The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-15 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

Coquit Orloff, the intimate friend of the late Em-
peror Nicholas, and now chief of the gendarmerie
and commander-in-chief of the Emperor's staff,
has ji kst received an Imperial rescript, enumerating
his important services to the state during the long
periok of 50 years, and accompanied with the por-
traits of the late Emperor and of the present one,
set in. diamonds, to be worn with the ribbon of St.
Andr.ow. In signing his name to the rescript, the

Emperor has added in his own handwriting)
" Your sincerely devoted friend."
For some time past the confiscations of the pro'
perty of Polish emigrants to the profit of the Rus'
sian Treasury have become more and more this
re'
quent. Letters from Warsaw state that by
redoublement of severity it is hoped to prevens
the desertion of the conscripts. The preparation
for the new levy have been going on since the
middle of last month.
The St. Petersbourg Jowrnal publishes the all:
tinuation of Prince Gortschakoff's journal of tne
sieve to the sth inst., but which has now lost
its interest, from the course of subsequent even'
A letter from St. Petersburg, in the Presse, se"
scribes in the following language the dissatisfaction
of the Emperor Alexander at the despatch of
Grne
ral Gortscbakoff, which announced that the Pls.
sian works at Sebastopol were injured by the fir
of the Allies 2--
" The celebrated deatch from Prince Gortschak4
announcing that 'Our works are suffering,'
cause
great impression at St. Petersburg, and the EniPed
ru
immediately summoned a kind of Council of 'tiVar,
posed of the most experienced officers, and demand:.
th, it advice on the best means of re-establishing t
morale of his troops, and lessening the bad eflecd
of the defeat on the Tchernaya.. He also crier's.
an inquiry into the conduct of General Read, '7;
had been accused by Prince Gortscbakoff of not f0"eli;
sr
ing the instructions of his General-in-Chief. Tv
then on Prince Menschikoff, who, with Genern't,"Thae.
nenberg, had received a summons to the Cooney, 4.,
Emperor asked why, when he was commanding at nt
bastopol, he had not followed up the system of comS.
attacks on the enemy at a time when the Allies 01
discouraged by months of useless toil and by disease, .
before they had received thee o
that 10e,
since been so constantly pouring in. The prince r‘o
plied that he was obliged to give up the system beet
the army was then actually in want of ammunition' p 0
this answer the Emperor turned sharply Tony° cot
Prince Dolgorouky, the Minister of 'Wart lib-le
reproached him bitterly with his inconeeivnof
negligence in leaving the Russian army in
rawalltbli
so necessary an article. The Prince replied gbe
that the assertion of the ex-Commander-in-Chief in „to
Crimea was false, and that the Russian army noel
deficient anywhere in rations and ammunition, an",se
tainly not in the Crimea. Prince Menschikoff, w,mt-bs
haughtiness and temper are notorious, retorted that 'lO
Minister of War knew nothing about what be :to
saying, and that he did not consider him comPeten,%re
offer any opinion on the matter, as he bad neithe'Aito
vented, nor handled, nor burnt powder. it is 1151.-„„r•
tell to what lengths the altercation might have been n'-'Ol
ried, accordini, to the account we have received, Wilo
the Emperor terminated the sitting by ordering 'l,
ntl
Alexis Orloff to investigate the truth of these confllc
assertions."