The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-23 00:00:00

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

MARSEILLES, Jan. 18.—It would appear from
the exertions which are being made to reinforce
the army of the East with men, horses, ammuni-
tion, and provisions, that a speedy termination of
the war is not anticipated by the French Govern-
ment. The new steamer Carmel sailed to-day with
the mails for Constantinople. She took General
Coeur, and 400 infantry and cavalry. Several
sailing transports, cleared out at the same time,
laden with 200 men and 280 artillery horses. A
telegraphic message was received yesterday at the
Toulon Dockyard to prepare forthwith for embar-
kation 46 pieces of the heaviest siege artillery.
The Gauge sailed for Constantinople on Mon-
day, having on board General Niel, Colonel
do Vaubert, one of General Caurobert's
aides-de-camp ; 150 infantry, 150 engineers, and
140 hospital assistants. Four bales of linen and
lint, supplied by the ladies of Marseilles, were
likewise forwarded to the army of the East by the
Gauge. The mail steamer Euphrate, which left
Constantinople on the Bth inst., arrived here yes-
terday morning twenty-four hours after her time.
Omer Paella had returned from Eupatoria to
Varna to superintend the embarkation of his
troops. Behram Pasha (Colonel Cannon) re-
mained at Eupatoria with Tefik Pasha, Omer
Pasha's son-in-law, and 10,000 infantry with
artillery, and some squadrons of cavalry. The
town had been fortified by the Turks, and
surrounded by a ditch, under the direction of
French engineers. The Cossacks in the neighbour.
hood amounted to 7,000. The Henri IV., stranded
near Eupatoria, is occupied by 100 French seamen.
The Egyptian ship of the line stranded near the
Henri IV. had taken fire, and been burnt to the
water's edge. 300 Tartar horses had been pur-
chased at Eupatoria, to remount the British and
French cavalry. The weather in the Crimea is
very unfavourable for siege operations. Rain and
snow are falling continually, and tho trenches are
inundated. The last French parallel has been car-
ried to within 120 yards of the town. The Turks
had opened a communication with Schamyl, whose
army consists of 20,000 men, of whom 6,000 are
regular troops. Prince Beratynski, a Pole, hold-
ing the commission of lieutenant in the Russian
Imperial Guard, had deserted to the Turks.
A letter from Toulon, dated yesterday, announces
the sailing of the screw ship-of-the-line Fleurus for
the Crimea, with 215 of the 11th Infantry, detach-
ments of the 16th and 25th, and 320 of the 4th
battalion of Chasseurs of Vincennes.

Letters from Munich of the 15th state that minis-
ters had required from the Chambers an extraordi-
nary credit of fifteen millions of florins for the use
of the army. Tho demand was referred to a corn-
rhittee, and Baron von Lerchenfeld ordered to draw
up a report and present it to the Chambers. Ac-
cording to statistical tables laid before the Chamber
of Deputies during a discussion on. the proposed
alteration in the electoral law, it appears that the
whole population of the kingdom of Bavaria at the
end of December, 1852, amounted to 4,559,452
souls, or 996,347 families. Each family, therefore,
contains about four persons and a half.

The Kreuz Zeitutg, the Russian organ at Berlin,
announces that the communication made by Prince
Gorttchakoff to C Hint Buol, on the Gth instant,
only pledges Russia to accept absolutely those of
the Four Point's which directly affect Austrian and
German interests, the acceptance of the others
being of a qualified and conditional character.

A curious instance of the universal popularity of
the loan is given in a Parisian country paper. At
Tarbes, in the south of France, out of 100,000 fr.
received as deposits, two-thirds of the paynu n s
were made in old French and Spanish coins,
bad long disappeared from circulation, and musthave been hoarded for many years. A more strik-
ing proof of confidence in the Government on the
part of the lower classes could not be afforded.

The Vicuna Pressc publishes a telegraphic de-
spatch atwounoing the oignature by Regalia Pasha