The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-20 00:00:00

THE GARRISON OF SEBASTOPOL.

The Messager de Marseilles has the following,
under date Constantinople, the sth inst. :
" The garrison of Sebastopol suffers considerable
losses, which amount daily to at least 1,000 killed and
wounded. General Kiriakoff was lately killed by a
French shell. The firing of the English Lancaster bat-
tery had become much more precise. It had succeeded
in sinking a sailing frigate and a steamer. Its projectiles
had also greatly damaged several ships of the line, not-
withstanding the care taken by the Russians to shift them
frequently from one position to another. The flour ma-
gazine had been completely burnt by a congreve rocket.
Conflagrations daily take place in the interior of the
town, which is in a truly deplorable condition ; but the
enemy are incessant in their exertions to repair the da-
mage and erect additional works of defence. Prince
Menschikoff, who visited Sebastopol on the 27th ult.,
to judge its position and to inquire into its resources,
left it on the same day, after giving his orders and re-
turned to his army on the heights of Balaklava, where
the Russians have constructed earthworks. The Allies
are strongly fortified in their positions at Balaklava ; all
the rising grounds are lined with artillery and intrench-
ments. Any attack the enemy might attempt in that
direction has not the least chance of success, and the
Generals entertain no apprehension on that side. The
besieged effect sorties nearly every night, but are
each time vigorously repulsed. The most serious
was directed against the French camp during the
night of the 29th ; but, as the attack was ex-
pected, the besiegers met them half-way, com-
pletely routing them, with the loss of some hundred
killed, wounded, and prisoners. The Tartars are
decidedly hostile to the Russians, and flock in crowds
to the camp of the Allied party. About 30,000 have
thus placed themselves at the disposal of the Comman-
ders-in-Chief. Those Tartars ask to be conveyed to
Turkey, to the province of Broussa, or to Sinope, which
they have been promised after the war. They object
to settle in the Dobrudscha, and they declare that the
Russians, after using intimidation to no effect, had
carried them off by force to the government of Kasan.
Since the commencement of the siege upwards of
4,000 of those Tartars have been employed in con-
veying materials for the erection of the intrench-
meets, at a salary of 'a franc per day. Hossein
Pasha, an Egyptian General, has been appointed Go-
vernor of Eupatoria. He has been strictly recom-
mended to endeavour, by a just and paternal adminis-
tration, to secure the sympathies of the inhabitants, and
avoid all subject of discontent. Eupatoria is occupied
by 1,000 land soldiers, under the protection of five
Turkish or Egyptian men-of-war and an English and a
French ship of the line. The Russians have 5,000 or
6,000 men in theeieighbourhood, but they have not ven-
tured to attack the intrenchments, which are well con-
structed and guarded. The weather in the part of the
Black Sea adjoining the Bosphorus has been frightfully
bad for some days, and we have to deplore a number of
wrecks. Down to the 3d inst. the weather was fine in
the Crimea, although the cold was rather sharp. Our
armies and fleets are really favoured is that respect
beyond our expectations. Solirnan Pasha,
commander
of the Turkish division in the Crimea, having abandoned
his post without leave, after the affair of the 25th, to
come to Constantinople, has been tried by court-martial,
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