The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-14 00:00:00

SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL•

CONSTANTINOME, October er 29.—We are now at the
end of the fifth week of the operations against Sektsto-
pl. For 12 days the fire of the Allies against the earth-
works of the eaemy has been nearly incessant, and the
weary artillerymen are sinking with fatigue. They
rest only six or seven hours out of the 24, and though
with such
they do their duty well, there is a limit to human
strength, and, unless the place be taken by a desperate
effort, our fire must in a few days slacken from the
now reduced. to
exhaustion of the men, who have had,
short numbers, to keep up a storm of shot
and it is stated
shell against so strong and well-defended a line of
the Crimea that
works. The British infantry are
bl
y 5,0
aOO
gentleman
mfaoar
whoeff effective t ihvaes j suesrtv ic o
left,
week. About
our force diminishes at the rate of
a6hodosao
willietdh
and
fatiguewo 1 lonrd attackede d
by diarrhoea and
Lol,a wdaoyrnaoreutkgo into hospi-
fever. Add to this that the
up, and, if we may judge from
tar appearances, the winds
and rains of autumn are setting
in.
Last night it blew
a gale, and to day there is
driving filnwea at • t
trvale,
a strong cold north wind, with
It is possible that awn
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may be again a few days of warmth and sunshine occa:
sionally, but it will not do to count upon them. The
summer of St. Martin is over, and in the regular course
of the seasons a long continuance of bad weather is to
be expected. Everything leads to the supposition that
the affair must be finished one way or another before a
fortnight is over. An assault must be tried against the
works of the enemy, and the success of the Alma gives
ground for hope that, though the loss on our part may
be severe, the issue cannot be doubtful.
It is reassuring to know that, whatever may be the
delays caused by the fortress itself, the Allied Armies
are sufficiently secure from all attacks from without.
The army on the Tchernaya cannot exceed 30,000 men,
and is probably far below that number. It is evident
that its commander, said to be Osten-Sacken, is afraid
to engage the Allies, discouraged as the Russians are
by their late defeat, and inferior as they are in force and
position to the British and French armies. It is more
probable that they are held as a reinforcement for the
garrison itself, and that as the Russian soldiers
within the town are mowed down by •the shells of
the enemy, their place will be supplied by fresh
troops introduced in the works from the northern
side. The position of the Allies, and the completeness of
their preparations dissipate all fear of a successful attack
from any farce which the Czar could send against
them.
The British, French, and Ottoman armies hold the
great square plateau to the south of Sebastopol. Its
edges are strongly fortified with field-works, and the re-
serves of the three armies occupy positions at its angles,
where they can support each other, and quickly repulse
a body much superior to their own. The only place
which can be threatened is the road leading to Balaklava,
and on that the Russians have several times made a de-
monstration. No success, has however, met their efforts,
although in the recent affair our cavalry has experienced
a severe loss.

The men are still in good spirits, and sanguine of sue-
cess. They care nothing for theßussian force behind
them, which they feel they can at any time defeat and
scatter. The only regret is that the necessities of the
siege prevent an immediate attack, and that, instead of
a hand to hand fight, they are reduced to a scientifia
exchange of cannonading. The wounded and sick officers
at Scutari and Pera are all anxious to get back to the
seat of war, so as to be qualified for the medal which will
commemorate the capture of the Russian stronghold.
There are few of them, however, in a fit state to bear the
fatigues of such a campaign, and their pale faces when
they leave for the Crimea give little hope that their
ardour and courage will be supported by physical strength.
Lieutenant Learmouth, of the 17th Lancers, who went
up yesterday, finds himself second in command of the
remnant of his regiment.
The British Embassy is endeavouring to recover
the Russian ladies who were carried off by the Daghis-
tanees in their late foray on the villages north of Teflis.
Letters have been written to Schamyl, and three per-
sons are separately endeavouring to open a communica-
tion with him. It would be a great thing to be assured
of this warrior's existence. He is always named as the
supposed leader of the Lesges and neighbouring tribes
who inhabit the Eastern Caucasus, but that he is still
alive and conducts their movements we have no proof.
Such pieces of intelligence as that "Schamyl has offered
50,000 men to the Porte," " Schamyl has totally defeated
the Russian army in Asia," are favourite efforts of
Perote and Bucharestian invention, but the fact is, that
for some time past we have no certain knowledge of
the celebrated leader. Emir Bey, a man who has done
much in the Western Caucasus, was originally the Naib
or Lieutenant of Schamyl, but no communication has
passed between them for three or four years. The
tribes which he used to influence have of late been very
active against the Russians, and this gives reason to
suppose that he still preserves his vigour and authority;
but he is so little known, and so much that is mythical
has been mixed up with his real actions, that an enter-
prising traveller who could give us some trustworthy in-
formation would be a benefactor not only to the cause
of the Allies but to those who take an interest in a
most singular passage of the world's history.
We cannot but pity the situation of our unhappy
troops to-night. Wind, hail, and rain are beating
against our windows, and if these prevail in the
Crimea, the troops will pass a night worse than that
of the 14th September, when they first set foot
on. Russian ground. Sometimes, however, these tempests
are merely local ; the wind comes down the Bosphorus
as through a funnel, and Constantinople is beaten by
storms when the Black Sea is sunny and calm. The
vessels which came in to-day were under reefed topsails,
which seems as if the gale had extended to some distance
from the Cyanean rocks, but whether the weather is the
same 200 miles away we cannot tell. The Turks have
nearly all returned to Stamboul, but those who are left
will remain on the Bosphorus for another month. The
moon which appeared a few nights sinoe is an unlucky one,
and as long as it lasts no true Mussulman, who respects
the heavenly bodies and their influences, will change his
abode. These superstitions are not confined to the
Turks. The Greeks have their unlucky day of the week,
which is Tuesday, and on it they will not do a great
number of things. It is singular how high in the scale
of education these prejudices extend.
OCT. 30.—The Australian has just arrived, bringing
four Russian officers and 13 privates prisoners •, also
eight officers and 193 men of the wounded British
caN;alry ; seven men died on board. Unfortunately the
wind is so strong, and the sea runs so high, that they
cannot be landed. Their wounds are extremely severe.
Nov. 2.—Five such days as those we have just passed
through are said not to have been known at Con-
stantinople for many years. On the night of the
28th a strong wind began to blow, and increased
to a tempest within the next 24 hours. It was ac-
companied by torrents of rain and occasional storms
of hail and sleet ; and not only was every
caique driven from the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn,
but the steamers which ply between Constantinople and
the villages were obliged to discontinue their usual
traffic. The narrow channel of the Bosphorus was so
roused by the strength of the gale that the sea has in
many places burst into the houses, the lower rooms of
which have been reidered uninhabitable. Rain has poured
down for five days in one incessant stream ; the roads
have become almost impassable, and communication be-

tween the different points of the environs is nearly im-
practicable. The steamer from Marseilles, which should
have left on the 30th, is still in port, the captain
not having ventured out in face of so terrible a
confusion of the elements. You will, therefore, be
debarred from receiving in due time the re•
ports of the momentous occurrences which have
taken place in the Crimea, and which, with
more or less of practical success have all been honour-
able to the arms of the Allies. The intelligence from
this place is of a lees exciting nature. The sympithy of
the public will be raised for the unhappy wounded who
have come down to Scutari, and have for two days been
kept on board the steamers which conveyed them,
through the impossibility of bringing them on shore.
The accommodation, however, provided for them on
board the Australian has been very good, and they are
as well as they can be expected to be after the long and
tryingjourney which has succeeded the unhappy combat
in which they were wounded.
Nothing has arrived at the moment I write, but it is
probable that, at the last moment, there will be some
further news from the seat of war. The chief cause of
anxiety is on account of the recent unfavourable weather,
and that which may be now expected during the
whole of the month. Our men are much Tworn out;
they are diminished in number to an extent hardly cre-
dible, and any further hardships may have had an effeet
the most deplorable. The last news was dated the 2Sth.
On the night following the rain set in and has lasted ever
since. The men must have been exposed to the full in-
clemency of the weather. Their camp is on a height,
over which the fierce winds must have swept, perhaps
itthieleisrstesnttosr,ina.nd
Tlehaevirnaginthpemouwrinitghoduotwanhel-
like that of an English November, but
ntbeloroni fromnag athw the
drizzle,
in a strong steady stream—day and night, must have
saturated their clothing and placed them for days in the
same circumstances as on the first night of their land-
ing. Half the men are constantly on duty ; they are
alarmed by continued "alerts " on their rear, the real
force of the enemy being unknown ; so that at night a
few Cossacks may disturb the rest of a whole division
for hours together.

The suspension of Messrs. Clay and Gillman, a re-
spectable mercantile firm, has been announced to-day.
The liabilities are not supposed to be large.
from
New
ARRIVALS
yoorFk S; :set lerr.d—a
yesterday
SPECIE.—The ey
13,5001.
The Thames, from Brazil, has brought
cE MARKETS.—
AMSTERDAM AND ROTTERDAM P
state that,
markets
continued to
although business had diminished,and
amountt
h the fci)cf ag is gold
Pt!
The weekly reviews from these
be well supported. In sugar w
rig
i to a cessation of spe-
lled been singularly limited, coffeei3OaDrkr e thets operations
quotationsn for tea and rice were
spe-
culative purchases. The
t ansactions had taken place.
pe edto o f
showed a tendency to im-
provement.
and Oriental Company have received
Some descriptions
although few
The Feninsulaer Government to despatch their large
Ripon, and Nubia, each capable
500 troops, with alls
steamers
, convey'
French reinforcements to the Crimea.
Toulon, to carry
orders d.
of these vessels being employed in the mail and
Each
passenger service between Southampton and Alexandria,
their witledr
fnergsoenf:rioPmtth.i °ln:2o°of spicesto
awal will necessarily be attended with in-
Candle,
convenience to the public ; but the company have made
tabr reai
rn ,gs
rue ina
lelnet for
the a
mer
s, transportan d,
by
of the
3,, d
ivid i
nmgati the
ebpyas
ssomeeng
passengers
and sending one-half of the number to Marseilles, and
thence to Alexandria, by the fast steamers Vectis and
Valetta, they trust to maintain the ordinary communi-
cations with the East until their regular ships shall to
returned to them. A circular announcing the altered
arrangements has been issued to the passengers, and
they are said to have shown every disposition to meet
the case in the best possible spirit.
CHINA.—According to the telegraphic accounts from
China yesterday, which reach to the 27th of September,
there had been no further alteration in the rates of ex-
change, the quotations being still 4s. fad. to 48. 10d. at
Canton, and 6s. to es. ld. at Shanghai. The export
and
had noneffbee nds madea t the et o
rate.
of tea to date had been 21,000,0001 b., and of silk 6,907
bales. Canton being still threatened, the trade of the
place continued at a stand. Much fighting hal,,cl, recently
taken place, but the result was unknown.
seemed to be
supplies of tea had come dew's,
.nere
t expected,ain i
t, o oadlt
blackheurh
mail everyh
aeffort
beeno
the interior of
From Foochow
the country was said to be incredasi
very
slowly, and at
of 7 dollars per picul. The anarchnyg.'
a vin g
shipments were going forward
been cleared of the Emen
quantity $2O per picul. The
r Prices had consequently advanced Shanghai there was little business, the
at shanghai won arriving
l supplies both of silk and tea
0 f marketadk
available.h
) . slowly..

etirb Milton.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

SHREWSBURY RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

ABBEY STAKES.

Rosaline
Borneo .
Pope Joan

Eleven ran.
SHREWSBURY HANDICAP.

La Belle
Boddicot
Lady Vernon

Fifteen ran.
COPELAND HANDICAP.

Bolton
Plattaible

Fifteen ran.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 31.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Wal-
ter cope, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Guayaquil, to
be her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General to
the Republic of the Equator.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Charles Lennox Wyke, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul-
General to the Republics of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa
Rica, Honduras, and Salvador, to be her Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires and Consul-General to those Republics.
FOREIGN OFFICE, Nov. 13.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas
Roberts, as Vice-Consul at Milford, Swansea, and Llanelly;
and of Mr. William Wolfe Alexander, as Vice-Consul at
Bristol, for the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Nov. 11.

The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Minister at Washington, in-
closing the copy of a circular instruction from the
United States Treasury to the Collectors of Cus-
toms, directing the issue of Receipts to parties pay-
ing duties, under the present state of the American
law on British caught fish. It being in contemplation to
make the action of Congress at its next session available
retrospectively for tho remission of the duty on British
caught fish, taken during the present fishing season ; this
measure is intended to facilitate the arrangement contin-
gent on the expected action of Congress, by enabling the
importers on the presentation of these receipts to obtain a
repayment of their amounts, so soon as the contemplated
act of Congress shall have been passed.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Nov. 11.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a letter, which had been addressed to her Majesty'.
Minister at Naples, by Mr. Goodwin, reporting the im-
position of a seven days' quarantine of observation on
vessels arriving at Palermo from the undermentioned ports,
not including the term of passage, provided such a voyage
shall have been free from death on board—viz., Stockholm,
Hamburg, Altona, the ports on the Elbe, Lubeck, Trave-
mund, the Scandinavian Kingdom, Spain, Smyrna, Syra,
Scalanova, Constantinople, Gallipoli, Faros, Nio, Goth-
land, St. Petersburg, Cronstadt, Revel, London, Liver-
pool, Glasgow, Belfast, the Isle of Christina (Cambraes),
Isle of Arran, Venice, Sardinia, Gibraltar, Marseilles,
Toulon, Cette, Algiers.
TREASURY WARRANT.
_ _

By virtue of an Act 17 Victoria, chapter 23, intituled
" An Act for raising the sum of Six Millions by Exche
quer Bonds and Exchequer Bills ;" these are to authoriso
and require you to cause Exchequer Bonds, and Certifi-
cates attached thereto, to be prepared (according to the
regulations prescribed in the Warrant of this Board, dated
the 22d July, 1833) for tke aggregate amount of One Mil-
lion Pounds, in the following proportions, viz. :-
300 bonds of £l,OOO each £300,000
400 „ 500 „ 200,000
1,500 „ 200 „ 300,000
2,000 „ 100 „ 200,000

4,200 £1,000,000
A Treasury warrant has also been issued for a second
million pounds, as follows :-
500 bonds of £l,OOO each £500,000
600 „ 500
200 „ 300,000
100 II
1,000 „ 100 1,, 200,000

£1,000,000
THE NEW SHERIFFS.
At the Court at Windsor, the 14th day of November,
1854, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Oouncil.
It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council that the
Parliament, which stands prorogued to Thursday the 16th
day of November, instant, be further prorogued to
Thursday the 14th day of December next.
The names of those who were nominated for Sheriffs by
the Lords of the Council, at the Exchequer, on the Mor-
row of Saint Martin, in the eighteenth year of the reign
of her Majesty Queen Victoria, and in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
ENGLAND.

BEDFORDSHIRE.—Mr. John Shaw Leigh,. of Luton
house ; Sir George Robert Osborne, of Chicksand's Priory,
Bart. ; Col. Godfrey Thornton' of Muggerhanger-house.
BERKSHIRE.—Mr. Henry Elwes, of Marcham-park,
near Abington ; Sir Claudius Stephen Paul Hunter, of
Mortimer-hill, Bart. ; Mr. George Barker, of Stanlake.
BUCKS.—Mr. Philip Duncombe Pauncefort Duacombe,
of Great Brick-hill ; Mr. William Frederick Farrer, of
Brayfield-horse ; Mr. Philip Wroughton, of Ibstone.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND HUNTINGDONSHIRE.—Sir Wil-
liamson Booth, of Gamlingay, Bart.; Mr. Edward Hicks, of
Great Wilbraham; Mr. Christopher Robert Pemberton,
of Bourn.
CUMBERLAND.—CharIes Featherstonhaugh, of Staffield-
hall, Esq. ; Mr. Thomas Story Spedding, of Mire-house ;
Sir Henry Ralph Vane, of Hutton-hall and Armath-
waite, Bart.
CHESHIRE.—Mr. John Chapman, of Mottram ;
Mr. Richard Christopher Naylor, of Hooton-hall ; Mr.
William Atkinson, of Ashton Heyes.
DERBYSHIRE.—Mr. Peter Arkwright, of Willersley-
castle ; Mr. Alfred Miller Mundy, of Shipley-hall ; Mr,
William Hatfield De Rodeo, of Barlborongh-castle.
Drvomurram.—Mr. Arthur Davie Bassett, of Water-
month ; Mr. Alexander Edward Kelso Hamilton, of the
Retreat ; Mr. Thomas Daniel, of Stoodleigh.
DORSETSHIRE.—Mr. Robert Williams, of Bridehead •
e •
Mr. George Whieldon the younger, of yke-hons Sir'
John James Smith, of the Down-house, Bart. ,
DURHAM.—Mr. Robert Surtees, of Red th h MST - Ouse •
Mr. Robert Smith Surtees, of Hamsterley-hall ; Mr.'
Timothy Hutchinson, of Eggleston-hall.
ESSEX.—Mr. John Watlington Perry Watlington, of
Moor-hall ; Mr. Robert Hills, of Colne Bugaboo; Mr.
John Francis Wright, of Kelvedon-hall.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—Mr. Corbet Holland Corbet, of
Admington-house ; Sir Charles Rushout Rushout, of Seiz-
incote-house, near Stow-on-the-Wold, Bart. ; Mr. Richard
Rogers Cexwell Rogers, of Dowdesweil.
HEREFORDSHIRE.-31r. Richard Hereford, of Sufton-
court, near Hereford; Mr. Richard Francis Wegg Prosser,
of Belmont, near Hereford ; Mr. Augustus William Henry
Merrick, of Goodrich-court.
HERTFORDSHIRE.—Mr. Nathaniel Hibbert, of Mutation-
in-Watford; Mr. William Joseph Myers, of Porters-in-
Shenley ; Mr. William Reid, of the Mode-in-Cod!cote.
KENT.—Mr. John Angerstein of Woodlands, Black-
heath ; Sir Walter Charles James, of Betshanger, Bart. ;
Mr. Edward Ladd Bette' of Preston-hall.
LEICEsTRRSHIRR.—Mr. Cosmo George Charles Novell,
of Holt ; Mr. William Ward' Gailby, of Hnraberstone ;
Mr. Hampden Clement, of Snarestown.
LINCOLNSHIRE.—Mr. George Skipworth, of Moorton-
house ; the Hon. Alexander Leslie Melville, of Bramston-
hall ; Mr. Charles Thomas John Moore, of Frampton-hall.
MoNmonTasHinn.—Mr. John Russell, of the yelands,
Chepstow ; Mr. William Cave, of Peahow ; Mr. Edward
Bagnall Dioomack, of Pontypool.
. • NORFOLK.—Mr. Brampton Gurdon, of Litton ; Mr.
Robert Kellett Long, of Dunston ; Sir Edward North
Buxton, of Cromer, Bart.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.—Mr. William Harcourt Isham
Mackworth Dolben, of Finedon-hall ; Mr. Frederick Ver-
non Wentworth, of Stoke-park ; Mr. Frederick Wiban
Sartoris, of Rnshden-hall.
NORTHUMBERLAND: —Mr. Rowland Errington, of Sand-
hoe; Mr. Bryan Burrell, of Broome-park; Mr. William
Henry Charlton,
of Hosleyside.
so
man Brid Sim
NOTTINGHA3fSHIRE.—Mr. Henry ge p n
of Babworth ; Mr. Samuel William Welfitt, of Langwith-
lodge ; Mr. Richard Milwood, of
in
Thuri,gartonh-priory.f
Lee,
place, Benjam Jo— appySwift's-house,, ee-
place, Charlbury ; Sir Henry Paytonn , of
- Bart.; Mr. William Evetts, of TackleY-Park-
RIITLANDSHIRE.—Mr. Charles Ormston Eaton, of Tix-
"er; Mr. Arthur Heatheoto, of Pilton ; the Hon. Henry
Lewis Noel, of Ketton.
BEROPSHIRE.—Mr. Willoughby Hart Sitwell, of Buck-
; Mr. Edward Lloyd Gatacre, of Gatacre-hall; Mr.
EsodEerarsetl,ozdnWerrrivrttagaibt;B of Holston.
Sir Arthur Wright,
George Berens Northcote, of
STAFFORDSICIRMI.EIt°II,
RathiMr. John Hippesley, of Stow Easton ;
Mr. Thomas William of Clevedoa-court.
AjvF. Richard Dyott, of Freeford
Pole Shawe, of Maple Affard, of Chillington ; Mr. Samuel
COUNTY OF Sour
of Fair Oak-park, ii.A4M.—mr. James Edward Brad-
shaw,Edward Butler, of Hareanziar Winchester; the Hon. Sir
Winter Scott, of Rotherfield, Southampton ; Mr. James
near Alton.
SUFFOLK.—Mr. Joh' Joss
Bary. St. Edmund's ; Mr. lisnra, of St, Edmlnd's-hill,
ow Areedeckne, of Glover-
George Weller Poley, of
ing-hall, Hackestea ; Mr. John
Boxted-hall.
SURREY.—Mr. James Gadesden of Ewell castle, Ewell;
Mr. Edward Richard Northey, of Woodcote-house,
Ep-
som • the Hon. John George Cavendish, of Tyne -e gr' eve,
CheAsey.
SUSSEX.—Mr. George Carew Gibson,_ of Braddon-brook,
k
Guildford Mr. William Crake, of Hastings; Sir rohn'
'
Wm. Hamilton Anson, Bart., of Avisford.
WARWICKSHIRE.—Mr. Chandos Wren 110,kyno
of
Wray-hall ; Sir Pater Van Notten Pole, Bart., of Todden-
hanit-house ; Mr. Henry Spencer Lucy, of Charlcote-park.
WESTMORELAND.—Mr. John Hill, of Bankfoot ; Mr.
Burson Harrison, of Anableside ; Mr. William Wilkinson,
of Warcop.
WILTSHIRE.—Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Baia., of
Ererleigh-Park ; Mr. Sitnon Watson Taylor, of Urchfont ;
Mr. Charles William Miles, of Barton-house, Malniesbury.
WORCESTERSHIRE.—Mr. William Dowdeswell, of Pall-
court, near Tewkesbury ; Mr. Francis Edward Williams,
of Doddenhent, near Worcester; Mr. Francis Tongue
Rufford, of Prescot.
YORKSHIRE.—Mr. James Brown, of Copgreve,
_e
_near
S u Biitesborough ; Sir George Wombwell, Bart., of
bnith-park, near Easingwold ; r, FrederickaC; ra a wiNoosdv
IstgrtoAConyers.
WALES.
John Williams, of Treffos Hugh
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