The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-16 00:00:00

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'r many Tecie-ere of :;":....1; In:II,: I. I cannot
account for such excessive delicacy on their part, except
perhaps, by their being the wives of some of the warriors
the beach, who, perhaps, w era very jealous fellows.
we took three of these people in our boat, and numerous
:were their expressions of astonishment and Mashal-
Llha' on seeing the ship and its contents. A book with
Zterrs of Stamboul particularly elicited their admiration,
out at the sight of a revolver and its six successive
explosion of caps came a`Mashallah, Mashallah,' and
k shoot of laughter. On seeing an engraving of the
bands
Slave, the old gentleman laughed, and put his
~ands before his eyes like the most sensitive of American
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'lel- They ate bread and salt (the latter is most
'?aluable among them), and took back with them some
charges of powder. Bef .re coming off I noticed a mark
of delicate feeling on the part of one of them. Seeing
We were unarmed, he took off his pistols, knives, and
labre, and, unslinging his rifle, insisted on leaving them
ilhe chore behind him. When the admiral went on shore,
e was at once recognised, and received as a prince ; and,
on leaving, the whole of the hundreds of rifles were dis-
charged at once by their owners.
"We left Bardan during the night, and in early morn-
ig Were off Navaginsk. Here the admiral sent a boat
!Shore to look at the destroyed fortress, where were still
found, left behind, 24 brass guns. What a gift these
Would be to our friends the Turks at Redout-Kaleh ! By
4
• bye, I forgot to tell that those Turks are of the
After leaving Navaginsk, we passed the blown-
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-,11 Russian post of the Holy Ghost,' and then came
ktgri.
" The Circassians are a remarkably good-looking race
• tall and well made, and generally fair, some even of
the older warriors having quite pink cheeks ; and, odd
4130ngh, when one considers their roaming life, their feet
and hands are remarkably small. They cut their skin
Shoes to fit the foot exactly. In dress they carry a huge
affair on the head, of the calpac species ; a high cone of
yellow cloth rises from a forest of fur which encircles the
bead ; their coats are principally made of a coarse
Woollen fabric, and reach far below the knee. The
:higher orders have this of brilliant yellow cloth ; round
"'le throat a linen under-garment buttons exactly, and
Leser this is frequently worn a smart silk affair, showing
oetween the folds of the coat. In their breast they
TarrY powder score of bone or ivory cases, filled with
°es") p, having the ball at the top. Some of the
better sort wear smart scarlet leggings and yellow or red
eliPPers; round the waist of all are fastened multitudi-
'sun knives and pistols, upon a leather belt, and slung
user the shoulder, in a cloth case, the rifle. They look
altogether like a set of aristocratic savages. We were
/d.I greatly disappointed that the birds had flown from
telendjik ; the plan of proposed attack was perfect ;
the plan for attacking Soudjee was also made out.
At Sinope we found the place as mournful looking
se Over—exactly in the state as when we first saw it,
except that two small forts have been erected. Not a
Angle house is re-built, and the Russian shot are still
scattered about ; even the Austrian Consul has not re-
. Paired the shot-holes through his domicile. Our Rus-
sian captives were mightily afraid of being left at Sinope ;
In that case, they said, they were sure the inhabitants
Turkish
hang them. We looked through one of the
Kurkish forts to-day. Its officer showed lively satisfac-
tion at our pantomime of the occupation of Redout-
A•aleh by his brethren. All the muskets, swords, stores,
lc., took are gone to be sold with the prize at Malta,
,0 Circassians being possessed of far better weapons of
their own. We gave them, however, lots of shirts, and
lliatributed 20,000 rounds of Russian ball cartridge. We
Captured a Russian gun-boat with the brig, fully
equipped, and have kept it in tow and used it constantly:"

RUSSIAN PRIZES AT MALTA.
-A. letter from Malta of the 7th states that the
llussian vessels the Elchina, freighted with salt,
and the Craffni Kiti, freighted withlinseed, which
.here captured off Odessa, on the 19th ult., by the
• French frigate the Descartes and the English
steamers the Retribution and the Niger, had ar-
Tted in that port under the command of two
glish officers, and were about to be condemned
as lawful prizes by the Admiralty Court.

MOVEMENTS OF THE AUSTRIAN TROOPS.
The Universal German, Gazette says :—" It is
remarkable that all the troops which belong to the
13everal corps stationed in Galicia, or which are
marching in that direction, have received orders to
hasten
their arrival as much as possible, whether
they employ railway or steamers, or make forced
larches. A company of Engineers has been sent
greatest haste from Breda to Cronstadt, in
xrans3lvania to defend with entrenchments the
Passages which to the south of that town lead to
Transylvania. All this shows how little cause
there was for the rumour that the levy of 95,000
men was suspended. In the present state of things
);there does not appear any further chance of a pa-
solution.
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RUSSIAN TACTICS ON THE DANUBE.
The Pays has an article on the news of the
the
having established their head-quarters in
"le capital of Moldavia. This journal does not
regard the movement as an indication of an inten-
tion to evacuate the Principalities of the Danube,
but as a proof of the determination of the Emperor
of Russia to reject the demand of Austria, and
Prepare for the consequences of the rejection. It
is of opinion that the Emperor of Russia would
consider himself disgraced in the opinion of his own
1111bjects, and irreparably injured in his political
Influence in Europe, by a compliance with the
attulmons of the Austrian Cabinet, which is said to
,
ts?;ve been backed by a direct application from the
Bing
of Prussia. This, however, is not the only
Obstacle to the arrangement proposed by Austria.
Now that the Emperor of Russia has acquired a
conviction that his designs upon Constantinople
Um for the present, at least, impracticable, and
!hat the continuation of the war, although he may
10Pe to preserve his fleets from destruction by
4ceeping them under the protection of his fortresses,
niust soon impoverish his treasury, and misery for
his people, he might be disposed to treat for peace
if he could obtain by the evacuation of the Prin-
cipalities and the withdrawal of his army of
invasion, the re-establishment of things on the
same footing as they were before the mission
of Prince Menschikoff, for with time the pro-
- Sects _of Russia in the East might be resumed
tinder more favourable circumstances, if she should
have the same means .of realising them ; but
~the Emperor of Russia thinks probably that,
• ,however willing Austria and Prussia may be to
accept such a solution of the present dispute, the
Governments of France and England would de-
band new guarantees, which, if granted, would
render impossible any new attempt to obtain pos-
session of Turkey, or reduce her sovereign to a
State of vassalage. If, as the Pays says, the Em-
peror of Russia does not consider it consistent with
4114 honour or his interest to yield to the represen-
tations of Austria, and thinks it necessary to at-
tempt to place himself by some signal advantage in
position to treat as an equal, if not exactly as a
. conqueror, the same consideration must have equal
weight with his-adversaries, who can hardly be ex-
' Pected to retire from the contest with the suspicion
that they had undertaken to do more than they
could accomplish, and without an indemnity for
the enormous expenditure to which they have been
put by the pretensions of Russia.

MISERABLE CONDITION OF THE RUS-
SIANS IN THE DOBRUDSCHA.
The Wallachian correspondent of the Vienna
Medical Journal, who is evidently completely dis-
couraged and disgusted, wrote on the Ist of June :
"The embarrassment of the Russians in the Dobrud-
scha increases from hour to hour. The outposts are con-
tinnallyannoyed, deceived, attacked, and taken unawares
by the Turkish irregulars, who receive all possible assist-
ance from the malevolent inhabitants of the country.
These people, who inhabit holes in the earth, the
roofs of which are not higher than a horse's back, alone
know where the few wells with drinkable water are to
be found, and they can always manage to collect some
little forage and provision for the hostile army, and are
besides most indefatigable spies. For us they have no-
thing, and being full of the low cunning and faithless-
ness which characterise the Wallachians and Slaves who
are under the Ottoman yoke, we cannot even depend on
them for the assistance which is so much required by
our unhappy sick and wounded men. If one of
their burdehs is entered it is generally found empty,
the inhabitants having altogether fled, or being
concealed in some other burrow. There is neither
chair, table, bed, nor linen in these holes. The light
of day enters only through the doorway, and one
is almost obliged to creep into a kind of cellar, which is
filled with smoke and foul smells. If we want to pre-
pare our own provisions, we must find wood, water, and
vessels. The villages and hamlets are entirely composed
of such miserable places as those above described. Even
as regards towns, it is not necessary to make any great
change in my description of Basardschik and Rust•
chuk. Kainardji consists of miserable huts constructed
of twisted brushwood, with a rough coating of clay,
and a shutter, which is opened in the morning and
closed in the evening, serves instead of a window.
It is only in the more civilised places on the
Danube, such as Hirsova, that one sees windows with
glass, or instead of it bladders of oxen or swine. As a
consequence of this comfortless state of things we are
obliged to remove our sick and wounded as quickly as
possibl3, and their transport is effected by means of the
returning provision trains. Our largest temporary hos-
pital is at Slobosia. All the patients were removed from
Hirsova, the day before yesterday, and the sick have
already been conveyed from Isaktcha, Tultscha, and
Riliato Reni. Those who can be removed from Bz allow,
Odaia-Vezirului, Kalarasch, and Oltenitza are trans-
' ported to Fokschani, and thence in the direction of Jassy
and Leova. These arrangements probably arise from
a desire not to have the hospitals near the Danube,
over filled. In truth, we from day to day require more
room and accommodation ! Rassova, Silistria, and Tur-
tukai continue to decimate and dishearten our troops,
and this affords ill-concealed and mischievous joy to the
Wall, hians and Moldavians who are around us. It is
a proof of the sinking courage of the conquerors' and
• liberators under which titles the Popen (Greek
' priests) iu particular do homage to us—that the police is
Ao longer so severe about expression of countenance and
political sentiments. The efforts to take Silistria, which
have been as fruitless as they are fearfully sanguinary,
have not only disheartened the common soldiers, but
even the superior officers and commanders. The present