The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-04 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

BOMBARDMENT OF RIGA.

HAMBURG, OCT. 3.

Six English vessels arrived on the 27th ultimo
before Riga, and bombarded for several hours the
batteries of Dunamunde and Virrage-Boullen.

TRIESTE, OCT. 3.

Accounts have been received from Constanti-
nople to the 24th. 13,000 men of the Anglo-
Turkish contingent have left for Varna, where
they will take up their winter quarters.
The Ottoman Government has not received any
confirmation of the check which the Russians
were reported to have met with near Kars.

Omer Pacha is concentrating 50,000 men near
Chefketie, a fort on the frontier of Asia, which
the Turks took from the Russians at the com-
mencement of the war.

BERLIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

It is stated that Austria has, for the present,
renounced the intention of offering her mediation,
considering it would be useless to make proposi-
tions to Russia in the present temper of that Go-
verment.

M. do Budberg, the Russian Ambassador here,
has been ordered to meet the Emperor at War-
saw, where all the Russian representatives at the
German Courts ire to assemble.

ITAMBURG, OCT. 3, 9.10 P.M.

An ukase, issued at St. Petersburg on the 28th
of September, ordains the establishment of two
military academies for engineers and artillery.

There is further a confirmation of a decree that
every day's and every year's service of the garri-
son of Sebastopol shall count as twelve.

A telegraphic despatch from Odessa, received
at Berlin yesterday, announces that the Czar has
left Nicolaieff for the Crimea.

MADRID, OCT. 2.

The sitting of the Cortes has been insignificant.
The Junta on tariffs has resolved to admit tissues
mixed with cotton without regard to the number
of threads.

A striking increase has taken place in the cases

of cholera.

Rumours relative to a ministerial crisis are
again current, but they are unfounded.

The following are the exact words of Prince
Gortschakoff's despatch of the 23d, as given in
the Warsatv Gazette :

" The enemy has conveyed to Eupatoria about
20,000 men, and has so concentrated there about
30,000 troops.

"The enemy daily attacks the left flank of our

positions.
"On the 22d the enemy had an engagement
with our infantry, after which he withdrew
towards the road leading near llrkousti by the

mountain.
" On the 23d the enemy redescended from the
mountains and forced a passage."

The electric wire is again broken in the Black
Sea, and this is said to account for the absence of
more recent telegraphic despatches.

RUSSIAN VERSION OF THE CAPTURE
OF SEBASTOPOL.

The first Russian version of the fall of Sebasto-
pol is contained in the following general order
addressed by Prince Gortschakoff to his troops,
and in an incomplete report of the progress of the
siege published in the Invalide Busse:—

" GENERAL ORDER ADDRESSED TO THE ARMY OF
THE SOUTH AND TO THE LAND AND SEA TROOPS
IN THE CRIMEA.
" Head-quarters, Heights of Inkerman, in the
vicinity of Sebastopol, Aug. 30 (Sept. 12).

" Valiant Comrades,—On the 12th September
last year a strong enemy's army appeared before
the walls of Sebastopol. Despite its numerical
superiority, despite the absence of obstacles which
military science might have opposed to it in the
town, that army did not dare attack it openly
(literally, with an open force), and undertook a
regular siege.
" Since then, despite the formidable means
at the disposal of our enemies, who by their nu-
merous ships constantly received reinforcements,
artillery, and ammunition for 11 months and a
half, all thair efforts failed before your bravery
and firmness. It is a fact unexampled in military
annals that a town hastily fortified, in presence
of the enemy, should have been able to hold ou t

so long against a force, the means of attack of
which have exceeded everything that hitherto
could have been foreseen in calculations of this