The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-25 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Northern Bee of St. Petersburg, of the 14th,
publishes an order of the day addressed by the
Hetman Adrianoff to the Cossacks of the Don, in
which he calls them all to arms, great and small,
old and young, with their standards and the sacred
images of their respective parishes at their head.
This levy en masse of the Cossacks of the Don will
have their head-quarters at the town of Novo-
Tcherkase.

A. letter from St. Petersburg of the 13th, in the
Nati67l4l Gazette of Berlin, says :—" Many of the
Jews in Russia have been of late years converted
to Christianity. The number of those who have
been thus converted amount in this capital to
80,000. (This number appears very large.) They
have been up to this time exempt from military
service, but in consequence of the present war, an
imperial ukase has just ordered that one in thirty
shall be taken for the conscription. '

ODESSA, JUNE 10.
General von Osten-Sacken has left this city, and
proceeded to the entrenched camp in the Crimea
between the river Belbec and the Tchernaya-Kiet-
schka. General Liprandi commands the whole of
the troops in the field on the right banks of the
Tchernaya, and is, therefore, just opposite the
enemy. The reinforcements sent by him to the
garrison of Kertch were immediately replaced by
the advanced divisions of the second army corps.
Accounts received here from Simpherophol state
that the division of heavy dragoons under General
Montresor bad marched from Kara-su-Bazar in the
direction of Kertch, and on the 7th inst. taken up a
position on the slopes of the Mithridates mountain.
General Chomutoff, the Hetman of the Cossacks,
has entered the Crimea by the isthmus of Arabat
at the head of 22,000 irregular cavalry of the Don
Cossacks, 7,000 infantry, and 40 pieces of artillery,
and was encamped at Aby-Bey for the protection
of Kaffa. Here he was joined by the corps of
Lieut.-General Wrangel on the retreat of the latter
from Kertch. Ever since the disasters in the Sea
of Azoff the Russians have bad several thousand
men continually at work in erecting new fortifica-
tions and strengthening the existing defences of
Perekop, being fully aware of the importance of
keeping possession of that isthmus.

WARSAW, JUNE 18.
The Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michael, the
younger brothers of the, reigning Emperor, arrived
here last night from St. Petersburg. The former is
appointed head of the engineer department in Po-
land, and will take up his residence at the Belve-
dere Palace, which is being fixed up for his recep-
tion. The Grand Duke Michael will not remain
here long, but proceed to Wilna, where he is en-
trusted with a command.
Three American officers of the United States army
have arrived here from St. Petersburg, where they
went to ask permission to go to Sebastopol to watch
the progress of events. As they appear to have been
actuated by mere curiosity leave was not granted
there, and they will return by way of Germany.
The General in the Russian service, and uncle
(by marriage) of the Emperor Alexander 11., Prince
Peter of Oldenburg, has arrived in this city from
St. Petersburg, accompanied by the Princess and
their youthful family, the Princes Alexander,
Nicholas, George, mud Constantine, and the Prin-
cesses Alexandra, Katharina, and Therese.
General Grunwald, one of the aides-de-camp of
the Czar, who was lately sent to Cracow to com-
pliment the Emperor of Austria on his arrival in
that city, has returned here from his mission and
proceeded to the fortress of Kobryn in the province
of GrJdno.