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

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL

We have received by way of Berlin the fol-
lowing intelligence, dated St. Petersburg, the 10th

inst. :

" Prince Menschikoff announces that on the
4th of December nothing new had occurred before
Sebastopol, except some trifling sorties on our
(the Russian) side, without success."
We have received from our correspondent in
Berlin the following despatch, dated Monday
evening :

" On Saturday last the Germanic Confedera-
tion unanimously adopted the additional article to
the treaty concluded between Austria and Prussia
on the 26th.

" Prussia has not yet joined the alliance of
Austria and the Western Powers.

" When that treaty is ratified she will be in-
vited to join, and will probably comply.
"The Empress of Russia is very ill."

The Moniteur of yesterday contains the follow

ing announcements :

" BATOIJM, OCT. 30.
" Ibrahim Pasha, one of the commissioners sent
by Schamyl to the army of Anatolia, has received
news that a convoy of 800 Turkish prisoners pro-
ceeding to the Don were surprised by the Cauca-
sians in passing the mountains. The escort were
destroyed, and the prisoners thus found themselves
delivered.

"ERZEROUM, Nov. 7.
"Zarif Mustapha Pasha, lately Mushir of the
army of Anatolia, passed the day before yesterday
through Erzeroum, on his way to Constantinople.
" The command of the army has been intrusted
to the Ferik Abdul Kerim Pasha, one of the most
distinguished officers of the army of Anatolia, until
the arrival of the new Mushir, Ismail Pasha. This
general is at present occupied, in conjunction with
Colonel Williams, in getting the troops into their
winter quarters."

FRAN CE.
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The following private telegraphic despatches
have been received :
" VIENNA, 10th.—The meaning of the principal
article of the treaty of alliance signed on the 2d between
Austria and the Western Powers is, that if at the end
of the present year the re-establishment of peace is not
assured, the treaty will become one of alliance offensive
and defensive."
" BAYONNE, 11th.- The arrival of the Madrid mail
of the Bth was delayed yesterday in consequence of a
heavy fall of snow. There was a fete at Madrid on the
Bth, on the occasion of thp proclamation of the Imm,‘-
culate Conception."
The Moniteur publishes two long and very cir-
cumstantial reports addressed to Admiral Hamelin
by Capt. Jehenne, of the Henri IV. and Capt.
Fisquet, of the Pluton, giving an account of the
shipwreck of these two vessels near Eupatoria, on,
14th of November. In the former it is stated that;
the number of Cossacks who hurried to the beach
to attack the Henri IV. was about 50 only, and that
they withdrew immediately on being fired at.
Capt. Fisquet states that the loss of his vessel must
be attributed to the misfortune of an English trans-
port being driven against her with great force,
which accident disarranged her machinery, and ren-
dered her comparatively helpless. Admiral Hame-
lin in a short letter to the Minister of Marine,
states that the crews of the two vessels were all
saved, and the greatest part of the stores and other
property removed to Eupatoria. Men were still,
when he wrote, on the 21st of November, engaged
in taking to the town the spars, masts, and other
articles of the Henri IV."
A letter from Trebizond, in the 3foniteur of the
18th ult., says :—" The news of the victory of In-
kerman, which reached this place, has excited the
greatest enthusiasm. Hafit Paella, the governor,
ordered a salvo of 24 guns to be fired on the occa-
sion."

The Moniteur contains a letter from Erzeroum,
of the 7th ult., which says Garif Mustapha