The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-02 00:00:00

RUSSIAN DESPATCHES.

In its impression of Oct. 23, the Journal de
Saint-Petersboury publishes the following :
" NICOLAIEFF, OCT. 22, AT A
QUARTER TO 1.

"No change has taken place in the enemy's
position. The main body of the fleet remains at
anchor near the Kinbourn Spit, and its detach-
ment of light vessels in the roadstead of Otchakoff,
and at the mouth of the Boug ; the total of these
forces amounts to 93 vessels.

" To-day, in the forenoon, a few ships of these
detachments re-ascended the Boug and the Dnie-

per, but only a short way, and soon returned to
their moorings. The vessels that re-ascended the
Boug did not even come so high up as the spot
where they exchanged, yesterday, some cannon-
shots with our artillery.
" The enemy's land troops are stationed between
the suburb and fortress of Kiabourn."

NICOLAIEFF, OCT. 23, 8 P.M.

The position of the enemy's squadron off Kin
bourn has not been changed. Their steamers and
floating batteries are in the Oczakoff roads, in the
embouchure of the Bong, opposite the village of
Parutino, and in the embouchure of the Dnieper,
between Stanislav and Rybaltchiz.
At the mouth of the Dnieper the enemy is
actively engaged in taking soundings along the
southern bank of the river.

The number of troops landed on the Spit of
Kinbourn has not been increased.

According to the statement of three English
sailors, who, having ventured on shore, were
made prisoners by the Cossacks of one of our dd-
tachments, a part of the invading army of the
enemy is still on board the vessels of the fleet ; it
amounts, including the troops disembarked, to
about 15,000 men.

A.D. C. General Prince Gortschakoff announces
under date of Oct. 20, that the enemy had again
come down from the mountains that separate the
valley of Baidar from that of the Belbek, and that
he had halted.

He haPi reinforced himself evidently at Eupa-
toria, but has not yet undertaken anything from
that point.

A letter from St. Petersburg, of Oct. 21, pub-
lished in the National Gazette of Berlin, contains
the following intelligence :
The Emperor has, in consequence of a very
detailed and circumstantial report sent to him
by Prince Gortschakoff, at his own special com-
mand, and on which the continuation of the Em-
peror's journey into the Crimea was made depend-
ent, decided that it shall, in consideration of the
existing circumstances, be left entirely to the
Prince, without his incurring thereby any respon-
sibility, to give up the Crimea or to defend it as
long as possible, as he finds it expedient. The
army, however, is to be spared as much as possi-
ble under the circumstances mentioned in the re-
port. Together with these special powers the
Emperor sends him two of his Generals, who are
to learn from the Prince what his definitive re-
solution is, and who are to give him their assist-
ance. The Emperor confers his approbation in
advance on every measure to be taken by the
Prince, and will cause his movements to be sup-
ported by the co-operation of the army of the
south under General Luders, who would for this
purpose remain in Nicolaieff. A copy of the
Emperor's instructions, &c., it was understood
had been forwarded to the Minister of War, Dol-
gorouki ; and the Imperial family was also made
acquainted with this decision.

ADMIRAL BRUAT'S ADDRESS TO
THE FLEET.

A supplement of the Journal de Constantinople,
of the 22d ult., publishes the following order of
the day, addressed by Admiral Bruat to the
4quadron on the subject of the expedition to
Kinbourn. It is dated the 19th, and is as fol-
lows :

" The Admiral Commanding-in-Chief congratu-
lates the squadron or the fresh success which it
has just obtained at Kinbourn as at Kertch.

"The activity displayed by all, the zeal shown
in the execution of the orders received, and the
desire manifested to second the ideas of the chief,
have led to a prompt and decisive result, which
opens a vast field to ulterior operations.
" The cordial union of the two allied squad-
rons, the rapidity with which the navy and the
army have learned to combine their efforts, and
the habit they have acquired during the last year
of co-operating for a common object, have seemed
the happy issue of all the expeditions which they
have undertaken.

" The taking of Kinbourn is another bond of
union between the two fleets and the valiant
'hoops who seconded them. The day of the rith
October will be henceforth consecrated in the
French and English navies by a double souvenir.

" A year ago the allied fleets braved for six
hours the fire of the formidable seaward batteries

of Sebastopol ; yesterday, the fort of Kinbourn
and the works raised to defend the pass of Otcha-
koff, reduced by the thunder of the artillery, ac-
cepted the capitulations offered by the admirals.
Being invested by sea and land, the forts of Kin-
bourn could not escape us.

" The overwhelming fire of the floating-batteries
and bomb-vessels so precipitated the completion of
the action, that the other vessels of the squadron
could not take that part in the glorious combat
which they had hoped to do, but by the precision
of their manoeuvres, their eagerness to get into
fire, the gun-boats, the line-of-battle ships, the
corvettes, and the smaller steamers, all showed
what the admiral might have expected from them
if the contest had been prolonged.

" BRUAT."

RUSSIA.
BERLIN, Oct. 31.--The following is the text of
the last ukase of the Emperor of Russia, ordering
a general levy of recruits throughout the Empire:—
" We, by God's Grace Alexander 11., Emperor and
Autocrat of all the Russias, King of Poland, &c.
"In consequence of the losses which our troops have
suffered in the campaign of this year, we look upon it
as indispensable thoroughly to complete our armies, for
the purpose of repelling the enterprises of the enemy ;
and order,—
" 1. Throughout the whole Empire, with the excep-
tion of the Governments of Paskoff, Pultowa, Tcherni-
goff, Kharkoff, Ekaterinoslaff, Cherson, and Tauris,
there shall be a general levy at the rate of 10 from every
1,000 souls, in virtue of a special ukase issued simul-
taneously with these presents to the Executive Senate.
"2. The Jews who are liable to military service are
also on occasion of this general levy, the same as all
other sorts and conditions of men, to furnish 10 from
every 1,000 souls.

"3. The levy is to commence on November 15 (27),
and to close on December 15 (27), 1855.
"Given in the town of Nicholaieff, Oct. 3 (15), in the
1855th year since the birth of Christ, and in the first of
our reign. " ALEXANDER."
The ukase addressed to the Executive Senate
runs as follows :

"In accordance with a manifesto of this day's date, a
general levy has been ordered throughout the Empire,
with the exception of the Governments mentioned in the
manifesto, and we order—

" 1. The levy shall begin on the 15th (27th) of Novem-
ber, and end on the 15th (27th) of December, 1855.
" 2. The parties who have to furnish recruits a,•e to
pay towards their equipment, with the exception of the
half-fur-skins (poluschublci), a sum of money equal in
amount to what the commissariat must spend for it,
without the half-fur-skins, viz., 7 silver roubles and 80
copecs. The necessary orders with reference to the
military portion we have left to our Minister of War.
The speedy execution and conclusion of this levy
within the appointed time we commit to the care of
our Executive senate. "ALEXANDER.
" Nicolaieff, Oct. 3 (15)."
When we bear iu mind that, from the time when
the Emperor Nicholas, for recruiting purposes, di-
vided the empire into two halves (the western and
the eastern), which were to supply recruits alter-
nately, no general levy has taken place, and that
very lately the Imperial militia has been formed at
least 200,000 strong, we may readily believe what
the preamble of the ukase says, that it is in conse-
quence of the great losses the Russian troops have
sustained in this campaign. The last levy for the
active army amounted to 13 in the thousand, the
last for the militia to 30 odd in the thousand.

FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
Being All Saints'-day the Bourse is closed.
The Emperor and the Empress paid another visit
yesterday to the Exhibition Palace.

- By a decree in the Moniteur the Emperor con-
firms the promotion of 57 persons belonging to the
army of the East to the rank of officer ; and the
nomination of 572 to that of Knight in the Legion
of Honour and the grants of 1,284 military medals
made by Marshal Pelissier.

Yesterday morning a train on the Strasbourg
Railway ran off the line near Epernay. Several
persons were hurt, but no one was killed. No other
details of the accident have transpired.
Lord Brougham, after remaining a few days in
Paris, has taken his departure for his seat at
Cannes, where ho intends residing until the meet-
ing of Parliament.

Cardinal Wiseman left Paris this morning for
London.

The following private telegraphic despatch has
been received here :—" Trieste, 31.—The last ac-
counts received from Constantinople announce that
Turkey is forming a reserve camp of 30,000 men.
Omer Pacha is said to have left Batoum to advance
into the interior and threaten the line of retreat
of the Russians. His advance guard will march
on Darab. The Russians, according to the last
advices from Erzeroum continued to invest Kars,
but had made no further movement. Letters from
Damascus of the 11th state that the f ite which
took place in that city, on the occasion of the
taking of Sebastopol, led to serious collisions be-
tween the Greeks and the Roman Catholics. The
exciters of these disturbances were arrested, but
were afterwards set at liberty on the intercession
of the French Consul."