The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The long projected visit of the Imperial Court to
Compiegne, so often talked of, and put off, is once
more postponed. Everything was prepared for
yesterday, and several of those persons, who had
received invitations to pass some days in that re-
treat, were to have Set out to-day. The matter
would only be interesting to the parties concerned,
were it not from the motive generally, and, I be-
lieve, correctly, assigned for this last postponement.
The Emperor has, it would appear, good reason to
believe that in the course of the present week, pro-
bably towards the end, news will be received of the
taking of Sebastopol ; and he has decided on not
proceeding to Compiegne till Saturday or Sunday.
The amusements will, no doubt, be enjoyed with
keener relish after the news of such a victory ;
though it would, perhaps, be better if some more
time were allowed to elapse—if it were only out of
respect for the memory of those that will have
fallen in the attack.

Brigadier-General Francisco Solano Lopez, En-
voy Extraordinary of the Republic of Paraguay,
yesterday had an audience of the Emperor to take
leave, his mission in France being terminated.
The Moniteur publishes long reports, received by
the'Minister of the Interior, from the Governor of
French Guayana, dated the 18th ult. They are for
the most part filled with details of the arrangements
made in the different penitentiary establishments
for the employment of the prisoners, their food,
&c. Thii conduct of the men is represented as
very orderly and praiseworthy. With regard
to
the sanitary state of the establishments, it is
represented as showing considerable improvement.
The number of sick has diminished by one-half,
although the number of prisoners has much in-
creased, and the diminution of deaths has been
even more considerable. In August, 1853, the
number of deaths was 44 out of 2,259 prisoners ; in
August last there were only 10 out of 2,546.
The Monitcur publishes a fresh nominative list
of killed and wounded in the battle of the Alma,
but still confined only to particular regiments, as
the general list has not yet been received, except
of the officers. The total loss of the French army
is stated at 4 officers and 132 non-commissioned
officers and privates killed, and 61 officers and
1,139 non-commissioned officers and privates
wounded.

It is stated in a letter from Cherbourg that a
number of sailors of the Baltic fleet will receive
leave of absence for four months, with the privi-
lege of engaging during that time in the fishing or
coasting trade. This favour will be granted in pre-
ference to such of the men as have families to main-
tain.
" It was stated last evening," says the Debats,
" that intelligence had arrived from Sebastopol to
the 15th. The bombardment was going on."
'We read in the Siecle :—" After the death of
Marshal de St. Arnaud, Lord Raglan might have
claimed the command-in-chief, for he is invested
with a rank to which we have not now an
equivalent in the French army. Ile is a General,
that is to say higher than a Lieutenant-General or
a General-of-Division, and lower than a Marshal.
tinder the first Empire, there were four Colonels
Generals of cavalry, a first Inspector-General of
artillw, and a first Inspector-General of the en-
gineers, who were higher in rank than Generals of
Division, and lower than Marshals. It has been
thought better, in order to avoid any unpleasant
feeling, that the commands should remain inde-
pendent under the reserve of a previous concert
between the Generals-in-Chief. For this purpose,
French officers have been placed On the staff of Lord
Raglan; and English officers ou that of General
Canrobert."

The Three per Cents. cloied yesterday at 75f.
950. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. at 98f. 85c. ; and the New Loan
at 75f. 90e. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,217 f.
50c. ; Rouen, 990 f. ; Havre, 665 f. ; Great Nor-
thern, 890 f. ; Strasburg, 843 f. 75c. ; New Shares,
652 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 1,060 f. ; Lyons to
the Mediterranean, 865 f. ; Western of France,
680 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 622 f. 50c. ; Great
Central of France, 522 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Genera,
537. 50c. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 772 f. 500.

MISCELLANEOUS.
In consequence of the murder of M. Belluot, a
Frenchman, in Anatolia, by the Bashi-bazouks,
Omer Effendi and M. Castagne, French consul at
Erzeroum, were sent with 300 korsemon to make
an investigation into the circumstances of the case,
and to arrest the murderers. They found a band
of the Bashi-bazouks occupying a village called
Assor, and they, at the head of 200 of their men,
immediately attacked them. They dislodged the
brigands, and succeeded in arresting 48 of them—
amongst whom were five of the murderers of M.
Belluot. The chief of the band, Mahmoud. ben
Ouglou, was wounded.
A letter from Varna, of the 10th, in the Lloyd of
Vienna, says :—" Two commissioners of the Porte
and two agents of the English and French lega-
tionsEdniagtleislyh
arrived here in the night.Tllviietyhitmhme immediately
put themselves in communication
and French commanders, and made minute searches
in the houses of several Greeks and Armenians re-
siding in the town ; after which 15 persons were
arrested and sent off to Constantinople, The cause
arrestsof
similari n ot
searchesk
charged
de t
o make
same time to Erdench, Tiliboh, Commissioners,
Vodena, Kutapa, Trebizonde, BBa were sent at the
atolounnaic:,anTairkeovl,en,
to Smyrna and Damascus."
The Lussian InvaliclPresents its readers wit!'
the following precious Muscovy Duck" :—"O
the 7th of October, Prince Monschilioff ordered

rcconnaissance to be nwle with cavalry against. the
ei I.y which it was ase.ertaineA that
gio-Freiv:h troops were still at Balakiaca and thu
neighbourhood of that town, where they are
throwing up entrenchments. rpon this occasion,
the troopers of a half-squadron of Krim Tartar
Guards took a picket of English Dragoon Guards.
No particular movement was observed on the part
of the enemy. Up to the sth they had not at•
tempted anything against Sebastopol."
A letter from Vienna of the 18th, in the Post
Gazette of Fraukfort,.says :—" The most important
of the secondary states of Germany, Bavaria, has
replied affirmatively to the principal of the seven
questions submitted by Austria to the Diet, which
is that which decides all the others. The question
is this :—ls it for the interest of the Germania
Confederation to declare itself obliged to defend
Austria against any danger which may menace her
in her present position."
A letter from Rome, in the Parlament° of Turin
of the 20th, states that some French troops have
left Rome for Civita-Vecchia, where they are -to
embark for the Rat. The battalions of Chasseurs
de Vincennes is also to leave Rome for the same
destination.

The Parma Gazette, of the 18th, publishes a
decree of the Duchess Regent re-organizing the
Council of State.

A letter from Naples, of the 14th, says that
there have been several political arrests lately in
that capital, and that a lady, Mme. Catering, di Lieto,
has been arrested at Beggio, in Calabria, with two,
of her sons.

The Kreutz Zeitung publishes, in the largest
possible type, the following laconic telegraphiC
official despatch from St. Petersburg, dated St:
Petersburg, the Bth inst. :—" Prince Menschikoff,
announces, under date of October 14, all goes well
at Sebastopol."
The Russian organ gives the despatch in french,
and then in German, and, by the size of the type,
treats it as a victory, or, at all events, as a reprieve
from the overhanging sentence. No one here ex-
pects this sentence to be executed before the 21th
or 25th.

According to the Hamburgh, Correspondent, the
Emperor Nicholas has made up his mind to send
his two youngest sons, the Grand Dukes Nicholas
and Michael, to see active service with the south-
ern army.

Privaie letters from Warsaw, of the 18th, state
that nothing further is known there relative to the
reported visit of the Emperor or Hereditary Grand
Duke, although the palace is always ready for their
reception.

A-letter from Vienna, 19th, says :—" A part of
the Secondary States, who were represented at the
Conference of Bamberg, intend to hold a Confer-
ence on the Eastern question before it comes
under discussion in the Diet, and it is said that
according to all appearances the decision of these
States will be in favour of the wishes of Austria."

A letter from Dusseldorf states that an emissary
has been arrested in that place, having on him a
correspondence in English and German from Kos-
suth and Kinkel.