The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-18 00:00:00

THE RUSSIAN BATTERIES.

To-day the fire on our lines was very slack, but it is
observed that the Russians aro working hard at fresh
lines nearer to the town, and it is probable they have
withdrawn a portion of their men from tie guns to
assist at the works, which are designed to cheek us
whenever the assault takes phee. ♦t present wo are
all waiting for the French. lam not sure but that the
French think they are waiting for us to "jcraser" some
of the obnoxious batteries which play upon their works
from ugly enfi'ading positions. They certainly are ex-
posed in their advance towards their portion of the town
to ♦ery heavy fire. It is opposite to them that the
assault ►oust be made, and the first lodgment
effected. The Quarantine Fort is opposed to them
on their extreme left. Then comes a long, high,
loopholed wall or curtain extending in front of the
town from the back of the Quarantine Fort to
the Flagstaff Battery. The Russians hare thrown up
a very deep and broad ditch in front of this wall,
and the French artillery have as yet made no im-
pression on the stonework at the back. The Flag-
staff Riflery, however, and all the houses near it
are in ruins, but the earthworks in front of it,
armed with at least 20 heavy guns, are untouched,
arid keep up a harassing fire on the French work-
ing parties, particularly at certain periods of tie
day, and at the interval between 9 and 11 o'clock at
night, when they think tie men are being relieved
in the trenches. Inside the Road Battery we can
see the Russians throwing up a new work, armed
with six heavy ships' guns. They have also erected
new batteries behind tie Reda' and behind the
Round Tower. The latter is now a mass of orembled
stone, but two guns keep obstinately blazing away
at our 21-gun battery from the angle of the earthwork
I around it, and the Redan has not yet been silenced,
though the embrazures and angles of the work are
much damaged.

WIIISTLIWiI DICK.
The heavy frigate which has been " dodging " our
batteries so cleverly gave us a taste of her quality in
the right attack again to-day. She escaped from the
position in which she lay before, where we had laid
two 24-pounders for her, and came out again to-day in
a great passion, firing regular broadsides at out battery,
arid sweeping the hill up to it completely. Occa-
sionally she varied this amusement with a round or
two from 13-inch mortars. These shells have done
our works and guns much damage ; but the sailers,
who are principally treated te these agreeable missiles,
have get quite accustomed to them. " Bill," cries one
fellow to another, " look out, here comes Whistling
Dick " The 13-inch shell has been thus baptized by
them in consequence of the loudness and shrillness of
the noise it makes in the air. They all loek up, and
their keen quick eyes discern the globe of iron as it de•
scribes its curve aloft. Long ere " Whistling Dick"
has reached the ground the blue jackets are snug in
their various hiding-places, but all the power of men
cannot keep them from peeping out now and then to
see if the Wee is still burning. One of them the other
day approached a shell which lie thought had "gone
out ;" it burst just as he got close to it, and the concus-
sion dashed him to the ground. lie got up, and in his
rage, shaking his fist at the spot where thee shell had
been, he exclaimed, " Yen --- deceitful ggar, there's
a trick to play me !" Our losses continue to be remark-
ably slight.

SIR C. CAMPBELL AND THE TURKS.
Poor Sir Colin Campbell is very indignant at having
some 800 Turks placed under his command. He will
not have them at any price. In the most vigorous terms
he repudiates the charge, and declares he has n• confi-
dence In them. It must be observed, in justice to Sir
Colin, that before the catastrophe of Balakiava he bad
strongly represented the insecurity of his position, and
had demanded reinforcements. His contempt for the
Turks was too well founded, and now he is annoyed at
having the men who ran away under his control. The
Higland Brigade is new moved down to strengthen him,
andh the Marines have been reinforced on the heights.

ACCIDENT TO SIR .D. L. 'VANS.
OCTOBER 30.—Sir De Lacy Evans met with an acci-
dent yesterday, which will compel him to resign the
command he has so ably held to Brigadier-General
Pennefather for a few days. His horse fell with him
as he was going at a sharp trot ; and, as the General
had been suffering from diarrhcea for some days before
the shock so weakened him that he has been obliged to
go down to Balaklava and get on board the Simoom.
The whole army hope that his illness will be of short
duration, and that he will soon be with them once more,

THE " MONO Jouslings."
The Turks, or, as they are now universally called,
t,he " Bono Johnnies," except by the sailors, who call
them "No bouo Johnnies," have been employed for the
la,t few nights in working in the trenches, and have done
good service. The first night they set to work in Captain
Chapman's attack they worked on manfully till 10 o'clock
at night, when a Russian shell came over them. They
at once shouted out " We shall all be killed !" and ran
off as fast as they could, carrying off a portion of our
working and covering parties with them. How-
ever, they were at last re-formed and brought
back, and then they worked on till 11 o'clock, when they
declared that it was " the will of Heaven they should
labour no more that night," and, as they bad really
exerted themselves, it was considered advisable to let
them go. They remained quietly in the trenches, and
ever since they have been labouring regularly, repairing
damages and casting up earthworks, which they do ex-
ceedin;ly well. The poor creatures are decimated by
dysentery, fevers—the typhus particularly, and by
diarrhoea, and die in swarms. Nothing can exceed their
kindness to theirewn sick. It is common to see strings
of them on the road to Balaklava carrying sick and
dying men oa their backs down to the miserable shed
which serves them as an hospital, or rather as a " dead
house."

A CORRESPONDINT'S
On looking at ray owls account of the battle of the
Alma, which was written literally one
the field—part of
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it while exposed to a broiling sun, h morning after the
action, ou the P.M; the opeu au (for teats wore rare