The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-02 00:00:00

tain that it will resist with energy ; but at the
point to which the siege has been brought, with
one open breach, and two forts already reduced to
silence, its surrender is only a question of time."

PROGRESS OF THE SIEGE.
The Lloyd of Vienna of the 28th ult. has
the following :—" According to letters from Varna
of the 19th the Austrian merchant vessels Ban Jel-
lachich, Timm), and Adelina have entered Odessa.
The captains of these vessels state that all the coast
was closely blockaded, but it was notwithstanding
reported that a Russian steamer had anchored at the
mouth of the Kilia, and had cannonaded two Turk-
ish vessels laden with coal. The three Austrian
vessels were on the 17th and 18th off Sebastopol,
and they bring some news relative to the bombard-
ment. The fire of 400 pieces of artillery continued
uninterruptedly for 12 hours, and was only directed
against the batteries placed above the Quarantine
port. On the 18th the fire was not renewed on that
point, as the most advanced redoubts of the Russians
were evacuated in the night of the 17th, and the Rus-
sians had withdrawn behind their stoneworks. The
construction of the breaching batteries commenced
on the 18th. On the same day, some officers of the
marine artillery took lip a position with 5,000
sailors and marines and a body of rocket men, on
the Plateau of Chersonesus, from whence they would
take part in the bombardment of the works of the
Quarantine port. From other accounts from Sebas-
topol, it appears that the 17th was marked not only
by the commencement of the bombardment, but
also by a combat which is said to have taken place
under the walls of Sebastopol, on the heights be-
tween the church of St. "Vladimir and the cemetery.
The contest was very sanguinary and terminated
in favour of the Allies. It was in this combat that
Admiral Korniloff is said to have fallen. Accord-
ing to other accounts from the Crimea of the 20th
the principal operations of the Allies have taken
place on their left wing, and are directed against
the entrenchments of the cemetery. That is the
weakest part of the town."

The correspondent of the Austrian Lloyd satis-
factorily explains why so little is known of what is
going on in the Crimea. When the vessels arrive
with supplies for the army,:not a man of their crews
is allowed to go on shore. The goods, after they
have been purchased at enormous prices, are re-
moved, and the merchant vessels are obliged to quit
the coast immediately. No one can land without a
special order from Gen. Canrobert, and not a man
can boast of having been able to procure one. The
same writer tells us that the French batteries at
Cape Chersonese have made a breach in the town
wall, but this cannot be correct, as the place in
question is fully six English miles from Sebastopol.
A confusion is probably made between Cape Cher-
sonese and the ruins of Cherson. We are assured
that it took 200 men half a day to get each gun to
the spot where it was to be placed.

A letter from Vienna, received this morning,
says :—" It was reported at Constantinople on the
20th that 1,800 Russians, who (with six guns) had
made a sortie, had left 600 men on the field. The
deserters relate that the besieged suffer much for
want of water. Every morning women and chil-
dren came outside the walls of the city to fetch
water from the welis, and are permitted by the
besiegers to return without molestation."

The Malta Times, of the 24th ult., states, from
the Crimea, that the principal dragoman (a Greek)
of Lord Raglan has been detected in sending to
Russia information of the proceedings of the Allied
armies, and been sent to Constantinople to be
tried.