The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The Duke and Duchess de Brabant left Paris for
Fontainebleau, at 2 o'clock yesterday morning, by
the Lyons Railway, accompanied by all the persons
of their suite. On reaching the Palace, at about
10 o'clock, their Royal Highnesses heard mass in
the chapel, and afterwards went over the different
parts of the Imperial residence. The Duke and
Duchess then took a long drive in the forest, after
which they set off on their return to St. Cloud,
where they arrived a little before 6 o'clock.
The Emperor is to assist to-night, with the Duke
and Duchess of Brabant, at the representation of
the Vepres siciliennes at the Grand Opera.
The departure of the Duke and Duchess of Bra-
bant is fixed for Wednesday.

A most dreadful accident occurred yesterday
morning at 4 o'clock, on the Lyons J. ailway, be-
tween Thomery and Moret. The express train,
which. left Lyons the evening before at 7 o'clock,
overtook a cattle train that preceded it. The col-
lision was terrible : the three last carriages of the
cattle train, one of which (the second last) con-
tained the drivers to the number of 26, were com-
pletely smashed • 16 persons were killed ; 3 dan-
gerously wounded ; and three others received
contusions. On learning this sad event the d-
rectors of the company, as well as the local
authorities, hastened to the scene of the accident.
Among them were the Chief Engineer and the
Prefect of Seine and Marne. The circulation was
speedily re-established. A judicial inquiry was
immediately instituted into the cause of this de-
plorable accident.
It was generally rumoured yesterday that Gen.
Canrobert would very shortly be appointed to a
command. It was also rumoured that a grand
army was to be apportioned, which was to remain
in France ready for any eventuality.
The Universal Exhibition will, it is said, be re-
opened next May.
The subscription opened at Turin in favour of
the Piedmontese army in the Crimea has already
reached 60,000 francs.
The King of Sardinia is expected to arrive at
Paris on the 20th of November.

We read in the AToniteur de l'Armje,—
" The capture of the fortress of Kinburn is very im-
portant in a military point of view. Henceforward
the liinan of the Dnieper and the entrance of the Bug
are open to the allied fleets. There is now nothing to
hinder them from operating with their flotilla against
Kherson in the Dnieper. It will be in their power to
sail up that river the distance of 15 miles which sepa-
rate that place from the mouth of the river. There is
no serious obstacle to prevent a si:nilar operation being
directed against Nicolaieff, which is situated 20 miles
from the halal]. Nicolaieff is the great naval and mili-
tary arsenal of Russia ; Kherson is the chief depot
whence provisions can be forwarded through Perekop
to the different positions at present occupied by her
army in the Crimea. The naval expeditions simultane-
ously and so successfully carried en against Kinburn,
at the extremity of the Black Sea, and Taman, on the
Straits of Kertch, are likely, therefore, to exorcise the
most favourab'e influence on the operations of our army
in the Crimea."
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