The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-23 00:00:00

perplexed ey to'rest en that none perhaps but the
author of 44 Little Dorrit ' could paint in words an
adequate description of it.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TLIIIRSDA.Y EVENING.

It is confidently affirmed in diplomatic circres
that pacific measures, based on the endeavours now
making by Prussia to obtain concessions from
Russia, are in favourable train. Russia, it is said,
has consented to make the first advances. The
Western Courts, though considering them inade-
quate, do not discourage Prussia's endeavours, and
appear disposed to entertain her overtures at me-
diation.

The Moniteur gives the nominations to various
offices in the magistracy, and a second decree, ad-
mitting prohibited goods taken on board enemy's
ships, at a rate of duty of 20 per cent:
The Three per Cents. closed to-day at 65f. 95c.
fur the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-Half
per Cents. at 91f.; and the New Loan at 66f. 80. c.;
Orleans Railway Shares, 1,120 f.; Great Northern,
895 f ; Strasburg, 892 f. 50c.; New Shares, 760 f.;
Paris and Lyons, 1,137 f. 50c.; Lyons to the Medi-
terranean, 1,250 f.; Western of France, 760 f.; Bor-
deaux and Cette, 707 f. 500.; Great Central of
France, 592 f. 50c.; Lyons and Geneva, 670 f.;
Bank of Credit Mobilier, 1,245 f.; Austrian Rail-
ways, 720 f.

THE BALTIC.
KIEL, Nov. 19.—The Locust arrived here this
morning with the last mail which had been received
for the fleet at Dantzio from England. Admiral
Baynes was still at Nargen, where he would likely
remain for some time in charge of the flying squa-
dron, which will maintain the blockade as long as the
weather will permit. The Falcon and other ves-
sels are reported by the Harrier, which also came
in to-day from Faro Sound, to be still watching
the Swedish coast, as an American trader, now
in one of the ports there, will, it is understood,
endeavour to land a lot of revolvers in Russia
whenever she can elude the vigilance of our crui-
sers. The same vessel, it is said, succeeded in a
similar enterprise last year, and they therefore
reckon the more confidently on being able to carry
out their plans this year also. There are other
places, however, where similar arrangements are in
progress. At Lubeck, in particular, it is known
that preparations are making to despatch vessels
for Libau and other Russian ports the moment it
is thought they may be enabled to reach their
destination. These cargoes, however, chiefly con-
sist of colonial produce, of which they are said to
stand in great need on the northern shores of the
Gulf of Finland, and in the Russian portion of the
Gulf of Bothnia. It is not unlikely that brim-
stone and saltpetre may also be forwarded by that
route, as the transit by railway through Konigs-
berg. does not now afford the same facilities as for-
merly.

From Copenhagen we hear of great preparations
which are making for the reception of General Can-
robert at that court.

RUSSIA.

The Cologne Gazette publishes a letter, dated St.
Petersburg, Nov. 11, in which it is said the five
levies ordered alternately in the western and in the
eastern half of the Euxine and in the kingdom of
Poland, the last general levy decreed for the entire
empire, the formation of the various reserve corps,
the calling in of men absent on indefinite leave, and
of the men who had served out their time and re-
ceived their discharge, the formation of the Finnish
rifles, of the rifle regiment raised by the imperial
family, of the coasb guard and the imperial militia,
together with the six Cossack regiments of the
Ukraine militia, the enrolling of the Bashkeer
regiments, of the Don Cossack army of the
Transcaucasian militia, besides the irregular hors
in Asia Minor, and who have been collected from
various tribes—all these have succeeded each other
' almost uninterruptedly. For the speedier despatch
of business in the recruiting department, the com-
missioners have been increased threefold, and per-
manently appointed in the recruiting districts.
In the Baltic provinces the town militia or train
bands—an institution of German origin—and the
rifle guilds, have been called to arms. In addi-
tion to the above circular invitations have been
sent to the students in the schools of every grade,
promising them certain advantages in their fu-
ture career, provided they take service in the
army. A recent decree decides respecting the
above-mentioned grant of certain privileges to
the colleges and endowed grammar-schools of the
two capitals,' and to the pupils in the so-called
Alexander Lyceum, that all the schoolboys who
happen to have reached the ninth or tenth class
upon their leaving the school shall he deemed to
be on a par with the candidate for holy orders
higher up the twelfth class—with the real students
in short; in like manner, all those who have reached
the fourteenth class shall be deemed equal to the
collegians, provided they then give up their scholas-
tic pursuits. I may here observe, that all these
classes correspond respectively to the regimental
grades of ensign (proporshtshik), sub-lieutenant
tp odporutshik), lieutenant (porutshik), and staff-
.
captain, or, as they say in Prussia, captain of the
second-class. These privileged young men will,
consequently, enter the army with the rank of
officers, and will serve materially to increase their
number.