The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-05 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

The following telegraphic despatch from the
Crimea is dated Balaklava, Jau. 27 :
There is no firing on our side.
The weather is frosty at night ; very mild, and
fine during the day.
The siege works are advancing.
The army is still sickly.
Prince Alenschikoff has gone northwards.
The Russians make constant sorties, and con-
tinue firing upon the French lines and pickets.
Supplies are gone up to the camp in abund-

ance.
The French Eighth Division has arrived.
The British ship Sphinx Las also arrived.
Lord Raglan visited Balaklava on the 24th of
January, and had an interview with Admiral
Lyons. He inspected the trenches on the 25th.
There are only eight Russian battalions near
Tchorgoun.

VIENNA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEB. 4.

The local papers state that Prince Menschikoff
has received orders to attack Eupatoria and Bala-
klav a.
On the 31st of January Ismail Pasha arrived
at Brailow.

BERLIN, MONDAY, FED. 4.

A despatch has been received here from St.
Petersburg dated the 4th, and which states that
Prince Menschikoff had sent the following tele-
graphic despatch to his Government :

SEBASTOPOL, JAN. 28.
No change has taken place in the state of
affairs before Sebastopol.
From time to time the enemy throw shells and
rockets into the town, but the damage done is
unimportant.

We have received the Moititeur of yesterday,
which says :
The Minister of War has received the follow-
ing despatches from the Commander-in-Chief of
the Army in the East :
BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, J. 24.
(Received at Bucharest, Feb. 3.)

The weather has become much milder and finer.
The troops have supported the trying days we
have just gone through with admirable courage ;
their confidence was never shaken for one mo-
ment by the extreme severity of the temperature.
We have reason to hope that the depth of winter
in the Crimea is past.

We resume our work before the town with re-
newed activity.

SEBASTOPOL, JAN. 28.

General Ulrich and the Voltigeurs of the Im-
perial Guard have arrived. The troops are ani-
mated with an excellent spirit, and aro full of
enthusiasm. The weather continues fine—we
take advantage of it to complete our works.
By a telegraphic despatch of the With,by way
of Marseilles, I inform you of the arrival of
General Niel and Colonel de Waubert do Genlis.

The Minister of Marine has received the fol-
lowing telegraphic despatch from Vice-Admiral
Bruat, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean
squadron :

BUCHAREST, FAD. 2, 8.50.
MONTEBZLI,O, Jan. 28.

The weather continues very fine. Our batteries
have received the •rder to be ready to re-open
their fire. For some days the Russians have
ceased making sorties. 2,000 soldiers arrived
to-day (the 28th of January) on board the Caffa-
relli, Milan, and English steamer Ripon, with the
Voltigeurs of the Imperial Guard.

Tice-Admiral Commander-in-Chief Bamar,

The Moniteur has also the following :
Some foreign journals have spread a report
that one or more special commissaries would be
sent to Vienna to take part in the negotiations
which may take place at that capital.
The Emperor is too well satisfied with the ser-
vices rendered by Baron de Bourqueney not to
intrust entirely t• him the carp of representing
his policy in all its eventualities.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 26.

Riza Bey will probably be dosigiated as repro-
sentative of the Porte at the Conferences of
Vienna. Th© French Guards have arrived.

VARNA, JAN. 27.

Ordors from St. Petersburg command a speedy
n4f tliAtatritotinn of, BalaklaYa and

Eupatoria.

Osten Sacken, supported by the Grand Dukes
Michael and Nicholas, will therefore probably
attack the Alliee ere long, and whilst the weather

is propitious.

BUCHAREST, FEB. 2.

Ismail Pacha arrived at Ibraila on the 3lat
January. He had issued a proclamation an-
nouncing that a great contest 'would speedily take
place on the Lower Danube.

PARIS, MONDAY, FEB. 5, 8.30 A.M.

General d© Wedell was received on Sunday at
the Tuileries, when ho presented letters from the
King of Prussia to the Emperor.

VIENNA, Fin. 4.
Count Esterhazy has arrived hero from his post
at Berlin.

BERLIN, FBB. 2.

The Prussian Correspondence contradicts a
statement in the Cologne Gazette,of Jan. 31, to
the effect that Duke George of Mecklenburg had
made fresh overtur©s to the of Prussia in
the nano of the Emperor of Russia, and asserts
that no communication of the kind, whether
verbal or written, had been made.
The telegraphic aunouncemtnt from Vienna
that the Czar was seeking a ski weeks' armstice,
appears to rest on the authority of the first part
of the following letter, published in the Military
Gazette of Vienna :

OD SA, JAN. n.

" Count Sauoitoff, who ha Li aeon sent as a
courier extraordinary to Prince ?denschikoff, over-
took the Orand Dukes on the . pad from Perekop