The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-25 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort quotes a
letter from Vienna, of the 20th, which says :
" The Turks in Bulgaria have been completing
their armaments on a larger scale than usual.
Troops are constantly descending the Danube ; the
Generals now at Routshouk have received orders
to proceed to Matschin and Silistria, and 5,000
Redifs have been marched to Varna. The Turkish
flotilla at Routshouk, composed of 9 gun-boats and
a steamer, is being armed. The powder manufac-
tory of this place exploded on the 9th ; 20 persons
lost their lives, 40 warehouses were burnt down,
and many houses had to be pulled down in order
to prevent the fire from spreading. The cholera
has disappeared from Routshouk, but still con-
tinues its ravages at Galatz."
A letter from St. Petersburg of the 14th, in the
Constitutionnel, says :
"The Emperor has just issued an order of the day,
thanking the troops for their defence of Trangsund
against the attack of the enemy's squadron, and for the
arming of Fort Nicholas under the fire of the enemy. A
mostimportant measure has just been adopted. In Sept.,
1854, the Emperor Nicholas declared the Government
of Bijeff in a state of war, and placed it under the juris-
diction of General Gortschakoff, the Commander-in-Chief
of the South and of the troops in the Crimea. This ukase
was founded on the fact of Russia being at war. After
the conferences of Vienna, Austria having dismissed a
part of her army, it was thought that the state of war in
the provinces adjoining the Austrian frontiers would
have ceased ; out such has not been the case as the Em-
Fero Alinazader has just pubhfthed anther ukase, which

says : At the present time the 'Conditions of affairs not
having changed, we think it right to place the Govern-
ment of Kijeff, with all its war establishments, under the
martial jurisdiction of the Commander-in-Chief of the
active army, Marshal Count Paskiewitch.' Another ukase
bas just ordered that the sons of persons in the serVice
of the State of officers and employds on the retired list,
and of widows shall be exempt from military ser-
vice. This measure is, hni,ever, only applicable to one
son in a family, and only to families whose fathers have
by their services acquired the rights of bourgeoisie, or of
personal nobility. Prince Wrasemski, the author of so
many libels against the Western Powers, has just beets
rewarded for his exertions by being appointed Secretary
of Public Instruction. Some material changes have
lately taken place in the upper regions of the Govern-
ment of Poland. Senator Morawski; who has resigned
his post as Director of Finance on account of ill health,
has been replaced by a Russian employ* M. Lenski ;
Senator Funduksej is appointed Controller General of
the kingdom of Poland. M. Niepokojezycki, vice-pre-
sident of the Bank of Poland, has been named President,
in the room of M. Tymowski, who has been removed to
other functions."

A letter from St. Petersburg of the 14th, in the
National Gazette of Berlin, states that, owing to
the increased number of frontier forts, the Emperor
of Russia, has ordered the formation of a special
administration for the provisioning of the detached
corps of Osenburg and of the fortresses of the
steppes.

Tile Frankfort Gazette des Postes contains a letter
from Warsaw, 15th, which says :—" The approach-
ing arrival of the Grand Duke Nicholas has been
indefinitely postponed, and the post of commander
of the engineers of the army of the west, which
was to have been filled by this prince, has been
conferred upon Major-General Aureggio, younger
brother of the general of the same name."