The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-15 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

BERLIN, THURSDAY.
Count Orloff arrived this evening, and leaves
to-morrow for Paris.

Intelligence from St. Petersburg presages im-
portant personal changes in the higher adminis-
trative departments. The removal of the Minis-
ter of the Interior and Chief of Police is spoken
of.

VIENNA, THIIRSDA.I.

Measures are under consideration for re-estab-
lishing the Civic Guard. It will consist of in-
fantry, artillery, and cavalry corps.
The conduct of the Italian bishops in taking
undue advantage of the Concordat has given rise
to new negotiations with Rome.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

The Moniteur publishes the monthly returns of
the Bank of France to yesterday, Thursday, Feb.
14. We give the most important items, with the
corresponding figures of last month, en regard :

Feb.
Coin and bullion, Paris 94,789,695
Ditto ditto branch banks 119,587,230
Bills discounted, Paris 227,030,052
Ditto branch banks
Notes in circulation, Paris 531,265,100
Ditto branch banks 96,480,450
Treasury deposits 59,020,252
Private deposits, Paris 107,067,115
Ditto branch banks

Tan.
81,184,345
118,426,113
235,755,409
210,939,492
512,432,000
95,505,550
51,372,584
106,806,255
23,888,114

THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.
( From the Times Correspondent.)
CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, FEB. 1.
Between 9 and 10 o'clock on the night of the
29th ult. the whole camp was startled by the heaviest
cannonade that has been heard since the fall of
Sebastopol. Although the night was pitch dark,
officers flocked up to Cathcart's-hill, and from a
considerable distance down the road curious spec-
tators hurried to the front. The cause of the firing
appears to have been as follows :—Six boats, full of
men, put off from the Russian side of the harbour
with the intention, as some suppose, of effecting a
landing in Sebastopol, although it is difficult to
conjecture what advantage the enemy could have
expected to reap from so hazardous an enterprise.
Others talk of a reconnaissance, but the Russians
can distinguish more with their glasses in the
daytime than they could from their boats in so
dark a night. Finally, a third conjecture points
to the sunken men-of-war, concerning which there
is a myth current to the effect that they are held
down below water by cables, and will start up afloat
as soon as those are severed. It is not very probable
that the Russians propose to raise their submerged
fleet just now, so that this hypothesis falls to the
ground, unless its ingenious framers imagine that
they were going to see after the tackling, or to as-
certain the ravages of the worm. Rather unlikely ;
and, in truth, nobody knows the object of this
sortie of boats. Fire was opened upon them ; the
French are said to have sunk ono of them, and
then they retired, and the Russians commenced a
furious cannonade from all their batteries right
round to Inkerman. It is reported that they sent
shells into the Malakhoff, and even into the Redan.
As usual, the damage done was very small. A shell
fell into the French guard-boat, carried off a man's
arm, and went through the boat's bottom ; but
the crew stuffed a coat into the hole and got safely
to shore. A round shot went through the roof of
the Town-Major's house in the English fart of
Sebastopol, but hurt no one. The fire was chiefly
directed against the French, who replied vigorously.
Very heavy while it lasted, but it was not long sus-
tained.