The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-20 00:00:00

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THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

PARIS, APRIL 20.

Gen. Canrobert writes on the 14th that the

superiority of the artillery of the Allies was be-

coming more and more certain. Our troops are

now masters of many strong positions on the

enemy's left. We are approaching the place

sensibly.

EIIPATORIA, APRIL 5.

The Allies have demanded 20,000 men to be
sent down to Sebastopol—it is imagined fur the
assault. The embarkation begins to-day. 0111 C r

Pasha goes to-morrow.

VIENNA, THURSDAY EvEisaNct, APRIL 19.

The Weiner Zeitung publishes the following:—
" CRIMEA, APRIL 14.

" During the night of the 13th the left attack
of the allies obtained considerable advantage over

the Russians.

" The Russians were twice dislodged from a

strongly-fortified position, which remained in the
hand 3 of the French.

" The possession of this position enabled the
allies to fortify the summit of the mountain glens
(ravines ?), which is of great importance."
" CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 10.

"A despatch from Mehmed A.Ai announces thai

he has slain 1,400 Kurds, taken 500 prisoners,
and occupied their strongest positions.

"Sinope and Rhodes are to be fortified."

(From. the Times Special Correspondept )
CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, APRIL 7.

The bombardment will, is said, begin on
vionday morning. It is nearly a month since
we were assured everything wars ready, but it a,!;-
pears now that everything will not be ready til
Monday next. There has been a conference of
Admirals and Generals at Lorl Raglan's quar-
ters, at which the Fteld-Marsb.al, General Can-
robert, Sir Edmund Lyons, and Admiral Brua'
assisted. It is rumoured throughout the fleet tha
they are to open fire on the forts as soon as tilt-
bombardment begins, not, indeed, with the idea of
going close in, breaking the booms, or burstin:
through the barrier of sunken ships, but to draw
off the artillerymen from the batteries, and distrac
the attention of the enemy. A. number of French,
and some few English vessels, ha ye been despatched
up the coast northwards, and it; is universally ex-
,ected that a portion of the Turkish army of Eupa-
toria, will be detached to effect formidable diver-
sion on the north side of Sebastopol, at the very
crisis of the conflict. There is little doubt but that
the reports which have been circulated respecting
the Withdrawal of a considerable portion of the
Turkish army from Eupatoria, which has now been
placed in an excellent state odefence, are correct ;
but it is not so easy to determine whether they will
be landed on the north or on the south side of
Sebastopol. To act with promptitude and effect oh
the day of the bombardment, the Turks, if landed
on the north side, must disembark at or near the
Belbek, the approaches to which are commanded by
the enemy's new forts and mu.d redoubts. Their
presence there would paralyse the army over the
Tchernaya, and prevent any offensive demonstra-

tion against our flank or rear. On the other hand,
their presence at Balaklava would liberate the Eng-
lish and French troops which guard the heights,
and enable them to move to the front, should there
be any necessity for their services, in the event of
:,he enemy's fire being so far reduced as to render
an assault advisable. No doubt, Omer Pasha per-
fectly understands the capacity of his troops and
the objects of the expedition, and if his usual good
fortune attends him he will contribute materially
to the glory of the day. Col. Simmonds, R.E.,
'arrived from Eupatoria a few days ago with de
-patches from the Turkish Generalissimo, and he
has since returned with very important communi-
Ja,tions from the allied Generals in connection with
the movements of the troops under his Highness',
command. There is no positive certainty that the
bombardment will begin on Monday, the 9th of
Xpril, but the engineers and artillery officers be-
ieve it is the day. It is said we should have
,pened fire, or that we were ready to do so, yester-
!ay morning, but that Lord Raglan did not wish to
naugurate Good Friday by salvoes of artillery and
iy a sanguinary bombardment. On the other
ihe circumstance of our being still sendink
,ip shot, shell, and mortars does not seem quit,
,onsistent with the statement that the Genera!,
vere prepared to bombard before to-day.
TUESDAY, April 3.
_

Tile Allies have sustained a grievous loss in th,
bath of M. St. Laurent, commandant of Frenc'
llngineers, in the right attack. He was mortally
vounded by a rifle ball on Monday, as he was o►:
[nty in the French battery over Inkerman
I.ctive, able, a►,d energetic, possessed of an eaten
ive knowledge of his profesAion, to which he was
Roroughly devoted, M. St. Laurent had rendered
•ssential services to the Allied forces during thk
Ater period of the siege, and was esteemed and
-espected by his brethren iu both the English and
French armies. He was buried yesterday, and hi,
remains were followed by a concourse of French
►nd English officers. One of the most important
works over Tnkerman bears his name,- and he did
nuch to place that portion of our attack and ee-
fence in a most efficient state. -

This morning one working party effected a very
difficult operation with entire success, and without
loss of life. They connected the advanced parallels
of the two, attacks by a trench without losing a
single man, though they were close to the enemy's
riflemen, and were exposed to round shot, shells,
and grape from the batteries. The uncertain light
of the moon prevented the Russians firing with
accuracy; but as they brought down two field-pieces
into their advanced works to play on our working
party with grape, one of our 9-pounder field-pieces
was ordered into the advanced trench to reply to
them,' and our single gun speedily silenced their
. .

two pieces. At dawn they fired with great accu-
racy, and we lost two Sappers, and a few men
killed and wounded.

WEDNESDAY, April 4.

Captain Bainbrigge, R.P., was killed yesterday
(Tuesday) in the trenches. As he was talking to
one of the Sappers employed in the works a shell
came towards them from one of the enemy's• bat-
teries ; they both saw it, and the soldier went to
one side of a traverse and Captain Bainbrigge to
the other. The shell fell just at his feet and ex-
ploded before he could throw himself down; blow-
ing his body to atoms. The unfortunate officer
only arrived a fortnight ago from Ceylon.
Captain Armit,R.E., was contused by a fragment
of a shell, but is doing well.
Colonel Simmonds, who arrived here with des-
patches from Omer Pasha to the Allied Generals,
iias returned with important despatches to the
Turkish General. . . _

A Russian officer of rank took a minute survey
Balaklava -from Canrobert's-hill on- Tuesday.
tie was attended by about 200 Cossacks, and soon
Ifter his departure a body of men appeared on
the ridge which runs down from Kamata to Can-
robert's-hill, and set to work throwing up some
works which appear to be intended as a trench.
ks the ,works are on the. further side of the
Adge, it is not easy to ascertain their character, bui
it is probable that they merely form a trench for
the protection of infantry in case the Russians find
:.heniselves in sufficient .force to resist any recoil-
laissance we mar make,, or to enable them to cheek
pursu:t, should they make another attempt on
Balitklava arid be forced to retire. _

We have lately been receiving a quantity of wild
:tattle, trapped on the hill-sides of Aiia, and when
they are let loose, after the sea voyage, they general-
ly create a good deal of unwholesome excitement
by charging in every direction through and about
Btlakla,va, and by taking to the heights and but
tin.; every man they meet.. In a little affair of this
,iind the other day one of the Provost-Marsh:lX,,
men fired at an infuriated bull and missed it, bu'
:Shot a soldier who was in chase through the leg
This bull knocked down men like ninepins, and
cleared the alleys and !plays ; nor did he succumb
till he had been the object of a smart fusillade, and
had been made " a pincushion for bayonets," as
was observed by an Hibernian bystander.
Three Croats have died of the wounds received
in the affray of the week before last, and there are
others in a bad way in hospital. Osinau Aga, the
head man, who is accused of having taken an active
part in the pistolling work, " shammed " fever and
got into hospital, where ho became sick of the very
malady he simulated, and is maw dangerously ill.
The Land Transport Corps is working extremely,
well, and I have not heard any complaint what-
ever agaist the mode in wined the service is eaxxied

Qur, C,,101;41
so lac been attended with complete success.
the
that the commissary officers attached to
different divisions have to do is to send ai
requisition for so many horses and mules,.Sat
at the appointed hour they are in readiuesgibe
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the commissary-office at Balaklava. There 'to
commissary officer attached to the division race_
them, and directs the loading of the necessary
which are carried out to camp, and the non-coull
sloped officer in charge of the animals brings
back to the stables at Balaklava in the even 4.
with a written receipt for the stores. The steTed
in question are large wooden sheds, erec,e.
on the hill side towards Kadikoi. The 13201,1'id
went and direction of the railway has been es
over over to Col. M'Murdo, who has appointee'

officer to manage each terminus.
April 5.„' ‘1
THURSDAY,
It was expected that our batteries would 013,Z
fire to-day, but it was soon ascertained that
ore
hopes of the impatient people were once
doomed to disappointment. A number of outelu`
crowded up to the front to see the proceedil4sB;
and it was some time before they could be Pg.o
suaded that " the affair was not coming fthe
However, there was a divisional inspection tier,
Light and Second Divisions in heavy marching or tier.
They did not muster very strongly ; in fact, it To
not be forgotten that nearly 17,000 sick reellrfa
been sent away from this army since we eat "ices
before Sebastopol. The Russians amused theois?,oo
by shelling the camp again to-day, but they
harm. Yesterday, when there was a large crotio
French and English, including some of the eta*,
front of the picket-house near the Mortar Batt
the Russians suddenly threw a shell whici'tet
right into the midst of the group. The grv-ocl
part of the assembly threw themselves down ;id,
rolled away on the gr.uni as fast as tbey.c°tinti
At last the shell bust with a loud rePon.gwolt
one of the fragments struck and wout.dedst RT,
sentry about fifty yards off. Then the crowd
up and ran away. L,KI horses broke 10°3.800,
were let go and scampered off in all direetl° ,
and as the few officers who had nerve
remain and enjoy the discomfiture of the runavit4
were enjoyinz tha joke, down came another Pula
into the very centre of them. The bol lest,
not stand this, and in a few minutes not a Boo' c° ti
he seen near the ground. The Military Seere,•oo
lost his cap, owing to the eccentric evolwite,
of his frightened quadruped, but he speedilla
covered it, and that was the only loss eau'. hors
the two shells, excepting the poor fellow Put
de combat for the time. and
It wasa lovely day, though somewhat ligli„t in
s'
the idlers off duty employed their leisure ho'" tho
gazing listlessly at the endless duel betvveell rye
Allied batteries and the Russian works froya
mounds in rear of the trenches.

SATtrOof
A strong party of the Guards, consisting
ternd
t` "e available men of the brigade, and rals,g to,
about 450 men, were ordered to be in readnch.,,
go up to the front to-day to work in the trend ot'
They will be taken up on the mules and Pn. °he)
the Land Transport Corps, and will be carriea.,, •
to their camp outside Balaklava by the railono, ,
The ravages of the small-pox in the fleet bee:'
not decreased. The St. Jean d'Acre la!s•A of
obliged to go into quarantine, and has lanne"suidi .
crew near Kamiesh, with many cases of theP,.„seo
among them. Several men-of-war have putrfroil
to cruise for a time. The Triton went roundi• ilia
Balaklava to Kamiesh to the fleet to-daY, '?4o'
a vessel laden with opal for the use of the 01—
ships. 10
We have now nearly completed our fourth Ili,
lel. It is within 60 yards of the rifle pits of thqero,
signs, and it will speedily be armed with enllAir
which will make the pits too hot to hold the e'or .
men. A battery has been thrown up for %ell
press purpose of clearing the ground of pits in eted ,
of the Redan and Round Tower, and it is 03004"
to open this evening. The enemy, having fit ' •
out the value of the Mamelon, are 1
working 4111, .
night and day, though they must suffer glr,'
from our fire. There was some notion that the et .
sians, who have been very busy towards P111;0 -
lately, would attack Balaklava this morning= fer' !
the weather was certainly what they Pre if,9l
such enterprises—very dark and foggy ; but, 00/1 '
such intention existed on the part of the Feletio•l
they changed their minds. Our outlying P„,.' 000 1
the plain observed some movements of the igiaties , i
towards morning. The Russian working /iota',
over the Tchernaya, close to their intrenehe'-'d tbelf
are busily engaged in making gabione, Vkoi and
are distinctly visible from ICau'oniict,
Balaklava every night. One of the men his his "
by the railway accident yesterday has 0 has 04 0
amputated, and is doing well. The d
cla'ild a c°l
cleare up, but all the forenoon we
black sea fog.
~,lie 00:4 ; °
Steam-ships arrived in Balaklava-+l''..l- oi £11,„7 '.
the 'Dinning, and the Killingworth • her -inpe Na'
ship Triton, Lieutenant Fletcher, towing' t-44,0101
rnondsbury, laden with shot and hell; the nsfif ,
and the Severn, with convalescents from Scli.
Brandon, &c.
004
The harbour is now tolerably clear; indeed Atif '.
are fewer ships in it than I remember for ::01
months past. Sickness is diminishing. inste:volt
sending down 1,200 men a-week to Scutari, W"
despatch, on an average, 250.

EUPATORIA. .a - 1
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EITP ATORIAI AP i•'l thy',
There is no change in our position, excePtb yots'
ince the affair with the Bashi:Bazonks, vrbi;lettel
know from my last letter, the Russian vi f tile
rave retired to the ridge on the other side °_6oll
~reek, and. the valley which forms the continual of
~,
,f it. They left only a few men in the villgor
Mamai, the scene of the fight with the uriKies,
Razonks. They have even abandoned th°,..o oer .
The day before yesterday the Bashi-Bazoo° 0
int again towards the village of Marnal'i, e
Russians were, however, on the alert ; t'l
men in the village fell back towards their relief, ,
and three squadrons of regular Russian °ad 0
with a host of Cossacks before them, apPealed tJ •
the ridge. Some of the Bashi-Bazouks enter ,10
village, but nothing whatever was founa' 0/4
timer Piisha had given the order not to le-„ the
to engagement, the Bashi-Bazouks skirting; tjt‘
valley leading to the creek drew slowly to
right, followed by the skirmishers of the ersicle.
who were parallel to them on the other,riA
Several of the Bashi-Bazoukis passed the foe
without being molested ; and the whole reb
to the town. ,
AP0.,1,
Since last night the whole state of affairs hs'atjoik
altered. It seems to be taking another direct
There was to have been a reconnaissance thio
ing, but it was countermanded. A French st 0f".„
03,4'
arrived late last night, bringing despatches f0r...,40-
Pasha, in consequence of which several rf;no')/
got the order to hold themselves real, 05
embarked in the evening They are all oft:4
troops. In the forenoon five French intt tlre,.
steamers came in, who are destined to ta-gede. j."
to their destination, which of course is kel3'l-041i0s,g' [
but there can be no doubt that something ;-",,i, ArA l
must soon take place. An order of the (64 0,,v,
issued to the troops destined to sail. 111,111,1'd- . 1
Marshal expressed his hope that they ""„I rail ' i
honour to the Ottoman army, as the eyeo,4ok, '
rope will be fixed upon them, and that the -10li il,
himself will be among them, and share with
..i
weal and woe. , of.
This-order of the day was received by Luc!, of 0
with enthusiasm. They seemed to be proud toPAP
confidence placed in them, and began Vise
their preparations with as much joy as if 01/a li
going to a feast ; but in the forenoon the vilicy# '
•
came so strong and the sea so high that all •
embarking was given up. 4,,A '
AY11.1,11 'er
The expedition which was so suddenly (r'
upon yesterday seems to be assuming larger WI,
tions. A considerably greater number of ht I.
have got orders to sail than was at first tholigoej,
Colonel Simmonds, who went yesterbi,ooo7,
immediately after the arrival of the Frenchnisrho Or
to Kamiesh has returned this morning. tittee
remained high the whole day, so that no CPI g 171
Lion could take placeS , but numbers of trooPo'
dready on the beach, ready if any change ()cc; 474 •
Two other French men-of-war came in to-dsJ,o,,'
tined likewise to take troops, An English s'iostl!
arrived with despatches, and went off again-
diately.

, FRANCE.
copo
We have received the Moniteur of y f,O 0 ester
It publishes long extracts from the 0
,„"".,,0'
journals of the reception given to their
Majesties, and the following short article :,!.nes
"On Tuesday night there was a grand ball at " the
attended by the elite of English society. r_t„ ta°o4"
•‘ Shortly before the review of the Queen's „.00
Lord Mayor and Aldermen were admitted arose r-del
,ence of the Emperor and Empress with an el:1'1.-1:04
the city of Landon to invite their Majesties to pa
on Ti.ursclay. tocf
"On Wednesday morning the Emperor took e'rti di
walk in the park with Queen Victoria, At foerree,
the Emperor received the Order of the Garter inPh di
of the Ministers, Knights of the Order, and 1:14 0,01;
taries of the Crown. ee
"The enthusiasm of the people is on the sow
The means of transport between London anclo jai
no longer suffice. Every correspondence Wu.. SI" ,4
ing that nothing equals the enthusiasm of the el##
for their Majesties." tele
We have received the folloWing private oy
phic despatches : oA
ii;a7ntig (evening).—The
uinary battle, ar.ad W 41".
,
st),ValrciNAa,