The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The Koniteur announces in its official portion,
the reception by the Emperor yesterday, at a pri-
vate audience, of .Meheined Bey, the Ambassador
and Plenipotentiary Extraordinary of the Porte,
who presented the reply of the Sultan to the cre-
dentials of M. Thorivenel, and a letter of congra-
tulation to the Emperor on the fall of Sebastopol.
The Bishop of Oxford was presented on Saturday
by Lord Cowley. Other presentations by the
Ministers of Sweden, Prussia, and Portugal are
notified.
The Debuts, Constitutionnel, and other journals
contain nothing of striking importance.
Yesterday the Emperor and Empress received
M. de Duo, Norwegian Minister of State, Baron de
Brockhausen, Prussian Minister at Brussels, Count
de Bernstorff, Prussian Minister in London, and
the Countess de Bernstorff, Count de Lavradio,
Portuguese Minister in London, and the Countes,,
de Lavradio, all which persons were presented to
their Majesties by the ministers of their respective
con n tries.

The first battalion of the gendarmerie of the Im-
perial guard, about 800 strong, arrived at Paris
yesterday afternoon from the Crimea. The band
of the regiment and a detachment of guards went
to meet them at the Lyons Railway station, and
escorted them to their barracks in the Rue Neuve
da Luxembourg►. The populace on their passage
greeted them with acclamations.
BOURSE, Nov. 19.—The beginning of the market
was very dull, but there was a slight improvement

towards two o'clock, on the report that Genera
Canrobert had succeeded in negotiating a treaty of
alliance between Sweden and the Allied Powers.
The following are the last quotations :

End of Month.
—f. -c.
65 10

Casii. fr. e.
41 per Cents 9O 25
3 per Cents 65
New Loan 66
Bank Shares 3160 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1175 Austrian .,
Belgian Fives ..... ... 92i Spanish Threes „
Pieamontese B5 Home Debt ‘,

RAILWA YS-7011 CASH.

c. 0.
Orleans llO5 Western. 751 25
Northern
Lyons ......... 1127 50 New Ditto xti 746 25
Mediterranean 1225 Grand Central 5BO —Lyons Geneva ...... 650 Teste
Cette .................. 680 Austrian Com. 707 50

THE BALTIC FLEET.
DANTZIC, Nov. 16.—The Locust, 5, Lieutenant
Bythesea commanding, left Nargen on Saturday
last, the 10th inst., and after delivering some de-
spatches from the omnaander-in-Chief to the -ves-
sels at present tftationed at Faro Sund, continued
her voyage to Dantzic, where she arrived at a late
hour last night.
'By her wo receive the long-expected intelligence
that Admiral Dundas sailed from Narge3a, in dee
Duke of Wellington, last Sunday, and pasfsed Faro,
on his way to Kiel, during the afternoon of the fol.
lowing day.
Admiral Baynes, who has taken the command
of all the vessels now remaining in the. Baltic, is at
Nargen, in his flag-ship Retribution ; Admiral
Penaud, in the Tourville, is likewise there, and in-
tends, it would seem, to remain some little time
longer in the Gulf of Finland.
The Locust left here again at about 4 o'clock this
afternoon for Kiel, to which place all despatches
from England for Admiral Dundas will, in future,
be forwarded, the weekly communication between.
the fleet and Dantzic having ceased tc-dety w:th
the arrival and departure of the Locust.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.
MARSEILLZS, November FT.—The steam frigate
Panama arrived yesterday. She sailed from
Constantinople on the Ist instant and Malta the
11th, having on board 1,150 of the gendarmerie
of the Imperial Guard, with the staff and. band
of the regiment. They remained several hours
on board, their arrival being unexpected, and no
quarters prepared for them. When landed they
were drawn up under arms on the quay of the
Joliette, whence they marched into town, their
Colonel on horseback at their head, and the
band playing before them. Nothing meld be
finer than their appearance. They are in ex-
cellent health, and were it not that their faces
aro bronzed with the Crimean sun, one might
think they had never quitted their comfortable
quarters in Paris. It was laughable to see
the Custom-house officers go through the form
of searching their knapsacks for smuggled goods
before they left the port. When they arrived in
town they received billets on private houses, all the
barracks being occupied. They leave to-night by
railway for Paris.
Serious inconvenience was caused here on Tues-
day last by a collision which took place on the rail-
way between Lyons and Marseilles, by which tho
electric wires were broken. The messages which
were transmitted that morning by electric tele-
graph from Marseilles on the arrival of the Gauge
from Constantinople were detained several hours.

The following are some details given by the Paris
journals of the great conflagration last night. The
Mor►iteur says :--
"A violent fire broke out yesterday evening in one
of the warehouses of the Manutention, on the Quai
de Billy. The whole of the building was con•
named ; all hope of saving it was abandoned from
the commencement of the fire. The ovens have
not teen injured, and the adjoining store houses
were preserved. At half-past nine the fire was got under,
and no fear any longer exited for the other ibuildings.
At that hour it was not known that any serious accident
had occurred to any of the persons who had assisted in
•heoking the progress of the fire. M. de La Condamine'
cammoadant of the firemen, directed the operations.
The Ministers of War, Interior, and Public Works,
Marshal Magnan, the General Commanding the Impe-
rial Guard, and the Prefect of Police were present."

SPORTING NOTES.