The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-14 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR, —I have the honour to inform you that the
members of the staff of the Crystal Palace Company
have subscribed a day's pay towards the fund for the
relief of the sick and wounded of the army of the East,
and that the amount will be paid into the hands of the
bankers to the fund as soon as you announce their names.
—I am, sir, your obedient servant,
G. GROVE.
Secretary to the Crystal Palace Company.
Crystal Palace, Sydenham, Oct. 13.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.—Oct. 13.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.—ArrivaIs.
—Oct. 4. Pandora yawl, Captain R. H. Smith Barry,
from Ireland. 6. Sultana, yawl, Lord Colville, Cher-
baurg and other ports ; Zara, schooner, Commodore Earl
of Wilton, west of Scotland, and came into harbour to
lay up ; Dream, yawl, G. Bentinck, Esq., M.P., west
of Scotland ; Sapphire, schooner, Right Hon. T. M. Gib-
son, M.P., Mediterranean. 12. Titania, schooner, Robt.
Stephenson, Big., M.P., Sunderland. Sailings.—Oct.
2. Virginia, yawl, J. Gee, Esq., for Ramble River, to
lay up. 9. Shark, schooner, Wm. Curling, Esq., for
Gravesend. 10. Nymph, cutter, Sir John Bayley, Bart.,
for Dover. Yachts at and about the station.—Zara,
Dream, Sapphire, Sultana, Aurora, Pandora. To-mor-
row the signalman will strike his flag, and from that day
till the let of flowery May the comings and goings of the
yachts of the squadron will remain unreported. Sir
Bellingham Graham, J. Mazes, Esq., and several other
members, real yachtsmen, are still at the Squadron
House—men of the good old days of Yarborough and
Belfast, whose flags were hoisted in May and not struck
till November, not as we now have, mere landsmen, who
cannot get afloat till August, and who hardly keep under
weigh for that little month in the whole year. Unless a
new life is thrown into yachting it will soon be below

par.
The Royal Family leave the Isle of Wight for the sea.
son to-morrow.

LATEST NEWS.

THE CRIMEA.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

A private telegraphic despatch from Vienna of
the 13th announces that, according to a despatch
from Lord Raglan of the Gth, the siege works of
the allies were sufficiently advanced to admit of
opening their fire in a few days.
DANZTIC, FRIDAY.

The Basilisk has arrived.
She left the fleet at Nargen on the 10th.
It was to sail next day for Kiel.
Nothing new.
There is very bad weather in the Baltic.

MADRID, OCT. 10.

A telegraphic despatch states that the elections
were proceeding quietly, and with advantage to
the Progresistas.
The Three per Cents. closed to-day at 76f. 30c.
for the end of the month, and the Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. 98f. 80c.

The Wanderer of Vienna of the 9th, says :
"The news given by the journals that Prince
Menschikoff had received a reinforcement of 15,000
men from Perekop is devoid of foundation. Ac-
cording to authentic despatches of the 2d from the
Crimea, the Prince had not received any reinforce-
ments up to that day. The troops which had left
Odessa for the Crimea had not reached the Dnieper
on the 2d."
From a private despatch received from the
Crimea, of the 4th, via Warsaw, we learn that
Prince Menschikoff has established a communica-
tion with the forts to the north of Sebastopol. The
allied forces under Lord Raglan leant on the coast
of Cape Chersou and Balaklava. Both the Rus-
sians and the allies were awaiting considerable re-
inforcements, which were expected to arrive simul-
taneously on the 12th inst. We need only remind
our readers that this account is from St. Peters-
burg.
The Copirte Zeitung says that so early as the
27th ult. 6,000 men were landed at Cape Cherson,
and that by the Ist these troops had reached the
road running from Sebastopol to Balaklava, and
joined the main body of the allied army. Mean-
while the fleets advanced to the quarantine harbour.
The Russians had no less than four entrenched
camps on the low ground at Cape Cherson, which
they evacuated after the landing had been effected
to the north of Sebastopol. The heights behind
the lazaretto, to the south of the church of St.
Vladimir, were occupied on the 2d inst. A tele-
graphic despatch from Constantinople, of the 30th,
transmitted to you, among other items of intelli-
gence, contained one to the effect that Anapa had
been blownup by the Russians, in order that the gar-
rison might be sent to reinforce Menschikoff. The
journal mentioned above is informed that this was
not the case, but that Anapa was bombarded for
several hours by a division of the allied fleet ; and
that the garrison, 6,000 strong, did not go to the
Crimea, but retired to the fort of Noffarrossik,
after setting fire to the town. The blockading
squadron then went to Balaklava. This latter ac-
count looks like truth.

THE RUSSIAN COMMANDER AT ALMA.
A correspondent of the Lloyd says :—At Alma
theßussians were commanded by Prince Menschi-
koff in person, but on the Belbeck by Generals
Chomutoff and Tchetschanoff. Prince Menschikoff
himself left the army to return with reinforcements
from Sebastopol, and proposed to outflank the allies
on the Belbeck with 15,000 men ; but mean-
while the Russians were totally defeated, and
Menschikoff arrived too late. It is a general
opinion among military men that Menschi-
koff committed a great error in maintaining
the position of the Alma, instead of at once falling
back on the Katcha. . Finding himself too weak,
he was compelled to reinforce his army with 15,000
men, stationed at Balaklava (as is reported), and
was, notwithstanding, beaten, suffering an immense
loss in men and materiel ; and by the withdrawal
of his reserves from the south of Sebastopol, put
it out of his power to prevent the march of the
allied troops over the Belbeck to Retschka-Chernaya,
and the junction with the forces at Balaklava. All
troops, munitions, and provisions are now landed
at this point.