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

THE CRIMEA.

According to official reports lying before me,
writes a St. Petersburg correspondent of the Cologne
Gazette), the army in the Crimea, which Prince
Gortschakoff has just handed over to General
Luders, is composed as follows :—The 4th, sth,
10th, 11th, 16th, and 17th division of infantry
(24,000 men), the 15th reserve division of infantry
(4,000 men), with the appurtenant rifle battalions
of artillery and cavalry, the drushines of the 38th
and 54th (7,000 men) militia of Kaluga, two regi-
ments of the 2d brigade of the Gth division of in-
fantry (2,000 men), a brigade of the 2d dragoon
divisions (two regiments, 1,600 men). In the po-
sitions of Sarabus and Troch-Ablun, the 2a and 3d
grenadier division (8,000 choice troops) with artil-
lery, the half of the 12th division of infantry
(2,000 men) with artillery, the 39th, 40th, 41st,
and 42d drushines of Kursk (4,000 men).Of ar-
tillery, 280 field-pieces. The corps of observation
near Kertch Theodosia, and Eupatoria, are not in-
cluded in this computation.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.
MARSEILLES, Jan. 30.—A remarkably fine body
of men, consisting of 700 of the 3d battalion of
Chasseurs de Vincennes, arrived here yesterday
from the Crimea. They sailed from Kamiesh in
the British steamer Glasgow on the Ist of January,
and from Constantinople on the 16th. The Glas-
gow entered the port at eight in the morning ;
but, as there were some cases of typhus fever on
board, the troops were not permitted to land
until the sanitary board had held a consultation, to
which the physicians on board the Glasgow were
summoned. At two in the afternoon the Chas-
seurs were drawn up on the quay of the Joliette.
They looked thoroughly well, and in excellent
condition. They did not conceal their joy at
again standing on their native soil. The officers
were remarkably neat in their dress. The 3d Chas-
seurs was one of the first regiments which left
France for the East. They distinguished themselves
at the battle of Inkerman and again at the capture
of the Mamelon Vert, for which several of them
are decorated. Their colours are riddled with
Russian shot. The cantiniere of the regiment is
said to have realised 150,000 f. by selling provisions
and liquor while in the Crimea.

THE TURKISH CONTINGENT.
(Prom the Correspondent of the Morning Post. )
KERTCH, Jan. 9.—At length we have been
treated to an alert by the Russians. After long
expe • tation, we had almost given up faith in their
existence, until they thought proper to disturb
us last Sunday. We had just arrived at church,
and were awaiting the commencement of the ser-
vice, when, instead of dur respected clergyman
walking in sedately, as becomesa minister, in rushed
a booted and sabred hussar, bearing a message of
war, instead of breathing the words of peace. In
a second the room was deserted, and the congrega-
tion scattered in every direction, though none could
say exactly why. At length rumour assumed a
tangible form, and, as is natural, erescebat eundo,
for that which reached the Lieut.-General's ears as
a simple warning of the Cossacks having been seen,
by the time it reached mine was magnified into the
following terrible announcement :—" The Russians
having taken Yenikale, are on the point of taking
Fort Paul by storm, while their main body is
within a mile of the town." Partly from curiosity,
partly because my duties led me in that direction,
I ascended, the Museum Hill, and gazed across the
wide expanse of plain ; but, alas ! my eyes were
not greeted by a single object which even the most
feverish imagination could convert into a Cossack.
The plain, it is true, was dotted with moving ob-
jects, but they could easily be detected to be bul-
locks being driven into the town, or harmless sheep
lost in amazement at what all these unwonted
sounds could mean. After searching in vain for
the enemy, I turned toward the town, which, from
this height, presented an extremely picturesque
and animated appearance.. The Turkish drums
were beating to arms, and the soldiers could he
seen hurrying from their quarters with cheerful
alacrity, apparently only desirous of an opportu-
nity to revenge themselves on their detested foe, the
Mescov Ciaour. Regiment after regiment moved
along beneath my feet, and in an incredibly short
space of time the lines were speckled with troops,
who had entirely laid aside their national apathy,
while every available point of attack was defended
by the field-guns. Not long after, the Chasseurs
d'Afrique trumpets sounded to boot and saddle,
and they went off, with the few 10th Hussars we
have, to reconnoitre the road, where dense columns
of smoke indicated that the Cossacks were at their
usual amusement. After a while the town became
quite still ; and had it not been for the noisy shouts
of the Russians, already drank with the anticipa-
tion of victory and consequent plunder, I could
scarcely have believed that I was gazing on a city
which might so soon experience all the horror of
war for a second time. After a while, however,
the troops began to return, and, as a Turkish cap-
tain explained
throwing up of his arms, and smacking of his
Russian fingers, theto me, with a most inimitable
attack was all bosh,

The total amount of money paid for printing and fold-
lir.
PaTrihsocofalr.rleoswpoinngdeilsl
ing the reports, appendicee, and indices on public peti-
tions to Parliament, was in 1854.55, 1,7451., against
PARIS, FRIDAY E7NING.
1,7921. in 1854, and 2,4481. in 1852.53, the arerage of
the three years having been 1,9951.
THE LITCHFIELD BANK.-0a Thursday, at the
naingham District Court of Bankruptcy, a meet was datedcorrespondent, t hle.
I have to correct, or rather to add, to a passage
held for the purpose of appointing the trail, assignees.
Congdon,
Rdiehard Smith, of Dudley, Mr. Jr in my letter of Wednesday, with reference to the
amount
ofd dMebrt.aSpmroivthe,dof
wasla ,itcb. r i letter
day ,6 opfan. the:limes
..aies Cooke, of conditions on which M. Nesselrodo declared in his
',told, were chosen. despatch to Prince Gortschakoff, which reached
Thegam°ont;
apwards of 11800.
Tan HUME T .12STIMONIAL.--:The meeting announced •
Vienna on the 23d, that he accepted "purely and
for this day was merely a private orpreliminaryone.
public simply" the ustran propositions. I mentioned
that Russia required that no territorial concession
This day fortnight is fix•.d .
- as the day on which the meeting wilt be held%should be exacted from her beyond the rectifies- that the Porte is decided on
ra-
making
the rflaerm and changes in the Ottoman Em
We are positiv4
tion already noticed ; that she should not be
pire gaited to pay the expenses of the war, and that
renderel necessary by the spirit of theage, and that few in return she would undertake not to reconstruct
among "che Turkish dignitaries are disposed to persist in the fortress of Bomarsund. The conditions to her
their old
Jan. 2
prf.judices.
Tua
acceptance of the ultimatum were not, it seems,
7.—The Ministerial IN, nisterial project for esta- confined to the above. .de Nesselrode rred ,
blishing a bank of issue at Cagliari was again the sub- that the protocol shouldM bo signed at Vienneqa ; required
bushing a bank of issue at Cagliari was again the sub. that the protocol should be signed at Vienna; that
jest of debate in the Chamber of Deputies yesterda
but made little progress beyond the rejection of an
37, two of her Plenipotentiaries should be present at
the Conferences in Paris, when the preliminaries
amendment proposed by the Deputy Sineo, to the effect
that the notes should be made legal tenders. should be signed;'
that directly the preliminaries
ABANDONMENT OF THE ALIEN BILL.—A more gratify-
were signed a general armistice should be proclaimed,
ins duty has rarely devolved upon us than that which and that the general conditions of definitive peace
should we are this day called on to perform, We allude to be afterwards discussed and signed at Paris.
These points, I believe, the English and French
the fact, that Lord Palmerston, last night, in answer to
a question from Mr. Thomas Duncombe, announced to Ambassadors thought it necessary to refer to their
the house that he has no intention of introducing an respectiye Governments.
Alien Bill this session. This is a great triumph of Con- M. WiAlevveki,
stitutional right.-21foni;ny Advertiser. as minister for Foreign Affairs of
the country in whose capital the conferences are to
a. Tee Cara OF GOOD HOPE.—Three months' leave of 'be held, will preside on the occasion. The Pleni-
-I,4e.u_cee has been granted to the Chief Justice Sir John potentiaries are expqcted in Paris on the 20th.
. .id • From information received regarding the new How Long the conferences. will last is not stated
division of Namaqualand we learn that the Civil Com- •
with a ny degree of certainty, but in official guar-
missioner, Josias Rivers' Es , has pied himself
that Sir Andries Stockenstrom will leave shortly for occupy at least six weeks.
tars it , is believed that the whole business will
with energy to the affairs of h'isqd'istrict.aPit is reported
England, from
Murray Aitchison,
whence they do not return. Mr. John . .
Some surprise has at the delay in
late of the Surveyor-General's De- the protocol. It was reported some few
partment, '_natal died at Cape Torn on the 29th of . days ago that the signatures had been already fixed.
September.--.CtivU Strvic Gawk. - t Tills ps not the me i but lam assuzed that this .
' signing
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