The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-28 00:00:00

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PARIS, MONDAY, MAY 28.

The Moniteur publishes the following :
The following despatches have been received
by the Minister of War from General Pelissier

CRIMEA, MAY 25, 10 P. M.

To-day we have occupied the line of the Tcher-

naya. The enemy, who were not in force,
offered little resistance in disputing the ground,

and retreated rapidly into the hills.

We have definitively established ourselves in

the works carried on the nights of the 22d and

An armistice was agreed upon for burying the
dead, and we were enabled to form an estimate of
the enemy's lcssas. They must be about 5,000
or 6,000 men killed and wounded.

MAY 26, 10 P.M.

The enemy has not made any demonstration

either in front of the place or against our lines on

he Tchernaya.
The works of fortification at Kamiesh are pro-

gressing.

The sanitary condition of the army continues

good.

MAY 27, 9 A.M.
The expedition to Kertch and Yenikale has
been attended with complete success.

The enemy fled at the approach of the Allies,
hey blew up their powder magazines, destroyed
their batteries, and burnt their steamers.

The Sea of Azoff is occupied by the Allied
quadron.

BERLIN, SATURDAY, MAY 26.
A despatch from St. Petersburg of this day's
date, May 26, says :
"Prince Gortschakoff writes as follows from

Sebastopol, on the 21st :
" Nothing of importance has occurred.
" EuPATortrA, May 19.—According to the
statement of a deserter the troops have embarked.
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Their destination is not known.
"It is reported that the Turks will leave Eupa-
,toria, the Egyptian contingent remaining behind.'

MARSEILLES, SATURDAY, MAY 26.
The Osiris, which left Constantinople on the
170, has arrived.
Despatches left at 8 p.m.

Advices from the Crimea of the 15th inst. state
that the Russians had attacked the English bat-
teries opposite the Redan, but had been repulsed.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.
(From, the Special CorrespoNdent of the Morning Herald. )
ENGLISH CAMP, HEIGHTS OF SEBASTOPOL,
May 14.
In my last letter, of yesterday's date, I closed
the despatch at nine a.m., and I was not then
aware that a severe sortie had taken place on our
left attack the previous night. I had indeed
heard rumours, but in camp where do you not
hear rumours ? and I had not sufficient time to
ride out and ascertain the truth. Since then I
have ascertained the facts, which are as fol-
low : The sortie was made by a party of
about 600 men. They were supposed to belong
to a newly-arrived regiment. The night was
most tempestuous, with high wind and floods of
rain. These circumstances, with the extreme
darkness, rendered it quite impossible for the ad-
vanced sentries to see beyond the spot on which
they stood, or even to hear their ordinary chal-
lenges.
Suddenly, without an instant's warning, the
enemy made their appearance. The sentries were
immediately bayonetted. Only two or three of
them escaped back into the advanced outwork, and
even they were so closely followed by the Russians
that the latter almost succeeded in entering the
work before the men were prepared for an attack.
Captain Edwards, of the 68th, a most promising
young officer, who had just got his company, was
killed while leading on the men. Five or six of our
soldiers, also, who were either asleep, or at all
events unprepared, were shot or bayonnetted.
Here the success of the enemy stopped. Our fel-
lows instantly closed up, and with one heavy volley
killed or wounded 20 of the enemy, and the remain-
der made a precipitate retreat. But the greatmass
of the Russians were outside the work, and these,
led on by their officers, returned -to the attack.
The alarm, however, along the trenches was then
general, and though the enemy made two bold
efforts to force the work, the attempt was fruitless.
Such a well-sustained file fire was kept up by our
men, that the Russians were compelled to retreat.
They did so in good order, carrying most of their
killed and wounded with them.
Our loss, I am informed, was one officer and nine
men killed, one non-commissioned officer and 11
men wounded. The most of the wounded are
dangerously injured by bayonet thrusts.
I am thus particular in recounting the details of
this sortie, as beyond this there is literally no news
to communicate.
Yesterday afternoon General de la Marmora, the
Commander-in-Chief of the Sardinian contingent,
arrived at Balaklava. He immediately proceeded
to the English head-quarters, where he had a long
interview with Lord Raglan. At the same time
two vessels also came in with about 809 Sardinian
troops on board. They were immediately landed,
land in spite of the wet and unfavourable weather
( took up their cantonments on that portion of the
lines of Balaklava lately occupied by the 71st High-
landers. In consequence of the continued rain
most of them have kept close to their tents, so that
up to the present I have had no opportunity of
seeing what they are like as soldiers.
This morning a general order was issued, com-
manding that all officers should take immediate
steps for providing themselves with the bat horses
allowed by the rules of the service. For this pur-
pose they were directed to proceed to Colonel
M'Murdo, who had instructions to furnish them
with the animals each officer might require. The
general order, of course, makes no mention of the
prices to be charged for the horses, but it would be
by no means an imprudent act of generosity, or
rather justice, if the Government supplied horses
gratis, as it was in compliance with strict orders to
that effect that all officers were compelled to leave
their bat horses at Varna, and not ten per cent. of
these animals were afterwards restored. Even of
the few who reached the Crimea, most were "used
up" for military purposes.
To-day the Charles Albert, a large Sardinian
frigate of 64 guns, arrived at Balaklava with 1,200
Sardinian troops on board. These troops were
riflemen, artillery, and engineers.
There is nothing doing in the batteries. Our fire,
which is entirely limited to the mortars, has almost
ceased. One mortar shell) esterday came into the
left attack, and, though it burst in the parapet,
killed one man and severely wounded six. All
these poor fellows were blue jackets. _ _

MAY 15.
Last night was quiet in the trenches. There was
the usual amount of skirmishing going forward,
which was hotter on the French lines than on ours.
On the whole, however, it was a quiet night.
Early this morning Omer Paella, General De la
Marmora, General eanrobert, and many French,
Turkish, and Sardinian officers of distinction visited
the English head-quarters, and took lunch with Lord
Raglan. During the whole time they were present
the band of the 10th Hussars played under Lord
Raglan's windows. This was the first time any band
has played at head-quarters. This is literally the
only fact that has occurred to-day to vary the dull
monotony of our lives. General Rumour, who is
decidedly the most active general whom we have
got out here, speaks in favour of the English and
French taking the field instanter. The only ground
for this sanguine expectation is, that officers have
been ordered to supply themselves with hat horses.
Now, ignoring all rumours, the chance of our tak-
ing the field is almost as remote as ever. For
instance, Colonel M'Murdo requires 19,000 horses
for the land transport, which number, if the
cavalry is increased to the extent we are led
to expect it will be, becomes 24,000. Three
thousand waggons are also required, and about
10,000 men. Now, of this small supply Colonel
111‘Murdo has already got about 600 waggons, a
little over 4,000 horses, and 800 men, in all, about
one-seventh of what we absolutely require. It is
quite true that a thousand fresh horses are ex-