The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-14 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, DEC. 10.
According to telegraphic advices from Frank-
fort, which the _Austrian Correspondence of this
evening publishes, we are informed that at yester-
day's sitting of the Federal Assembly, the adhesion
of the Bund to the additional article of the treaty
of the 20th April was unanimously resolved upon,
and that, in virtue of the same concurrence, the
propositions which Austria and Prussia conjointly
brought forward, in reference hereto, were adopted
as a federal resolution. This intelligence will
doubtless everywhere be received with feelings of
unfeigned satisfaction. The conclusion of the triple
alliance of the 2d inst., between Austria, France,
and England, seems to have caused some unfore-
seen delay. The above resolutions of the Bund
were to have been adopted by the Federal As-
sembly two days earlier, that is, on the 7th inst.
The respective ratifications of the treaty of al-
liance between Austria, France, and England, will
ho exchanged here to-morrow.

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY.
The following private telegraphic despatches have
been received :

" VIENNA, DEC. 12.
"A report is current that Prince Gortschakoff,
on hearing of the embarkation at Varna of fresh
troops for the Crimea, manifested an intention of
leaving this city."

" VIENNA, DEC. 12.
"The puliication of the Lloyd journal has been
suspended for an indefinite period, in consequence
of its attacks against the German Governments.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Brabant arrived
at Pola the day before yesterday."
A letter from Marseilles, of the 12th, says
"The Indian?. left on Saturday, with 170 officers,
1,016 men, and 28 horses on board. The Nubia
transport left yesterday, having on board 17 offi-
cers, 1,093 men, 24 horses, 3 tons of powder, 207
tons of artillery stores, and some camp equipage."
A letter from Odessa, addressed to a merchant at
Cracow, states that the tempest of the 14th ult.
occasioned considerable damage to Russian ship-
ping. Thirty-five merchant vessels, with valuable
cargoes on board, were driven on shore in the port
of Berdjansk, in the Sea of Azoff. Five of them
were totally lost. The port itself was much in-
jured ; some of the piers were washed away, and
the town was almost inundated.
The speech delivered by Queen Victoria at the
opening of Parliament is naturally the great subject
of conversation here. Every one remarks that her
Majesty does not say one word of peace in her ad-
dress to the two houses, but, on the contrary,
speaks of " prosecuting the war with the utmost
vigour and effect." This plain, straightforward
language, so much in unison with the character of
the English people, appears to give satisfaction
amongst all parties here. The Queen of England,
it is justly observed, has neither dissembled the
greatness of the war in which she has engaged in
concert with France, nor the difficulties of the
enterprise. It is also remarked that from the
manner in which Queen Victoria has spoken of the
treaty of December 2, that treaty must be already
ratified, and that consequently it will soon be laid
before the public. The manner also in which her
Majesty, in speaking of the brilliant victories in
the Crimea, pays a just tribute to the courage and
gallant conduct of the French troops, has given the
greatest satisfaCtion here.
A letter from Lyons, dated yesterday, says—
" The army of that place was about to march to the
Austrian territory, and thence to co-operate with the
Austrian troops in Bessarabia."
It further states that a brigade of cavalry was
about to leave Lyons • for Vienna, with the same
object. It is affirmed that the French army in the
Crimea will be increased to 12 divisions, or about
120,000 men, which, with the English and Turkish
reinforcements, will raise the total force to 200,000
men.

The Gazette du Midi, of the 12th, states that
M. Leon Faucher, formerly Minister of the Inte-
rior to the President of the Republic, VMS seized
with typus fever when passing through Marseilles
on his way to Hy ere for the benefit of his health,
and was forced to stop short on his journey. His
malady was considered to be attended with consi-
derable danger.
Several officers of the English army, on their
way to the Crimea, arrived in Paris yesterday
morning. Some of them, who were walking on the
Boulevards in their undress uniform, excited the
most lively interest, and many persons saluted
them as they passed in a way to show how warmly
they approved of the alliance between the two na-
tions. After dining in Paris, the officers left in
the evening for Marseilies.
The following extracts from a journal of the siege
of Sebastopol are taken from the Constitutionnet :
" Nov. 19.—The temperature is very favourable, and
resembles that of our latter end of October. An English
non-commissioned officer has deserted to the enemy, and
the riflemen of the advanced posts have received orders
to single him out ; they will perhaps succeed in inflict-
ing on the scoundrel the chastisement his infamous
treason deserves. We are still actively engaged in
arming new batteries and in the lines of eircumvallation
and contravallation. The siege batteries are not, as
might be believed, destined to make a breach ; there is
no breach to make in earthworks ; and as to the wall,
which in conjunction with these earthworks form
the enceinte, it can be knocked down when required.
But what is attempted is to ruin an artillery which is
formidable and instantly replaced, as that, for example,
of the flag-staff bastion, the left front of which has been
supplied with fresh cannon this morning.
" Nov. 20.—The total number of disasters of the sad
14th is beginning to be known ; my figures vary at pre-
' sent from 30 to 50 vessels lost, or more or less damaged.
Hopes are entertained of getting off the Henri IV.
Colonel Magnan has been one of the victims of the
tempest. He was thrown down by the wind, and, al-
though he was on foot, he had a leg broken. He is
receiving medical care in one of the villages in the
environs of Balaklava • in this village the suspicious part
of the population of that town has been stationed under
the surveillance of a post of gendarmes ; these people
are in the greatest misery, and have nothing to live on
except the bread which we distribute to them.
" Nov. 21.—Up to this day the daily service in the
trenches, not including the affair of the sth, has caused
the two allied armies 3,000 men hors de combat. But
the number of dead bodies does not exceed 400, and
amongst the wounded a great many will be again fit for
service.'

BOURSE, WEDNESDAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
4i per Cents 95 50 —f. —c.
3 per Cents 7O 90 74
Credit Mobilier 748 75 Roman
Credit Fonder — Austrian —
Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes .....
Piecimontese — Horne Debt —
RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.
. ,
fr. c. fr. c.
Orleans ........ ...... 1,180 Lyons , . 987 50
Western — Rouen 9BO
Cette
Mediterranean 855 -- Fiavro 537 50
Northern

HOLLAND.
It appears by remarks made in the States-Gene-
ral of Holland that the Government there has sent
steamers to the Baltic for the purpose of towing
Dutch ships, laden, with grain and detained bycvn,

trary winds. In November 175 vessels charged
with corn passed the Great Belt, and 15 with other
merchandise. The 'number of ships which went
through the Sound to th© Baltic was 85 from the
Netherlands, and from the Baltic to the North Sea
83. In November, at the single port of Schiedam,
110 grain laden vessels arrived, mostly from the
Baltic. A great number of Dutch ships were
freighted at the northern ports of Europe for Eng-
land, France, and other countries, and the Dutch
Government has used every exertion to keep down
the pricos of food by obtaining timely supplies.