The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-01 00:00:00

English.

A number of Greeks hostile to the Western
cause have been arrested at Constantinople. Re-

joicinga have taken place at Smyrna.

The authorities have announced that they will
act rigorously against all Greek malcontents who
may make public demonstration.
King Otho has sent decorations to the members
of the Divan. The pretext is the_ signature of
the recent treaty of commerce.

ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 21.

Linent Bey, the engineer, has sot out for
France, to forward the project of cutting through
the Isthmus of Suez.

The revolt of the Mussulmans of Abyssinia has
been suppressed. The new Viceroy has declared
his intention to protect Europeans, and proclaimed
freedom of religious worship.

TRIESTE, SEPT. 27.

By intelligence from Constantinople of the 17th
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe continued to refuse
acknowledging Mehemed Ali as Minister.

SPAIN.
MADRID, SEPT. 28.

The Queen is going on well. Marshal Espartero
has returned from the Escurial, and is much satis-
fied with the reception given him by her Majesty.
An accident has happened on the Aranjuez rail-
way, by which six persons were killed.

VIENNA, SEPT. 30.

The Emperor Alexander, with the Grand Dukes
Michael and Nicholas, arrived on the 25th at
Nicolaieff.

HAMBURG, SEPT. 30.
iThe Finland journals say that the exportation
1 of corn is. prohibited.

GREECE.
ATHENS, SEPT. 20.

M. Kalergi is still Minister at War.

It is announced from Malta, under date of
Sept. 25, that the insurgents of Tripoli are march-
ing in great force on the capital.

We have news from Kars down to September
5. Nothing new had taken place. General Oa-
landrelle had died of cholera.

THE WAR IN THE CRIMEA,
( From the Times' Special Correspondent.)
FOURTH DIVISION CAMP, TUESDAY
MORNING, SEPT. 18.
Since last Saturday very little has occurred to
meet the eye, and the news may be briefly stated.
The Russians continue to strengthen their position
on the north side, and to hang on their old points of
o3cupation from thence to the ridges over Ai-todor.
The Naval Brigade has been broken up and sent on
board ship. The French have moved large masses of
the corps of the left siege army to the rear between
Baidar and Tchorgoun. Our batteries are disarmed.
The roads to the camp are undergoing repair,
and the Army Works Corps, assisted by soldiers,
is engaged in the formation of a new road
from Balaklava which will run parallel with the
line of railway. Everything around us indicates
the intention of putting the army into winter quar-
ters on the site of their present encampment, but
there are signs equally unequivocal that a blow is
to be struck at the enemy ere the troops set them-
selves passively down to encounter the rigours of
the winter. These signs, insignificant if taken
separately, are in. the aggregate unmistakeable,
unless our Generals merely desire to wile away the
time in shamming and in frightening the enemy
with bugaboo expeditions, just as they are endea-
vouring to alarm us by their extensive fortifica-
tions on the north side, and as they sought
to intimidate us in days past by erecting
street batteries, barricades, and internal lines of
defence. In the first place great activity prevails
throughout the Land Transport Corps, several
divisions of which have received orders to hold
themselves in readiness for immediate service.
Colonel McMurdo-is busily engaged in ascertaining
the actual capabilities of his corps, -and has been
required to furnish head-quarters with an-accurate
estimate of the amount of supplies of a certain
character which he could convey, and of the num-
ber of mules and-horses fit for duty. In one divi-
sion the Captain 4as been ordered to prepare mules
to carry, 250,0001toundo of ball car- triage, that

50 rounds per man for a force of 5,000 men.
The officer in charge of the small arm reserve
ammunition has been warned to prepare for
taking it into the field. The troops of Royal
Horse Artillery and the field batteries have been
turned out in marching order, with baggage,
ate., and were under the impression on Monday
morning, that they were really going to start at
once. Of the movements of the French, Sardinians,
and Turks you will hear from another quarter.
Those of the British have not actually begun, and
we have made no sign positive except the removal
of the heavy field batteries to the front, which is
intended probably to strengthen our position, in
case the troops should be weakened by any con-
siderable number being detached to the rear or
flanks. The medals and clasps were distributed
early this morning to the men of this division, and
it is understood that there will be a general re-
view or inspection of the whole army to-morrow
or on Thursday.
I have much to say respecting the Naval Brigade,
to which General Simpson pays a well-deserved
encomium in general orders, with regard to the
distribution of those same clasps and medals, and
also in reference to Sebastopol itself, but I must
reserve my remarks for a future letter.
Our sappers and miners are at work sinking
great mines to blow in and destroy the unrivalled
docks, which have cost Russia so .much anxiety,
money, and bloodshed, and if it were not that they
were intended to be, and have been, accessory
to violence and slaughter, one would regret that
such splendid memorials of human skill should
be scattered to atoms, but the fleet of Sinope
sailed thence, and were repaired there on its re-
turn, and they were built not to foster peace and
commerce, but to smite and destroy them. These
preparations are made under the eyes of the
enemy, who have made no attempt to disturb the
working parties by firing from the north side, al-
though their guns have the range of the place at
tolerable elevations, Nearer to them still, on the
open quay, parties of our men are constantly en-
gaged in burning old stores, clothing, boots, belts,
shakos, bags, and such articles, which the enemy
left behind them, but the Russians are veritable
Gallios, and appear not to care for those things. They
are not to be always trusted, however, for if a knot
of officers or horsemen collect in one place they un-
expectedly send a shell or shot among them, and
now and then do a little mischief to the remains of
their own town. The could sweep some of the
chosen look-out places with grape, but it is believed
they are waiting for a grand collection of Generals,
Staff Officers, and Officers to astonish us all with a
broadside some fine day. Mr. Large, Paymaster,
Rifle Brigade, was slightly wounded by a shell from
the north side, and his horse was killed at the same
time.

The French have a mortar battery behind Fort
Nicholas, with which they shell the Russian working
parties. The latter fort affords excellent cover,
though it is rather avoided, in consequence of a
popular belief that it is extensively mined and will
go up some fine day with a crowd of distinguished
visitors. In spite of the flames it is intact, and
does not in any way justify the assertions of
those travellers who maintained that the Russian
casemated forts would crumble to pieces, or would
smother the gunners with smoke. The casemates
are open, with fine airy galleries behind, and the
whole building is most admirably and compactly
built. In the same way Fort Alexander is com-
paratively but little injured, although the mines
underneath exploded with a tremendous crash.
The walls of the fort aro still erect. Fort Paul
alone is in perfect ruins.
There was an armistice for a few minutes on
Tuesday to effect an interchange of letters for pri-
soners. The Russian officer who conducted it, and
who is supposed to have been the commander of
the Vladimir, is said to have expressed the same
opinion as the Russian Admiral did on Monday, the
10th inst.—" With this before us," pointing to the
ruins of Sebastopol, "peace is further off than
ever." The Russians have a very large park of
artillery on the other side of the harbour. Many
of the guns found here wore cast at Carron, as is
evident by the words on their trunnion heads
and breaches.

The piles of shot and the number of guns in the
arsenals at the head of Dockyard Creek are wonder-
fully large considering the immense amount of both
expended in the siege. It is suspected the ships
were all disarmed lately.
The 3d Buffs garrison our part of the town. Cap-
tain Rowlands, 41st Regiment, has been appointed
Town Major to Colonel Windham, C. 8., who is
English Governor of Sebastopol.
The French cavalry are going to Eupatoria.