The Evansville Daily Journal

The Daily Journal.

INTERESTING FROM EUROPE.

THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL:

SPIRIT OF THE ENGLISH PRESS.

Reception of the News in France and England.

Attempted Assassination of Louis Napoleon.

The Washington's dates are to the 12th inst.

As the fall of Sebastopol occurred on the 8th, her details are not so full as those of the America, which left Liverpool on the 15th.

Throughout France and England the rejoicing is immense. Public demonstrations were everywhere organized on the instant, and in London Consols went up to 97. They declined again, however, to 90½, on the receipt of the intelligence that another attempt had been made on the life of the Emperor of the French. Queen Victoria has sent an address of thanks to her army, and directs Gen. Simpson to congratulate Marshal Pelissier on his brilliant Victory.

Gen. Pelissier has been created Marshall of France, and Paris completely illuminated, on account of the victory.

A grand National Te Deum was celebrated at the Church of Notre Dame-the Emperor attending in person.

A Paris correspondent says Pelissier has telegraphed for instructions in case Gortschakoff should ask to capitulate. The reply, as reported-is in substance, that the Russians must surrender at discretion, lay down their arms, and give up all the fortified places in the Crimea, including Odessa and all their munitions of war without doing any previous damage thereto.

But Gortschakoff has not yet asked for terms.

The tone of the English Press is of course very excellent. The London journals, however, lay great stress on the efforts of the French and in fact give them nearly all the credit of taking Sebastopol. In the plain, modest language of the British Commander-in-Chief, "the French succeeded in their main attack, while our attack failed."

The London Times urges, in its issue of the 12th inst., that nothing whatever should prevent the Allied Generals from giving the most vigorous and immediate effect to the great advantage they have won. Beyond the time absolutely required for the removal of the wounded no armistice should be conceded. To give the campaign its full effect, its success must now be rendered absolute and complete. The Russians are a people who will deny to the last that any advantage has been gained over them, and Prince Gortschakoff boasts in his account even of this sanguinary defeat, that he was extremely successful in carrying off his army.

Fighting, as they are, in closed lists, without the means of escape, the defeated Russian army should be compelled to lay down its arms, or to fight a general action, which would crown the series of our successes by a still more decisive victory. The Peninsula itself is besieged and well nigh invested by our fleets and armies, and if the command of a single road be lost, the whole line of retrenchment, and the only line by which supplies and communications can reach the Russians, is gone. Such we take to be the relative position of the belligerents in the Crimea, and with the means of action at the disposal of the French and English Generals, we have confident hopes of a glorious result.