The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-16 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

INTELLIGENCE OF THE CROSSING OF
THE DANUBE BY THE RUSSIANS.

Despatches from Vienna, transmitted on the
13th, state, that according to news from the Do-
brudscha, dated in the beginning of the month, the
best troops of the Ottoman Danubian army were
at that time marching for Varna, and that the in-
tended concentration of the remainder in the Do-
brudscha had not been nearly completed. In
Vienna no doubt was entertained that the chief
object of this new irruption into the Ottoman
territory was to detain the troops which were on
their way to the Crimea.

No movement of Austrian troops has been yet
provoked by the advance of a Russian corps into
the Dobrudscha. It is not correct to say, as a
French Ministerial journal has said, that the treaty
between Turkey and Austria obliges the latter to
guard the Dobrudscha. The engagement includes
only the Turkish territory on the left bank of the
Danube. The treaty of Dec. 2 with the Western
Powers leaves the responsibility of territorial
guardianship where it was before, unexteaded. It
is only to the spirit of the alliance that an appeal
for Austrian action can be addressed.

The Vienna papers of the 11th report from Galatz
that at the end of last December there were only
3,000 Ottoman Redifs at Babadagh. The number
of the Turkish army on the Danube and in the
Dobrudscha was estimated at 40,000, besides ca-
valry. Ismael Pacha was at that time expected to
remove his head-quarters to Matschin on the 12th
inst. One of Omer Pacha's aides-de-camp arrived
at Ibraila on the 26th ult., to urge,on the despatch
of troops at Varna, where the embarkation was to
be completed by the 15th inst.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY, 6 P.M.
This being the last day for receiving subscrip-
tions to the national loan (it closed at 5 o'clock),
the crowds at the mairies, even in the more distant
quarters of the city, are proportionably great. In
one quarter in particular, the Place St. Sulpice,the
line of persons established there the whole of this
very cold morning, and who had very probably
passed the greater part of the night in the same
spot, in order to secure an entry to the offices
at the hour of their opening, was most numerous.
It resembled the queues which are formed at the
entrance of the more crowded theatres on the
evening of some remarkable piece, or of the ap-
pearance of some popular actor—not, however,
the queue of one theatre, but of several joined to-
gether. From various provinces we to-day learn
that the peasants flock into some of the towns,
with drums beating, to subscribe ; many of them
seem to be under the impression .that their
subscriptions are intended for the personal benefit
of the Emperor himself, and they thus hasten to
prove their devotion to his rule by confiding to him
their savings. The ancient Monarchical parties,
Legitimist and Orleanist, who had, both in the
origin of the first loan of 250,000,000 and of the
present, predicted its failure, and denied its pro-
gress, until facts showed the contrary te be the
case, now profess themselves unable to explain such
a phenomenon, except by the existence of a cupidity
or inordinate desire of gain, by which they allege
the nation was uncontaminated in the purer days
of the last reign. The few Republicans wham
France still boasts do not deny the main fact, but
they accept it as a proof of the increasing demo-
cratic spirit of the people, and of the unpopularity
of the Government. The supporters of the pre-
sent regime, on the contrary, point to it trium-
phantly in evidence of the devotion of the
na-
tion to the Bonaparte dynasty, or to the person of
the Emperor—as, in truths the most complete vote
of confidence that has ever been given to any Go-
vernment as an approval of all its acts ; and while
comparing it to a second ve.te for the establishment
of the Imperial Government, they challenge their
opponents, ,Loyalists an d Republicans alike,
to produce any thing like so substantial a mani-
festation under the Bourbons, or under the
Republic. I have _little doubt that the Emperor
himself is much of the o,me opinion. It is certain
that with the more patriotic motives which influ-
ence the subscribers is mixe d up the natural desire
to profit by the advantages which aro offered by
the loam. Advantages were a lso offered under the
Republic of 1848 to those who Leight be disposed to
relieve it from the financial difficu. lties which pressed
upon it ; but, though the moment was most criti-
cal, and though a finance minister of the day was
urged to fill in this way the exhaust ed coffers of the
State, and thus test the Repubh canisra of the
nation, he did, not dare to make the. appeal which

is now made ; and ho admitted that if he did he
could scarcely get a score of people to listen to it.
Nothing can be said as to what the disinterested
and affectionate attachment of the nation would
have done for the Bourbons, as I believe no such
experiment had ever been made of them. But
whatever be the proper explanation of the readi-
ness and abundance with which we are informed
the money comes in, the result is not the less
satisfactory. It is admitted on all hands that the
amount already exceeded that required, and bets
are freely offered that it will not be less than a
milliard. Some go as far as to say that it will reach
1,300,000,000, and even 1,500,000,000, but there
is little doubt that it will be far beyond the original
demand.

Letters from Lyons of the 12th inst. state that
the 47th, 52d, and 63d Regiments of the Line, be-
longing to the division of General d'Herbillon,
were installed at the camp of Sathonay. The
huts will be all constructed at the end of January.
The first detachment of the Imperial Guard ar-
rived at Lyons on the 11th. An immense crowd
had collected at the station to see those fine troops,
who continued to be the object of sympathetic
curiosity on their march from the suburb of Vaise
to the interior of the city. The 93d Regiment of
tke Line had embarked on the Rhone for Toulon,
and was to be replaced at Lyons by the 37th, com-
ing from l'Onent. The Ist, 35th, and 84th Regi-
ments of the Line, which form part of the Third
Division, had arrived at Lyons.

BOURSE, JAN. 15.—CLOSING PRICES.
Cash. fr. c. End of Mouth.
4i per Cents — 931. 40c.
3 per Cents — 67 40
Credit Mobilier 740 Roman
Credit Foncier — Austrian I —
Belgian Fives. ..... ..1 Spanish Threes_
Piedmontese — Home Debt —
RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.
fr. c. fr. e.
Orleans 1,170 Lyons , . 1027 50
Western 660 Rouen 1020
Cette 5BO Strasburg
Mediterranean B9O Havre 540
Northern