The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-23 00:00:00

to the fortilications.

WARSAW, AvG. 20.

Ten thousand of the Imperial Militia, who
were under orders to advance-from Kisseleff into
Poland, have received counter orders and remain
in Lithuania.

A letter from Riga of the 12th, in the Ham-
burg News, says :—" The day before yesterday
we experienced another bombardment on a small
scale. About four o'clock in the morning two

English steamers, a two-decker and a frigate, came

in sight of our port, and at half-past five opened
fire against the side batteries-and gun-boats which
were near them ; the cannonade lasted without

intermission till half-past 'T o'clock. At 9 the
vessels left, the roads, steering along the coast of

Livoni i, and gave chase to a small vessel loaded
with wood. At three o'clock in the afternoon
they again hove in sight, and re-opened a can-
nonade, which they kept up .briskly from 5 until
half-past 7, when they went away, and we have
seen no more of them."

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Vectis arrived this morning with mails from
Gibraltar, Cadiz, Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto, 68
passengers, 13 packages_ of specie, and the usual

cargo.
Lisbon dares are to the 19th inst.
The Royal MAil steamerTay coaled at Lisbon
on the 13th. and on the 14th the King of Por-
tugal arrived, and was very cordially received by
the people.
The Duchess of Saldanha died at Cintra, very

generally respected.
The Portuguese Government had advertised
the concession of a water contract for Lisbon ; 40
days are allowed for the receipt of tenders, but
the terms of the contract were held to be unsatis-

factory, and unlikely to realise a fair dividend
upon the capital required.
The Lisbon exchange:► by this mail are quoted,
for three months, at 54f to 54i on London ;
Paris, 530 ; Amsterdam, 43 ; Hamburg, 48g ;
Genoa, 527. Money was scarce on London.
Home paper remained over, and other places were
nominal, except Lisbon Bank stock, 115 to 110
milreis discount per 500 milreis ; Oporto Bank,
15 to 16 per ceut. premium ; Lisbon Bank notts,
1 per cent. discount.

The steam-transport Arthur Gordon, from
Woolwich, for the Crimea, arrived at Gibraltar
on the 16th.

The steam-transport Ripon, from Southampton,
for the Black Sea, arrived the same morning.

AMERICA.

qfil3T ET AMPTON, TA' Cr it hiviast N,INC.

The American steam-ship Ariel, Capt. Lefebre,
belonging to the Vanderbildt Line, is telegraphed
off Hurst Castle, bringing dates from New Yolk
to the 11th inst. The mails and despatches will
teach Southampton this afternoon.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL,
(From the Morning Post of this day.)

CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL,
AUG. 8.
Nothing can he more lovely than our mornings
are.at present ; from daylight until-about 8 o'clock
is the only enjoyable. part of the (lay, and the re
mainder is so truly disagreeable that it would ap
pear as if all the good had been compressed toge-
_tether, as a boy at school scrapes all the butter off
his bread to have one good bite, only that we have
the pleasure first. From 8 until about 11 the heat
is a' its height, and most oppressive it generally is.
Before noon, however, a breeze springs up to our
relief, but this by no means seems to last, awl our
afternoons are as warm as any lover of heat could
desire. About 3 p.m. to-day I observed a heavy
thUnder-storm brewing to the eastward ; it soon
reached us, lasted about an hoar, and has now left
us a most refreshing night. With the exception
of one peol the thunder was scarcely audible,
although we had plenty of lightning, with storms
of wind, dust, and rain. The one peal, however, wa.,
I think, about the loudest -and most terrific I ever
heard in my life.
Preparations are now gradually making for the
winter. Our planks are being served out by the
Quartermaster- General's department ; cook houses
are in the course of construction ; spaces between
tents, paths, dre., are being paved to make some
attempt to oppose the mild we who have wintered
here once all knew so well.

AUG. 9.
Another day, and little out of the usual course ;
a very hot morning, notwithstanding the thunder-
storm of yesterday, and about the same hour this
afternoon a repetition of yesterday's storm in a
milder form—more rain and less wind, hut of lo.:ger
duration. Nothing could have benefited us more
than the late rains. I suppose, as a return of com-
pliment for the battering ouritnortars gave the town
which I mentioned in my last communication, the
Russians have this afternoon been letting us know
that they yet have us w thin range, and round shot
have been dropping over Qathcart's-hill, where they
had become such strangers that they were almost re-
ceived witil martnise. Several landed in the came of
the Rifle Brigade and one struck the 17th Regimen-
tal Hospital, whiCh is many hundred yards from
Cathcart's-hill, but its force was so expended it did
no damage, nor have I heard that any of the
others did.

The Theatre d'lnkerman, which has been closed
since the last attack, reopens this evening. I send
the progr►mme. Although fine now, I fear the rain
that has fat en must have damped the seats ; but
that will not be thought much of by us cam-
paigners, to whom any amusement to divert the
monotony of our life, and take the thoughts for a
time, at least, out of the trenches, is very ac-
ceptable.

AIIGTIST 10.

The Russians continued their messengers in the
shape of round shot into our C during the
whole of last night, blit none did any damage. It
is supposed by some that a flag-st ,ff, from which a
bill is lowered at noon each day, to give us cor-
rect time, on the same 'principle as at Greenwich,
has attracted their attention. It is also stated that
the enemy have now our code of signals complete,
such as are used between the French and ourselves,
having got them out of the Javer, which was
captured last week in the Sea of Azoff.
The weather has been to-clay somewhat cooler ;
the rain of last night, no doubt, is the cause of it.