The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-15 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE ACCOUCHEMENT OF THE
EMPRESS.

PARIS, SATURDAY, 12. 20 .

The Empress began to suffer labour pains at
four o'clock this morning.
All the great dignitaries are at the Tuileries.
The Senate and Legislative Corps are con-
voked.
All goes well for the moment.

THE BALTIC.
KIEL, MARCH 13.

The corvette Firefly is come into port with
despatches from the English Government, instruct-
ing Commodore Watson not to commence hos-
tilities in the Baltic.

HAMBURG, MARCH 13.

The English advanced squadron, on leaving the
Isle of Moen, proceeded to Faro Sound, where it
is now assembled.

VIENNA, MARCH
14.

A new reduction of the Austrian army is an-
nounced.-

DREADFUL MORTALITY AMONGST
THE RUSSIANS.

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DEATHS BY
TYPHUS.

VIENNA, March 11.—The reason why it is firmly
believed here that peace will be concluded is be-
muse the true state of things in Russia is perfectly
well known. We are aware that typhus has com-
mitted great ravages at Nicolaieff, but we are some-
what disinclined to believe that things are so bad as
is represented in the following letter, which has
been received by the Oesterreichische Zeitung

" ODESSA, FEB. 29.

" A terrible complaint—the typhus—prevails in our
city, and it is particularly violent among the troops.
Above 20,000 are now in the hospitals, and thousands
have already died. Despite the greatest exertions it is
extremely difficult to find accommodation for so many
patients. Hospitals have been established in the very
midst of that part of the city which is inhabited by the
better classes, and thousands of patients occupy them,
but physicians and proper nurses are wanting. In one
week 12 military physicians and four medical men in
private practice died. Among them were two Ameri-
cans, who were about to return home. The typhus has
committed terrible ravages in the whole of Southern
Russia, and particularly in those places which are near
the theatre of war. Bakshiserai, Simpheropol, Kherson,
and Nicolaieff are almost empty. It is estimated that
this pestilence has already carried off 100,000 men. It
is gradually spreading over Bessarabia.
" There are 15 vessels off Kinhurn, but they attempt
nothing. The day before yesterday the news that an
armistice bad been concluded reached us, and we are
more than ever persuaded that peace will be concluded."

THE CRIMEA.

DESTRUCTION OF THE AQUEDUCT OF

SEBASTOPOL.

We read in the Moniteur de la Flotte :—" The
aqueduct of Sebastopol has ceased to exist. That
fine work has been blown up by our engineers. The
canal or grand aqueduct of Sebastopol was about
12 versts in length. Its width was six feet, and its
mean depth seven feet and a half. It commenced
above the bridge at Traktir, skirted in a straight
line that celebrated plain, and passed at the foot of
the hills occupied by our army. It traversed part
of Careening Bay, on a succession of small stone
arches, which gave it the appearance of a Roman
aqueduct. At its entrance into Sebastopol were
several extensive works. The latter only were
blown up, the destruction of the remainder being
perfectly useless. The aqueduct of Sebastopol was
intended to convoy the water of the Tchernaya to
the docks, which were destroyed a few days previ-
ously. The Port of Sebastopol, properly speaking,
also called Southern Port, or Bay of the Arsenal,
is situate at the distance of 1,550 yards from the
entrance of the roads, and on the southern bank.
It is upwards of 2,000 yards in length. On the
eastern side of the port, about 200 yards from its
entrance, opens the bay, at the extremity of which
were six wet docks for ships of the line, constructed
with stone or granite, on the plan of those of the
military ports of England and France. They com-
municated with the sea by means of two magnifi-
cent sluice gates, which were opened to admit war
vessels requiring repairs. The ship being once placed
on the graving dock, the gates were closed, the
basin was drained by means of an engine, and the
carpenters and others could then set to work. This
operation was effected in the most regular manner.
The canal of the Toliernaya afterwards served to fill
the dock and float the ships once the repairs were
completed. The six wet doclis were placed on one
line, two by two, parallel with each other. The
last two, situate nearest the wall separating the
town from the suburb of Karabelnaia, were, ac
cording to a plan proposed by Admiral Istmnine,
who was killed during the siege, to be lengthened,
and appropriated to screw ships. Those basins
and the Tchernaya canal had been constructed by
a French engineer, M. do Riancourt. There was
another hydraulic work which was destroyed
during the siege, namely, the subterranean aque-
duct, supplying the great reservoir and the foun-
tains of Sebastopol with water, issuing from a
spring about five versts from the city. This aque-
duct was constructed by ar:i English engineer, Mr.
Upton, to whom it does great honour, and whose
family still inhabit the Crimea.

THE TURKISH ARMY IN MINGRELIA.
TIIRKIAH CHOPI, MINGRELIA, Feb. 9.
The camp itself is pitched on the slope and along
the base of a low, wooded bill, or rather range, that
after a few undulations joins on to the main range
of the Caucavus, as the latter stretches away, at
almost right angles from the sea eastwards to the
Caspian. As a strategic position the site is one of
the finest a general could have chosen, capable,
as it is, of being held against any farce the
enemy could well bring against it ; and, with a
few additional artificial defences, it would be
all but unturnable. The outposts extend about
a couple of miles beyond the camp, in the direction
of Khoni and Kutais ; and about the same dis-
tance beyond that point are the irregular cavalry
videttea of the Russians. The latter, how-
ever, almost daily approach the Turkish advanced
pickets, and, turning them, sometimes even enter
the villages on the immediate outskirts of the
camp. About three weeks ago intelligence reached
the Muchir Abdi Pacha—who commands here—
that a body of these Mingrelian Bashi-bazouks,
under one of the Radian family, who is a colonel in
the Russian service, was then hidden in and around
a village about a mile beyond the camp. A strong
detachment was accordingly sent to cut off their re-
treat, and it managed to surround the village before
the " game" had time to escape ; the latter, how-
ever, were in no way disposed to yield at discretion,
but showed fight, and finally succeeded in cutting
their way through the Turkish cordon, with loss to
both parties, and leaving the colonel behind. The
Turks closed rapidly in upon the village, sure of
having entrapped the main prize ; but scattered
and opened as the hamlet was on all sides, his
priticeship escaped through their fingers in the
dress of a native serf drawn over his regimentals ;
and the disappointed bimbashi, as a punishment
for the connivance of the villagers, set fire to and
destroyed the whole place.
FEB. 10.—The order for the move down to Horga
reached the Muehir last evening, and was commu-
nicated to the superior officers this morning. The
whole force is directed to prepare for marching at
day-light to-morrow. It will be fully a two days'
journey for the troops.