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

mission.

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

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.
BALAICLAVA, Nov. 21, 11 A.M.
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 (ladeu 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 and stores at
Kamiesch Bay.
Nov. 17.—The Tonning left with Colonel Beat-
son, Dr. Dumbreck, &c., for home. Many officers
are applying for leave. Lord Raglan ,has ordered
that no officer 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 Dunkellia with a Russian Captain of Ar-
tillery taken at Mackenzie's Farm. The Czar de-
clared, through Prince Menschikoff, that he 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, &c., damaged by our fire
on the sth of November. More reinforcements
have arrived.
Nov. 20.—The Orino.co has arrived in the har-
bour, with the 97th Regiment oa board, and landed
them. It has been railing 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 Scuderi, commanding the regi-
nient 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
otherwarf
overlookingrs
war-frigate:,
ravines running down to the southern side harbour,
and then occupied this point, which commands the
shore. /.
~ 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
especially in their upper
first supposed. Of the men-of-war those of the
others, one three-decker was
hsumfrAitemraeodrnugnadsdtoesrt,and the steamer towing her
not succeed during one whole day in taking
as 25 vessels, two of which were
timbers.Fse
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her away from the fleet. Near Eupatoria and at
attse:,shmadanbyeen stranded. From the heights
Balaklava 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."