The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-20 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Nov. 16.—The ()Teat railroad affe ris
not progressing so favourably as people here were
inclined to believe would be the case. The sp es3u•
lators seem inclined to hold back until they see
what the policy of this Government is likely ta be
in the Eastern question.
The last official Russian news from the Cri area
is, that from the sth to the 9th nothing of imp ort-
ance had occurred at Sebastopol. The Allies .are
fortifying their position on the left bank of the
Tchernaya as strongly as possible. The bomt rd-
ment continues, but the breaches are always. re-
paired during the night.

FRANCE. •
PARIS, SUNDA. Ic's.
The following private telegraphic despat;ales
were received in Paris on Saturday
HAMBURG, 18th.—A Russian fleet compos ied
of 14 steamers has come as far as Dagoe, wit hc,ut
having fallen in with any of the ships of war ol!-I he
Allies."
" TRIESTE, 18th —A letter from Latachia, or ithe
2d, states that an insurrection had broken out in
that neighbourhood, and that the instigators, w ho
had been arrested, had been forcibly rescued. 'lt7he
Triester Zeitung of the 10th announces tha4 'Ge-
neral Kalergi had threatened the Russian Ai &has-
sa,dor in Greece with expulsion.l The F: cemell
troops have left Athens."
Lord and Lady Palmerston arrived in Pario s last
evening and alighted at the British Embassy.
The Itioniteur remarks that the public ough t to
appreciate the prudential motives which ind.ucc: -the
Government to abstain from making known -the
number of troops dispatched to the East. To esti-
mate the effective force of the army it is sufficieikt to
bear in mind that the. troops at the battle of. 'the
Mina consisted of four divisions, which have IA en

successively increased ; and that two others aro on
their way, without reckoning the reinforcements
sent out to fill up vacancies. The Frenoh arms
in a short time be doubled.

The Moniteur contains a decree promulgating,
the treaty of extradition recently concluded be-
tween France and Portugal. The decree contains
the usual recapitulation of the offences and crimes
which fall under the operation of the treaty, and
from which, as is the custom, political offences are
excluded.

The Moniteur also has the following :

" VIENNA, 16.—1 t is not only on the line from Vienna
to Cronstadt that the telegraphic communications have
been suspended ; posts were thrown down by the late hur-
ricane on the lines from Vienna to Berlin, and from Vienna
to Warsaw. These two lines are no longer at work."

The Legislative Corps will probably meet on the
10th or 15th of December. The ballot for the new
French levy is said to be fixed for the 18th of
January.
The following order of the day was read on Sun-
day last, after the mass, to the troops of the Camp
of the South :

" Soldiers !—I hasten to inform you that it is no longer
to the army of Lyons that we are to belong. The Emperor
has decided that we are to form the 7th Division of the
army of the East. The various staffs and the troops which
are not at the camp of the South are to be seat rapidly
to Marseilles, where vessels are being prepared for
taking our division to Constantinople. There we shall
receive orders from the Commander-in Chief of the
army of the East. The division must hold itself in readi-
ness to leave at the first notice, and I am about to make
arrangements to that effect with the General in command
of the 9th territorial Division. Soldiers !we have only at
present to follow the example of our brothers in arms in
the East ; to observe, like them, a severe discipline in a
foreign censtry ; to live in good intelligence with our
Allies ; to know how to support with resignation fatigues
and privations of all kinds ; and, in fine, at the moment
of action, to display all the energy of which you are capable,
and to be ready to die, if necessary, for France, to the• cry
of Vive l'Empereur I'
" Camp of the South, Nov. 12."

!, DuLec.

Workmen are busily employed in the first ope-
rations for establishing the camp of Sathonay.
Large wooden buildings are about to be con-
structed, and 800 windows have been already got
ready to supply them with light. The Gazette de
Lyon states that the camp is to be established in
such proportions as former camps can give no idea
of.

The Memorial des Pyrenees publishes au order
of the clay of Prince Napoleon, in which he men-
tions an act of courage of Corporals Tourne and.
Pech, of the 20th light infantry ; Tourne is a na-
tive of Pau :

" Army of the East, 3d Division.
" Corporals Tourne and Pech, of the 29th light infantry,
being at work in the trenches, one at eight o'clock in the
morning of the 23d, and the other at four o'clock in the
evening of the 24th, each caught up a shell, which
had fallen among their comrades, and threw it out of
the trenches. This was an act of courage and devotedness
which does honour to these two soldiers, and which the
general commanding the division hastens to make known
to the troops under his orders.
" Before Sebastopol, 25th October.
" NAPOLEON BONAPARTE."

The above order of the day was transmitted at
the same time to the Prefects of Basses-Pyrenees
and the Aude, to the latter of whom the colonel of
the regiment has also addressed a letter mention-
ing the fact, and begging that the heroic conduct
of Pech, who is a native of Songrame, in that de-
partment, may be made known to his friends, add-
ing that the Prince was so pleased with his conduct
that he invited him to dine at his table.

A letter from Port Louis, 16th August, in the
M oniteur, states that the fete of the sovereign of
France, which for the last 50 years had ceased to
be publicly celebrated there, was observed on 15th
August with great pomp. A solemn mass was
performed on board the Bordeaux, a fine vessel,
lying in the harbour, at which the consular agent
of France and all the French residents were present.
All the vessels in the roadstead and the colonial
Government steamers hoisted their flags, and the
English authorities took a part in all the demon-
strations made by the French in honour of their
Emperor.
The following letter from General Canrobert to
Admiral Hamelin, written the day after the fleets
opened their fire against Sebastopol, has not hi-
therto been published :

"Before Sebastopol, Oct. 18.
"My dear Admiral,—On returning to my bivouac I
hasten to address you the thanks of the army and my own
thanks most especially for the vigorous assistance your
ships gave us yesterday. It adds to the long standing
debt we have contracted with the fleet, and be assured
that when opportunity offers we will not be slow
to pay it. I have learnt with deep regret that you hav3
lost two officers of youi staff, and that of all the vessels that
sustained losses the Ville de Paris suffered the most. That
is an honour which belonged to the admiral's ship, and I
do not hesitate to congratulate your officers and crow. I
will not conclude this letter without saying how entirely
satisfied I am with the energetic conduct of your sailers
ashore and the excellent spirit with which they are ani-
mated.—Receive, &c. _ _

" CANROI3ERT.''

BOURSE, YXSTERDAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
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3 per Cents 7O 70 70 60
Credit Mobilier 692 50 Roman
Credit Foncior i:-_,: Austrian
Belgian Fives t'l Spanikh Threes
Piedruontese FL:f Home Debt
RAILWAYS—FOR CASIL
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Orleans . ... . 1,137 50 Lyons
Western 615 Rouen 930
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Northern

THE LANCASTER GUNS.

POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY
FOR 1855.

Kelly and Co., Old Boswell-court.

If the value of a book were to be estimated by
its size alone, the Post-Office Directory would carry
off the prize from all competitors. Often as we
have had the pleasure of recording our good
opinion of this wonderful work the present pub-
lication fairly outstrips all its ponderous prede-
cessors. It is positively a labour to look at it, much
less to turn over its ever-teeming pages. Poor
' Job, with all his troubles, had no idea of the addi-
tional misery he was invoking when he exclaimed,
" Oh, that mine enemy had written a book ;" for,
had Mr. Kelly been his foe, and have hurled his
mountain publication at Job's head, there would
be an end of all his troubles, unless, indeed, it up-
set poor Mrs.!Job in its descent I Really, it appears
almost useless to criticise a work of this dimension,
for its internal merits very far surpass its blushing
proportions, arrayed in all its armorial embellish-
ments and rainbow-tinted pages. It is, indeed,
a prodigy of labour, care, and arduous circumspec-
tion of the huge metropolis of the world.
If we descend to particulars, we might say that
the present volume is considerably increased, owing
as well to the constant increase of tho population
in the area previously comprised as to the fact
that, as the suburbs are gradually becoming more
and more the places of residence of those engaged
in the business of the metropolis, it is found neces-
sary to continually enlarge the area chronicled in
the Directory.
An improvement will be noticed in the adoption
of Messrs. Schlesinger's Index to the Map. They
also continue the use of the coloured edges, with
the names of the different divisions printed, which
enable every one to see not only the beginning but
also the termination of each division of the work,
and has, therefore, great advantages over various
other plans for which patents have been taken out,
which merely determine the commencement of each
part, and some of which require notches to be cut,
rendering the leaves liable to be torn when turned
over rapidly. _ _

The Official index, pp. 3 to 33, has been much
enlarged by adding to each not only the office but
also the department; thus, to Bokenham
will be found appended the description General
Post-office, Circulation Department (formerly In-
land Office). All the information has been cor-
rected to the latest moment. We would instance
the Royal Commission to the Patriotic Fund, which
was first gazetted Oct. 13th, and will be found at
p. 66 (corrected by the omission of the name of Sir
Byam Martin, whose death was announced in The
Sun of the 23d), and with the addition of all the
officers. The alterations caused by. the death of
Lord Dunalley, an Irish representative peer, will
be found in pp. 2267, 2232, 2258, and 2260. Lord
Dungarvan appears in his proper place in the Par-
liamentary Directory, as M.P. for Frome, pp.
12242 and 2252, although only elected on the 23d,
and the death of Mr. Henry Stuart, the late M.P.
for Bedford (Sun, 28th Oct.) will be found in the
names too late for insertion, p. 11.
We mention these as being names of note, but
equal care has been taken with the entire work, as
may be verified by referring to the name of any
person who has removed or commenced business
within the last three months.
But this is not all; the publishers' may lay claim
to merit on the score of punctuality as well as
accuracy. Their arrangements contemplate that
the printing shall always be completed, so that the
early bound copies of the work may be delivered to
the press on the let of November, and that the
many thousands required by the mercantile com-
munity may be furnished in the succeeding week,
and for several years they have not varied twenty-
four hours in the completion of their task.
In addition to all this a new map has been pre-
pared, on a principle entirely novel, with an index
numbered all round, and a corresponding illustration
or guide, by means of a tape, numbered also, so
that by drawing the tape over the map any place
may be found at once, thus saving the bewilder-
ment experienced in hunting out a streal, square,
or any particular locality, which has been often
given up in despair. If London goes on enlarging,
and the Directory keep pace with it, there will be
no living in the one nor bearing with the other.
Would that the nation were prospering in an equal
degree, and Messrs. Kelly all the richer for their
praiseworthy labours.