The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-22 00:00:00

THE LATE MB. MERLE.

It is with sincere regret that we announce the death
of Mr. Merle, the foreign editor of Galignani's Mes-
senger, which occurred on Friday morning at his house,
in the Rue Chauveau Lagarde, Paris, after an illness of
three or four days. He was the Nestor of English
journalists in Paris. Many years ago he was editor of
the Courier, and subsequently, we believe of other
journals in London. He was also for a long while the
London correspondent of the Journal des Debits. For
more than a quarter of a oentary he has been attached
to Galignani, and during the same period he was the
Paris correspondent of the Globe. He was one of the
very few men in the world who could speak and write
the French and English languages equally well. He
had great conversational powers, an extraordinary
memory, and a sound political judgment. His nails I
was a perfect museum of anecdote, and he was ever the
best authority on the subject of the " latest news " of
the hour. His appearance in Qalignani's little conver-
sation chamber was always the signal for a rush from
the reading-room adjoining. There, surrounded by
numerous friends of /adonis nations, who put down their
newspapers to listen to the result of his morning's
reading, his fine Ciceronian countenance might be seen
suffused with good hsmour, while for a few moments he
playfully parried the eager questions addressed to him
in various accents and languages. When silence was
obtained he was wont in silvery tones and fluent speech
to give a succinct, and invariably accurate, account of
the most important intelligence arrived by the morning
mails from different parts of -the world, and to add his
own opinion of the bearing of the new facts upon the
political situation. Ho was as good a listener as a
talker, always lending a candid ear to every suggestion,
and treating opinions adverse to his own with good-
natured deference and respect. Mr. Merle was greatly
esteemed by all who knew him, and his loss will be re-
gretted by a large circle of friends both in France and
England. Among his personal friends were Lord Pal-
natrston and General Sir De Lacy Evans, both of whom
sought interviews with him when they were lately in
Paris.—Daily News.

CABINET COUNCIL.-2 Cabinet Council was held on
Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-
street. The ministers present were the Earl of Aberdeen,
Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis
of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Claren-
don, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles
Wood, Earl Granville, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert,
and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat three
hours and a quarter.
Lord John Russell, Lord President of the Council,
will give a dinner on Saturday next, the 27th inst., at
his residence in Chesharn-Place, to the Cabinet Ministers
and the great officers of state of the Queen's household
for the purpose of settling the roll of sheriffs for England
and Wales for the present year.
The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town on Satur-
day morning front his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts.
Lord John Russell left town on Saturday evening for
Pembroke-ledge, Richmond-park. The noble lord comes
to town for the season to-day.
Viscount Palmerston continues at Broadlands, near
Rotusey, Hants, and was absentfrom the Cabinet Coun-
cils on Saturday and the previous day. The noble vis-
count and viscountess are expected to arrive to-day at
their residence in Piccadilly, from their country seat,
where they have been entertaining a succession of vi-
sitors durinc, the last three weeks.
The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood and the Right
Hon. Sidney Herbert have arrived in town for the
season.

The Right Hon. tha Speaker of the House of Com-
mons will arrive in town to-day, from Hampshire, for
the re-assernbling of parliament. The right hon. gen-
tlememan will commence his Parliamentary banquets on
Saturday week.
The Right Hon. M. T. Baines, MX., arrived in town
on Saturday, from Yorkshire.

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegraphic despatches have been
received :

" BERLIN, SUNDAY, JAN. 21.

" A despatch from Warsaw, dated 21st of
January, states that under date of the 12th of
January Prince Menschikoff announces that since
the Bth no change had taken place at Sebastopol.
He states that the siege operations of the Allies
made no progress, aid that the fire of their bat-
teries caused very little damage to the fortifica-
tions."

" VIENNA, SATURDAY, JAN. 20.

" It is reported that the Turkish troops under
Omar Pasha will soon march from Eupatoria,
under the protection of the fleets, towards the
Alma and the Belbeck."

The Vienna Presse publishes the following :
" CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 11.

" The French are unremittingly pushirg forward
their batteries. The capture of a Russian redoubt
is confirmed.

" During the last two days there has been a
tremendous fall of snow in the Crimea.
"It is said that Lord Stratford de Redeliffe
will soon pay a short visit to London.

" Baron Koller has been definitively appointed
Austrian Minister at Constantinople.
"Four Frenchmen and seven Englishmen hare
been found stabbed in the streets of Galata.

"The perpetrators are organised bands of Greeks
and Armenians, who hare been traced.

"Itedschid Pacha is very unwell, and has been
obliged, by indisposition, to receive foreign diplo-
matists at home. Important negotiations are

going on.

BERLIN, JAN". 20.

Austria, in a note, accompanied by a circular
dated the 14th January, renews her proposition
relative to the question of placing the Prussian
and Federal armies on a war footing. This ques-
tion is now to be submitted to th• Diet at
Frankfort.

The following private telegraphic despatches
was received in Paris last night :

TOULON, 19th.

The Aigle steam-transport arrived here to-
day with 50 Russian prisoners on board. She
left Icamiesch on the 3d.

VARNA, 151 u.

The embarkation of the Ottoman troops con-
tinues. Several battalions of Egyptian infantry,

will leave to-morrow.

MADRID, 18Tir.

The Cortes in its sitting of to-day adopted a
resolution of great importance, and on which it
was expected that the Ministry would have bean
defeated. The Cortes hare Toted by a large ma-
jority the Government Bill, fixing at 25,000 the
number of soldiers who are to be called out this

year.

A private telegraphic despatch from Madrid, of
the 20th instant, announces, that in the sitting
of the 19th a vote of censure on the Ministry was
proposed. After a speech by Espartero, the
Cortes rejected the proposition by a majority of
138 against 62.

DEATH OF THE QUEEN OF SARDINIA.
We have received a telegraphic despatch from
our correspondent at Turin, dated the 20th of
January, announcing the death, on that evening,
of Queen Marie Adelaide, wife of King Victor
Emmanuel.

The Queen was in her 33d year, having been
barn on the 3d of June, 1822. Her late Majesty
was the daughter of the Archduke Rainer, of
Austria.

The last accounts from the Crimea state that
General Canrobert had, in virtue of the power
vested in him by the Emperor, promoted six
captains to the rank of chefs de bataillon. Ac-
cording to the usual custom observed at Constan-
tinople, the brevets of the decorations accorded
by the Sultan to the French army have been
inclosed in a bag of white satin. They have
been delivered to M. Schaffer, the first Dragoman
of the French Embassy, who is to forward
them to General Canrobert.

The Patrie says, the passage of the Danube,
effected some days since by the Russians, has
given rise to a demand for explanations from
Prince Gertachakoff, on the part of the Austrian
Government; and that at the same time orders
have been sent to Count Coronini to prevent the

Russians from recommencing a campaign upon

the Danube.

A despatch in the Patrie, headed " The
Danube," and dated Kamenicez, Jan. 13, says

—" The staff of the Ist Russian corps d'artnee is
at Moltan. Radetzky's regiment of Hussars has
left for the Crimea.