The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-27 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Exchange at Calcutta, ls.
Canton was in a state of siege. All business was
suspended, and in a few days the place would be
in the hands of the rebels.
No tea was brought to market.

Wliainpoa and Putsllan are still in possession of
the rebels.

Sir John Bowring was in the north.

Exchange at Shanghai, Gs. ld. ; Canton, 4s. 11d.
In Australia there is great depression in all com-
mercial affairs. The half-yearly report of the Great
Nugget Vein Mining Company is unfavourable,
and no dividend was declared.

Mrs. Chisholm and her party of emigrants landed
at Port Philip on the 14th July.
New South Wales gold was worth at Sydney
31. 17s. ; Port-Philip gold 4/.

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR.

THE ARMY IN THE CRIMEA
PARIS, TUESDAY.

A despatch from Marseilles of this morn-
ing announces the march of 25,000 Turks on Brai-
low, and the junction of Schamyl's forces with those
of his Lieutenant Daniel, with a view of attacking
Tiflis.

The Turkish army in Asia now occupies the
camp abandoned by the Russians near Kars.

The Thabor steamer left Constantinople on the
20th with the details of the landing in the Crimea,
and is expect©d to arrive at Marseilles to-morrow
or the day after.

M. Maurer, formerly Minister of Justice, has
been sent to Athens on a mission by the King of
Bavaria.

BERLLN, TUESDAY EVENING.

Intelligence from the Crimea, received via St.
Petersburg, and which may be believed or not,
according to the fancy of the reader, states that
Prince IVlenschikoff was concentrating his forces,
and would meet the allies on the Alma river.
We are also informed that Prince Menschikoff
has telegraphed to St. Petersburg that the Russian
fleet had sailed from Sebastopol to intercept the
passage of the reserve from Varna ; but we are
afraid that this last piece of intelligence is too good
to be true.

Twenty Russian barges, laden with corn and rags,
had been partly wrecked in a gale, and partly cap-
tured by the Amphion and Archer.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27.
We have received the following, dated Mar-
seilles, 26th inst.:—

"The reserve at Varna received orders to em-
bark on the 18th for the) Crimea, under the orders
of General Levaillant.

".From Alexandria we learn that the viceroy
was hastening the sending of new reinforcements
and artillery to the Porto.

" Two combats had lo;m9n. fought in Georgia be-
tween Daniel l3ey(Sehanityl's lieutenant) and Wran-
gel's division. The Russians were beaten.
"The Poles, who formed part of this Russian
division, are reported to have gone over to the
enemy with two guns.

"A committee of mere.liants has been formed at
Constantinople, to fix the rate of foreign exchange
and paper money."

The Paris papers just received contain accounts
of the 'expedition in the Crimea. The following
`,ranslation will be found highly interesting :

("211 M. the Constitutionnel.)
"Old Fort, where the landing was effected, is, accord-
ing to the best maps, 45 kibornetres (28i English miles)
to the north of Sebastopol, and 23 kilometres (14g Eng-
lish miles) to the south of Eupatoria, a little above the
river Boulganack. This position is indicated in some maps,
by the name of Traktir. It will be seen that the troops
had advanced immediately by the roads of Simpheropol
and Bachti-Serai ; but perhaps nothing is meant but
bodies of troops intended to observe the enemy. The
part of the expeditionary army which proceeds along
the coast will meet with four streams of water before
they arrive at the little arm of the sea which is at the
north of Sebastopol. The country is wooded and moun-
tainous, but that inconvenience is compensated for by
the facility of having wood and water, which would be
difficult to find in advancing farther into the country.
The streams of water are Boulganack, the Alma, the
Katcha, and the Belbek. This last river being passed, the
northern fort, and the Fort Com.tantine, are right in front.
The northern fort is a regular work, which it will be ne-
cessary to attack by land, and probably according to all
the rules of the military art. As to Fort Constantine,
the example given at Bomarsuna leads us to believe
hat it may be reduced by an attack from the fleet.
Once masters of these two points, Sebastopol is ours.
With an enemy able to defend the ground foot by foot,
the distance between the landing-point and Sebastopol
might ,be difficult ; but to judge by the language of
Marshal de St. Arnaud and Lord Raglan to Omer
Paella, the generals-in-chief do not appear to expect
any great resistance before arriving at the end of their
march."

(Fr•)m the] ,s•Qcle.)
" The enterprise in course of execution is certainly a
great one. Remark, In fact, that if it euceeeds, as there is
reason to hope, the naval power in the Black Sea will be
completely destroyed, and the independance of the Otto-
man Empire will be reestablished. The mouths of the
Danube have become free, and the treaties which opened
the Principalities to the sovereign influences of the Czar
have been torn to pieces by the sword. The war will
not then be finished, but a capital point will be decided
—namely, that the Euxine will ❑o longer be a Russian
lake, for what hitherto has constituted the supremacy of
Russia, is not merely that her navy is stronger than that
of Turkey, but that it has to shelter itself against the
fleets of the Sultan's allies, a port which cannot be
forced except by the aid of a powerful army. That port
once destroyed, though the war may not be imme-
diately terminated, the respective situations of Turkey
and Russia will have been completely changed. We
are also convinced that by the fall of Sebastopol
the German powers will be led to modify their
attitude, or, to speak more properly, to act more in
accordance with their words. In order to have a part
in the benefits of war by setting themselves as arbiters
of peace, the German powers should have a position such
as they have not yet had, and which they will not pro-
bably have reached until Russia shall have lost the
Crimea, which, militarily, is everything for her by
the facility which it gives her to command the
Black Sea by her fleet.• The capture of Sebastopol
would therefore produce consequences which it is now
impossible to calculate, and the principal one of which
would be to decide Germany to support differently from
what she has hitherto done the propositions put forward
by France and England."