The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-03 00:00:00

difficulty.

The Monitetcr of this morning says that General
Canrobert's report of the 23d states that the attack
continued without any remarkable incident, and
that all were full of confidence as to the result.

According to further accounts received from
Sebastopol to the 25th, some English engineers
employedin Sebastopol had made their escape, and
reported the town filled with dead left unburied,
and that provisions were becoming very scarce.
The upper works of Fort Constantine had been
completely destroyed, and two ships of the line
sunk.

We have received through a correspondent
at Vienna a despatch which had reached him yes-
terday morning, having been specially forwarded
from Constantinople to Semlin, and thence by
telegraph. It was as follows :

News has been received from Sebastopol of the
23d, that the cannonade had continued incessantly
for seven days.

The fire of the Russians was said to be slacken-
ing, but the French works were not strong
enough, and had been much injured.

The British are said to be within 300 yards of
the Russian works.

A deserter says that the loss of the Russians
has been very great.
Nachimoff is said to be killed.

A fire broke out in the town on the morning
of the 23d, and was burning when the steamer
left.

A second despatch from the same correspondent,
dated yesterday evening, is as follows :
Official despatches, dated the 25th of Octo-
ber, for the English, French, and Austrian Go-
vernments, which have been received here, show
that the siege of Sebastopol is progressing favour-
ably.

They mention frequent rencontres, but say no-
thing of Liprandi's alleged victory.
The French brigade from the Pirus had passed
the Bosphorus.
After the very satisfactory intelligence we have
given above, and which may be fully relied upon,
it is only by way of contrast that we publish the
following "official Russian news," also received by
way of Vienna :

On the 25th of October General Liprandi
attacked the allied camp at Balaklava, stormed
four redoubts, and took 11 guns.

The English cavalry was totally beaten, and
lost 500 men.

The St. Petersburg Tournal contains two reports
from Prince Menschikoff to the Emperor Nicholas,
giving details of the operations before Sebastopol
on the 17th and 18th. The first asserts that at
nightfall on the 17th, the first day of the bom-
bardment, the English had only two guns able to
return the Russian fire, while the Russians bad a
few dismounted.

At noon on the same day 14 vessels of the
Allied Fleet attacked Sebastopol by sea, directing
their fire against Fort Constantine and Battery
No. 10.

The shortness of the time and the smoke ren-
dered it impossible for Prince Menschikoff to fur-
nish complete details of the loss on either side ;
but the Russian cause had sustained a severe loss
in the death of Admiral Komiloti; whose leg had
been carried off by a round shot, and who died
on the spot.
The second report, dated the 18th inst., says
that though the Allied fire was astonishing by its
power and noise, it had not done so much harm
as might have been expected.
The Alexander battery, and battery No. 10,
had not suffered much, but the Constantine bat-
tery had been greatly injured. On the land side,
none of the Russian batteries had suffered except
No. 3, in which nearly all the pieces (33 in all)
had been dismounted.
The Russian loss was estimated at 800 killed
and wounded, among the latter Admiral Nachimoff,
very slightly.
During the night of the 18th the Russians were
busily employed in repairing the damage done to
their defences.

On the 18th the English fire was less active
than on the day before, and the French had
hardly fired at all. Prince Men schikoff attri-
butes this to a diversion made without the walls by
General Semjakine, who appeared in the enemy's
rear, and thus diverted their attention from Se-
bastopol.

The vessels which had taken part in the bom-
bardment on the 17th, and which Prince Mens-
cliikoff believed to be all French, had gone away
in the direction of Cape Chersones e.
The smoke on the 17th, and a i;liick fog on the
18th, had rendered it impossible for Prince Mens-
chikoff to state the enemies' loss, but he says it
would seem that one ship of the line had been
seriously damaged, and two steamvers set on fire
by red hot shot.

CONSTANTINOP E, OCT. 26.

Advices from the seat of war in .Asia state that
the Russians occupy Toprach Kale and threaten
Kars.

5,000 French troops from th!,e Piraeus had
passed through the Bosphorus for t .hie Crimea.

MALT A, OCT, 30.
The Valorous and Lion have :sailed for the

Crimea.

The Vectis has left for Constabt itinoPle, with
important despatches.
The Eupbrate, which left Constatt tinople on the
20th, reached Malta on the 29th, (la waged. She
was the bearer of despatches from T.,ord Raglan,
which have left by the Hellespont.

THE BALTIC.

NYBORG, OCT. Ta, 4 P.M.

A large English steam-frigate coi lung from the
North passed the Great Belt this afternoon, not
being able to go through the Spun( I.