The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-06 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 26.

Ali Pasha leaves on the 29th, ,via Trieste. He
will be at Vienna on the 6th or 7th of April.

For the last few days we have had very fine
weather. The wind is still in the south. Our

men-of-war and transports coming from the Medi-
terranean arrive rapidly, and continue their jour-

ney to the Crimea.

The French having agreed with the Ottoman

Government to construct in two years a barrack

capable of receiving 20,000 men, have had a
building belonging to the University ceded to

them for seven years.

The health of the troops in Anatolia has im-
proved since a favourable change has taken place

n the weather.

Letters from Athens of the 30th ult. state that

a band of brigands had attacked a convoy carry-
ing money belonging to the State, and took pm:-
session of the treasure. Two vessels, with some

allied troops on board, have been despatched in

order to repress these outrages.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.
CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL,
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 23.
The enemy have either become desperate or
have been inspirited and encouraged by their re-
cent encounters with the French on our right.
Their guns are nearly silent day and night, but
they have not been retired. Every embrasure is
armed ; the muzzle of the gun is visible under the
screen of cloth which is hung across from gabion to
gabion. Their sorties are made night after night,
in greater force and with more confidence on each
occasion. Last night, indeed, they received a se-
vere check, but it was not until they had got up to
our second parallel on the left, or Green-hill at/
tack, had got into our mortar battery on the right
attack, and had inflicted a severe loss on our allies
on the right towards Inkerman. Iu the affair of
last night, the particulars of which will be found
below, we had seven officers killed, wounded, and
taken prisoners, and about 100 men put hors de
combat or carried into Sebastopol. The French, it
is believed, lost between 300 and 400 men and 15
officers killed, wounded, and missing. On the
other hand, the enemy mutt have suffered a loss
of 600 or 700 men, although they succeeded in con-
cealing the severity of their loss by carrying off
their dead and wounded as usual. Still, the num-
ber'of dead bodies lying along the front of our
trenches proves that they received a heavy loss.
The bodies of 12 men and of one officer remain in
the trenches of our left attack. The bill sides
below the Round Tower and the Mamelon are
covered with their dead, mingled with the bodies
of the French. The corpse of a Zluave officer is
distinguishable on the slope, close up to the abattis
of the Round Tower, where the gallant soldier fell
as he led on his men in pursuit of the Russins. No
flag of truce has been sent in from either side to
demand permission to bury the dead. They are lying
about among the gabions which have been knocked
down in front of the French sap towards the rifle
pits in great numbers. Looking at any of the in-
accurate maps which have been published of the
position, there will still be, nevertheless, two
mounds indicated to the east of the Round Tower.
The first of these is " The Mamelon." On the
second the Russians have erected a work on the
spot from which the French were repulsed in their
attempt to dislodge the enemy. The rifle pits
which have been so hardly contested are in front
of the Mamelon. Three of them are still occupied
by the Russians, and three of them now belong to
the French ; but the latter were obliged to aban-
don them for a time last night during the first
rush of the enemy. The enemy have already opened
guns from the Mamelon, which they direct against
the French approaches towards the pits, and we
may expect that the work east of it will soon be
armed also. Its fire will enfilade a portion of our
lines, and the Mamelon will be able to direct from
one flank an awkward fire on the flank of our right
attack. The Russian engineers have displayed con-
summate ability in their works, and it is well for us
their artillerymen are not as expert as those who
place them in the batteries. Conscious of the
strength they have gained by the possession
of those positions, and of the advantages they
have secured in defending the town, the Rus-
sians appear determined to make the most of
their new attack. The Mamelon is exposed to
the fire of the guns in the right of our right at-
tack and to the fire of the second French redoubt
over Inkerman, and every two or three minutes a
shot or shell is thrown into the work, but the
enemy maintain their ground, though the desert-
ers inform ye that they lose 100 men every 24
hours within the parapets of Mamelon. The prac-
tice of our artillerymen is splendid. Scarcely a
shot fails in striking the top of the parapet just at
the right place, and a black pillar of loose earth
shoots up into the air from the work after every
discharge from our guns ; but the Russians hold
it still, and they are determined to keep their hold
as long as they can. The defence of the place is
conducted on a now principle, and we shall be se-
verely tried, with our present numbers, in doing
the work cut out for us.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 (after post-day).
Sir John Burgoyne left the camp to-day and pro-
ceeded to Kamiesh, where he took a passage by
the mail steamer, on his way to England.
The following tribute to Sir John Burgoyne from
the Commander-in-Chief appears in orders to
night :