The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-05 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

BOMBARDMENT OF RIGA.

The telegraphic despatch which we published
yesterday, announcing the bombardment of Riga,
is confirmed by the following
BERLIN, FRIDAY, Oar. 5.

On the 28th of September eight vessels of the
Baltic fleet bombarded the batteries at the mouth
of the Duna (Riga), with little effect, but they
afterwards severely injured the battery at Bullen.

TIENNA, THURSDAY EVENING.
The Government has this day proposed to th
Bank the following financial measures :

The Government hypothecates to the National
Bank, as security for the debt due to the latter,
domains of the State to the value of 175,000,000,
with the revenues of them, and a power of sale.
At the same time the National Bank is authorised

to create a bank of hypothecation, with a capital
of 20,000,000, and in exchange to issue new

paper.

BERLIN, THURSDAY EVENING.

Rumours have been very rife to-day, in well-
informed circles, that the Russian Government

has invited Prussia to take steps towards a re-
newal of negotiations with, the Western Powers.
Public feeling in Russia has begun to show
itself since the fall of Sebastopol.
The large proprietors have lost a half or even
two-thirds of their revenue from the want of an
outlet for produce, and frum the abstraction of
labour.

The Government functionaries and the youth
just from the military schools are alone in favour
of a continuation of the war.

Among the Russian Generals who fell on the
Bth were Generals Youscroff and Voicikoff, the
latter an aide-de-camp of the Emperor, and a par-

ticular favourite.

Baron Brunnow, lately Russian Minister in
London, has just left St. Petersburg for Frank-
fort, to resume his post as Ruspian representative
to the Diet.

The Government here has notified to the Ber-
lin journals that no attacks on the Western
Powers will be permitted.

VIENNA, THURSDAY.
A despatch from Odessa states that the Czar is
expected then) on the 7th of October.
The Austrian Correspindenz says that the Allies
Have authorised the trading iu corn by neutral
Vessels in the Sea of Azoff.

We learn from St. Petersburg that the Em-
press Mother has returned from Moscow.

The following is the second despatch of Prince
Gortschakoff in full :
" SEPTEMBER 26, MIDNIGHT.

"Yesterday the enemy issued from Eupatoria in
considerable force, estimated by General Sella-
belski at 33,000 men, and occupied on one side
the village of Saki, and on the other those of
Schabak, Orta-Mamei, and Sup-Samai. They
retired in the afternoon.

" Our advanced posts, which had fallen back,
have resumed their positions.
" Nothing new on the left flank. The enemy
increases the fire of his mortars against Severnaya
(the North Fort).
" A successful skirmish has taken place near
Kertch, between our Cossacks and the enemy's
foragers. Five-and-twenty English and French
hussars were made prisoners."

No further confirmation has been received here
of the retreat of the Russians.

THE CRIMEA.

" The last accounts from the Crimea," says a
letter from Vienna of -the 3Gth ult., in the Post
Ampt Gazette, " come down to the 28th. Informa-
tion had reached the French camp that the Russian
army had been reduced to 120,000 men by the
losses in the late combats ; that Gen. Gortschakoff
was endeavouring to concentrate his forces as much
as possible, in order to be, able to maintain himself
against an attack from the allied army until
the reinforcement of 20,000 men, which he had
ordered up from Perekop., should have arrived.
They were expected about the end of the month,
and it was thought that t bte general would then
retire into the interior of the Crimea. General
Gortschakoff begins by degrees to direct his am-
bulances towards the north. A letter from Varna,
of the 22d, states that fiv-'e blockading steamers
have left for the Gulf of Ode.ssa."

FRANCE..

PARIS, THUBb CRAY EVENING.

No official despatches have confirmed the re-
ported retreat of the Russians, ant i the informa-
tion from Sebastopol, which may be depended
upon, tells us that the enemy is th rowing up new
works on the north side—so extensive, indeed,
that the French have found it necessary to plant
batteries with a view of impeding their con-
struction.

We reckon on the retirement of the enemy from
the north of Sebastopol under the supposition that
Prince Gortschak-af has no means of supplying his
forces with food il3yond a limited period, and that
the holding of his present position is not a strate-
gical necessity. But may we not be arriving at
false conclusions o n both questions ?
The Russians, be it rememberAd, possess two
roads of communication—one by way of Perekop,
and the other leas ling to the Putrid Sea by the
bridge of Tchouga r. The main army occupies the
plateau of Belbeck:. The reserves are at Simphe-
ropol and Bakshi -Serai. The forces immediately
on the north sidle of Sebastopol occupy Forts
Catherine and 4Constantine, with the citadel,
Sievernaya, and the Telegraph. A force is hover-
ing about ertch, and 40,000 men guard Perekop.
It is notorious that an immense amount of the
precious metals are constantly leaving England for
Russia. Is there no means of preventing this
unholy trading ? Can we do nothing to impede
the traffic of war materiel still carried on through
IS:ussia ? It is hard on our fighting countrymen to
know that the means of their destruction comes
'from the mother country.

The following telegraphic despatches have been
received here to-day:—

"MADRID, the sitting of to-day .a bill
was read to the Cortes, fixing the contingent of the
Spanish army, for 1856, at 70,000 men. The Cor-
tes afterwards approved of a bill containing liberal
enactments relative to the admission of political
refugees on the Spanish territory."
" TRIESTE, 3, Evening.--A report was in circu-
lation at Constantinople that Marshal Pelissipr
would not for the moment push his operations to
the interior of the Crimea, and that he would limit
his efforts to attacking the forts on the north of
Sebastopol. The troops at Eupatoria would in the
',luau time continue to harass the enemy by their
demonstrations. French troops were expected at
Varna. The intelligence from Trebizond, which
reaches to the 20th September, says it was thought
that the cold would prevent the Russians from cop-
tinning their encampment round the place longer
than the month of September."
On the proposition of Prince Napoleon, Pie-
; sident of the Imperial Commission, the closingiof
the Exhibition has been definitively fixed for the
15th November next. The distribution of the
recompences, awarded to the exhibitors by the
jury, will take place on the same day. This deci-
sion, by prolonging the period of the exhibition
' for a fortnight, gives it the duration of six months,

fixed by the Imperial decree which established it,
the opening having taken place on the 15th May
last. The Emperor and Empress will be present
at the closing ceremony, and his Majesty will him-
self distribute the recompences.

By decrees in the Moniteur, Rear-Admiral
Penaud, in command of the French naval force in
the Baltic, and Admiral Rigault de Genouilly,
in command of the French naval brigade at the
siege of Sebastopol, have been raised to the rank of
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour ; four cap-
tains in the navy to that of Commander ; ten cap-
tains to that of Officer, and 25 lieutenants and other
officers of the navy and marines to that of Knight.
Another decree confers the military medal on 50
non-commissioned officers in the navy and marines.
The Moniteur also publishes, in nearly four
columns of its smaller type, the new code of civil
and criminal law, and political constitution of
Montenegro, signed by the too-celebrated Prince
Danilo Petrowich.

BOURSE, Oct. 4.—The market continues very
heavy, and stock having been freely offered prices
are again lower. The following are the last quota-
tions :

Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
4} per Cents 9O 50 90f. 50c.
3 per Cents 64 45 64 60
Credit Mobilier 1220 Roman
Credit Foncier — Austrian
Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes —
Piedmontese B4 50 Home Debt 32