The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-25 00:00:00

THE LAST SUMMONS.

We read in a Constantinople letter of the 10th,
in a Vienna newspaper :—" General Canrobert acts
in perfect accord in all things with Lord Raglan.
The two commanders have made the last sum-
mons to Sebastopol to yield, so as to prevent the
effusion of blood. A messenger has besides been
sent, with a flag of truce, to the commander of the
fortress, with the proposition to send away the
women, children, old men, and sick, and to hoist
a flag on the hospital, in order that it may be
spared. We are assured that the Allied com-
manders have resolved to respect the town itself,
but to bombard the forts and batteries, the public
establishments, and those of the Crown. The last
lines of circumvallation approach so near the town
of Sebastopol that the Allies, who occupy the
heights, can see the inhabitants walking about."

THE RUSSIAN REINFORCEMENTS.
A letter from Constantinople, dated the 12th, in
this evening's Lloyd, has intelligence from the
Crimea that General Canrobert had formed an ob-
servation corps of 30,000 men, and sent it towards
Perekop, to check the advance of the Russian re-
serves. This, however, is in no way confirmed by
any of our late advices from the Crimea. On the
30th ult., the Sidon carried off two gun-boats from
the harbour of Odessa, and two steamers are em-
ployed for similar purposes in the vicinity of
Kertsch. The Constantinople writer considers
the report that Russian reinforcements have al-
ready arrived in the Crimea from Bessarabia to
be utterly absurd, on account of the great distance
from the Pruth to Sebastopol, and the nature of the
oountry to be traversed. From the Pruth to Cher-
son is 45 °011:0-111 miles, in a right line ; from the

latter place to Perekop, 15; and frOm Perekop to
Sebastopol, 15 miles more.

From Varna we hoar that on the 13th inst. the
Tunese troops, under Gutiin Bey, embarked in six
Turkish and eight Tunese ships from Batoum.
4,000 Tunese went to Balaklava on the 12th.
A great number of troops have recently been
landed at Eupatoria, and the garrison of Constan-
tinople, of 10,000 men, was ready to leave for any
point early in the month. Numbers of the wounded
in the hospitals at Scutari and Pera have recovered,
and demand to be allowed to return to the army.
According to the Fremden Blatt, there are 41,000
Russian troops now on their way to the Crimea,
♦iz., 16,000 cavalry and 25,000 infantry. The same
journal is informed that the Grand Prince Thron-
folger will shortly arrive at Warsaw, to inspect
the Imperial Guards. He is their commander.

A. Constantinople letter of the 12th says :—" The
chief enemy is one against which no courage or
skill can avail. Sickness still continues its ravages,
and, though the men have now received their
tents, and are no longer exposed to the chill and
damps of an autumnal bivouac, yet the state of the
army is far from satisfactory. It is said, on good
authority, that the effective British infantry does
not now exceed 16,000 men. The probable loss iu
our part of the invading force from cholera, fever,
and the sword of the enemy is about 5,000 men,
since the expedition sailed. Not, indeed, that such
a number, •r even a third of it, are dead, but there
are so many disabled by wounds and weakened by
disease that the force of the army is lessened by
nearly a fifth."