The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-09 00:00:00

gent, would find its way to the banks of the Rhine.
It is whispered that the Emperor reserves to him-
self the command of this fine army, and that he
will establish his camp at Pont-de-Brie, where his
uncle had once his head-quarters. He will have
Guards with him. The corps of 50,000 men at
Marseilles will, it is said, be commanded by Gene.
ral Rostolan.
Th

.e Patric quotes a letter from Gallipoli, of the
25th ult., announcing that the position of the
Expeditionary corps was most satisfactory. The
different camps had been organised with much
order and method, and the landing of the troops
took place with great regularity. General d'Allon-
vile, commander of a brigade of the French cavalry,
had returned to Gallipoli from Constantinople,
where he had been sent on a special mission.
The Sentinelle Toulonnaise of the 4th inst. states
that orders had reached from Paris to embark, in
the brigs Cerf and Olivier, and in the steam aviso
Solon, four companies of the 3d Regiment of
Marines, who are to be landed in the Grecian
knidpelago. The steam-corvette Pluton arrived
that morning from Algiers, where she left the
steam-frigates Magellan, Montesuma, Sane, Ca-
cique, Tabger, Canada, and Cerbere, taking on
board troops and 'materiel for Constantinople.
The Infernal, Capricieuse, and Narval, with
troops for the East, were to leave Toulon on the

4th.
The' Ocean, of Brest states that the French
arsenals held in reserve 27 ships of the line and
upwards of 400 inferior vessels, such as frigates,
corvettes, brigs, schooners, steamers &-c., mounting

together 3,500 guns.
Fifty siege pieces of artillery are being shipped
at Toulon for Constantinople.
The Armoricain of Brest announces that, on the
morninguperr,e of the 4th inst., the ship of the line
p
commanded by Captain Penaud, sailed
from that port to join the squadron of Admiral
Parseval-Deschenes in the Baltic. The frigates
Psyche and SemiHaute, which belong to the same
squadron, were still in the roads. The first-rate
frigate
Vengeance was still preparing to quit
Lorient for the Baltic. The ship Donawert and
the steam corvette TY siphone were being armed at
Lorient, and orders to fit up the ship Duguay-
Trouin, the screw ship Annibal, the Dassas, and
Cocyte were daily expected from Paris. The screw
ship Wagram, will, it is believed, be launched in
the course of the month. There are upwards of
12 ships of war of all sizes on the stocks
at Lorient,
several of which are in a sufficiently advanced con-
dition to be speedily launched if necessary.
The Emperor received on Sunday Baron de
Schweizer, Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister..
Plenipotentiary of Baden, who presented to his
Majesty the reply of the Prince Regent Baden to
the letters of recall of Count de Marescalchi.
The Moniteur publishes a Senatus-Consultum,
regulating the Constitution of the colonies of Mar-
tinique, Guadeloupe, and Reunion.
There is no change in the commercial and indus-
trial situation of Paris since last week. The retail
trade, particularly in articles of dress, continues
very brisk, and is by no means inferior to the
average amount of preceding years at this season.
The accounts from Lyons, St. Etienne, Tarare,
Roubaix, and Mulhouse mention a marked im-
provement iu the industrial position of those cities,
which have been lately visited by numerous pur-
chasers from Paris.
We read in the Moniteur : —The Cabinet of
Athens, whilst promoting the insurrection in Epirus,
has endeavoured to lead the populations of the king-
dom to imagine that the German powers fully ap-
prove of its conduct. Whilst these false assertions
were being made, under the guarantee of the Greek
Cabinet, the Ministers of Austria, Prussia, and Ba-
varia, as the Government of the Emperor had been.
formally assured from their Courts, received orders
to blame energetically the policy of Greece, and to
support in the firmest manner the counsels and re-
presentations of the Western Powers.
M. Lazareff, the Russian whose arrest has been
mentioned, and who, in consequence of the violence
of his manner and his insulting language, has been
requested to quit France in 48 hours. It appears
that the papers seized led to the discovery of a plan
for a Legitimist movement, with a view of a Bour-
bon restoration. Advantage was to be taken of
France being engaged in war to effect that object.
These plots are connected with the intrigues of
Russian agency in Spain and Portugal. It is cer-
tain that the more the present question becomes
developed the hostility of the fallen political par-
ties, whose hopes are frustrated by the close alli-
ance between the two great Powers of Western
Europe, increases ; and this embittered feeling
is given vent to in the saloons where the lead-
ing personages of these parties are wont to meet
and condole with each other. The removal from
the Cabinet of the Prussian Minister of War,
whose opposition to the policy of Russia is well
known, has revived the hopes of the old party.
It is whispered in the circles referred to that on a
very recent occasion the Emperor of Russia used
the following expression in reference to Prussia :
" If Austria declares against me, the German em-
pire shall become the possession of the House of
Hohenzollern." These words might at first ap-
pear a mere rhodomontade, but the importance
attached to them, by the Legitimist party in
particular, make them worthy of notice at a mo-
ment when the Ministerial modification in Prussia
is received by some as the realisation of those
hopes, and by whom it is regarded as the
commentary on the words attributed to the
Emperor Nicholas. The discontented parties flatter
themselves that, by this threat on one side and
encouragement on the other, both Prussia and,
Austria will be gained over to the Czar, who pro-
claims himself as the champion of the ld parties,
and who is the last hope of the Royalists quand
mime.
The Assemblge Nationale had appeared on Sun-
day. In a short article it says that, as the time for
mere discussion on the probability or propriety of
war has now past by, and as France is engaged in
it, it will take the part of France.
The section of the Chateauroux and Limoges
Railway comprised between Chateauroux and.
Argentan was opened on the 2d inst. The con-
struction of this line, which is about 31 kilo-
metres in length, presented for four kilo-
metres considerable difficulties. In that distance
it was necessary to cut trenches from 16 to 21
yards in depth, to open a tunnel of 1,000 yards
long, and to construct a viaduct of 13 arches, each.
13 yards in width and 38 in height. Notwith-
standing the expense, occasioned by the execution
of those different works, the portion which the
State has to pay, estimatedat 5,887.451 f., amounted
only to 4,500,000 f., so that there was a saving to
the Treasury of about 1,400,000 f.
The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at 65f. for
the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. at 91f. 30c.; and the New Loan, at 64f.
75c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,047 f. 50c.; Rouen,
866. 25c.; Havre, 418 f. 75c. ; Great Northern,
750 c.; Strasburg, 708 f. 75c. ; Shares) 550 f.;
Paris and Lyons, 826 f. 25c.; Lyons to the Medi-
terranean, 670 f.; Western of France, 572 f. 60c.;
Bordeaux and ette, 512 f. 60c.; Great Central of
France, 412 f. 50c.; Lyons to Geneva, 425 f.; Bank
of Credit Mobilier, 510 f.