The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-11 00:00:00

THE WHITE SEA.

The St. Petersburg journals contain the follow-
ing intelligence from the White Sea :
"The village of Pushlata, in Oneiga district, consist
ing of 40 farmhouses and a church, has been burned down
by the enemy. Six English were killed. The Russians
did not lose a man. Three ships laden with flour were
burned oppo-its to the village of Susma, another laden
with fish worth 980 silver roubles, and another taken
with 150 silver roubles. The vessel was sunk, which
causes a loss to the owner of 1,400 silver roubles. On
the Kusk coast a vessel laden with 800 puds (28,8001bs.)
was detained, and another worth 900 roubles burned.
Finally, another wag found with a cargo of wheat worth
3,000 silver roubles."

THE ATTACK ON THE CRIMEA.
The following letter from her Majesty's steam-
sloop Fury contains an interesting account of the
cruise of that vessel to the spot on which it was
intended to land the allied forces in the Crimea,
the narrow escape of the steam-frigate Terrible, 22,
Captain M'Cleverty, and an important notice of
the embarkation and landing experiments at
Varna :

" H.M.S. Fury, at Sea, Aug. 25, 1854.
" As we shall join the admiral to-day, and a mail per-
haps, will be leaving, I will give you a brief account
of our cruise these last four days. Terrible and
Fury left Baldjick on the morning of the 21st for Sebas-
topol, in order to ascertain if any batteries had been
thrown up near the place 'chosen for the landing of
troops since our last visit. On the morning, at day-
break, of the 23d, we found ourselves within
ten miles of the mouth of Sebastopol Harbour,
and off we went at a dashing pace to within
about four miles of one Russian line-of battle-ship,
two frigates, and two steamers, the latter were
blowing off their steam. After taking a good sur-
vey of the fleet in the harbour we turned round and
ran down the coast, when the sailing vessels loosed
their sails, but, as usual, not to come out, but
merely to let us see how smart they were behind their
orts, which smartness, in point of seamanship, we can-
not dispute. We had got about eight miles to the north-
ward, and in order to take a good survey of the contem-
plated landing-place were very near the shore, when to
the dismay of all, the Terrible grounded on a sand shoal,
and was about ten minutes ere she got off. The enemy
saw her situation immediately, and was running down
on us with three steamers and two sailing vessels,
Happily, the Terrible got off in about ten minutes,
and the moment they saw Terrible was afloat, round
they went, and the time being so short no opportunity
offered to exchange shots with them before they got
under cover of their forts. We then stood on our
course, and ran into Eupatoria. Boarded two neu-
tral merchant vessels—one Austrian, the other Nor-
wegian. They informed us that the steamers had
been there on the previous evening, and they were
those we saw blowing off their steam, so that
doubtless 24 hours earlier would have given us a
chance of an engagement. However, I consider we
ought to be quite satisfied that we were not all in the
same position as the Tiger's people were. Had the
Terrible remained on shore there would certainly have
been at this time but few of the two ships' companies
alive.
"We have communicated with Niger, 15, screw,
Commander Heath, and Vesuvius, 6, paddle, off the
Sulina mouth of the Danube. They had no news. We
also fell in with the Retribution, en route to Ode.ssa,
to receive remainder of Tiger's crew.
"Five p.m.--Just anchored at Baldjic. Found
Commander Tatham promoted to Simoom, vice Smith,
deceased.

" A great part of the heavy portion of the military,
horses, &c., are at this time embarked, and all is to
be prepared for leaving on Wednesday next, the
30th inst. They have been trying the time likely
to be occupied in disembarking with horses, Sze-,
by rowing off to the ship and making a start from
thence at a given distance, when seven minutes
was the time occupied from the ship to the beach, and
all landed—smart work, say those likely to be compe-
tent judges. One hundred and five thousand is the
effective strength to be landed against Sebastopol—viz.,
40,000 Turks, 40,000 French, and 25,000 English—a
motley group. It will be a glorious day, and I trust
to live to see it.

ENCAMPMENT IN THE CRIMEA.

A correspondent .Writing from Constantinople,
says, " with regard to a permanent encampment in
the'Crimea during the winter, it is said, on good
authority, to be perfectly feasible. The British
Consul at Kertch is of opinion that troops may be
stationed under canvas during the severest winter,
and all accounts seems to say that for the purpose
it is better than either Varna or Constantinople.
Whatever may be the immediate result of the expe-
dition, there can be no doubt that the allies will
hold possession of the country during the winter,
and everything seems to betoken thatthe cold wea-
ther will not be allowed to impede the operations."
It is said that large reinforcements have been

sent from Odessa, where there now remain very
few troops. The Russians, judging that the late-
ness of the season would prevent an attack on this
place, which is frozen up for six weeks in winter,
and where an army cannot be fed, have despatched
all their available men to the defence of Sebastopol.
An English prisoner who formed one of the Tiger's
crew, relates that large bodies of men were sent off
in that direction weeks ago, and the Austrian Con-
sul estimates the number who have marched to the
Crimea at 40,000 men.

A letter from Therapia, 30th ult., in the Moni.
tewr, says :—" Everything leads to the expectation
that the expedition may sail on the 2d September.
The sanitary state of the army and the crews of
the ships continues to improve ; the epidemic
period has reached its end, and cases of cholera have
become rare. The park of siege artillery which
was sent from Toulon has arrived in the Bosphorus
and will be before Sebastopol at the same time as
the army."