The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-13 00:00:00

FRANCE

We have received the Paris paj )ers of yesterday,
The Moniteur says :
..

"According to letters from thi) Crimea, under
date of the 25th of December the Russians made a
sortie on the night of the 20th of December, on the
left of the French lines, on the oside of Fort Qua-
rantine.

"The 9th battalion of Chasgettrs-k-Pied, which
was on duty, let them come up within 20 paces,
when they poured a volley into them, threw them
info disorder, and, then rushing forward, pursued
them till they were under the guns of the forts.
At the same time the Russians a tt acked the right of
the English army, but were driven back with con-
siderable loss. The batteries of b ombs and mortars
did great havoc among them. IChe Russians lost
two field-guns.

" According to those same letters the sanitary
condition of the allied armies was excellent; dysen-
tery had nearly disappeared, an d there were no
cases of cholera. The temperature was as mild as
that of Italy."
The Moniteur publishes the following account of
the departure ef Admiral Hameli u taken from the
Journal de Constottinople:—
" Admiral Hamelin, accompanied by M. Bonet-
Willaumez, embarked on the 24th t of December, at
8 p.m., on board the Panama., which weighed
anchor the following morning at 7 . While getting
under way the Montebello fired. a salute of 19
guns, and the crews of the other vessels manned
the yards and gave three cheers for the Emperor
and Admiral Hamelin.
"As the Panama left the Bay of Kamiesh and
came among the English ships nchored outside,
the Agamemnon, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral
Lyons, hoisted the French flag a a the mizen, and•
fired a salute of 19 guns, which 1 ras responded to
by the Napoleon. The English crt )ws manned yards
and cheered lustily. The crew of the Panama re-
sponded by shouts of 'Ville mpereur !" Vive
Amiral Hamelin!'

Yesterday and the day before 'Ole officers of the
detachments of the Imperial Gass d, leaving for the
Crimea, dined with the Emperor and the Empress
at the Tuileries. After dinner their Majesties
joined the groups of their guests ; and when the
latter were taking leave, the Emperor thus ad-
dressed them :—" My thoughts NI follow you in
the distant country, where you are going to fight
for the cause of right and for tit e honour of the
country." These words were re ceived with en-
thusiastic cries of " Vive l'L'( ereur " Vive
l'lmperutrice !"

"Admiral Hamelin arrived at (lonstantinople on
Tuesday the 26th, and proceeded to the palace of
the French embassy to pay a visih to his Imperial
Highness Prince Napoleon and I. Benedetti, the
Charge d'Affaires. On the follow ing day Admiral
Hamelin visited the French hospittals. During this
visit Vice-Admiral Ahmed Pasha,. commanding the
Ottoman squadron in the Black S :a, had been on
board the Christophe Colombe, placed at the dis-
posal of Admiral Hamelin, to ta! {e leave of the
French Admiral.
" At 3 in the afternoon Ahmed Pasha and Riza
Bey proceeded on board the Chin tophe Colombe,
and presented Admiral Hamelin, on the part of
the Grand Vizier, with the diplona; L and insignia of
the Order of Medjidie, first class„ :accorded to him
by the Sultan.
" At 4 o'clock Admiral Hamel #t and Rear-Ad.

miral Bouet-Willaumez left on board the Chns-
tophe Colombe for France.

We read in the Constiitctionnel According
to information which we believe to be correct, the
indirect revenue for the month of December ex-
ceeded by more than four millions that of the cor-
responding month of the preceding year. This in-
crease, which more than makes up for the decrease
in previous months, will bring up the receipts of
the year to a sum equal to that of 1853, and will
realise the calculations made in drawing out the
budget of 1854. If it be called to mind that the
returns of 1853 were higher than those of preceding
years, there is reason for congratulation on the re-
sults obtained in 1854, notwithstanding the war,
the insufficiency of the vintage, and the food crisis,
which weighed on the first months of the year."

BOURSE, JAN. 12.—CLosiNG PRICES.
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
4 per Cents 92 —92 f. --c.
per Cents 66 40 66 75
Credit Mobilier 732 50 Roman •

Credit Fonder
Belgian Fives
Piedmontese

Austrian
Spanish Threes
86 50 Home Debt

RAILWAYS-FOR CASH.

82i
81
36i
32t

fr. c. fr. c.
Orleans
Western 640 Rouen 1010
Cette

Mediterranean 832 50 Havre .

Northern

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Jan. 9.—The .Austrian, Corresponden;
the medium universally chosen by this Government
for communicating to the public through the press,
publishes the following communicated article re-
specting the important proceedings of the last few
days :
" The public are already aware that the plenipotentiaries
of the Three Powers allied by the treaty of Dec. 2 met on
the 26th ult., in consequence of a communication from
the Imperial Russian Ambassador, Prince Gortschakoff,
who declared himself empowered to treat generally on
the subject of the well-known four points. It is also
known that they have fixed in a more definite manner
the sense and bearing of th.oo puluts by their inter-
1... wt.. Tee imperial Russian Ambassador did not
find his powers sufficiently extensive to enable him to
speak on the bases thus elucidated. It was in conse-
quence agreed that further negotiation would be
postponed for fourteen days, during which period
Prince Gortschakoff promised to obtain further instruc-
tions frora his court. The day before yesterday, the
6th inst., the Russian ambassador informed the imperial
minister of foreign affairs, Count von Buol-Schauenstein,
that the instructions which he had asked of his court bad
arrived, whereon yesterday a conference was held between
the imperial French and the royal Britannic ambassa-
dors, together with the Count von Buol and Prince
Gortschakoff, at the imperial ministry of foreign affairs.
From the mutual explanations then exchanged it re-
sulted that the representatives of the Four Powers were
essentially agreed in their understanding of the sense
and general bearing of the fundamental points, and con-
sequently—saving the assent of the cabinets of Paris and
London yet to be obtained—a basis is gained upon
which negotiations for the restoration of the peace of
Europe may begin.
" We greet this preliminary result with great satisfac-
tion, and at the same time believe we may venture to
express our expectation that the high courts of France
and England and the Sublime Porte will similarly see in
it a result fully capable of serving as a basis for the ne-
gotiatig of a conclusive and secure peace,"