The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-28 00:00:00

THE CRIMEA.

A letter from Vienna of the 22d7in the Ind*.
pendance of Brussels, says :

" From the accounts which have been received here
it wonld appear that the allies are actively preparing
for a campaign, and doubtless they have it in contem-
plation to force the Russian line of defence of Tscherker-
Kerman, or, in other words, to make a diversion against
Bakshi-Serai. This two, which contains 1,500 houses,
and 10,000 inhabitants, is the station of the reserve of
the Russian army which holds the plateaux of the Bel-
beck. From 300 to 400 deserters, most of them Poles,
have arrived at the allied camp ; they relate that the
demoralisation of the Russian army was most complete ;
and that such was the confusion from the first moment
of the attack, that the soldiers, exhausted with fatigue,
remained for 24 hours without provisions. The loss of
the Russians is estimated at 18,000."
A letter from Berlin of the 23d says :—" Vari-
ous circumstances at. St. Petersburg seem to
indicate that Prince Gortschakoff will soon
evacuate the forts to the north of Sebastopol.
These forts, since the destruction of the Russian
fleet and the naval establishments, are only stra-
tegic points. Well-informed people say that if the
Russian General should consider it desirable to
concentrate his forces in the interior of the Crimea,
he will not leave in the rear the garrisons of the
forts. Amongst the Russian officers killed at Se-
bastopol is a son of M. Meyendorff, formerly Rus-
sian Ambassador at Berlin and Vienna.

AUSTRIA.
A letter from Vienna, in the Augsburg Ga-
zette, says :—" It is at present certain that Aus-
tria, will not attempt to interrupt the march of
military events by a new proposition of mediation,
whatever may be her desire to see peace re-esta-
blished. It is. clearly seen here that, in oint f
fact, this result cannot be attained
by diplomatic
intervention, and that peace can only be esta-
blished after the complete exhaustion in men and
money of one of the belligerent parties."

THE MEDITERRANEAN.
MARSEILLES, Sept. 26.—There have been nume-
rous arrivals of steamers and transports laden with
sick and wounded soldiers from the Crimea during
the last -three days. The mail steam-packet
Simois arrived on Sunday, bringing upwards of
400. Some English officers, who came as pas-
sengers, say that the wounded suffered severely
for want of surgical care and proper accompao-

dation. The ship was so crowded that many dan-
gerously wounded were forced to remain on deck
both day and night. The consequence was that several
of them died before the steamer passed the Dar-
danelles. Others were left at Malta, where they
were most hospitably received, and supplied with
every comfort. The Constantinople mail steamer
Carmel arrived early on Monday morning. She
made a quick passage of 6 days and 12 hours. She
brought 200 invalids. She was followed by the
English steamer Athenian, towing the transport
clipper Gauntlet. The Athenian carried 170 and
the Gauntlet 250 convalescents. The French frigate
Canada arrived from Kamiesh yesterday, towing
the English transport Rajahgopal. She touched at
Toulon on Monday, where the Canada landed
a portion of her invalid passengers. She landed the
remainder (80) at the Frioul, and the Rajahgopal
was towed into the Joliette with 180 sick and
wounded. There have been but few troops em-
barked this week, but the quantity of bomb-shells
and cartouches shipped is immense. The steamer
Cheliff sailed with the mails for Constantinople on
Monday. She took likewise 70 soldiers of various
corps, and several tons of bomb-shells—a very un-
usual cargo for a mail-packet. The General Screw
Company's steamer Calcutta, Captain Blackmore,
is expected to sail for the C. imea to-morrow, with
the transport Eliza in tow. Both ships are heavily
laden with military stores. The Lady Jocelyn is
gone to Toulon to repair the injury she received
during her last voyage to the Black Sea.
A body of navvies, with several of the land
transport corps, in all 250 men, sailed for the Cri-
-mea in the steamer Telegraph on Saturday afternon.
As an erroneous report was circulated among the
French hero that the navvies mutinied and re-
fused to embark until certain conditions were
complied with, I think it necessary to state the
facts. The men wished to enjoy themselves before-
they proceeded on their distant voyage, and asked
for some money. But when the impropriety of
dispersing themselves in such a town as Mar-
seilles was explained to them by the officer second
in command they immediately acquiesced and
embarked without difficulty. The officer in ques-
tion has attained a distinguished reputation dur-
ing ten years' service in India. On this occa-
sion he showed considerable tact in managing a
sometimes rather turbulent body of men. The
Telegraph is not fitted for carrying troops, and can
comfortably accommodate 60 passengers at most.
She arrived without any stores, and consequently it
is not surprising that some confusion, dissatisfac-
tion, and detention was caused in providing for
250. I must in justice to the navvies state that I
found them after they had passed a night on board,
quite cheerful, and willing to accommodate them.
selves to their confined position.
Five hundred and fifty more navvies have ar-
rived at Valence, on their way to Marseilles, for
embarkation for the Crimea.

The Madrid journals of the 22d are principally
occupied with the arrest of M. Perales, lately
secretary to the Queen, which we announced yes-
terday, for alleged participation in the affair of the
seditious proclamations.

A letter from the Hague, of the 22d, states that
M. J. Opden Hooff, the new President of the
High Court of the Netherlands, who had but two
days befcre taken the oaths to his Majesty on his
appointment, died suddenly from an attack of apo-
plexy. Ile was in his 60th year.