The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-15 00:00:00

morning.

Heavy explosions and very destructive fires
were produced in a few hours.

Nearly all .the principal buildings on Vargoe,
and many more on Svartoe, including those of the
dockyard and arsenal, are burnt.
Few casualties have occurred, and no lives lost
in the Allied fleet.

DANTZIC, TUESDAY, AUG. 14, 11 A.M.

The bombardment of Sweaborg commenced at
6 o'clock last Thursday morning, and continued
until daylight on Saturday.
The town itself is burnt to the ground—not
one house left.
The dockyards are completely destroyed.
All the earthworks and batteries are knocked

to pieces. •
Six magazines blew up.
In fact, Sweaborg exists no more.
On our side there are very few casualties.
This news was brought by the French steamer
Pelican.

The following telegraphic despatch has been
received from Paris :

PARIS, AUG. 14.
The following despatch was posted up at the
Bourse to-day :
ADMIRAL PENAUD TO THE MINISTER

OF MARINE.

On Board the Tourville, Aug. 11.

The bombardment of Sweaborg by the allied
squadrons has been attended With complete suo-

cess.

An immense conflagration, which lasted for 45
hours, has destroyed nearly all the storehouses
and magazines of the Arsenal, which is a complete

ruin.

Various powder magazines and stores of projee-

tiles blew up.

The enemy has received a terrible blow, and

suffers an enormous loss.

Our loss is insignificant in men, and nothing

whatever in, material.

The crews'are in a state of enthusiasm.

MARSEILLES, AUG. 14.
The Philippe Auguste has come in. She brings
intelligence from Constantinople to the 4th.
A battle was expected near Erzeroum. Generals
Fitzgerald and Evans had quitted the Turkish
service in conseqUence of ill-health.

Captain •
Peel, R.N , had arrived, wounded, at
Malta. He goes to Switzerland.
The last accounts which have reached Vienna
a
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from Constantinople state that it is not probable

that Omer Pacha will take the command of the

army of Asia.

MARSEILLES, AUG. 14 (Evening.)
General Canrobert has arrived in the Indus.

•
General Espinasse takes his command.
The Russians continue to cannonade the ad-
vanced works, especially the batteries command.
ing the shipping in the harbour.

No one was allowed to approach the masked

batteries of the Allies.

General Pelissier constantly inspected the

works at Kamiesch.

Capt. (now Admiral) Lushington, and Generals
Fraser and Sherly, have arrived here.

TRIESTE, AUG. 14.

Accounts from Cairo, of the sth, state that the
Bedouins continued to resist, after having de-
feated the Egyptians.

The King of Abyssinia was said to be marching
on Ghellebert, with a view to take it.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Moniteur contains decrees authorising 106
persons to accept and wear different foreign orders.
Among them are the following :—The Duke Tle
Grammont, French minister at Turin, the grand
cross of the Sardinian order of St. Maurice and St.
Lazarus ; General Forey, Turkish order of the
Medjidie, first-class • General Baron de Letang,
grand officer of the Neapolitan order of St. Georges
de la Reunion, and General Barbeyrac, commander
of the same order ; Prince de Latour-d'Auvergne-
Lauraguas, French Minister at Weimar, Count de
Sartiges, French Minister at Washington, and
General Sauvan, grand crosses of the Roman
order of St. Gregory the Great ; General Marey-
Monge, grand cross of the order of the Oak Crown
of the Netherlands, &c., &c.
The return of General Canrobert to France is
said to be at the express desire of the Emperor.
What the real cause is of withdrawing an officer
from a place where he had so much distinguished
himself, and where there is yet ample room for
further distinction, it is hard to say. The rumour
has been very prevalent for some days that Gene-
ral Canrobert will be raised to the dignity of a
Marshal of France, and that, though no very great
teat of arms as yet justifies the conferring such an
honour, yet that General Pelissier will also receive
it. It'would be difficult to name Canrobert and
pass by Pelissier without giving offence, and so the
latter will have to thank the former for his baton.
Imperial decrees, in the Bulletin des Lois of yes-
terday, open extraordinary credits of 97,075,000 fr.
and 4,789,000 fr. to the Minister of Marine for the
year 1855, and annual credits previously granted
to the amount of 1,625,000 fr. The larger sum is
stated to be required by the necessity of maintain-
ing a greater number of vessels afloat, of complet-
ing the transformation of sailing ships into screw-
vessels, and of keeping up the necessary amount of
supplies in the ports.
The Annales de la Colonisation Algerienne says :
—" For the last twelve months not a single expe-
dition has taken place, nor a single gun been fired,
in Algeria. This is the first time since 1830 that
such a remark could be made, and there is every
reason to hope that this cessation of hostilities will
continue, because it does not result from transient
causes, but from a state of things which cannot but
go on improving."

BOURSE, AUG. 12.—CLOSING PRICES.
4 per Cents Cash.
91 75 End of Month.
i 94f.
3 per Cents 67 5 67 75c.
45
Credit Mobilier ll9O Roman
Credit Fonder 550 Amstrian
Belgian Fives ..... ... Spanish Threes
Piedmontese
..... - Home Debt

RAILWAYS—FOII CASH.
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Western .......... 825 Rouen
Oette .............. Strasburg
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Northern