The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-18 00:00:00

BOURSE, JAN. 17.—CLOSING PRICES.
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c f Month.
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95 20
68 70
Creditl/obilier7s2 50 Roman
Credit Foncier ......
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Belgian Five 5...,,.,, Spanishan
Threes
Piedmontese — Home Debt

GERMANY.
The Bavarian Minister, Herr von der Pfordten,
when moving, in the Bavarian Chamber, on the
12th, a bill for granting a credit to the Minister of
War, said that the hopes of a restoration of peace
had been gaining ground for some days, but that it
was just as probable that war would continue and
even 'assume vaster proportions ; it was, therefore,
necessary to be prepared for every eventuality.i

AUSTRIA.
Our latest advises from Vienna state :—Though
the news of the re-entrance of the Russians into
the Dobrudscha can hardly be called official its
correctness cannot be doubted.' It is uncertain
whether 10,000 or 15,000 Russians have crossed
the river, and no one seems to know how many
Turks have been put to the sword. According tc•
one account Tul tcha has been taken by the Rus-
sians • according to another, not only Tultcha but
Matsclin has fallen into their hands. The Rus-
sian Government is extremely desirous that hosti-
lities should be suspended while the negotiations
for peace are going on, in order if possible to save
Sebastopol from its impending. fate, and it flatters
itself that the present unexpected inroad into the
so imperfectly defended Dobrudscha will induce the
Allies to consent to an armistice. The Russians
are astute, but they have probably deceived them-
selves in this matter. Placed as the Austrians now
are in Wallachia, the Dobrudscha is a kind of
military mousetrap, and the Russians dare not
venture beyond its entrance. Since the treaty of
December was signed, the Cossacks have repeatedly
made forays on the right bank of tie Pruth, that
is in Moldavia, and Couht Coronini, the Austrian
Commander in that province, who possesses his
Majesty's confidence, and is a thorough soldier,
reported the circumstance to Vienna, instead of
taking the law into his own hands, as would have
been the case if the treaty had been fulfilled to the
letter.

DENMARK.
Oresunds_post contains a letter from Stockholm in
which it is stated that active measures will be taken
in both kingdoms, very early in the spring, to pre-
pare for every contingency, fur which. purpoSe 50,000
Swedes and 15,000 Norwegians will be mobilised.
The training of the recruits is to take place a month
earlier than usual.

PIEDMONT.
TURIN, Jan. 13.—The sittings of the Chamber
of Deputies have been suspended, and the debate
on the Monastic Institutions Bill has been ad-
journed, by the death of the Queen Dowager, the
news of whose decease a former letter of mine will
have prepared your readers to receive. The
deceased was the sister of the reigninc, Duke of
Tuscany, and espoused the late King o?Sardinia,
then Prince of Carignano, in the year 1817. She
was greatly beloved by all ranks of her subjects for
her affability and unbounded charity, and the
public mourning may b® said to be real and
universal.

At the meeting of the Chambers yesterday, M.
Buoncompagni announced the loss the King and
nation had sustained, and proposed an adjourn-
ment for three days. This of course met with no
opposition, and the sittings immediately concluded.
The adhesion of Sardinia to the Western alliance
has caused quite a ministerial crisis.
The convention by which this kingdom notifies
her concurrence in the treaty of the Western
Powers is said to embrace two separate acts. One
is the formal accession of Sardinia to the Wes-
tern alliance. The other is a military conven-
tion by which Piedmont engages to put 14,0001
troops at the service of the allies. These troops
are to serve under the orders of Lord Raglan, and
their conveyance thither is to be at the cost of
France and England. The Sardinian Government
is to pay and provision them. But the two powers
are to guarantee a loan of 50 millions of francs to
Sardinia at an interest of 4 per cent.

conveyance of troops. She had received orders to
take on board three months' provisions. The Titan,
steamer, will leave to-morrow for the Levant, with
445 men and 15 horses belonging to the 43d regi-'
ment.
A letter from before Sebastopol, in the Presse,
says--"A Russian was taken prisoner while walk-
ing about in our works with the audacity of a better
fate. He was dressed in the uniform of a captain
of the African Chasseurs, killed at Balaklava. He
thus reached the English works, where he acquired
all the information he wished. Emboldened by
this success, he returned on the following day, and
was then more unreserved in asking questions. An
English colonel, who spoke to him, being aston-
ished at the ignorance he displayed on certain
points, became suspicious, and arrested him, telling
him that if he turned out to be really a French-
man, an apology would be made to him for his de-.
tention. Au investigation was accordingly insti-
tuted, and he turned out to be a Russian."

RAILWAYS—ron CASH.
fr. c.
fr. c.
Orleans 1,190 Lyons , 1052 50
Western 660 Rouen 1035
MediterraneanCee 597 50 Strasburg
915 Havre 555 Northern.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
The Hamburg correspondent of the Independanee
Beige says that for the last few days very heavy sums in Austlian paper have been sent by Walla-
chian merchants to their correspondents at that
place in payment of goods received. It is asserted
that in Wallachia the people in general, and par-
ticularly those connected with trade, show them-
selves very backward in accepting Austrian paper
money, the value of which is so very low. Their
refusal to accept it causes very disagreeable scenes
between the military authorities and the inhabi-
tants of the country. AU this paper money will
return hence to its source in Austria, which will
not exactly contribute to raise its value.

RUSSIA. -
La Patrie gives the following details of the mea-
sures taken by the Russian Government to keep
open the communication Le tween St. Petersburg,
Cronstadt, and the principal pcints of tie neigh-
bouring coast :
"The Russian Government has this year had
constructed in the Gulf of Finland between St.
Petersburg and Cronstadt a wide causeways bor-
dered on each side at every` 20 paces with fine
young firs cut in the neighbouring forests, and
fixed in the ice and snow so as to form an avenue.
Every 1,100 yards are also fixed posts, roughly
squared and painted in the national colours, with
little flags on their tops. About every mile and
a quarter there are huts made of wood planking
where good fires are kept up for the use of travel-
lers. To light up the road at night above these
huts are powerful reflectors which project the light
a considerable distance, and a bell which in foggy
weather is rung without ceasing, to indicate the route
to such as have strayed. Half-way along the road
there is also an enormous barrack of wooeplanking,
which serves as an inn, and where there is tea,
coffee, brandy, bread, meat, beer, and fires—in
fact, everything necessary for warming and refresh-
ing the body. Immense stables, well furnished with
forage and corn, are attached to this estab-
lishment, where there are horses for hire to
supply the place of such as the frost may have
killed. A similar road has been established be-
tween
Peterhoff, Oriebaum, and Cronstadt. The
Government has thought it necessary to open
these two roads at once, in order to facilitate the
the means of transport between the capital and the
gate that opens on the Neva."