The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-14 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE FRENCH LOSSES.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

The lifoniteur publishes the following :
" General Pelissier, by a despatch dated Sebas-
topol, Sept. 11, informs the Minister of War that
4,500 wounded, of whom 240 are officers, have
entered the ambulances.

"As to the number of dead en the field of
battle it has not been possible as yet to number

them with certainty ; but in the opinion of the
Commandant it does not surpass the usual corre-
sponding figure—that is, one-third of the number
of wounded."

The number of French Generals, now said to
be killed during the assault on Sebastopol, amounts
to.five, besides 10 superior officers. It was also
affirmed in Paris yesterday that Generals Mao-
Mahon and Trochu have died of their wounds,
and that General Bosquet was killed. The names
of Generals Du Lac and St. Paul are also men-
tioned amongst the casualties. No less than
1,200 guns, of large calibre, have been found by
the Allies in Sebastopol.

ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 9.

Aide-de-camp General Bibikoff has been dis-
missed from the post of Minister of the Interior.
Sergius Stephanowitch Lanskoy, acting privy coun-
cillor and a member of the department of civil
affairs, is appointed in his stead.

BERLIN, SEPT. 13.

Telegraphic accounts from St. Petersburg in-
form us that the Czar intends leaving on the 13th
inst. for Warsaw.

He will be attended by Count Nesselrode, and
it is thought here will arrange an interview with
the King of Prussia.

COPENHAGEN, SEPT. 11.

The Landsthing has adopted by a great majo-
rity, after a first reading, the proposition relative
to the carrying out the constitution of Aug. 29.

MADRID, SEPT. 12.
It is said that M. Salamanca has sold to Messrs.
Rothschild the Almanza railway.
The Court is to return to Madrid on the 20th.
The health of the Duke de la Victoria (Espa,rtero)
is re-established.

FRANCE. '
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING, 6 O'CLOCK.

It is thought that the Russians will have made
an attempt to redeem their defeat by again attack-
ing us, and it is rumoured to-day that the Govern-
ment was in expectation of the news of a great
battle. During the assault the Russian artillery-
men were killed at their guns, but is affirmed that
with that exception a panic took complete posses-
sion of the army at the appearance of the allies in
the Malakhoff Tower. Their hasty retreat was
occasioned by their fear that we should fire on the
bridge and take them prisoners.
The Itioniteur has the following on the fall of
Sebastopol :
" The interversion which took place in the order
in which the last despatches from tLe East arrived,
the obligatory brevity of those despatches, and the
prodigious rapidity with which the events they an-
nounced succeeded each other, caused a sentiment
of uncertainty and surprise which, perhaps, did not
allow the decisive importance of the victory gained
by the allied armies to be at once appreciated. The
full extent of this triumph, laboriously prepared
during a whole year, and gloriously achieved by an
heroic and supreme &fort; has now been generally
understood. After so long an expectation, the news
of the denouement of the conflict was so sudden and
so exciting that it did not leave public opinion
the necessary calm to estimate clearly the acts ac-
complished, and to measure their bearing and im-
portance. These acts are immense, and may be
summed up in two words—the fall of Sebastopol,
and the destruction of the Russian fleet. On the
Bth September, at midday, the signal for the as-
sault was given ; a few instants after the allies
were masters of the Malakhoff, and by the even-
ing the besieged, despairing of being able to pro-
long resistance iff the other defences of the place,
abandoned them all at the same time, and hastily
evacuated Sebastopol, in order to place an arm of
the sea between our troops and them. On the 9th,
at three o'clock in the morning, the whole town
presented a vast conflagration, and such of the
Russian vessels as had been spared by our shells
disappeared beneath the waters of the roadstead,
sunk by the enemy themselves.
[Then follows the despatch which therMinister of
War received from Gen. Pelissier, which we pub-
lished yesterday.]
The Te Deuin has been celebrated with great
effect.

The Archbishop, addressing the Emperor, said :
" Sire,—The national joy is increased by the thought
that Heaven after all these triumphs prepares for you in
addition domestic joys, which will be so much more
delightful to yoar heart as they will be also for the pub-
lic good."

The following is the decree of the Emperor ap-
pointing Gen. Pelissier a Marshal of France :
"Napoleon, by the grace of God and the will of the
French people.
"Taking into consideration the eminent services ren-
dered by General Pelissier, especially in the Crimea
while commanding our army in the East, we decree as
follows :

" Aimable Jean Jacques Pelissier, general of divi-
sion, is raised to the rank of a Marshal of France.

"Dated St. Cloud, Sept. 12, 1855.

_
" NAPOLEON."
The Minister of the Interior has addressed the
'ollowing circular to the Prefects :

" Paris, 12th Sept.
" Monsieur le Prefdt—The indomitable courage of
our soldiers and that of our Allies have just achieved a
brilliant triumph. After three battles, which were in
fact three victories ; after the gigantic efforts of a siege
unexampled in military annals, Sebastopol, its port, its
arsenals, and its materiel are in our hands. The power-
ful fleet which recently dominated the Black Sea, and
which caused the disaster of Sinope, exists no more !
For this immense success the Emperor has determined
to offer up a solemn thanksgiving to God, who dis-
poses of the fate of armies. On Sunday, the 16th,
acoordingly, a Te Deurn will be chanted in all the de-
partments of the Empire. You will, therefore, concert
with the ecclesiastical authorities, and with the civil
and military authorities, in order to give to the cere-
mony an eclat which shall equal the grandeur of our
victory. You will also authorise such public rejoicings
as the patriotism of the populations may improvise.
The country associating itself, as always, to the senti-
ments of the Emperor, will celebrate with enthusiasm
the heroism of our soldiers, and the new glory which
they have added to the old glory of France.—Receive,
&c., "BILLAULT."

The Minister of Public Instruction has addressed
the following to the Bishops :
"Paris, 12th Sept.
" Monseigneur,—The flag of France floats over the
ruins of Sebastopol. The difficulties which hitherto
checked our soldiers have only served to show to
the world that their constancy is equal to their cou-
rage, and that they know how to merit victory by
their virtues. Valiantly seconded by the forces of
our Allies, they have strengthened the equilibrium of
Europe by assuring the liberty of the East. The Em-
peror, raising his thoughts towards the Sovere;gn Ar-
biter of armies and empires, desires that you shall sum-
mon the faithful to the foot of the altar to offer public
thanksgiving to God. The Prefect will concert with
your lordship on the measures to ba taken for giving all
desirable solemnity to the Te Delon, which you will have
the kindness to cause to be celebrated on the 16th of the
present month.—Accept, &e., " FORTOUL."

The prcvincial papers contain further accounts of
the enthusiastic manner in which the news of the
fall of Sebastopol was received in different towns.
At Lyons, during the performance at the Grand
Theatre, a copy of the despatch was brought to M.
Jomain, commissary of police, who immediately
put on his scarf, and advancing to the front of the
principal row of boxes, made a gesture for silence,
and then read the despatch. The spectators, about
2,000 in number rose, en masse, and shouted with
indescribable enthusiasm, " Vive l'Empereur !"
The greater part of them quitted the theatre. The
news spread with electric rapidity through the
city, and all the cafés and clubs were crowded,
and group 3 collected in the streets. " Byery face,"

says a local newspaper, " beamed with joy."
Travellers who came up by the railways report
that all the towns and villages on the different
lines were illuminated. At Rennes, Bordeaux, Le-
moges, Strasburg, Valenciennes, Angers, Evreaux,
Elbeuf, Lille Laon, and Nantes, the manifesta-
tions of public joy are represented to have been
most striking.
" We learn from a good source," says the Cour-
rier de Marseille, " that in consequence of the
success at Sebastopol, and the evacuation of the
Russian fortifications, Marshal Valliant, Minister
of War, has suspended-the sending off of siege ma-
teriel and projectiles, which were being forwarded
from this port for the Crimea."
A body of about 100 Russian prisoners arrived
yesterday at Lyons from the depot of the Isle of
Aix, ou their way to Marseilles. They are there
to be embarked for the Crimea, in order to be ex•
changed against a like number of French soldiers
taken by the Russians.

BOURSE, SEPT. 13.—CLOSING PRICES.
Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
4} per Cents 9l 25 91f. 75e.
3 per Cents 67 60 67 80
Credit Alobilier l5BO Roman
Credit Foncier — Austrian
Belgian FiNes ...... .. 95 Spanish Threes
Piedmontese B6 Home Debt
RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.

fr. c. fr. c
Orleans
Western 825 Strasburg
Cotte
Mediterranean l3lO Cherburg
Northern
Lyons.. ....... ..... ... 1200 Austrian Com. .

TURKEY.
The Journal de Constantinople, of the 3d, says :
—" We have received letters from Kars of the 16th,
which announce that the state of affairs there re-
mains the same. The Russians have not made any
demonstration against the place, which they kept
closely blockaded. In the affair of the Bth they
lost a general, a colonel, 5 captains, and 200 men."
A letter from Constantinople, brought by the
last mail, states that the Anglo-Austro-French
company, formed for the cutting of a canal from
Kustendje to Rassova (from the Black Sea to the
Danube), has, through its agent, Mr. Campbell,
presented a project to the Porte for the concession
of the work. The Porte, previously to converting
it into a firman, has introduced certain modifica-
tions, chiefly relating to the perpetuity of the con-
cession, it being one of the fundamental principles
of Ottoman policy never to accord a particle of
Mussulman soil voluntarily otherwise than for a
limited time. The work is to begin next spring,
and may be considered as regulating de facto the
second point of guarantee, viz., the free navigation
of the Danube. The Austrian Embassy ab Con-
stantinople has given its most cordial support to
this matter.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.
MARSEILLES, Sept. 11.—An order was received
here this afternoon by the military authorities not
only to suspend the embarkation of bombshells,
which were being shipped in great quantities, but
likewise to land those already sipped on board the
transports in the harbour. This order is the na-
tural consequence of the glorious capture of the
southern portion of Sebastopol by the allied armies,
announced here yesterday morning by private de-
spatches, and confirmed by a despatch subsequently
received by the Prefect, and read to the public at
the theatre last evening. The despatch was re-
ceived by a crowded house with great cheering and
enthusiastic cries of " Vivo l'Empereur," and
" Vive la France." The splendid victory is being
officially announced this evening, by the firing of
the guns of the forts. Preparations are likewise
being made to illuminate the public buildings.