«, by the aid of which they, ai It wers, _loll their Brief. The want of medical men >nd.of medicine for _tha icit 1_» _tha 5_;reateflt _lufferinp _now experienced l»y tha RuMian' «rnly. It ll impoiilble to conrey an lilen _of _the «litn of _aliandonment to _which tli« _lick are _rrduced l 1B rnlef tlis _hniiilnl III _<lMii)t lynoilpmoui i.i enlirini 1 tlli ir_»( . 86nlB _OUttia _tntall'ti ttc_«| _wii8 tfi 1_)_1)1

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