The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-21 00:00:00

FRANCE

PARIS, MONDAY.
The following telegraphic despa,ches have been
received in Paris :

" Crimea, 18th, 10 at night.—General Gortscha-
koff has requested an armistice in order to remove
the dead and wounded Russians who remained
in front of the Tclierna.ya. -1 haVe granted it. The
losses of the enemy exceed my first calculations.
Lieutenant-General Read was killed. Protected
by the well-supported fire of our artillery, the
works of the engineens have not been annoyed by
the place, and have considerably advanced."
" St. Petersburg, 20th.—General Gortschakoff
writes from the Crimea, under date of the 18th,
9 p.m. :—The enemy commenced the bombard-
ment at break of day yesterday, and their fire,
which we returned with great vigour, continues
to-day."
The Moniteur contains a further list of mayors
and deputy-mayors appointed by the Emperor to
different towns and communes, in execution of the
law of May 5, 1855.
The Queen of England, the Empress, and Prince
Albert took a drive in the Bois de Boulogne yes-
terday afternoon at about half-past 5 o'clock. Their
Majesties returned to the Palace about 7.
The Ministers, the President of the Legislative
Body, and the President of the Council of State,
had the honour of being presented by the Empe-
ror yesterday, at the palace of St. Cloud, at three
o'clock, to the Queen of England and to Prince
Albert.. A vast number of persons went down to
St. Cloud yesterday in the hope of seeing her Ma-
jesty.
We read in the Moniteur :—" Some journals
have erroneously announced that on the occasion
of the ball to be given at Versailles by their Impe-
rial Majesties to Queen Victoria, the Park was to
be opened to the public and illuminated, and that
the grand waterworks would play. The fete to be
given to Queen Victoria at Versailles will consist
of a ball and a display of fireworks, which will be
let off on the piece of water called Des Suises "_

The Moniteur publishes a decree modifying the
import dUties on articles connected with basket-
making, of whatever vegetablo.Substance they may
be made, and fixing them as follows :—ln the
rough state, by French vessel-4, Cfr. per 100 kilo-
grammes, foreign vessels, 7fr. ; peeled, French
vessels, 12fr., foreign, 14fr. ; cut, French vessels,
20fr., foreign, 24fr.
Letters and journals have been received from
Guadaloupe and Martinique up to 28th July. All
was quiet in these two colonies at that date, and
the sanitary condition satisfactory.
The Akhbar of Algiers, cf the 14th, says :—" The
packet which left to-day for the East had on board-
a number of relations of Abd-el-Kader, who are
gone to rejoin the ex-Emir, with a numerous suite.
During the last few days 1,000 head of cattle have
arrived. at Algiel's from Tunis. It is scarcely a
month since the Bey of Tunis removed the prohibi-
tion which existed relative to the exportation of
cattle. This supply will, no doubt, he followed
by others. It is a fortunate circumstance for us,
as it will probably lower the price of butchers'
meat, Viewed in another light, this arrival of
cattle from lunis,across regions hitherto unreduced,
gives an important idea of the existence of our
friendly-relations with the Regency."
A letter of the 11th from an officer on board the
French fleet before Sweaborg, in the Morbitewr de
la Flotte says :—" This time we may truly say we
have done something ; Sweaborg has been really
bliint,not on paper, but with flames which lasted
two days, and rose to a height of upwards of 100
feet. It was a horrible spectacle, I can assure you,
and it was melancholy to think that those volca-
noes were not
only swallowing up the arsenals of
the Russian government, but likewise the little all
of poor.people, who, perhaps were ignorant of the
nature of the question at issue. The enthfisiasm
and good understanding of the two fleets were ad-
rairimG sad Asuairal renead said to us before the