The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-12 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

THE WAR.
WITHDRAWAL OF THE FLEET FROM
CR ON STADT.

Telegraphic despatches from Dantzic announce
that Admiral Sir Charles Napier, after spending
above a fortnight before Cronstadt, endeavouring
to tempt the Russians into action, has returned
with his ships to Barosound. The cholera was
raging at Cronstadt, and the Admiral was un-
willing to keep his men unnecessarily in its neigh-
bourhood.

The fleets retired from reconnoitring Cronstaclt
on the 6th.

THE DANUBE.

The Oesterreichische Correspondenz of yesterday
contains the following :—" On the Bth, after a long
struggle, the Turks got possession of the islands of
Mokan anti Olneika, and subsequently of Giurgevo.
The Russians were then totally defeated on the
Wallachian territory."
Prince Gortschakoff is forming a camp of
30,000 men between Bucharest and the Danube.
The same journal gives it to be understood that
the Russians will not withdraw from Wallachia, and
that the Austrian troops will not pass the frontier.
Other despatches confirm generally the state-
ment of the defeat of the Russians, but they differ
as to the day when the engagement took place.
One says :
" A smart action took place on the Danube on
the sth. The Russians lost 160 killed, and 800
wounded. Everything implies a defence of
Bucharest."

Another, dated Belgrade, July 11, is to this
effect :

" On the morning of the 7th, the Turks crossed
the Danube at Rutschuk, with 40,000 men. At
11 o'clock they were masters of Giurgevo. 900
men of General Seymonoff's army were killed or
wounded.

" Prince Gortschakoff was to take up a position
on the Bth, four miles in front of Bucharest, but
has only 30,000 men with him."
The Presse mentions that Osten-Sacken is ex-
pected at the Russian camp.
According to a letter of the 3d from Bucharest,
the Russian transports and gun-boats that have
arrived at Galatz from their station off Silistria,
where they were employed, are having their arma-
ments taken out. This seems to be the commence-
ment of what has become necessary, the entire
breaking up of the Russian flotilla on the Danube.
This subject is at this moment most seriously occu-
pying Prince Gortschakoff's attention, and it is
thought by no means impossible that the ships will
be burned. The mouths of the Danube are block-
aded by the allied fleets, and the Russian vessels
have no longer an escape that way.
A letter from Schumla of the 28th ult. states
that the Turkish army of the Balkan is continuing
its movement on the Dobrudscha ; detachments of
the auxiliary army are expected to arrive at Pra-
vadi on the 24th inst. KuStendji is occupied by
the Turks, and the Egyptian regiments of the gar-
rison of Varna are marching on Bazardschick.
There now only remains at arna a garrison of
French and English troops. The Duke of Cam-
bridge has left for Schumla. An expedition
against the mouths of the Danube and the
Crimea is spoken of as certain. Omer Pacha was
to leave Schumla on the Ist for Silistria and
Rustchuck.

A letter from Orsova, of the 7th, mentions that
the Arpad steamer which was to convey to Rust-
chuck the suite of Colonel Kalick, had not been
able to pass Sistowa ; on her return the Russians
fired at her when near Nicopolis. The Russians
occupy the left bank of the Danube from the Aluta.
Consequently these positions have not been eva-
cuated, as was alleged.

THE BRITISH CAMP, NEAR VARNA.

We extract the following from a letter, dated :

"Camp at Aladyn, near Varna, Bulgaria, Monday,
June 26.—0 n Saturday a Tatar with an escort rode past
the camp by the Shumla road, at full speed for Varna,
and, on arriving there, at once repaired to the quarters
of Marshal St. Arnaud and Lord Raglan, with despatches
from Omer Pacha. The two Commanders-in-Chief held
a conference, at which several of the French and English
generals were present, and on the same evening two
steamers left the port of Varna with despatches, one for
Constantinople, and the other for the Admirals at Balts-
chik. Another messenger passed through the camp the
previous Friday from the Turkish generals, and it was
generally believed that be carried important tidings re-
specting the progress of the siege of Silistria. Of course,
the rumours which flew from camp to *amp were
various and contradictory. Some said that Omer
Pasta had sent for assistance in urgent terms, and re-
presented the immediate fall of Oilistria as all but inevita-
ble, unless speedy relief was given by the allied army ;
others that he expressed himself in terms of the highest
confidence with regard to the defence ; and others,
again, that he merely recorded the operations of his
troops, respecting which nothing whatever was known
here. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday the noise
of a distant cannonade ha 1 been hbard at intervals by
the officers and men of the outlying pickets from the
direction of Silistria, and hypothesis and conjecture
were busy hatching canards, which flew about the
tents in ever-varying plumage and form. But on Saturday
the great fact was known at Varna, and it soon travelled
out here, that the siege of Silistria was raised, and that
the Russians were in full retreat from the scene of
their discomfiture. Late on Saturday night, or early
on Sunday morning, Lord Burghersh passed the camp
of Aladyn, on his way to the advance post of cavalry
under Lord Cardigan, which had already established its
quarters about five miles beyond Devno (or 16 miles
I from this), and was sweeping all the country up to-
wards Shumla and Silistria. Lord Burghersh is sup-
posed to be the bearer of despatches commanding the
Earl of Cardigan to push on with all possible speed, so
as to reconnoitre the country towards the Danube, and
to ascertain, if possible, the route taken by the Russians.
llt would seem that the garrison at Silistria had scarcely
I any cavalry, and that the Russians had retired so pre-
cipitately after their last defeat that their route could
not be accurately ascertained. Parties of the sth Dra-
goon Guards, 17th Lancers, and 13th Light Dragoons
were immediately advanced, and are now extending
their files by Yeni Bazaar and to the eastward of the
plains of Shumla towards iladschi Oghlu.
" It may readily be believed that this news, which no
one doubts, has made a profound sensation here. The
prominent feeling among the men is one of disappoint-
ment, that they may lose the chance, " after coaling so
far, of having one brush with the Russians." Sir D. L.
Evans is said to have addressed his division in order to
I soothe their spirits on this point. Beyond this pardon-
able military enthusiasm there is a great desire to
escape from the strenuous inaction of camp life, its
toilsome parades, and the relaxing effects of the
climate. The Generals-in-Chief are in conference
again to-day, but no orders have as yet been issued
to any of the divisions which indicate a move of
any kind. A large proportion of men-of-war and
transports is still retained, however, in Varna Bay.
"The sickness and diarrhcea in the camp here are
greatly on the decline, but sore lips among men and
officers Pre common, principally from exposure to the
sun. The Duke's division seem to be growing beards
with impunity. His Royal Highness, who lives out
close to his division under canvas, having abandoned his
quarters in Varna within a few dlys after he got into
them, has his men's parades and field-days before nine
o'clock. The Brigadiers here prefer the hours between
9 and noon, under the impression that the sun is not so
powerful then, on account of the forenoon breezes, as it
is earlier in the morning. We have a thunderstorm
almoseevery day, and very grateful ft is, for the tem-
perature is always lowered 10 or 12 degrees by the rain
and electrical discharges. The commissariat are doing
their duty manfully. The quality of the meat is really
very good, though the doctors think a pound a-day is
not enough for each man in such a climate, especially
as the meat is rather deficient in gelatine and in nutri-
tious quality.
" Two French soldiers have been shot at Varna for
insubordination. Another is to be shot to-morrow for
stabbing a Voltigeur. He is a Zouave, and in an alter-
cation with his countryman he drew his bayonet and
thrust it through the body of his opponent, at the same
time exclaiming that he desired to be shot, a wish which
a colonel who rode up assured him should be speedily
gratified. We have not been without our share of
offenses. Several men have been flogged for breaking
into the village of Kojuk, close at hand, for theft, and
other crimes against law and order.
" Some Turkish troops marched past yesterday on
their road to Shumla. They had no baggage of any kind.
Tile flight of the araba-drivers continues. Tbey hate the
service, and will escape from it at any risk. One of the
Bulgarians drew his knife on the soldier who was taking
bim off with his cart for the use of the surgeon of
the Rifles last Friday, and, when he was disarmed,
he broke up his cart and burnt it, out of spite and mor-
tification. We have little skrimmages of this kind
every day. A soldier and a Turk the other day had a
dispute near the commissariat stores. The Turk drew
his pistol from his belt, but the soldier rushed in on
him, wrested it from him, and fired it off. The ball
went near Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, who hap-
pened to be riding the bush to visit the camp, and the
soldier was arrested for discharging a weapon so
carelesily.
"No order for marching has arrived from head-quar-
ters. The Light Division would be sure to move first,
if any movement were to be made. Sutlers are beginning
to appear, and hams at 3s. 6d. a pound, and preserved
meats at large prices are to be had now and then. Bad
brandy is 3s. 6d. a bottle. The first supplies came up
to day.

THE BLACK SEA FLEET.
The following is an extract from a private letter
received from an officer in one of the ships in the
Black Sea, dated Baljik, June 29 :
"I hear that the combined fleet—French, Turkish,
and our own—goes to sea in a few days, for the blockade
of Sebastopol. Now that the troops have landed at
Varna, our ships there will rejoin the admiral. The
Bellerophon has been there all the time. She has pre-
eminently kept up the good name of the service by her
hospitality tu our gallant red-coated brethren. Her