The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-05 00:00:00

THE BLACK SEA.

The Fremden Blatt has the following Russian
despatch with respect to the vaunted repulse of the
English troops, which is doubtless false, as it ob-
viously manifests an ill-suppressed but particular
spite against their English .antagonists :
" BUCHAREST, Sept. 23.--On the 20th the allied
troops attacked the Russian s, who had taken up a
strongly fortified position on the left bank of the Alma.
The left wing of the allies, coin mandel by Lord Raglan
in person, was repulsed by the Russians, with a great
display of bravery (braveur), wi hereupon the French di-
vision renewed the attack. A.; fter an obstinate contest
of three hours' duration, the bats ;le was decided in favour
of the allies by a charge with the bayonet. The Russians
retreated with great loss to the entrenchments before
Sebastopol, and the allies suco eeded in occupying the
heights. The loss of the allies was not less considerable,
and is estimated at between 3,0 C 10 and 4,000 men."

The Austrian Corresponlei tee has the following
despatch :
" CZERNOWITZ, Oct. I.—Ad e ices from Odessa, of the
25th September, announce th a t up to the 20th idem
several conflicts have taken p lace in the Crimea, in
which the artillery of the allie )( l fleets was at times en-
abled to take part. Prince M e nschikoff has abandoned
his position on the Alma, an, I withdrawn towards the
heights of the small river Kr ►tcha. The troops under
General Chomutoff have form ed a junction with those
under Prince Menschikoff."

The SoWater, _Freund con tains some information
which serves to render wha t has recently occurred
in the Crimea more compre. b ensible. As has been
above said, the Russian coi n =Lauder had his head-
quarters at Duvankai, and of i the 18th he despatched
the following news by way o f Cherson to Odessa:--7
The Russian right wing was) Leaning on Bakshi Serai,
and the left was near Uzku a place on the coast
between Bourluk and Mam whai. Kalantai, where
the battle was fought on th a 22d, is a little to the
north-east of Mamachai. I 'he Russian pickets on
the left wing were on the left,. *bank of the river Alma.
The object of Prince Mensc',a.ikoff in occupying this
position with two divisions (:30,000 men) " was to
protect the weakest side of B,ebastopol." From the
heights near the place where : the Rjetschka Tscherna
(Black River) falls into the iport of Sebastopol along
to Fort Constantine, there iii a chain of redoubts
Indeed, from Uzkuju to Fo: ri .Constantinethesoßus-
sians have fortified every in tt )ortant point. 1
Russians were originally sta ti ioned in the rayon be-
tween Balaklava, and Cape 10 hersonese, but 10,000
of them were advancing to i,he Alma. Attention
is particularly called to thef i Let that Sebastopol has
only supplies for three mont abs. The ships' crews
have already been put on twio-third rations.
The Austrian Corresponos:nce contains a letter
from Odessa, followed by a telegraphic despatch.
The former is dated the !z2d, and the latter the
25th ult. It appears from the letter that imme-
diately after the landing at Iliapatoria was generally
known to have taken plat e , General Chumotoff
the military governor of Elertch, marched from
thence with 6,000 infantry and one regiment of
Cossacks, towards SimpherLypol, in order to antici-
pate the occupation of this capital by the enemy.
The telegraphic despatch con ipletes the intelligence
by informing us that Genera l Chumotoff had sue-
ceededin joining Prince Meia ;chikoff, who had aban-
doned his position near the. Alma, and retired to
the heights along the little River Katcha. This
is evidently the Russian vor sion of the defeat suf-
fered by the Russians in their fortified camp near
the Alma. The correspondent likewise informs
us that the number olf Russians_ concen-
trated in and near Sebastopol was about
60,000. The Russian war-stoamer Taman arrived at
Odessa on the 21st ult. from Sebastopol, the pas-
sage from thence having occupied thfee days. She
had four Turkish prisoners on board ; and it was
said that she had destroyed two Turkish transport
ships. The reason why the .Russian steamers have
so often escaped our cruisers appears to be attribut-
able to their using an excollent anthracite, the
smoke of which is of a light grey, very fine, and
transparent ; they are therefore, of course, less
likely to be seen by an enemy.
A letter from Odessa, of the 22d ult., in the
Lloyd's of Vienna, says that two great fires had
broken out in the town, and had destroyed the de-
pots of goods in the ports. On that day a merchant
vessel arrived from Galatz. Being the first that had
arrived for four months, she was received with
great pleasure.
The Danube was completely free
between Galatz and Sulina ; the Russians only re-
tained a point near Isatcha to unite the territory
of Bessarabia with an isle of the Danube.