The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-13 00:00:00

ROYAL ORDINANCES.

Ist. For raising 60,000 men from the class of 1824, with a
table stating the contingent to be furnished by each department.
2nd. Grants to the officers of the corps of Sappeurs Pompiers
of the city of Paris certain advantages, to indemnify them for the
slowness of promotion which results from the particular regu-
lations of that corps.

NON-OFFICIAL PART.
His Majesty has just granted a pension of
2.000 francs to the descendants of the great
Corneille.
( From the Etoile, dated Tuesday, Jan. 11.)
PARIS, JAN. 10.—Letters from Berlin say,
that Count Bernstorff, in his late illness, again
solicited permission to resign, which was refused
in the most honourable terms. A new organiza-
tion of the public departments is spoken of for
the purpose of lessening the burden of the busi-
ness which lies on the Minister.
The cholera morbus has appeared at Vardal,
in the Government of Christiania. Four children
have died on one farm, all the inhabitants of
which have been ill. Our readers may recollect
that this terrible malady appeared at Leith, in
England, last summer.
On the 3d November the Porte sent orders to
Jassy to recal those iroops which exceeded the
number thatis to remain in Moldavia. We know,
beytmd all doubt, that these orders have been
eNecuted. M. Minziacky deferred for some days
the presentation of his credentials. lie thought
he ought to wait till the Reis Effendi had an-
nounced the evacuation. This notification hav-
ing been made by the Porte on the gth, M.
Minziacky immediately applied to the Reis
Effendi to know the day and hour he would re-
ceive him. The nth was the day fixed.

(-From the Constitutionnel.)

LISBON', DEC. 22.—(Extract from a Private Letter.)—ln
my last I mentioned the conferences which are taking place
between our Ministers and the Ambassador of a great Power ;
but I waited till now to ascertain if it were quite certain that
the British Ambassador had required an explanation of our
Ministry as to the conduct they would pursue, if England
were obliged to break with the three great Powers of Europe,
or the Holy Alliance. I am now assured, that such a commu-
nication has been made. The reply of our Ministry will be
agreeable to the views of the British Government. Indeed,'
when Sir William A'Court arrived here from Madrid, we ex-
pected some event of this nature. We shall now see whit will
be said in the North. The Hardware, of Liverpool; the Venus,
of London ; and the Agnes, of Glasgow, have lately entered
the port with money on board; and the Standard has brought
provisions for the English men of war in the Tagus.

(Front the Journal des Debuts. )

FROM THE HEAD-QUARTERS AT HIERO CAMION,

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BEFORE PATAAS.

Extract of a Private Letter, dated Dec. 1, 18.94.—The for.
_tress of Patras is to be at length regularly besieged. Eight
vessels sent from the squadron of Admiral Miaoulis intercept
all communication, with the consent'of the English, who have
acknowledged the legality of the blockade promulgated by
the Hellenian Government. Cannon and mortars have been
aaxsded at St. Andre, and are to be sent on to Scatavonni,
where a battery is preparing. The works are under the di-
rection of European engineers, and the artillery is worked by
foreigners. Ten thousand Greek soldiers, under the command of
.Andri Zainis and Constantine Botzaris, defend the besiegers.
On Nov. 27, Botzaris being informed that Joussouf Pacha had
dispatched two thousand men from Lepanto under Achmet
. Pacha, went towards Sichena to meet them. He came up
with them at Xero Campos, defeated them, killed Achmet,
and deprived the Turks of any wish to trouble the besiegers,
so that the capture of Patras is regarded as just at hand.
The Greeks mean, afterwards, to attack the Castle of the
hlorea opposite Lepanto, and, also that town, in order to be
ready, in 1825, to make head against the troops of the Sul.
tan, if he should still mean to try another campaign.—
P.S. DEC. 2.—lntercepted letters inform us that Modon and
Coron are in want of provisions, and being blockaded by
sea, it cannot be long before they surrender. Troops are
continually passing towards Athens, in order to lay siege to
Negropont.