The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-06 00:00:00

Enclosure.

Before Sebastopol, May 26, 1855.
My Lord,—l have the honour to enclose a return of
the daily progress of cholera in the army in the Crimea,
from 19th to 25th May inclusive.
Your lordship will observe by this return that the-
disease moderated in violence, and that the mortality is
one-third less than it was during the preceding seven
days, though I cannot say that the number of attacks
has diminished in proportion, or that the disease has
been circumscribed by narrower limits ; on the contrary,
if anything, more generally diffused, as cases have oc-
curred in every division.
At Balaklava several admissions int') the General
Hospital there have taken place from the Sardinian
Contingent, from the Land Transport Corps, and fro n
ships in the harbour, which have swelled out our lists of
both admissions and deaths.

The removal of the Buffs and 48th Regiment to
higher and drier ground has been attended with good
results.

Great attention is paid to the sanitary condition of the
camps, and to all matters that it is thought may tend
to dissipate the discas
The attention of medical officers has been drawn to
the subject of cholera belts, and I have reason to believe
that the whole army has been supplied with them, at.d
if not, the supply in store is ample enough to meet the
demand.—l have, &c., _ _

J. HALL,
Inspector General of Hospitals,
Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, G.C.8.,
Commanding-in-Chief.

OFFICIAL DESPATCH FROM' BEAR-
ADMIRAL LYONS.

(From a Supplement to the London Gazette of Tuesday.)

ADMIRALTY, JUNE 6.

A. despatch, of which the following is a copy, has been
received from Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, Bart.,
G.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's ships and
vessels in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.

Royal Albert, Straits of Kertcb,
May 26, 1855.

Sir,—l have great pleasure in requesting you to in-
form the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that
the Allied forces are masters of the Straits of Kertch,
and that they have in the Sea of Azoff a powerful steam
flotilla, of light draught of
harassingfwater him,cap a
ableotf caullttpinogintonff;
the enemy's supplies, and
and, moreover, that the means are at hand for sending
in a vast number of gun-boats of the lighter draught, if
it should be found desirable to do so.
My letter•of the 22d inst., IC). 396, will have informed
their lordships that an Allied expedition, consisting of
15,000 men of all arms, and five batteries of artillery,
were then on the point of leaving the anchorage off Se-
bastopol, for Kertch, and my message by electric tele-
graph will have announced the complete success of that
expedition ; but it now remains for me to give an ac-
count of our proceedings for their lordships' informa-
tion.
The fleet, which consisted of her Majesty's ships
named in' the margin, and a French Pleat of nearly
equal force, under the command of my very gallant and
energetic colleague, Vice-Admiral Bruat, assembled off
the Straits of Kertch at early dawn on the birthday of
her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, and both
armies and navies confidently anticipated a success-
ful celebration of that auspicious day. The fleets steamed
rapidly up to Kainiesh, where the army landed under
cover of the guns of the steam-frigates, and immediately
ascended the heights without opposition, whilst the
steamers of light draught of water pushed on to-
wards Kertch and Yenikale ; and the endeemstyroyap-
parently taken by surprise at
which erahpaivdeityfalleon
into of
these movements, and at the imposing appearance
of the expedition, blew up his fortifications on
both sides of the Straits, mounting not less than
fifty gunson
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three steamers, and several other heavily armed vessels,
as well as large large quantities of provisions, ammuni-
tion, and stores, thus leaving us masters of the entrance
into the Sea of Azoff, without our having sustained any
loss whatever.

4. As the disembarkation was unopposed, in conse-
quence of the fire of the steam-frigates having arrested
the advance of the enemy, there was no field for the

* Royal Albert, Hannibal, Algiers, Agamemnon, St. Jean
d'Acre, Princess Royal, Sidon, Valorous, Leopard, Tribune,
Simoom,' Furious, Highflyer, Terrible, Miranda, Sphinx, Spit-
fire, Gladiator, Vesuvius, Curlew, Swallow, Caradoc, Strom-
boli, Ardent, Medina, Wrangler, Viper, Lynx, Recruit,
Arrow, Banshee, Snake, Beagle.