The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-09 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
No important official intelligence has reached
Paris from the.F.eat of war.
Detailed reports have arrived of the late bom-
bardment. There certainly was a period when the
allied generals had decided on storming a point of

Sebastopol at the large breach. On reflection,
however, it was calculated that the troops would
have been too much exposed to a cross fire, whilst
the breach itself was not sufficiently complete—
that is, not sufficiently on a level with the earth to
justify the attack. The idea, therefore, was given
np ; and the breach, adds he report, has since
been repaired by the enemy.
There are no further ministerial changes talked
of for the present. It does not seem to be true
that Marshal Vaillant tondered his resignation, as
was reported ; but there is some grqund for believ-
ing that Admiral Hamelin, the Minister of Marine,
showed some signs of discontent, which are now
looked on as quite appeased, so ends this Ministe-
rial crisis.
We read in the Moniteur :—" The Patrie, the
Constitutionnel, and the Pays, on the 6th and 7th,
announced news from the Crimea, said to have
been received by telegraph. The Government has
not had any such accounts. The last despatches
that reached the Minister of War are dated mid-
night of the 6th, and only contain details of military
service. All news received by the Government,
and which can be published without detriment to
the operations of the war, are immediately inserted
in the Moniteur. The other journals only publish
on their own private responsibility."
Marshal Magnan, Commander-in-Chief of the
army of the east of France, yesterday reviewed the
first brigade of the first division, commanded by.
General de Geraudon, near the Polygone of Viii-
cennes. After passing along the line, the marshal
caused the troops to go through a number of move-
ments, which were executed with admirable pre-
cision.

The Nouvelliste of Marseilles contains a letter
from before Sebastopol of the 24th ult., which
says :—" As the French troops are occupied in
mounting a battery of 30 guns at about 40 yards
from the Flagstaff Bastion, they only fire in order to
prevent the Russians from re-establishing their
embrasures, but as soon as this new battery is
ready I expect that the fire will re-open with
more vigour than ever. We skall then occupy the
Central and Flagstaff Bastions, and if we do not
enter the town by assault, batteries will be erected,
which will demolish the w'nole of the southern
part. The sanitary state of the army is very satis-
factory, there being very few sick."
A. letter from Kamiesh. Bay, of the 24th ult.,
says :—" The Jean Bart, screw-ship of the line,
and the Megere, screw advice boat, left yes-
terday for Eupatoria with troops for Omer
Pacha. The vessels of the line Trident and
Turenne, towed by the steam corvettes Phle-
geton and Laplace, arrived here this morning,
all bringing troops and ammunition. A new
detachment of marine artillery has been demanded
by the General-in-Chief, and is shortly expected—
the services of the portion of that force now before
Sebastopol having been. found very valuable. Our
situation may be thus sumnned up :—ln the Crimea
there are two armies in presence ; one, which ad-
vances constantly, and the other, which, though
defending itself well, has not ceased for a single
day to lose ground, foot by foot and inch by inch.
It is easy to see with which eventually the advan-
tage must remain." .
Letters brought from Constantinople by the
Indus, just arrived at Marseilles, state that a
rumour was prevalent of the formation of a camp
of 200,00 C, men at Varna. There is some talk of an
attack on the Russians in the open country north
of the town. Adv. ices from Athena state that
Prince Galatzin is busily intriguing there in favour
of Russia, and distributing considerable sums of
money among the Russian partisans.

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