The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-20 00:00:00

SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Moniteur confirms the intelligence of a
sortie attempted by the garrison of Sebastopol.
It says, the Charge d'Affaires of France at Con-
stantinople, writing on the 10th, informs the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, that the captains of
the steam transports just arrived from the Crimea
state that the besieged had attempted a sortie
against our siege works, and that they had been
vigorously repulsed.
The Porte has sent a reinforcement of 4,000
men to the Ottoman corps which forms part of
the expedition.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCT. 19.
The following despatch has been received

Lere

" MARSEILLES, THURSDAY.

" The Pharamond has arrived here, with Gene-
ral Thomas on board, convalescent. She brings
advises from Constantinople of the 10th, and
Balaklava Bth October.

" The siege works were covered with entrench-

ments against attacks from without.
" Prince Menschikoff had not made any offen-

sive movement.

" The siege materiel amounted to 400 guns.
" The firing was shortly to commence. It was
thought that a breach would be made in forty-
eight hours.
"Balaklava was perfectly fortified.
" The Porte sends 10,000 men there, the half

of which embarked on the 9th.
" The Turkish Ambassador, on leaving Persia,
was decorated by the Shah, and escorted by a
company of guards to the frontier. Ile leaves a
charge d'affaires there.

" 4,500 French had left the Pirteua for the
Crimea, on board the squadron of Barbier do

Tinan."

PARTS, THURSDAY.

The Patric says that the private correspondence
by the Levant packet-boat which arrived at Mar-

seilles this morning, announces that the siege
batteries were established before Sebastopol on the

ithi and that the bombardment was to commence

on the 9th.

It was expected that the town would be carried

about the 18th.

Russian deserters had stated that Prince Men-

schikoff had received no reinforcements.

It was said that the besieged had made a sortie,

but that it had been vigorously repulsed.

It is also said that the Government have re-

ceived a despatch from General Canrobert, in
which he says that the Allies occupy an impreg-
nable position, defended by 80,000 men and 200
guns, and that they could repel the attack of
200,000 Russians.

CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 12.
Adrices from Balaklava, of the Bth inst., bring

no intelligence of importance.
The bombardment of Sebastopol was to com-
mence on the 14th.

The siege fortifications were advancing.

VIENNA, OCT. 19.

Advices from Odessa, of the Bth inst., have

the following :

Prince Gortschakoff is here. Prince Menschi-
koff is at Perekop ; his army is at Sebastopol.
The Allies will begin the siege at all points
between the 10th and 12th inst.

Another despatch, of the same date, is as fol-

lows :---

Advices from Sebastopol of the 16th report
that nine batteries of the first lines were mounted

on the Bth.

Large Russian reinforcements were going to

the Crimea by forced marches.
The bombardment with howitzers commenced

on the 11th.

The Allies had already received considerable

reinforcements.

Constantinople letters of the 12th stato that
1,000 men of the foreign legion and 4,000 Turks
had left for the Crimea.

A Russian corps, estimated at 15,000 men,
was posted on tho Tchernaya, near Sebastopol.
The opening of the great operation was expected

daily.

Lard Stratford de Redcliffe had obtained a
finnan suppressing the traffic in Circassian and
Georgian slaves.
The Presse states that, as a consequence of the
correspondence which fell into the hands of the
Allies at the battle of the Alma, some very im-
portant arrests have taken place at Varna.

IBRAILA, OCT. 8.
A large number of Russians were at Toultscha,
Isaktelia, and Matschin.