The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-12 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Archangel Gazette, under date of the 3d
(15th) June, announces the arrival at that port of a
number of vessels from the Dwina. In the month
of May, 13 foreign vessels entered Archangel, five
of which were Norwegian, seven from Bremen, and
one from the United States of America. Vessels
were continually arriving by the North Dwina.
A letter, dated from St. Petersburg, says :
"People here expect that the Allies will make an
attack upon Nicolaieff, in the government of Cherson.
This town is in some respects more important than
Sebastopol. The latter is simply a fortress for the pro-
tection of the Russian navy in the Black Sea ; but
Nicolaieff is its cradle. Here are the great docks where
the ships are built, here is the seat of the Admiralty,
here lie immense stores of timber and other materials
for ship-building, which it has taken years to accumulate.
If the Allies succeed in destroying these stores and
the grand organisation of this place they would obtain
a mole material guarantee that the Russians would not
increase their navy for the next ten years than by
the fall of Sebastopol. It is true, the Allies
would have evetiderable difficulties to overcome,
as defences of every description have been thrown

up on the Bug, and the walls round the 1
city considerably strengthened. There is also a strong
garrison in the town. The capture of the plaCe is not,
however, thought impracticable, especially since the
affair of Kertch."
A revolt of an alarming character has broken out
amongst the Siberian regiments of the line, but
which,-as a matter of course, is not permitted to be
mentioned in our shackled journals.
A letter from Warsaw, in the Wanderer of
Vienna, says that Prince Paskiewitch has ex-
pressed a desire to resign the civil government of
Poland, and only to preserve provisionally the
command of the army. The reason he assigns for
this step is ill-health, but the real reason, the letter
says, is that he considers the reforms and changes
which the Emperor contemplates making in Poland
to be dangerous.
A letter from Odessa of the 26th, in the Frem-
denblatt of Vienna, says :—" General Chruleff,
who is charged with the defence of Karabelna,i, has
removed his best guns from the North fort into the
batteries of the Great and Little Redan, and into
those of the Malakhoff tower which with the Bas-
tion No. 2 forms a crown work called Fort Korni-
loff. These guns are replaced in the Northern
forts by guns which have recently arrived, for out
of 2,300 guns with which Sebastopol was armed at
first there only remain 1,400 fit for service."

The Milan journals state that Royal Commis-
sioners have arrived here from Vienna to report on
the proposed schemes of railway for the Lombardo-
Veneto kingdom, to be undertaken by an Anglo-
French company. Along with those commissioners
was Baron Rothschild, of Vienna, M. Poissat,
French engineer, Mr. Talbot, English engineer,
and Signor Dingier, as representative of the Milan
shareholders. Of the several lines proposed it
seems probable that those joining Milan with
the Lago Maggiore, at Sesto Calende to the
north, and with Pavia and Piacenza to the south,
may eventually be sanctioned, as they have
great strategical importance in addition to their•
commercial value.

ARE OUR SICK AND WOUNDED IN THE
EAST NOW PROPERLY CARED FOR
OR NOT ?

To THE EDITOR or Tam any

Dr. Hall's report of the state of the hospi-
tals at Sebastopol, dated 26th June, 1855, it is stated
that the great mortality amongst the patients is attri-
butable chiefly to wounds and " not to any want of either
surgical aid or hospital accommodation." This is directly
at variance with a letter from an " Army Surgeon"—
quoted lately in the house by Mr. Stafford—and which
has also appeared in the public prints. Which of the two
is to be believed ? And is the man who—as proved be-

fore the Sebastopol Committee—so long misrepresented
facts and concealed the truth to be any longer trusted
with the important charge he has hitherto so ill ful-
filled ? HUMANITAS.

OUR HALF MEASURES AND THEIR
RESULTS.