The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-16 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

A letter from Vienna of the 11th says :_c‘ A
rumour has been current of the probability of Lord
Elliott replacing the Earl of Westmoreland as am-
bassador at this court, but it is now said that in-
stead of doing so he will succeed Lord Stratford
de Redcliffe at Constantinople. M. de Wilden-
bruck, the Prussian ambassador at Constantinople,
only remained here two days. He visited all the
most important personages, and particularly M. de
Prokesch, whom he will have for a colleague in
Turkey."
The Vienna journals give, on the faith of de-
spatches from Varna, accounts from the Crimea to
the Bth inst. The army of Baidar, which is com-
posed of the best troops and. of the largest part of
the light cavalry of the allied army, is said to be
100,000 strong, whilst another corps is to be con-
centrated at Kertch, to act by a combined move-
ment with the corps d'armee of Eupatoria.

TICE PRINCIPALITIES.
" The Russian agents at Belgrade and in the
surrounding districts (says a letter from Jassy, in
the Wanderer) are said to be engage'l in endeavour-
ing to efface the effect produced by the fall of Se-
bastopol, which they have so long pretended was
impregnable. Prince Milosch is again endeavour-
ing to excite a feeling towards Russia in the Prin-
cipalities, and two of his agents were lately ar-
rested, having about them large sums of money
and letters of recommendation. They wore simply
conducted to the frontier. The prinde still resides
at Odessa, and astonishment is felt that, at his
advanced age, and being almost blind, he can still
entertain ambitious projects, although he cannot
be ignorant that Russia will never again be in a
L state to assist him in re-ascending the Servian

throne, and that the majority of the popu!ation in
that country never pronounce his name without
antipathy."

RUSSIA.

A letter from Si-- Petersburg says the. the Em-
peror Alexander, in his recent visit toloscow, not
only went with the Imrerial family to the holy
places, temples, catacombs, and chapels, kissing
the relics of the saints, and prostrating himself be-
fore the altars—but in order to fortify the courage
of his army determined on carrying to it a relic of
Saint Serguis, consisting of a painted imago of the
saint from one of the sides of his coffin, which is
supposed to be of great sanctity and virtue, and
which figured in the wars of the Czars Michael
Feodorovitch and Peter 1., and in that of Moscow
in 1812. On giving up the image, to the Czar, a
grand religious ceremony took place, and the Me-
tropolitan in the course of it made the following
solemn appeal to the saint :
" St. Serguis Thou gayest thy blessing to Prince
Dimitri, to the Czars Michael, Peter, and Alexander P
—look down favourably on the Czar Alexander Nicolaie-
witch, who comes to demand from thee thy holy ima•ze,
in order to show it to his army as the sacred mark (.f
thy prayers of benediction and protection. Cease not
to pray to God to pardon our sins, for which we have
merited chastisement, that He will blesS our most pious
Czar and his army, and that He will give him vic-
tory which will make peace, and a victorious peace r
The Czar, on receiving the image, reverently kissed it."
The Emperor has taken the image in question
with him to the South.