The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-05 00:00:00

is propitious.

BUCHAREST, FEB. 2

Ismail Pacha arrived at Ibraila on the 31st
January. He had issued a proclamation an-
nouncing that a great contest would speedily take
place on the Lower Danube.

PARIS, MONDAY, FEB. 5, 8.30 A.M.

General de Wedell was received on Sunday at
the Tuileries, when ha presented letters from the
King of Prussia to the Emperor.

VIENNA, FIB. 4.
Count Esterhazy has arrived here from his post

at Berlin.

BERLIN, FEB. 2,

The Prussian Correspondence contradicts a
statement in the Cologne Gracile, of Jan. 31, to
the effect that Duke George of Mecklenburg had
made fresh overtures to the King of Prussia in

the name of the Emperor of Rus!4i.t, and asserts

that no communication of the kiud, whether
verbal or written, had been made.
The telegraphic announcement from Vienna

that tho Czar was seeking a six weeks' armstico,
appears to rest on the authority of the first part
of the following letter, published in the Military
Gazette of Vienna

ODESSA, JAN. 17,

" Count Sainoitoff, Ivho had been sent as a
courier extraordinary to Prince Menschikeff, over-
took the Gxand Dukes on -the road from Perekop

to Simpheropol, and told them that he was con-
veying to the Prince the necessary powers for
concluding an armistice for six weeks."

Against this is to be set the following statement

of the same journal :

"A letter from the Emperor to Prince Men-
schikoff contains the following passage :--` From
the motives above stated, you will perceive that
I am very anxious to push on the campaign in
the Crimea as rapidly as possible, and bring it to
a satisfactory conclusion. If facts do not corre-
spond to my expectations, I think, God willing,
that I shall myself visit you and my dear army.' "

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.

The Monitevr publishes au Imperial letter to
M. Magne, hitherto Minister of Agriculture, Com-
merce, and Public Works, appointing him Minis-
ter of Finance, in the room of M. I3ineau, who
retires on account of ill health.
_ .

The Moniteur also publishes the following ac-
count of Prince Napoleon's reception I,y the Em-
peror :
On the day after his arrival at Paris his Imperial
Highness Prince Napoleon was received by the Empe-
ror. His Majesty, embracing the Prince, could not
control his emotion at witnessing the very great change
in the Prince's features. The Prince, who was ill in
Constantinople when the army departed for the Crimea,
forgot his sufferings in order to put himself at the
head of his division, and the world knows the glo-
rious part he took in the battles of the Alma and
of Inkerman. The state of his health, seriously af-
fected by fatigue, would not, however, have prevented
his remaining in the camp if the assault of Sebastopol
had not been necessarily postponed. Informed by the
General-ia-Chief that the period for making it had been
put off, and no longer having in view the only prospect
capable of sustaining him, the Prince was compelled to
leave for Constantinople, where he indulged the hope of
a recovery, which might permit him to return speedily
to the Crimea. In this hope he has been disappointed.
Doctor Levy, chief physician of the army, has written to
the Emperor that a longer stay in the East would in-
falliby be attended with results fatal to the Prince, and
his Majesty immediately ordered his Imperial Highness
to return to Paris.

The affectionate reception given by his Majesty, and
the expressions of sympathy bestowed on the Prince,
will assuage the regret he feels at having been obliged to
separate himself from an army where his conduct has
procured for him the plaice of every one that wit-
nessed it.
All the ministers, the presidents of the grand corps of
state, the great officers of . the crown, and the principal
functionaries have hastened to present themselves and
offer their homage to his Imperial Highness on the oc-
casion of his return.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs has received from
Lord Cowley the folloNiing communication :

"Monsieur le Ministre,—l have the honour to trans-
mit to your Excellency the annexed copy of an address,
in which the Legislative Council and the Legislative
Assembly of Canada offer conjointly to the Queen their
congratulations on the occasion of the victory gained by
the allied armies at the Alma, and express their inten-
tion of contributing to the subscription in aid of the
widows and orphans of the soldiers and seamen, both
English and French, who have fallen in the present
struggle. A sum of 20,0001. having been for this ob-
ject sent to London by the Government of Canada, to be
divided equally between the two nations, I am charged
to request your Excellency to inform me of the wishes
ofthe Government of the Emperor relative to the mode
of transmitting the 10,0001, (250,0001.), which belong to
France.—l am, &c.,
" Jan. 30. "COWLEY."
The above letter is followed in the Morsitewr by the
address above alluded to, signed by the Presidents
of the Legislative Council and the Legislative As-
sembly of Canada.

RUSSIA.

The Journal de St. retersbourg of the 26th of
January gives the following account of sorties from
Sebastopol :
"On the night of the 12th of January a sortie was
made by a detachment of volunteers, under the command
of Lieut.-Col. Makaroff. of the sth Battalion of Rifles,
and Lieuts. Astakhoff and Biruleff, of the navy. It caused
great disorder in the English camp. On this occasion we
made 14 English and four French prisoners. Another
sortie was made on the night between the 14th and 15th
of January against the French trenches; 350 ♦olunteers
of the Volhynia Infantry Regiment took part in it,
under the orders of Captain Syroboyarsky, of the same
regiment. They made five prisoners and slew a number
of the enemy with the bayonet.
" Captain Youselikoff, of the navy, Aide-de-Camp of
his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine
Nicolitiewitch, who was present at these two sorties,
was slightly wounded by a bayoneti
"According to statements of Arab deserters, the
position of the Turks in the enemy's camp is a hard one.
The English employ them to carry ammunition and pro-
vision to the camp— in other words, make beasts of bur-
den of them."