The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-21 00:00:00

S7'. PETERSBURG.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post,
in his letter of yesterday evening, says :
" I have seen communications from Russia. It
is thoroughly believed by the war party at St.
Petersburg that Prince Gortscbakoff will hold his
position in the Crimea throughout the winter,
when, it is stated, an army of 500,000 men, formed
of the militia, is to relieve him, and drive the allies
from the Russian soil ! A quantity of rifles
had arrived from America, which have been
distributed to the troops, with crosses said
to be blessed by particular saints from Heaven.
The public financ-.) is in a worse condition than is
generally known. There are no internal resources
whatever—all must now come from abroad. A
very large issue of paper money is expected to
take place. There seems to exist the greatest con-
fidence at St. Petersburg that Germany will not
move out of that " friendly neutrality " with
which the Court and the Czar are perfectly satis-
fied. The Russian Government is very anxious to
construct railways, especially such as would verge
towards the frontiers, with a view, it is said, of
being able to convey troops in the direction of
Russian ambition."

THE LATE EXPLOSION IN THE CRIMEA.

The following is an official account of the officers and
men killed and wounded by the explosion of the Eng-
lish siege train, caused by the previous explosion of that
of the French, on the afternoon of the 15th instant :
" Killed.—Deputy Assistant-Commissary Yellon,
R.A., and 21 non-commissioned officers and men.
" Wounded.—Lieutenant Dawson, R A,, lost his leg
below his knee ; Lieutenant Robert, dangerously in the
arm ; Lieutenant Eccles and Assistant-Surgeon Reade,
2d Battalion Rifle Brigade, slightly ; 116 brigade com-
missioned officers and men, of whom 47 slightly.
" Missing.-4 rank and file."

Genral Canrobert is expected to return to Paris at the
end of the present month.

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The subscriptions for the shares of the Austrian
Cr&lit Mobilier will be opened on the 10th December.
The Piedmontese reinforcements have arrived at Bala-
klava. Their bead quarters are at Katnara.
Th. United States Mail steamer Hermann arrived at
Cowes, on her way to Bremen, yesterday morning. She
left New York on the 3d inst.

THE BIBLE BURNING AT ki;vGsTow.N.—D lIBLIN, TUN •
day Evening.—lnformations were sworn this day
(Tuesday), at the suit of the Crown, against the redemp-
torist father, Petchinini, for having taken part in, and
being present at, the recent disgraceful Bible burning at
Kingstown. A police-constable, named Halpin, has
proved the identity of the individual. Summonses in
the case were despatched for service this afternoon, and
the case will come on for hearing before the magistrates
of the Kingstown police-court, as soon as service shall
have been effected.

ALARMING ACCIDENT.—This morning a very alarming
accident occurred in the neighbourhood of Holborn-hill.
It appears that the back wall of the premises of Messrs.
Tidmarsb, wholesale ironmongers, of Eyre-street, have
for some time been considered unsafe, in consequence
of the removal of several old houses in Sutianar-
street, for the erection of a model lodging-house.
About ten o'clock this morning the wall fell to the
ground, and the consequence was the destruction of an
immense quantity of the stock of Messrs. Tidwarsh. All
the men were engaged in the warerooms attke time, and
the escape of all of them without accident is miraculous.
NAPLES.—The commercial advices from Naples have
recently contained many exposures of an iniquitous
method adopted by the Fin
fluencing
the Minister for
the currency, which seems likely to bring the monetary
affairs of that country into disgraceful harmony with
its political condition. It appears that, by interposing
delays and obstructions to the coinage of silver, as well
as by other means, the Government have contrived to
reduce that metal to a discount of 10 or 11 per cent.
They are consequently enabled to obtain such supplies
as they require at this depreciation, and, as they can
coin at pleasure what they want for their own use, they
conceive themselves to be acting with great acuteness,
especially as the loss appears to fall upon such visitors
as may bring foreign silver into the country, or the mer-
chants who have to remit it in payment. At the same
time, also, they are accused of receiving large bribes
from such parties as may see fit to tempt them by those
means to allow the Mint to operate in their favour. The
process is one, however, that brings its own cure, and
the Neapolitan Chancellor of the Exchequer will find
that he cannot permanently cheat the commercial world,
whatever he may do with his own people. The course
of exchange soon sets the matter right ; all persons hav-
ing transactions with the kingdom of Naples calculate
accordingly in their purchases and remittances the al-
lowance they must make to protect themselves from the
chicanery of its rulers, *