The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-06 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, Wednesday. This morning+ a
eight a.m., the United States mail steam-ship
Atlantic, Captain West, which was to leave New
York on the 25th ult., arrived off Great Orme g
Head. She is expected to arrive in the river
about twelve at noon, with the mails and four days
laterintelligence from the United States.

SAILING SHIPS FOR TROOPS TO Tia

BLACK SEA.

St. George, 120, Captain Eyres, C. 8., was paid 14.!
Devonport four months' wages on account, and will San
perhaps to-day for Queenstown, to embark with 660
troops and 100 tons of stores for the Black Sea. Thls,
ship has been in the Baltic this summer. She has. n?'
carried troops, but the Royal William, 120, Captain
Kingcome, also at Plymouth, has been fitted, and bas
conveyed troops to the Baltic this year. The policyor
prudence of sending a sailing three-decker ship policy.
troops to the Black Sea at this season of the year may
fairly be questioned, when it is seen that even acrow
steam-ships are not safe in the Euxine.

THE HUTS FOR THE FRENCH TROOPS-

"We have spoken," says the Patrie, "of come small
wooden houses which had been put up in the reserved
galleries of the Tuileries. They were models which the
Emperor had ordered to be brought there in order to
examine which appeared best suited as regarded shelter
and solidity. One of the models was chosen for our
troops is the Crimea ; and we learn that on the propo-
sition of the Minister of War, a contract has been en'
tered into, and which will be executed with such promp-
titude that between this and the end of the month
sufficient number to shelter all our army, both men and
horses, will be constructed and sent to the Crimea."

THE LATE STORM---THE PRINCE AND

HIMA LA YA.

The underwriter at Lloyd's, and the marine assurance
offices appear to have had a very fortunate escape in
connection with the destructive storm of the 13th ult.
in the Black Sea. They had granted a time policy on
the large steam-ship Prince,
,the value of which was very
great, but it seems to have expired four days prior to
the loss of her, and Government having become the
purchasers of the vessel for public account had, as is
usually the case, become their own underwriters. The
time policy, applicable to the Himalaya, will not, we
understand, expire until after the close of the year. The
loss the underwriters and offices will sustain by the
wreck of so many transports cannot fail to be heavy
but, for the present, Government do not pretend to be
able to satisfy them as to the extent of it.

THE INDEMNITY, TO BE PAID BY

_RUSSIA.

A letter from a well-informed quarter in Paris con'
tains the following :—" One of the greatest difficulties
in negotiations for peace will probably be the pecuniary
indemnity to be paid by Russia ; for on this point the
people of France and England, who have paid the elc-
penses of the war, must be listened to by their Govern-
ments. Russia, however, is bound to pay, for she ball
caused the war, and we do not see how her Goternreen4
can dispute the right or plead inability of execution. for
Emperor of Russia can make his subjects pay I°l.
the maintenance of his present army, and the 900,000
men whom he pretends he can add to it, those subject°
being in the meantime deprived of the means of repair-
ing their losies by agriculture and commerce, he c 1“/
make them pay for peace, and they would no doubt, is
this case, pay much more cheerfully."