The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-10 00:00:00

THE AUSTRIAN ATROCITIES IN THE

PRINCIPALITIES.

The following letter throws further light on there
'horrors :

" June 30.
" The death of y oung Bulche, son-BUCHAREST,
in-law of the Prince
of Moldavia, killed in a duel by the Count de Stolberg,
an Austrian officer, has produced in both Principalities
a most painful sensation. The young woman has been
punished by Prince Gregory Ghigk, her father, for her
imprudent coquetry; she has been exiled to a monastery
for five years. The young Princess Nathalie is not
more than twenty years old, and is a beautiful woman.
This lamentable incident was not wanting to complete
the hatred existing; against the Austrians, who have the
talent of causing even the Russians to be regretted, and
whose excesses they have surpassed. The Russian ad-
ministration was without intelligence and venal ; that of
the Austrians is quite as impolitic and corrupt—parti-
cularly at Bucharest. No place is given, every one is
sold, and the Austrian Generals, who are much poorer
than were the Russians, begin to do a thriving business.
Prince Stirbey, who clings desperately to power which he
feels is slipping from him, does his utmost to maintain
himself. He has caused to be drawn up at Arsaki and Poe-
ner, two cunning but detested instruments of his policy, a
plan of new organic regulations which is with very
slight changes, the reproduction of those which he pre-
sented in 1351 to the Cabinet of St, Petersburg. In
place of the Russian uniform we have the Austrian, and
the difference between them is almost imperceptible—in
reality it is the same thing. The impost of the two-
tenths established by the Russians in 1848 and 1849, the
object of which was the extinction of the debt which
Russia had imposed on the country, is collected. The
Prince says openly it is for the purpose of defraying the
obligations of the Principality to Russia, and, in the
meantime, the proceeds are disposed of as on former occa-
sions. Prince Alexander Gliika, whose energy and
patriotism are known to his countrymen, and offered
some consolation to those who have never ceased to regret
him, has protested strongly against the payment of the
impost, and has thus set the example of legal resistance.
The fact is, the entire country is against Stirbey ; his
partisans are to be found vmong those who are justly hated
—among dilapidators, some of whom are still holding
place, though under prosecution by the Minister of Finance
and among persons equally disen titled to public confidence.
It is in my power to communicate to you official docu-
ments on the subject of the conduct of these men. But,
I repeat what I have often told you—there ara no longer
parties in Walachia ; there is but one feeling, public,
unanimous, and decided, and that is for the cessation, at
any cost, of the oppressive domination of the Austrians,
and the expulsion of a Hospodar who is execrated, ant
of his followers who ara the scourge of the country.
That is what we, Wallachians, demand from England
and France."
Another letter from Bucharest, of the 26th, says:—
"The Grand Vizier, Aali Pacha, passed last week
through Rustchnk. Princs Stirbey proceeded to meet
and compliment him, and a certain number of Boyards
did the same. The Consuls-General of Prussia and
England also proceeded thither. General Coronini left
some days since, to inspect the troops in the two Prin-
cipalities. Prince Stirbey continues to act with the
same audacity. He has just levied an impost of
30,000,000 of piastres on the native and Greek monas-
teries. He has procured that impost to be voted by the
Divan convoked ad hoc; the members voted it unani-
mously, with the exception of one single member, Prince
Constantine Ghika, President of the High Court of Jus-
tice. It would be difficult to give you an idea of the
discontent of the whole population."

THE VICARAGE OF YEOVIL.—The Rev. Richard J. F.
Thomas has been instituted by the Bishop of Bath and
Wells to the vicarage of Yeovil-cum-Preston.
FAILURE OF Two OF THE NEW MANCHESTER NEWS-
PAPERS.—The Manchester Halfpenny Express and th•
Manchester Penny Express, two of the five daily papers
recently started in Manchester, have already been dis-
continued. It is no uncommon thing for literary men
to have false conceptions of those commercial principle;
which are quite as necessary to success in the conduct of
a newspaper as good writing and the ability for compi-
lation. No fault could be found with the conduct of
these papers as regards the last-named qualifications,
for they appear to have been well got up, but the mis-
take was probably one very common to new speculations
of this kind, that they attempted to give too much for
the money, considering the competition they had to
encounter.

THE STATE OF THE TI AMES.—Tho present disgraceful
state of the river Thames has calletdhifnokrththtehetfollowing
t
letter from Professor Faraday :—"I traversed this day
(Saturday) by steam-boat the space between London and
Hungerford Bridges, between half-past one
.13c1 two
o'clock ; it was low water, and
I
p°anle my
yrown fluid. attention.
have been near the turn. The appearance and the smell
To of
ethe
hm,o- al
et eorf ftohrec erdi
vtehr e
wrnas
se lavnes
oaptaolnuc;
In order to test the degree of opacity, I tore up some
white cards into piece, moistened them so as to make
them sink easily bei.ow the surface, and then dropped
some of these pieces le,
to ..he water at every pier the beat
came to ; before they nad sunk an inch below the sur-
face they were
,
.indistinguishable, though the sun shone
brightly at the time and when the pieces fell edgeways
the lower part was hidden from sight before the upper
part under water. This happened at St. Paul's-
wharf, Blackfriars-bridge, Temple-wharf, Southwark-
bridge, and Hungerford ; and I have no doubt would
have occurred further up and down the river. Near
the bridges the feculence rolled up in clouds so dense
that they Were visible at the surface, even in water of
kind. this
The smell was very bad and common to
the Whole of the water ; it was the same as that whisk
now comes up from the gullyholes in the streets ;
the whole river was for the time a real sewer. Having
Just returned from out of the country air, I was, per-
haps more affected by it than others ; but I do not think
I could have gone on to Lambeth or Chelsea, and I was
glad to enter the streets for an atmosphere which, ex-
cept near the sinkholes, I found much sweeter than that
on the river. I have thought it a duty to record these
facts that they may be brought to the attention of those
who exercise power or have responsibility in relation to
the condition of our river; there is nothing figurative in
the words I have employed, or any approach to exag-
geration ; they are the simple truth. If there be suffi-
cient authority to remove a putrescent pond from the
neighbourhood of a few simple dwellings, surely the
river which flows for so many miles through London
ought not to be allowed to become a fermenting sewer.
The condition in which I saw the Thames may perhaps
be considered as exceptional, but it ought to be an im-
possible state, instead of which I fear it is rapidly be-
coming the general condition. If we neglect this subject
we cannot expect to do so with impunity ; nor ought we
to be surprised if, ere many years are over, a hot sea son
gin e um Dad proof of the folly of our careleginen..,;