The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-18 00:00:00

..„, IUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1854

dual; and that the thirty surgeons who are al-
ready on their way to Constantinople, and the
fifteen more under orders, must be on the spot,
and capable of rendering aid to the Lick: and '
.„--,,undecl, before the parties engaged by, or on
behalf off, tii,; subscribers to the fund can be pro-
pared to leave the English shores. Besides, we
may feel well assured that the medical depart-
ment
has long since received information of any
deficiencies, and have set to work to supply the
wants and exigencies long since reported, whereas
the kind-hearted subscribers must work in the
dark. Although they have " one of the most
trustworthy" of the Times' staff to act as almoner
they will probably send out that which is utterly
useless, and omit that which is urgently required.
Indeed, before anything practical could be ef-
fected, the last of the wounded at Alma will either
have received military honours over his grave,
been invalided and sent home, or be in readiness
to rejoin his regiment. Of all the delusions
and humbugs we have witnessed—and we have
seen, and exposed a good many, the Times'
subscription for the wounded at Alma is decidedly
the greatest. As we have already stated, we
honour the motives of the subscribers, but we
cannot help smiling at their gullibility, while we
must protest against the impolicy of their inter-
♦ention. Would Lord RAGLAN manage his troops
better by having " Our own Correspondent" asso-
ciated. in the command ? Would the Government
send out an expedition in better condition, if
trusting for success to the exertions of private vo-
lunteers, who thought themselves at liberty to act
independently—or for supplies to the casual
bounty of individuals ? No ; let Government
discharge the duties for which it is fairly respon-
sible, without expecting to have its failings sup-
plied by others. We pay heavy taxes—we grant
liberal supplies, in order to have everything con-
ducted in the best manner. Let us have the
management in the hands to which our SOVEREIGN
has, with the assent of her Parliament, confided
it; and if the duty be not properly discharged, call
those responsible to a stringent account for their
culpable laches.

LATEST NEWS.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL

VIENNA, TUESDAY EVENING.

The Vienna papers state, that on the sth and
Gth the Allies opened their first parallel at a con-
siderable distance from the southern wall of Sc-

bastopol.

The siege works began with the construction of

nine batteries, five of which front the Quarantine
harbour. The force in the siege works consists of

3,600 men, and 60,000 men, with 150 guns,
are posted on the left banks of Chernaya to pro-
tect the besiegers.

Prince Menschikoff is in want of provisions and

ammunition.

It is said that six small steamers will attempt

to force the passage of the Straits of Yenikale.
The Lloyd states that the Allies continually
harrassed the Russians in Sebastopol in order to
discover the strength of the garrison and the

best points of attack.
It also says that the Russian fleet had quitted
its usual anchorage in the small harbour, and was
now moored on the north side of the larger har-
bour, between Fort Catherine and No. 9 battery.

We have received the following communication
from Paris, under the date of

"PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
" `MARSEILLES, OCT. 16.

" ' The marines of the fleet have requested and
obtained permission to take part in the bombard-
ment of Sebastopol.
" Each ship will supply a company and eight
guns, giving a total of 200 pieces.' "

ST. PETERSBURG, OCT. 15.

A despatch from Prince Menschikoff states that
up the 9th instant Sebastopol had not been
attacked, and that Russian reinforcements from

Everybody is asking everybody what will be
the next step taken by th• Allies after the fall of
Sebastopol, which everybody considers "'un fait
accompli." Will the Allies keep possession of
the Crimea ? Will they destroy the batteries,
ships, and town, and then evacuate ; or will they
establish another, if not a new, dynasty—Turkish
or Tartar ? And if they do, ask the uninitiated,
what next will the Allied Army undertake to
do to distress or bring to his senses the obsti-
nate tyrant who has been the cause of so much
bloodshed ?

Perekop were rapidly approaching to join him.

DENMARK.

COPENHAGEN, TUESDAY, OCT. 17.
The Danish Commons last night finally ap-
proved of the address to the King.
They renew the demand for a free Constitution
in the whole State, as in Denmark.
The revolutionary act of July is entirely

Everybody, or, at any rate, most people we
come in contact with, see nothing to make it either
hazardous or difficult to ferry a portion of our army
across the lake ; and in almost three days from
the time of embarking to bring it front to front
with Prince BEBLITOFF'S legions. There can be no
doubt that, next to the destruction of Sebastopol,
the driving out of GEORGIA, and, if needs must,
into the Caspian Sea itself, with the help of the
Turks from Kars and Erzeroum, and SCHAMYL
from his hills. This would go further to destroy
that prestige which has cost so much treasure,
so much bloodshed, so much diplomacy to
establish, and which had well nigh frighted
Europe from its propriety, than any other imme-
diate step the Allies could take, except perhaps
making Poland independent, which she yet must
be.

ignored.
The address was adopted by 90 to 1.
The Upper House will adopt the same declara-
tion, and a deputation therefrom will join the
deputation of the Lower House.
HAMBURG, OCT. 16.
According to an order from the French Mi-
nister of Marine, Admiral Parseval Deschenes has
left Kiel for France with the Austerlitz and In-
flexible line-of-battle ships, and two steam-
frigates.

Oa this subject we were led to dilate from
having read Sir Wm. NAPIER'S " Couquest of
Scinde," published in 1845, ten years ago, when,
with a prescience and sagacity almost wonderful,
he reviews the state of Russia and its power in
Asia.

in your sentiments of devotion and loyalty to his Impe-
rial Majesty, our beloved sovereign, and in your legiti-
mate love for the country of your birth.
(Signed) " DERVISH, Imperial Turkish Com-
missioner and General of Division.
" Bucharest, 17 (29) Sept., 1854."

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Oct. 14.—The public here is still in
doubt as to whether the bombardment of Sebas-
topol began on the 4th or sth instant or not ; in
other words, we have received no later intelligence
from the scene of war in the East than was com-
municated to you in my yesterday's letter. M. de
Manteuffel is said to have declared to his royal
master that his talents are not equal to the con-
tinuance of the game of dissimulation by which
Russia has till now been supported, Germany bam-
boozled, and Austria hampered ; and that, conse-
quently, if his Royal master is bent upon carrying
on this game, ho must resign his office to abler
hands. The report goes on to say that the King of
Prussia was greatly disconcerted at this untoward
declaration of his Prime Minister, and his usually
clear and bright vision became alarmingly obscured
by doubts, fears, and misgivings of every description.
M. de Manteuffel was accordingly sent for, and in-
formed that his Majesty could not dispense with
his valuable services at this most critical juncture.
The story goes on to say that this gifted servant of
the Crown thereupon insisted upon the unavoidable
necessity of henceforth pursuing a hand-and-glove
policy with Austria, and that, in the further d,
velopment of the existing complications, the closest
union between Prussia and Austria would best pro-
mote the interests of Germany and the ends of
peace. Report says that a warm debate ensued,
but M. de Manteuffel carried the day and came off
victor. The Kreutz Zeitung's party was awfully
chop-fallen at this unlooked-for result, but the
King regained his serenity of mind.
General Baron Hess is expected to arrive here
either this evening or to-morrow. I learn that
after his return a great council of war is to be held
here, at which the English and French military
commissioners at the head-quarters of the Austrian
generalissimo in the principalities, General Du
Plat and General Letang, who are both awaiting
the arrival of Baron Hess at Vienna, will be pre-
sent. It is said that " tremendous efforts " have
of late been made by most influential persons to
oust Count Buol and one or two others of his col-

leagues, and to induce the Emperor of Austria to
abandon the Western Powers to their fate, and to
form a close alliance with Prussia and the rest of
Germany for the defence of Russia.

RUSSIA.

A letter from Hamburg, of the 12th, says :

"We have to-day letters from St. Petersburg to the
7th. The approach of winter was already perceptible,
and it was feared that the navigation of the Neva would
soon be interrupted. Men's minds in the Russian ca-
pital were much occupied with the events of war. Mili-
tary preparations, and the arrivals and departures of
troops continued to take place on a vast scale. The
trains en the Moscow railway are constantly encum-
bered with all sorts of military articles, and with
detachments of soldiers to form part of the army of
reserve, assembled in that ancient capital of the em-
pire. Strong doubts were entertained of the Emperor
absenting himself from St. Petersburg at the present
critical moment, and although preparations have been
made for a journey to the army of Poland, the realisation
of that project appears to depend on the eventualities of
the war in the East. As to the movements of troops
-towards Poland, they may be summed up in a few words.
The Imperial Guards, under the command of the Grand
Duke, heir to the throne, are proceeding by forced
marches from St. Petersburg to that kingdom, whilst
the different divisions of the Russian troops, which were
stationed in Poland since the commencement of the war,
are being directed from various sides to the Austrian
frontiers of Cracow and of Gallicia, where they are
establishing themselves in two fortified camps."

who were present. In the meantime, the 1,036 f. 25c. ; Lyons and the MediterraTioan, 85Of ;
English and. French Governments. Owing, how- Wkisitern of fiance, 613 f. ;
ever, to some cause, not very clearly explained, no Cette, 623 f. ; Great Central of France, 518 f 75e. ;
copy was that day sent by the French Admiral to Lyons and Geneva, 532 f. 50c. ; Bank of Credit
his Government, he having received an assurance Mobilier, 747 f. 50c.
from Admiral Napier that the report of the meet-
ing should be communicated by the English Go-
vernment to that of France through the Ambas-
sador. Before transmitting the minutes to Eng-
land, Admiral Napier is said to have added a post-
script, or written a separate despatch to the Admi-
ralty, to the effect that the minutes contained the
Imperial Government received from London the
communication of the report as transmitted by
Admiral Napier, with the Admiral's separate post-
script, and the result was, that orders were at
once sent by the Minister of Marine to Admiral
Deschenes to commence the attack forthwith.
Before anything could be done the communica-
tion made directly by the Admiral, and which
contained the decision of the meeting of officers
against the attack, reached the Government,
.who
no doubt convinced by the reasons submitted
to them, at once sent counter-orders ; and those
counter-orders were in all probability those to
which I alluded a few days since. This matter has
it is said, produced an unpleasant feeling among
the officers of the fleets, not by any means against
each other. Between the two Governments, how-
ever, nothing unpleasant does or can exist on that
account. Such are the facts asstated by persons who
appear to have no doubt of their exactness, but.
for which, as I have already said, I by no means
vouch.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Some alarm has been created at Paris by the
rumour brought by ttf,legraph from Vituina, that
General Osten-Sacken had entered the Crimea at
the head of 40,000 men ; but it is to be remarked
that this rumour is from no official source ; that
it has not been corroborated, though it has been
known for twenty-four hours ;. and that, as is fre-
quently the case with fabricated news, it is without
a date.

The deputation of officers sent by the English
Government to represent our army at the funeral
of Marshal de St. Arnaud consisted of Lieutenant-
General Sir Harry Smith, with his aides-de-camp,
Colonel Taylor and Colonel Holditch, sent to re-
present the. Queen, and Lord Arthur lay, sent to
represent Lord Hardinge, commander-in-chief of
the British army. The Sardinian general, Count
do Marinora, was also present.
A letter from Vienna dated the 12th October,
and given by the Moniteur, says—" The victory of
the allied armies on the Alma is appreciated by all
competent judges as a most glorious feat of arms.
The bulletins which give an account of it are also
greatly admired. The garrison of Vienna is to be
passed to-morrow in review by the Emperor, who
has invited the French general Letang and the
English general Duplas to join his staff."
Travellers who have arrived at Vienna direct
from Russia state that entrenchments on a great
scale are being made along the Vistula, and capable
of preventing any successful passage of the river
from the opposite bank. More than ten thousand
men are at work on them. The troops are moving
by three routes towards the Austrian frontier—one
being by railway from Warsaw to MOlzki, another
along the Michevo road, and the third along the
Vistula.

THE WEST INDIA. MAILS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship La Plata,
with the West India and Pacific mails, has arrived.
Her dates are—Demerara, Sept. 25, Jamaica 27,
Barbadoes 27, and St. Thomas's Oct. 2.

The Plata has on board 108 passengers, 374,754
dols. in specie, 220,761 dols. in gold dust' and bars,
and a cargo consisting of cochineal, ginger, sarsa-
parilla, _

During her homeward voyage the Plata expe-
rienced strong head winds, and encountered a
strong northerly gale, which lasted two days.
At Jamaica the elections were still going on,
but created little interest.

Operations at the mines were very limited.
There is no political news of interest.
The markets still continue dull. Exchange
(sixty days) 1 per cent. prem.
The cholera was fast disappearing throughout
the colonies, and the crops were looking well.
Labour was very scarce.

MANTEUFFEL'S PRUSSIAN CIRCULAR

The following is the answer to the Austrian cir-
cular we published yesterday :

The Austrian Cabinet has communicated to us the en-
closed circular, addressed on the 21st of this month to
its representatives accredited to the German Govern-
ments. This document suggests to me the following
ob::ervations.

But, under all the circumstances, and seeing the great
importance we attach to our concert with Austria, we
shall continue, whenever there shall be a question of views
we may deem it our duty to entertain, and shall be
enabled to communicate to our allies, to ,wake a simul-
taneous communicatiou of them to Vienna.
Be so good as to lay before the Governments to which
you are severally accredited, &c., &c.
(Signed) DE MANTEUFFEL.
Berlin, Sept. 24, 1854.

RUMOURED RUPTURE BETWEEN Till
ALLIED POWERS AND PRUSSIA.

The Paris correspondent of a contemporary writes
thus :

" The idea that we are destined to have a campaign
this winter on the Rhine, that is, against Prussia, is
becoming more general and more credited every day in
some of the highest political circles. It is considered
impossible that the tergiversations of that Power can
much longer be tolerated, and the object for the estab-
lishment of the Camp of the North, as indicated when
it was first formed, appears to be the real one after all.
What effect the fall of Sebastopol before the winter sea-
son sets in would produce on the policy of that dishonest
government it is difficult to say. It would, perhaps,
force it to declare itself frankly on the side of the Allies,
but it is better to be prepared for all emergencies. The
notes that have recently passed between France and
Prussia are, it appears, very strong and very decided.
They are, indeed, of that kind which precede at no great
interval a suspension of all friendly relations whatever,
if not a declaration of hostilities. The probability of an
alliance, defensive and offensive, between England,
France, and Austria, with a view of such an eventuality
as a war with Prussia, is spoken of, and the bases of
such a treaty are said to have been already discussed and
agreed upon. Nevertheless, it is believed by some that
the policy of Prussia would be considerably modified in
the event of another serious check to Russia. In the
meantime, reinforcements continue to be sent to the
Critnea from various places, and the Camp of the South
will alone furnish over 10,000 men."

THE FRENCH IN NEW CALEDONIA.—The Moniteur
has published a report in full from Captain Tardy de
Montravel, commanding the Constantine corvette, and
charged with the installation of the first French military
posts in New Caledonia. Not far from an anchorage,
to which M. de Montravel has given the name of
" French-Port" there is the territory of /vlorare, where on
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ally be prejudicial to its combustible quality, and yet
the latter was found to be good, giving out great heat,
little smoke, and leaving hardly any ashes.
A CONSCIENTIOUS PRISONER.—On the evening o
Monday last William Porter (a sailor who was sentenced
to four months' imprisonment for theft) made his ascape
from prison,
side bare of the window in the apartment in which he
by forcing himself through between the out-
and Alexander Pert, charged with rape, were confined,
and then lowering• himself to the ground by means of a
rope, made from twine with which he had been sewing
sacks. The superintendent of police, immediately on
hearing of the affair, directed the police to search Por-
ter's several places of resort within the burgh, but no
traces of him could be found until an examination was
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some tobacco, and to return again. It appears that on
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them on, and scrambled over the dyke.
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got a supply of tobacco, and returned to his quarters in
the gaol, in the same way as ho got out.—Montrose
ktondard.

When Baron Prekesch, a few days only before the sit-
ting of the committee on the 25th inst., had declared to
the King's minister to the Eund that he also did not
deem it correct to convoke the committees before the re- -
assembling of the Bund, the members of the committees
being without instructions, he suddenly changed his
mind and appointed a sitting, without communicating to
M, de Bismarck his intention of submitting to the com-
mittees questions drawn up with formal precision, nor
these questions themselves. Later, he also specified
the seven well-known questions, as stripped of all official -
character. Nevertheless these last, as we learned from
different quarters, but not through a direct communica-
tion from Vienna, were communicated to the imperial
legations by a circular, in which an interpretation •
is set forth as undoubted of the full purport, in prin- -
ciple, to be given to the convention of April 20, such
as by no means coincided with our opinions, and
the answer to the questions in that sense was urgently -
demanded. We repeat that this circular was not simul-
taneously communicated to us, but we learnt its con-
tents approximately, our representative having men-
tioned it on the supposition that it bad reached us direct
from Vienna. But that did not take place till a fort-
night after, by means of communicatien made to Count
Esterhazy after I had charged Count Arnim at Vienna
to broach this subject to Count Buol.
Such is the simple statement of the facts. We are
far from contesting the right of the Austrian Cabinet to
address circulars to its representatives without commu-
nicating them to us, but, setting that aside, we raise the
question of knowing whether, in the case at issue, or in
general when any action unanimous as possible is at
stake, it would not be desirable to give each other mutual
information beforehand, or else simultaneously, concern- -
ing proceedings similar to such as are expressed in the
seven questions, or in the circular of August 31, en-
closed for your guidance, even supposing the difference
of opinions would not have been entirely removed.
The Austrian circular, by affirming that we expressed
our surprise at the want of agreement with us, has not
stated the facts with perfect correctness, for in answer-
ing the supposition of the German Governments or their
representatives at Berlin, that we had been cognisant
of the seven questions before they were submitted to
the committee, and of the circular immediately after it -
had appeared, we were less in a position for expressing
our surprise to them than for hearing them express it
to us.