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

LATEST NEWS.

THE CAPTURE OF KINBOURN.

We have received the following telegraphic de-

spatch :

PARIS, OCT. 23.

Marshal Pelissier has forwarded to the Minister

of War the following communication relating to
the operation of the allied forces at Kinbourn :
SEBASTOPOL, OCT. 21, 5 P.M.
I have just received from General Bazain his
report of the capture of Kinbourn.
The Anglo-French division of the army has
actively contributed to the success of the allied
squadron.

Having been landed on the peninsula about
5 kilometres from the fortress, it took up its posi-
tion, and in the night of the 16th opened the
trenches at 800 metres from the works.

When the fleet commenced its heavy fire on the
17th, two companies of Chasseurs, under cover, at
a distance of 400 metres from the batteries, were
able to keep up a fusilade on the Russian artillery-

Len at their guns.
The field artillery also played an effective part

in the operation.
We have taken 1,420 prisoners, including
General Koianovitch and 40 officers, with 174

pieces of cannon and a quantity of ammunition
and stores. We are now in full occupation of an

important position.
Such are the results to the Allies of this suc-
cessful expedition.

The Russians have rendered this success com-
plete by themselves blowing up the fortifications
of Oczakoff on the 18th.

I send you the standard, with the arms o
Russia, which floated over the walls of Kinbourn

MARSEILLES, TUESDAY, OCT. 23.

The Indus has arrived from Constantinople ;
her dates are—the Crimea, October 13 ; Con-

stantinople, 15.

She has on board 240 invalided soldiers.
Her despatches will be forwarded by the :train

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-

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

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

Atelegraphic despatch has just reached
from pmriarsteienes
,bringing
accounts from Constanti-
nople of the 15th, and from the Crimea of the 13th.
The mortar batteries had opened on this last day
against the northern forts. The division of infantry
of General d'Autemarro occupied the plateau of
the Belbek, and the French cavalry had advanced
to Baidar. The army at Eupatoria daily received
reinforcements. An entire division of French
infantry, commanded by General de Failly, and a
strong body of English cavalry, landed there on
the 11th. It was believed that General Gortscha-
koff intended to concentrate his force:: 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 Bakshisorai. 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
Monifeur, "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 Mggnus Ladulos, it was restored in
1748 by King Frederick I. It is composed of only
one class, 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 tl • 9th, in the
Semaphore de Marseille, Bays
"Nothing new has taken place, except the explosion
of a new infernal machine in the Karabelnaia, but it only
killed one man. Notwithstanding the most minute exa•
mination no other of these machines has been discovered.
It is supposed that they are conical jars sunk in the
ground, having a kind of bar which comes just above or
even with the ground, and which, when stepped on,
breaks a small vessel, containing some inflammable
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 remarke 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 Simpheropol. It is every day expected tq 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 general? who were wounded at
the assault on Sebastopol will receive convalescent
leaves of absence."
The Courrier de Marseilles, of the 21st inst.,
publishes the following letter, dated Sebastopol,
the 7th inst.*:—
" We have been informed that the Russians intend
to coecentrate all their forces on some point of the
Crimea, probably at Simpheropol. It is added that the
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. We, nevertheless,
still
perceive a few battalions, occupied in erecting field-works
and 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 impraeticable by
the recent rains. This accounts, no douLe, for the Rte.
slat), soldiers wearing heavy boots in the summer as well
as in winter. If, on the contrary, the winter be rigor-