The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-15 00:00:00

THE FOREIGN LEGION.

HELIGOLAND, May B.—For the present the Gar-
man Brigade of the Foreign Legion will consist of
5,000 men, who will be commanded by-Colonel
von Stutterheim, a nobleman of Brunswick, and
an officer of proved courage, talents, and experience.
A later from Hamburg, dated May 9, in the
Patric, professing to speak on good authority, says
the island of Heligoland has been definitively
chosen by the English Government as a recruiting
depot for the Foreign Legion. Several Englieh
officers, among whom is a paymster, have arrived
there. 'Recruiting was expected to begin on May
15. Great advantages are offered to recruits—a
bounty of 61., a good pension to invalids, and the
same rights and privileges as the English soldier.
At the expiration of their term of service the men
who may desire it will be transported gratuitously
either to their own country or to America, and
will receive a gratuity of a year's pay.

CONTINUED ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS.

A letter from Naples, dated May 5, says :
" Viewed from a distance, the fiery mountain presents
somewhat the same appearance as on the occasion of
former eruptions—that is, volumes of smoke ever vary-
ing ,in form and, tint, issue from the mountain, and
darken the bright sky above. Occasionally huge red-hot
stones are thrown up, and at night a red glare tints the
huge volume of smoke, producing a grand effect. But
on the present occasion the lava streams from the ex-
hausted and hitherto long-tranquil Somma, which is the
detached portion, almost co-equal in height with the ex-
cular old cone, from whence all the modern eruptions
have issued:

4‘ The King and the Royal Family have visited the
eruption, and hundreds of persons ascend the mountain
night and day. There appear to be two or three streams
of lava slowly creeping on from apertures which vomit
fire and smoke continually—ever changing in aspect,
according to the violence of the erubterraneous action.
But it is the capricious forms which the smoke assumes
that most amuses the spectator, whilst lighted up by the
reflected red of the fire.
" The eruption will, in all probability, last some days,
until, as on former occasions, the accumulated volcanic
action of the mountain has exhausted itself."

ATTEMPTED REVOLUTION AT -SAINT

DOMINGO.

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English commodore had left Jamaica for St. DOllllllO
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the niail steamer -from the United States we have re-
ceived the St. Thomas's Times, which supplies a state-
ment of the facts--
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of a like number ; their purpose was to attack the 'senti-
nels at the different gates, surprise the guards, whom they
hoped to subdue, and then raise the cry of 'Viva Buena
Ventura Baezr which they believed, on the city becomil g
awakened, would have been echoed everywhere. It would
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made, and the parties are now inWhich many capture
their acts. It is further Said thatsevelcla
escaped took refuge at the British Consulate, where they
still remain. President Santana issued a proclamation,
announcing to the Dominican
people what had
trans-
pired, and quiet and order are said to again reign in the
country."