The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-09 00:00:00

MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN RUSSIA.

A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 28th ult.
in the Constitutionnel, says :—" During the las
five weeks the Emperor has reviewed the 4th and
sth battalions, as well as the artillery of the re-
serve, which soon after commenced their march.
Do not, however, imagine that this is the only
movement that has taken place in the provinces of
the Baltic. We know hero that a greater activity
prevails in the preparations of defence than last
year. By temporising for nearly six mouths in
negotiations, the Russians have been able to
gain the time necessary to withdraw their
troops from the different cantonments, and to
organise reserves on the necessary points, Mos-
cow being the centre, so that they have thus
been able to overcome one of the greatest obstacles
to defensive operations in Russia—the immense dis-
tance that troops have to be brought in order to
concentrate them in the frontier provinces. Three
days ago the Grand Duke Constantine went to Cron-
stadt, but has since returned. He there inspected
the volunteers of the flotilla of row-boats formed
last year for the defence of the coast of the Gulf
of Finland. Being indefatigable in his wish to
justify the confidence reposed in him by the Sove-
reign, tile Grand Duke every day gives proofs of
his activity both in the Council and in his own
department. He has just concentrated and simpli-
fied the management of affairs in the technical part
of the naval service, and firmly maintains his re-
solution to oppose all conditions of peace tending
to limit the naval forces of Russia. The accounts
which arrive from Sebastopol, far from being so
satisfactozy as the reports of General Gortschakoff,
announce that, notwithstanding all the genius of
the. Russian generals, and particularly of Genera'
Totleben, the besiegers every day advance closer
to the fortifications of the place. The day before
yesterday a courier left this for the head-quarters
of General Luders, commander-in-chief of the army
of the south, ordering him to accelerate the con-
centration of his troops, in order to paralyse the
active co-operation of Austria. If we succeed in
retarding the participation of Austria in the war
until the winter, we shall be stronger by a whole
army composed of the last levy of recruits."

PRESENT STRENGTH OF RUSSIA IN
THE CRIMEA.

The military correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette
writes from the Polish frontier that the reinforcements
received by the Russian cAnmandefi in the west of the
Crimea since the hatt!e of Inkerman bear no proportion
to those which have joined the Allies. He says, "Nume-
rically, Omer Paella's corps alone is almost equal to the
entire reinforcement of the Russians. The new Russian
troops which have entered the Crimea since the battle
just mentioned are the following :—The 2d brigade of
the 13th reserve infantry division, and the two brigades
'of the 14th reserve infantry division, forming together
12 battalions, or at most 9,000 men ; further, the 9th in-
fantry division, at present near Perekop, and numbering
possibly 10,000 men. These and a Greek volunteer bat-
talion make up the ieinforcements of the Russian infan-
try since the battle of Inkerman, for the troops of the
second infantry corps, represented by some journals as
having marched to the Crimea, and the division of Gene-
ral Wagner, said by the Austrian Military Gazette to be
in the Valley of Baidar, are not there; the second corps,
in fact, is still in Poland. Before the battle of Inker-
man the Russians had no more than 70,000 infantry in
the Crimea; at the present moment they should have
about 90,000. The cavalry force which has joined the
Russian army since the battle of Inkerman consists 91
six regular regiments. If 'we reckon the crews of the
ships at 8,000, and the Tchernomorskischen battalions
at 6,000 the rifles, sappers, engineers, and artillery at
15,000 ; and the cavalry, regular and irregular, at 20,000
—the Itus&ian army at Perekop, Eupatoria, and near
Sebaet >poi will number about 140,000 men."

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAY 8

THE NEW MUSEUM.

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The museum delegacy having resolved that it is desi-
rable that the University should accept the tender of
Messrs. Lucas and Son, of London, amounting to 29,041/.,
for the erection of a museum according to the plan of
Messrs. Dean and Woodward, approved by Convocation
on the Bth of December last, modified in some respects
with the approbation of the delegacy, it was proposed in
a convocation held on this afternoon, to affix the Uni-
versity seal to a contract with Messrs. Lucas for the exe-
cution of the plans, thus modified, on the terms above
stated. The convocation was numerously attended.
After the registrar had read the agreement, a scrutiny
was demanded, the result of which was, that the propo-
sal was carrried by a majority of 103 votes, the num-
bers being—placets, 123, non-placets, 20.
In the sane convocation a decree, empowering the
Vice-Chancellor, during a vacancy in the office of Regius
Professor of Civil Law, to appoint ,a Doctor of Civil
Law to discharge the professor's functions with respect
to examinations and exercises.
In a congregation holden immediately afterwards, a
short statute was promulgated, having for its object the
repeal of a clause by which statutes are prevented from
taking effect till 30 days after they have passed the
House of Convocation, and providing that unless other-
wise determined in the body of the statute, they shall be
of force immediately. Dr. Bliss, we understood, sub-
mitted an amendment. Mr. Marriott also addressed the
house.