The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-19 00:00:00

(Enclosure 2.)

NOMINAL RETURN OF CAUALTIES ON IST
DECEMBER.
WOUNDED.
DEO. 1.
7th Foot—Captain Lord R. Browne, slightly, by burst-
ing of a shell in Sebneopol,
W. L. PAKENHAII, Adjutant• General.

(Enclosure 3.)

Head-quarters Camp, Crimea, Deo. 4.
Sir,—l am glad to be able to point out a continuance
of the favourable state of health of the army.
The weather has been boisterous, wet, cold, and
changeable, which has occasioned an increase of catarrhal
affections, arid added some cases of catarrhal ophthalmia
to our list ; but the admissions under this head have de-
creased nearly one-half during the present week, and it
is to be hoped by care and removal of those labouring
under the comptaiLt to the monastery that the disease
will not extend.

There has been a decrease in the number of admis-
sions from fever, but aa increase of mortality, confined
chiefly to the Land Transport Corps, as 14 out of the
19 dea hs that occurred during the week took place in
that branch of the service alone. This corps has a
heavier sick list than any division of the Army, which
is not to be wondered at, as many of the Europeans
have recently arrived in the country, and are not yet
acclimated, and the natives bear fatigue, and the vicissi-
tudes of weather, like that which we now have, but ill.
The f dlowing show the ra,tim3 of sickness and morta-
lity during the week :

per cent.
The admissions to strength have been 2 01
Deaths to strength
EKclusive of Land Transport
Sick to well
Ezclu.ive of wounds and injuries
J. HALL,
Inspector-General of Hospitals.
General Sir William Codrington, K.C.8.,
Commanding-in-Chief.

DESPATCH FROM ADMIRAL LYONS.

(From the Gazette of last Evening.)
ADMIRALTY, DEo. 14.

Despatches, of which the following are copies, have
been received from Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, Bart.,
G.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's ships and
vessels in the Mediterranean and Brio:4E43oa :
Royal Albert, Kazateh Bay, Dec. 1,1855.
Sir,—l request that you will lay bebre the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty the enclosed copy of a
letter from Captain Sherard Osborn, of the Vesuvius,
dated the 24th ult., informing me that, as the formation
of ice had commenced in the Sea of Azoff, and as he had
been informed by both M. Gopcevitob, the Austrian
merchant, charged with the shipment of corn in Austrian
vessels, and by the Russian authorities at Mariaupol,
that all chance of neutral vessels obtaining cargoes this
year was at an end, he had withdrawn to Kertch with
the squadron under his orders, after assuring himself
that no merchant vessels remained in that sea.
I have so frequently had occasion to bring the merits
of Captain Osborn under your lordships' notice, that it
is perhaps unnecessary, on the present occasion, that I
should say more than that he has maintained his high
character up to the close of the service upon which he
was employed for six months, and he brings under my
favourable notice the gallant and zealous support he has
received, from first to last, from the 'officers and men
under his orders.—l am, &c.,

_
(Sinned) EDMUND LYONS.
Read-Admiral and Coromandel-in-Chief.
To the Secretary of the Admiralty, London.

Vesuvius, off Kertcb, Nov. 24.
Sir,—Being now, in accordance with your instruc-
tions, on my road to rejoin your flag, I Gave the honour
to report the close of operations in the Sea of Azoff, and
the proceedings of the squadron in that sea subsequent
to my last letter, dated off Ghei-k, 7th Nov. On the
7th I received your in-tructions, with Notices relative to
neutrals quitting the Sea of Azoff on the 20th Nov.
The weather became most severe, and I could only
succeed in serving the notices upon the authorities on
shore at Mariaupol.
But on the Bth Nov. the shipping anchored off Ma-
riaupol were duly warned, and on the oth those off
Taganrog likewise.

A gale <.f extreme violence from the eastward blew
continually from that date until the 18th Nov. I then
immediately served a notice upon the neutral shipping
in l3erdiansk,

There, from Mr. Gopcevitch, as well as previously at
Taganrog and Mariaupol, we learnt that the Russian
authorities had kept the neutrals in quarantine ever
since their arrival, and that the likelihood of cargoes
being procured wag almost at an end.
A Russian officer at Mariaupol laughed at the idea of
the neutrals believing they would get wheat this year,
and told Commander Kennedy, whom I sent in there
with a flag of truce, that the neutrals must stay the
winter.

Under these circumstances, looking to your wishes
and instructions upon the subject, it became a cause of
great anxiety for me lest, by the sudden commencement
of winter, or intentionally, the neutral vessels should
fail to quit the sea on the 20th November, 1855.
I, therefore, as the ice had begun to make and the
temperature to fall rapidly after the 13th, despatched all
the squadron t,) Kertch except the Ardent, Snake, and
Clinker, and with them proceeded up the Gulf of Azoff.
We arrived off Mariaupol on the 19th and found all
the neutrals had sailed for Kertch, and on the 20th I
sighted Taganrog and found the roads empty, all the
vessels that were there having likewise left.
The ice already extended oa either hand some miles
from the shore, the Don appeared to be frozen, and
every indication of winter having set in in that neigh-
bourhood was apparent.
At Mariaupol the river or harbour was frozen, and
much ice lined the coast as far down as Bielosarai Light-
house ; the temperature at mid-day as low as 29 deg.
Fahrenheit.
From thence I separated the squadron so as to ex-
amine the whole coast from Ghenitch to Enikald Light-
house, most minutely, and not a single boat of the small-
spelneaiosredoin to employ
of a detached
employ me for
small-
est description was to be seen.
In surrendering into your hands the prominent posi-
tion
the
lasti
fivewhich u have
months,
squadron, allow me, sir, to express, most respectfully,
my deep sense of the honour you conferred upon me,
° th abte oe f n
and the grateful recollection of the unvarying kindness,
confidence, and consideration I have experienced at your
hands ; without it I feel I never should, as I trust I
have, succeeded in carrying out your views and instruc-
tions.
Next to that let me again remind you that my anxiety
to execute your plans has ever been an easy task,
supported as I have ever been by, the gallant and zealous
exertions of every officer and man serving in this squad-
ron ; I know not how sufficiently to express my appro-
bation of their conduct.
And it is rot the less pleasing part of my duty to
assure you of the kindly co-operation I have ever re-
ceived from the officers of the French Navy serving in
the Sea of Azoff. Among those more especially known
to me, I feel justified in mentioning Lieutenant Clone,
commandin,g the Brandon ; Lieutenant La Juoheite,
Fulton ; and Lieutenant Vdal, of the Caton.—l have,
&c., (Signed) S. OSBORN.
Rear-Admiral Sir Aclmund Lyons, Bart.,
&c., &c., &c ,

At the York Ecclesiastical Court, last week, a suit
was prosecuted by the secretary of the Bibhop of Car-
isle against the Rev. Moses Hetherington, perpetual
curate of Mungrisdile Greystoke, Cumberland, for
drunkenness and other improper conduct. The defen-
dant did not appear, and the Court sentenced him to
suspension for three years,—Newcastle amide.