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Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 246, 10 March 1855, Page 6

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EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE: Just as were going to press we received through the kindness of Mr; Rowland Davis a copyof the Wellington Independent of the 3rd'of March; containing1 the following telegraphic messages from the seat of war. These statements had for the most part been confirmed by the receipt in England j of Lord Raglan's Despatch, which we will publish on Wednesday. The following intelligence is copied from;the Melbourne Argus ofthe 10th inst. Constantinople; November 9. '. \ A fierce battle was fought:before Sebastdpol on the sth. After a. battle which lasted seven hours, the Russians were repulsed with a loss Of 8000-men. ; The English lost 102 officers and i 2500 men, and the French lost 48 officers and; 1300 men; killed and? wounded. >. Three English | Generals were killed, General Catkcart, and ■ Brigadier-Generals Gouldie and Strangeways. I Five were wounded, Generals Adams, Bentiuck, ' 'Buller, Torreris, and Sir George Brown. Ge- i neral'Canrobert was also wounded. >' ; j / : The;/British: Guards suffered very severely; On the r6th and 7th the Allies were fortifying theirposition. 5000 French troops left for the Crimea On the 6th. Constantinople, Nov. 9. ; I 40,000 Russians, under cover of a dense mist, /attacked the English before Sebastopol on the November. The redoubts were thrice taken iand; retaken. The French lost 1500 killed and wounded.; o V.''.•.-.-■ Sir George Brown was severely wounded in the arm. It has since been amputated. The ;■ PJikebfCambridge had a horse killed under him; ; The -English loss is 2000 killed and Wounded/ ; The Russian loss is between 7000 and 8000. Three steam frigates have arrived at Batoum, to convey 4000 troops to the Crimea. Lord Raglan has been raised to the rank of Field-Marshal. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Chronicle f writes:—"A telegraphic despatch had been received from Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, which mentions that on the 9th another engagemerit had commenced between the Russians and the Allied armies, the result of which was not known at the time the last steamer sailed from the Crimea. The Russian envoy, Gortschakoff, has intimated to the Austrian Cabinet that Russia is willing to negotiate a peace on the basis of the nine guaranteed conditions. A despatch from Marseilles, of the 20lh Nov. announces that the Duke of* Cambridge was slightly wouuded on the stb. Omer Pacha was, it is stated, about to send a large body of troops to the Crimea. An Egyptian three decker went down near Varna. Assam Pacha the Admiral was drowned, and only one-fourth of the crew were , saved. The following is extracted from the Liverpool Times, of November 23rd ; —■ THE BATTLE OF INKER-MANE. A Gazette Extraordinary, containing Lord Raglan's detached account of the battle of Ink-er-mane, will be read with feelings of pride and awe. According to Lord Raglan's estimate the Russians brought 60,000 men to the attack on the sth November. The; actual numbers opposed to this vast host was only 8000 British and 6000 French troops, yet, after a dreadful battle of eight hours' duration, the Russians were defeated and driven back, with a loss of 5000 killed, and LO,OOO wouuded and taken prisoners. Thus the number of Russians killed, wounded, and taken was greater by 1000 men than the whole number of British and French troops actually engaged in the battle. Neverin mo-

dern times has so vast a host been defeated with such a prodigious loss by so small a band of heroes. The loss of the British army in this tremendous conflict was dreadful, amounting to nearly one-third of the men actually engaged. The numbers killed were—43 officers, 32 sergeants, 4 drummers, and 380 rank and file—• total killed, 459. The numbers wounded were,;JO) officers, 12 sergeants, 17. drummers, andr--1694 rank and file. In addition to these there were one officer, 8 sergeants, aud 191 rank and file missing. Thus the total loss of the 8000 British troops actually engaged was no less than 2790 men and officers. We have no time for comment, but we must say that the heroic deeds of the British and French armies at Inkermane will add unspeakably to the anxiety of the whole country that they should be reinforced not by dribblets, but by the whole available force of England and France.