The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-17 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

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tercepted, which admit that the place is incapable
of making a successful resistance.

A postal service is arranged to take place be-
tween Balaklava and Constantinople every five
days.

Nothing new had occurred at Sebastopol up

to the 9th.

VIENNA, TUESDAY.

Lord Raglan has written to Omar Pasha tha'

the regular siege of Sebastopol was to begin on
the sth, and that, in his opinion, the fortress
would be taken in ten days.

it is reported that the southern heights have

been taken.

SCHAMYL AGAIN VICTORIOUS.
In Asia Schamyl has been victorious in two

engagements.

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The army before Kara vas awaiting the arriva

of Ismail.

Anatolia had been pillaged by the Kurds and
Cossacks.

The Journal de Constantinople states that the
Straits of Yenicale have been blocked up by the

sinking of 30 vessels by the Russians.

ST. PETERSBURG, Oar. 14.

Under the present threatening aspect the Czar
has placed the three provinces nearest Austria in

a state of siege.

Gortschakeff is declared generalissimo,

The ukase has just appeared.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.
A Russian despatch was received in Vienna on
the 13th, which says that General Canrobert, after
having chosen his point of attack, and made every
disposition for the proper service of the siege,
ordered that the enemy's outposts should be driven
in to the main wall before Alihtiar on the 9th inst.,
and that the construction of the batteries should be
thereupon commenced.
A second despatch denies that Anapa has been
destroyed, and that any bombarding of the Quar-
antine Fort and outworks of the harbour of Sebas-
topol took place on either the 4th or the sth of the
month. The reinforcements now on their way
from Odessa to the Crimea belong principally to
the 6th army corps, with one division of the sth
corps.
It je reported that there are provisions and muni-
tions at Perekop sufficient for the maintenance of
50,000 men during the winter ; but, notwithstand-
ing, the troops on the march thither have taken
some thousands of waggons with them laden with
all necessaries.
These waggons are drawn by oxen ; the former
are often made use of for firewood, while the majo-
rity of the latter supply the half-starved Russian
soldiers with food.
The troops which left Odessa on the 4th would
arrive at Simpheropol about the 16th inst., or at any
rate not earlier than the 15th, by which time it is
to be hoped the fate of Sebastopol will have been
sealed.

VIENNA, Oct. 13.—There is no end to the accu-
sations which a certain party has of late deemed it
politic to hurl against Austria, because she is all
but at war with Russia. This intolerable state of
things is INA to be borne any longer. Austria must
go the " "whole hog," r she must be pulled down
from her high estate, and must be told that she is
not wanted ; that the allies can humiliate Russia
wit
,Aiout her aid ; and that when this is accom-
p'Lished, and peace is made, she will have no voice
in the arrangements. How willing and earnest
this Government is to remove these difficulties her-
self, and how unavailing all their efforts to this
effect have hitherto been, is best proved by the
following circular despatch, dated Oct. 1, which
Count Buol has addressed to all the German States
to give additional weight to the Austrian answer
addressed to Prussia on the 30th of September :
" In reply to our communication to the Berlin Cabi-
net of the 14th of last month, the contents of which
have been to a great extent brought to your knowledge
by the circular of the 15th to the same effect, we have re-
ceived the reply contained in the enclosed communica-
tion of Baron ♦on Manteuffel to Count Arnim.

" The reception which our declarations of the 14th
liave met with in Berlin can have afforded us but little
satisfaction, partly because the sense and the extent of
our statements were in all respects correctly understood,
and partly because the Prussian Cabinet has replied to
our suggestion for submitting a preposition to the Bund,
demanding certain explanations concerning our own
position, which we could not communicate without dis-
turbing the nature of our relations with the various
OCT. 15. I Powers.

" The declarations of the Cabinet of Berlin likewise
appear to us to leave unexplained how, with any•degree
of dignity and sincerity, the otherwise ineffectual mural
support of the peace bases referred to in the notes ex-
changed on the Bth of August can be recommended to
the Bund, when at the same time they are represented
as being open to grave objections when considered from
a purely German point of view.
" We have, therefore, in reply to this communication
from Prussia, addressed the counter•declarations to Count
Esterhazy, which will likewise be found enclosed, and as
the Prussian despatch, as is notified at the conclusion
thereof, has been confidentially communicated to the
Governments of Germany, you are therefore requested
also to communicate our reply confidentially to the Go-
vernment by whom you have the honour of being accre-
dited.
" Further, we enclose, for fitting and confidential use,
a copy of a further despatch addressed to Count Ester-
hazy, in which we more particularly adduce the reasons
which are opposed to the demands of Prussia, to the
effect that we should take upon ourselves a kind of gua-
rantee that Russia shall not be exposed to any attack by
the allied armies in the Danubian Principalities.
" Receive, &c.,
(Signed) "COUNT BUOL."