The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-24 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Silesian Gazette learns from St. Petersburg
that the Russian Grenadiers have reached Perekop.
Positive information has been received in Vienna
that the consternation of the Russians at the rapid
progress made by the Allies is extreme. The pro.
bability is that one of the first consequences of the
taking of Kinbourn and the expedition to the
mouths of the Dnieper will be, that the eight regi-
ments of Grenadiers and the artillery division will
not dare to march from Perekop to the assistance
of the Russian army in the Crimea.
Accounts from Nicolaieff, in the German Jour-
nal of Frankfort, state that the two Military Com-
missioners of Russia to the Courts of Vienna and
Berlin, Counts Hackelburg and Benkendorff, have
left by order of the Emperor for the head-quarters
of Gen. Gortschakoff, to examine in what condi-
tion the Russian army happens to be.
The Invalide posse contains a despatch from
General Mouravieff, of the 12th Sept., in which
that general announces the defeat of a Turkish
cavalry force forming part of the garrison of Kars.
This event has been reduced in importance and in-
terest by the subsequent defeat of the Russian
General before the redoubts of Kars.
A letter from Berlin, in the Borsen Halle, of
Hamburg, states that the rei)ort circulated by the
Vienna Gazette, to the effect that all the Russian
Ministers at the German Courts had received
orders to be ready to leave for Warsaw towards the
end of October, when summoned by Count Nessel-
rode to meet the Czar, is doubted in the diplomatic
circles of that city. tis argued that hitherto no
reason exists to necessitate a conference at Warsaw,
and that even were such conferences to take place,
not all the Russian Ministers, but simply Prince
Gortschakoff and Baron de Budberg would be pre-
sent.
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The following is a fact, showing the repugnance
which the majority of great Russian families feel to
return to their country. Measures of great severity
have just been ordered by the Czar against those
who continue to reside abroad. In Livonia, the
estates ot several noblemen who reside abroad,
have been placed under guardianship, alt' ugh
their term of permission has not expired. A )rd-
in gto a communication lately made to the.; tho-
rities, the Emperor is determined to putt end
to the mania of absenteeism on the part of the
Russian nobles. In case of my landowner remain-
ing abroad without leave, th tribunals will manage
the estates, and render an at count of the revenues
to the owners for one year, at the expiration ot
which term the estates, if t' t owners still remain
abroad, will be confiscated, anless particular cir-
cumstances can be brought forward to justify a
longer delay being granted.

SWED

STOCKHOLM, October 17.—Scarcely has a week
elapsed since the return of. Baron Mind-Bona
from his secret mission to Paris, when now Admi-
ral Virgin has undertaken a diplomatic journey,
the real object of which is studiously kept a secret,
but it is generally believed that he is also gone to
Paris, and it is added that he is the bearer of the
King's ultimatum as to the conditions he requires
as the price of his throwing up his neutrality and
joining the Western Powers in the prosecution of
the war. Such a step would not fail to make him
very popular, and it would be received with the
greatest enthusiasm throughout the whole of the
Scandinavian peninsula. Admiral Virgin was last
year for a short time Swedish Envoy Extraordinary
in London. As captain in the navy he com-
manded the frigate Eugenie, of 44 guns, in her
three years' scientific circumnavigation of the
globe (1848 to 1850).
At the present moment there are lying in this
port about thirty decked and open Russian craft of
different sizes, which have broken the blockade and
crossed over from the coast of Esthonia, bringing
cargoes of corn, potatoes, hops, hemp, and tallow,
to barter, for that precious article of consumption
in Russia—salt. They buy this article here for 6
dollars per barrel, and state that if they return
home in safety they shall sell it at 30 dollars, thus
realising 500 per cent. The captains report that
on their voyage across they saw nothing of the
British and French cruisers.
The winter ie 14W fast approaching in this coun.