The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-29 00:00:00

THE CRIMEA.

Tho Russian organs in the press affect to feel as
much sacurity with regard to Nicolaieff as it for-
merly did about Sebastopol. The National Gazdte
of Berlin, which supports Russian interests, an-
nounces that the Boug has been rendered impractic-
able to the extent of several miles by means of
materials sunk, infernal machines, and batteries on
the coast. Five corps d'armee, reinforced by mili-
tia, are to unite in preventing the Allies from
gpailaiDg possession of the place. Notwithstanding

all these means of resistance, it appears that the
Czar has thought it advisable to change his resi-
dence, and if the Austrian Correspondent may be
credited the Emperor Alexander has already left
for Elizabethgrad, situated 130 English miles to the
north of Nicolaieff.

The _Austrian Gazette contains a letter from
Kalish of the 21st, which says :—" All the troops
passing through Nicolaieff on their way to the
Crimea, are reviewed by the Emperor Alexander.
Amongst others the Emperor inspected the Hussar
regiment of the body guard, which left the Baltic
provinces in August last year with three light regi-
ments of the guard. Battalions of militia are ar-
riving daily at Nicolaieff, and are being directed
on the Crimea and other points of the Black Sea."
A letter, of Ist Oct., from the colony of German
Mennonites, near the Sea of Azoff, published in
the Berlin Kreuz-Zeitung, says that within the last
few days upwards of 1,000 waggons, each drawn
by two horses, have passed through with corn
and flour for the Russian army in the Crimea ;
besides which they carry provisions and provender
with them for three weeks' consumption, and are
to convey provisions from Perekop to Simpheropol.
It is said that the nobles have made a present to
the Emperor of this large quantity of provisions,
and placed the means of conveyance at his dis-
posal. There can be no doubt of the existence of
an unknown military road into the Crimea, with an
organised system of relays of waggons and horses
to transport the sick and wounded into the interior
of Russia. In many parts of the coast of the Sea
of Azoff the enemy have certainly committed much
havoc, but the quantity of grain destroyed is for-
tunately not so large as might have been expected,
and the price of wheat has not risen in consequence,
but remains at the former price of 4i roubles per
tsohetwert.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
The Duke and Duchess of Brabant left St.
Cloud for Brussels yesterday, at 2 o'clock p.m.
Their Royal Highnesses were accompanied by
Prince Napoleon to the station of the Northern
Railway, where they were received by M. Firmin
Rogier, the Belgian Minister, and Baron de
Rothschild, President of the Board of Directors.
Prince and Princess de Chimay accompanied the
Duke and Duchess to Brussels.

The Levant mail has reached with intelligence
from Constantinople of the 18th. General Vivian
was preparing to embark for Kertch, with the re-
mainder of the Anglo-Turkish Contingent. The
Bashi-Bazouks, who are to form part of that corps,
had been reviewed by the General, and were shortly
to leave for the same destination. Troops con-
tinued to arrive daily from France. On the 18th
1,200 men of the 64th Regiment of the Line had
landed from the Panama steam frigate.
The accounts from the Crimea of the 15th pre-
sented little or no interest. Fresh troops were to
be sent to Eupatoria. It was said that the corps
of army operating in that direction would be rein-
forced by three divisions. The Russians, who at
first were alarmed by the agglomeration of the allied
troops in that direction, and had considerably in-
creased the force opposed to them, had subsequently
withdrawn them into the interior, as if they
wished to avoid a collision. On the other hand,
the French corps, which had advanced beyond
the Belbek, where it was supposed they intended
to take up a position, had been ordered to return
to their former quarters on the Tohernaya and in
the Valley of Baidar. It was accordingly believed
that the allies would confine themselves during
winter to attack with vigour the forts situate to the
north of Sebastopol, and drive the Russians out of
their positions. Preparations to that effect were
making, in spite of the attempts of the enemy to
retard them by daily increasing the intensity of his
fire against the town.
Lord Lansdowne has arrived in Paris.

BOURSE' OCT. 27, Two o'clock.—The market has
been very dull, and rates slightly declining, as pur-
chasers of stock apprehend that titles of Rentes and
of the new loan will be delivered for transfer at the
end if the month. There has also been a slight
fail in the other descriptions of securities. The
Threes have been done at 64f. 30c. and 64f. 20c. ;
Mobilier at I,lBof. sellers ; and Austrian shares
from 725 f. to 720 f. _ _

Half-past Three.--The Rentes are offered, but
without great variation. The following are the
last quotations :

Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
4 per Cents VO 59 —f. —c.
3 per Cents 64 15 64 25

New Loan 64 30
Bank Shares 3200

Roman

Credit Mobilier llB3 75 Austrian
Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes
Piedmontese B5 Home Debt

RAILWAYS—MI CASH.
fr. c. c
Orlams , 1105 Western 761 15
Northern . 872 50 Strasburg
Lyons .......1120 New Ditto 760
Mediterranean 1220 Grand Central 587 50
Lyons Geneva 660 Testa
Cede 667 50 Austrian C0rn....... 720

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miles, instead of 300 square miles of open sea, free
from ice, (S7c., had been discovered.

The trial of Wagner, charged with violating the
neutrality laws by enlisting a man named Cook for
service in the Crimea, was commenced on the 12th in
the United States District Court, before Judge In-.
gerson. This is the first case tried for this offence
in this court, and is looked to with great interest.
There was a great array of counsel engaged for the
defence—Hon. Ogden Hoffman, Attorney-General;
et-judge Beebe, Mr. Carpenter, and Mr. Fullerton.
Mr. Charles Edwards was in court watching the
proceedings, as standing counsel of the British con-
sulate in this city. The district attorney, Mr.
M'Keon, appeared for the prosecution. The jury
found the prisoner guilty. The penalty is not
more than $l,OOO fine, and three year,' imprison-
ment. The case will be argued on points of law.
It appears that an absurd report had prevailed
that Santa Anna is in Washington.
The New York Herald says
" Our correspondent at Matamoros, Mexico, now in
the camp of the Liberating Army of the Nortb,' situ-
ated forty miles from that city, sends US three most in-
teresting and important letters, dated at the la,t•named
place on Sept. 4, 14, and 24. Governor Vidaurri, com-
mander-in-chief, had decreed the adoptionof the Ceballos
tariff in a popularly modified shape, and the ports of
Matamoros and Tampico were, in consequence, closed
against foreign commerce until the promulgation of more
definite instructions. Vidaurri had also ordered, on the
21st of August, that the name of every man belonging
to the army of Santa Anna should be struck from the
military rolls of the country, and that the officers should
be held responsible as criminals and malefactors' for
the deeds done and blood shed in the dictator's name.
The city of Zacatecas bad revolted, and General Garza
had entered San Luis Potosi at the head of 3,000
frontier men. Santa Anna's generals, Gutian, Cruz, and
Parrudi thereupon fled to Guadalajara. On 30th Aug.
a squadron of General Woll's cavalry came out from
Matamoros, and met a detachment, consisting of 200
men, of Garza's army, near La Viedra, when a bloody
battle ensued, in which the revolutionary forces
triumphed. On both aides 44 men were killed and over
30 wounded. Of Santa Anna's party three officers were
killed. General Woll was summoned to surrender Ma-
tamoros, which he refused to do, but after a very anxious
time, and witnessing the complete demoralisation of the
garrison, he turned over the command to Gen. Castro,
and fled from the city, on the night of the 7th ultimo, to
Brownsville, where he sought the protection of Major
Giles Porter, of the United States army, at Fort Brown.
Woll took with him 70,100 dollars from the military
chest, imitating Santa Anna to the letter."

We learn from Hava,nnah, under date of the Bth
inst., that despatches had been received from Mad-
rid condemning the action of General Concha in
maintaining the volunteers of the island in arms
d uring a time of peace and quiet.
By way of San Francisco we have important
news from Japan. While the representatives of
France, England, and Russia have been engaged in
negotiating treaties with the Japanese, the Gover-
nor of Simado has issued a proclamation denying
the right of Americans to reside in Japan, except
in cases of shipwreck or distress, thus practically
repudiating the treaty entered into with the United
States, and reducing the rights of its citizens to
the mere privilege of visiting the ports of the king-
dom as harbou"s of refuge.

There had been two arrivals at New York from
California by the steamers Northern Light and Em-
pire City, with dates to the 20th ult. The news is
somewhat important and startling. Previous ad-
vices left the people of the Pacific State quietly
depositing their ballots for the choice of rulers, and.
we are now enabled to give the result of their votes.
It will surprise many, no doubt, to learn that Mr.
J. Neely Johnson, the Know-nothing candidate
for governor, has defeated Governor Bigler by
about 5,000 majority, and that the whole American
State ticket is elected. The Know-nothings have
also secured a majority in the State Legislature,
which knocks Gwin's chances for the United States
Senate into the shade, and secures one more
American, at least, to that body. The cholera
broke out among the passengers on board the Nica-
ragua steamer Uncle Sam, on her passage up to
San Francisco, and before she arrived in port 106
fell victims to the fearful disease.

COMMERCIAL.
Nsvt Your, Oar. 16.

The tightness of the money market which was re-
marked a week since is now considerably relieved. This
change is the result of a cessation for the present, of
specie shipments to Europe, and of the customary re-
ceipts (fully 2,000,000 dole. this week) of coin from the
Pacific side. We find to-day a better facility of obtain-
ing loans on call and discounts on business paper. The
banks to-day have discounted liberally, and will pro-
bably chow a small increase in the aggregates at the
close of the week.

In freights we hear of to Liverpool, 8000 brie. flour at
4s. ; about 30,000 bushels grain at 10Id. to 204 d.; 800
bl►les cotton at id., and rosin at 4s. The steamer has
1000 brie. apples at 5s ; 300 packages india rubber goods
at 60s ; 300 trcs lard at 605.; 1000 boxes cheese at 695.
In the cotton market there is very little business
doing.
The market for breadstuff& was dell. It is said that
many of the orders sent by the English and French Go•
vernments still remain unexecuted, as they are limited
to a figure below the present rates.