The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-05 00:00:00

ACTIVITY OF THE ENEMY.

Enormous working parties of the enemy have
been observed to be busily employed upon the
mole near Fort Nicholas about the landing place
all day. They are raising a high breastwork, con-
nected at one end with the curved end of the fort,
and prolonged to the extreme end of the tongue of
land forming the mole. When completed, the
passage from the end of the bridge across the mole
to the front of Fort Nicholas will be totally con-
cealed from view. J edging from the movement of
the parties, who are apparently carrying sandbags,
they are also constructinga battery in this situation.
Some long-range guns have been fired from the
21-gun battery in the right attack, and also from
Chapman's battery in the left attack ; but the enor-
mous distance has prevented as yet any precision
of aim. Some shots have been observed to pass
beyond the bridge, and several have fallen imme-
diately in- rear of, the horseshoe outline of Fort
Nicholas. One shot from the left attack is said to
have, sunk .a lighter which was passing alongside of
the bridge. A comparative limited space in the
centre of the bridge itself now only remains to
complete the communication. From time to time,
rafts, each towed by two large rowing boats, are
brought to the opening in the bridge, at each end
of which considerable numbers of workmen are seen
to be employed.

DEATH OF APTAIN DRUMMOND.
Lieutenant and. Captain the Hon. Robert Drum-
mond, of the Coldstream Guards, was mortally
wounded by a rifle ball in the chest on the night of
the 24th. He met his fate with remarkable resig-
nation, and though suffering from excessive faint-
ness from loss of blood, quietly made arrangements
that he should be buried near the gravel of his
brother officers at Inkerman. He was an active
and zealous officer, religious, and gifted with many
mental endowments, and his loss will be severely
felt in his regiment. Captain' James Frankfort
Browne, of the Royal Engineers, and Brevet-Major
Warden, 19th. Rec°iment, were also reported
wounded, but not dangerously, by fragments of
shells.

THE TURNOUT OF THE 17TH.
The sudden alarm and turn-out of the several
divisions in front on the night of the 17th arose from
an order given by Lieut.-General Sir William Cod•
rington, commanding the Light Division, to sound
the " assembly ." The following is given as the ex-
planation. Suspicion was,excited that a certain per-
son at one of the canteens of the 62d Regiment, in
the Fourth Division, was a spy. He was a friend
of the proprietor of the canteen. Some soldiers
determined to arrest thi4 stranger, for the purpose
of bringing him before the proper authorities, and
submitting him to examination ; but, having dis-
covered the intention, the man suddenly de-
camped. A chase ensued. A few soldiers only
followed at first, but others, hearing the cry of "a
spy escaping," quickly joined, and in a short
time a considerable number were in pursuit. The
fugitive bent his course towards the left ravine,
along which the Woronzoil road leads directly into
Sebastopol, by way of the South Harbour. General
Codrington was near the upper part of the ravine
when the crowd passed by, and finding a body
.of
men were thus running towards the enemy's posi-
tion, and fearing some mischief might ensue, adopted
the only available expedient for at once bringing
them back to camp. A bugler—one being in at-
tendance on the General, ready for any emergency
—was ordered to sound the assembly, which was
at once repeated by the regiments of the Light
Division, and soon taken up by the regiments of
the 2d and 4th Divisions, encamped next to it.
The alarm at once brought the soldiers back to their
respective regiments, but before the bugle sounds
had been heard they had already secured the ob-
ject of their chase, and were leading him back to
camp.

THE POLICE IN THE CRIMEA.
Few things are more required, under the peculiar
circumstances of our extended camp, than a better
system of camp police. That whioh exists at pre-
sent is almost nominal, and quite inadequate to
meet the exigencies of our position. The ordinary
establishment of the Provost-Marshal and assist-
ants, consisting of a captain and a certain number
of sergeants and others selected from the regiments
in the field, though fit and sufficient for an army
under common circumstances, is too limited and
imperfect for a force occupying such an extended
position in an enemy's country. Its organisation
enables it to do little more than correct open and
flagrant abuses, and to prevent or 'Amish manifest
infringements of military discipline. Something
'more is required, for it must not be forgotten that we
have a crowded harbour filled with most valuable
them are
military stores, and that mingling among

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