The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-22 00:00:00

TRE SUN, LONDONy TUI4:I4SO4.Ar ETENING, MAY 22, 1855.

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and unbroken enough to drive on in sledges; even I
only a week back some adventurous spirits from
Esthland had come across on the ice.
An extract from a letter, professedly written on
board the Tartar, mentions that our Government
proposeS to raise recruits in Sweden, so as to avail
itself of the existing sympathies for us and antipathy
against Russia. A German officer, now residing in
Copenhagen, is said to have been engaged by our
Minister there, and furnished with the necessary
instructions for raising a Scandinavian Legion for
the English service.

FRANCE.
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The Emperor has received from General Can-
robert a letter dated. the Bth, relative to the sortie

of the 2d, in which he says :
"In the glorious combat of the 2d against a
strong sortie of the Russians, who advanced to
retake the work, captured on, the previous evening
by our soldiers, the light companies of your guard,
Sire, who were brought up from the reserve, caused
the admiration of the army by their courageous.
impetuosity. I have been very happy to be able to
mention them favourably in general orders."
The Emperor yesterday received in private
audience; M. Olozaga, Minister of Spain and Baron
de Grancy, Minister of Grand Ducal Hesse, who
presented autograph letters from their sovereigns,
congratulating his Majesty on his escape from as-
sassination on the 28th April. Letters from the
king of Greece, and from the Captain-Regents of
theßepublic of San Marino, containing, similar con•
gratulations, were also presented to his Majesty.
Lord Cowley yesterday presented to the Em-
peror Under-Sheri' Croslev, who came to Paris
for the inauguration of the Universal Exhibition.
General Pelissier, lately nominated by the Em
peror to the chief command of the army of the
Crimea, is the 19th on the list of generals of divi-
sion. ris promotion to that rank is of April 13,
1850. He is the senior officer of Generals Bosquet,
Noel, and Canrohert, but the junior of General
Regeault de St. Jan-d'Angely, the commander of
the Imperial guard. General Pelissier is grand
cross of the Legion of Honour. was not long since
in command of the division of Oran, and has been
governor-general of Algeria ad interim. He was
alwaNs one of Mirshal Bugeaud's favourite lieti-

tenants.
An Imperial decree revokes the order of the
Executive Power of August 27, 1848, reducin.e:
the staff of the engineers to 450 officers, and
decides that. in order to meet the necessities of the
SPT-ViCP, the former number shall be re-established,
viz., 26 colonels, 26 lieut. colonels, 108 chefs de
bataillon, 150 captains of the let class, and 150
captains of the 21 class and lieutenants—in all 460

offir.ers.
e steam advice boat, the Petrel, has just left
Chi rbourg to join the French division in the White
Sea.
A letter from before Sebastopol, dated the Bth,
states as follows :
"The expedition sent to Kertch has returned ; the
squadron which conveyed and brought back the troops
anchored at Kamiesh on the evening of the 6th. On the
7th the troops landed. It is generally thought that the
ennnter-order came from Paris by telegraph. After the
landing the troops returned to their former encampments.
The rumour circulates, and I believe it is well founded,
that fresh troops are expected ; it is at all events certain
that suitable places are =ought to establish encampments.
Our fire continues very animated during the night, and the
object is to prevent the enemy from di=turbing our work-
men. Since our occunation of the advanced works we
have taken from the Russians it has been discovered
that these w. rks were mined. The mines were charged,
but our attack was St, rapid and the victory so prompt
that the Russians had not time to spring them."
A private letter from Constantinople, dated the
10th, confirms what I stated the other day with
respect to the object of the expedition in ques-
tion. The writer says—
" A traveller who arrived this day from the Crimeahas
given-me some information which completes the above.
The object of the expedition was to destroy the maga-
zines containing supplies for the Rttssian army. It ap-
pears that in those magazines there were provisions for
more than a month. I learn from a very gocd source
that the whole of the troops composing the camp of
Maslak have received orders to be ready to leave ; but
whither they go is yet a mystery. My letters from the
Crimea lead me to believe that they are intended to re-
inforce the army before Sebastopol. The health of the
army is much better, and the cholera has diminished.
The malady is also less violent at );'era. The number
of deaths has considerably diminished. The tergiversa-
tions of Austria have Produced the worst possible effect
at Constantinople. The journey of Redschid Pasha to
Vienna has been adjourned. Since I wrote last there
has been no modification in the Ottoman Ministry."
The despatch received by telOgraph, counter-
rnanfling the expedition, is said to have communi-
cated the fast of a large body of troops being on
the point of leaving Constantinople for tho Crimea.
The expedition had soiled at 6 o'clock in the even-
ing, and in some hours after the counter-order
reached the camp. There can be no doubt that an
expedition on a still larger scale was determined
upon, but to what particular point is not known,
and it would be useless to guess. The object may
he to intercept in some: other 'direction the sup-
plies which enable Sebastopol to hold out so long,
or to attacß theißussian army wherever it may be
found. The letters .received from the camp, be-
side those noticed in the 211Onitelir as from Gene-
ral ClTirobert, doliCiirt-in describing the sanitary
state of the ,arnay as. excellent. .This, it is
fearedff however; inay not be of long con-
tinuance if the troops do not remove from
'their presplit positions. The heat is becoming
.intense, and the air is infected with the effluvia
from the pits in which heaps of dead were interred ;
and this inconvenience is beginning to he felt. Some
discontent has been manifested in the French camp
in consequence of the time spent before Sebastopol,
and more than one regiment has repeatedly de-
manded the assault in a manner which resembled
something like a mutinous spirit. The troops would
wVlhngly receiCe the order for storming the place,
even with the chances of failure, rather than re-
main as they are. The sorties and the slight affairs
which have taken place have only whetted their
appetite for further action. In this earnest desire
they will probably soon he gratified, as some gfeat
operation may now at last be expected before long.
It appears there are 50,000 Turks—the best an%
bravest of the Ottoman army—at Eupatoria, and
the letters that have been received all speak of some
grand operation as imminent, and from which the
best results are anticipated.

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