The Yazoo City Weekly Whig

GREAT BATTLE BETWEEN THE ALLIES
AND RUSSIANS.

FALL OF THE CRIMEA.

By the arrival of the Baltic we have news
of a great battle which was
fought on
the
Crimea.

Fort Constantine, being invested
by
sea
and land, after an obstinate defense
was
carried by storm on the 26th, and blown
up.

The allies then bombarded the city and
fleet.

Ten Russian Ships-of-the-line were burnt
or sunk.

The remaining forts were carried, one after another, and eight hundred guns were
silenced.

The Russian loss in dead and wounded is
estimated at eighteen thousand at Sebastopol alone.

Menchikoff, with the shattered remains
of his force, retired to a position in the inner harbor, and threatened to fire down or
blow up the remaining ships, unless the victors would grant an honorable capitulation.

The Allied Generals demanded an unconditional surrender, but in the name of humanity gave six hours for consideration.

The latest dispatches say that Menchikoff
had surrendered, and that the British and
French flags were flying over Sebastopol.

An entrenched camp of Russians, on the
heights of Alma; which contained sixty
thousand men, besides artillery and cavalry
was carried at the bayonet's point, after four
hours' fighting.

No general officers among the British
were wounded. General Thomasson, of the
French troops, is thought to be fatally
wounded.

Marshal St. Arnaud and Lord Raglan
command in person.

In the second engagement on the plain
the attack lasted several hours, and was
very sanguinary resulting in the total defeat of the Russians.

Dispatches state that the garrison of Sebastopol had been offered a free withdrawal, but surrendered as prisoners of war; the
dispatches, however, are very contradictory.
One dispatch says that Menchikoff tele-
graphed to St. Petersburg under date of
the 29th, that he had withdrawn the troops
unmolested, from before Sebastopol towards
Pulktschierie, where he would await reinforcements; and adds that Sebastopol was
not attacked up to the 16th.

The Russian accounts do not conceal the
fact that they have met severe reverses on
the Crimea.

The details of the Sebastopol news are
not expected by the British Government
until the 6th of October.

The Allies stormed the Russian entrench-
ment after four hours' fighting. The Anglo-French army had two thousand eight
hundred killed and wounded, and the Russians six thousand.

Prince
Napoleon,
it is
said, had three
horses shot
under
him.

Dispatches via
Vienna
state
that Menchi-
koff had
surrendered
the
balance of the
Russian
fleet.

Liverpool
dates
to
Wednesday,
have
nothing
farther in
regard
to
the
capture
of
Sebastopol,
but previous
accounts
are
confirmed.

Six Russian Ships had escaped from Sebastopol.

Eight hours after the
Europa had sailed,
news
of the
great
battle
of
Alma on the
Crimea, had
been received.