The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-11 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

MARSEILLES, TUESDAY.

The Mersey has arrived with advices from Con-
stantinople of the 21 inst., and from the Crimea
of the 31st ult. She has brought 485 men of
the Artillery.

The 14th, 21st, 48th, and 57th Regiments left
the Crimea on the 31st ult., by the Coyle,
Thames, Etna, and Robert Lowe.

The army is healthy. There is a daily ration
of fresh meat given to the men.
It is said that 70,000 masons are to rebuild
Sebastopol after our departure.
The weather is hot and stormy.

VIENNA, JUNE 1.0.

Accounts from Constantinople via Bucharest
state that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe had received
the congratulations of the Porte on the anniver-
sary of the birthday of Queen Victoria. Some
agents of the Credit Mobilier had arrived at Con-
stantinople from Paris, to make arrangements
relative to banking operations. M. de Roths-
child had left for Paris.

BERLIN, JUNE 9.

Count de Nesselrode, accompanied by M. de
Seebach, has arrived at Kissengen. Count Goltz,
the Prussian Ambassador at Athens, but now on
leave of absence, has also proceeded thither. The
Prince and Princess Charles Bonaparte Gabrielli
have arrived here.

A telegraphic despatch from Madrid announces
that the new Portuguese Cabinet has been formed
as follows :

Marquis de Louie—Minister of the Interior
and President.

Sada Bandeira—marine and Foreign Affairs.

Lou reiro—War.
Silva Sanchez—Finances.
Souza—Justice.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.
MALTA, JUNE 5.
The Caire, French postal steamer, which arrived
here yesterday evening from Alexandria, which
port she left on the Ist inst., brings accounts of the
arrival at Suez, on the 29th of May, of the Bom-
bay mail of the 12th, and, on the 30th, of the Cal-
cutta mail of the 4th of May, the Bombay steamer
bringing a large cargo of China goods for England,
which would not be leaving Alexandria in the
Pera for Southampton before the sth of June, and
consequently the intelligence will be forestalled by
this French mail for Marseilles.

The Indian journals are barren of interest.
Peace, prosperity, and hot weather prevails, with
indications of an early monsoon. The Bombay
Railway disturbances are put down. The Governor-
General remains at Calcutta, whence Sir James
Outram took his departure for Suez on the 4th of
May. The demand for British manufactures con-
tinues limited, but the cotton market is active,
without any change in the money market, save a
decline in the rate of exchange. Freights are
steadily maintained. From 4/. ss. to 41. 7s. Gd.
are readily obtained for Liverpool, with a decline
of 2s. Gd. on these rates for London.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
BOMBAY MARKETS.

PROM THE 281211 OF APRIL TO THE 11TH OP MAY.
The banks have reduced their rates of interest oue per
cent. all round. A slight improvement in Government and
other securities is observable.

Imports.—ln the cotton piece goods market the transac-
tions have been very limited, there being, contrary to what
is visual at the season of the year, little demand for any
des:ription of manufactured goods.
The prices of grey goods have:declined.
Bleached Goodr.—There is no improvement in value.
Several sales of mulls have been effected at very low
prices. All descriptions of bleached goods, with the ex-
ception of satin spots, which are in fair inquiry, are diffi-
cult to put off. Of fancy goods, dhoties alone are in fair
inquiry.

Cotton Yarn.—Mule has been somewhat sought after,
and business has been done to a limited extent et ad-
vanced rates. Dyed mule, both orange and Turkey red,
dull.

Metalp, though in tolerable request, have scarcely re.
alis od former rates.

EXPORTS.
Cotton Wool.— The market has been active, and prices
have advanced slightly, and we now quote 100 r. for Broach
and Surat, 95r. to 9dr. for Dhollera.
Oil Seeds.—ln linseed nothinc, has been done, and our
quotations are purely nominal. nothing
is scarce and has ad-
vanced. Niger is scarce, and rape has advanced.
Shoop's Wool.—The stock is reduced and prices remain
firm.

Freiglats.—Tonnage is readily taken up, and we quote to
Liverpool, 4/. ss. to 41 7s. bd. ; and to London, 2s. 6d. per
ton lower.

Exchange has fallen to 2s. 13d. far first class paper ; and
local credits and documents have gone at 2s. lid. to2s.
on Calcutta, Court bills, 990 r. ; China, 60 days' sight,
221 r. ; Madras, 30 days' sight, 9911 r.

THE BRITISH ARMY.
(F ma the Second Edition of the Times.)
CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, MAY 27.

The process of disintegration is going on rapidly
with our army. More than 3,000 horses and about
20,000 men have already been embarked, and each
day witnesses the departure of a regiment. The
health of the army continues to be excellent ; in-
deed it would be somewhat surprising if there was
any unusual amount of sickness among the men,
considering that they are placed under conditions
most favourable to health, with the sole exception
of their being soldiers.

MONDAY;

I A sirocco wind, which is still blowing, brought
with it one consolation this morning—the mail with
London letters and papers up to the 13th. How-
-1 ever, there is no news relating to the army, and the
fate of the Laud Transport Corps is still presumed
to be "under consideration " on the part of Mr.
Frederick Peel. The 4th Regiment will embark to-
day, and the 44th will quit the Crimea to-morrow
A Russian engineer officer, who diced in my com-
pany last night, told us some interesting facts con-
nected with the siege, which showed that there is
the usual jealousy between the various branches of
the Russian service which exists in our own.
Todtleben, who is now at Cronstadt, where he was
summoned to superintend the defences, never could
get men enough from Prince Gortschakoff to carry
out his plans. The Russian engineers says Todtle-
ben always predicted that the fall of the place
ITOU:d begin to be an.lomplished whenever they were
obliged to abandon their counter-approaches, and
that the exact moment of its occurrence then be-
came a matter of calculation. The capture of the
Cemetery of the Quarantine by the French was
regarded by the Russian General as a symptom
of decadence, and he succeeded in inducing
Gortschakoff to assault the French on three suc-
cessive nights, in the hope of driving them out and
recovering their lost ground; but these attempts
failed, although the contest was so fierce that on
the last night the works changed hands nine times,
and the General would not renew the fight. Their
last attack cost them 1,200 men. Todtleben is not
regarded as an engineer of scientific attainments or
originality of idea by officers of his own branch of
the service, but he is admitted to possess great au-
dacity, vigour, and enterprise. Their idols are
officers whose names we never heard before. As a
proof of the pressure of the siege upon the array,.
I was assured by an engineer officer that he had only
20 men allowed him to make the road to the Beloek
from the north side. The bridge across that river is
made of oak, which was brought into the Crimea
with infinite pains and labour, and at an enormous
expense. There is to be a railway from Moscow to
Odessa, with branches to Nicolaieff, Perekop, and
Sebastopol. The common remark now is, " Where
would you have been last year if we had had a rail-
road ?" They evidently expect great results from
' their iron ways, but I regret to say that their [eyes
are turned rather to the military than to the
social consequences of the introduction of this
system into Russia. They are intent on a
new armament of their soldiery, and on the
extensive introduction of the rifles with which the
American manufacturers are largely supplying
them. The Liege rifle,
made by J. P. Malherbe
their favourite weapon, but it is rather expen-
sive, and it was not easy to obtain supplies of these
during the war. "The peace will not last—in ten
years, aye, in two, we shall be very differently pre-
pared
from what we were." Like ourselves, they
attribute to the valour of the private soldier, and to I
his intrinsic excellence, the lengthened defence of
Sebastopol, and declare that they had no general
with a spark of military genius, although Menschi- I
koff had a rapid eye, and quickness of deterinina-
tion, and Gortschakoff is possessed of unshaken
fortitude, resolution and industry. To cheer up '