The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-08 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

BERLIN, THURSDAY.

According to official reports published in St.
Petersburg, the Crimea is supplied with provi-
sions for the Russian army for eight months.
The Bank of Berlin has raised its discount one
half per cent.

VIENNA, WEDNESDAY
EYENIN Cl.

The Archduke Maximilian, Chief of the Nava

Department, was driving this morning in Trieste,
when the horses took fright and ran away.
The Archduke jumped out of the carriage, and,
falling on his head, injured the skull.

His Imperial Highness is in danger, and the
Emperor, his brother, has just left this city for
Trieste.

ST. PETERSBURG, WEDNESDAY.

We learn here from a report of the Commissary-
General that the Euxine fleet is still provisioned
for eight months.

• A now editor has bean appointed to the Invalids
Busse.

A Vienna paper, the Freniclen Blatt, states that
it learns from Prince Gortschakoff's headquarters

that the P,us3ian army in the Crimea has now a

strength of 200,000 men. The Grenadier corps
which lately arrived at Simpheropol was accom-
panied, says this authority, by " 8,000 waggons
drawn by oxen, so that the Russian army-is pro-
visioned for six months." Prince Gortschakoff
will vot expect convoys after November, as by
that time the steppes will be covered with snow.

THE KINBOURN EXPEDITION.
(From the Second Mition of the Times.)
AT ANCHOR, OFF THE BOUG,
TUESDAY, OCT. 23.
The mails were despatched from Admiral Sir 11.
Stewart's flying squadron in the Cracker, at eight
o clock this morning. I regret that I had no better
news to send you, or at least details of more ac-
tive operations ; but, in truth, we can do nothing
beyond harassing the enemy, and keeping them in
a state of incessant watchfulness, whilst we get
sonndings, and gain time for the troops to put
Kinbourn in order. Between the deep branches
of the Dnieper and the Bong there is a continuous
bank from shore to shore, on which the water is
in no part more than nine feet deep, so that ves-
sels drawing eight feet water can just get over
without risk of grounding in the deep tenacious
mud. There is a strong wind down the Bong to-day,
and the air is very clear and sharp. Fires are
rising towards the western horizon, whore the
troops are reconnoitring. They are now on their
return to Kinbourn, and so far it has been ascer-
tained that the gun-vessels could not render them
much assistance in the event of a march to Klier-
son in consequence of the great width of the sedgy
borders winch separate sea from land, and the
shallowness of the bottom. The Rear-Admiral,
who is by no means fond of an inactive life,
started off in the Spitfire to survey and inspect
the mouths of the Dnieper, and while on his
cruise communicated with one of the small gun-
boats by signal, and was informed that there was
a large raft of wood in the river for dockyard
purposes, but the signal could not be cicarly
made out, and the Spitfire returned in theevening.
None of the troops could be seen, but the steamer
stoocl, in close to Stanislaff, and saw about 5,000
men, infantry and artillery, in the neighbourhood.
Indeed it is when one comes, as it were into Russia,
that her immense resources in the raw material
of soldiery become conspicuous, and all the more
reason is there for resisting her brute aggressions
and ostentatious exercise of physical force. The
Russian skull is not impervious to reason and argu-
ment, and it is possible that some even of the people
of Stanislaff might have doubted the invincibility
of Russia, her greatness and overwhelming power,
when they saw a small steamer with the flag of an
English Admiral flying at the mizen, cruising along
their seaboard, and examining every nook of
their coast with curious impunity. The enemy'
are casting up a sort of earthwork for cannon at
the west side of the river. The Cossacks are every-
where, and it is impossible to land, although there
are great temptations offered to the sportsmen by
the enormous flocks of wild swans, geese, ducks,
teal, and widgeon, which frequent the reedy
borders of the sea ; or to the less fastidious and
more substantial tastes of those who, tired of
salt meat, and with larders exhausted, Nigh after
the lowing kine, fat bullocks, and poultry of the ,
enemy. It is not safe to approach the shore
—the telegraphs communicate every motion of
the fleet, and no boat could go near the
shore without its being known, and an ambush
laid for the crew. The other day some of the
crew of the Lord Arthur Gordon took a boat, and
landed some miles down the Spit, encouraged by
the successful result of a previous day's forage.
They were attacked by a body of Cossacks, who
seized three of them and dragged them off into
captivity, fastened to their horses's tails and sad-
dle-bows.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24.
The Spitfire went off at dawn this morning
to communicate with the gun-boats respecting the
rafts signalled yesterday. A French gun-boat,
with the permission of Admiral Stewart, stood across
to Kiubourn Spit, and presently began to fire on
the shore. We heard afterwards that she disco-
vered a body of Cossacks on the march eastwards
to Kherson. They had, no doubt, followed up
the reconnaissance till the men regained their
camp. The range was too long, and the gun-boat's
shot fell short. A number of our gun-boats re-
turned front the Dnieper, and the Spiteful weighed
at 3.30, and stood towards the embouchments of
that river to look after the Spitfire and the rafts.
As our apparent strength at the mouth of the
Bong would have been much diminished by the de-
parture of so many vessels, as well as of the French 1
gun-boats which sailed yesterday, Admiral Lyons
sent up the Industry store screw steamer, and the
Charity and Zebra screw transports, to do duty as
dummy men-of-war. The latter two painted out
the numbers on their bows and quarters, and did
their best to look like the real thing. How pleased
the Russians would be if they could but know the
Bong was blockaded by two transports and a store
ship ! There was nothing to do all day but to
watch the Cossack videttes and the flocks, the
houses on shore, and the cavalry pickets. The
weather continues beautifully fine.

THURSDAY, OCT. 25.
This morning the Admiral, in the Stromboli, fol-
lowed by the Triton, Wrangler, and Snake, pro-
ceeded to the Dnieper, and arrived off the mouths
of the river about 8 o'clock in the morning.
The bay of Kherson contracts into an estuary of
five or six miles across, bordered by high rushes,
beyond which foliage and trees cover the horizon.
The Dnieper steals to the sea through this rich
marsh, and the waters at this part of the bay are
fresh and sweet.

A huge raft of wood, 450 feet long and about 100
feet wide, and 6 feet deep, lay floating off one of
the mouths, and the Spitfire was busily engaged in
getting off a similar raft, which had been grounded
among the reeds. The first raft, which is the larger
of the two, consists like the latter of splendid pieces
of white oak of great length and
thickness, intended
for the dockyard at Nicolaieff. It is strongly
and secured by ropes in every
clamped, screwed,
and a well-built and substantial house is
part,
erected on it for the use of the navigators. The
second raft is. similar in all respects to the first in
the quality and size of the timber, but there is no
house upon it. It is calculated_the value of the
timber is at least 20,000/. They were, uo doubt,
intended for the Imperial navy, and would have
been safe in Nicolaieli in a few days had we not
forced the Oczakoff passage. The Spiteful took
one raft in tow, and the Spitfire, after much hard
work and tugging at the second, signalled, about
9 o'clock, The raft is afloat." No one superin-
tended the operation on the part of the Czar save
two solitary Cossacks who craned over the rushes
to look at it. The Spiteful started soon after 9
o'clock, amrthe Spitfire then came out with the
second raft after her, and was taken in tow by the
Triton.

At 5 p.m. Sir Houston Stewart, who received de-
spatches from Sir E. Lyons in the course of the after-
noon by gun-boat, signalled " The Commander-in-
Chief congratulates the squadron on the capture
of rafts."

The Gladiator sailed yesterday for Varna, and
thence to the Crimea.
The Hannibal has been brought inside the Spit,
and anchored near the Valorous, under the charge
of Mr. Booker, Master of the Spitfire. For three
miles she had only two feet of,wa,ter under her keel.
Sir E. Lyons has conferred the commandership
placed at his diposal by the Admiralty on Lieut.

Gaussen, of the Agamemnon, an old and most deserving officer, and this promotion has given the
greatest satisfaction to officers and men.
FRIDAY, Oct. 26.
The Spitfire and Spiteful started with the rafts
early this morning, and reached Kinbourn in
safety with them at noon.
Sir Houston Stewart, in the Stromboli, accom-
panied by the Triton, weighed at 1 o'clock and re-
turned to his old anchorage off the mouth of the
Bong. The day was very fine. No news. The
Russian cotters appear to be moving off from the
sea-side.

The mail leaves to-morrow morning for Kin-
bourn at 9 a.m.

TURKEY.
C•NSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 29.—That unlucky corps,
the Turkish Contingent, which seems destined to
pass its whole time in steaming and marching to
and fro, without obtaining rest or encountering a
foe, is not, we are assured, to remain at Kertch and
Yenikale. It is reported that the Russians are
to be driven away from Kaffa, and the Turks to
take up their winter quarters there. The reason
assigned for the change is the want of sufficient
wood and water. As regards the movements of
General Vivian's corps d' armee, I am unable to
speak positively, but of the deficiency in fuel and
water there appears to be not the slightest doubt,
and we are left to wonder once more at the extra-
ordinary want of foresight and information dis-
played at head-quarters either in England or the
Crimea. The contingent now numbers 15,000 men,
having had 7,000 added to it on its arrival in the
Crimea. It is shortly to receive—at least it is aro-
mised-3,000 more, and then it will for the present
be no further augmented.
Letters of the 23d from the mouth of the Bong,
and of the 27th from Sebastopol, contain nothing
of the slightest interest. The camp was still in the
enjoyment of beautiful weather. To-day's Journal
de Constantinople says that telegraphic orders have
been received from England that our cavalry should
winter in the Crimea. The truth of the statement
is doubted. The construction of stables and bar-
racks near Scutari for the English cavalry is being
rapidly pushed on, and is expected to be completed
in about three weeks.

The Severn transport arrived hero on Friday
evening with 180 sick, from Balaklava, after a very
rapid passage.
Private letters from Kars rate the Russian loss
at the late action extremely high—at as many as
12,000 men, killed, wounded, and prisoners. Other
letters in the Constantinople papers go higher still,
and talk of 15,000 and even 18,000. The lowest of
the three statements is probably an exaggeration,
but there can be no doubt of the completeness of
the viitory or of the gallant behavour of the
Turks.