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 result, 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 appears to be the
meeting-place appointed for the vessels of the
'squadron."
The Duke de Cambaceres, Grand Master of the
Ceremonies, and the Marquis de Chaumont-Quitry,
Chamberlain of the Emperor, left 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 proceeded to Bordeaux
on the occasion.

The Moniteur, the Debats, the Pays, and indeed
almost every one of the Paris journals, morning
and evening, with the exception of the Constittc-
tionnel, have fallen into a most amusing mistake,
having published as a bonotfide despatch, a mysti-
fication which appeared in the Herald, and which
is represented by that journal as having been
written by Lord Raglan, in explanation of the late
expedition to liertch. Some idea of the extent of
the mystification may be formed from the part that
General Sir George Brown is called "a promising
young officer," and that the 42d, 71st, and 93d
Highland regiments are declared to have been de-
spatched on the service, in the hope that "their
costume would excite novel emotions among the
Russian soldiers, and tend to consolidate our (the
English) alliance with any Circassians who might
see them from the coast."

Several companies of the waggon-train, consist-
ing of 250 men and 320 horses, arrived in Paris
on Tuesday and the day before from the camp at
Boulogne, .and immediately proceeded by the
Lyons railway to Marseilles to embark for the
Crimea.

The following vessels have left Marseilles with
troops and stores for • Constantinople within the
last few days :—On the 19th the Clyde, of the Mes-
sageries Imperiales ; on the 20th the English
steam-transport the Caledonia ; and on the 21st
the English steam-transports the Arabia, the Nor-
manby, and the New York ; and likewise the
Sinai steam-packet. Gen. Bentinck took his pas-
sage in this last-named steamer. A certain num-
ber of horses were embarked on each of these
vessels.

"The French caravan of pilgrims," says the
Univeis, "has happily terminated its excursion to
the Holy Land. The last letters which we received
had announced their departure from Jerusalem for
April 16.
The following private telegraphic despatch has
been received :
" MADRID, 221—The law relative to the sale of
the Church-lands is to come into effect on June 1."

BOURSE, MAY 23.—CLOSING PRICES.
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
41 per Cents 93 70 93f. 75'.
3 per Cents 6B 80 68 80
Credit Mobilier BOO Roman
Credit Fonder 530 Austrian

Belgian Five 5....,... Spanish Threes 364
Piedmontese ...... 86 Home Debt 3lt

RAILWAYS -IFOR CASH.

IT. c. fr.
Orleans
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Cate 642 50 Strasburg .
Mediterranean lll'3 75 Havre • 572 50
Northern