The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-20 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

given for the immediate reimbursement of all
those subscriptions to the loan which exceed 500

francs.

The Paris correspondent of the Independance
Beige states that the French Foreign Legion is to
be increased by two brigades of Swiss trroops,
under the command of two Swiss officers, Colonel
Ochsenhein and Colonel Ritter, who will leave
the Federal service, and take rank in the French
army as Generals of Brigade.

The Austrian Government has, in the last few
days, issued a confidential circular to the Federal
Courts to the effect that the late pacific declara-
tions of Russia made it expedient to suspend any
such measure, so that for the present no
motion for mobilization would be made at Frank-
fort.

The Moniteur of Friday publishes the follow•

fig :-

" We have received letters from Balaklava, dated
Ist January, announcing that the Russian column
which was at Kamara in front of Balaklava had
been driven out by the English troops. The Rus-
sians burnt their provender before evacuating the
village."

TURKEY.
A letter from Constantinople received yesterday,
says the Turkish navy has met with many misfor-
tunes, and may be almost said to have ceased to
exist. No less than 17 ships of war have been
lost, destroyed, or taken since the commencement
of the war, about half of them on the fatal day of
Sinope. Of the vessels lost four are ships of the
line and two steamers. What remains of the Turkish
fleet is now in the Golden Horn. Most of the vessels
are damaged, and there is no attempt to repair them,
all the shipwrights being engaged on the British
and French vessels which have suffered in the late
gales. Men with some knowledge of it expected
much of the Turkish fleet ; and when the Ottoman
Admiral left the Bosphorus in May last with 21
vessels under his command we all looked for some
results. The attention of the world was then much
turned to Circassia, a country which must always
be dangerous to the Czar if roused to renew its old
guerilla warfare. As there was no chance of another
disaster like Sinopo, since Sebastopol was block-
aded or supposed to be so, the Turkish fleet might
have produced a good effect by appearing on the
Circassian coast, and encouraging the tribes to some-
thing like active revolt. A community of religion
and old associations unite those races to the Turkish
Empire, although they have long learned to believe
that the Sultan was no efficient protector against
the power of the Czar. The sight of a Turkish
fleet on the coast abandoned by the Russians, and
of Turkish troops stationed in the forts lately held
by Muscovite regiments, would, however, have
been a surprise, and the news would in a few weeks
have penetrated into every region of the Caucasus;
but the Turks were compelled to remain inactive
in Baltschik Bay, where they died of scurvy and
bad food during the entire summer. Whether
private jealousies, as is stated, influenced the con-
duct of the allied Admirals, it is difficult to say,
but the result was that the naval forces of the two
nations did nothing, and our Turkish allies were
equally restrained from active measures. The sub-
sequent losses at sea have diminished the fleet and
discouraged the seamen ; and the navy, like the
army, is painfully changed from the force which,
accumulated during years of peace, made such a
display at the commencement of the war. Only
three vessels are building for the Turkish Govern-
ment, and these make little progress. There is a
line-of-battle ship at Ismid, another at the Arsenal,
and ci friiiatv oinope.

THE WAR IN ASIA.
From Kars we hear that the nomination of Ismail
Paella as Governor of Anatolia has given the
greatest possible satisfaction to the troops. All
have the greatest confidence in him, on account of
his known talents, of which his military and stra-
tegic works give such full proof. The whole
neighbourhood of Kars is thoroughly fortified, all
the works being now undar the command of Hus-
sein Pacha, who has divided the army for the de-
fence of every point. The inhabitants themselves
aro to take charge of the city.
Every week the soldiers are drilled and specially
prepared for the threatening campaign. The food
of the men is excellent, and they begin to forget
those miserable times when they wore without
support for many dreary hoUrs, when flour was
served out to them by the handful, instead of the
regular ration of bread. Schamyl has entered
Sarzbache, where he took a goodly number of Rus-
sian prisoners, having left Sarzbache to the care
of Daniel Sultan who was formerly a general in the
Russian service, whereas now he is commander-in-
chief of the army of the Sheik Schamyl. He has
under him 20,000 men, of whom 6,000 are regular
troops, principally deserters from the Russian
army, and commanded by Polish officers. The in-
habitants of the Caucasus so dread the Russians
that they are delighted at Schamyl's drawing so
near to them. It is said that his army is daily in-
creasing from the number of deserters that come
over to him from the enemy. The cold was very
severe, but the snow had not yet covered the
plains.

POLAND.
FLIGHT OF POLES FROM THE RUSSIAN
CONSCRIPTION.
The Cologne Gazette publishes the following,
dated from the Oder, Jan.ls :

" The persecution of the Polish fugitives who crossed
into Prussia with the view of escaping the Russian con-
scription is being carried on unrelentingly by the autho-
rities of the former state. Count von Westarp, a pro-
vincial judge in the southerd part of Upper Silesia, gave
directions on the 11th ult. to the subordinate officials of
his district to arrest 39 individuals, advertised as con-
script deserters by Russia, and on ascertaining their
identity to deliver them up forthwith to the Russian
authorities in Poland. That even the poorest classes in
Poland continue to dread and loathe Russian military
service is shown by the circumstance that all the thirty-
nine individuals in question, except two of them who are
Jews, are merely day labourers, poor workmen, and
household servants. Their ages lie -between 18 to 25
years, and they all worked for their living, before they
took to flight in the districts called Miechovitz, Slop-
nik, Olkuss, Sandomierz, Opatov, and Opozynsl

The Moniteur announces that orders have been

The Moniteur says that the great activity of
Omer Pacha leads to the belief that 35,000 Turks
will shortly disembark in the Crimea, where 12,000
are already ; 11,000 men, Egyptians and Tuni-
sians, are about to leave Constantinople, and will
form a Turkish army of 00,000 men, whom Omer
will command.