The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-26 00:00:00

FRIDAY reVENING, JANUARY 26, 1855;

LATEST NEWS.

VIENNA, THVBST)Ar EVENING.

It is reported here that there bas been a battle
before Sebastopol, in which the Russians were
Tictorious, but direct authentic advices from Ba-
laklava received yesterday say thkt nothing new
kad happened.

ST. PETERSBURG, 19nr.

A ukaso has just appeared, tardering the emis-
sion of four new series of TreAsury bills for the
su m of twelve millions of silver roubles.

A letter from the frontier of: Bessarabia, which
has just been received in Peri speaks of nume-
row reinforcements of Russian -troops moving on
towards the Crimea. The platy of the enemy is
said to be first to crush the Turkish army at
Eupatoria, and then attack the French and Eng-
lish armies, and, "if possible,' drive them into
the sea. The same letter states that the Russians
are very sanguine of success, awing to the debi-
litated condition of the English Army.

BERLI', THURSDAY.
A telegraphic despatch has been received here,
dated Si. Petersburg, the 25th of January.
It announces that the following despatch had
been received from Prince Monsohikeff, dated the
17th of January :--.

The singe operations do not advance.
Two successful night sorties were made on the
13th and Uth of January.

We took fourteen English and nine French
prisoners. The Allies lost a considerable number
in killed.

Arab deserters say that the Turks are treated
with very little consideration by the Allies, who
employ them to tarry projectiles, provisions, and
other loads from Balaklava to the camp.

MARSEILLES, THX7REIDAT.
The Telemaque, with advices front Constanti-
nople of the Isth, has arrived.

The Government despatches and the Indian
mail left by a special train at 11 a.m.

Letters from the Crimea of the 12th state that
the Flagstaff Battery had been mined by the
French, who only waited a favourable opportunity
to blow it up.

Sickness was on to e increase in the camps.
General PeEasier., iu command of the let corps
d'armee is the Crimea, and Generals Rivet and
Devillierd, have just taken their departure for
Sebastopol.

CHRISTIANA, JAN. 16.

Prince Oscar, the second son of the sing, is
appointed commander-in-chief of the Swedish aid
Norwegian navy ; and Prince Nicholas Augustus,
his younger brother, captain of the Norwegian
Rifle Corps.

TOULON, JAN. 25.
M. Forth-Ronen has arrived here in the
Chaptal.
The Roland, with Prince Napoleon on board,
had been obliged to put into the Piraeus, on the
14th inst., for some slight repcwirie.
Prince Napoleon was still weak, and intended
to rest at Malts.

The Inclependance Beige of Wednesday says it
bas reason to know that, although Prussia is de-
termined. to maintain its refusal to mobilise, at
the Diet, yet that if tho demand of Austria ob-
tains a majority, it (Prussia) will submit, and
will mobilise its Federal contingent of 80,000
men.

MADRID, JAN. 22.
31. Sevillano, Minister of Finance, has re-
signed. He is succeeded by M. Madoz.

The following telegraphic despatches were re-
ceived in Paris last night
TRIESTE, JAN. 25.

A packet has just arrived with accounts from
Constantinople to the 15th. The weather was
very cold. The Jupiter, Turenue, and Napoleon,
French ships of the line, wore about to return to
France. Vessel• under the Greek flag are ad-
mitted into the Turkish ports. The accounts from
the Crimea are to the 12th. Not withstanding the
snow, the works of the Allies are advanced to
within 45 yards of the place. Daily skirmishes take
place with the Russians. The 9th division of
the French army, aid the dragoons and hussars
that were at Adrianople will proceed to the
Crimea in the course of the winter. There is
still a great want of wooden barracks, which are
anxiously expected.

VIENNA, JAY. 25.

Independeitly of the Austrian circular note of
the 14th, there exists a confidential despatch
addressed of the same day by Count de
Buol to the diplomatic agents of Austria.
This despatch, it is said, reserves the even-
tual recourse by the Cabinet of Vienna
to the provisions of the Art. 42 of the final act
of May 15, 1820, on the Constitution of the
Germanic Confederation, which says :—" If the
preliminary question relative to the existence of
danger is decided negatively by the majority of
votes, such of the Federal States as are Rot of the
opizion of the majority have a right to concert
among themselves f•r common measures of de-
fence."
HAMBURG, JAY. 24.

A despatch from Stockholm states that the
Ministerial Gazette of that city positively contra-
dicts the report en the subject of the approaching
mobilisation of the Swedish array.

BERLIN, THURSDAY.

Baron von Usedom does not go to Paris.

General Weddell, Governor of Luxembourg,
arrived here yesterday, and will proceed on a
special mission from the King of Prussia to the
French Emperor.

bility already signed, and that it will speedily ap-
pear in the Moniteur.

"We have received by our private correspon-
dence," says the Siecle, "a piece of news of
the highest importance. It is that, indepen-
dently of the explicit demand presented by M.
You Prokesch to the Germanic Diet, the lan-
guage of that representative of Austria leaves,
it is said, no doubt as to the offensive alliance
of Austria with the Western Powers ; and, if we
are well informed, the diplomatic agents of the
Austrian Cabinet in the different courts of Europe
employ exactly the same language."
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TheMoniteicr promulgates the law lately adopted
by the Legislative Body and approved by the
Senate, for the levy of 140,000 men of the class of
1854.

An Imperial decree, dated the Gth, issued on
the report of the Minister of War, abolishes the
restrictions imposed in the concessions of mines
in Algeria previous to the law of the 16th June,
1851, and establishes uniformity between the
concessions in that colony and those of France.
The report represents that this reform is not only
great in itself, but will be advantageous to mining
enterprise, and will encourage colonisation.

The Moniteur publishes the nomination or pro-
motion, in the Legion of Honour, to 16 officers or
privates of the army of Africa. It also gives the
names of 15 others, of the same army, to whom the
military medal has been accorded.
It is stated in a letter from the camp at Sebas-
topol that General Canrobert, since the departure
of the preceding mail, had distributed 1 cross of
officer in the Legion of Honour, 7 members of the
Order, and 9 military medals.
The Emperor has appointed M. Raoul de Gram-
ment one of his equerries.
The Princess Joachim Murat has just been safely
delivered of a daughter.
The Emperor has ordered that, in compliance
with the prayer of the Prefect of the Gironde, a
bust in marble of Marshal St. Arnaud shall be
executed at the expense of the Ministry of State,
and be placed in the hall of the council-general of
that department.
General Viscount Cavaignac de Baragne, ex-
Peer of France, died the day before yesterday at
his residence in the Rue Jean Goujon.
General Jussuf has just been appointed to com-
mand the Algiers division in Algeria, vice General
Camou, nominated to the command of a division
in the army of the Crimea.
General de Brigade Bizot, commanding the engi-
neers in the army of the East, has just been pro-
moted to the rank of Commander ix the Legion of
Honour. He has been 48 years in the service, has
gone through 10 campaigns, and been ax officer in
the Legion since 1841.

Mr. William Hope has just died at his splendid
hotel in the Rue St. Dominique.
The French Government has accorded its exe-
quatur to M. Alcain as Consul-General at Paris
of the Republic of Guatemala, to M. Garrigues
as Consul of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg
Schwerin at Cette, and to M. Jouve as Vice-Con-
sul of England at Toulon.
The Conseil Imperial des Prises has declared
good aid valid the capture of the Russian vessel
tke Alexander 1., which was effected in the Archi-
pelago in September last by the Solon steam advice
boat.

BOURSE, JAN. 25.—CLOSING PRICES.
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