The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-14 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

VIENNA, MONDAY EVENING.
The following is an epitome of several authen.
do despatches of the 6th from the Crimea :

" Early in the morning of the 6th the garrison
of Sebasotpol and the army in, the field made a
violent attack on the right wing of the Allied
army, composed of English Foot Guards, and the
Second, Third, and Fourth Divisions.

" General Bosquet's Division advanced to the
support of the English, and. subsequently other
French troops, under General Canrobert arrived.
" The battle lasted till the afternoon, when the
Russians retired, having suffered a heavy loss and
leaving several hundred prisoners in the hands of
the English ; the latter lost a great number of
men. Generals Brown, Bentinck, Buller, and
Torrens were more or less dangerously wounded.
" The prevalent opinion hero is, that if such
another victory is obtained the Allies will be
obliged to raise the siege ; but it is a goo 3 sign
that the last Russian despatch published only
reaches up to the 6th. Its sense is, that two
sorties were made on that date, one against the
right wing of the Allies, and the other against
the left wing of the siege works. On the light
wing of the army the guns of one battery were
spiked, in the other 15 guns were spiked. The
loss
,on both sides was very severe. A French
division, which pursued the Russians, and
attempted to enter with them, was repulsed with
great loss. -
" A terrific storm is raging here to-day.
" Prince Gortschakoff has officially announced
to Count Buol that Russia is prepared to treat
direct with Austria on the basis of the four con-
ditions.

"This is hero considered a palpable attempt to
cause disunion between Austria and the Western

Powers."

VIENNA, MONDAY MORNING.
The Morgan Post, which is a paper of no great
authority, has the following :
" CZERNOWITZ, Nov. 11.
" On the 6th the whole garrison of Sebastopol,
amounting to 65,000 men, made a sortie.
" A furious battle ensued, which was not ended
when the naesssenger left ; but the Allies had the
advantage."

MONDAY AFTERNOON.
" The news forwarded this morning relative to
the sortie was but too true.

" Reliable information has been given me that
the English suffered a very heavy loss, and had
three Generals wounded.

" It is said that later intelligence has been re-
ceived, according to which the Russians had at
last been repelled with a loss of 3,000 men."

THE CRIMEA.
THE PROGRESS OF THE SIEGE.

The Siecle says

_ •
"The progress of the siege, in spite of an incredible
accumulation of natural and artificial difficulties, proves,
as we have often said before, the little confidence which
the Russian despatches merit. The same is the case
with the reports of the Czar's generals ; they only tell
that part of the truth which cannot be kept under the
despotic extinguisher. Assuredly the incidents which
occurred on the 25th near Balaklava are to be
regretted General Canrobert does not • deny it.
But what comparison can be reasonably established
between those incidents, and the results set forth in
the report of General Liprandi? Remembering the fault
committed at Kulm in 1813 by General Vandamme, who
allowed himself to be tempted from his positions into the
plain, General Liprandi offered the same snare to the
Allied army. It, however, was not caught by it, and will
not allow itself to be caught ; the report of the general-
in-chief declares- that. The great attack of the 25th has
then only produced a result which is comparatively very
trifling. The English have remained masters of Balaklava
and of their communications with that place. Our Allies,
it is true, have lost 150 mon ofthe brave light cavalry, but
whoever has been in a battle against the English knows that
their horses in a charge are not easy to stop and thattho acci-
dent which happened en the 25th to the brigade of
Lord Cardigan is not a novelty in their military annals.
We could cite from memory two charges ef the English
which produced incidents of the same kind. More
masters of their more-easily managed horses, our cavalry
only lost about 20 men. We now know that the famous
redoubts captured from the Turks were very imperfect,
and wore only defended, one by 150, the other by 100
men. Perhaps it will be said that sufficient precaution
was not displayed imt defending theta ; but in war, as
in other matters, people never think of everything. It
is not, ho Never, en accidents quickly repaired, nor even
on some partial faults, that a campaign is to be judged
ef. The Allies commenced the siege of Sebastopol in
spite of the Russian army ; they opened the entrench-
ments on the 10th, and in 25 days, in spite of that army,
of a garrison of unexampled strength and of all the re-
sources derived from a sacrificed fleet, the breaching
battery has been carried to 150 metres. This is a suffi-
cient reply to all that the Russians and the partisans of
Russia may say. '

THE WAR ON THE DANUBE.

Letters from Galatz of the 31st, in the Lloyd of
Vienna, announce that Sadik Pacha is with 10,000
men on the Sereth, between Galatz and Ibraila.
Iskender Boy has crossed the Danube near
consequence of which Colonel Suknoff,
who a
wasi at Matshin with 3,000 man, retreated on
tilbier2i6at'h ult. towards Isat,scha. The lurks pur-
sued, and on the 28th attacked him beti776ii Tultsha
and hat3olm. After an engagement, which lasted
two hours, the Russians were forced to recross the
which
f they destroyed the bridge to
prevent rom pursuing them farther.
The tete-de-poet near Tultscha, as well as the
islands in that part of the Danube, are still held by
Danuhe,
the after
Turks
0,000 Russians.
A letter from Vienna of the Bth, in the Cologne
Gazette, states that the Russians have concentrated
50 battalions and 40 squadrons with 150 pieces of
artillery on the right bank of the Tchernaya, and
that this body was to attack the Allies in the _rear
during the storming of the place or before.,