The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-09 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REINFORCIMINTS.

A. despatch from Marseilles of yesterday states that
the packets of the 24th and 30th November, from Con-
stantinople, are over due.

The Alps, Indiana, Nubia, and several English
steamers, had left with troops tor the Crimea.
The frigate Constitution, and other transports, are
embarking the division of General des Sallee.
The Laplace, Aigle, and Fonnerre, left for the East
yesterday ; and the St. Louis, and several steam frigates,
are about to leave.

The steamer New York left Havre yesterday for Con-
stantinople ; she carries out a full cargo of provisions
and stores for the army, 75 carriages for the ambulance,
large stores for the hospitals, and also several portable
forges for the use of the camp.
The 4th Light Infantry in garrison at Marseilles,
which belongs to the Ist Brigade of the Bth Divison,
under orders for the Crimea, had claimed as a favour to
be led against the enemy, even before there was any in-
tention of sending out reinforcements. This demand
was addressed to General de Salles, who happened to
be then on a tour of inspection, and who, being shortly
afterwards appointed to the command of this Division,
published the following order of the day :
" Soldiers,—Your wishes are granted. The Emperor
has consented that you should share in the noble exploits
of the glorious Army of the. East. Like your heroic com-
panions iii‘arms you will gyre proofs of valour in presence
of the enemy, and of patience and perseverance in sup-
porting the fatigues and privations of war. March forward
with confidence, under the immortal French eagles, and
sooaors France,
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make the Russians tremble to your rallying cry of Vine
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your
battles, united with those of Austerlitz, Elau Moscow,
Alma, and Inkerman." y ,
The two war battalions of the 49th Regiment, forming
part of the 9th Division of the Army of the East, which
have jut left Toulouse, will arrive at Nimes on the
17th and 18th of this month, and wait there for further
orders. The 10th battalion of Foot Chassears has ar-
rived from the Camp of the South at Marseilles to em-
bark for the Crimea. An immense quantity of munitions
of war reaches Marseilles, daily.
The ships of the line Duperrd, Breslau, and Inflexi-
ble left Cherbourg on the 4th inst. for Brest. On the
6th the new screw-liner Prince Jerome, sailed from
Lorient fur Toulon. On the 7th the steam-corvettes Darien
and Eldorado, and the transport Pintade, detained by con-
trary winds in the roads of Brest, put to sea, the two first
proceeding to Toulon and the other to Rochefort. The
English transport Nubia, coming from London, and
the American corvette St. Louis, from Spain, arrived
at Marseilles on the sth. On the 6th the steam-corvette
Caineleon arrived at Toulon from Brest, having parted
on the 2d with the ship of the line Louis X.V., twenty
miles N.E. of Cape Palos. The steam-corvette Laplace
sailed from Toulon en the 6th, and the steam-aviso Ton
nerre on the 7th, both with troops for the Crimea.

PORT NATAL,—The Customs Establishment at Port
Natal has been finally transferred to the management 0
that colony, and after the sth January next none of the
officers in the colonies will be under the control of or be
appointed by the Home Government.— Civil Service
Gazette.

The thermometer at St. Petersburg fell as low as 15
below 0 Reaumur (that is, 34 below freezing-point Fah-
renheit) early last week. It is therefore more than pro-
bable that the whole Finland Gulf coast is ice-locked,
notwithstanding the half-thaw'which took place at the
end of the week, and, consequently, that the Imporieuse
and her consorts will soon join the admiral at Kiel.
The IVorcestershire Chronicle says that Henry John
Wentworth Hodgetts Foley, Esq., only son of the
esteemed member of Parliament for the eastern division
of this county, is to be married next Tuesday to the floe.
Jane Frances Anne Vivian, daughter of the late Lord
Vivian, Master-General of the Ordnance, and a most
distinguished soldier.
. VESSELS LOADING TOR AllSTRALlA.—Considerable
in-
terest has been excited by tite early departure of several
of the fastest clippers in this trade, quite a fleet being
advertised to sail before Christmas. The greatest specu-
lation, however, has centred in the probable passages of
the James Baines and Red Jacket, which are to depart
from this port within a day or two of each other ; and,
as the former carries the mail under penalty to deliver it
out in 65 days, the Red Jacket will have a formidable
competitor. The ships are equally matched, go out in
ballast, are well manned and found in stores, and possess
skilful commanders. Subjoined is a list of all the vessels
on the berth, which, by the way, are unusually small in
number :

.......
Destination. No of Vessels. Tonnage.
Hobart Town 1
Geelong
Sydney
Adelaide
Melbourne

Totls ,
The sailings during the month of November nurabared
14, with an aggregate register of 14,147 tonse—Liverptyl
Times.

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SUN OFFICE, Sim o'clock.

SPAIN.

The following telegraphic despatch has been re-
ceived in Paris :

" MADRID, 6th.—ln the sitting of yesterday M.
Madoz was elected President of the Corte' by 170 votes:
Infante was elected First Vice-Preident by 124
votes."