Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-31

FRANcE.-The King Of Portugal, accompa
MED by the Duke de Terceira, is expected II
Paris about May 90. He will, in all probability
reside at the Tuileries during his visit The Duk
Of SAKE Coburg is coming on the 5th
Pans, May THE assassin Pianor rs foun'
guilty, and condemned to death as parricide
The Patrie publishes communicated ar
ticle, announcing that the government has not re
ceived the news from the Crimea published IN thu
Patrie, Constitutional, and Pays, OF the 9th ane
7th Of May; that the last dispatches received BY
the Minister of War dated midnight, 9TH 0
NAV; and that they simply contain details o
military service.
THE Moniteur contains the report of the com
mission appointed by the decree of August 5
1854, to carry out as far as practicable the Tesla
mentary dispositions of Napoleon |. The report
Is presented by nj. A. Fould, and concludes
.sThus four-and- thirty years after the death Of
the Emperor his last wishes on behalf Of his faith
full servants and glorious companions in arms re-
ceve their conservation.
Immediately upon the receipt Of the news from
the Crimea that the fire before Sebastopol was
suspended, the French government sent orders to
Marseilles for the embarkation OF new siege
train, consisting Of nearly 300'heayy guns.
A funeral service was performed on Saturday,
the anniversary of the death Of Napoleon L., in
the chapel of the Invalides.
II is said that Abdel- Kader has requested per-
mission to visit Paris during the Exhibition, and
that it has been granted.
The Emperor has granted pension OF 4,O00f.
wear to Madame Blot, the widow of the Cen
eral of Engineers, whe received his death-wound
before Sebastopol. IN Ul4
letter from Lisbon announces that his royal
highness the Infant Dona Anna de Jesus Maria,
MARQUIS dc Soule, is coming to Paris to see the
Great Exhibition.
The Moniteur publishes the official notification
of the appointment Of Count Waewski as Minis
ter for Foreign Affairs, in the place OF nj. Drouyn
de l'Huys, and that of Count de Persigny, as Am
bassador to London. &1s
CONDITION OF THE ARMY.-General Canrobert,
in letter addressed to the Emperor, dated April
%. TINS expresses himself: SIT is with pleasure
that announce to your Majesty that the Eng
lish army, always so firm, has become as fine and
healty as il was in the first days of its arrival in
the East. 1t is receiving reinforcements in in
fantrv. in cavalry and in means Of transport. /
continue to live on the most cordial terms With
Lord Raglan, and the two armies continue to be
closely united, and rely one upon the other
Present STRENGTH OF RUSSIA IN THE CRIMEA.
The military correspondent of the augsburg
Gazette writes from the Polish frontier that the
renforcements received by the Russian comman-
ders in the west of the Crmea since the battle OF
Inkerman, bear no proportion 10 lhose Wnich
have Joined the Allies lie says: Numerically,
Omar Pacha IS corps alone is almost equal to the
entire reinforcements of the Russians. The new
Russian troops which have entered the Crimea
since the battle Just mentioned, are the following
The Cd brigade of the 18th reserve infantry divi-
sion, and the two brigades OF the l4th reserve
infantry division, forming together twelve pat
talions, or at most 5000 men; further, the 9th
infantry division, at present near Perekop, and
numbering possibly 10000 men. These and
Greek volunteer battalion make up the reinforce
ments of the Russian infantry since the battle OF
Inkerman, for the troops of the second infantry
corps, represented by some journals as having
marched to the Crimea and the division of Gen.
WAGNER said by the austrian Military Gazette to
be in the valley of Baidar, are not there; the
second corps in fact, is still in Poland. Before
the battle of Inkerman the Russians had no
more than 10 900 infantry in the Crlmea; at the
present moment they should have about 90,000
The cavalry force which has Joined the Rus-
sian army since the battle Of lnkermann, consists
of six regular regiments. If we reckon the
crews of the ships at 5000, and the Echernom-
orskischen battalions at 5000; the rifles, sappers
engineers and artillery at $4,000; and the cav
alry. regular, and irregular, at 20,00O-the Rus
sian army at Perekop, Eupatoria, and near Sc
bastopol, will number about l4O,0O0.
ERupTIoS OF VEsUyIUs NAPLES May a.
Everything in Naples is for the present extn-
puished by one great fact-the eruption OF Vesu-
vus. King, ministers, and policemen, IN their
several spheres, are all scorched and shrivelled
mn into nothingness. j am disposed to think that
a Neapolitan might now wear girdlc round his
waist, or a beard, or a wide awake, so all absorb
ing is the eruption of Vesuvius. We have been
expecting and longing for 1t some time. The
wells at Resina had been dried up. More than
once since 1850 the mountain has Numbered and
smoked, and in the beginning of the year por-
ton of the crater fell in. Great numbers of
strangers have therefore, waited till very late in
the season. in the hope of seeing this extraordi-
nary spectacle and have Just taken their leave
when the mountain, as in "dspetto, breaks out.
The principal guide, who is called Cozzillno, re-
ported on the morning of the lst of May that he
had lust assembled the mountain, and that on ar
irving at the summit there were thousand re-
ports as of cannon, and then thrown up a
Discharge of red hot stones The rain, and mist,
and smoke however, all mingled together, pre-
vented a near approach or nearer observation,
and we are, therefore, for the present, left to our
!, unaded observation. During the whole of yes
terday nothing was to be seen but smoke and
clouds, which enveloped not only the mountain
but the whole coast, and then swept away in inn
mense volumes towards Capri. In the very CEN
tire of the cloud, however, might be seen an ashy
sulphurous colored plain, which, by shade differ
ence in the color and by the well marked outline,
indicated that IL was not all smoke, but that lava
was coming down. As evening came on, the
heavens were in bright glow, and the whole
population hocked down TO the mole of Santa
Lucia, to see the magnificent spectacle. Ii was
one of those underlined scenes which give the
Imagination full play. The form Of the noun
tain was indstinguishable, nothing was TO be
seen but clouds, smoke, and fire. Up TO the very
zenith the sky was covered with large dubious
clouds black as ink, and fringed with white; I'M
derneath, and halfway down the mountain,
everything was on FIRE, whilst right in the centre
of il shot up a cone Of black smoke. Still lower
again, dark clouds covered the base Of the noun
tain, having, too, as their centre piece and con-
trast the river Of lava which is running down to-
wards Resina. A few days since was exploring
with the miners, among the ruins which still lay
buried under the modern city. The neighboring
mountain was rumbling and smoking, and refer
ring the inhabitants, il were, TO the history OF
the past, but they took no notice Of it, and
doubt whether they now do so, except to calcu.
late the amount OF profit il may bring in to them
for an eruption Of Vesuvius is TO them as good as
FIRE TO the London thieves. During the whole
of last night there was perfect procession Of
carriages towards Resna. The scene was rem
dered still grander by eclipse of the moon
which took place about two hours and hall
after midnight.
III In