The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-14 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Sept. 9.—Some time since you were
informed that the Austro-Russian party was parti-
cularly active, and there is some little reason to be-
lieve-that its efforts have not been entirely in vain.
The Breslau Zeitung has a Berlin correspondent
who is particularly well informed on all matters
connected with that part of the policy of the Prus-
sian Government which consists in counteracting
the endeavours of Austria, to induce the Germau
States to make common cause with her in opposing
the ambitious projects of Russia. The writer in
question now states that Couut Buol is likely to
lose his portfolio, and it cannot be doubted
that the removal of such a patriotic Minister
would give extreme satisfaction to the Russian
Government and the " Junker " party in Prus-
sia. For reasons not positively known to the
public, but probably correctly stated in my
letter of yesterday, it was resolved in Council
ot to consider the refusal of Russia to give the
guarantees demanded a cams belli, but qiis is no
Proof that his Majesty has lost confidence in his
Minister, or that his determination to insist on the
1-nr conditions has been shaken. The Philo-
111issians are unable to keep their own counsel, and
.
want of discretion enables me to give you
their version as well as of what has taken place as
°f that which is now proposed. During the Em-
peror's sojourn in Ischl everything was done to
Turco-Russian
him " to proceed with less energy" in the
personages
question, and even the names of the
Yoers?nages who more particularly disapproved the
.I„oreign policy of the Cabinet might be men-
_l'l lied. It is notorious that the Bohemian nobles
_4ree at the head of the Austro-Russian party, and
Frederic are therefore not surprised to learn that Count
Thun, the Austrian Minister at Berlin
be°lint Esterhazy only acts there ad interim), has
re
fixed on as Count Buol's successor. After
ae reading this, you may be inclined to suppose that
Aillisterial crisis is probable, but such is not the
,ase, case. In my letter of the Ist it was said that the
policy of Austria had made itself, and that was not
an empty phrase. As long as the Russians were
In Wallachia, the great majority of the Austrian
Illanufacturers were living on their capital, but as
Soon as the invaders turned their backs on Bu-
charest, commerce revived, and the export trade
Was as brisk as ever. The ruinous consequences
to
Austria of a hostile Russian occupation of the
Principalities are now so evident that no Minister
f
!"?,
41e Foreign Affairs, even if it were Count
quelmont himself, could ever again permit
. The first and last of the four conditions
concern Austria even more nearly than they do
the
Western Powers, and it has been resolved
here, cost what it will, that Russia shall never
again exercise an exclusive protectorate either in
the
Danubian Principalities or over the Greek
Christians in Turkey. The correctness of this
'Pew of things does not admit of dispute, and there-
fore there can be no question of a change of mea-
sures in-Austria, even though there should be a
change of men. Well-informed diplomatists are of
opinion that there will be neither the one nor the
other, although they are well aware that every-
thing is being done to prejudice the Emperor
against Count Buol. One of the best-informed men
111 this city affirms that there will be no campaign
of 1855, " as the Oriental question will be settled
during the winter." Such an opinion from such a
source could not be withheld, but it is necessary to
state that it is in direct opposition to my own.
There will be a campaign in 1855, in which Aus-
lria will share, for it is repugnant to common sense
'l' suppose that she can long maintain an armed
neutrality which costs her 800,0001 a-day. The
number of horses at present employed in the army ,
is 82,000. It must be well understood that it is
11°t my intention to say Austria will wage war
against Russia to please England, France, and
Turkey ; she will do so simply because her interests
mperatively require it.

THE AUTOCRAT'S ANSWER.
letter from Vienna of the 9th, in the Post
-ampt Gazette of Frankfort, says :
" Were a new proof necessary of its being strategical
tootivbe which determined the evacuation of the Prin-
ciPalities we should find it ire a passage of the despatch
;11,101 contains the last Russian answer, and which
L ing
"'nee Gortschakoff lately read to Count Buol. The
following is a sammary of the passage Russia would
1(:°t aave either yielded the line of the Balkans or
evacuated the Principalities if the demands of the great
errnan powers had not been supported by the military
attitude of Austria.' On the other hand, it is true that
Iftusq3, does not the less make a merit of that evacuation,
or it is said in the note that the Czar was still dis-
t/Fled to yield to the wishes of the Great Powers,
henever his honour permitted him to do so, and the
l‘"leuation is appealed to as a proof of that dilposition.
„Fence Gortschakoff had yesterday a new conference at
~a..e ministry of foreign affairs. It is said that he has
cl some communication relating to the leave of ab-
'Benee of Which he is about to avail himself. The Russian
counsellor of legation, M. d'Oubril, is to replace him
during his absence."

THE ALLIED AND RUSSIAN FORCES.
We read in the Soldier's Friend of Vienna of
the 9th :

"The state of the belligerent forces of the three allied
Powers and of Russia is as follows :—Black Sea—f lie
'l'urks have 120,000 men on the Danube and in Wal-
lachia ; the Anglo-French army consisting of 8 divisions
is 80,000 strong ; the Anglo-Franco-Turkish fleet con-
sists of 40 vessels of the line without counting frigates
and other vessels, and bears crews amounting to 60;000
men. The Turkish army of Asia, consisting of the corps
of Batonm, Kars, Erzeroum, and Bavazid. is 100,000
lg. The tot' :311,),ci• ; men. Baltic
'..ne
40 smaller ; they cairy v
2.3, ..g,!0„; A
30,000 sailors, The division of General Baragtlay d'Hil-
liers is 11,000 strong, and there are besides 4,000 English
marines. The total of the forces employed against Russia
amount therefore to 405,000 men, and they have with
them at least 8,000 guns. As to Russia she has in
Asia, on the frontiers of Armenia, three corps d'armee,
Commanded by Generals Andronikoff, Bebutcff, and
Wrangel, which do not amount altogether to more
than 100,000 men. In Finland, without counting
the local garrisons and the crews of the vessels an-
chored in Sweaborg, Russia possesses three strong
divisions of infantry. Cronstadt and St. Petersburg
are. well defended by the fleet and the Imperial guard.
•LN Cr are Revel and Riga without means of defence. In
Poland and in Lithuania are the Ist and 2d corps d'armeo
'with their reserves, and two divisions of the corps of
grenadiers. The army is exclusively deitined to protect
uland and Volhynia. As to Podolia and Bessarabia,
"they
-, are defended by the 3d, 4th, and sth corps d'armee.
An the rear of these troops is a second reserve, con-
sisting of veterans who have 12 years' effective service,
and whose numbers are also very considerable. The
Crimea is defended by the 6th corps d'armee, by the
crews of the fleets, and by a part of the reserve of the
6th Corps.',

THE AUSTRIAN ARMY.
We read in the German Journal of Frankfort,
under the head of Vienna :--
"The following are the present positions of the Aus-
trian troops. Two of the four armies of Austria have
been mobilized, viz., the third, which is under the orders
of the Archduke Albert, and the fourth, at the head of
'Which is Count Schlick. General Hess has the chief
tlnrrnan-I of both theta armies. The line of position
g IS at Cracow, and extends the whole length of the
..s'dun frontier of Galicia by the Bukowine and Tran-
fBYlvatlia as far at Wallachia. The total amount of this
eu If be estimated pretty correctly at 300,000
trian There are 82,000 cavalry. Up to 1848 the Aus-
rn army had never more than 48,000. The army co-
Tu,e Aand.edrchd by General Schlick occupies ';.he line of C rnracow.
uke Albert has his head quarters in thenko-
wine, near Surzawa, where the bulk of his army is, ready
to enter Moldavia. An almost equal concentration
lrtists at Czernowitz, the .frontier fortified town of the
xhoklukowine, on the side of Bessarabia and Moldavia.
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