The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-19 00:00:00

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VIENNA, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Up to the 10th, nothing of importance had oc-
curred in the Crimea.

According to the Soldaten Freund, Prince
Menschikoff left 20,000 men in Sebastopol, and
entrusted the command of the army there to

General Chomutoff.

He left on the Ist for Perekop, where three

Infantry divisions, three Cavalry divisions, and
eight Cossack regiments had been concentrated.

On the 7th Prince Menschikoff left Perekop
with reinforcements, and it was expected that,

with the reinforcements advancing from Khorson,
the Russian army would, on the 20th, be 76,000

strong.

The northern forts of Sebastopol, and not
Bakchiserai, now form the base of the Russian

operations.

We have received from our correspondent at
Vienna a despatch dated yesterday evening, which
says that the Constantinople mail of the 9th, via,
Trieste, brings no news of any importance.

THE CRIMEA.
PRINCE PASKIEWITCH'S OPINION OF
SEBASTOPOL.

The Kalisch correspondent of the Lloyd writes
that oven those persons who believe Sebastopol will
successfully resist all the efforts of the all•es, ac-
knowledge that the latter have lost no time in
making their preparations for the siege. Prince
Paskiewitch is said to have declared, that in his
opinion Sebastopol must be taken within six weeks
from the day of the landing in the Crimea, or that
the siege will be raised by the reinforced Russian
army.

RUSSIAN STEAMERS IN SEBASTOPOL.
According to the Solduten Freund, of the 3d
inst., several Russian steamers in the harbour of
Sebastopol made an attempt to escape from thence,
and almost succeeded, for the first had rounded the
northern point of the harbour, near Fort Constan-
tine, when it was seen and fired upon by a steamer
of the blockading squadron. The alarm thus given,
the Russian steamers turned tail, and returned to
the inner harbour. A communication from Odessa
in the Fremden Blatt says that two steamers have
escaped from Sebastopol to Cherson.

STRENGTH OF THE GARRISON.
The Vienna Lloyd says there are but 34,000
men to garrison Sebastopol. The garrison is evi-
dently weak, because it has not made a single
sortie to attack the works of the besiegers. The
French General who directed the siege of Rome, is
charged with the conduct of the siege works.

RUMOUR OF ANOTHER ENGAGEMENT.
MALTA, Oct. 12.—A Malta correspondent says :
—..ccA French officer who is on his road to Mar-
seilles told me that he had heard, just as he left
Constantinople, that an action had been fought
between a division of the Russian army and the
Light division of the English, and it ended in the
loss of 2,000 men on the side of the English. I give
you this as his report, but I cannot vouch for the
truth, as we have no letters from the seat of war."
—[This requires confirmation.]
Eight steamers have been freighted at Marseilles
for the conveyance of reinforcements to the East.
One of them, the Byzantine, is to sail on the 25th
to be be supplied by ar
the camp of the south, and the remainder by the
for Balaklava. Several frigates are also expected
at Marseilles from Toulon with the same object.
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cavalry regiments now serving in the East is to be
completed.
5,000 French cavalry have left Constantinople
for the army, and were expected to arrive in the
Crimea about the 30th.
General Espinasse had arrived at Constantinople
on the 4th, and left the same day for the Crimea.

THE BRITISH EXPEDITION.

FROM THE FLEET OFF BALIKLAVA, OCTOBER 1.

—- - _
The sailing squadron under the orders of Admiral
Dundas is preparing in silent quaker-like medita-
tions for things to come. The Arrow and the
Terrible only hover about Sebastopol, while the rest
of the steam squadron under Admiral Lyons's
superintendence are at work from early morning
until late at night to get the siege train and artillery
stores disembarked. Today is Sunday, and yet the
crews are busy towing the ponderous barges in and
out, and all this is done with the best will possible,
and with so great success, that it is confidently
expected the guns will be able to open their fire in
a very few days ; beside the siege. train the tents
are likewise gradually landed. It is high time that
it should be so, for the cholera still continues to
make fearful ravages. In the hospital at Balaklava
numbers are daily dying, and we can scarcely pass
beforo the wall surrounding it, without seeing one
or more corpses lying about and waiting to be
buried ; and all these men belong only to the regi-
ments encamping close to the place, or are strag-
glers of the Light Division. Fatigue, grapes in
abundance, and exposure to the damp at night,
are sufficient to account for the increased mor-
tality.
The greatest difficulty in relieving the hardships
to be endured arises from the scarcity of the means
of transport,
as the necessary number of horses and
mules could not he brought over, and the arabas
of the country are by no means so numerous as
could be wished. The officers have, of course, to
bear the consequences of this want just as much as
the men ; and strange, indeed, are the contrivances
adopted to remove the difficulty ; not only vehicles
of every description, tut also horses and mules of
Query shape and quality, must do duty.
Notwithstanding all these petite miseres, every
one must be struck with the grandeur of the whole