The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-26 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE HEAVY GALE.

In consequence of the tempestuous weather in
the Channel the French and German mails had
not arrived when we went to press.
PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY, 7* A. m.
A very heavy gale from the south-west and
west-south-west has been blowing all night.
This morning, at four o'clock, the Brazilian
barque Theodocia, Captain Gomez, went ashore,
stern on, in Batten Bay. She is from Havre
bound to Lisbon and Lima. If the gale subsides
she will not receive much damage.

THE INGLIS FRENCH, AND
BELGIAN MAILS.
Chief Office, 56, Lombard-street,
London, October 26.
The Secretary of the English, French, and Bel-
gian Royal Mail Steam-packet Company presents
his compliments to the Editor of The Sun, and
begs to enclose him a copy of the report from the
Company's Superintendent at Dover :
Admiralty Yard, Dover, Oct. 26, 8 a.m.
It has been blowing a perfect hurricane all
night.
L'lmperatrice, with the French mails from
Calais, duo here at 1 a.m., ran for the Downs,
and landed her mails there.
The Belgian Government steamer, with the
Ostend mails, left Ostend yesterday at / 30 p.m.,
but has not yet arrived.
The South-Eastern boat could not land her
passengers here last night. She was obliged to
run to Ramsgate.
Our mail-boats Vivid and Garland, the former
for Ostend, the latter for Calais, left last night all
right, but just as they were leaving, a great por-
tion of the piles and woodwork of the Admiralty
pier was washed away.
Tho Baroness Stutterheim and family went
over in the Garland, en route to Germany.
Dover, 11h. 28m., a.m.
Our mail boat Violet, with the English mails,
from Calais, and l'lmperatrice, from the Downs,
have come into harbour.
Mails will leave by 12 o'clock train.

BERLIN, OCT. 25.

A despatch from St. Petersburg, dated the
24th, announces that the Allies, in strength from
30,000 to 40,000, advanced on the 22d from
Eupatoria on Tulat, but, on arriving on the 23d
at the heights of Djaamin Atchaga, seeing the
movements of our Lancers on the left flank, they
retired behind Aktachi.

Nothing new has occurred between Kinbourn
and Nicolaieff.

TREBIZONDE, OCT. 8.

The Russians are supposed to be preparing to

attack Kars again.

BERLIN, THURSDAY EVENING.

General Mouravieff's defeat at Kars has put an
end to the idea of his supplanting Prince Gort-

schakoff.

ATHENS, OCT. 19.
Another change of Ministry has taken place.

Condostarto is appointed to the Department of
Finance ; Cristopulo to that of Public Instruction;
Bottley, to the Interior ; and Tricoupi is to take
the Foreign Affairs, when he shall arrive.
It is now said that General Perowsky, who
commanded the expediton to Khiva, is to super-
sede the Prince.

The German journals assert that the language
of the Jersey refugees his given such force to the
representations of the Continental Governments,
that England has promised to renew the Alien
Law or adopt some other measure to the same
effect.

DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS AT KARS.
ERZEROUM, Oct. s.—Yesterday evening there
arrived here an express with letters of the 30th of
September from Kars. The letters wore written in
the evening, and contained the intelligence that on
the morning of that day the Russians invested
Kars on all sides in full force. The batteries at
Kars opened a murderous fire on the besiegers.
Three times did the Russians gain a footing in the
Turkish retrenchments—and three times were they
driven out by the Turks at the point of the bayo-
net. Colonel Lake distinguished himself in the
contest, not only by his courage, but by his skill.
It was be who drove the enemy from the Inglis
Tabia. Eight hundred Russians were slain before
a redoubt defended by four hundred Turks. The
firing lasted seven hours and a half, when the
Russians took to flight. The Turks performed pro-
digies of valour, and the European officers—Col.
Lake and Captains Teesdale and Thompson—dis-
tinguished themselves. Mr. Churchhill, formerly
attachk of our embassy from Persia, and now sec-
retary to General Williams, commanded at one of
the redoubts, and showed himself a thorough Eng..
lishman. A postscript of a letter of the Ist instant
adds that the loss of the Russians is estimated at
about eight or nine thousand killed or wounded.
About four thousand corpses lie under the walls of
Kars. The Turks are busied now in burying them.
The enemy lost besides this a great quantity of
stores ; and about 300 prisoners were taken,
amongst whom were many officers. Four guns are
said to have been taken. The loss of the Turks is
reckoned at about 750 killed and wounde 1.
This great battle, which had so fortunate a ter-
mination—thanks to the skill of the commander,
General Williams—shows clearly enough that the
Turkish soldier, when well led, is not only brave,
but able to distinguish himself like the soldier of
any other nation. At the same time it must con-
vince Europe in general, and the Turkish Govern-
ment in particular, that the latter has no good
native officers, since, from the commencement of
hostilities in Asia until the present moment, this
is the only victory the Turks have gained, and this
is owing to General Williams. When the Turks
were under native commanders they experienced
nothing but defeats.
A letter written by a Bey of Livana (Turkish
Georgia) says that Omer Pacha having concentrated
his troops in Churuksu, had marched on Urzughet,
and that he had made himself master of the place
without much difficulty. He received there a
deputation from the Georgian nobility, who made
their submission to the Porte in the name of the
inhabitants of the district. According to this
letter Omer Paella was marching towards Akalt-
zick, for the purpose of making a diversion
in favour of Kars, and of ultimately coming to
the assistance of that city. This last news tallies
with that contained in letters received the day be-
fore yesterday, which say that Omer Pacha has
communicated with the Muchir in Kars, telling
him to maintain his position for twenty days, at
the expiration of which he would be at Kars with
his army. He must be near there by this time ;
and it would be most fortunate if he should arrive
in time to cut off the retreat of General Moura-
vieff, and be able to invest Alexandropol.
Not one of the European officers at Kars was
killed or wounded.

LETTER FROM AN ENGLISH OFFICER ENGAGED IN THE

BATTLE.
KARS, Oct. I.—Here I am on the Karadagh
again, none the worse for my late illness. Last
night the Russians attacked us in force, and (be-
tween you and me and the post) very nearly took
Kars. The fight was a most bloody one, and lasted
seven hours and a half, without one second's inter•

mission. The Russians left upwards of 2,000
men dead on the field ; and their loss in killed,
wounded, and prisoners must have exceeded
6,000 men. What do you think of re Kara
chaps after that ? I was not actively engaged, as
they knew better than to attack my almost im-
pregnable battery a second time ; but I did great
service with my heavy guns, and twice drove them
out of a battery they had taken, and turned upon
us. It was a nasty sight—the field—afterwards.
It was completely covered with dead bodies, mostly
Russians, as our men did not lose more than five
or six hundred altogether. The defence was com-
manded by dear old General Kmeti ; and when our
general thanked him in the name of Queen Victo-
ria for his gallant repulse of the enemy, I thought
the brave old boy would have burst his heart open
—he was so proud. The Turks fought—not like
lions, but like fiends. I never saw such desperate
recklessness of life. You can form some idea of
what a desperate business it wa,, when I tell you
that the Russians bad their whole force concen-
trated upon General Kmeti's division, which, with
the reinforcements he afterwards received, did not
amount to 8,000 men. The reports have just coma
in, and there are more than 3,000 killed on the side
of the enemy.

March of the Cuirassiers of the Guard to

the South.

WARSAW, Oct. 20.—Great astonishment has
been expressed in our military circles that hitherto
none of the regiments of the Guards have taken
au active part in the war in the Crimea ; but at
length the moment appears to have arrived for
them to have an opportunity of measuring their
arms with the enemy. The division of the Cuiras-
siers of the Imperial Guard, hitherto quartered
here and in other parts of Poland, have put them-
selves in motion, and are gone to the south. They
are to be replaced by the brigade of Lancers belong-
ing to the second Light Cavalry division, under
General Mielnikoff, now in cantonments in the
government of Lublin. In the entire kingdom of
Poland there are now only four regiments of regular
cavalry of the above-named division, and in the
neighbouring province of Lithuania is quartered a
similar division of the reserve cavalry corps, under
Lieut.-General Grunwald, with its head-quarters
at Slonim.

The division of Guards that has left us has taken
the direction of Kiew, and it is unknown whether
on its arrival there it will form a part of the army
of the centre, or be sent on without delay to the
seat of war. Although the Russians have not
hitherto had any Cuirassiers at the theatre of war,
it is considered here not improbable that the desti-
nation of these Cuirassiers of the Guard is to op-
pose the French Cuirassiers. The Russian cavalry
now in the Crimea is more than double that of the
Allied army.

RUSSIANS IN ROME.
ROME, Oct. 20.—The distinguished Russian
families who have influence enough with the Em-
peror to obtain permission to flee from the horrors
of a northern winter feel iure apparently of the
sympathies of this soi-disant neutral government,
for they have already begun to flock into the Eter-
nal City, and throw about their money as if extra
taxes and war contributions wera things unknown
at home. Amongst these visitors are—M. Tchek-
kine, Imperial councillor of the state : the Count
and Countess Paul Stroganoff, M. and Madame
.Nariskin, M. and Madame Besobrasoff, Princess
Polyemtoff née Gagarin, Princess Hara,nsky, and
the Polish Prince and Princess Sapicha, besides
several other families of names less known to fame.

The Panic at Odessa on the Arrival of

the Fleet.

ODESSA, Oct. 8, Four o'clock p.m.—The first
brigade of the 15th Reserve Infantry Division has
just entered the town in long columns. They are
the regiments Lublin and Zamosc. The men are
evidently quite exhausted from their long march,
and covered with dust from head to foot. In
marching through the streets some of the men fall
down from over-fatigue. The intelligence of the
approach of the enemy's armada was telegraphed
to the Emperor at midnight. From the telegraph
station on the villa of General Luders more ships
are soen approaching.
Five o'clock.—A whole forest of masts is now
visible in the offing. They appear to be sailing in
great order, and with admirable regularity. A vast
column of black smoke envelopes the horizon. With
a good glass one can distinguish them, and make
out plainly that they are of a large size. I counted
42, but others are every moment coming into sight
round the point of the mountain and promontory
of Langeron. In the meantime the regiments of
Hussars Count Radetzky, and Prince uf Hesse-
Cassel, belonging to the 3d Light Cavalry Division,
are marching through the streets in full uniform,
and with their bands playing at their head. They
are going to the great fountain in the square.'
Six o'clock.—There are now 76 sail in sight,
and every moment others round the promontory.
A panic has seized the inhabitants. All the streets
are regularly blocked up with carriages, carts, and
waggons of every description, into which the more
valuable furniture and goods and chattels of the
inhabitants are being packed as quickly as possible.
The general cry is Sauve qui pelt. Some state
that the expedition is destined to operate against
the neighbouring town of Otchakoff, and that the
fleet is about to force the passage of the Dnieper,
and disembark an army there to march by land to-
wards Kherson and Perekop. Others pretend to
know the exact number of troops on board, which
they state to consist of 20,000 Turks and 35,000
French. Again, others know for a positive cer-
tainty that the object of the expedition is exclu-
sively the bombardment of this city. Li the mean-
time the hostile fleet has gradually approached and
anchored at a distance of five wersts (three miles)
from the shore.

Seven o'clock.—The Emperor's Adjutant-Gene-
ral, General Luders, has just arrived from Nico-
laieff. Accompanied by the former ambassador at
Constantinople, Von Ozeroff, he is inspecting the
troops at their different stations, and is everywhere
received with loud acclamations.
Eight o'clock.—The sea is enveloped in perfect
darkness. The enemy's ships have hoisted lan-
terns, which at a distance have the appearance of
stars, and serve to show their position.
OCT. 9.—The night passed off with tranquillity.
Some people assert they heard guns fired in the
night, and counted 40 reports. It might be their
imagination, or it is possible they were signal guns.
This morning at sunrise three guns were fired on
board the fleet. No dbange is perceptible in their
position since last night. Everybody is making
hurried preparations to get away. Money is in
such demand that the counting-houses of the
money-changers are beleaguered, and the agio
of metallic currency, which was yesterday at par,
has suddenly risen to 20 per cent. The bakers'
shops are beset by the people, who vehemently call
for bread, the price of which has risen to three
times its usual value. Verily at this moment
Odessa presents such a scene of disorder and fear
as must have been witnessed at the Tower of Babel.

The Settlements on the Pacific.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 16.—The Marine Journal
publishes a despatch from the port captain of Ayan
—a port belonging to the Russian American
Trading Company on the coast of the Sea of Ochotsk
—Captain Lieutenant Kashewaroff, to Major-
Wentzel, Governor-General of Siberia, in which
he states that on the 9th of July an English
squadron, composed of two sailing frigates and a
steamer, under the command of Charles Frederick
(?), appeared in the bay of Ayan. As soon as their
approached was perceived the inhabitants of the
little town and the small garrison evacuated the
place, 4' in obedience to th instructions received
from the Governor-General." The enemy took
away a quantity of deals, timber, and other mate-
rials belonging to the company. A small new iron
steamer, also the property of the company, bad
been sunk in the port, but the enemy succeeded in
raising it and blowing it up, whilst three smaller
craft were carried away by the frigates. They
remained in the harbour for ten days, and put to
sea on the 17th of July, when the inhabitants re-
turned to their homes, and found that all their
private property had been respected.

THE ALLIED ARMIES,
CAMP OF THE ALLIED ARMIES, Oct. 13.—After
I last wrote to you a considerable change took
place all along our line. It is one of
those changes
which, without materially alterin
;the relative po-
sition of the two armies, serves to determine more
distinctly- their respective situations, and thus puts
and
an end to the vagueness uncertainty which
must have struck every looker-on as the charac-
teristic feature of the epoch which has elapsed since
the fall of Sebastopol.
First of all, on the line of Sebastopol itself -we
seem evidently to have changed sides with the
Russians, and to have become from an attacking
the attacked party.
On the Tchernaya and
on the Baidar line, on the
contrary, our position h
of the Sardinians and the aschanged by an advance
French. The Sardinians,
who had hitherto only a small detachment on the
other side of the Itch
last, the 10th inst., ornayai have since Wednesday
plateau running ~ taken up a position on the
along the left bank of the Tchon-
liou river as high up as Upu. The next day a
battalion of infantryand a squadron of cavalry
went up to Ozernba,sh and made the round over
the plateau leadingd' own towards Aitodor. There
is very little to be
seen of the Russians in that
neighbourhood.They have entirely left the left
bank of the Tch • onhou, and their most advanced