The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-09 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

MARSEILLES, SATURDAY, 8.20 A.M.
The Carmel has arrived, with advices from

Constantinople of the 31st, and from the Crimea

of the 29th January.
Despatches leave at 9 a.m.

A Council assembled on the 29th at the Eng-

lish Ambassador's lasted till the following morning.
The principles put by the Ambassadors of the
Allies will be approved by the Sultan to-morrow.
There is nothing new from the Crimea.

SARDINIA.

TURIN, FEB. 8.

General La Marmora has arrived here.

Yesterday the Turkish Ambassador presented
his credeniials to the King.
The Senate has voted the loan of thirty rail-

lions by a majority of 50 to 7.

JASSY, FEB. 4

The Censorship has just been abolished in Mol-
davia. The responsibilities of writers and pub-
lishers of newspapers will be regulated by a

special law.

THE TURKISH CONTINGENT.

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KERTCH, Jan. 15.—There is a complete dearth
of interest in the affairs of this part of the Crimea.
Monotony, in the true sense of the word, drags
along its slowly creeping length day after day.
The excitement consequent ou the false reports
circulated by Tartars of an immediate attack on

Kertch has, with its concomitant disagreeablcs,
passed away, together with the change of tempe-
rature from freezino, to moderate. The weather
is the only thing that affords any topic for con-
versation or exhibits the slightest shade of
variety. Yet how sudden and great is this variety.
No one unacquainted with the Crimean weather
could form an idea of its nature. But a few
days have elapsed since the bay of Kertch and
the Straits of Yenikale• were one huge mass of
ice, strong enough to bear the weight of guns of
heavy metal ; and sledges, containing no small
amount of human cargo, were driven alongside the
ice-bound ships, even as a carriage in London
draws up beside the footpath. The entire face of
nature was veiled in snow, and the quicksilver in
the thermometer generally ranged from 3 degrees
to 20. The wind changed, and, as if by magic,
ice and snow vanish, and we have April weather,
with soft and genial showers. The 12th of
January was the very picture of a spring day.
The 'sky equalled any that ever overspread the
Italian shores ; not even a white streak was to
be observed to alloy the purity of the blue—
the sea lay calm like an azure lake, and its
waters, as they rippled on, seemed to sport in the
laughing sunbeams. Few are the April days in
England that ever surpassed in loveliness the 12th
of January in Kertch. Yet before this very sun
had set all was changed; clouds came lowering on,
the blue and cheery sky became dirty and sombre,
and the day went out in drizzling showers. The
following day was an exact representation of a dull
November day in the great city, and ended in tor-
rents of rain. Every place was ankle-deep in thick
tenacious mud, and orders were given to the various
Turkish Contingent regiments to scrape up the
mud in the separate parts of the town occupied by
each, but next morning frost reappeared and snow
fell.

In the internal government of the town a great
deal of good has been effected, marked by a decided
diminution in the numbers of the intemperate.
Every comfort seems to flow about the Turkish
Contingent. When one speaks of campaigning,
their condition can be termed almost luxurious.
,Those not housed in Kertch have been as comfort-
ably accommodated outside in large good houses,
well roofed, and covered with tarpaulings, with
small cooking establishments in the rear, and their
messes seem of a first rate order, if one can judge
from the savoury exhalations that issue from these
cooking-houses about their feeding time. The hos-
pital accommodation and arrangements seem per-
fect, the amount of sickness not great.
The ,force at St. Paul's consists of nearly an en-
tire regiment of French, about two regiments of
Turks, and a small force of English artillery ; and,
though their position is naturally exposed to the
inclemency of the weather, yet, as they have built
capital houses (far superior to any that could have
been supplied from a distance), made of timbers,
tiles, iron sheets, windows, and doors, collected
from the ruins of Kertch, they appear remarkably
comfortable. Some of the smaller huts are covered
with iron sheeting ; others are built partlrin the
ground, and their roofs are covered with earth,
which seems to answer the purpose of keeping out
both cold and wet.

Vast improvements have been made on the road
to St. Paul's, and o\'er a small stream which joins
the sea, about the commencement of the new road,
the French have built a good stone bridge in place
of an old wooden one which existed in the time of
the Russians. Carved on the centre stone of the
bridge are the words, " IVme Regiment d'lnfan-
terie de la Marine, 1855."

The .position of S. Paul's is considered as very
strong both by nature and art, and critics pro-
nounce the lines there to be superior to those made
at Yenikale.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

M. Desprez has been appointed sub-director in
the department of Foreign Affairs, in the room of
M. Lefebvre de Becour, who is going out to La
Plata as Minister Plenipotentiary. Count Aloys
de Rayneval, Secretary of Legation at Hanover,
is named to the same post at Florence ; and M. de
Bonnieres, second Secretary at Berne, is named
Secretary of Legation at Hanover.
The. Moniteur contains decrees making various
appointments and changes of residence among the
magistracy.
A letter from Djedda, of the 13th ult., states
that according to the last accounts of the insurrec-
tion of the Hedjaz the line of Bahara, had been
crossed by the troops of the Sultan without firing
a Shot. Sheriff Monthaleb retreated on Mecca,
but did not attempt to hold it, and the Holy City
is again in the power of the Turks.
BOURSE' Feb. B.—The .following were the last
closing quotations :

Cash. fr. e.
per Cents.... 95 50

End of Month.
—f. —c.
72 85

3 per Conte 72
Now Loan 73

Bank Shares 3,493

Roman

Credit Alobilier 1,552 50 Austrian

Belgian Five 5........ Spanish Threes
Piediaontsee(s). B9 -- Home Debt

- RAILWAYS-NOR CASU.

ft. c. fr. e
Orlftne 1,240 Western 845 25
ITm•thern
Lyons
New Ditt0..........., Bl5
....,...
Mediterranean 1,380 Grand Central63s
Lyons Geneva
740 Tate 670
••
Cette 737 50 Austrian Com. ...... 855