The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Moniteur of yesterday contains an article on
the sanitary state of the French army in the Crimea.
In substance is summed up in the following con-
cluding sentence :—The army enjoys as good health
as could possibly have been hoped for. The num-
ber of men taken into the ambulances, which in the
month of March was 7,585, was in April reduced
to 5,600, while the number of those who left cured
in the same month was 1,399, having been 1,064
in March. This has been the rmult, although, in
consequence of the siege operations, the wounded
were more numerous in April than in March. The
army of the Crimea is, then, in good condition to
fulfil its mission. _ _ _

Under date of Vienna, May 16, the Moniteur
publishes the following :
" The Austrian squadron' under the command
of the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, will leave
Trieste in a few days. Salamis a ppears to be the
meeting-place appointed for flu.) vessels of the
squadron."
The Duke de Cambacerbs, Grard Master of the
Ceremonies, and the Marquis de Ohaumont-Quitry,
Chamberlain of the Emperor, loft yesterday for
Bordeaux to await the arrival of the King of Por-
tugal, and his brother, the Duke 'of Oporto. Baron
de Paiva, the Portuguese Minister, and the staff
of his Legation, have also proc,3E:ded to Bordeaux
on the occasion.

The Moniteur, the Debats, tho Pays, and indeed
almost every one of the Paris journals, morning
and evening, with the exception of the Constitu-
tionnel, have fallen into a most :amusing mistake,
having published as a bona fide despatch, a mysti-
fication which appeared in the Pierald, and which
is represented by that journr ) as having been
written by Lord Raglan, in exp I anation of the late
expedition to Kertch. Some idtoa of the extent of
the mystification may be formed. from the part that
General Sir George Brown is c:i lied "a promising
young officer," and that the .42d, 71st, and 93d
Highland regiments are declarcx I to have been de=
spatched on the service, in the. hope that "their
costume would excite novel eni otions among the
Russian soldiers, and tend to .nsolidate our (the
English) alliance with any Cir as iisians who might
see them from the coast." . .

Several companies of the wi •gon-train, consist-
ing of 250 men and 320 horse: 3, arrived in Paris
on Tuesday and the day before from the camp ,a.t
Boulogne, and immediately proceeded by the
Lyons railway to Marseilles i o embark for the
Crimea.

The following vessels have eft Marseilles with
troops and stores for Constant inople within the
last few days :—On the 19th t tic Clyde, of the Mes-
sageries Imperiales ; on the 20th the English
steam-transport the Caledon is ; and on the 21st
the English steam-transports tl ie Arabia, the Nor-
manby, and the New York:.'; and likewise the
Sinai steam-packet. Gen. II( ttinck took his pas-
sage in this last-named steam. A certain num-
ber of horses were embarked on each of these
vessels.
"The French caravan of 4.pilgrims," says the
Univers, " has happily termii 113 6ted its excursion to
the Holy Land. The last letti3t s which we received
had announced their departult.e . from Jerusalem for
April 16.
The following private telegraphic despatch has
been received :
" MADRID, 22d.—The law, rt lative to the sale of
the Church-lands is to come in to effect on June 1."

BOURSE, MAY 23.— CV >SING PRICES.
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
4 per Cents 93 70 .' 93f. 75c.
3 per Cents 6B 80 63 80
Credit Mobilior BOO Rolm ,u
Credit Foncier 530 Austi ian
Belgian Fives — Spani eh Throes
Piedmontese B5 Horm ) Debt

RAILWAYS--1108 I DASH.

fr. c.

Orleans ll9O Lycna s . 1160
Western • 675 ROW a 1045
Cate ' 642 50 Strni burg
Mediterranean 1103 75 Ha' 1 e 572 50
Northern ... 892 Che rl surg