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

PRINCE GORTSCLIAKOFFS ORDER

OF THE DAY.

We.have already stated in our Telegraphic In-
telligence that Prince Gortschakoff had announced
to his troops by an Order of the Day, that he
would never voluntarily abandon the Crimea. The
fellowiug is the order iu full
His Imperial Majesty, our master, having charged
me to thank, in his name and that of Russia, the valiant
soldiers who defended the south side of Sebastopol with
so much self-denial, courage, and perseverance, is per-
suaded that the army, after having won the freedom of
field operations, will continue to defend the soil of holy
Russia against invasion by the enemy with every effort
possible. But just as it gratified the solicitude of the
lather of this great family (the army) from his great fore-
sight, to order the construction of a bridge so as to spare
Russian blood as much as possible at the last moment,
so the Emperor has invested me with full powers to
continue or cease the defence of our positions in the
Crimea, according to circumstances.
"Valiant Warriors ! You know your duty. We
will not willingly abandon this country, where St. Wla-
dimir received the Water of Grace, after being converted
to that Christianity which we are defending. But there
are situations sometimes that render the firmest resolves
impracticable, and the greatest sacrifices useless. The
Emperor has deigned to leave me the sole judge of the
moment when we ought to change our line of defence, if
such is the will of God. It is for us to prove that we
know how to justify the unlimited confidence of the
Czar, now arrived in our vicinity and the wants of the
army. Have confidence in me, as you have hitherto
had in all the hours of trial sent us by the decrees of
Providence.

"Adjutant-General Prince GORTSCHAKOFF,
Commander of the Army of the South and
the Troops in the Crimea.
"Mackenzie Heights, October 13."

[Before the fall of Sebastopol the Prince signed
himself—Commander of the Land and Sea Forces
in the Crimea.]

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 7.
Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included the
Duchess of Kent, the Princess Royal, Lady Augusta
Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Colonel the Hon. C.B. and
Mrs. Phipps, Sir Geerge Couper, Lieut.-General Sir
John Burgoyne, and Major-General Sir Henry Bentinck.
The band of the Second Life Guards played during
dinner, and the Queen's private band afterwards per-
formed in the Castle.

Prince Albert went out shooting this morning.
Lieut.• General Sir John Burgoyne and Major-General
Sir Henry Bentinck left the Castle in the forenoon.

Despatches from the Governors of the Cape of Good
Hope, Natal, and Malta were received yesterday at
the Colonial•office.

THEATRICALS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.

The Queen has commanded that theatrical perform-
ances shall be resumed at Windsor Castle this season, the
first performance to take place on the 22d inst.
Hitherto the performances have taken place in the
Rubens Room. St. George's Hall is now being fitted
up for the purpose, its noble dimensions being better
adapted for the convenience of the Court, and at the
same time affording greater space for scenic effect.

A large quantity of magnificent new scenery is being
prepared by Mr. Grieve, who has been entrusted with
the whole arrangement of this department.
The stage, which will occupy about one-third of the
hall, is situated at the western end, leading into the
Guard Chamber, thus leaving the throne end for the
accommodation of her Majesty and the distinguished
guests who may be honoured with invitations.

The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal children,
it is expected, will be at Osborne Palace the first week
in December, provided the King of Sardinia does not
visit England, which is anticipated.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is, it is
said, immediately about to visit Paris, having been press-
ingly invited to do so by the Emperor of the French.
The Duchess of Inverness has been suffering from in-
disposition during the past fortnight, at Kensington
Palace.

The Duchess of Suther!and has returned to Stafford
House, from Paris. Her Grace had the honour of
dining with the Emperor and Empress of the French at
the Palace of St. Cloud, on Thursday evening last.
The Duke of Richmond is expected to return to
Brighton in about a week, to resume the command of
the Royal Sussex Militia.
Sir John Burgoyne is staying at Brighton. Sir Henry
and Lady Bulwer, Sir J. W. Shelley, M.P., and Lady
Shelley, are also amongst the recent arrivals.
The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor, who ar
rived in town on Tuesday night, from Paris, have left
for Calverley Park, Cheshire, where the noble earl and
her ladyship will shortly receive company.
The village of Woodsome, in Yorkshire, was the
scene of great rejoicing on Monday last, in consequence
of the visit of the Right Hon. the Earl of Dart:south.
This was the first time since the present earl has suc-
ceeded to the family honours and estate, that he has
visited the ancient seat of his ancestors.
Lord Colchester has purchased Mr. Augustus Craven's
house in Berkeley-square.
Mr. Buckstone and Miss Reynolds, of the Haymarket,
are acting at Glasgow.
William Miles, Esq., M.P., arrived on Tuesday at 7,
Hamilton-place, Piccadilly, for a few days, from his seat,
Leigh-court, near Bristol.
Sir George and Lady Hodson have left their resi-
dence in the county of Wicklow for Mountstewart, on a
visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry.
Mrs. Smith O'Brien and family have arrived from
Brussels on a visit to her father, Mr. Joseph Gabbett.
Mr. Smith O'Brien and sons leave Brussels shortly on a
tour through Italy.
Mdme. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt has just arrived in
Paris with her husband. She comes from Geneva, where
she appeared in a concert given for the benefit of Ernst,
the violinet, and in another for the poor. She intends to
remain in Paris for a fortnight, and then to proceed to
London.

On the 13th the Ring of the Belgians will open in
person the legislative session of the two Chambers.
The reply of the Holy See to the memorandum pub-
lished by the Spanish and Piedmontese Governments,
on the occasion of the allocutions pronounced against
them by the Pope, will very shortly be made public.
CONIXIITTAL OF ALICE GREY TO STAFFORD ASSIZES.—
WOLVERHAMPTON, Wednesday.—The above notorious
female impostor, remanded from last week, was to-day
brought before the magistrates and fully commiAed for
trial.

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 EVENI NG .

The Archduke Maximilian, Chief of the Naval
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 stilt provisioned

for eight months.

A new editor has been appointed to the Invalide
Busse.

A Vienna paper, the Fremden Blatt, states that
it learns from Prince Gortschakoff's headquarters
that the Russian 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 not expect convoys after November, as by
that time the steppes will be covered with snow.

THE KINBOURN EXPEDITION.
(From the Second A'di•ion of the Times.)
AT ANCHOR, OFF THE BOUG,
TUESDAY, OCT. 23.
The mails were despatched from Admiral Sir H.
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 mere 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
soundings, 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 Boug to-day,
and the air is very clear and sharp. Fires are
rising towards the western horizon, where 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 Kher-
son, in consequence of the great width of the sedgy
borders which 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 clearly
made out, and the Spitfire returned in the evening.
None of the troops could be seen, but the steamer
stood 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 exerciss 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, sigh after
the lowing kine, fat bullock; 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 Cossack; 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 from the Dnieper, and the Spiteful weighed
at 3.30, and stood towards tie embouchments of
that river to look after the Spitfire and the rafts.
As our apparent strength at the mouth of the
Boug would have been much diminished by the de-
parture of so many vessels, as well as of the French
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
Boug 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 Tritp, 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 au estuary of
five or six miles across, bordered by high rushes,
beyond which foliage and tri n 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 o f
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
e_ 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
clamped, screwed, and secured by ropes in every
part, and a well-built and substantial house is
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 20,0001. They were, no doubt,
intended for the Imperial navy, and would have
been safe in Nicolaieff in a few dabs had we nog
forced the Oczakoff passage. The Spiteful took
013'3 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 afxr 9
o'clock, and the 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, wdo received de-
spatches from SirE. Lyons in the course of the after-
noon by gun-boat, signalled "The Commander-in-
Chief congratulates the squadron on the captain
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 water under her keel.
Sir E. Lyons has conferred the commandership
placed at his Wpm' by the Admiralty on Lieut.

•
Gaussen, of the Agamemnon, an old and most de:
serving 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
Doug. 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.
CONSTANTINOPLE, 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'arm6e, 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 pro-
mised-3,000 more, and then it will for the present
be no further augmented.
Letters of the 23cl from the mouth of the Boug,
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 rays 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 02 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 here 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 victory or of the gallant behavour of the
Turks.