The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-13 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Oct. 10.—Tho Cabinet of Berlin, it is
said, at nrst hesitated as to whether it ought to
give a reply to the note of the Vienna Cabinet of
the 30th ult. It was thought that it would be
better not to reply, as it was clear it would not
alter the line of policy of Austria, and that a
reply exposing again the views of the Prussian
Cabinet might easily appear calculated to exer-
cise too strong an influence upon the other Ger-
man States. It was, however, finally decided
that a reply should be made. In a few days it will
leave Berlin. The Austrian note of the 30th of
September, in reply to the Prussian note of the 21st,
however, is not the only or the most energetic of
the communications of the Cabinet of Vienna.
There exists a circular dated the Ist of Oct., ad-
dressed to the German Governments, accompanied
by an expose of the position of Austria towards the
belligerent Powers, and a note bearing also the
date of the Ist of October, by which the Austrian
Minister at Berlin has instructions to communicate
that circular to the Cabinet of Berlin to leave no
doubts to the latter as to the manner in which
Austria pronounces herself vis-a-vis- with her Ger-
man confederates. All these documents are, I am

told, very curious. They prove that Austria re-
gards hostilities with Russia as imminent, and that
she no longer entertains the idea of following a
policy of neutrality. It becomes, moreover, daily
clearer that the propolitions of Austria will not
have a majority in th• Federal Diet ; perhaps, to
avoid a rupture which would put the Federal Con-
stitution to a severe trial, Austria will abandon her
propositions, so that the Diet will remain inactive.
The Cologne Gazette, under date of Berlin, 9th,
says:— _ _

"The publication of the Austrian note of the 30th of
September has produced considerable sensation. It is
comprehended that Austria has spoken her last words,
and that she will maintain her policy against Prussia,
even without being supported by Germany. It is more
than doubtful whether Prussia can maintain her iso-
lated position."
A Berlin journal says:—
" On the 17th the trial of the persons implicated in
the plot of March, 1853, will commence before the Court
of Political Justice in this city. It will probably last
several weeks. The accused are 10 in number, and they
will be defended by five .advoc ites. More than 30 wit-
nesses, several of them from Mecklenberg, will have to
be examined. The indictment is very long, the police
having collected a great quantity of papers. The Director-
General of Police (M, ffinkelberg) was to have been
examined, but on his representations the Court has de-
cided not to hear him."

THE BALTIC.
KIEL, Oct. 9.—Rear-Admiral Plumridge arrived
here last evening in his flab-ship, the Neptune,
120 ; and this morning the following line-of-battle
ships came in :—The St. George, 120, Captain H.
Eyres ; Monarch, 84, Captain Erskine ; and Royal
George, 120 (screw), Captain Codrington.
The French line-of-battle ship Duguesclin, in tow
of the steam-frigate Le Milan, has passed the Great
Belt. The Jemappes, which broke her chain cable
during the gale of last week, and was obliged to get
under weigh to prevent going ashore, arrived safely
in Wingo Sound, near Gottenburg.
The Swedish steamer Core arrived yesterday from
Stockholm, passed the Swedish line-of-battle ship
Carl Johann going into Carlscrona, and the same
afternoon saw two British line-of-battle ships, and
a French screw steamer towing one of them ; from
the course they were steering it was supposed they
were trying to make the Groat Belt.
We have had very heavy equinoctial gales, and
from all ports of the Baltic. accounts have been re-
ceived of losses and damages to merchant ships.
Fortunately no ships of war are known to have
suffered any damage.
From all that has transpired it appears certain
• that, though the order for the return of the French
and English fleets was countermanded provision-
ally, while consultations were going on as to the
expediency of making an attempt on Swea.borg'be-
fore the ice appears, yet these consultations have
ended in the confirmation of the impossibility of
doing anything of importance in the Baltic this
year, as the season is too advanced. The ships,
therefore, are going home. A French line-of-
battle ship passed the Belt yesterday, steering
north, and a French steamer is despatched from
here to Nyborg, to fetch pilots to steer the allied
ships here through the Belt.
The reception of the British ships here has been
quite enthusiastic. It happens to be the time of
the Michaelmas fair, so that there is an assemblage
in town of people from all the surrounding country,
who appear to be quite astonished at the magni-
tude of the ships, and altogether delighted with
the novelty.
COPENHAGEN, OCT. B.—The Oresundsposten men-
tions the arrival from England of the electric tele-
graph cable which is to be laid across the Sound,
and will then connect the Swedish with the Danish
telegraph lines. The engineers have now decided
on the direction of the submarine line, which will
enter the Sound a little to the north of Elsinore,
and emerge about a mile from the town of Lands-
crona.

The Cuckoo gun-boat, Lieutenant Commander
Augustus G. E. Murray (2d May, 1854), arrived
at Sheerness, from the Baltic, yesterday, at 10
p.m., last from Yarmouth, where she put in, being
quite of out coals.
The Cuckoo left Ledsund on the 19th of Sep-
tember last, and arrived at Faro Sound en the 21st
of September. On the following day the Swedish
camp broke up. The Porcupine was there in
charge of the colliers for supplying the steam-fleet
with coals. She left Faro Sound on the 23d.
In consequence of very boisterous weather, she
put into Christianopel, and afterwards into Ung-
skar for shelter ; she arrived at Copenhagen ou the
27th. The Danish troops, in very large force,
were7encamped in and around the town. The troops
had been exchanged ; the Zealand troops were sent
to the southern dominions, and the southern troops
to the north. This was done from political motives,
to prevent a.particular object being carried out by
the troops in their own district, of which the
Danish Government had had a very broad hint, if
each body of troops remained in its own locality.
The Cuckoo left at Copenhagen three Danish 50-
gun frigates and one French steam-vessel of war.
She left there on the 30th, passed Elsinore the same
day ; left two French line-of-battle ships and a
French frigate there. That night she was obliged
to anchor under the island of Atiliolt for shelter ;
next morning proceeded and put into Gothenburg
from stress of weather, and there coaled ; left there
on the 6th of October. She left in Mingo Sound
her Majesty's ship Cumberland and a French line-
of-battle ship.
The Cumberland had carried away all the lower

part of the knee of her head, stem, and cutwater,
having been in collision with a French ship of war.
The Cumberland was repairing damage to enable
her to return to England. She may be hourly ex-
pected, as her repairs of damage were nearly com-
pleted. From the departure of the Cuckoo from
Sheerness, on the 31st May last, she has been con-
stantly on the sea, and never, through all the in-
tricacies of Baltic navigation, once settled' or
grounded.
Lieutenant J. Davies, lately promoted from
mate, late serving on board the Hogue, and Mr.
Daniel John Durgan, late Assistant-Surgeon, pro-
moted from the Duke of Wellington, have come
home on their promotion, as supernumeraries on
board the Cuckoo.
The machinery of the Cuckoo has on the whole
acted exceedingly well, and she has kept her speed
from 10 knots to 10.2 on her passage home. Her
boilers are completely worn out ; they have been
now seven years in constant work.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY, 6 P.M.

One of the chief causes, I might perhaps say the
only cause now, of anxiety as to the expedition
against Sebastopol—so. strong is the conviction
that it must fall before the skill and courage of the
the fear that the Russian army may receive
in sufficient time reinforcements which would eh-
able Prince Menschikoff to offer battle to the allied
army with such an augmentation of force as to
occasion great slaughter and protract the siege.
The exact amount of the Russian army at Sebasto-
pol is not known, nor is it known with certainty
what reinforcements likely to reach before the for-
tress shall be reduced are on their way. The De-
buts has some observations of a tranquillising nature
on the point. It says:—
"Every one asks himself what may be the number of
the Russians engaged in the defence of Sebastopol ; but,
in the absence of positive data, it can only be estimated i
in an hypothetical manner. The Vienna journals, de-
ceived, without being aware of it, by the agents or par-
tisans of Russia, made the forces of that power in the
Crimea amount to the exorbitant number of 140,000
men. We may judge how far this is an exaggeration
when we call to mind that these same journals, on the
faith of similar information, stated that the garrison
of Eupatoria was 15,000 strong, and that the Rus-
sians had flanked the wails of that town by three
large forts. The allies on landing there found a
town without fortifications, and haying for its en-
tire garrison 200 men. Setting aside, therefore,
these improbable numbers, and even that of 103,000
men, given more recently, the force at the disposal
of Prince Mensehikoff may be estimated at 70,000,
including the division which has arrived from the
line of the Dniester, after a march of 28 days. All the
reinforcements which he could collect throughout the
extent of his command must have already joined him.
It appears that the reinforcement of 8,000 men who
came from Kertch, and who joined him on the Alma the
very day before the battle, included the garrison of
Anapa, and among others the 16th and 33d regiments,
which were in front of the battle, and suffered severelj.
It is regarded as a very difficult matter for the troops
which must have left Kherson and Nicolaief, on hearing
of the landing of the allies, to arrive in time to take part
in the defence of Sebastopol. The reinforcements re-
ceived by Prince Menschik off are composed of troops from
the garrisons on the coast of Circasia, which the Russians
have been compelled to evacuate. There must be also
added to these reinforcements the sailors of the Russian
fleet, by means of whom the enemy's force may be brought
up to 85,000 men, which is the highest number that can
be admitted, •since the Russian army on the Alma was
only estimated at 50,000 men. But the combined army
also receives reinforcements, which will bring it up to
the same number, if not to 90,000, and it will, therefore,
be perfectly prepared, while carrying on the siege ener-
getically,. to cover it with an army capable of gaining,
if necessary, a second pitched battle over the Russians.'
It is known that General Canrobert received at
the battle of Alma a contusion in the breast from
the splinter of a shell. The Moniteur de l'Annee
says that a consecrated medal, which he wore under
his uniform, and which had been given him by an
august hand at the moment of his departure, pre-
served him froth a more severe hurt.
We read in the Constitutionnel
"The" names .of the persons killed at the victory of
the Alma ha►e not yet arrived. The Minister of War
has been khid .enough to announce that ho will giVQ.

through the press, such information as may reach him
on the subject. Meanwhile, we think it as well to sum
up both the official reports and the numerous private
accounts published by the journals or received by our-
selves. Two general officers have bees wounded--Gen.
Canrebert and Gen. Thomas, the former slightly, and
the other more severely, but not in such a way as to
endanger his life. Several field officers are said to have
been killed. The death of only one is confirmed
in an undoubted manner, namely of Commandant
TroYon, of the 7th of the line, a man of great
merit, and one of the youngest officers of that rank
in the army ; he was on horseback when a ball
in the breast struck him dead. M. Leblanc, a sub
intendant of the first class, has had his thigh amputated
after the wound which he received near Prince Napo-
leon ; his situation is as satisfactory as possible. Three
officers were killed where they stood—Captain Coudroit
de Laurais, of the Ist Zouaves; Sub-Lieutenant Poideviu,
of the 39th of the line, killed as he heroically planted a
flag on the telegraphic post ; and Sub-Lieutenant Rob,
of the marine
.infantry. Fifty-four officers of various
grades; amongst whom are." Capt. Francois Cluzel, of
the 39th .of the line, who had the right arm shattered,
and Lieutenant Gaston Paris, of the same regiment,
who had his arm broken by a ball, have received wounds
serious enough to necessitate their removal to the am-
bulances ; the most of them are going on well, but
some have fallen since that period. The number of non-
commissioned officers and soldiers killed or wounded
amounts to about 1,300; only one name has been as
yet given, that of the brave Serjeant-Major Fleury, who
was killed in circumstances analogous to those of Lieut-
' Poidevin's case. The Zouaves posted as skirmishers on
positions deemed as impregnable are they who have suf-
fered the most of the whole army ; the Ist Regiment
has 280 men hors de combat ; the ether losses have been
divided amongst the marine-infantry, the foot-chasseurs,
the 7th, 20th; 27th, and 39th Regiments of the line; the
sth and 22d Light Infantry, the Foreign Legion, and all
the brave regiments which have co-operated in the glo-
rious day of the 20th Sept. As to the artillery, every
one agrees in saying that it was admirable, and that that
of the reserve rendered the greatest services ' • but none
of its losses has been anywhere specified. It appears
that in addition to the figures given above must be
reckoned a number of very slight wounds and contusions;
received at those points where, when our troops were mixed
pell-mell with the Russians, the struggle during a certain
time assumed an individual character. In fine, many
officers and soldiers escaped as if by miracle front the
balls which flaw round them in every direction ; coats
and trousers were cut with balls, caps pierced through ;
and one case is mentioned, that of the colonel of the 22d,
where an epaulette was carried away by a ball. We may
add that several field-officers had their horses killed un-
der them, without themselves having received any con-
tusion or wound. Of that number was Col. Pacqueult
de Lavarande."

There is nothing else of any interest in the lead-
ing columns of the journals on the war.
The Emperor and Empress left to-day for Amiens
to be present at the consecration of a chapel dedi-
cated to St. Eugenie in the cathedral of that town.
The visit is in pursuance of a promise given to the
clergy last year by the Emperor. ATe Deum will
als' be performed in thanksgiving for the victory
of the Alma.

The Stecle has an article which may interest some
of our readers as have not fully comprehended the
allusion to chauvinism in the letter of Barbes,
which led to his liberation by the Emperor—au
act of clemency for which it appears he has not
manifested the feeling which would have been
shown by a generous mind.
The Moniteur contains three decrees—one, ad-
ding two judges to the Cour Imperial of Algiers;
another, extending the duration of the modifica-
tions of the customs' tariff in the French colonies
as regards corn, flour, and dried pulse, to the 31st
July, 1855 ; and the third, making a number Of
promotions and nominations among military offi-
cers in the Legion of Honour.
The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at 76f.
35c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. at 98f. 85c. ; and the New Loan,
at 76f. sc. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,215 f. ;
Rouen, 988 f. 75c. ; Havre, 570 f. ; Great North-
ern, 873 f. 75c. ; Strasburg, 841 f. 25c. ; New
Shares, 656 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 1,037 f. 50c. ;
Lyons and the Mediterranean, 862 f. 50c. ; Western
of France, 663 f. 75c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 621 f.
25c. ; Great Central of France, 520 f. ; Lyons and
Geneva, 538 f. 75c. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier,
762 f. 500.