GLORIOUS NEWS!! DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS!!! CONQUEST OF THE CRIMEA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume X, Issue 980, 23 December 1854, Page 3

GLORIOUS NEWS!! DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS!!! CONQUEST OF THE CRIMEA.

[From the Melbourne Argus, December 6, 1854.] By the G. S. S. Navigation Company's steamship Argo, which arrived about ten o'clock this morning, we have European news to the 4th of October. Sebastopol has fallen. The Times of the 4th gives this glorious news under the head of " Decisive Intelligence, received by Sub-marine and European Telegraph." * On the 23rd Fort Constantine was destroyed by the allies, and Fort Alexander taken. On the 24th all the redoubts and forts around Sebastopol, all the batteries, and the Arsenal, were in the hands of the allies. The flags of the allies were hoisted on the tower of the Church of St. Vladimir.^ It is believed that the day on which Prince Menschikoff surrendered al discretion was the 26th. It is said that the remainder of the Russian ! fleet is safe in the hands of the allies. •The Turkish arm\ will at once cross the Danube into Bessarabia. This glorious intelligence is thus confirmed by way-of Paris :— A private telegraph despatch states that at the end of a second battle gained by the allies they bombarded Fort Constantjne, the Citadel, and the fleet, all of which surrendered. The Russians have lost 18,000 men in killed and wounded, and 22,000 prisoners. Six ships of the line and Fort Constantine have been destroyed. The Daily News of- the 4th, publishes the following despatch' from its Paris correspondent :—: — Paris, Monday Evening. . EXPECTED ATTACK ON CRONSTADT. On this important subject our Paris correspondent writes : — " I learn that an ' attack upon Cronstadt is seriously contemplated almost immediately. General Niel, the general of engineers, who distinguished himself in the Baltio by the prominent part he took in the direction of the siege of Bomarsund, reported personally to the Emperor that he believed the attack was practicable'this year. The report has been communicated to the English Admiralty, and I have reason to believe that the movement of Admiral Paiseval Descheues, already mentioned in a telegraph despatch, portends a more serious enterprise that a fruitless sacrifice of life at Revel." --- .A, correspqnclent of the Times, writing from Revel; ' September 26th, says :—: —

Revel, September 26. The principal portion of the Baltic fleet, comprising nine English and two French sail of the line (five of them having steam power), have Veen at anchor off the south-east coast of the island of Nargen for a periorl of two months. The steam -frigates Imperieuse, 50, Euryalus, 50, Arrogant, 50, Magicienne, 16, together with the Bosamond, 6, steamsloop, hnve been employed in the meanwhile cruising ofr Sweaborg, watching the movements of the enemy, and effectually blockading their potts, in theGulf of Finland.