The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-28 00:00:00

THE CAMP.

The following is an extract from an officer's let-
ter, dated " Camp before 'Sebastopol, August 9,
1855 :"

"* * * The army is much healthier than we
could have anticipated, though the weather has
been excessively hot, especially at Balaklava, which
is a perfect little oven. Thermometer yesterday
was 88 deg. in the shade, but one day, about a
fortnight since, I saw it 95 deg. in the shade.
This is very trying to the constitution. My
health, however, is better than it was a month or
two ago. I hope the War Minister will take care
of us in the winter. A great responsibility be will
have to answer far, if we are not hutted, and our
hospitals in the field aro not as perfectas thoso of our
gallant Allies, who have their infirmariers, physi-
cians, surgeons, apothecaries, &c:, &c., in admir-
able working order. * * Should the officers
who lead the men into action, and without whom
they would be a mere armed mob, not receive a
corresponding increase of pay to the men, serious
evils most assuredly will take place. This forms
our present engrossing subj ect of conversation. If we
are to be treated with positive injustice, indifference
will take the place of zeal, and retirement from the
service, in utter disgust, will become the general
rule, not the exception, as at present. I believe
the next grand attack will be made_ by th© end of
the month. I am. going to the trenches this even-
ing, and have not time to add more."

NTEI'v

DANUBIAN PRINC7P.ALITIM

*r:
BIIOEIAUE.,]T, Aug.. 11. —As the Austrian occ
r,
and the administration of Prince Stirbey coatiudk 0
press heavily on.this land, the status quo is preserved
all its featuks, and, as a consequence, the evil las
creases in all its features every day. In Moldavia, thi
Austrian occupation keeps up the Russian regime in 411
its rigour ; nevertheleis, the situation of this Princi-
pality is—l can scarcely say better—but at least lets
miserable than that of Wallachia. Prince Ghisks,
though excessively timid when doing good is the quet-
tion, is nevertheless not quite so hearty as his colleages
Prince Stirbey in oppressing and crushing the country
which he governs. The 'press in Moldavia is in the
enjoyment of a certain degree of liberty. Iu Wallachia
it has always been kept down, and many measures
which Prince Ghiska has just taken justify us in
entertaining a belief that liberty of action rather
than sincerity of intention is what the Prince
required in order to effect the amelioration of the
condition of his subjects. Ile bas made to the
Societe du Credit M °biller an offer of the most advan-
tageous kind—perhaps, alas ! too advantageous when
the interests of Moldavia are taken into consideration—
fez. the construction of a railroad, which, taking Galati
as its point de depart, will meet at Tchernowitz, on the
Buscovina, the Austrian Railway. The wealthy com-
pany at Paris accepted eagerly the Prince's offer, and
sent to Jassy their engineer, M. Bonant, who is now On
the point of concluding an agreement with the Molda-
vian Government. Prince Ghiska, at the same time, has
acted in a patriotic manner by proposing to Prince Stir-
bey to join him in assuring an annual income to the
Roumanee Chappel, which the worthy and courageous
Roumanee prelate, the Architnandrite Josapbat Snago-
rano, founded two years ago in Paris, in which city
the Greek ritual had up to that time no other plata()
of celebration than the Russian embassy. But an-
other which Prince Ghiska has lately taken is of
tho greatest importance, and relates to the seculari-
sation of two-thirds of the revenues of the convents.
This proposition was unanimously adopted by
the administrative council of Moldavia. The prince
entrusted his counsellors, Negri and Raletti,'with tge
mission of conveying to Constantinople the account of
the important alteration which he has just introduced
into Moldavia. In this account, of which I have re-
ceived a copy, there occur these remarkable words :-s-
-"We have bsen obliged to take these measures for the
purpose of increasing the resources of our treasury, and
putting it into a condition to meet the extraordinary ex-
penses which are incurred. by the Principality on ac-
count of its being occupied by a foreign arm's, ; for the
inhabitants of Moldavia can only by the greatest exer-
tions succeed in supporting the burdens which now
press upon them, and our conscience will not permit us
to oppress them with new burdens."
_ _

Messieurs Negri and Raletti, before proceeding to
Constantinople, came to Bucharest, with the expectation
that Prince Stirbey would adopt also the reform which
he had just introduced into Moldavia, and that he would
allow two of his ministers to join them in the same
mission. Aftiir hesitating a long while, Prince Stirbey
and Lis administrative council discovered a middle
term, and decided upon the secularisation of a fourth
only of the revenue of the convents of Wallachia, and
this only for a limited space of time, for four yeare.
But the Prince, as though he distrusted his own
MiniSters, refused to send representatives to Coestenti-
nople, in the same manner as he had previously refused
to send representatives to Vienna. The Moldavian minis-
ters, concluding therefore that their advice would be
lost upon Prince Stirbey, thought fit to depart for their
destination alone. It appears that the mission of Mes-
sieurs Negri and Raletti has been in some degree occa-
sinned by a letter from Fuad Pacha to Prince Ghiska.
This letter owed its origin to a petition from the Jews of
Moldavia to the Porte. It has been asserted that the
minister for foreign affairs in Turkey, overstepping
the limits of the rights of sovereignty of the Porte,
treated in his letter of matters concerning the interior
legislation of the Principalities.
As tar as Prince Stirbey is concerned, he is too much
oceupied with his own interests, which are not tho-
roughly coincident with the interests of Wallachia, to
have much time to busy himself with the affairs of the
province. Bis rapacity is excited and increased by the
precariousness of the situation in which he is placed.
He turns this to profit; for; thinking every day that he
is approaching the termination of his reign, he endea-
vours to add to his stores of money with the greediness
of a man just about to fly, and ernserste seize everything
that lies in his way. HoweVer, the Prihne is not gibing
vet. His provisional reign hag( already. lasted Plitt
in spite of the incessent complaints of the inhabitants
—in spite of the reiterated remonstrances of the resi-
dent consuls at Bucharest—in spite even of the Porte
itself, whose commissary, Dervish Pasha, in a report on
an inquiry into the administration of Prince Stirbey,
convicted the Prince of a multitude of acts of malversa-
tion, and accused him even of an attempt to purchase
silence by bribes. The only support of the Prince is the
protection of Austria ; and since this protection is suffi-
ciently powerful to preserve him in place against the
efforts of all, he cares fi r nothing else. More than this,
not only does he give himself no trouble about the Porte
and its allies, but he throws so much zeal into his devo-
tion to his powerful protector that he astounds General
Caronini himself. For every service that is required of
him he gives two. The result of this may be antici-
pated by the consideration of what has lately taken place.
Austria has granted to the Prince a favour which even
few sovereign powers have obtained. She has just con-
ferred on one of his regiments the name .4 ..Elizahet/a-
gtirbey. If the P.-Jere° succeed-a-in making of Walla-
chia. an Austrian possession, he will scarcely consider
that he has acquitted himself thoroughly of his debt to
his prot ctor.
A short time back the Prince dismissed his favourite
prefect of police, M. Rodolph Rossetti. As an excuse
for the dismissal, and to conciliate pobl;c opinion, reports
were circulated with respect to a deficit of four thousand
Austrian ducats, which the ex-prefect had left in the
treasury of the prefecture. In addition to this the re-
ports mentioned the complaint lodged against M. Ros-
setti by the Prussian Consul, for striking one of his pro-
teges. All the world, however, knows that the appro-
priation of public money is a sine qua non for a Walla-
chian !public functionary, and that M. Rossetti was
accustomed daily to indulge in acts of brutality, much
mere disgraceful than those of which he is now accused.
The true reason which induced the Prince to sacrifice
M. Rossetti is that the hackney coachman whom he
struck was a Russian subject, and that, In addition to
this, Austria did not wish that functionary to remain
in his situation any longer. Austria wanted a man
of its own choice in the police. This choice fell
upon M. Demetrius Gregoire , Ghiska, who —to
do him justice exercises something more even
than zeal to merit the confidence of which
he is the object. His office is rather in the antechambers
of Generals Coronini and Popovitsch, than in the Pre-
fecture de Police. However, he will have some trouble
in satisfying their excellencies, for the Roumanees, whom
it was thought possible to rob because they had been
disarmed, made use of the first log of wood that came
in their way to defend their lives and their possessions
against the nocturnal expeditions of the Austrian plun-
derers. Armed with their large clubs, they have several
times succeeded in forcing their ferocious conquerors to
leave arms, baggage, and even their wounded, behind
them, and to take flight after a fashion truly Austrian—
hare-headed and crying for mercy. Now Wallachia is
so well supplied with wood, that if the inhabitants are
to be deprived ef these terrible arms, which they have
wielded with so much success, Count Coronini and his
lieutenant of police mustset fire to the whole country.
Prince Stirbey has just received an order from the
cabinet of Vienna to establish, with the greatest de-
spatch, telegraphic lines throughout the Principalities.
For :some days, therefore. he has been exclusively occu-
pied in the execution of this order. It is believed here
that these telegraphs are to be at the service of Austria,
if that power takes in the Principalities a position hostile
to the allied powers. The fact is, that it would be im-
possible to say what other inteeest Austria can have in
covering the soil of Wallachia with electric lines.
The single good thing I have to acquaint you with is,
that the harvest this year has been mast abundant.
Unhappily, the inhabitants have to regret the time ant
they have spent in getting it in, for exportation is
forbidden. Austria gave out that it was about to send
its vessels to watch over the free navigation of the
Lower Danube, only for the purpose of preventing ir;
Allies from sending t
their own vessels to Sul e
s
entrusting to
Austria
a
with police of
tbo
mouthb
itself, -
of the Danube. In fact, if there
is
that impossible
opfoessni tbrlues
were no
other
stacle, Austria would create one so much
is it interested in preserving its exclusive monopoly of
morn unfortunate than
the produce of Moldo-Wallachia.
It is believed confidently here that England and
France are soon about tp.seto thend to Sulina a small squad-
ron, Principalities. How.
and a corps d'armee
ever, months and years are pas
sing away, and nothing
is done. One might almost affirm that a magical circle
Ides and renders theta surrounds the principalities: tinap.
the Allies, for it cannot be believed seri-
proachable to
Allies can be ignorant of the immense re-
sourcesise found •
Web are to in the Principalities, or
w
that they: are e
prevented from entering them by the fear
Daily News.
of Austria.—

SIIIPWRECK AND GREAT LOSS or LlFE.—Yesterday
advices were received at Lloyd's, from New Caledonia,
announcing' the following fearful calamity. It seems
that a large vessel, called the Erimissia,
manned by a
crew of 50, left Callao in April, with 650 Chinese coolies
on board, bound for Sydney. She prosecuted her voy-
age in safety until the Bth of May, when she struck on
a sunken reef, west of New Caledonia. Such was the
force with which the vessel struck that in about twenty
minutes she broke in half, and the mass of human beings
on board were struggling in the water. Of the entire
number only seven were saved, who took to one of the
boats, and after great sufferings succeeded in reaching
New Caledonia.

A THIEF IN FEMALE ATTIRE.—A German, passing
by the name of Maria Brown, was brought before the
magistrates at Manchester, yesterday, on suspicion of
committing omnibus robberies. There was no special
case against him, but the police had been in search of
him, by description, for picking pockets in omnibuses,
nearly two months. He wore a white straw bonnet,
trimmed with white sarscnet ribbon, outside, and having
a false cap with artificial flowers inside. The dress was
of brown stuff, with black silk mantle. The boots were
of cloth, and he carried a parasol. His hair is black, and
of treat length, and dressed according to the latest
fashion. The breasts being well padded, and the beard
and whiskers well kept down by means of pumicestone
and prepared chalk (which were found in Maria Browil'a
dressing-case), the make-up was good, and ninety-I!.ine
persons out of a hundred might be excused suspecting
the sex. He was remanded until Thursday, and _
meantime the magistrate directed that a proper N 111; °I
clothes should be provided.