The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-19 00:00:00

ASIATIC TURKEY.

The Breslau Gazette publishes a letter from St.
Petersburg, containing extracts from the Caucase
and the Tifliser Blatte, both published at Tiflis, re-
lative to the siege of kars. The writer says that
early in November the blockaded garrison volun-
tarily surrendered 15 Russian prisoners and one
officer, obviously for the purpose of diminishing
the number of mouths to be fed, although at the
risk of exposing the extremity of the condition.
He then praises the happy audacity of General
Susslow's advance upon the Droen Dagb, which so
" imposed " on the Turkish commander, Yelp
Pacha, that he abandoned the hope of relieving the
garrison. It would have been, he says, very easy
to relieve Kars soon after the 29th of September,
but the attempt was deferred until Mouravieff had
had time to recruit his army. The St. Petersburg
correspondent, who necessarily writes in ignorance
of the fall of Kars, concludes thus :
Should Kars, however, be compelled to sur-
render, the enterprise of Omer Pacha will have
fallen to the ground. General Mouravieff will not
have earned any great renown, but the moral effect
on the Turkish army and its foreign officers, so
helplessly abandoned by the authorities at Con-
stantinople, will be immense. That army, how.
ever, may take to itself credit for having held the
Russian army of Asia in check until a season when
it must suspend the further prosecution of its
plans.

A Piedmontese, writing from the camp, says
that the allied generals were certainly in error if
they supposed the enemy had only one road of
communication with Perekop ; there are three—
the main and central communication, one skirting
the Putrid sea, and one by way of Tchongar. The
writer concludes that the enemy can hold his
ground. The condition of the Italian army is very
favourably reported. He says—" La salute dei
nostri soldati continua ad essere soddisfacente."
General La Marmora, was very popular, and de-
voted himself to ameliorating the condition of his
army in every way.

THE AFRICAN MAILS.

PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY NIGHT.

The African mail steam-ship Candace, Captain
llawkesley, arrived here this afternoon. She brings
the usual mails and a full cargo, consisting of
2,000 ounces of gold dust, 90 bags of ground nuts,
30 bags of gum copal, 300 boxes of sugar, 150
boxes of cochineal, 2UO bales of beeswax, 500 bales
of opium, and 15 passengers, among whom are
Captain E. Davies, Lieutenant Maunsell, R.N.,
Lieutenant Hill, third West India Regiment, Rev.
Mr. Pawley, and eight seamen belonging to the
barque Sophia, of London, condemned at Sierra
Leone.

The Company's steam-ship Ethiope arrived at
Liberia Nov. 18, all well.

The Candace has brought no news. The colony
was healthy, but trade dull.

Mr. Tayfor, chief engineer of the Candace, lost
his life by that ship coming in contact with her
Majesty's ship Ferret, at Sierra Leone.
The Candace has experienced very heavy weather
during her homeward voyage.
The Euryalus and "Vulture steam,-ships both ar-
rived to-day direct from the Baltic.

ALLEGED STARVATION OF FOUR CHlLDREN.—Yester-
day morning the parochial authorities of St. Matthew,
Bethnal-green, were informed of the deaths of four chil-
dren, the offspring of Jane Hiller, a widow, residing at
No. 20, George-street, Hope Town, Bethnal-green. It
appears that one of the children, a little girl named
Amelia, aged 4 years, died on Saturday week, the Bth
instant ; and a boy, named Frederick, aged 18 months,
expired on the following morning. The poor woman,
finding that her means were so small, and that others of
her family were dying, kept the dead bodies covered
over iu the corner of the room, to await the decease of
another child, which took place on Friday morning last.
A fourth child likewise expired at an early hour on Mon-
day morning last. The family it seems lived in a wretched
place, badly drained and ventilated. The news of the
death of the four children having spread throughout the
RUSSIA. district, a crowd collected in front of the house, and
various vague rumours were circulated, to the effect that
BERLIN, Dec. IG.—There is talk here of a cir- the four children had been starved to death and grossly
cular note having been addressed by Count Nes- neglected. The appearance of the deceased is indeed most
selrode to the representatives of Russia at the wretched, their bAies being literally a heap of bones ;
different Courts that have made representations to but wh"ther their condition has arisen from disease or
Russia on the subject of price. The contents of starvation is at present a question for the medical gen-
will give evi lence at the coroner's inquest.
this circular, as represented by those who pretend tlernenrk who
to know all about it, resemble so much the views
put forward by the representatives of Russia at the , on Saturday, appeared before the Tribunal of
Correctional. Police, to complain that M. Jallabert,
decide'
Vienna Conferences that, if true, the "the powers
offensive
of the Theatre, had libelled her, bl y comparing her
that be" in Russia still look upon her position as !3:111
d tihvaettseurmchs
atosta
INe uorfenclbitlermdol,.as
nTohtealTlor,ixbaubnlael
unchanged for the worse since then, or else that
nothing is to be got out of her by diplomatic
and as it ap;:eared toyhave been dictated by personal
means. . animo.ity, it condemned Jallahert to pay 500 f. tine at.d.
In Cope haven there is a story afl, oat,aff4rding 2,010 t. daaittge,,,
also to to :ell, the toot of Lh. jtt,l;Ttrient
: : .
Ralph; and piqa,A„L ui,porixahLies kw' those Whu in his paper, and Lo paj tau expenses of inserting it is
know some little of Russian ways to indulge in three other papers of Paris, to be chop= by the cowl
very wgavouatio eutipicioal of the Rump woo. pleilleut.
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