The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-06 00:00:00

could not inter) mpt b.is post-prandial enjoyments
by devoting me pre than a few moments to the ac-
counts he deeisted Sufficiently satisfactory to ap-
pease the anxious yearnings of the people at home.
Parliament is not now assembled. If it were,
such conduct -would receive well-merited censure.
Anything, however, is good enough for JOHN
BULL, and we must only patiently bide our

time until the representatives of the people
are entitled to demand explanations of
what, at present, we can only regard
as the unpardonable negligence of our Ambas-
sador. We are told, on what a short time since we
should have considered the unquestionable veracity
of the French Minister at Vienna, that "the Aus-
trian Consul at Odessa had telegraphed to his
Government that the struggle had recommenced
from the 25th to the 27th, on which day the
Allies were posted on the Belbeck, 10 wersts from
Sebastopol ;" but Lord STRATFORD does not
choose to give the slightest information on any of
those interesting and important details. All we
know is, that the Allied Troops had established
their basis of operations at Balaklava, on
the morning of the 28th, and were pre-
paring to march upon Sebastopol, and that the
Agamemnon and other vessels of war of the Allies
were in the port of Balaklava, where there were
facilities for disembarking the battering trains.
We can, therefore, only guess at the occurrences
of the intermediate period, or listen to doubtful,
perhaps spurious, reports. For this painful un-
certainty, we have only to thank the negligence
of our veteran, diplomatist, Viscount STRATFORD

DE REDCLIFFE.
Balaklava, it will be remembered, lies som•
seven miles due south of Sebastopol, and it was 1
for a long time thought that it had been selected
as the point of disembarkation. It was there that
Prince MENSCHIKOFF had made preparation to give
a warm reception to our troops. It must there-
fore have been regarded as the most suitable
place for commencing regular operations against
the Russian stronghold. It was, however, so
strongly menaced from the neighbouring heights
that the landing could not possibly be accom-
plished without enormous bloodshed, which the
Allied Commanders very judiciously avoided. In
occupying those heights, and thus securing the
uninterrupted landing of the heavy artillery, at
so favourable a point, a great matter has been
achieved, which would be. exceedingly satisfactory
to the people ; but for the previous disappoint-
ment zespecting Sebastopol, and the uncer-
tainty in which we are placed as to the
intermediate proceeding we have in fact al-
ready accomplished everything that reasonably
could have been anticipated, and if Sebastopol
has not as yet fallen—if the Union Jack and Tri-
colour do not as yet wave over its fortresses—and
if the Russian fleet is not either destroyed or in
the power of the Allies—there is, at least, every
ground for anticipating that these triumphs have
only been deferred, and that in due course we
shall have once more to announce—but this time
on authentic and official accounts—THE FALL OF
SEBASTOPOL, AND THE CAPTURE •R DESTRUCTION

OF THB RUSSIAN FLEET, WITH ALL THE MUNITIONS
OF WARS accumulated by the care of the Atrro-
CRAT, so that he malt no longer menace
the Turkish capital from a place sufficiently
strong to shelter and protect his navy from every
attack by sea. As yet our success has been un-
interrupted, and we cannot doubt that before many
weeks—possibly, days—we shall receive another
despatch detailing the realisation of our most
sanguine hopes, in the humiliation of the pride
and overthrow of the power of the AUTOCRAT in
Southern Russia.