The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-14 00:00:00

Nov. 23.: The hoatsv of the men-of-war have been
working for the last two days to get afloat the Lord
Raglan, one of the transports which went ou shore the
o:her day ; they expect to be successful to-day. She
has still her foremast standing, and the injuries to her
hull seem to be but trifling.
Except a few of the crew. of the Maltese bark, who
were shut by the 'Jossacks from the cliff, and a sailor
killed in one of the boats of the Queen, all the crews of
English transports, as far as I are aware of, were saved,
but the crews of several of the French transports were
either drowned or killed by the Cossacks. Their bodies
are lying about unburied on the beach ; one of the
Queen's bo,,ts went, therefore, to bury them. The boat
has not yet ret,lrnrd.
• The sailing two decker! -RoJney, Ven,,eance, and
London will, I hear, 1:0 in IZazart's Bay, next to Ka-
inicEli Bay ; but the Landon will first :ro down with the
three deckers to Stamboul to have her rudder repaired.
The steamers will keep up the blockade as they do now.
The ether day, during the storm, one of the sunken
vessels in the entrance of Sebastopol was dislodged ; but
when the storm ceased another ship was sunk in its place.
Nov. 27.—The late storms have proved the daagest of
keeping the fleet in its present anchorage, and some ar.
rangements have been made to keep up the blockade of
the harbour of Sebastopol without risking the safety of
the squadron.
It has been determined, I hear, to send the three-
deckers down to Constantinople, the sailing two-deckers
to Kazart's Bay (with a boom across the entrance), while
the steam squadron will maintain the actual blockade.
In consequence of this, the roadsted of the Kutch&
has been the rendezvous of a great number of steamers
within the last few days. The Algiers, Agamemnon,
Spiteful, and Retribution ran in and took up their places
alongside the Terrible, Furious, Fury, Stromboli, and
Firebrand, giving more animation to the anchorage, de-
serted by the French and Turkish vessels.
The Britannia, Trafalgar, and Queen were busy during
the whole of last week in sending all the provisions they
could spare on heard the Algiers, Firebrand, &c. The
boats of the Algiers and Queen were further employed
taking a number of lower-deck guns from the Britannia
and the Trafalgar to the Stromboli and Firebrand, to be
conveyed to Balaklava, and disembarked there for the
service of the batteries. They are mostly long 32-
pounders, in all 2S, 14 of which the Queen's boats took
from the Britannia to the Stromboli, while the other 14
were taken by the boat of the Algiers from the Trafalgar
to the Firebrand. A great quantity of powder and shot
was sent with these guns.
When the Britannia is going the Admiral will hoist
his flag on board the Furious, Captain Loring.
This morning the Valorous, the Australian, and the
Mauritius, towing a small brig, came in, all with troops,
the first two having on board English, and the third
French troops. They have all gone down to Kamiesh
P,ay to disembark.

The Simla, with three other steamers and fotfr tran-
sports, is ordered to Beurgas to bring up four Turkish
regiments. The Simla has just disembarked 300 horses
and men of the 9th Regiment of Frsnch Dragoons.
The Lord Raglan has got off, and has been towed
down to Kamiesh Bay.
The weather is sti!l as uncertain as ever. Nearly every
night a second anchor is let out to be weighed in the
morning. The barges and the launches, every day re-
quired to carry stores, guns, powder, Am, from one
vessel to the other, are hauled out of water every
evening. Very often, even during the day, the
swell is so heavy that all labour with the boats is
suspended.

hitherto the wind has been southerly ; simee yesterday
veered to the north.

Among the new arrivals is the gun-boat the
Wrangler, which arrived three days ago from Con.
stantinople.

THE LATE GALE IN THE BLACK SEA

The following is a list of the steam and sailing tran-
sports lost, &c., in the Black Sea during the gale of the
14th of November :

Off Balaklava—No. 107, the Prince (screw steamer),
totally lost—one midshipman and-seven men saved; No.
5, Resolute (ship), totally lost—magazine ship ; No. 40,
Kenilworth (ship), totally lost—empty horse-transport;
No. 63, Wild Wave (ship), totally lost—one man savid ;
No. 82, Rip Van Winkle (ship), totally lost—empty
horse transport.

Off the Katchas—No. 1, the Pyrenees, (ship), wrecked
—empty hor,o-transport; No. 20, Ganges (ship) wrecked
—empty horse.transport ; No. 37, Rodsley (ship),
wrecked—empty hon,e-trausport ; No. 89, Lord Raglan
(ship), wrecked—empty horse-trnn,port.
Eupatoria*—No. 3, her Majesty (ship), wrecked
—empty horse transport; No. 53, Asia (~hip), wrecked
—empty horse transport ; No. 55, Glendalough (ship),
wrecked—empty horse•transport ; No. 61, Harbinger
(ship), wrecked—empty horse-transport ; No. Si, Gem,
giana (ship), wrecked—empty hcrse-transport.
* Crews reported to have been saved from these ships.
Other Wrecks and Casualties at Balaklava—No. 73,
the Melbourne isteam-ship), lost her fore and usaihtnast ;
No. 2, Mercia (ship), dismasted ; No. 13, Lady Valiant
(ship), dismasted ; No. 19, Caduceus (ship), dismasted ;
No. 21, Pride of the Ocean (ship), dismasted • No. 45,
Medora (ship), dismasted ; No. 83, Sir R. Sale (ship),
dismasted ; Progress (barque), totally lost—a commis-
sariat hired ship, with hay and barley ; Wanderer
(barque), totally lest—ditto with oats ; Peltona (barque),
totally lost—ditto with biscuit ; Maltese merchant brig
totally lost. _ _

The estimated loss of life in the crews at Balaklara is
about 300 is number.

The shipping and steamers at Balaklave have suffered
considerably from collision.

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 12.—The following letter, in refer-
ence to the storm of the 14th ult. in the Black' Sea, was
received here to-day, and posted in the Underwriters'.
rooms. It is from the captain of one of the transports,
and gives a graphic account of the disaster
" Crimea, Nov. 17.—We had a most singular and
narrow escape in the gale of the 14th, which uccasiooed
such fearful disasters anion the men-of-war and the
transports, and yet these casualties are nothing more
than what we have expected, for ell the captains of the
transports have remonstrated against lying in such dan-
gerous anchorage during the winter on such an iron-
bound coast ; yet no precautions whatever have been
taken by the authorities to guard against such fear-
ful losses.
" On Sunday last we had a hard gale from the south,
which the ship rode out very well, and on Tuesday the
barometer indicated another, and I gave the ship more
chain and made all snug.
"At 9 a sea rose se fast, and the weather looked so
bad, that I ordered the masts to be cut away, and in five
minutes they were all over the side. The wind then
came on in such terrific gusts that I was blown off the
forecastle, when I was watching the chain and hawser
pipes with an anxious eye. After the masts were gone,
she pitched and rolled fearfully. The other vessels also
cut away their masts, and were thus saved.
" Having now done all in my power, I was erabled
look on and see the melancholy fate of others. The
steamer Vesuvius slipped her cables and tried to get to
sea. She could not steam head to wind, and got across
our bows, and did us considerable damage.
"About 10 the Prince steamer struck, broke in two,
and iu one minute not a vestige of her was to be seen.
Then followed the ships close around me. The Wan_
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