The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-22 00:00:00

trifling in proportion to the extent of the territory
it covers. The population of Aussie gives one in-
habitant to the square kilometre (5-8 the of a league),
whilst that of France pr,s?nts 35 inhabitants to
the kilometre. The Russian army, even on paper,
consists only of a million men, whilst the active
French army exceeds half a million—thus, in pro-
portion to the respective populations, it results
that France possesses for every soldier she loses
seventeen times more recruits than Russia.

The political supremacy. claimed by Russia is
completely ruined ; her nobles are like her supre-
macy, and with respect to her armies, they far
from accord with the gigantic idea of the torrent •
of men who it was said were to submerge Europe.
40,000 French and English have resisted the most
determined efforts of the combined Russian armies,
three of which have been shamefully defeated on
their own soil at Alma, Inkerman, and Traktir.
In war one must not expect to be ever victorious,
but one must be resigned to perish when the dig-
nity of the flag demands it. The Russian navy
will never wash out the stigma of having ignomini-
ously avoided all contest. On the contrary, the
Turkish squadron covered itself with glory at Si-
nope, when it sank its last sailor and its last gun.
Russia, who has ever considered the Turks as bar-
barians, has not once availed herself of the hun-
dreds of occasions offered to display her broadsides
to the Allied fleets. Russia, launched by her go-
vernment into an insane and detestable war, ah
ceived by her diplomacy with respect to the re-
sources of Europe, seems to be reserved by Provi-
dence for that severe punishment which always
awaits unbounded and immoral ambition.

THE AUSTRIAN ARREST OF AN OFFICER
IN THE BRITISH SERVICE.

The Patrie publishes the following paragraph:—
A letter from Vienna, received just as we were going
to pr:ss, speaks of the remonstrances addressed to the
Austrian Cabinet relative to the arrest in the Princi-
palities of a deserter who had become an officer in the
English service. In mauy political circlet the opinion is
expressed that Count Coronini ought not, under present
circumstances, to have raised the difficulty, the great in-
terests now pending between Austria and the Western
Powers being of infinitely greater moment than any
question about a deserter. Some people go farther,
and maintain that the arrest is as illegal as it was inop-
portune, not having been effected .on the national ter-
ritory, but in a neutral country, where Austria enjoys
no sovereign rights.

A letter in the Silesian Gazette says that the Aus-
triau Cabinet is disposed to accede to the wishes of
England, but in the meantime Colonel Thies, the
officer in question, will remain in the prison of
Hermanstadt.

A private letter from Bucharest adds some par-
ticulars to those already given respecting the arrest
of Colonel Thies :

This gentleman, a Hungarian, held a commission in
the Lsnd Transport Corps, British service, and at the
time of his arrest was in Wallachia, to buy horses and car-
riages for the use of the corps to which he was attached.
On the evening of the 31st ult. he visited Bucharest, as
on former occasions, in order to receive his carriages,
and was unfortunately recognise! by two Austrian offi-
cers the following morning, as he was riding past Count
Coronini's residence. Taese officers, it appears, gave in-
formation immediately against him as a deserter from
the Austrian army in 1849, and at 2 p.m. or. the lst of
November he was arrested in his room at his hotel by
order of Count Coronini. For the purpose of putting
him off his guard an officer visited him beforehand in
his apsrtinent, and began conversing with him en ancien
camarade, he suspecting no danger, and relying, nu
doubt, on the English uniform as ample protection.
But, if so, he leaned upon a broken reed ; fur a strong
guard, consisting of 3 officers and 16 men, with fixed
bayonets, was marched clown to the hotel. The main
body halted in the gateway, and the officer making a
sign to two men they immediately entered Col. Thies's
room, and the officer who had previously been conversing
with hiin in the most friendly manner announced to him
that be was arrested as a deserter. Ho was ordered to strip
off h s British cavalry frock ; this he refused : it was torn
from his back and an Austrian capote thrust on him, and
in place of his gold-laced cap they put on his head, in
derision, a light blue cap, such as is worn by the com-
mon soldiers in the Hungarian regiments, telling him
" it was fit he should wear the same clothes as those in
which he bad deserted." He was then motioned into a
carriage, and being surrounded by bayonets reluctantly
obeyed ; the officer iu command taking th• seat at his
side, and a soldier mounting the bcx, the carriage pro-
ceeded at a slow pace, under the escort of the guard, to
the prison, where he is now lying. On the arrest being
notified to Mr. Colquhoun he lost no time in proceeding.
to Count Coronini's residence, and, in a tone becoming
his position, demanded the liberation of the prisoner, he
being actually in the British service, wearing its uniform,
on Turkish territory, and entrusted with a special com-
mission on behalf of the British army in the Ciimea.
The Count put himself into a towering rage, exclaiming,
" I know no Colonel Thies, but one Thies, a deserter,
whose name was posted upon the public gibbet at Futif-
kirchen for five weeks. Savez vous, Monsieur, sine j'ai
le pouvoir de le pendre ?" " Sur votre responsabilita,
votre Excellence, replied Mr. Colquhoun. "Un de-
serteur," shouted the Count, "je l'arrete partout on je
le trouve, et si mon gouvernement m'ordonne a le rea-
dre je casserai mon epee." He then moderated his tone
a little, and exhibited some approach towards politeness,
refusing, however, to liberate the prisoner, and only con-
senting to delay further measures until the receipt of
instructions from Vienna.

DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL FREDI.
MARKHAM, C.B.

We regret to announce the death of Major-General
Markham, 0.13., which melancholy event took place
yesterday morning, at 4 o'clock.
The deceased General was in his 50th year, and was
the second son of Admiral John Markham, son of Dr.
Markham, Archbishop of York. He entered the army
as ensign in the 32d Regiment in May, 1824, and had
seen considerable service in North America and the
East Indies during his military career. He was with his
regiment during the rebellion in Canada in 1837, and
was wounded in four places at the action of St. Denis.
Gen. Markham then accompanied the 32d Regiment to
the East Indies, as Lieutenant-Colonel, and served in
the Punjaub campaign in 1848-9. He also commanded
the Second Infantry Brigade at the first and second
siege operations before Mooltan, where he was wounded ;
also a division at the action of Soorjkoond, where the
enemy's position was carried and seven guns taken ;
and the Bengal column at the storming and capture
of the city of Mooltan, in Jan., 1849. The gallant de-
ceased was also present at the surrender of the fort and
garrison of Cheniote, and commanded a brigade at the
battle of Goojerat. Soon after he was appointed Adju-
tant-General of the Ito, al forces in India, which appoint-
ment he held till he obtained his promotion as Major-
General. General Markham was then appointed to the
command at Peshawur, but when within two days' jour-
ney to assume his command be was recalled, in order to
take the command of a division of the army in the Cri-
mea. The gallant officer at once set out, and performed
the journey to Calcutta in the unexampled space of 18
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