The Sun. — 1855-02-03 (London, England)

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL  ENGLISH CAMP, HEIGHTS OF SEBASTOPOL, JIN. 20. The enemy's garrison in Sebastopol has, during the last two or three days, been showing forth in the lines in very considerable strength. The French have considerably slackened in their fire upon the town since the date of my last letter. The reason alleged for this is, that such a y leads only comparatively trifling fire from ten mortars, without producing any very important results, the enemy to take measures to counteract the effects of a future bombardment. Tho English, it is said, are now in a position to support the fire of our allies, and only wait for favourahle weather to commence the final attack. Since the last post and until the 16th there has been an intense frost, which, while it lasted, surpassed for its severity anythin., we 'have yet felt. During the day the thermometer seldom rose above 18 deg., but with the night a keen wind swept over the snowy waste, which froze the very blood of those exposed to it. I Major Macdonald, of the 89th, .it was stated, was frozen to death in the trenches on the night of the 16th, and another gallant officer who fell into a deep snow drift most narrowly escaped the Bann fate. Both in the nights of the 16th, 17th, and 18th, many of the men on sentry and on fatigue parties were numbed by the cold in such a mannar as to expire in a few hours afterwards. On the 17th, fourteen of the 46th were buried, the majority of the deaths being caused by the severity of the weather, and on the 18th ten more were interred from the same cause. The huts which have been disembarked at Balaklava are being erected for hospital purposes around the village. The men are on full rations ; but, in spite of the presence and spread of scurvy, bonetteeraltwitrahotuiotn.e, Awbhoiueth one-efyou wouldf thee b at almost s have their warm great coats ; the rest are pretty 'much as they landed. This is the actual state of affairs on the 20th of January. Applications for medical stores have been sent in to Balaklava, and the answer returned was that there were none there. It is not enough to say that we are unfortunate in the mortality which prevails. Such a term is far too weak to stigmatise life which takes place men are literally murdered —murdered by neglect, by incapacity, by the r e the every day . waste o ar of etiquette of military routine, and by every way t l l oirh town,: in which our endless form of mismanagement can reach both officers and privates, old and young. cg oh, if we had only a Naval and military officers exclaim perpetually, jury hero for one day to inquire how and by what coroner with an English neglect our men die!' common during the last tTthwiso o expressionrthree days.l ra s bean Lord Raglan again took the Balaklavians by surprise, by entering the village on the 18th. Numberless were the jokes and comments in.the town on this sudden visitation ; and much ironical anxiety was expressed lest his lordship should suffer from the excitementodf days ihs his lordshipcomfortable m el merely rode quarters t through rtowoigniei within 20 and only delay Russian piquet round Balaklava have appeared unusually busy old residence near the chuerdeba. few minutes at his during the last f©w days, and the force on the ]eft of the Tchernaya has been strengthened by the addition of some 3,000 or 4,000 rioelniension. The filthi of the men. of Balaklava is beginning exhoeit town is now something beyond all description. We are now giving rationstn 4,000 Turks ; two months ago we were rationing 14,000 ; Tseansietarrioyu condition onad apprehension. 8,000 of the missing 10,000 are dead and " buried " on the slope of the bill, over the harbour.  "caution" was issued on tho 18th, to eahoohfo eri anlgofficer commanding a division :