The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-04 00:00:00

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road from Ouzenbaschik to Ourkousta, in which
were squadrons of cavalry and five battalions of
infantry, with artillery."

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The Phiegeton arrived at Kamiesh on the 18th
ult., having been at Odessa to effect an exchange
of prisoners. She had several French soldiers and
ten English officers on board. Among the latter
were those of the Cossack, who fell into the hands
of the Russians at Hango Head. They had been
three months on their way from Sweaborg to
Odessa. The commander of the Phlegeton reports
that the Russians seem to be preparing fresh means
of defence in the neighbourhood of Odessa and
Okshakoff. The road from Perekop to Nicolaieff is
being covered by numerous works.
A. letter from an officer at Sebastopol, in the
Constitutionnel, says
i It was a corporal of the Ist Zouaves who planted
the first French standard on Malakhoff. His name is
Eugene Libaut, of Paris. It was General MacMahon's
standard of the Ist division the hoisting of which was to
be the signal for the attacks on the other points. The
General gave him the standard with his own hands,
with the words : This is the signal-flag ;go ! ' Libaut
was the first to spring out of the trenches. While get-
ting into the enemy's ditch he was struck by a stone,
but, notwithstanding the pain, he scaled the parapet in
the midst of a bail storm of projectiles of every kind,
and at length planted the flag around which our brave
soldiers soon flocked, and maintained their ground."
The same letter says :

"Eighteen women who remained in the town were
made prisoners. At first it was thought they had been
left behind to fire the mines, but it was soon found that
such was not the case ; they are treated with every
respect."

The important measure just decided on by the
Prefect of Police for regulating the sale of butchers'
meat in Paris is commented on by several of
our contemporaries, and in every case highly
applauded. The new plan is of course only an
experiment, but there can be no doubt that what-
ever may be the difficulties of carrying into execu-
tion the system thus introduced, the advantages
accruing from it to the public will be very decided
and most gratefully received. Hitherto the price
of meat in the butchers'-shops has rarely been re-
duced in proportion to the value of the live animals
sold at the two great markets of Sceaux and Poissy.
If the quotations fell at these places of sale, the
profit was exclusively for the butchers, who still
kept up their prices, and never for the consumers.
The same was the case when by any particular fa-
vour the authorities interfered, and endeavoured
to furnish some remedy to the enormous prices
which pressed so heavily on the working classes.
The Constitution and Saint Louis frigates left
Toulon yesterday, with troops, stores, and provi-
sions for the Crimea.
BOURSE, Oct. 3.—Stock has been rather offered
to-day, and prices are somewhat lower than yester-
'Flay. Railway Shares are also lower. The follow-
lug are the last quotations :

_
Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
4} Per Cents 9O 75 90f. 806.
3 per Cents 65 10 65 30
Credit Mobilier l2BO Roman
Credit Fonder — Austrian
Belgian Fives. ..... .. Spanish Threes
Pledmontese B5 Home Debt

RAILWAYS—NOB CASH.
fr. c. C.
Orleans ... 1155 Rouen
W e
tstern 797 50 Strasburg . 912 50
Cete 692 50 Havre —
Mediterranean 1220 Cherbure
Northern
Lyons 1120 Austrian Com. 757 50