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

LATEST NEWS.

THE SIEGE OF
SEBASTOPOL.

The following despatch has been received from
a correspondent at Marseilles, which had reached
that port by the French post steamer which left
Constantinople on the 30th ult :

Your correspondent in the army before Sebas-
topol writes on the 28th that 607 light infantry
were engaged in the affair of the 25th, awl that
only 198 returned.

Eight hundred cavalry were engaged, of whom
only 200 returned,

Nine officers were killed, 21 wounded, and 4

were missing.
The 17th Lancers were almost destroyed.
We require reinforcements.
Another despatch from Constantinople, dated
the 30th, says :
On the 26th, 8,000 Russians made a sortie
from Sebastopol, but were beaten by two divisions
of English infantry. The Russians lost 700 in
killed and wounded.
" The English lost 1 offieer and 30 men."

We have received the following from our cor-
respondent at Vienna, dated Friday morning ;
"According to authentic advices of the 28th
ult. from Balaklava, a council of war was held on
the preceding day, when it was resolved not to
attempt to storm Sebastopol until the effect of the
siege guns had been fairly tried.
" It is considered highly probable that a battle
will be fought with the Russians under General
Liprandi before Sebastopol is stormed.

" The Russian reinforcements are estimated at
30,000 men."

VIENNA, FRIDAY EVENING.

The following telegraphic despatch has been
circulated in Vienna. It must be received with
the greatest caution :
" CZERNOWITZ, Nov. 9.
" A most violent attack has been made 01
Sebastopol.
" There was a conflagration in the town, which
the garrison could not extinguish.

" Prince Menschikoff had demanded an armis-
tice of 12 hours, which was refused."

PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING.
A telegraph from Marseilles brings news from
Sebastopol of the 28th.
The trenches had been carried to 250 yards
from the wall.

The rifle firing bad been kept up as well as the
fire of the artillery by moonlight.
The new Lancaster guns are firing on the Rus-
sian fleets, which, however, is almost hidden.

BERLIN, THURSDAY, Nov. 9.

The following Russian despatch bas been re-
received here :

" SEBASTOPOL, Nov. 3.
" The operations of the besiegers continue
without any visible result.
" The English fire was slacker.
" The damage done to the fortifications is in-
considerable, and is immediately repaired."

THE BALAKLAVA AFFAIR.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 2.—Yesterday was pub-
lished an extraordinary supplement of the Journal
de St. Petersbourg, of which the following were the
contents
"H.M. the Emperor has just received the fol-
lowing report from A.D.C. Gene:ral Prince Men-
schikoff, under date of Oct. 13 (25).
" Our offensive operations agaiiast the besiegers
were commenced this day, and hale been crowned
with success.
" Lieutenant-General Liprandi had been ordered
to attack with his division the special intrenched
camp of the enemy which defend.% the road from
Sebastopol to Balaklava. This morning that en-
terprise was executed by him in a brilliant manner.
Four redoubts, in which we captured 11 pieces of
artillery, are now in our hands.
" The principal redoubt of the enemy, which
was defended by Turks, was stormed by the Azoff
regiment of foot, which valiantly performed this
feat of arms under the personal col nmand of Major-
General Semiakine, the commandf T of the brigade,
and of the commander of the regiment, Colonel
Kriidener, who distinguished himsef in this affair.
"The English cavalry also attacked our detach-
ment, commanded by Lord Cardigan. It charged
the Hussar Brigade of the 6th cavalry division
with extraordinary impetuosity, 'but, taken in flank
by four squadrons of the combined regiments of
Lancers of the reserve, and thrown back on the
cross fire of the artillery of the 12th and 16th in--
fantry divisions, which fired grape, and on the fire
of the Rifles of the Ist brigade of the same division,
the enemy suffered considerable loss.
" The Ist brigade of the 16th division, under the
personal command of Major-Gel feral Jabokritsky,
was thrown forward to prevent the outflanking of
General Liprandi's division by the enemy.
"At the same moment that. it attacked our
Hussars, the English cavalry came at full gallop on
the heavy guns of the Don Baaery, No. 3, and
sabred some artillerymen.
" Our loss in infantry in this nifair does not ex-
ceed, according to appearances (a ce qu'il semble),
300 men in killed and wounded.
"The loss of our cavalry and infantry is not yet
known, even approximately.
" Major-General Khaletsky, commanding the
Hussar regiment of H.I.H. Prince Nicholas Maxi-
milianovitch, received sabre wounds on the ear and
the arm.
"It is difficult to determine exactly the loss of
the enemy.
"We have made prisoners of about 60 of the
English, one of whom is a superior officer, and
two subalterns.
"Of the four redoubts taken from the enemy,
two will be to-night destroyed, and two more
strongly fortified, in order to enable us to hold this
important position, from which we can act on the
village of Kadykoi, through which the road passes
that leads from Balaklava to the enemy's camp.
" To-day the artillery on the ramparts of Sebas-
topol has been in no respect inferior to the batteries
of the besiegers, but the bombs and incendiary
projectiles of the latter have burn.t some 40 cottages
or mazankas in the suburb of thta artillerymen.
" This ,preliminary report and the information
collected by me on the spot will be conveyed to
your Imperial Majesty by my aide-de-camp, Baron
Willebrandt, who was near Lieutenant-General
Liprandi.
" I have the honour, in conclusion, to acquaint
your Imperial Majesty that I have permitted my-
self to thank in your name on the field of battle all
the troops, who fought with distinction on this
day."

* It is thought, however, that the English cavalry lost
as many as 500 men.

THE CRIMEA.

PRINCE MENSCHIKOFF'S DAILY LOSS.

A letter in the Augsburg Allgemeine, from the
Polish frontier, dated the 3d inst., gives the total
force at Prince Menschikoff's disposal at 62 bat-
talions, of 700 men each, with 144 field-pieces, but
it does not include the 10th and 11th divisions of
Dannenberg's (4th) corps, which were expected to
reach Bakchi Sarai about the 3d or 4th inst. The
loss of the garrison, daily put hors de combat by shot
and sickness, is estimated at about 500—indeed,
Prince Menschikoff estimates his loss to average
nearly 300 killed and wounded. The bombardment
had lasted 14 days, according to the despatch of
the Ist from Sebastopol, so that there can be no
exaggeration in setting down the total number of
men put hors de combat, or unfit for duty, at 8,000.
The greatest loss has been in artillerymen, who
have bravely done their duty. This loss is the most
sensibly felt, and is in some measure irreparable.

INCIDENTS OF THE SIEGE. •
EXPLOSION OF THE REDAN BATTERY.
Until twenty minutes after two o'clock, the French
batteries directed their fire on this work, when, unfor-
tunately, the Russians projected a shell so truly into
.their battery, that, falling into one of their tumbrils
situated in the middle of their reserve ammunition, it