The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1854.

LATEST NEWS.

DEPARTURE OF OMER PACHA

FOR THE CRIMEA.

BUCHAREST, WEDNESDAY.

40,000 Turks and 100 guns will be embarked
at Baltschik and Varna next week, for the Crimea.
One regiment remains at Bucharest.
Dauisk Bey replaces Mussa Paella as command
dant of the town.

Mussa Paella. superintends the embarkation.

Omer Pacha will leave in a few days.

We have received from our correspondent in

Paris the following despatch, dated Madrid, 2d

instant :

M. Sanchez Silva haring proposed to-day in
the Congress the suppression of the octroi duties,
M. Collado, the Minister of Finance, demanded
that the proposition should be referred to the
Budget Commission, and not to a special com-

mission.

The Chamber having rejected M. Collado's
demand by a large majority, the Ministers with.
draw, and have given in their resignations to the
Duke of Victoria.
" The Three per Cents, were at 35 50."

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.
B_4.LAKLAVA, Nov. 21, 11 A. 31.
On the 14th a fearful hurricane passed over the
camp. All the tents were blown down and the
men exposed to rain and cold and hunger for the
day. At night the Russians attacked the French ,
lines and were repulsed. The gale and rain abated
at night.
On the 15th nothing was done, the siege pro-
gressing slowly. The Sampson, which shelled the
Russians at Katcha when they came down to make
prisoners of the crews, and forced them back, is
dismasted, and will have to land her heavy guns.
Admiral Lyons visited Lord Raglan, having come
on shore from the Agamemnon at Kamiesch Bay.
Several of our troops died from cold and exhaustion
yesterday, and many horses perished. The camp
is a sea of mud. The Russians are quiet and de-
pressed. Lord Burghersh has arrived in the
Colombo (laden with ordnance stores.)
Nov. 16.—The mails have not arrived. The
siege fire is very slack on both sides. A fine work
is completed, overlooking the Inkerman road.
The Jura completed landing troops anel stores at
Kamiesch Bay,
Nov. 17.—The Tonning left with Colonel Beat-
son, Dr. Dumbreck, &e., for home. Many officers
are applying for leave. Lord Raglan has ordered
that no offieer shall be permitted to leave for Scutari
without a medical board. Men and officers are
beginning to hut themselves for the winter.
Nov. 18.—The weather is finer and more tem-
perate. The Russians in the valley are said to
have received reinforcements. Arrangements are
made by the English and Russians for the exchange
of Lord Dunkellist with a Russian Captain of Ar-
tillery taken at Mackenzie's Farm. The Czar de-
clared, through Prince Menechikoff, that ho had
no desire to detain his Lordship.
Nov. 19.—The Medway left for Constantinople,
with sick, under charge of Dr. Tice. The French
made a reconnaissance en force this morning, and
saw the Russians repairing a great quantity of
tumbrils, gun carriages, (h., damaged by our fire
on the sth of November. bore reinforcements
have arrived.
Nov. 20.—The Orinoco has arrived in the har-
bour, with the 07th Regiment on board, and landed
them. It has been raining all day. The Queen of
the South arrived this evening with draughts of
various regiments, Guards, &c. There was a good
deal of firing to-day on the French and on our lines,
which we both replied to very briskly. The French
are landing men and stores every hour at Kamiesch
Bay.

RUSSIAN NEWS FROM THE CRIMEA.
In the St. Petersburg Journal, of the 28th
ult., Prince Menschikoff says :
" The fire of our artillery and rifles retards as
much as possible the labours of the besiegers. On
the 13th Colonel Seudari, commanding the regi-
ment of Odessa chasseurs, having observed that the
English, to the number of 200 men, furnished with
pioneering tools, were coming down Mount Sapoun,
opposite the right flank of our Tehorgoun detach-
ment, sent against them troops armed with rifles,
who by a well-directed fire under cover of the
brushwood compelled the enemy to retire, leaving
behind them five men dead, and carrying away
with them several wounded. On the 15th the
enemy repeatedly endeavoured to undertake works
at the head of the dock, but he was driven off each
time by the fire of our guns. On the following
day our skirmishers dislodged the English from
the exeremity of a steep headland, formed by two
ravines running down to the southern side harb our,
and then occupied this point, which commands the
shore.
66 The tempest of the 14th, mentioned in the
admiral's previous report, had occasioned to the
enemy's fleet far greater losses than had been at
first supposed. Of the men-of-war those of the
French suffered most, especially In their upper
timbers. Amongst others, one three-decker was
seen without a rudder, and the steamer towing her
could not succeed during ono whole day in taking
her away from the fleet. Near Eupatoria and at
other spots as many as 25 vessels, two of which were
war-frigates, had been stranded. From the heights
overlooking Balallava two frigates were seen at
anchor in the roads, with their masts broken, and
a large steamer towing four boats filled with stores
and men, taken, no doubt, off some vessel wrecked
near Balaklava. One of these boats was swamped
by the waves."

CONSTANTINOPLE.
6th.—Accounts have just been re-
ceived have received the following private telegra-
phic despatch :
Constantinople to the 27th. They
confirmconfirmthe news that General Liprandi had re-
tired from Balaklava, and that the Duke of Cam-
i'eTditifErsoTmE'
bridge is seriously indisposed. According to the
last advices which had reached Constantinople from
the Crimea the fire on Sebastopol had ceased."
The A letter from
Constantinople states that the Government autho-
rities are still pursuing their investigation into the
circumstances of the plot which was discovered some
weeks back. It had been organised, it appears, in
the fortresses of the Danube, and had ramifications
in the whole of the peninsula as far as Pera, Salo-
nica, and the Greek frontiers. The conspirators
p sknewtO that the Russians would
wards the Danube in the
acmakeuouprp a supposed, or
secondthe
h diversionraee winter,
mountaineers of Roumelia, Bulgaria, and Mace-
donia, and Epirus wero to rise."