The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-23 00:00:00

Crimea. The Arabia, Captain Jenkins, has made
an extraordinary quick passage of seven days from
Dublin. She will sail on Thursday for Balaklava
with troops and several tons of gunpowder, which
she has on board. If wo had such vessels on
the Constantinople line, the Government would
receive the despatches within half the time at pre-
sent occupied in the transit to Marseilles. The
Andes, with General Sir De Lacy Evans on board, ,
had a slow passage from Malta, in consequence of a
slight derangement in her machinery. She was
three days off the harbour, detained by a head wind
and heavy sea. The Hydaspes, one of the three
steamers the Emperor has permitted the company
of the Messageries Imperiales to purchase, in Eng-
land, will sail for the Black Sea on Thursday with
the mails, troops, and stores. The Orinoco has
arrived, and will proceed to Toulon to embark
troops. The Ave= has returned from the Black
Sea. She landed her cargo at Balaklava, and is
about to proceed there again with troops. She does
not appear to have suffered any damage during
the late gales. Captain Charrie, of the Constance,
of Bayonne, has arrived here from the Black
Sea. Ho took troops from thii to Varna, and was
despatched from that port for Cape Chersoaesus on
the Bth of November, with a detachment of troops,
some stores, and 20 mules. He arrived at his des-
tination on the 12th, and anchored near the French
squadron. He was driven from his anchorage dur-
ing the awful hurricane of the 14th, and carried
under the forts of Sebastopol, and, although he
passed close to the Napoleon, the crew of that ship
could render him no assistance. The Russians com-
menced firing at the unfortunate Constance, and
the captain at first feared that there was no resource
for him but to run his ship ashore, and submit to
be captured. Having, however, consulted the
troops and his crew, he determined to make a des-
perate effort, and, notwithstanding the Russian
balls, which fell around his ship without causing
her may damage, he succeeded in beating off the
coast, and at 11 o'clock that night ran his ship
aground five miles north of Eupatoria. The
following morning he perceived some Cossacks ap-
prc aching, when he hoisted a signal of distress,
which was perceived by the British Commander of
the Bellerophon, who ordered a steamer to send a
boat to his assistance. The heavy sea rendered this
operation impossible. In the meantime the nits:,
sians had nearly reached the ship. Captain Charm
hastily launched his boats, and with great difficulty
reached the Bellerophon. In ten minutes after-
wards the Cossacks set fire to the Constance.

The Trieste Gazette says the Russians were re-
arming the ships with the cannon which had been
landed to servo in the fortifications on shore.
It is stated in letters from Warsaw that the
arrival of the Guards has raised the effective of the
Russian army in the Kingdom of Poland to 200,000
men, with 400 guns,
A letter from Brunswick, 18th, in a Frankfort
journal, says :
" The insolent note of Count de Nesselrode of the 6th
ult. is the last link in the disgraceful chain which bound
111-armany to Russia ; it demanded once more, in insult-
ing terms, what Count Orloff and Count de Nesselrode
had twice before demanded from Germany, and always
in an insulting form. The cup is length filled, and
has run ever, and it is precisely the contrary of what
Russia had demanded in all her previous notes that has
been done by the treaty •F the 2d."
It is stated in Paris that the loan which is about
to be proposed, is to be raised by public subscrip-
tion, according to the method which succeeded so
admirably upon the last occasion. The amount
will, it is said, be fixed at between 250,000,000 f.
and 500,000,000 f. ; the positive sum is not yet
fixed. •
By a decree in the Moniteur, the following com-
mission has been appointed to examine the ac-
counts of the different French Ministers for the
year 1854 :—The Marquis d'Audiffret, president ;
MM. A. Leroux, de Richmont, Godelle, Crignon
de Monsigny, Ribouet, Dupin, Arnaud, and
Dausse.
The Kreutz Zeitung has another article this even-
ing (20th), the object of which is to persuade its
readers that Prussia may safely commit what va-
garies she pleases, as she can have nothing to fear
from England, and not more from France, who is
reduced to such narrow straits that she cannot
bring more than 100,000 men into the field. It is
absurd, says the journal, to suppose that any one
would " dare attempt to compulse the monarchy
of the great Frederick." The monarchy, truly;
but where are the men of the great Frederick's
time V Slimly the most vainglorious of the domi-
nant party do not go so far as to compare themselves
with those men !