The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-23 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Invalicle Busse, gives an account of an en-
counter which took place on the 30thjan. between
the Russian and Turkish troops on the Tra,nscau-
casian frontiers, near the bridge of Tcholok, in
which the former are declared to have had the ,ad-
vantage, having expelled the Turks .from an en-
trenched camp and destroyed it.
Au imperial ukase of the 7th appoints the Grand
Duke Constantine to the head of the Ministry of
Marine and at the same time to the command of the
fleet, as Grand Admiral. He is to preserve all his
other functions.

A letter from St. Petersburg,. 12th, says:—
" The funeral of the Emperor took place yesterday.
At daybreak an extraordinary movement was observable
in the capital—people hastening to secure plaCes to wit-
ness the procession. In some houses, width were well
situated, windows were let far as much. as 100 roubles
(the rouble is something over 4f.) At 9 o'clock in the
' morning, the first salvo of artillery, fired from the caa-
del of St. Petersburg, intimated to the public that the
ceremony was about to commence. At ten o'clock, a
second salvo was fired to announce that the cortege was
to form itself in the order fixed by Clunt Gurjow, Pre-
sident of tl.• Commission for the funeral ' • and at eleven
o'clock a third salvo alinouacei that the funeral cortege
had commenced its march. I cannot describe to you
the anxiety of the people to render the last homage to
him whom they were accustomed to consider as a demi-
god, and as, at a later period, charged by the Divinity
to combat or the holy orthodox religion and holy Russia.
Everywhere, as the body passed, the spectators made
the sign of the cross, and most of them, when they knelt
down, touched the earth with their forehead, weeping
bitterly. At the different churches the procession halted,
and the various ranks of the clergy paid homage to the
ashes of the chief of the Orthdox Russ;an Church.
Prayers for 'Divine mercy to the soul of the deceased
were offered up in every place of worship, and Nicholas
himself was called on as the chief of the church to addrega
prayers to God to give force to Russia to combat with
success for her rights and her territory. Cannon continued
to fire until the coffin reached the cathedral of Paul and
Peter. The service fur the dead of the Greco-Russian
Church was then celebrated, and salvos, fired by the
teelet, neinoeneed the end of the ceremony. The evening
tV a i far advanced ihfora the ceer,vds of people who bad
assembled to witness the ceremony, ceased to fill the
streets. In addition to the thunder of artillery, the roll
of the thufled drams, and the sound of military music
.playing funeral niarahera was to be heard. The death of
the Czar has produced a, certain degree of agitation,
wbich our Government, autocratic as it ie, has not been
able to prevent. The ceremony displayed a character
of magnificence and grandeur worthy of the deceased
Czar. Everything passed eff iu good order. The Em-
peror Alexander afterwards addressed this letter to the
military governor of the capital :—' Profoundly moved
at the circumstance of all classes of our capital of St.
Petersburg keying taken such a sincere part in our elm-
mon sorrow, in the funeral cortdec..• of the remains of
our father and benefactor, for ever memorable, from the
Winter Palace to 'the cathedral of Peter and Paul, I
charge you to testify to the inhabitants of the capital our
lively gratitude both of ourselves and of our beloved
wire. May the remembrance of the lather of all of us,
the Emperor Nicholas 1., be for ever preserved in our
hearts.' " ALE/La:ME/1 "
A grave event has just occurred at Moscow.
The large bell of the tower Ivan-Velik, in the
'
'Kremlin, felt to th6-ground at the .moment when
the ceremony of s wearing allegiance and fidelity to
the new Emperor was going on, and by its fall
crushed nearly a hundred- persous. For a people
so superstitious as the Russians this clisaste; has