The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-17 00:00:00

THE FOREIGN LEGION.

The Tom-nal de Geneve reports :—" Enlistments for
the Foreign Legion in the pay of England are proceed-
ing very actively in Berne, and the police have not
hitherto interfered to prevent them ; on the contrary,
many of our functionaries consider it fortunate for the
country to get rid of a considerable number of strong
and robust men, who are unable or unwilling to earn
an existence by working. I cannot tell you if overtures
were made to the Federal Council on the subject ; but
if I am to judge by the result of the enlistments thus
practised underhand, there is no necessity to embarrass
the Federal Council by an application for leave to re-
cruit in Switzerland, the operation succeeding perfectly
well without it."

The Senate of Lubeck has just issued a prohibition o:
foreign enlistment in that free town. Prussia has pub.
lished prohibitions in Treves and Magdeburg.

We understand that the visit of their Majesties the
Emperor and Empress of the French to this country
will most probably take place about the first week of
April. The visit, as at present arranged, is to be one
elf a private character.
ILLNESS OP THE COUNTESS OP CARLISLE.—We regret
to learn the venerable Countess of Carlisle has been
attacked by severe illness and but slight hopes are en-
tertained of her ladyship's recovery. Lady Dover left
town last week for Castle Howard, Yorkshire, to attend
the sick chamber of her mother ; and since then, on
Monday evening, a telegraphic message was received in
town, summoning the other members of her family to
the Earl of Carlisle's country seat. The Duchess of
Sutherland left Stafford Heuse yesterday morning for
Castle Howard. The Earl of Carlisle and Lady Caro-
line Lascelles are also at Castle Howard.
DRAMATIC READING.—Last evening Mr. Adolphus
Francis gave the seventh of a course of readings at the
Sussex Hall, Leadenhall-street. The piece selected was
Sheridan Knowles' play of Virginius, in rendering which
Mr. Francis enchained the attention of a select audience
from first to last, and gave general satisfaction. The
characters were well individualised ; and where stirring
declamation was required he came out in great force.
His elocutionary powers are of a high order.
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE COALITION CABINET.—
We are enabled to state that Lord Lyndhurst has un-
dertaken to bring the whole question of the conduct of
the Government, in connection with the gross mismanage-
ment of the war, be, before the House of Lords, within
a few days of the re-assembling of Parliament. The
country will rejoice to learn this fact ; for, although the
noble and learned lord is now in his eighty-fourth year,
his perceptions are as clear, and his mind is as vigorous,
as they were half a century ago. The subject,could not
be in better bands, as every ono will admit who remem-
bers the brilliant speech which his lordship made last
session, when he denounced the Czar in terms of the
most scathing kind, and pointed eut, with a terrible ac-
curacy and effect, the enormous errors which ministers
had committed in the conduct of the war.—Morning
Advertiser.

LATEST NW.

MARSEILLES, JAN. 16

The Imperial Guards left the port to-day,
amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the population.
The Euphrate, which left Constantinople on
the Bth, is expected, but has not arrived.

The Vulcan, English war steamer, the Ripon,
and another steamer, have left with the Imperial
Guards on board."

VIENNA, TUESDAY,

A telegraphic despatch has been, transmitted to
the Baron de Bruck at Ccnstantinople, inviting

that diplomatist to take the vacant portfolio,

The Baron de Bruok formerly held the post which

M. Baumgartner has quitted.

The Presse contains a letter from Turin, which

states that the contingent of troops to be furnished

by Sardinia will be from 15,000 to 20,000 men.
The transport of them will be at the charge of
France and England, and the expenses will be

supported by a loan which those powers w:

facilitate as much as possible. The same letter
states as certain that General La Marmora, who

now acts as Minister of War, will have the com.

mand of the Sardinian division. It had been ox•

pected that the Duke of Genoa, the brother of
the King, would receive that post, but his health

will not allow it.

The Wanderer has a telegraphic despatch, of
the 10th, from Kischeneff, in which it is said thai
Prince Menschikoff urgently demands that rein•

forcements to the amount of 40,000 men may be

sent him. In accordance with this request,
35,000 foot have been sent from Bessarabia, and
5,000 horse from Uman, a district in the Crimea.
This news comes by way of Czernowitz, from

Kischeneff7 but it must be received with great
reserve, as it is highly probable that the Russians
spread—false reports with the express intention
that they should find their way into the Aus-
trian papers.

The Presse has a despatch of the 4th, via Sem•

lin, from Constantinople, in which it is said tha

in one of their sorties the Russians captured 18
Englishmen, three of whom were officers. There
had been a tremendous storm at Kamiesch, Bala-

klava. According to telegraphic advices of the
9th, from Bucharest, the English and French
Consuls have presented Notes from their Govern-

ments, in which Stirbey was requested to make
known by a public document that the Principality
renounced the Protectorate of Russia.

The Oest. Correspondenz has the following, of
the 7th, from Odessa :—" Fifty battalions are
on their way from Bessarabia and the Ukraine
to the Crimea. Since the 6th the thermometer
has been at eight degrees below zero (14.00 Fah-
renheit)." Until new we have had no winter in

Vienna in the strict sense of the word. The

mercury in Reaumur's thermometer has only once
been down to the freezing point. Snow fell this
morning, but it soon melted.

The Wurtembwrg Moniteur, in emu m emting
the sense of M. Manteuffel's note to Count Buol
of the sth inst., shows the position which the
Prussian Cabinet has chosen to take up at the

moment when invited to mobilise its army. The

Prussian Minister, in declining to accede to the
request, urges that Austria has nothing to fear
while maintaining a defensive position, " the
peace-loving disposition and the assurances of
the Emperor of Russia being worthy of all
confidence." He then reminds the Vienna
Cabinet that the treaty of April 20, 1854, was
made in order to restore peace, and not to extend
war, and also that it prescribed a community of
action to the contracting powers. This part of
the treaty M. Manteuffel complains Austria has
not observed ; but, by concluding with other
powers treaties to which Prussia was not a party,
has virtually set the treaty of April aside. M.
Manteuffel adds, somewhat haughtily, that Prussia
wants no 36 days' notice for mobilising 100,000

men, seeing its government has unostentatiously
taken its measures, and is ready to defend and
assert the interests of the country " from what-
ever quarter they may be menaced."