The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-14 00:00:00

THE LYCEUM THEATRE.

Mr. Henry Russell continues to attract nightly large
audiences at this elegant theatre, and most deservedly
so, for, without doubt, his entertainment is one of the
most varied and amusing, if not the most varied and
amusing, we ever attended. Mr. Russell never flags or
becomes dull for a single moment, and his different com-
positions are all applauded to the very echo. At one
minute we are with him at the mighty " falls," which
he describes magnificently—at the next we are in a
yanke hotel, suffering from a fit of laughter caused by
one of his negro stories. Besides anecdotes without
number, he delights his audience with selections from his
most popular compositions, now and then demanding a
chorus. His songs are not only intimately connected
with our history, our morals, and our hearts, but we
may almost venture to add the politics of our country.
To a great extent we, consider we are indebted to Mr.
Russell for restoring the taste for the impassioned music
and words so popular among the Greeks of old. " The
Dream of the Reveller," " I'm Afloat," " The Old Arm
Chair," and " Some Love to Roam," are among our
special favourites, and we don't think, taking into consi-
deration the many times we have had the pleasure of
hearing these compositions, we were ever more delighted
than we were last evening. The house was fully and
fashionably attended.

PRICES OF WHEAT, FLOUR, AND BREAD IN

LONDON AND PARIS.

Annexed is a comparison of the present prices of
wheat, flour, and bread in London and Paris :
"The highest quotation of wheat of the first quality
in Paris is 43f. per 1i hectolitre, which is equal to
nearly 665. 7d. per quarter ; and the highest price of
white wheat of the first quality in London being 625,
per quarter, it follows that wheat is nearly 7} per cent,
dearer in Paris than in London.
" The highest quotation of flour of the first quality
in Paris is 55f. 40c. the 100 kilogrammes, which is
equal to 565. 2d. per sack of 2801 b. English, and the
highest quotation of flour in the London market being
50s. per sack, it follows that flour is nearly 12A per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London.
" The price of bread of the first quality in Paris is 40e.
per kilogramme, which is equal to nearly 7d. per 41b.
loaf, English weight ; and, the price of bread in Lon-
don at the full-priced shops being 9d. the 41b loaf, it
follows that bread is nearly 294 per cent. dearer in
London than in Paris. The second quality of bread in
Paris is quoted at 32c. per kilogramme, which is equiva-
lent to rather more than sid. per 41b. loaf."

Her Majesty held a Privy Council yesterday, which
was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the
Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs ; Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the
Colonies ; the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for
the War Department ; and Sir James Graham, First
Lord of the Admiralty. The Earl of Clarendon officiated
at the Council for Lord John Russell. Mr. C. Greville
was clerk of the Council in waiting.
ARRANGEMENTS OF THE ROYAL JOURNEY IN SCOT-
LAND.—Her Majesty and the Prince, accompanied by
six of the Royal family, will start from Holyrood Palace
at nine o'clock on Friday morning. They will travel
by the Edinburgh and Glasgow and the Scottish Central
Railway to Perth, thence by Scottish Midland to Forfar,
by Aberdeen Railway to Ferryhill-junction, near Aber-
deen, after which by the Deeside line to Banchory.
This latter place will be reached at a quarter to three
o'clock in the afternoon. Lunch will be served to the
august party in the railway station at Banchory. From
this latter staticu, at which railway communication ter-
minates, the royal travellers will be posted on to Bal-
moral, and her Majesty will reach her Highland home
about seven p.m. It is understood to be the desire of
her Majesty to travel as private as possible. A party
of the depot of the 69th Regiment, now stationed at
Aberdeen, will go to Ballater as a guard of honour.
ARRIVALS OF SPECIE.— The arrivals of specie yesterday
were large, although the Australian ships still keep out.
The Arctic has brought 226,0001., and the Great West-
ern, from South America, 31,7121. Some amount has
also been received from Lisbon.
A further instalment of ls. 6d. in the pound, making
altogether 12s. 9d., was announced yesterday by Mr.
Coleman, the accountant under the estate of Messrs.
Colimann and Stolterfoht, who failed in January, 1853,
in consequence of the corn speculations and forgeries of
Ferdinand Pries. Their direct liabilities amounted to
153,8111., and the realisation of the assets has more than
confirmed the estimate originally put forward, irrespec-
tive of anything that may yet be recovered of the large
claims on Pries's estate.
THE CRIMEA.—This fine appendage to the Russian
empire was conquered in 1785 for the Empress Cathe-
rine the Second, by the crowning act of General de
Lacy, an Irish Catholic in the Russian service. His
nephew, Cornet de Lacy Pierce, of the Russian service,
also a young Irishman. served throughout the campaigns
on the Danube in 1828-9, and his letter to his sister
appeared in the English journals of the day ; and it is
remarkable that now, in 1854, General de Liu Evans,
another member of that military family, representing the
Protestant branch, is aiding to wrest those acquisitions
from the Russians and on the side of the Turks.

TriE FREIVOH EMPEROR'S VISIT TO

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• BOULOGNE, Sept. 13.—The Emperor went yes-
terday at noon to Ambleteuse, where the 10,000
men in camp defiled before him, as on the two pre-
ceeding days at Equihem and Honvault. With his
suite he travelled by carriage to the small village
of Wimelle, which lies a short distance inland from
the camp of Wimereux. There they all mounted
on horseback, and with a large body-guard of guides
slid gendarmerie a cheval in attendance formed a
magnificent cavalcade. The camp of Ambleteuse
is the furthest north of the three which constitute
the right angle of the army collected in this district
in the shape of a triangle, having its apex at St.
Omer. Though like those of Honvault, Wime-
reux, and Equihem, it stands close upon the coast,
instead of running parallel to the line of the cliff,
the huts are ranged almost at a right angle
thereto, in following the inclination of some high
ground well adapted for the purpose of an encamp-
ment which here sweeps inland. The huts are
constructed in the same way as at the other camps,
but experiments to improve, if possible, upon them
seem to be in progress. Among these may be men-
tioned that of dispensing with side walls altogether,
placing the sloping roof of straw thatch upon the
ground, closing it up at one end with clay, except
an aperture for ventilation, and having a door at
the other end, and sleeping room for 12 men, half
on one side, and half on the other. The floors or
platforms intended for beds are arranged much in
the same way as in the huts now used, though it
will probably be found most convenient for the
men to sleep with their heads to the centre, in-
stead of, as at present, with their feet in that di-
rection. Considering that soldiers must be the
architects of their own winter cantonments, it
is obvious that these should be constructed of
materials likely to be found in abundance wher-
ever they go, and which can be not only cheaply
but easily applied by rude unaccustomed hands
to the purpose of providing shelter. Such a hut
as that described, composed entirely of straw
and wood, seems to satisfy these conditions to
the utmost extent. There would, however, be
some risk of having them burnt down, either
through carelessness or otherwise, from the highly
inflammable materials of which they are composed,
and, indeed, this is a danger from which the huts
now used are not entirely free. It cannot be con-
sidered as the least of the advantages derived
from the occupation of such camps, that armies
acquire thereby a confidence in their own
ability to meet one of the most formidable
of the thousand and one exigencies to which
war exposes them. The snail, indeed, carries ,
his house upon his back, but even the French
soldier cannot effectually do so ; for, though the
Arab tents are well adapted tosudden marches and
the bivouac in a warm climate, they do not dis-
pense with tqe necessity of carrying about ampler
provisions for shelter as a part of the baggage. Im-
pedimenta still remain in our day, as they were in
that of the ancient Romans, the great obstacle to the
vigour and rapidity of military operations. Thus
it is that soldiers are so heavily loaded to diminish
the difficulty ; and on this point it is rather re-
markable, though not generally known, that the
French infantry are more severely weighted than
the British, though the men possess less individual
strength. If it could be satisfactorily established
that, wherever they went, troops had the means of
rapidly providing themselves with such shelter as

suffices to meet the exigencies of climate and wea-
ther, a most important advantage would be gained.
The solution of this question may be considered as
in a fair way of being attained in the permanent
camps round Boulogne. In these camps the concen-
tration of men for active service, and the preliminary
burdening and training of them before engaging in
a campaign, go on simultaneously. From 65,000
to 70,000 soldiers are assembled within a limited
area, not only for the practice but for actual pre-
paration, with a great war on hand, and only the
winter intervening to prevent them coming to
blows. One can readily imagine, therefore, the
stimulus of the prospect before them upon every-
thing they do. The empire, first founded, and then
revived by military power, now requires to be con-
solidated by great deeds, and it would indeed be
wonderful if the French army of the North did not
feel animated with a sense of what the future holds
forth for it to accomplish. All that one sees and
hears from officers and men justifies the conclusion,
that martial ardour never ran higher among troops,
that they are satisfied with their allies and with
their cause, and that they look forward with im-
patient confidence to the return of Spring. The
general appearance and arrangements of the camp
at Ambleteuse resemble closely those of Honvault,
Wimereux' and Equihem, the only remarkable
difference being that of the Honvault kitchens,
with their brick chimney stalks, which have not
yet been constructed in any of the others.
All are placed on elevated dry sites with com-
manding prospects, in which the Channel and
the chalk cliffs of the English coast figure promi-
nently. The huge piles of sand drift in front of
Ambleteuse, looking towards Boulogne, give it a
more desolate appearance than the rest of these
coast camps. Equihem, on the other hand, has the
advantage of a hne country behind it, upon which
the visitor looks down with pleasure, its patches of
rich woodland, with chateaus and villages em-
bowered in them, contrasting favourably with the
generally sandy and bare character of the scenery
in this part of France. On leaving the camp yes-
terday the Emperor made a slight detour to the
right, apparently to examine the present state of
some incomplete work for providing a harbour for
fishermen on that part of the coast. He returned
to his hotel between 3 and 4 o'clock.
This morning, at 8 o'clock, the Emperor left
Boulogne for the camp at Helfaut in order to make
the necessary dispositions for a series of military
manoeuvres on a grand scale, which will commence
to-morrow morning (Thursday) at an early hour,
at a village called Escoeuilles. A n invading army
will be supposed to advance from St. Omer with
the view of attacking Boulogne. They will be met
by a large force stationed between Escceuilles and
Desvres, and a series of military evolutions will
commence, which will end in the retirement
of the army of defence upon Boulogne. The
troops will encamp upon the field on Thursday
night, and on Friday the feigned engagement will
be resumed until the fate of the city of Boulogne
will be supposed to depend 'upon the issue of a
pitched battle. Every arm of the service will be
employed in this petite guerre, and it is stated that
a larger number, if not the whole, of the troops in
the camp of the North, will be engaged. It is not
yet known whether the Emperor will return this
evening to Boulogne from the camp at Helfaut, or
whether he will sleep at St. Omer. If he return
to Boulogne to-night, it is arranged that he is t‘)
start for the scene of operations at eight o'clock
to-morrow morning, in order that the evolutions
may begin at an early hour. Public expectation
is highly excited •by the announcement of these
grand military manoeuvres, and by the prepara-
tions which are being rapidly made in all the
camps to carry on the mimic war with completeness
and efficiency.
These evolutions will terminate for the present
the campaign of the army of the North. The Em-
peror is expected to leave Boulogne for Paris on
Saturday, and to return to the camp in about a
week. The journey to the Belgain frontier is post-
poned until his return.
Prince Albert, before his departure, left I,ooof.
to be distributed among the poor of the town. By
direction of his Royal Highness General the Hon.
C. Grey also wrote to M. Carnegy de Balinhard,
Chairman of the British Free Schools at Boulogne,
enclosing 500 f. from the Prince.
It is said that the Emperor has purchased the
Brighton Hotel, which has been his Majesty's re-
sidence since his arrival at Boulogne, for the sum
of 16,0001. The purchase is supposed to indicate
the Emperor's intention of frequently visiting
Boulogne, where he is extremely popular.
The weather promises to be unfavourable for the
review to-morrow.

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday, Sept. 13—The United
States mail steam-ship Hermann, Captain Higgins,
sailed this afternoon for New York with the semi-weekly
American mails, about 260 passengers, and a full cargo
of German, French, and continental merchandise. The
Egyptian rigate Feid Geehad is to leave for Alexandria
on Thursday (this day.) Count de Lavradio, the Portu-
guese Minister, attended by Mr. Priaulx, the consul at
Southampton, visited the Feid Geehad on Monday. Mr.
Croskey, the United States Consul, and other official
gentlemen, have also visited this noble ship during the
last few days, and have been received by the commander
and officers with much distinction, the colours of their
respective Governments being hoisted at the fore
during the time of their stay on board.
NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL—On Wednesday morn-
ing St. Andrew's Hall was crowded in galleries and aisles,
and a better assemblage of the rank, fashion, and beauty
of the county has seldom been seen. At 12 o'clock the
performance of the Creation commenced, the solo parts
being sustained by Sims Reeves, Gardoni, Weiss, Miss
C. Novello, and Madame Castellan. On Tuesday even-
ing the galleries were not so well occupied as on former
occasions, but the body of the hall was quite filled—ele-
gantly dressed ladies forming the majority. The Duke
of Wellington, S. M. Pete, Esq., member for the city,
and many of the county gentry were present. The first
part of the concert included Ilan.del's delightful serenata
" Acis and Galatea." All the vocalists sang their parts
with an apparent pleasing rivalry, each in turn elicitingloud applause. Aeis was represented by Mr. Sims
Reeves, Galatea by Madame Clara Novello, Damon by
Gardoni, and Polyphemus by Belletti. All the choruses
went with the utmost precision, and were exceedingly
effective, especially the last, " Galatea, dry thy tears."
On the whole, the performance was all that could be
desired.

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR.

We have just received the following telegraphic

despatches :
THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCES OFF
SEBASTOPOL.

VIENNA, WEDNESDAY.

The combined fleets, which had left Varna on
the 3d, bad appeared off Sebastopol on the Bth.
perfect cloud of transports, troop-ships, and
steamers of all sizes, covered the sea in the vicinity
of Balaklava.
Another despatch of the same date is as follows :
VIENNA, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

No accident happened during► the embarkation
of the expedition for the Crimea, and on the 3d the
greater part of the fleet had weighed anchor.
Sebastopol was generally supposed to be the
destined point of attack.
The whole army was in the highest spirits.

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 7•

Yesterday morning, at six o'clock, orders were
sent to Baltchik for the departure of the expedi -
tion against Sebastopol. _

The Austrian steamer Custozza, which arrived
here to-day from Baltschik, states that 20 ships bad
already left that port. The remainder were still
there on the evening of the Gth.

ARRIVAL OF MARSHAL BARAGUAY
D'HILLIERS.
A Berlin letter of the 10th, in the Post Alno
Gazette of Frankfort, says :—" Marshal Baraguay
i'Hilliers, who has just arrived here from Dantzie,
received at that city the Marshal's baton, from the
!lands of an aide-de-camp to the Emperor. M•
Moustier, the French Ambassador, has paid a long
visit to the Marshal, who is accompanied by Gen-
Giel, Colonels St. Loyal and de Rochehouet,
tendant Petit, and Captain Melia, aide-de-camp•