The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-24 00:00:00

at 1 p.m.

The 12th Regiment of Artillery, with their
horses, embark to-day for the Crimea.
The allied troops detached to Eupatoria have

received fresh reinforcements.

Numerous Russian waggons appeared, at the
latest date, to have begun the evacuation of the
northern forts of Sebastopol.
The Allies, on the other hand, continued the
clearance of the city and the construction of new
batteries.

ST. PETERSBURG, TUESDAY•

An imperial ukase just issued permits the free
importation of European colonial produce into the

Transcaucasian provinces via the overland fron

tiers of Persia and Turkey, during the con•

inuanoe of the war.

KARS, SEPT. 29.
General Mouravieft continues the blockade of
this place with 80 pieces of cannon.

Omar Pacha is expected.

MADRID, OCT. 22.

The Government has declared to the Cortes

that the sanitary state of the capital is not by any
means alarming. The works of the Puerta. del

Sul have been put up to public tender. Every
thing is tranquil.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

A private telegraphic despatch has just reached
from Marseilles, bringing accounts from Constanti-
nopleTh rtmooftahr
eisti,and from the Crimea of the 13th.
batteries had opened on this last day
against the northern forts. The division of infantry
of General d'Auternarre occupied the plateau of
the Belbek, and the French cavalry had advanced
to Baidar. The army at Eupatoria daily received
reinforcements. Au entire division of French
cavalry, landed there on
infantry, commanded by General de Failly, and a
strong body of English
the 11th. It was believed that General Gortscha-
koff intended to concentrate his forces round Sim-
pheropol.
Marshal Pelissier was making preparations to
winter in the Crimea. It was believed that the
autumn campaign would be closed by the capture
of Bakshiserai. The Russians continued to fortify
the forts to the north of Sebastopol.
The Emperor and Empress and the Duke and
Duchess de Brabant went yesterday afternoon to
visit the porcelain manufactory at Sevres.
The number of guns taken at Kinbourn, says the
Moniteur, "amounts to 174."
The Order of the Seraphim, the insignia of which
King Oscar has just sent to the Emperor Napoleon,
is the oldest and the most distinguished of the
orders of Swedish Knighthood. Instituted, in
1285, by King Magnus Wales, it was restored in
174
clBbasy King Frederick I. It is composed of only
one s, and is only conferred on Princes and the
highest civil and military functionaries.
General Markham has arrived at Malta from the
Crimea on sick leave, by the French steamer, the
Capitol°. The gallant general continued his route,
via Gibraltar, in the Peninsular Company's steamer
the Nubia.
A letter from Sebastopol of de 9th, in the
Semaphore de Marseille, says 7i..
"Nothing new has taken place, except the explosion
of a new infernal machinein the Karabelnaia, but it only
killed one man. Notwithstanding the most minute exa-
Zejust above or
n stepped on,
urination no other of these machines has been discovered.
It is supposed that they are conical jars sunk in the
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breakuu
sdw,
thhasvmitnhaglel
vessel, c,mtaining some inflammable ag
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un
nd
do, of
andba
which, r which comes
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a
liquid, which communicates to a chemical composition
which explodes with greater force than ordinary gun-
powder would do. The large streets and the principal
public thoroughfares have been carefully examined, but
no more of them have been discovered. The Russians
keep firing from the north on oar positions, but without
doing any material damage, and the general opinion in
the camp is that the fire is only intended as a blind to
conceal the retreat of General Gortschakoff. It has,
in fact, been remarks I that the Russian forces dimi-
nish every day, and it is known by means of spies
that they have decided on concentrating their forces
towards Simpherdpol. It is every day expected to see
the Russians terminate their work of destruction by
blowing up the Northern forts. According to a report
of the commission charged with the division of the
booty taken here, the French had in the Crimea, at the
date of the capture of that place, 121,000 men, and the
English and Sardinians 59,000. If to these 180,000 be
added the 30,000 who have recently arrived, it will
make an effective strength of 210,000, sick included.
General Trochu will shortly leave the Crimea for Con-
stantinople, en route for France, the state of his health
imperiously requiring his return. It is,indeed, thought
that the majority of the generals who were wounded at
the assault on Sebastopol will receive convalescent
leaves of absence."
The Courrier de Mn
of the 21st inst.,
publishes the following letter, dated Sebastopol,
the 7th inst.:—
" We have been informed that the Russians intend
to concentrate all their forces on some point of the
Crimea, probably at Simpheropol. It is added that the
We,. nevertheless, still
evacuation of the northern part of Sebastopol has been
for some time decided, and we have ourselves.observed
that the Russian troops occupying those heights are
gradually diminishing in number.
perceive a few battalions, occupied in erecting field-works
aad batteries ; but this may be a blind to deceive the
allies, by making them believe that they do not intend
to evacuate their position. Whatever may be the point
of concentration chosen by Prince Gortschakoff, should
the winter be mild, that is rainy, their army must inevi-
tably perish, for we positively know that they have not
opened a single new road, and that all those existing in
the country have been rendered almost impracticable by
the recut rains. This accounts, no doub,, for the Rue.
man soldiers wearing heavy boots in the summer as well
as in winter. If, on the contrary, the winter be rigor-