The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-14 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY.

The Messageries packet the Vatican brings news
from Constantinople of the sth. Kebresh
Mehemed Pacha has been appointed Grand Vizier
ad interim during the absence of Ali Pacha. The
Sultan honoured the fancy balls of Lord de Red-
ell& and of M. de Thouveuel with his presence.
The Presse d'Orient announces that the Tysiphone
has left with Russian prisoners for Odessa, then to
be exchanged against Allied prisoners.
The news from the Crimea, which is to the 31st
January, announces that the Allies have under-
mined Fort St. Nicholas.

The Allies had blown up the List of the docks

at Sebastopol.

Five English regiments are preparing to return
to England. 3,000 infantry, with two batteries
of artillery, have been sent to Kertch. The
Egyptians have left Eupatoria for Varna.

Accounts from Varna up to the 30th January
state that a fire had broken out there, but had
been extinguished by the French troops. General
Coronini had returned to Bucharest. The thaw
had commenced in the Danube, and the breaking
up of the ice was shortly expected.
Nows from Kinbourn state that the thaw had
begun, that reinforcements had arrived, and that
all was quiet.

News from Athens states that the Order of the
Saviour had been conferred on the French Rear-
Admiral Jacquinot.

TRIESTE, FEB. 12.

Accounts have been received here from Con-

stantinople to the 4th, which announce that the
Ottoman Government has added 2,000 men to
the Anglo-Turkish Contingent.
According to letters from Trebizond of the 9th
ult., the English were seeking on the coast for a
point where 25,000 men could be landed.

There are 1,000 French in camp at Maslak, and
two English battalions, with a small cavalry de-
tachment, at Pera and Scutari.

The Russians have evacuated part of Turkish

Armenia and retired to Erivan.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The Moniteur, and other continental journals of
yesterday, have come to hand. Tho official French
journal has a decree, conferring the military medal
on 39 soldiers and seamen.

A. letter from Copenhagen, of the Gth, antici-
pates that it will be a fortnight or more before the
Court appointed to examine the charges against
M. Scheele, the Minister for Holstein, will close
its inquiry.

The liebats has a money article on the recent
report of ithe Bank of France. It is as buoyant
and anticipative as might be expected. It tells
us, "So soon as that glorious peace, on which
France now reckons, shall be signed, so soon as the
living strength of French society,a moment diverted
to war, shall return en masse to the fruitful fields
of labour, one of the first problems which will be
presented by the force of events will be that of an
extension of our institutions of credit in general,and
especially of the Bank of France. The Bank must
be prepared for this ; for what is this, after all, but
an increase of her influence, and an iuoreaso of her
profits ?"

- The commission of which M. Stourm, Councillor
of State, is president, appointed by Government to
consider the propositions for the establishment of
transatlantic lines of packets, has drawn up a
series of questions to be answered by the companies.
It will be a work of some time to prepare the
answers, and it is not expected that any decision
can be come to for the next three months. It has
been intimated that the following rates of speed
will be stipulated for as a mini►num :—For the
New York line, 111 knots an hour; for the Brazils,
; and for the French Antilles, 101.
BOURSE, Feb. 13.—The following were the clos-
ing quotations :

Cash. fr. 4. End of Month.
4i per Cents 96 --f. --c.
3 per Cents 73 5 73 i7O
New Loan 74
Bank Shares .... 3,475 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,570 Austrian
Belgian Fiveg 97 Spanish Threes
Piedmoutese (5) B9 Home Debt ...... ...

RAILWAYS-NOB C 4.811.

fr. c. fr. a.
Orleans ...... ... ......1,257 50 Western B5O
Northern
Lyons ..,.., 1,222 50 New Ditto B2O
Mediterranean 1,380 Grand Central 640
Lyons Geneva 740 Testo
Cotta 742 50 Austrian Com. ...... 885

order to prevent any chapee of collision, •while
waiting for a regular armistice. The news of the
acceptance by Russia has disagreeably surprised tie
tradesuien at Kamiesh, who will scarcely have
time to get rid of their merchandise. It is, hew'
ever, said that a part of the supplies will be re-
moved to Batoum on account of the English: Troops
continue to assemble at Trebizond, and reinforce'
ments are being regularly. sent off to Erzeroutn.
Omer. Pacha displays great activity in reorganising
the Turkish army of Asia, and is renewing rela-
tions with the mountaineers. Sugdidi, the reel.
deuce of the Princess Dadian, in Mingrelia, bag
just been totally destroyed by fire. The Russians
and the Turks accuse each other of having been
the cause of the conflagration."
The following are the terms in which the vii"
nutes of the Germanic Diet speak of the late pre"
sentation by Austria of the documents concerning
the peace propositions :—" In the sitting of the
Diet on the 7th, Austria presented to the Assent'
bly the protocol of acceptance, which was sign,'"
at Vienna on the Ist, and a statement of the negs;
tiations which preceded it. These documents WI
follow the usual course of affairs."