Barrs. The " Ivipon" still remains outside tlio harbour, with the draughts of the Guards, of the 82nd Eegiment, and of the Land Transport Corps, on board, as there is no room for her until the " JMedway" or some other vessel of equal size moves out. The " Telegraph" is discharging a portion of her cargo of navvies belonging to the Army Works Corps. It has looked like rain all day, but only a few gentle showers have fallen. Early this morning it rained heavily at intervals, and Balaklava was uncomfortably muddy all day in consequence, but the sea is calm, and the wind has subsided. There are encouraging reports respecting the progress of the French towards the plateau of the Upper Belbck. In the front nothing is doing except the ordinary road-malcing, and the extraordinary drilling.
The Russians keep up a slow, steady fire on the town, to which the French reply with their wonted alacrity, and the duels between the individual batteries sometimes swell into cannonades, but not much harm is done on either side, except the knocking up of earth and stones, and some trifling casualties. The repetition of these sounds is in itself sufficiently oflensive, when we fondly hoped that we had heard the last Russian gun from Sebastopol. Throughout the night the well-known flashes light up the sky, and the twinkling, revolving fuses stiU indicate the course of the shells, which look like so many shooting stars. The enemy are engaged hutting themselves and removing their stores towards the great depot between Inkermann and the Belbek. A strong body of cavahy was seen moving northwards towards Simpheropol in the afternoon, accompanied, as usual, by a force of field guns.