The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-06 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

A letter from Warsaw of the 26th ult., in the
Constitulionnel, says :
" The superior Russian authorities in this city are
giving balls and fetes as though numerous triumphs had
been obtained. The day before yesterday Gen. Rudiger
gave a soiree in the Palace of Bruhl, at which the sisters
Dulcken were heard. Yesterday it was the turn of the
Marshal of the Nobility, but in the middle of the con-
cert, at which Prince Paskiewitch and his wife were
present, the Prince received a despatch from %Vilna,
and immediately left the salon with General Rudiger.
After remaining absent for about half an hour, he re-
turned, and sent an aide-de-camp to the citadel, in order,
as it is said, to have accommodation prepared for the
regiments of the Guard, which were to arrive by forced
marches, and which have already occupied a part of the
Kingdom of Poland. General Tumanski has arrived
from Wilna with orders on the subject. There is no doubt
that preparations are being made to reply to the threat
of a coalition. The weakest part of the line of de-
fence against the West, that between Lublin, in Poland,
and Leova, on the Pruth, is to receive considerable rein-
forcements. It is the weakness of this line which has
been represented as the strategic motive of the evacua-
tion of the Danubian principalities. A. much stronger
position is that presented ;by the right bank of the
Vistula, between the rivers Wieprez, Bug, Narew, and
the Vistula itself,vngaonrdo
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st the fortresses.Leitew s
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of Zamoze, Ivangorod,
It is in this square that have been united the greater
part of the troops under the command of General Rudi-
ger, composed of the corps of Grenadiers and the Ist
and 2d corps of Infantry. Behind them are ranged the
guards forming the reserve of that future army of the West,
which towards the North will be supported by the army
of the North, and towards the South by that ofGortscha-
koff. The latter will cover the southern frontiers, and
supply the army of the Crimea and that of the Caucasus.
On the extremities of this immense line are placed to
the North the corps of Finland, and to the South, the
corps of Orenburg, commanded by General Perowski
Behind and in the centre of this circumference are to be
placed the reserves under General Tcheodayeff. It is
hoped that the organisation of this double line of bayo-
nets will be completed before the commencement of next
spring. We do not wish to systematically underrate
the official estimates of the new levy of recruits which
are calculated at 380,000 men, but we must, neverthe-
less, declare that we have not met with a single battalion
of the regiments of grenadiers having 1,000 men. We
have counted them by companies and by squads. The
regiments have not, therefore, the number of men set
down in the official lists. The same observation applies
to the regiments belonging to the first corps of infantry;
notwithstanding the assurances of the Russians to the
contrary. Russia may still draw a number of soldiers
from the military colonies and the cantonal schools, but
the number is not known."

SP.
The Madrid journals oAf I
thoN 31st ult. have ar-
rived. The Gazette contains a royal decree which
suppresses a number of unnecessary places in the
department of Finance. Tho Diario says that the
new Minister of Finance intends to propose that
the conversion of the floating debt shall take place
in a different form from that set forth in the budget.
One of the journals states that an Englishman, re-
sident at Madrid, had, with part of his family,
been arrested, and ordered to leave Spain, on ac-