The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-29 00:00:00

THE RUSSIAN LOSSES AT SEB.ASTOPOL,

The losses of the enemy at the taking of Sebastopol
are much larger than was first calculated. It results-
from information which has reached official •quarters,
that the enemy has no less than 20,000 men hors de com,
bat, from the bombardment and final assaults. Twenty
general officers were either killed or wounded. The
losses of toe allies, including French, English, Pied-
montese, and Turks, together with the naval forces, is
estimated at about 13,000 hors de combat, which is 2,000
less than the original estimate of our casualties.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester will
leave the Ranger's Lodge, in Richmond Park, on Tues-
day next for Brighton, where her Royal Highness will
pass the two or three first weeks of the ensuing month.
The recent guests at the lodge have comprised his Ex-
oellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de
Weyer, the Duchess of Inverness, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Ely, the Countess Brownlow, Count
and Lady Cecil De La Feld, Lady Cowley and Mr.
Greville. It is uncertain whether or not her Royal
Highness will return to Richmond Park later in the
season.

The Earl and Countess of Elgin have left Broom Hall,
Fifeshire, on a tour of visits in the north of Scotland.
The Earl and Countess of Derby, with their son and
laughter, who had been visiting the Marquis and Mar-
Jhioness of Breadalbane at Taymouth Castle, passed
through Perth on Tuesday last, for Eglinton Castle,
Ayrshire.
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Prince Albert of Prussia arrived at the Hague on the
25th.

LOWESTOFT.—Amongst the visitors visiting this fa-
shionable town this week are—The Duke of Wellington,
the Earl of Stradbroke, Sir S. Bignold, M.P., Mayor of
Norwich, Major North, Colonel Wingfield and Mrs. C.
Wingfield.
Sandon Hall, in Staffordshire, the seat of the Earl of
Harrowby, which was burned down about seven years
ago, has been rebuilt, and is so far completed that the
noble earl and his family now occupy it.
THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL TORRENS.—A monument
is about to be erected by a number of ladies and gentle-
men resident in Paris to the memory of the late lamented
General Torrens, who, it may be recollected, died in
the French capital during the Queen's visit, and was
interred by the French with high military honour. He
was a native of Londonderry.
COLONEL CAMPBELL—A. paragraph has appeared,
stating that " LieuteLant-Colonel Campbell, staff officer
of pensioners at Perth, died on the 17th inst. ;" but we
are happy to be able to contradict the report, the gallant
colonel, we are informed, being at the present moment
in good health and spirits.—Edinburgh, Courant.
The English steam frigate Perseverance arrived yes-
terday at Havre from Southampton. She is to take on
board a number of Russian prisoners, whom she is to
carry to a port in the Baltic.—Galignani of yesterday.
The western part of the Pyrenees every year furnishes
a considerable contingent to emigration, yet it is neither
to Australia nor California, but to the fertile banks of
La Plata that they direct their steps. There are at this
moment four merchant vessels fitting out at Bayonne,
which, at an early day, will leave for Monte Video and
Buenos Ayres with 1,200 of these emigrants.
The season of the Italian Opera will commence on
Tuesday next, with the first representation of Mose (II
Nuovo), in which Mdme. Fiorentini and MM. Carrion,
Angelioi, and Everardi will appear. A grand represen•
tation extraordinaire will shortly be given at this theatre
for the benefit of the wounded in the army of the Crimea.
—Paris Paper.
THE 72D DEPOT.—The depot of the 72d Highlanders,
from Fermoy, arrived here on Wednesday afternoon
about four o'clock by the Caledonian Railway from
Glasgow. They are now quartered in the castle with
the depot of the 92d Highlanders.—Edinburgh, Courant.
THE LATE FEARGIIS O'CONNOR.—A public meeting,
says the Nottingham, Review, will shortly he held in this
town to take the opinion of the inbabitants of the dis-
trict as to the expediency of erecting in Nottingham a
monument to commemorate the memory of the late Mr.
Feargus O'Connor.

COMPLIMENTARY.--A placard issued this week by the
proprietor of one of the Sunderland singing saloons,
invites the public to come and satisfy themselves that
the music is such as " to soothe the savage soul."—Sun-
derland Herald.

THE NERBUDDA.—Letters from the Cape of Good
Hope up to the 10th of August bring us no farther in-
telligence of her Majesty's sloop Nerbudda. Vessels
had arrived at the Cape from Mauritius and other places,
where it was supposed she might have gone ; but it ap-
pears that no tidings had been received of her since she
left Algoa Bay on the 9th of June previous.
DEATH OF A CRIMEAN OFFlCER.—Yesterday intelli-
gence was received by Thomas Attree, Esq., Queen's-
park, of the death, on the Bth inst., in the trenches be-
fore Sebastopol, of his nephew, Captain Frederick
times Attree, 31st Regiment, and youngest son of the
late Dr. William Attree, of \Vest-hill Lodge. Deceased
entered the army in 1349, and was doubtless well
known to many of our residents and visitors.—Brighton,
Gazette.
LIEUTENANT PALMER, 62D REGIMENT.—The family
at Withcote Hall, near Oakham, have received informa-
tion from the Crimea of the safety of Lieutenant Hey-
rick Palmer, of the 62d Regiment, reported as missing.
At present nothing further is known than that he is well
fmnd unwounded, but in the hands of the Russians. It
is surmised that, having penetrated with his men into
the Redan, he was unable to quit it when the enemy
again took possession. His brother, Lieutenant Thomas
Palmer, of the 47th, was also at the storming of the
Redan, and came off unscathed.—Stamford Mercury.
BANK OF FRANCE.—The manner in which some of the
recent purchases of gold have been made by the Bank
of France is understood to have been simply by their
offering such a price for it in Paris as to induce the
various exchange dealers and others to draw it from the
Bank of England through their several correspondents,
the means being raisedby the discount of bills in London.
Thus it seems that no special agents have been em.
ployed in the matter, each importer of the gold carrying
it for sale to the Bank of France on his own account,
and receiving notes in payment. When the bills dia.
counted in London shall fall due, the acceptors must
provide funds from Paris to meet them, and the demand
for the purpose will then have to be met by that estab-
lishment.

THE MONEY MARKET.—It appears that the e
total of 780,0001., brought from Australia by the Franceslllrs
i
Henty and the Northumberland, has, with the exception
of 52,500/. in sovereigns, been purchased on accoun of
the Bank of France. In the face of these operations,
and without any knowledge as to the extent to which
they are to be continue;], it is, of course, wholly impos-
sible to make even a conjecture as to the immediate
prospects of the money market. All that can be relied
upon is, that the purchases, which are now paid for by
the proceeds of discounted bills, must, when these bills
mature, be met in specie, and that the disturbance
occasioned, however serious it may be for thehe moment,
will) therefore, prove but temporary. object
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contemplated remains apparently inexplicable, unless
it may ba assumed that a desire exists to create
an artificial abundance of money for the moment,
in order to stimulate the sending out of sufficient
orders for foreign grain to supply at once the
mated deficiency in the harvest. Whatever may be the
explanation anxiety will be felt to observe the result
when the opposite course has to be adopted. Since
March last, while the bullion in the bank of France has
fallen 6,000,0001., its note circulation has been increased
more than 1,000,000/. This has already been remarked
upon as an undesirable feature, and, when it is followed
by such measures as those now in progress, it assumes 'a
still less satisfactory aspect. The management of the
institution, however, has always, upon the whole, been
distinguished by great prudence ; and the directors being
actively interested in the commercial welfare of the
country, it may be inferred that they, havo carefully cal-
,
culated their ulterior course.