The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-29 00:00:00

THE CRIMEA.

A letter from Varna, of the 14th, in the Post
Ampt Gaz:ette of Frankfort, says :—" Reinforce-
ments have again been sent this clay to Eupatoria,
to the number of 4200 infantry and 500 cavalry.
Omer Pacha considers it necessary to augment his
forces before assuming the offensive. Troops con-
tinue to arrive hero from Bulgaria to complete the
reserve."

A letter from Vienna, in the Cologne Gazette,
says :—" Information has been received here from
Sebastopol that at a council of war held on the
Bth, and presided over by General Osten-Saeken,
the deliberation turned on the consequences of the
probable capture of the southern side of Sebastopol.
In consequence of the possibility of such an event,
orders were given to disarm and sink five other
vessels of war. The steam-vessels afterwards went
through the pass and. showed themselves to the
guard outside, but on a few
exchangedng they returned into port.
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to blow up the buildings forming the fortifications
on the south, should the assault intended by the
Allies be likely to succeed."
According to a letter from the Crimea, in the
Malta Times, the Russians did not come to the
determination to sink the vessels which they had
lately sent to the bottom in the harbour of Sebas-
topol, until they had removed them from place to
place, and ascertained that it was quite impossible
to station them in
any place where they would not
be exposed to the fire of the enemy.

RUSSIA.
The Abeille du Nord of St. Petersburg pub-
lishes a fanatical appeal to the Russian people to
rise in arms for the defence of the Orthodox Church.
It calls upon the clergy to exhort their flocks to
fight for the good cause, and to impress upon them
that the present war is the ancient war " of the
Prince of Darkness against the Kingdom of Christ."
It concludes with a prayer to the Almighty to ad-
mit those who fall on the field for the good cause
at once into the Kingdom of Heaven.
A letter, dated Hamburg, the 24th inst., says :
" I lately announced to yon the arrival at Riga and
Revel of four regiments of mounted Bashkirs, which were
shortly to be followed by others. The last advices from
Helsingfors also mention the march of several corps of
Bashkirs, destined to form part of the army commanded
by General de Berg in Finland. Detachments of those
troops have even already arrived there, and taken up
their quarters between Sweaborg and Abo. The Baslakirs
have come from the Eastern extremity of the. Empire,
and will be specially employed as advanced guards on
the two shores of the Gulf of Finland. The arrival of
the General of Artillery Yermoloff from Moscow, in
the company of the two Grand Dukes Nicholas and
Michael, to assist at the funeral of the Emperor
Nicholas, had produced a certain sensation at St.
Petersburg. During the last 20 years the General,
who resides at Moscow, has not visited the Russian.
capital. He is a man gifted with extraordi-
nary energy, who was recalled at the beginning
of the reign of the Emperor Nicholas, on account of his
extreme severity, from the Government of the Caucasus,
when he was replaced by M. Worenzoff. Since then he has
lived in retirment at Moscow. Havng been latslpippointed
by the nobility Commander-General of the National Mi-
litia of that province, the Emperor Alexander did not he-
sitate an instant to ratify that choice. It was believed
at St. Petersburg that General Yermoloff had came
to offer his servic:'s to Op F,Toreror. rr;e. r-at.
War having been informed that a certain number of re-
cruits of the last levy belonging to the Tartar popula-
tion had absconded, in order to avoid serving in the Rue

sian army, had decided that the void they left in the
ranks should be filled up by as many able-bodied men
of their families, whatever might be their rand and civil
condition. Addresses of loyalty and offers of services
voted by the nobility, continued to arrive daily at St. Peters-
burg, from the most remote provinces of the empire.
The nobility of the Government of Tabs, convoked
by their Marshal, had announced their rea.liness to
levy and arm at their own expense the serfs on their re-
spective esta ,e 4, conformably to the clauses of the mani-
festo addressed to the Russian nation by the late Empe-
ror on the 26th Dee., 1851. The English consular agent
at Kiel has just been officially informed by his Govern-
ment of the proximate arrival in that port of a steam war
squadron, forming the advanced guard of the Baltic fleet.
Kiel will accordingly become again this year the great
depot of provisions for that fleet."

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