The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-23 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Apropos of this eagerness for the grand attack,
shared in by every one, a rumo it has reached
Constantinople within the last few days. This on
dit, then, which is circulated with a good deal of
caution, refers to an event of no less importance
than an open and general revolt .f the Zouaves in
the French camp, on the afternoon of the 3d inst.,
in consequence of their dissatisfaction at the delay
which has arisen in making the final attack on the
enemy's fortifications. It appears that after seve-
ral grumbling indications of their impatience,
during the few previous days, these much-petted
braves resolved to " take action " themselves, and
to this end sent a large armed deputation to wait
upon General Canrobert, and insist on his giving
orders for the assault. The General remon-
strated against such unwarrantable conduct,
and endeavoured to smooth matters, by assuring
the deputation that their desire would soon be gra-
tified, and that in the meantime he would overlook
the hasty step they had taken. This very leniency,
however, would seem to have made matters only
worse, for the Zouaves declared that unle3s the
order were given at once, they would themselves
make the attack forthwith. His enfants being thus
insensible to kindness, the French commander
ordered out the 47th regiment of the line and a
battery of field-artillery, and having seized the
ringleaders in this demand a la Zonave, shot twelve
of them in presence of the whole camp---a piece of
energetic action which had at once the happy effect.
This affair, which I have every reason to believe
real, was of course as much as possible hushed up
in the camp ; but that it is not a mere idle rumour
I may venture to assert, having heard of it from a
source not likely to be misinformed.

The Commission of the Piedmontese Senate on
the treaty with the Western Powers has appointed
Marquis Alfieri da Sostegno to draw up the report
on it. The discussion on the Convents SuppresSion
Bill was continued on the 18th in the Chamber of
Deputies.

The phroniqueur of Friburg repeats, on the
faith of &letter from Naples of the 6th, the rumour
that the kingdom of the Two Sicilies had acceded
to the alliance of the Western Powers, and was to
send 18,000 men to the Crimea, including the bat-
talion of Swiss chasseurs. No intelligence has
been received from ether quarters confirming the
statement.

The Austrian Government has contradicted,
through its accustomed organ, the Austrian Cor-
respondence, the statement that an Austrian loan
of 15,000,0001., guaranteed by England, is about
to be raised. This report originated with the
Berlin Kreuz Zeitung, the only considerable Ger-
man paper hardy enough to champion the cause of
the Czar.

Prince Leopold of Bavaria arrived at Florence
on the 15th.

The Count de Chambord left Parma on the
16th, in compaNy with the Duchess Regent, for
Modena, there to meet the Countess.

STOLEN BANK .NOTES.

An action of considerable importance was tried in the
Court of Queen's Bench yesterday. The question in-
volved was the right of money-changers to take Bank of
England notes in disregard of notices that they had been
stolen. The action was brought by Messrs. Adam Spiel-
mann and Co., of London, as correspondents of Messrs.
Meyer Spielmann and Co., of Paris, to recover the
amount of two Bank of England notes for 5001. each,
which had formed portions of notes for the value in all
of 3,0001. stolen from Messrs. Brown, Shipley, and
Co., of Liverpool. The notes were stolen in Novena-
her, 1852, and it was proved that notices of robbery
were delivered at the places of business of both
&me. One of the notes was alleged to have been
received by Meyer Spielmann and Co , in Paris,
from a person giving the name of G. F. Howard, and
the other from A. Monteaux, a money-changer in Paris,
which note also had the name of G. F. Howard upon it.
Both notes were remitted by Messrs. Meyer, Spielmann,
and Co. to Messrs. Adam Spielmann and Co., and re-
ceived by then in London on the 27th of June last.
On behalf of the plaintiff it was contended that the
notes having been taken in the ordinary course of
business he was entitled to recover upon them.
Lord Campbell left to the jury the question whether
Meyer Spielmann took the note bona fide and for
value; whether Adam Spielmann received theta bong
fide as a remittance ; and whether the notices were
left at the places of business of both parties. The
jury found that Meyer Spielmann and Co. did not take
the notes bona fide for value ; that Adam Spielmann
and Co. did take them bona fide as a remittance ; and
that the notices were duly received. Upon this finding
Lord Campbell directed a verdict to be entered for the
Bank of England. It is hoped that this decision will
have the effect of preventing the practice, which has
become too common, of taking stolen notes, which
cannot be passed in England, to the chief cities of
Europe, and there obtaining the amount through money-
changers, who afterwards claim the ,value from
the Bank, on the ground that the notes have been
taken in due course of business, although, in
fact, no sufficient inquiry has been made as to the bona
fides of the transaction, or the respectability of the
party presenting them.

`ALL'S WELL.”—AN INCIDENT IN THE CRIMEA.—
Fr?so a letter just received in town,' we learn that while
Private Duncan Allan, an Aberdonian, belonging to the
grenadier company, 79th Highlanders, was lately on
sentry at one of the outposts near Balaklava, three Rus-
sians, disguised as Frenchmen, attempted, to surprise
him. Discovering the deception, he instantly shot the
first who approached, bayoneted the second, knocked
down the third with the butt-end of his musket, and then
proceeded coolly on his "lonely round," singing cheerily
" All's well."—lberdeen Herald.
ALARMING ACCIDENTS ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—
'Yesterday morning, the "Newspaper train," due from
Easton-square station at 6.15 a.m., whilst shunting
at Rugby, preparatory to its departure for the north, '
was run into by an empty engine, very severely
shaking one passenger, who was compelled to stay at
Rugby. The train proceeded after half an hour's de-
lay ; but when running through the cutting north of
Wigston station, near Leicester, the front van ran eff
the line, taking with it the two following carriages.
After running on the ballast for some hundreds of
yards, the van jumped on the road again. The strain
on the couplings being then too great, they snapped,
and the two carriages ran into the embankment, at the
same time breaking a telegraph post. The ballast was
so hard that the carriages scarcely left any trace of their
having been on it. In this affair many passengers re-
ceived contusions, but, fortunately, none of a dangerous
nature. Assistance was immediately sent from. Leices-
ter, and after a short delay thej train proceeded to
Derby, at which station it arrived upwards of an hour
late. On the same day the tires of the leading wheels
of the engine taking the 8 a.m. train from Derby to
Birmingham flew off, thereby stopping the traffic until
abeietance from Birraingliana could be obtained,

CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 12.
By the last private letters received from the
camp, it appears that the expectation of an early
general assault on the outlyingforts was strong in the
minds of "the many ;" the French mortars had been
got into position, and with these, and the pieces
already so, the attack would be supported by nearly
450 guns of the most effective calibre. It was cal-
culated, indeed, that the mortars of our Allies alone
would be sufficient to level the town in a single
24 hours' cannonade. The grand final coup, how-
ever, will not " come off" till some more rein-
forcements have reached the seat of action; and
as these are passing upwards through the Bos-
phorus, nearly every day, from Alexandria, Algiers,
and France, the allied generals will soon be in
strength enough to strike the great closing blow in
the Crimean campaign. Already their own troops,
not less than the public at home, are impatient at
the delay which the necessities of the position have
rendered unavoidable; and when the welcome order
for a general onset issues, not a man in either camp
but will hail it gladly, and do his part to secure
its successful execution.