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     Charlottetown, P. E, ‘Island, Saturday, Septeinber ‘I9, 1855. 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
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     WDNESDAY & SATURDAY. 
     
    
   
   
    
     New Series. M). 278.; 
     
    
   
   
    
     lows BY ma ENGLISH HAIL. 
     
    
   
   
    
     SEBASTOPOL AN IMMENSE BLAZING run- 
     
     NACE. 
     
     The subjoined telegraphic message from 
     
     General Pelissier is dated Crimea, Sept. 9, 
     
     H .m.:-— 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘besides ten superior oflicers. It is also 
     
     afiirmed that Generals M‘Mahon 
     
     Trocher have died of their wounds, 
     
     that General Bosquet is killed.” 
     
    

    
     VVe have received the Jlloniteur of the 
     
     13th. It prefaces General I’elissier’s de- 
     
     spatch ofthe 10th of September, describing 
     
     the appearance of Sebastopol, by the fol- 
     
    
   
   
    
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     and 
     
    
   
   
    
     "I convinced myself to-day that the 
     
     enom had sunk all his steamers. His 
     
     work of destruction continues under the 
     
     fire ofonr boinbs. The frequent explosions 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     into the place, which indeed presents the 
     
     appearance ofaii inuneiise blazing furnace_ 
     
     Prince Gortscliakotl, sorely pl‘Cs.=(‘Ll, re-  
     
     quests an arinistice. to remove his woumlcdl 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     and bury his dead. The bridge near l3‘Ol‘tl:‘pP‘_L.Citltioll ofthe decisive importance of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Paul has been lirolien up. All is well npl 
     
     to the nioinent of writingz. “'0 watch thrl 
     
     Tchernaya \'lj_tilt‘.t)tl_V. ‘he eneuiy doesl 
     
     not appear. 1 
     
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     The flUll()\ViYt!‘_’ despateli from General 
     
     1’clissier was on Tlnirstlay posted on the 
     
     walls of l’aris:— « 
     
    

    
     “ Cni.\ii:.\, Sept. 10, II I‘. M——l \'i.<itC(ll 
     
     S0l)(l<t0}i0l and the line of defences to-day. I 
     
     it is ditlicult to give an exact picture ofthel 
     
     retiults of our victory, of which inspection l 
     
     alone can give an idea. 'l'lio inultiplicityl 
     
     ofdeft.-nsivc works, and the materials and 
     
     means that have been applied, surpass 
     
     everything known in the history of war. 
     
     The taking of the i\Inlakoll', which caused 
     
     the enemy to fly before our eagles, already 
     
     three tiuics victorioiis, has placed in the 
     
     hands of the allies immense cstablisliuients 
     
     ofmatcrirtl, of which it is impossible to cal,-, 
     
     culato the advantage. To-morrow thel 
     
     allied troops will occupy I’ltt!'Lll)Cll]a_y«'l and 
     
     the city. An Anglo-French commission 
     
     will be engaged to report on the material 
     
     abandoned by the eiiciuy. Thejoy ofonr 
     
     soldiers is great. The cry of ‘ Vive l’Em- 
     
     poi-enr!' celebrates the victor_v.” 
     
    

    
     Cnim-:.Ii, Sept. N, I0 40 it. m.—'l‘hel 
     
     enemy have (lcstroyetl the remainder of‘ 
     
     their fleet. Nothing now remains in, the. 
     
     harbour. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     LOSSES OF THE ALLIBS. 
     
     1.053 or run ENGLISH. 
     
     The Globe, referring to a statement of 
     
     the Jllot-tiiug Post, that the total English loss 
     
     in killed and wounded at the attack of the! 
     
    
   
   
    
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     i Redan was f2,0Dtl, says that oftliat nuinberl 
     
    
   
   
    
     between five and six hundred were killed, 
     
     “'0 learn from the last otlicinl despatcli; 
     
     received by Lord l’aninure, that the number’ 
     
     ofotlicers killed is 26, wounded ll-l. ands’ 
     
     missing 1; total Hi. It has been estimatcd,l 
     
     in the absence of the official returns, tliatl 
     
     the number of the men killed we id be 
     
    

    
     about ‘.2330, and wounded L596; total ,8l7. l 
     
     According to this calculation the total of 
     
     men and otlicers killed and wounded would 
     
     be 1,957. 
     
    
   
   
    
     rim i-‘nzivcu LOSSES. 
     
    

    
     PARIS, Sept. l-t.—Tlie Jllunileur of this 
     
     morning announces that Marshal Pelissier, 
     
     in a telegraphic despatcli, dated Sept. 11, 
     
     iufoi-ins the Minister of V\"ar that about 
     
     1,500 wounded, of which number ‘J10 are 
     
     olliocrs, have gone to the ItlIl)lllfl.l]CCS. As 
     
     regards the number killed on the field of 
     
     battle, it has not been possible to get an 
     
     evict return; lnit it is the opinion ofthe 
     
     Conimandcr-iii-(Jliieflliat it does not exceed 
     
     the ordiiiary proportion, that is to say, 
     
     about oiie-tliird ofthe number of wounded. 
     
     The Times’ Paris Correspondent writes.- 
     
     -—“'I‘he number of Generals now said to 
     
     he killed in the assault on Scbastopol is five 
     
    
   
   
    
     lowing observations--— 
     
     “ The irregularities which have occurred 
     
    
   
   
    
     in the order ofni-rival ofthe last despatches I 
     
     _ _ froui ihe east, the iiecessnry laconisrn of,‘ be 
     
     impose on me the duty at deferring an entry l thnse d(~_,‘l;;;(cI1(\s,, and the prodigious ra- ' me 
     
    
   
   
    
     pidity with which the events they announce 
     
     have succeeded each other, have caused :1 
     
     feeling ofiiiiccrtriiiity and surprise, wliieli, 
     
     perhaps, has not allowed at first it full 
     
    
   
   
    
     the viclcry which the allied armies have 
     
     just gained. 
     
    

    
     “This triumpli. so l:tl)t)l'l0ll£~‘ly prepared 
     
     during a whole year, and gloriously a- 
     
     chievt.-d by a hcrioc and supreme etfoit, has 
     
     not. been generally uiitlcrstooil in its full 
     
     extent. ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     “.\ftcr so iiilicli c:.'pectaitinii the llt))‘.'5 of 
     
    
   
   
    
     tlic solution of the .<trng«_r,lc has been so 
     
     sudden and atfccting that it has not allowed 
     
     sutlicient cailtiiiirss to the puhlit: iniinl to 
     
     explain clearly the clfvcts that llil\’(' L'('(.'l] 
     
     accoinplislied, and to enable tlK'lI'. to foriii a. 
     
     correct estiinatc ofthcir iniportzince. 
     
    

    
     “ Tlirso facts are iiniiieiist-, and inay be 
     
     summed up in two wortl.<——thc fall of Se- 
     
     bastopol and the destiuetion ioftlie R.1IS;‘-liltl 
     
    

    
     eet. 
     
    

    
     “On the 8th of Scpteinber, at noon, the 
     
     signal for the assault was given. A few 
     
     moments aftt-rwnrtls the allies were inastcrs 
     
     ofthe Malakotf, and at dusk the besieged, 
     
     despairing of continuing a resistance in the 
     
     other defences ofthe. place, abandoned 
     
     them all at the same time, and Iinstily 
     
    
   
   
    
     evacuated Sebastopol to place an arm ofthe not with (‘Him the Same cClL.,.m.’ M, ,],c_ 
     
     lleavcs that fall in autumn. 
     
    
   
   
    
     sea between them and otir troops. 
     
    

    
     “On the 9th, at 3 a. m., the whole town 
     
     presented one immense coiitlagration, and 
     
     such Russian vessels as had been spared 
     
     by our shells disappeared, beneath the 
     
    
   
   
    
     l waters ofthe ronilstead, sunk by the enemy 
     
    
   
   
    
     himself. 
     
    

    
     “The subjoined despntch, whicli, the 
     
     Minister of War has just received from the 
     
     Commander-in-Chief, and which describes 
     
     the appearance of Sebastopol to-day, will 
     
    
   
   
    
     ma e every one understand the grandeur of 
     
    
   
   
    
     the struggle which has just terminated, and 
     
     the prize of the battle which the Russians 
     
     have left in our liauds.” 
     
    

    
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     FALL 0l:' Sl£ll.\ST()I‘0L 
     
    
   
   
    
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     From H'ilmr:r's Europum Timts. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The fall of Sebastopol is the event of the total destruction of his forces imminent. 
     
     We have struggled It is added by the some authority that the 
     
     hard for its accomplishment, concentrated attack on the lines ofthe allies on thh 16th 
     
     every energy, and endured every privation oflast month was decided upon an Imperial 
     
     to secure the prize, and it is at length Council held in St. Petersbiirg, and that 
     
     within our grasp,-—a noble reward for all while a majority ofthe military autlioritit-sl 
     
     This declared in favour of that desperate and 
     
     celebrated fortress, which thirty years of hopeless step, the only tlissentieiits were, 
     
    
   
   
    
     week and of the year. 
     
    
   
   
    
     our patriotism and our sufferings. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I proved. 
     
    
   
   
    
     he would.li:_1ve seen the utter discomfiture fortlie Russians were across the water24 
     
     ot liis_nctui-ions policy, in the carrying out hours before the allies had passed beyond 
     
     ofwliich, during a long reign, he thi-eaten- the walls. Even alter the French flag was 
     
     ed: “'h,"°‘“°‘l_» and “ed. and Wllicll. dying. Waving from the commanding eminence of 
     
     lllccmlgltt tl())aSl‘l:l3 :UCc(’.SS0l‘..' But the fatal the Malakotl‘ Tower, the victorious troops 
     
     is Y: n mfltetlfli Slfengtll. has do not appear to have advanced beyond 
     
     Proved W bf {'0tt0n‘to the core in that high- that position, pai-tly because they would 
     
     er e'°'“°m_"‘ " ""i"‘°‘l °“'|l|5¢ll|”"-|1WI'i1l have had to storm the second line of the 
     
     ’ power,‘ a tact which now stands revealed ¢,»nemy’,; defences, and pa;-fly because it was 
     
     ‘ tolhc “°"hl M h"'i'='°- supposed that the Russians had extensively 
     
     Sehastopol has been defended, it caiiiiotllflinctl the ground froin which they had 
     
     deiiied, with Cx[|'n(i|'di(];1x-y yjgnm-, am] :l)t.‘('l) driven with so much bloodshed. At 
     
     peciiliaritiesinthe defence will open nithnt moment, then, at nightfall on the 8th 
     
     inew chapter in the liistory of>ie_;;es; but l0f5f'ptembei', it cannot be. said that Prince 
     
     consllering its po:~'it»ioii and the uses for  tint-tsclial(oll'was conipclled to fly with pre- 
     
     .which it \'.‘.'1:‘. tlt-stiiied. the time \\‘liich the ‘cipitation from the scene of this terrible‘ 
     
     allied tirinies have cousiimetl in its ['u¢i[|(;-,CIHltt'St; but, as he adopted that course 
     
     tioii is not great. It was ii_)l'|||i(l;1i)lt}1]-0]" witliout liesitatioii, we must look for the 
     
     ‘fits natuitil as well as froiu its nrliticial mUliVL‘n' 01' illn‘ Ctlfltlllct 10 tilt’ iiicis Wllich 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ,sti-uzigtli. and evi-,i'_vtliiii;1 \\‘ltit'.lt input-y, , have conic to our liiiowled:.r,c." 
     
     cngiii-.'crinr_r skill, the lnLtl.L‘l'lill;~' of u'.ir, tiinll. l'elii:viiig as we do that this is a fair and 
     
     lllle tlozxgetl tvli:~lll]1lnC_V of t|'.m|).< who !-gmw ‘reasonable solution of a couise of proce- 
     
     and felt that its fall would ll('ill(‘(ll':1I'i1C(‘, «Tine 9n the part of 1‘rinc«= ti~rlscii=ili0tl‘. 
     
     —im_v, the ruin,——ot':in einpire wltit-h ti,-pi. wlticli would otlicrwisc appear eiiiginatictil, 
     
     .11-(l ‘(p Lt‘|)'_(~]'“ {lug wit]-l(l_ cuultl (It; 1.. .;u_|,'1i” K it li\ll0\\'S tllitt till} HIIIIH ()il.llS(‘S which COIN’ 
     
     it in fact was done in vain. 'l'li:-.t . oiiit-tiring P‘-‘llcll ill!" 10 trbilllliltn tilt‘ t0“‘” Will H0005‘ 
     
     less than twelve months slioiild litire l:l,'t‘ll filial“ his "l“‘e‘l)' ""l‘°“i li""'“ “'9 C|‘im90i' 
     
     ,spciit in zit-lrit.-viiig this great |‘(‘.-‘Hit |llL‘l'(‘l'/ WU‘-ti, ill filci, it i=‘1"~“t|"U|‘i‘ti that tile Fmncll 
     
     showstlie \‘t1_'t)lll' of the attack and tilt:iC"lItIn2lntlQ]', who, in consequence of this 
     
     lmu-cry ofthe tlt,-ti-nee, Br-,t2..t~ it Pu-,:Q(l victory, has lieeii iitistrtl to the dignity of 
     
     into the victni:-4’ hands, olistinate battles . «'1 :‘\l:ii'sliul of l~'i-ance, has telegraphed to 
     
     . were fou«:l;t at the Alina, at Into imiii, and f his Goren-inent tol:iiu\'~‘t1ieternis on which 
     
     on the 'l‘eln~riin_v:i, and two terrific 11>‘-.ii'.llltS ii‘? is W C”H5t‘l1t 10 11 C=||*itUl'-1ti0|l,—t1 Niel" 
     
     on the l:~':h ot June ‘ind the nth tit‘ 3‘ii‘pt(:tii- 1-lily strung 1>r0ofv|'Ilw desperate straits to 
     
     tber, besides sorties and minor encounters l Wlllcll ill" 9"C'“.V l5 ""“' ”‘d“°‘3d- 1" ml‘ 
     
     ,with:»ut number. \Vith the solitary e.vct-p- lii5"‘_V "'l"Cl'3-*3 ill‘-'5 C0"V'iCti0" is. til-'1'-lite 
     
     ition oftlic unfortunate and lll-jlltlgtld attack j‘ prince inns no alternative but to surrender, 
     
     {ofthe aliit-S mi the anniversary of \\'atm--j -—thnt he is lwnnncd in on every side, 
     
     ‘loo, each oftliese events terininatcd lHlftl-lcn”gllts "3 it Wt‘l‘0 in *1 ‘WP: and lllflt 10 
     
     voui'nbl_v to the enemy, and the great Black ' Ilttempt 30 iitllit with any Cl13“¢'€ "fsuccessu 
     
     Sea fortress progress:-tl to its destruction, l or even to retreat witliont prospective ruin, 
     
     from the moment that the allies sat down i Wollld be positive madness.‘ V\'liicliever 
     
     before it, with as much certainty, ultliough '« «'IlteI'nativc he may pursue will develope the 
     
     lstrategic powers of the allied commanders, 
     
     land the crisis will be a fine one for bringing 
     
     out the highest powers oftlio military chiefs, 
     
     which the features of this war have not, so 
     
     far, afforded them many opportunities of 
     
     considerable impatience the arrival of the tlisplayiug. Prince Gortscliakofl'can be in 
     
     eirenni.~tantial details, which will throw hhle hhhlohh hi fight a .hh.hle’ hhd the de' 
     
     light on many transactions that at present , lhhhhhhh of Marshal P,e,hsS'er’ lhlh he fohhd 
     
     appear obseurt-; but we know cnougli to ' 'h Shhhhhlhh lmheh a mhhlhhchy °l-the 
     
     convince us that the Russians, before the wohhh 01 he‘°hcc' h.hd the hhhemh mchhh 
     
     final assault which’ led to the possession of hhhhed [0 hhhh.‘ hhlch hih exceed hhyhhhg 
     
     the Malakoff, had determined toahandonthe hhherth Seeh hi. the .h'st°’y °f war!” '3 
     
     Dlace to its fate, as their erection of the F“'°"“"'>.’ cohchlswe ewhchce lhht the cm" 
     
     wooden bi-id-_re, lialt' a mile long, by which "'3 hhhh” hhhhhes hh.s hemhrhhhcd hhs "my 
     
     [they retreatt-kl front the south to the north, hhd led to ‘he 'h.°xmchh.le' ‘hhlchhms how 
     
     Aceoidiu,9, to the leadit1t.' morninr hhlchd hchlre hhh; whh.° h '5 "hl°”°"3 
     
     Journal of,“-stt-i-tl:iv, the defeat oftlic Rus- hhh the Chhhhh chhhht tech .hh army d“' 
     
     sians on the 'l‘clieriia_\‘a showed the Hus- “"3 ‘ho """h°"v “ml ill“ Ahwsv by their 
     
     sian commander that all hopes ofretaining ‘5°h'h’h'hl 0‘ thh 50"’ chh. h'hh5P°"‘ "'9'" 
     
     SebzistnPo| were gone—-witli his army do- hhchs’ Sh ha th 'hhh'°°h" hhh m‘ “V °“h° 
     
     moralised, his supplies intercepted, and the hhhthh whmh he h'h:V hhmlct and 3°‘ °" 
     
     his flank and rear with fatal effect. The 
     
     Russians, in a word, are beaten to a dead 
     
     stand, and the alarm which prevails in St. 
     
     Petersbnrg at the crisis which has at length 
     
     arrived is retributive justice in its mogt 
     
     agonising form. 
     
    
   
   
    
     All the meagre accounts which have 
     
     come to hand rC‘.~1p(!Ct.lllf_{ this great fan: will 
     
     be found clsewliere; and we await with 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ’ Ri:roi:r IN Si:i:.\sroroi..—Tliero had been ru- 
     
     mours for some days before the attack on the 
     
     Malakliotl, that the ;:,-arrison of Sebastopol wag 
     
    
   
   
    
     labour and as many millions of money were Prince Piisltieivitscli mid General (')sten- ’. _ . . 
     
     in an e.\treniely disorgainised state, and there 
     
    
   
   
    
     believed to have rendered imprcgnablc, Saeken. 
     
     now lies at the mercy of the Allies, and.on that occasion,- 
     
    
   
   
    
     before we have abandoned the Crimea not 
     
     I! stone ‘will he left of it place which was 
     
    
   
   
    
     From the inoincnt of his defeat 
     
     Prince Gortscliakotf is 
     
     said to have taken steps for his retreat, to 
     
     have prepared his bridge, and arrangctl his 
     
    
   
   
    
     were even 10Sli.l\'(3 stateiiients that a revolt took 
     
     place. .- arisk lire ofinusketry, very irregular, 
     
     was heard inside the town, mingled with ex-ic-3 
     
     and tlisortli-rly shouting, and a di-sei'ler reported 
     
    
   
   
    
     purposely planned and erected for aggres- I plans for placing the harbour lietwt-t-ii his l the fllfiillmle ol':i_n omct-r ofrank and nearly 100 
     
     sion, and the existence of which was alassailants and liiinselt. The Times atldsl"“"‘»“'l‘° l'“d d'“"l“‘f\‘°‘l 0“l“"5- “'0” is no 
     
    
   
   
    
     standing menace to the nationalities of 
     
     Europe. Its reduction is the severest blow 
     
     which Russia has ovgr received, and ifthe 
     
     proud and arrogant ruler who provoked 
     
     this war had lived but a few months longer, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     doubt: that the losses in the town were frivlitfn] 
     
     l ,. . . . v 
     
     an that, not“ itlistiindiug their otlicial ant non. 
     
     lollicial declarations, the iussians sullei-ed from 
     
    
   
   
    
     this forcible rcmarlt, which imparts great 
     
     strengtli to its reasoning: “ By tt eculi- 
     
     nrity which distinguishes the result ofthis 
     
     siege from all others in history, the allies 
     
     took the place at last witliout eiitcriug it,  
     
    
   
   
    
     \Vt\t(‘l‘ and of st; 
     
     and along Me {c_nzie‘s ridge, seems to have 
     
     diminished very much. 
     
    
   
   
    
     irits. The army on the Belbeo ,