The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-04 00:00:00

THE RUSSIANS AND THE Clt.
CAIMANS.

BEIaIN, AUG. 22.—We learn &OM 'Warsaw that did
typhus, which sumo Polish phyolelans took for the plaguP,
his spread, and it istlitlrerbre doubtful whether the E.

trot Yeho:as will visit the Polish capital ; later accounts-
e informed us that he will not. It is hoped that the
south of Russia, to which the Emperor is going, will be
found more healthy than Poland, and than some of the
coasts of the Black Sea. In Circassia especially the sum-
mer season is said to have a fatal effect on the health and
lives of the Russian troops, for whom the climate of the
Circassian: is said to be as severe an ordeal as that of
Sierra Leone for the English. This may partly account
for the success with which. the Circassian mountain tribes
contend with the superior power of Russia. Those who
escape the sword of the bold partisans who always choose
the right mement to sally from their safe mountain fortresses,
generally fall as victims to the climate, which threatens the
native& of the north with a sickness either in the first or third
year of their residence. In the fourth year, therefore,
there is seldom more than a fourth part surviving of
the Russian troops who have come to the Caucasus. Young
officers in St. Petersburgh, Moscow, and other provinces,
who are desirous of obtaining promotion and orders of
knighthood, arc continually soliciting the honour of being
sent to the Caucasus, the theatre of incessant wars, and we
are constantly hearing that these adventurous youths have
paid with their lives the distinction they sought. Thus, in
t'e rzteat combats, again several distinguished noblemen, for
instance, theloung Prince Apraxin, Gagarin,"and others,
have fallen in the field of honour. The fate of Bestucheff,
the poet, is especially lamented ; he was sent to Siberia
on account of his participation in the events of 1826, par-
(laced by the Emperor some time ago, and sent to the army
in the Caucasus. There he was lately killed by a musket
shot, net far from Iskaterinoslay, where he was in garrison.
Bestuehrff's name is known to the German public for the
beautiful poem of Adalbert Chatnisso, on the fate of Woina-
rowski and B..stucheff in Siberia. In the same manner most of
the officers in the Circassian mountain fortresses meet their
Lath ; they are the chief aim of the Circassian muskets ;
ind it is said that in Anapa, which is surrounded by moun-
taing, it has not seldom happened that officers and soldiers
as bile exercising in the parade have been reached by the
enemy's balls. A. division of Russian troops, which marched,
lately along the coast of the Black Sea from Anapa to Su-
kum- Kale, lost no fewer than 400 men in this march, with-
out a single engagement, merely by •the skilful ambushes of
the Circassians. who, in this respect, resemble the mounted

hordes of Abd-el-Kader ; but the petty warfare in Algiers
is said to be by no means so difficult to put down, and so
fatal to Europeans, as that in the Caucasus. The honour
of Russia is, however, as much concerned in the one case
as that of France in the other, and therefore the abandon-
ing of Circassia is as much out of the question as that of
Algiers, though it may be long before European tactics will
triumph either in Africa or La.—Al/genuine Zeitung.