The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-11 00:00:00

THE FOREIGN LEGION.

Both from Hamburg and Bremen we find in the
press denials of their being any English recruiting
agents active there. In the Wesner Zeitung it is
laid down with great emphasis that—
" Towns whieh hastened to display their neutrality
by prohibiting the export of arms and munitions of war are
not likely to wink at the export of warriors, whose known
and expressed intention it is to fig ht against a Power with
whom the German Cyslicaeration is at peace."

The Hamburger Correspondenz contains a severe
prohibition of recruiting in Hamburg, signed by
the Senate, and dated January 5, 1855.

The Lords of the Admiralty have given Mr. Ernest
Augustus Travers-Stubbs a lientenantcy in the Royal
navy for Lis bravery at the attaok of Sebastopol. He is
now on shore labouring is the trenches, and has the
command of an important battery. This Is as it should
be, and wo give their lordships all credit for encouraging a
fine noble young follow like Lieutenant Travers-Stubbs.
Captaia Browne, R.E., eldest son of the Hon. and
Very Rev, the Dean of Lismore, and lately connected
with the Kilkenny military district, was to sail for the
Crimea yesterday from Plymouth in the Princess Royal,
touching at Cork to receive troops. Lord George Paget
returns to the Crintea in the same vessel.
Captain White, of the 17th Lancers, a survivor of the
celebrated charge of the Light Cavalry at Balaklava, re-
turned to England on Tuesday in the Himalaya screw
steam-ship. The gallant officer is recovering from his
severe wound.
Sir H. Goldfinch, of the Royal Engineers, who has
lately died, served in the expedition to Copenhagen in
1807 ; the campaigns of 1809, 1810, 1813, and 1814, in-
cluding the capture of Oporto, the battles of Talavera,
Busaco, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse.
He received the gold cross for Vittoria, Nive, Orthee,
and Toulouse ; and the silver war medal with three clasps
for Talavera, Busaco, and the Pyrenees.
Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Scott, who has been ap-
pointed colonel of the 36th Foot, proceeded to the Pen-
insula in 1803, and was present with the Scots Fusilier
Guards at the passage of the Douro, capture of Oporto,
the subsequent retreat of Soult's army, and the Battle
of Talavera, where he was wounded through the body,
and, being left there in hospital, he was made prisoner.
He commanded the Scots Fusilier Guards for upwards
of three years. Ho has received the war medal with one
clasp for Talavera.
UNION BANK OF LONDON.—This bank has given no-
tice of a dividend for the half-year at the rate of 10 per
cent. per annum, together with a bonus of 2i per oent.,
making a total distribution of 7/ per cent., or at the
rate of 15 per eent. per annum.
SHIPMENT OF SPECIE TO THE EAST.—According to
a statement just prepared by Mr. James Low, the ship-
manta of specie to the East by the steamers of the
Peninsular and Oriental and General Screw companies
during the year 1854 have reached 5,805,7721., against
6,652,1771. in the preceding year, the amount in gold
being 1,222,7551., and in silver 4,583,017/. Of this the
proportion despatched from England was 4,306,3021.,
the remaining 1,499,4701. having been shipped at Mar-
seilles, Gibraltar, and Malta. The total to China was
3,753,3031.—name1y, 2,607,7371, frpm England, and
1,145,6561. from Marseilles, &c.
NEW GRENADA..—The advices from New Grenada by
the present steamer reach to the 7th of December, under
which date it was rumoured that the forces of the legal
government, after having routed those of the insurgent
Melo on several occasons, were assaulting Bogota, and
that Melo had been cut off from communication with
that city.
PERU.—From Peru it is reported that a battle had
been fought between the insurgent party. under Elias,
and General Moran, near Arequipa, in which Elias had
1,200 lien killed or wounded. On the other hand, state-
ments are at the same time made that the Government
troops, under the President Echinique, were daily
losing ground, and that Castilla had approached close
to Lima.
SEDGLEY. DEATH FROM A FALL OP COIL. •—• On
Wednesday last, an inquest was held before T. M. Phil-
lips, at the White Chimneys, Gornall Wood, on the
body of John Marsh, about ten years old, who was
killed by a piece of coal falling upon him whilst at work
on the previous Saturday evening in a pit, the property
of Messrs. John and William Pearson, situate at Kings-
winford. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental
death."

MR. COEDM/ IND THE WEST•RIDING CONSTITUENCY.
—ln accordance with subsequent arrangements, Mr.
Cobden is announced to address his constituents in the
Music Hall, Leeds, on Wednesday evening, Jau. 17,
and not on Tuesday evening, as proposed in the first
instance.

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION. ROYAL VISIT THIS
DAY.—The exhibition of the Photographic Society was
visited at 11 o'clock this morning by his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert. The collection, which is rather an
extensive one, has only just been completed, and will
be open to the public after a private view to-morrow.
It was the intention of her Majesty to have been
present this morning ; but a slight cold and the severity
of the weather (a dense fog) prevented her. The pictures
include many by distinguished amateurs, and agreeably
illustrate the progress made in the different branches
of photography. Not the least interesting and attrac-
tive are the stereoscopic pictures. Several were exhi-
bited by professional gentlemen—one stand being re-
markable, as it not only exhibited the wonders of the
stereoscope in producing the illusion- of solidity, but
presented wonderfully accurate likenesses of popular
and well-known men, such as Mr. Charles Dickens,
Mr. G. V. Brooke, dr. Charles Kean, Mr. Macready,
Mr. Charles Mathews, J. B. Gough, &c. These por-
traits were from the photographic establishment of Mr.
Mayan, in Regent7streyt.