The Sun. — 1855-07-14 (London, England)

THE SUN, LONDON SATURDAY EVENING. JULY 14, 1855.  tween the sth and 6th (17th and 18th) June in repairing all the damage done, under a heavy fire, and during the a,sault, having defeatp,l the des.perate attacks cf th. aq-Bailants, they pur.,u€](t tietaelafieh.ti, int;) their Very trenches.  "The A11;,:r., an; c:m,••equeily compellA continue a r-;;rar siege ; it wiii doubtless ccht tiima s ill ranch time and new and enormous sacrifices. _  "The obstinacy and duration of the assault, during which the enemies' masses had to advance under a murderous fire of grape, cannot fail to have caused great havoc in their ranks. If we are to credit deserters, the French have 10,000 men put ;tors de coinbat in killed and wounded. Among the killed they mention Generals Mayran, Brunet, and Voran. According to their reports the English. lost 3,500 men, among whom Generals Campbell and York have died of their wounds, and a great number of officers of all grades. "Moreover, among the 600 prisoners we have taken, of whom 300 are wounded, there were one superior and 11 non-commissioned French officers, and one English officer of superior rank. "On our side among the officers named in the report of the 7th (19th) June, we have to regret the death of the brave Captain Ostrovsky, Commander of the sth company of the Sevsk Infantry Regiment, who, at the head of his company, charged the enemy who had entered the Gervais Battery, and the following officers have been wounded, namely :—Captain Kislinsky, of the navy, Aide-de-Camp of the Emperor ; Major Roudanovsky, of tho Minsk Regiment ; Lieutenant-Colonel Nitikine, of the Odessa Chasseurs ; and Lieutenant-Colonel Prince Bagratior, of the Yclets Regiment. " Since their repulse the Allies have continued their siege works as follows :—Frorn the 7th to the 15th (19th to 27th) of June they have lengthened the approaches against the Cemetery, Bastion 5, and the Schwarz Redoubt ; they have joined by a trench the Selinghinsk and Volhynia Redoubts, they have pushed forward au approach starting from the Kamtschatka lunette, and have constructed a battery to the left of the Selinghinsk redoubt, on the incline towards the bay ; but all these works are so impeded by the well-directed fire of our artillery that an attempt made by the enemy to open a trench on the 10th (22d) June against the Peressyp was completely stopped by one of our nearest batteries, and the attempt has not since been renewed. " The enemy is mining against bastion No. 4 ; we use smoke halls against them with effect. " Since the 7th (19th) of June the fire of the besiegers had been gradually diminishing, and so have our losses. On the 7th (19th) of June we counted 62 killed and 202 wounded. Since then, up to the 11th (23d), there were only 7 men killed and 27 wounded. Among the lat. ter we have unhappily to regret Major-General de Totleben, who received a bullet through the calf of his leg on the Bth (20th), which, however, does not prevent him from directing the works of defence es usual. "During this period we have been chiefly occupied in clearing out our ditches and increasing the height of and strengthening our defences. " Despite the great heat, which has quite hardened the ground during the last month, and which renders work very difficult, thanks to the unexampled zeal of the garrison of Sebastopol, we have succeeded in repairing all our works, and preparing new means to defend them stoutly." •  f, :