The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-17 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE CRIMEA.

REPORTED DEFEAT OF THE
RUSSIANS.
PARIS, OCT. 16.

The following despatch has been received here,
dated Marseilles, Monday, Oct. 16 :
The Telemaque has arrived with advices from

Constantinople, of the sth inst.

It was reported that 20,000 Russians, who

had made a sortie from Sebastopol, were attacked

and routed.

It was thought that tho surrender of Sebasto-
pol would take place between the 13th and 16th
of October.

The Russians are decimated by cholera.
At Marseilles the embarkation of troops con•

,inues.

The Thabor and Elbe had left with troops.
Reinforcements have arrived for the allies, with
some of the new Lancaster guns.
Fresh Turkish troops and an Egyptian division
are announced.

The battering train now amounts to 120 heavy

guns.

It is thought that Sebastopol may hold out for

10 or 12 days.

' Letters from Prince Menschikoff have been in-
tercepted, which admit that the place is incapable

of making a successful resistance.

A postal. service is arranged to take place be-
t,,vecu Balaklava and Constantinople every five

days.

OCT. 15

No'•hing new bad occurred at Sebastopol up

to the 9th.

VIENNA, TUESDAY.

Lord Raglan has written to Omar Pasha tha

the regular siege of Sebastopol was to begin on
the 51h, and that, in his opinion, the fortress

would be taken in ten days.

It is reported that the southern heights have

been taken.

SCHAMYL AGAIN VICTORIOUS.

In Asia Scbamyl has been victorious in two

engagements.

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The army before Kara was awaiting tho arrival

of Ismail.

Anatolia bad been pillaged by the Kurds and

Ocssacks.

The Journal de Constantinople states that the
Straits of Yenicale have been blocked up by the

sinking of 30 vessels by the Russians.

ST. PETERSBURG, OCT. 14.

Under the present threatening aspect the Czar
has placed the three provinces nearest Austria in

a state of siege.
Gortschakeff is declared generalissimo.

The ukase has just appeared.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.
A Russian despatch was received in. Vienna on
the 13th, which says that General Canrobert, after
having chosen his point of attack, and male every
disposition for the proper service of the siege,
ordered that the enemy's outposts should be driven
in to the main wall before Akhtiar on the oth inst.,
and that the construction of the batteries should be
thereupen commenced.
A second despatch denies that Anapa has been
destroyed, and that any bombardin,, of the Quar-
antine Fort and outworks of the harbour of Sebas-
topol took place on either the 4th or the sth of the
month. The reinforcements now on their way
from Odessa to the Crimea belong principally to
the 6th army corps, with one division of the sth
corps.
It is reported that there are provisions and muni-
tions at Perekop sufficient for the maintenance of
50,000 men during the winter ; but, notwithstand-
ing, the troops on the march thither have taken
some thousands of waggons with them laden with
all necessaries.
These waggons are drawn by oxen ; the former
are often made use of for firewood, while the majo-
rity of the latter supply the half-starved Russian
soldiers with food.
The troops which left Odessa on the 4th would
arrive at Simpheropol about the 16th inst. or at any
rate not earlier than the 15th, by which time it is
to be hoped the fate of Sebastopol will have been
sealed.

THE RUSSIANS AT ALMA.
The Triester Zeitung says that the loss of the
Russians at the battle of Alma was 12,000 Men ;
2,500 were wounded, and 700 taken prisoners ;
and nine pieces of cannon, and a large quantity of
munitions, fell into the hands of the victors. On
their advance from the Alma to the Katcha, the
allies were guided by a Tartar Prince, Achmed
Girai, a descendant of the Khans of Tartary, with a
troop of followers. They passed the fortifications of
Belbeck, and advanced to the Balaklava road south
of Sebastopol. It will he observed that nothing is
said here of fighting having occurred from the en-
gagement on the Alma to the occupation of the posi-
tion south of Sebastopol. During the advance of
the allies, Prince Menschikoff left Sebastopol with
a corps, part of which• was cut off, and many taken
prisoners. Twenty of the Prince's own waggons
were captured, and it is said that papers were
found in one of them in which Menschikoff declared
Sebastopol to be untenable. On their way from
the Alma to Sebastopol the Russians burnt all the
villages through which they passed. The force of
the allies at the date of this intelligence, the 2d of
October, numbered 100,000 men, inclusive of sailors
(25,000). They have been since reinforced by more
than 20,000 troops. 2,500 French, 2,000 English
and 350 Russians, wounded, have already arrived
at Constantinople.

STORES AND CLOTHING FOR THE EAST.
The Sentinelle Toulonnaise announces that the
Sane steam-frigate has received orders to leave the
port of Toulon without delay. She has taken on
board a large number of packages of clothing for
the troops and sailors in the East. She is to
proceed first to Marseilles, to take a number
of troops on board for Constantinople. Private
letters state that large supplies of provisions,
principally of salted meats, are being got ready at
Toulon for the troops. The Rhin transport cor-
vette, which lately served in that port as a floating
barrack, is about to be transformed into a store-
ship to receive the articles of every kind which are
at present being collected for the troops in the
East. The Therese trading sloop, the Aristide
brig, and the Independent brig are also taking
in provisions at Castignan for the army.

MENSCHIKOFFS LATEST BLUNDER.
The Constantinople correspondent of the Triest
Zeitung, says :—" Scientific officers consider the
closing of the port of Sebastopol, by means of the
sunken vessels, a great blunder on the part of
Prince Nienschikoff. By doing it, the Prince got
the assistance of 15,000 sailors, but he forgot that
the allies can, if necessary, land 25,000 marines
and sailors."