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LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1854.

The public mind is again yearning for trust-
worthy tidings from the Crimea. In the intense
anxiety, the universal excitement that prevails,
everything else is regarded as comparatively
trivial or worthless. " Sebastopol" is the general
signal for attention in anything relating to the
progress of the siege, the position of the Allied
Forces by land and water, the state of the belea-
guered fortress, and of the Russian fleet—a moiety
whereof were sacrificed to prevent the ingress of
hostile fleet, and the remainder ready to be
submerged the moment our jolly tars have the
slightest chance of getting at them. The " cou-
ragebus" actors in the tragedy at Sinope are
ready, like Colonel CRocKEir's game, to come
down from the tree without giving the unerring
marksman the trouble of firing, and to yield them-
selves up, " as gone coons," even previous to any
attack.

The anxiety becomes more eager as the time
approaches when we ought to receive further offi-
cial despatches. The last that arrived, which
came from Vienna on Thursdaylast, and appeared
in The sum the same day, informed us of the
progress of °Tents up to the 3(1 instant. Four
days. have since elapsed, and surely we may now
look for ward to something additional. We
scarcely regard that derived from a Russian source
as worthy of the slightest credence, and only com-
municate it to show the nature of the news with
which the Ow/ satisfies the cravings of his
loyal subjects. Before the BLh, to which day
the next communication will probably take us,
considerable progress ought to have been made in
the bombardment ; or, if not, it would at least
be satisfactory to know the arrangement entered
into, the stations of the different divisions, and
the reasons, if any, for the delay.
We are well aware that some time must neces-
sarily be consumed in making the necessary pre-
parations for the attack on a fortification so
strongly defended—that the artillery could not
be landed at Balaklava and conveyed to the vici-
nity of Sebastopol, the batteries constructed and
made ready to open fire against the town, the
shipping, and the different forts—or the trenches
carried forward within the requisite distance,
without
some delay. But we must recollect that,
on or before the 3d instant, "50 heavy gun
650 sailors, and 2,000 marines had been landed
from the Fleet at Balaklava—that the English
Army was close to Sebastopol, which was invested
on the South—that batteries of heavy guns had
been constructed—that the Allied Armies had ad-
vanced their trenches to within 1,500 yards of
Sebastopol, and that a strong feeling prevailed
among French and English that a general assault
would be made on the Bth inst., that would trans-
fer the Russian stronghold into the hands of the
Allies." Knowing these things on undisputable
authority, we cannot conceive any grounds for
Oiler 4elays, more especially when the lateness