The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-17 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Nov. 13.—The Emperor left Trieste
yesterday morning, at 8 o'clock, amd reached
Schonbrunn this morning. The Archduke Ferdi-
nand Max is going on well. Baron Prokesch ar-
rived here from Frankfort on the 11th, and will
soon go to his post at Constantinople. Count
Coronini, the Commander in the Danubian Prin-
cipalities, arrived here yesterday morning. The
Nuremberg Correspondent has learned that Count
Coronini was summoned to Vienna by Count Buol,
in order that he might bo able to give his opinion
to his Majesty " relative to what is likely to occur
next spring." The meaning of this is, that it is
here believed the campaign will be opened next
year on the Lower Danube. It is, however, the
opinion of scientific Austrian officers that it would
be madness for the Allies to attempt anything
against Bessarabia and Volhynia until they have
obtained possession of the Crimea, and raised all
the Caucasian tribes against the Russians. The
Po has overflowed its banks, carried away all the
pontoon bridges, and inundated the whole of the
neighbouring country.
The Oesterreichische Zeitung has a letter of the 2d
of November from Odessa. The Grand Duke Con-
stantine has directed all the persons belonging to
the Black Sea fleet who suffered losses at Sebastopol
to send a conscientious account of them to Nico-
laieff. When the inhabitants of Oczakoff emigrated
they were robbed and ill-treated by the CossackP,
but a complaint having been made to the Emperor
the offenders were punished according to mar-
tial law. The correspondent observes that the ad-
vice given by the Augsburg Gazette to form strand
batteries, armed with long 48 and 50 pounders, is
.excellent, but unfortunately the Russians have no
larger guns than 36 pounders in the neighbourhood
of the Black Sea. Last July a park of 48 and 60
pounders was ordered to be cast in Siberia, and the
guns, when they arrive, will be mounted at Nico-
laieff. On the Ist the allied fleets passed Odessa
in three divisions. The large ships took the direc-
tion of Constantinople, but the steamers and gun-
boats were evidently making the best of their way
to Sebastopol. On the Ist a Greek brigantine
laden with salt managed to escape the fleet, and
ran into the port of Odessa.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Nov. 15.—The Chambers of Nobles
and Deputies are convoked for the 29th. For the
supplementary elections of Berlin, the choice of the
election has fallen on the Librarian Reimer, the
Town Counsellor Pock, Town Secretary Bode,
Counsellor of the Tribune Sehnert, and the Presi-
dent Wentzel. Magdibourg, the Counsellor of
Legation, Groaner, has been elected.

A letter from Varna, of the 12th, in the Cologne
Gazette, says :—" Prince Gortschakoti has lately
received a letter from his brother, the general, who
expresses a hope of being able to hold the Crimea
against the Allies during the winter."

PREPARATIONS FOR ANOTHER ATTACK

BY THE RUSSIANS.

The Courrier de' Marseilles publishes the follow-
ing letter, dated Camp of Inkerman, 30th nit.
" While the allied armies were only bent on prepar-
ing for themselves winter cantonments, and every one
regarded the campaign as definitively closed, owing to
the immovability of the Russians, the report of a proxi-
mate attack of the enemy began to circulate, and dis-
turbed the dearly-acquired repose enjoyed by our sol-
dierg. Tbis is not a vague rumour. The advices re-
ceived by our Generals, the accounts given by the
deserters, and the reconnaissances effected close to the
very lines of the enemy fully convince us that the Rus-
sians are about to make a for ward movement. They
have of late reinforced their bridge equipages and
collected on certain points the materiel necessary
to convey their artillery across streams and ravines.
Those preparations may have two objects in view
—either to serve for a retreat or an offensive movement.
Opinions are divided in the allied camp, and each party
adduces reasons equally admissible. Bo this as it may,
there is one fact well known to everybody and admitted
by all—namely, that fresh troops and divisions of the
Imperial Guard have lately joined the army of Prince
Gortschakoff. Tho Russians were hitherto sufficiently
strong to maintain and defend with advantage the long
line of intrenchments occupied by them, from the north-
ern fort to the plateaux of the Upper Belbek. Nothing
even obliged them to retain their positions to the north
of the roadstead. There is consequently every reason. to
believe that the reinforcements received by the Russian
Generalissimo will inspire him with a desire to retrieve
the prestige of his arms by some desperate attempt.
The resolution of the enemy is the more probable
as the fears he must have entertained for Pher-
son and Nicolaieff, since the capture of Kinbourn,
and which must sooner or later bring to the banks of
the Dnieper and the Boug a large portion of his contin-
gents, impose to a certain degree on Prince Gortscha-
koff, before he quits the Crimea, the obligation of offer-
ing battle to his adversaries. Thus the project attri-
buted to the Russians of directing a new attack upon
our lines of the Tchernaya does not indicate that they
will not evacuate the Crimea. It is a mere point of
honour with them, for they certainly cannot indulge the
hope of driving us out of our position. Those different
contingencies have not been overlooked by our chiefs,
as you may suppose, and, notwithstanding our anxiety
to see the Russians at last descend into the plain,
every precaution is taken to guard the army against
a surprise. Our intrenched lines from Balaklava to
Inkerman are carefully inspected and constantly ex-
tanded and improved by our Engineers. The points
easily accessible have been defended by new works, and
on every point their armament is truly formidable. This
will not prevent us from going to meet the enemy, if
he affords us the opportunity, but, as I have already
stated, no precaution is neglected. The armament of the
new works erected on the Feduikhine heights, command-
ing the only passage through which the Russians can
debouch on the Tchernaya, has fixed the particular at-
tention of our officers of engineers. The French divi-
sions aro constantly kept on the qui vive, At every
moment some engagement between the outposts in-
duces a belief that the Russians are about to attack
us, but hitherto none of their movements have
indicated such an intention on their part. The Sar-
dinian army is perfectly well installed on our left,
and equally desirous to have another brush with the
enemy. The English continue to occupy in great force
the neighbourhood of Balaklava. There is nothing new
at Sebastopol. The Russians and allies cannonade each
other across the port, but with little or no effect. The
camps of the Russians on the other side resemble mole-
hills. It is astonishing with what activity they dig the
ground. We often ask ourselves if this is not a phan-
tasmagoria, and what can be the utility of those im-
mense works, which add nothing to the security of the
main army. On our side numerous batteries are being
erected, particularly around Fort St. Nicholas. We
daily expect our floating Lotteries from Kinbourn, and
with their co-operation we hope to silence the Russian
batteries which prevent us from taking up our quarters
in Sebastopol."