The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-01 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

TRIESTE, OCT. 30 (EvENING).
A packet has just arrived with accounts' from
Constantinople to the 22d. The Chevalier de
Wildenbruck, the Prussian Ambassador at Con-
stantinople, had arrived in that city. The cholera

was increasing in a rather alarming manner.

Nothiig positive was known as to the recall of '
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe.

By the last accounts from Asia the situation of

Kars remained the same.
Accounts from Athens of the 26th state that
energetic measures had just been ordered for tb e
]pepression of brigandage.

BERLIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The Austrian occupation of the Danubia n
Principalities is becoming a troublesome questio.a.
The Emperor of the French is understood to
have expressed a decided intimation on the sub-
ject to Baron Prokesch-Osten on his late visit 'to
Paris.

The Porte is said to have positively refused any
communication with Count Paar, the Austrian
special envoy on the point, on the plea that its
hands are tied by treaty with the Western
Powers.

Meanwhile, the report is that the Austrian
force in the Principalities is io be augmented by

25,000 men.

The ratifications oft the telegraphic convention
emcluded here on the 29th of June last were ex-

changed to-day between M. de Manteuffel, for
Prussia, and MM. de Nothomb and Malaret, for
the Austro-German Union. On the proposition
of Prussia, it has been agreed that this convention
shall come into operation on the Ist of November.
Russia has adhered to this arrangement.

INDIA AND CHINA.
TRIESTE, OCT. 31.
The steamer Calcutta arrived to-day in 125
hours from Alexandria.

The India and China mails left Alexandria on
the 25th for Marseilles, with dates from Bombay
of Oct. 3 ; Madras, Sept. 27 ; Calcutta, Sept.
23 ; Hong Kong, Sept. 15, and Shanghai, Sept. 7.
The Santal 'insurrection was dying out.
Mr. Conolly, Collector in Malabar, had been
murdered by the Moplabs.
The monsoon was at an end in Bombay, and
the fall of rain having been only 48 inches—that
is to say, 25 inches short of the usual quantity—
the crops will be one quarter Jess than an average.
Trade was dull. Exchange on London, 2.1 g.
From China we learn that large quantities of
grain and tea had arrived at Canton.
Exchange at Canton, 4.8-, 6.51.
The ship St. Abbs had been lost on a reef near
Madagascar ; 17 of the crew and five passengers
were drowned.

THE ALLIES IN THE CRIMEA.
'From, a Special Correspondent of the Morning Herald.)
KA.MIESH, OCT. 20.

For the last few days the uninitiated might
almost have imagined the war in the Crimea (so
far as the mere environs of Sebastopol are con-
cerned) to be coming to an immediate conclusion.
Standing on any eminence near Kamiesh, regi-
ment after regiment of the allies could be seen
making their way to the sea shore in long straggling
columns, toiling across the dusty roads, their
bayonets glittering in the sun (even yet, Oct. 20,
sultry in its effects), and bending beneath hairy
knapsacks, so heavy that they might easily be sup-
posed to contain the collected plunder of the
campaign. Balaklava, too, has been surrounded
during the same period with " all the
pomp and circumstance of glorious war ; "
encl yet, before the present mail will put
to sea, we have but a few short hours left in
which to obtain even an instalment of the
desired " full, true, and particular account" of
what all these hurried movements really mean. But
something or other important is evidently " in the
wind." Turkish troops by thousands, not hun-
dreds, have this week been despatched from the
Crimea, in the Europa, Talavera, Wide-awake, '
and other vessels, to Soukoum Kaleh, on the Cir-
cassian shore of the Euxine ; others have been
shipped for the scene of their old exploits, Eupa-
toria, whither also many thousand French, cavalry
as well as infantry, have also been forwarded in
steam and in sailing-transports. And, even to-.;
day, Kanifeah is vomiting forth fresh swarms of
the fiery sons of France, destined to become, per-
chance on the expiration of another week, but
"food for powder; and yet, I repeat, so numerous
is the force now being withdrawn from before Se-
bastopol that it would be no hard task for a stranger
to believe the war to be just over, and to regard
these militaires as merrily marchingdown to their
ships on their way home. But this happy hour
has not yet arrived for them. The war is not
over ' • and still—however near we may be to in-
cidents of the most thrilling and exciting nature
—such is the unusual secrecy observed among
the authorities, and such consequently the count-
less flying reports, so contradictory of each
other, that "news-writers," as they call them in
India, are here non-plussed and bewildered and
more puzzled than ever in the harassing
exercise of their vocation. Let me record,
however, a few of our local facts, first stating that
we have just heard that the Russians have again
been defeated at Kars. Here, the firing across the
harbour of Sebastopol still continues, but not in
any exciting intensity. The weather is still beau-
tiful, with occasional strong breezes • the allied
' fleet is not at Eupatoria (so say our daily arrivals
thence), but must be long ere this nearer to or be-
yond Odessa, at some temporary rendezvous, whence
I regret to say, though we received Constantinople
letters to-day, four mails are still due to us poor
fellows at Kamiesh. Our two floating batteries
are announced as having at last reached Constan-
tinople but not Kamiesh, and Admiral Lyons may,
it is said, be waitingfor them ere he strikes a heavy
blow, for which, as ho has been just fourteen days
at sea from the anchorage before Sebastopol,
he must no doubt be now almost fully pre-
pared. During the absence of the fleet Ka-
miesh and Kazatch have been, in the opinion
of many, left much too unguarded ; for, if the
Russians had chosen during the last fourteen days,
to send fire rafts, or brulots of any description, to
sea, there was no English or French force off. Se-
bastopol harbour to prevent them, and thence they
could easily have skulked out under Fort Constan-
tine, while Kamiesh Bay has been protected by
one or two unwieldly liners at most, and moored
within the boom ; and Kazatch Bay, infinitely
more open to attack, has not been defended at all,
for her Majesty's iron steamer Megaora cannot be
counted for much where shot are to be exchanged ;
and the store-ship Apollo would not be of much
service, and, in short, would not prove the worse
for a little touching up instanter in the harbour of
Malta. It is true, for a few hours, men of war drop
in here to land or embark troops, or seek intelli-
gence, but they do not stop long enough to be of
service against any well-timed night attack, for
which there is temptation enough, seeing the very
great numbers of rich merchant shipping now as-
sembled at Kazatch aid Kamiesh. A brulot
might come up even from the Bosphorus. Balaklava
is far better defended than Kamiesh, having a
more narrow entrance, and even a man-of-war "in
the lion's mouth" to challenge all corners with
effect. A fire in Kamiesh Bay at present would
ruin half the insurance houses in London and Li-
verpool. Hundreds of vessels touch one another in
these tiers, and in case of accident they could
not be moved•to sea. And, if a brulot were but to
be placed alongside any one of our powder ships in
or near Kazatch Bay, you can readily imagine the
destruction that would ensue. Looking to what
was done by the Greek brulots when engaged
against the Turks, the most cautious of our sea-
faring men, fully aware of the sympathies felt by
the Greeks for the Russians, call for constant and
greater protection at Kamiesh and Kazatch, espe-
cially the latter, than they do or have enjoyed.
, November is close at band, and though Russia has
lost her own navy, there is nothing to prevent her
I employing Greek fireships, and that these might