The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
From the moment the news of the check on the
18th at the Malakhoff Tower was known the loss
sustained by the allies has been magnified by
rumour in an extraordinary manner. Not a day
passed without a thousand or so being added to the
number, and this morning it was declared that at
least 10,000 between English and French had
perished or were wounded on that occasion, and
this number was considered to be rather under the
mark than over it. The English alone were put
down at 4,000 and upwards. The accounts re-
oeived to day, supposing them to be correct, consi-
derably diminish that amount, though the loss is
still to be deplored. They fix that of the English
at 1,200, including 150 killed, while the French are
said to have 1,000 killed and 1,600 wounded. This
is out of the usual proportion, and is supposed
to be erroneous ; but the aggregate number is
far under that which the partisans of Russia in
Brussels as in Paris wished to have believed. In
the same account it is mentioned that nothing can
be finer than the English army, which is estimated
at about 30,000 men. " They are," says a French
despatch, " magnificent troops, and capable of any-
thing." They are well fed, well clothed, and in
great spirit. There are 50 days' provisions always
on hand, and fresh supplies arriving every day.
General Pelissier meets with an enthusiastic recep-
tion from the English whenever he appears among
them. The cholera is said to be making ravages
in the Sardinian army.
A good deal of progress has been made in the
arrangements for the last 10 or 12 days, and it is
expected that in another fortnight everything will
be complete, or very nearly so.
The Emperor has just assigned, from his privy
purse, a sum of 6,000 f. to the Prefect of the Basses-
Pyrenees, to assist the persons who have suffered
by the late inundation.
The Moniteur Algerien states that, on the 17th,
a grand Te Deura was performed at the principal
church of that place to celebrate the 25th anniver-
sary of the capture of Algiers by the French. A
quarter of a century has now elapsed since that im-
portant event.
The administration of the Bank of France has
declared a dividend of 100 f. per share for the first
six months of 1855.

BOURSE, JUNE 25.—CLOSING PRICES.
Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
41 per Cents 92 90 —f.
3 per Cents 66 55 66 . 55
Credit Mobilier 955 Roman
Credit Fonder 550 Austrian
Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes 371
_ - Home Debt

Piodmontesa

RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.
fr. C. fr. c.
Orleans 1175 Lyons 1233 75
Western 755 Rouen
Cate 655 --Strasburg
Mediterranean 1176 Havre 6lO
Northern

RUSSIA.
The Military Governor of St. Petersburg had
issued the following notification, dated the 15th of
June, respecting the movements of-the Allied fleet
in the Gulf of Finland :
" The enemy's squadron, which got under way on the
14th, has cast anchor near Seskar Island. A screw
liner and a frigate of the enemy have again appeared
off Krasnaia-Gorka."
The Invalide Busse has the following. :
" The diary of Prince Gortschakoff, received on the
15th, in addition to the news already given in telegra-
phic despatches, contains some additional details resceet-
ing the operations before Sebastopol and on other points
of the Crimea. As regards the details of the sanguinary
affair of the 7th of June we shall publish them as soon
as they are received.
" From the 22d to the 26th of May (3d to 7th of
June) the besiegers succeeded in pushing forward their
approaches near the cemetery and towards the Matnelon
Vert, and endeavoured, by exploding nem mines, to give
a greater depth to their ontonneirs' opposite to Bastion
No. 4. They have continued to fortify Streletza Bay
with great activity.
" On our side, despite the terrible bombardment which
lasted for two days (25th and 26th of May-6th-and 7th of
June), all the damage done was repaired as well as it
could be, and the guns and carriages destroyed replaced
by others.
"On the 22d of May (3d of June), the Allies, pro-
bably with a view t 9 divert our attention, undertook an
offensive movement in the valley of Baidar ; at 6k a.m.
they made their appearance, coming from the village of
Vermoutki, numbering 6,000 to 8,000 infantry, with
cavalry and artillery, opposite our advanced posts,
and, splitting into two columns, tool: the direction
of Baidar and Bouyuk-Mouskomi. The Cossack
posts, which occupied the line from the vilage
of Alsoni, in the direction of Baidar, fell back on
the Tchernaya. At this moment the Yessaoul Ken-
nakoff of the 56th regiment of the Don Cossacks
charged the enemy's cavalry with two sotnias of Cos-
sacks, drove it back, and crossed the Tchernaya. In
this econt e three Cossacks fell. At nightfall the
allies left the valley of Baidar, and our advanced posts
resumed their former positions.
"According to a notification from Lieut.-General
Wrangel, Kertch, and Yenikale are occupied by a
detachment of the enemy's infantry, 15,000 strong, with
two regiments of cavalry, and six batteries of artillery,
under the command of Sir George Brown. The allies
have commenced forffying Yenikale, covering
works by a strong line of cavalry, supported reserveryof infantry and horse.
"The English and Turks who have occupied Yeni-
kale are perpetrating all sorts of atrocities there
nhabit-
; they
have pillaged the Church, and they ins
ants without distinction
te of
of aae or sex."
The Police Gazet, St. Petersburg, publishes
the following notification of the M
dated
Juno :
" On the Ist (13th) June there was no movement visi-
ble in the enemy's fleet in the Gulf
vesseof Finlawent nd.
to Insea t.he
evening a steamer and a transport l
"To-clay, at 9 a.m., the whole of the enemy's fleet,
which was anchored before Cronstadt, weighed anchor
and made sail."

THE MEDITERRANEAN.
MARSEILLES, JUNE 23.
Orders have been received. here to prepre to
embark. an additional corps d'armee of 50,000 men.
—ent has moreover chartered GO of the
nil the Rhone, which it is said
^c 4zoff, with a view
",e war

of men or money in order to bring the war to a
speedy conclusion, and to compel the enemy to sue
for peace. In the meantime the port of the Joliette
is again filling with steamers and sailing transports
chartered by Government to convey troops and
stores to the Crimea. The American clippers Mo-
narch of the Sea and Ocean Herald commenced
yesterday to take in shot and shell. The mail
steamer Pericles sailed this morning for the Black
Sea, where sho is to remain at the orders of the
Government. She took despatches, letters, and a
detachment of 80 men.

The Carmel, due this afternoon, arrival at 7
a.m. She brought the mails, and 100 sick and
wounded soldiers.

The Imperial yacht Reine -Hortense remains in
the old port, waiting the arrival of the King of
Portugal.

TURKEY.

A letter, dated Constantinople, Julel4, says—"l
yesterday saw a gentleman, just arrived from the
Crimea, who had witnessed the brilliant achieve-
ments of the 6th inst. He tells me, with a variety
of other matters, that Lord Ragan had made a
most unfortunate move in consenting to an armis-
tice of five hours, conformably with the proposal of
the Russian commander. The Russians during
this interval strengthened their position at the
Malakhoff Tower, by the addition of twenty heavy
guns, which will, it appears, if this information be
correct, delay for six weeks the operations of the
siege.
" Towards evening, however, having felt some
anxiety on this point, I visited the French Hospital
of Mejidie, and conversed with several of the
'wounded who had been just brought in from the
scene of action. According to their account, Gene-.
ral Pelissier is determined to strike in a few days
the final blow, and attack with his whole force. the
Malakhoff Tower.
" I mentioned in my last the report of Ali
Pacha's (the Grand Vizier) going to Paris before
returning to Constantinople. There are, however,
no grounds for this rumour, and this functionary
is expected to arrive here in a few days."

THE WHITE SE A_ SQUADRON.

HAMMERFEST, June s.—The British squadron
destined for operations in the White Sea, consisting
of the Meander, 44, Captain Baillie (commodore),
Phoenix, 9, screw, Commander Hayes, and Ariel,
9, screw, Commander Luce, passed this port to the
northward yesterday. The French frigate Cleo-
patra is now lying in this harbour, waiting for two
steamers to join her, when they will also proceed
to their destination. _ _

BERGEN, June 12.—A French man-of-war
steamer, bound for the White Sea, arrived were
yesterday, and after coaling proceeded to-day.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, June 22.—The different organs of the
foreign press have recently contained so many con-
tradictory reports respecting the reduction of the
Austrian army, that some reliable information on
the subject cannot but be acceptable. The
reduction will amount to 145,000 men, with
30,000 horses. The cadres of all the regiments
,are, however, to be maintained. 100,000 men
will be dismissed from the two armies now stand-
ing in Galicia and Transylvania, and the other
45,000 men from •the Ist and 2d armies—one of
which is in the German provinces of Austria, and
the other in Italy. An army of observation of
about 120,000 or 140,000 men will remain in Gali-
cia and Transylvania, but all the other troops will
retire into their usual cantonments in Hungary,
Bohemia, ch. Three regiments are to return im-
mediately to Italy.
The house of Rothschild is endeavouring to
obtain from the Austrian Government a cession of
the Southern Railroad (that to Trieste), but Baron
Bruck is likely to drive a harder bargain than his
predecessor did with the French company.
The Fremderb Blatt has advices of the 15th from
Varna. All the vessels which were lying at Burgas
and in the Bosphorus have been, sent with troops
to Trebizond. Admirals Lyons and Bruat are
preparing for a new expedition, which it is
supposed will be directed against Kimburn and
Oczlkoff, the fortresses which guard the entrance to
the Liman or Bay of the Dnieper. There is also
some talk of a reconnaissance in flat-bottomed boats
in the Bay of Kirkinit, in order if possible to find
out what is doing at Perekop.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, DINE 24.

Within the last few days various appointments
have taken place in the arrangements of the Russian
• corps diplomatique. Prince Gortschakoff is confirmed
in his post at Vienna ; Baron von Titoff in his at
Stuttgard ; Baron -von Brunnow, formerly repre-
sentativii of Russia at the Court of St. James's,
enters now on the same office at Darmstadt and
Frankfort ; M. de Kisseleff will represent his Court
at Rome and Florence ; M. Butenieff, who has
hitherto held the latter post, retires entirely from
the diplomatic carriers. Baron von Budberg,
who has, hitherto been accredited to Hanover as
well as to Prussia, now relinquishes the former
appointment, which he has held ever since the re-
call of General von Mangaroff from that Court, and
M. de Fonton, First Secretary of Legation in
Vienna, is appointed to represent Russia at the
Court of Hanover. This must be looked on as
another concession made to Austria by Russia ;
for, in addition to his many talents as a diplomats,
M. de Fonton was the skilful and experienced po-
pular agitator that had on so many occasions held
in his hands the leash of sedition and tumult in
the Principalities of Bosnia and Servia, and lat-
terly in Wallachia and Moldavia.