The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-10 00:00:00

the Gth of December.

MARSEILLES, SUNDAY.

The Sinai has arrived ; she has on board Gen.
Niel, chief of the French engineers ; and General
Chasseloup-Laubat.

Her dates aro from Constantinople of the 29th,
the Crimea the 27th. The united Legations have

conjointly established a police.

The Magellan has arrived with Artillery and a

detachment of the Imperial Guard.

The concession for the canal from the South

Danube to Kustendje has been made by the Go-

vernment.

On the 25th the snow fell heavily at Sebas-
topol. The docks will be blown up shortly.
The redoubts of the Allies on the Tehernaya

keep up a heavy fire.
The North Forts do not fire much now.
The Allies have constructed 26 batteries to
attack tho North Forts.

Three hundred and sixty cannon are in position

on our lines of the Tchernaya.
On account of probable scarcity the Egyptians
now at Eupatoria will be sent to reinforce the

army of Asia.

The missing steamer from Trebizonde has

arrived.

At the latest intelligence (Nov. 19) Kars still
held out ; it was, nevertheless, blockaded, if not
invested. A strong caravan for its relief set out
on Nov. 9th from Erzeroum, with 10,000 troops,
mostly irregulars, under command of Selim Pacha.
Omer Pacha was, at the last date, on the banks
of the Mavani, three hours' march from Kutais ;
he had there halted for the joining of Mustapha
Pacha's division, and some Egyptian troops en
route. They amount to 13,000 men.

The Sulina channel has nine feet of water, and
the fleet of 400 merchantmen laden with core are
slowly getting to sea.
The branch railway from Balaklava to Kamara
is completed. Its prolongation to Kadikoi is also
finished.

The submarine telegraph from Suez to Bombay
is to be executed at the expense of the East India
Company.

BERLIN, SUNDAY, DEC. 9.

The Russian Government engineers are occu-
pied in preparing plans for fortifying Moscow and
St. Petersburg.
General Dehn is expected to preside over the
commission at St. Petersburg, General Todtleben
over that at Moscow.

M. do Bismark-Schonbausen has bcon hero for
,some days.
His presence is supposed to have reference to
the proposition on the Eastern question that Aus -
tria desires to have laid before the Frankfort
Diet.

The Baron de Bourqueney, the French Ambas-
sador at Vienna, is going to Paris to fetch his
family, towards the close of this month.
His visit to Paris is probably necessary for in-
structions in case the negotiations on the Eastern
question should havo to be resumed.

M. Tegoborski, a Russian Councillor of State,
is gone to Copenhagen, as the Comtnissiouet from
St. Petersburg, in reference to the Souud Dues.
The Russian journal the Caucasus states that
General Lonsdoff had been obliged to send a
detachment of troops to Van, beyond Alladagh,
against the Kurds, who had revolted against the
Russians.

VIENNA, DEC. 7.

The reduction which is about to be effected in
the A ustriau army will cause a saving to the
Treasury of 30 millions of florins.

MADRID, DEC. 7.

A report is current that the Minister of Fi-
nance is about to resign. The faction Gorsa, the
only one which remained in Catalonia, has been
annihilated. The Marquis de Turgot has appealed
to the law tribunals relative to an article inserted
in a journal insulting to the Empress Eugenie.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY Nioirr.
Private accounts from Vienna, of the 3d, men-
tion that the arrival of Count Stackelberg from
St. Petersburg was expected with the greatest
impatience, and indeed anxiety. Count Stackel-
berg is the military attache to the Russian Embassy
in the Austrian capital. He was sent by Prince
Gortachakoff to St. Petersburg with despatches for
the Emperor Alexander, and as his departure coin-
cided with the rumours of the renewal of negotia-
tions for peace, it is natural to suppose that it had
reference to that important subject. His return is
looked for with much anxiety, as he is expected to
bring instructions of the highest importance to
Prince Gortschakoff ; and though there is nothing
known as to the nature of those instructions, there
can be little doubt that they refer to the great
question of the day, and, probably, contain the
reply of the Emperor Alexander to the propo-
sitions of peace made by Austria.
The King of Sardinia left Paris this morning at
15.9. His Majesty proceeded to the railway sta-
tion in one of the State carriages. The streets were
decked with flags, and were filled with crowds,
who cheered very much.
The Paris and Brussels papers of Friday, Satur-
day, and Sunday have come to hand.
Ther is a great dearth of news, but mirth spe-
culation, in their columns.

The Patric affirms that it has learned by a tele-
graphic despatch that disturbances broke out at
Odessa in consequence of the Bank, owing to want
of specie, announcing that it could only make its
payments in paper. By the interference of the
military order was restored.
The Moniteur of Saturday has several Imperial
decrees, promotions, an I nominations, with com-
mercial documents, and a list of the rewards ad-
judged by the international jury at the close of the
Exhibition of Industry and Fine Arts. It makes
four supplements to the official journal.
The funeral ceremony of Admiral Bruat is de-
scribod. Vico-Admiral Dubourdieu delivered an

eloquent and pathetic funeral oration, in which he
traced the honourable career of the deceased officer.
The Moniteur farther contains a remarkable and
interesting article, headed "Le Port de Sebas-
topol," in which the official Russian lists of the
Russian Black Sea navy, and its strength from
1852 to 1855, are given. While European ac-
counts made this fleet at most 55 to GO ships,
the documents published by the Moniteur show
it to have consisted of 187 numbered vessels, of
which 127 were in active service. Of these 16 were
of the line, 7 frigates, 5 corvettes, 12 brigs, 6
steam-frigates, &c. This fleet is now entirely dis-
persed and destroyed. Of the 16 line-of-battle
ships, 15 have at various times been sunk in Sebas-
topol harbour by the Russians themselves; and the
last, the Santa Maria, was set on fire and burnt by
the shells of the Allies. Five sailing frigates, 3
corvettes, 7 brigs, and n steamers, among which
was the iladimir, which was conspicuous in the
defence of the place ; the Bessarabia ; the Grossmo-
nossetz, which conveyed to Constantinople the
embassy of Prince Menschikoff ;.L'Etoile du Nord,
and Pierre le Grand, used for the Crimean voyages
of the Imperial family and suite, with many in-
ferior vessels, transports, mortar-boats, altogether
60 vessels, have perished in the waters of Sebasto-
pol.

It is announced that on the 22d inst. the Na-
tional Guard of Paris intend giving a banquet to
the Imperial Guard in the Palace of the Universal
Exhibition.

On Saturday the King of Sardinia, Count Cavour,
the Minister of Agriculture and Public Works,
the Commission of Inquiry in the Management of
Railways, with the principal engineers, attended
at the terminus in the Rue St. Lazare, to witness
the experiments of Chevalier Bonelli on the electric
telegraph. The system, which is highly ingenious,
keeps up a constant communication of the where-
abouts of every train relative to the station it ap-
proaches or departs from. It was highly admired,
and worked perfectly.
The Univers is angry at the manner in which the
King of Sardinia has been received in England,
and rails at the " blundering flatterers who regard
as one of his titles to glory the censure which the
Holy See has pronounced against his Government."
"There has been no sentence of excommunication
specially pronounced against Victor Emmanuel, and
therefore no one in the church can treat him as excom-
municated, nor refuse him the honour which usage and
courtesy prescribe towards a Sovereign."
Rear-Admiral Count Bonet- Willaumez has been
appointed to the command of the French naval
squadron of the Levant and cf the expeditionary
corps in Greece, in the room of M. Jacquinot, prc-
moted to the rank of Vice-Admiral. Capitaine de
Vaisseau de Dompierre-d'Hornoy has been ap-
pointed flag captain and chief of the staff to Rear-
Admiral Count Bouet-Willaumez, who will hoist
his flag on board the Gomer steam-frigate. Rear-
Admiral Rigault de Genouilly has been named
member of the Council of the Admiralty, in the
room of Vice-Admiral La Place, appointed to other
duties.

Lord Canning, the new Governor-General of
India, left Marseilles on Wednesday morning in the
Caradoc for Alexandria. A steam-frigate will be
in attendance for his lordship at Suez, to convey
him, his family, and suite to Bombay.
The mother of M. Caussidiere, who was Prefect
of Police during the early days of the revolution of
1818, was interred this morning in the cemetery of
Montmartre. From 80 to 100 persons followed her
to the grave.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
A letter from Vienna, of the 4th inst., in Toss's
Gazette, says :—"Although several journals have de-
nied that Prince Gortschakoff protested in the name
of the Russian Government against all determina-
tions relative to the Danubian Principalities, that
protest certainly was made, and does not remain
without effect, as the powers have agreed to postpone
the consideration of the question until the end of
the war. That decision besides has been come to
partly in consequence of the differences of opinion
which the Allied Powers entertain on the subject
of the organisation which ought to be given to
the Principalities."
A letter from Bucharest of tho 26th November,
in the Constitutionnel, says
" A considerable smuggling trade is carried on
in various articles, particularly salt, between Mol-
davia and Bessarabia, in the villages on the right
bank of the Pruth, and now occupied by Austrian
garrisons. The Moldavian government, with a
view to put an end to the traffic, addressed a note
on the 16th of October to Count de Paar, the
Commandant in Chief of the Austrian forces. To
this application the following reply was given :
" Jassy, Nov. 10.
" The Superior Commandant of the Imperial
and Royal Corpe d'Armee thinks proper to reply
to the honourable communication of the 16th
October, relative to the smuggling carried on be-
tween Moldavia and Bessarabia, that the city of
the Imperial army consists according to the mean-
ing of the treaty concluded with Turkey, in re-
pelling any armed irruption on the part of the Rus-
sians on the frontier, and not in acting as police,
that duty coining under the attributions of the
Moldavian government. He cannot consequently
accede to the demand made on the occasion alluded
to. " PAAR.''
Colonel Blomfield, who had been sent to this
place in consequence of the arrest of Colonel Tur,
died almoSt suddenly on the day after his arrival
from the fatigues of his journey. The Ottoman
troops of the garrison and the Wallachian staff paid
the usual military honours at his funeral. The
agents and consuls of the foreign powers were in-
vited by the English consul-general to attend the
funeral, as well as the superior civil and military
authorities. Among the Austrian officers present
were the Commandant-in-Chief ad interim, and
Generals Lallemand, Poppovitz, &c. ; and among
the Turkish staff were Omer Bey, the commandant
of the garrison, and Colonel Murad Bey (St. Andre).