The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-01 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS.

There are at this moment at Toulon three ships of the
line and eight frigates filled with troops for the Crimea.
At the ironworks of Conches, in the department of
the Eure, an order for 10,000 shells and 50,000 small
cannon balls is being executed with the greatest activity
We read in the Courrier du Havre of the 28th ult. :
—" The splendid English steamer New York came into
harbour te-day to take on board stores and materiel for
the army of the East. Among the different articles
about to be embarked are 80 ambulance carriages and
waggon train, which arrived by railway. The greatest
activity prevails in the shipment of stores and materiel.
The Petrel is to convey a great quantity of wooden shoes
for our soldiers in the Crinsea."

We read in the Messager de Bayonne of the 28th ult. :
—" On Sunday morning the first column of the 35th
Regiment of the line left Bayonne for the camp of
Lyons. The brave soldiers of that regiment, whose
excellent spirit and exact discipline have been appre-
elated for the last three years by our population,
marched out of the town crying, To Sebastopol l'
The day before our military authorities were directed
by a telegraphic despatch to select from each
company, among the best marksmen, ten volunteers, who
are to be conveyed in five days by railway to Marseilles,
and there immediately embarked for the Crimea, where
they are to form a company of ' francs-tireurs.' To the
appeal addressed to the tin volunteers the entire com-
panies responded. A great number of non-commissioned
officers and corporals belonging to the depot battalion
begged as a favour to be incorporated as common soldiers
in the war battalions."

THE "ENTENTE CORDIALE " AT GEELEING.—A. French
phalanx marched in the procession of the inhabitants of
Geelong, when on the 15th of August last they went
ont to meet Sir Charles Hotham the new Lieutenant-
Governor of Victoria. M. Prceschel, a leading French
resident, in an address issued a fewdays before the event,
had requested the attendance of his compatriots in order
that the French flag might on this occasion float by the side
of the British banner, as it does at this moment in other
lands, and thus, in good and sincere friendship, unite in
saluting the representative of her Majesty the Queen of
Great Britain.

SUICIDE BY STRYCHNINE.—On Tuesday, at the Bell
Hotel, Bristol, Mr. Henry S. Parker, an innkeeper, re-
siding in Birmingham, terminated his life by the means
of
strychnine. The deceased was well known on the turf
and
in betting circles. It was understood that he had
recently become much embarrassed in his circumstances.
Yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon an inquest was held
upon the body before Mr. J. B. Griudon, the city coro-
ner, and a respectable jury, and a verdict of "Temporary
insanity " was returned.
A SHOAL OF WHALES IN THE EITER.—Ab about 12
o'clock yesterday the people on the waterside and in the
vessels lying off Gravesend were surprised by the ap-
pearance of a shoat of between 40 and 50 young whales,
some of them apparently 30 or 40 feet in length, dis-
porting themselves in the middle of the river, between
far
the town and Tilbury Fort. They proceeded up as
as off Rosherville, then reversed their course, having
come in contact with two steamers coming down
the river. They were of that class of whales called by
the fishermen " finners"—a name, judging from the im-
mense dorsal fin, which, when they rose to the surface,
appeared to be from 8 to 10 feet in length, most ap-
propriate to .them. The appearance of these "monsters
of the deep " in the river so high up as Gravesend created
the greatest surprise, as a similar one, as the watm
and fishermen averred, had never before been observed.eren
One of the largest of them, from his plunges out of and
on the surface of the water and the consa
throughnt lashing of
oneo f the
the
his tail after one of the steamerspassed2
shoal, was supposed to have been struck by
steamer's paddles. He, however, contrived to overtake
his companions, and, followed by a couple of beats that
put off, he joined them, and all took their departure
down the riser.

* Many persons suppose that the name of Iskorman ie
a German word, but it is in reality a Turkish oat, sad
siguifies lower town.

CONSECRATION or Two BlSHOPl3.—Yesterday morning
Dr. Frederick Barker, of Jesus College, Cambridge, who
has been appointed to the Bishopric of Sydney, and Dr.
Vincent William Ryan, who has been appointed to the
Bishopric of the Mauritius and its dependencies, were
consecrated to their office in the pariah chnrcli of St.
!fiery, Lambeth.