The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-19 00:00:00

Alexis Dulac, of the 4th Regiment of Chasseurs 7 voted by the legislative body, some modifications have
d'Afrique.". The second charge was against Private been made in the expenses of the different Ministerial
T. Bartly and Private J. Lithgow, 47th Regiment, departments. In the first place, art. 13 of the law o
" For disgraceful conduct, in having at camp, be- June 14, 1854, on public instruction, prescribed that the
fore Sebastopol, on or about 21st November, stolen service of the faculties should, from the Ist Jan., 1855,
two five-franc pieces, a florin, a shilling, a ten-sous form a special service attached for the sake of order to
the general budget and paid by the State. The conse-
smallpiece a 25 copeck piece, a penny piece, and some
quence of this legislative enactment has been to consti-
Turkish coins, the property of Louis Rapp
and Pierre Moutinee, of the 50th French Regiment tisitte,bliyshthe dtecrefe annexed the special budgets of the
superior. •
dstirruction. The expenses
of the same." All the prisoners were found guilty, establishments
thea facmuljies were comprised the general budget f
and received this sentence of punishment :—" -iftY 1855 for the sume of 2,786,636 f., and their proceeds
lashes, and to forfeit all advantage as to additional are estim.ted among the receipts at 1,810,156 f, The
pay, good conduct pay, and to pension on discharge, amelioration of 1,375,105 f. anticipated in the latter
which might otherwise have accrued to them from has caused the credits to be increased by a supple-
length of their former service." Lord Raglan mentary grant of a similar sum, and the subvention
approved and confirmed the sentences, but was of 976,480 f. which is furnished by the Treasury has been
pleased, in mercy, to remit half the corporal pun- added to the ways and means of the service of the facul-
ishment in each case. Vegetables, that great coin- ties.r As to the credits Of the general budget, they are
fort to an army, can easily be obtained, for an
of iisniedo to that subvention, and are reduced by the sum
benefit. ,
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order has this day appeared stating that " potatoes
having arrived at Balaklava from Trieste, and pre- Gal July last, relativepel to the credit foncier6t jsuoncretaiens,
served potatoes from England, regiments will send plackg these establishments within the attributions
to that place for either of these articles, as they of the Minister of Finance, and confidine, the direc-
may require them." Leave to England has been tion of the credit foncier of France to a governor
granted to the undermentioned officers :—Major- named by your Majesty, has permitted the reduc-
General H. Bentinck ; Lieut.-Colonel C. A. Ber- ion to the sum of B,ooof. necessary for the expenses of
keley, Scots Fusilier Guards ; Lieut. G. Harrison, the surveillance of the credit foncier companies of Mar-
79th Highlanders ; Captain C. E. -Watson, 7th seilles and Nevres, the credit of 29,000 f. included in the
Royal Fusiliers ; and Paymaster J. Thorp,
.631 general amount voted for the Ministry of Agriculture,
Regiment. Commerce, and Public Works. The imperial decree of
.Tune 23, 1854, having attached to the Ministry of State
the services of civil buildings, the non-subventioned
theatres of Paris, the departments, and the dramatic
censorship, which previously belonged to the Ministry
of the Interior, it has been necessary, in the plan
of division which I have the honour to submit to
your Majesty, to cut off the credits granted by the
budget to the latter Ministry, and add to that of the
former Ministry the sum of 2,028,800 f. for the services in
question. In consequence of the annulment of
1,810,1561. and of 21,000 f. made in the budgets of
the Ministries of Public Instruction and of Agricul-
ture, the credits opened by the finance law for
1,562,030,308 f. are reduced to 1,560,199,152 E Out of
this sum, 1,082,841,832 f. only form in reality the charges
of the State. The surplus, or 477,357,320 f., is only
placed in the budget for the sake of order, and repre-
sents the expenses of collection, departmental expenses,
&c. ; and it is only the sum of 1,560,199,152 f. which
I have the honour to propose to your Majesty to divide
into chapters, according to the wants each service.—
I am, &c., " BAROCLIE, acting ad interim."
The above report is followed by a decree of the
Emperor, dividing the above-mentioned sum .into
chapters, and appropriating it among the different
ministries.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg quotes a cor-
respondence from Jassy, Nov. 25, which speaks of
a Turkish force concentrating at Romani (near
Jassy), of the strength of 40,000 men, and destined
to cross the Pruth. This must be the corps d'armee
under Sadik Pasha. The Turks seem to be ex-
tremely active in Moldavia in procuring the expul-
sion of all individuals suspected of connivance or
even sympathy with the enemy. It was at Omer
Pasha's request that Prince Ghika ordered the expa-
triation of the three Princes Moruzi and of Colonel
Singuroff, giving them only four days' notice for
their departure. The applications of their relatives
to Graf Coronini on their behalf remained fruitless,
the General informing them that it was an affair in
which he could not take any part. The population
of Jassy and the neighbourhood make great com-
plaints of the lawlessness of the Austrian soldiery,
but these complaints do not contain any imputation
against the superior authorities as ordering it, or
even conniving at it. The Austrians, however,
have not as yet paid for any of the supplies of pro-
visions, &c., that have been delivered to them by
the local government of Moldavia, but nevertheless
require the minutest things to be supplied to them,
even down to pens and. ink, and sticks for beating
clothes.

CANADA.
DEPARTURE OF LORD ELGIN.
MONTREAL, Dec. 4.—lt is expected that Lord.
Elgin will sail on the 22d inst. Sir Cussack and
Lady Roney also sail in the same boat.
Mr. Laurance Oliphant, private secretary to Lord
Elgin, returns to England with the noble Earl ;
and Lord Bury, son of the Earl of Albemarle, suc-
ceeds Mr. Oliphant as general superintendent of
Indian affairs in Canada—a post the noble Viscount
is well qualified to fill.
Sir Edmund Head commences his duties forth-
with, and ho stands, assuredly, under the most
auspicious circumstances, so far as the present con-
dition of Canada is concerned.

Dervish Pasha returned to Bucharest from Jassy
on the 28th ult., and on the same day Colonel
Simmonds, an English officer of Engineers attached
to the Generalissimo, left Bucharest for Sebastopol
with despatches from Omer Pasha. Prince Stirbey
has of late, in consequence of representations made
by the Turkish authorities, dismissed a number of
officials suspected of a leaning to the Russians ; and
from the same reason the Spathar Cheresko had
given in his resignation, which was accepted with
great regret by the Prince.