The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-08 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Fremden-Blatt of Vienna publishes a letter
from St. Petersburg, in which it is stated that on
the 27th October the Czar refused an audience to
the Prussian Ambassador.
A letter from Odessa of October 25, in the
Lloyd of Vienna, says Since the residence
of the Grand Dukes at Kicheneff, a daily comnu-
nication is established between that town and Se-
bastopol by way of Odessa.
The departure of Russian reinforcements for the
Crimea is continued without interruption.
This day a convoy of 2,000 carts has left with a
brigade of infantry.
The Cologne Gazette, publishes the following
despatch from Warsaw, of the 3d :—" The Russian
troops on the Austrian frontier are to be with-
drawn behind the river Pilica. The advance
guard of the army will remain on the left bank of
the Vistula. Gen. Scheodajew has received orders
to form two armies of reserve for next spring. The
Pilica, which rises near Tarnowiez (Poland) forms,
along its whole course, the boundary between the
Governments of Masodia and Radom, and falls
into the Vistula to the south of Czerski."

RUSSIAN NEWS FROM THE CRIMEA.
(Prom an Bxtraordinary Supplement of the Invalide
Busse.)
A report received from Prince Menschikoff,
dated October 23 (N.s.) gives the following further
details in continuation of his former report on the
operations before Sebastopol
On the 20th of October. General Semiakine re-
newed his offensive movement from the village of
Tchorgoun on the right bank of the river Tchernaya,
advancing for that purpose two columns on Komarz
and on a small fortification which the enemy had
constructed a little behind that village.

Our detachment having found that these two
points had been abandoned returned to its former
position, which it regained at nightfall. In conse-
quence of this movement the English troops ad-
vanced anew upon Komarz, and opened a fire of
musketry and artillery against the heights which
we had quitted, but beyond this attempted nothing.
In the night of October 20, several detachments
of volunteers were sent against the enemy's !bat-
teries. One of these detachments, composed of 5
officers and 27 men, suddenly entered the French
trenches, spiked eight mortars and eleven guns,
and as speedily returned to the place, after having
thus made the enemy's battery useless for the work
of the morrow.

This fortunate sortie, 'which spread alarm in
the enemy's camp, cost us two officers killed—Lieu-
tenant Troitsky and Prince Pontiatine of the marine
guard—and a sailor. The other detachments found
the enemy everywhere vigilant and active, and re-
turned to the place with a loss of twelve mew
wounded.

During the bombardment of the 20th we lost in
all 50 killed, including three officers, and 197
wounded, of whom five were officers.

On the 21st and 22d of October the siege batteries
of the enemy continued to bombard Sebastopol,
but the damage caused to our fortifications was
as on preceding days of small extent and easily
repaired, so that in none of our bastions has the
firing been interrupted. Our loss on the 21st was
30 killed, including one officer, and 160 wounded,
of whom three were officers. Our loss on the 22d is
not exactly known.
On the night of Oct. 21 and 22 aoe of our
picquets, composed of 8 men, seeinc, an English
patrol of 40 men approaching, boldly threw itself
on the enemy and dispersed the patrol, and made
its commanding officer, Lord Dunkellin, a captain
of the Guards, and son of Lord Clanricarde, pri-
soner.

From the seaward the enemy has attempted no-
thing.
At Eupatoria the operations have been limited
to skirmishes between our outposts of Lancers and
Cossacks with parties of the enemy who attempted
to leave the town. Ou the 20th a detachment of
volunteers, composed of Lieut. Goriatchoff, Cornet
Bogomalets, and 20 Lancers of the Regiment
H.I.H. Mad. the Grand Duchess Catherine Mik-
hailowna, and some Cossacks, taking advantage of the
thick fog, galloped up to the toWn itself, plunged
into a crowd of Tartars who were outside the wall,
killed 12 on the spot, took two prisoners, wounded
a great number, pushed into the town on the heels
of the fugitives, killed the three French sentinels
at the barrier, and; while the town was in complete
confusion, withdrew, driving before them cattle,
sheep, and horses to the number of 1,000.

In this skirmish Cornet Bogomalets was slightly
wounded with a lance.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Nov. s.—We read in a letter from
Berlin of the 4th :—" There is a rumour here in
the diplomatic circles that, in a conference which
took place three days ago between the French
ambassador and M. do Manteuffel, the former
remarked strongly on the sad results to life and
property caused by the almost direct support
given by the Prussian cabinet to the policy of
Russia, whereas if Prussia had at the first associated
herself with the Western Powers in favour of
a righteous cause, the Emperor of Russia would,
in all probability, have seen the hopelessness of a
war, and by reasonable concessions would have
prevented the great sacrifice of human life which
has already taken place, and the injury that
has been inflicted on commerce and manufac-
tures. It is added that some doubts having been
expressed by M. de Manteuffel as to the success
of the Allied army before Sebastopol, in con—
sequence of the late period of the year at
which the expedition was undertaken, and havin g
made this doubt a sort of ground for the continued
neutrality. of Prussia, the representative of France
replied that the failure of the expedition was next
to impossible ; but that supposing it should fail,
that would be no reason for the German Powers not
to unite with France and England, for any advan-
tage to Russia could only be temporary, and there-
fore the apprehension of danger from that sidewould
be unfounded. Two such powers as France and
England, jealous of their honour, and possessing
inexhaustible resources, would not allow a few
checks in a first campaign to induce them to
make concessions. They would, ou the con-
trary, be, a motive for preparations on a great
and overwhelming scale, and would perhaps com-
pel them to be more pressing than they
have hitherto been as to the attitude of the
German powers, and the time might not be distant
when German neutrality might find less favour
from the Allies than it had experienced when it was
hoped that the war would be of short duration.
Such was the conversation of these diplomatists,
according to the report in circulation. , How far
the report is well founded, I know not ; but it has
gained great credit."