The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-15 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

THE WAR IN THE EAST.
A telegraphic despatch from Berlin, dated Mon-
day, gives the following as the substance of the
reply made by M. Manteuffel to interpellations
addressed to him in the Prussian Chamber :
" The Government will shortly make communica-
tions to the Chamber, which will perceive that it
has not deviated from its policy. The fleets which
are entering the Baltic belong to powers with which
Prussia is living in peace and good intelligence."
Advices from Malta of the 9th state that a Sar-
dinian frigate, arrived from the Pirmus had
brought news that the Anglo-French squadron in
the Adriatic had intercepted a supply of arms and
munitions of war destined for the Albanian insur-
gents.
The position of affairs in Albania was improving.
Moss's Gazette of Berlin, under date of Vienna,
Bth, says :—" We hear, from a source on which we
can rely, that the regiments of the corps d'armee
of Panintin, which had already received orders to
march, will return into Poland, in consequence of
a counter order. It is also announced that Prince
Gortschakoff lately received orders not to cross the
Danube, as it was wished to confine the war to the
line of that river. The son -of Baron de Meyen-
dorff, Russian Ambassador at this Court, was the
bearer of those despatches to Bucharest. It is said
that they were not very favourably received. The
motive of these singular orders appears to be the
attitude of Austria, which is by no means favour-
able to the intentions of Russia."
The Cologne Gazette publishes the following from
St. Petersburg, dated the 6th :—The Gazette of the
Senate publishes an imperial ukase, ordering the
immediate issue of credit notes for a sum of six
millions of silver roubles, about 24 millions of francs.
At the same time it publishes an ordonnance which
interdicts, until Sept. 1, 1854, the exportation of
corn from Odessa and the other ports of the Black
Sea and of the Sea of Azoff."
A letter from Berlin of the 11th, in the Co-
logne Gazette, says :—" The Eastern question,
which for some days appeared enveloped in
obscurity, begins to clear up. Ist, The Prussian
Government has rejected the declaration or con-
vention proposed by Austria, relative to the
Western Powers ; and, 2d, that declaration was
solely founded on the resolutions of the Conference
of Vienna, and in no respect implied the obligation
for the German Powers to co-operate actively with
the 'Western Powers. It results from the nature of
the resolutions come to by the Conference of
Vienna, and from the fixation of the points
for arriving at an amicable solution of the Tur-
kish question, that the proposed convention,
if founded on these resolutions, could only
serve as the basis of a future treaty of
peace. Besides, it appears that the Western
Powers have communicated a notification to
the Prussian Cabinet, which agrees in sub-
stance with that of the Austrian Cabinet, and which
solicits, not an active co-operation, but an obliga-
tory solution of the points which have been pre-
viously consented to by the four parties engaged in
the Conference of Vienna. General Von der
Groeben and Prince Hohenzollern are charged to
communicate a negative reply in this respect,
which, it is said, has been accompanied by new
offers of mediation."
The Lloyd of Vienna, of the 10th, says :—" The
Government has just suspended for eight days the
publication of our journal. Our next number can-
not therefore appear before the 19th. The order
of the Government does not say to what article we
are to attribute this measure."
A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle writes
from Galatz on Feb. 27 :—" On the evening of the
23d, the Turks having learnt by spies that during
the night the Russians intended cutting down the
small thicket of willows which masked their
batteries on the island, they opened a fire
which lasted for two hours. In the night, how-
ever, the willows were cut down ; and between
five and six on the morning of the 24th the
cannonade was renewed with vigour, lasting till
two p.m. The results do not appear to have been
important. The Russian battery No. 4 was dis-
mantled, and the Turkish No. 3 much damaged.
The Russians lost 7 or 8 killed, and some 20
wounded. lam not aware of the loss of the Turks.
Since then the Russians have sent reinforcements
to the island, and an attack is expected. The Rus-
sian sharpshooters are continually annoying the
Turks. An estaffette arrived yesterday in the after-
noon, from Braila and Bucharest—it is said, from
St. Petersburg—in great haste, with despatches for
Prince Gortschakoff, and the couriers hastened
after him to Bessarabia ; and this morning Prince
Gortschakoff arrived hero at 2 o'clock, and started
shortly afterwards for Braila. We are under the
impression, by the report spread here this morning,
that the news brought was the abdication of the Ena-
parer IN icholas. Great hospital preparations are being
made here. The proprietors of some of the large
mansions have been turned out, and their houses
are being prepared as hospitals. Niue hundred
beds are required. The Lazaretto barracks and
the Hotel de Moldavie are already prepared. The
weather is magnificent. Baron Budberg, governor
of the Principalities, is expected here on the 2

March. He left Jassy on the 28th Feb."
The following is also from a correspondent of
the same journal, dated Braila, Feb. 23.—" The
day before yesterday, at noon, General Prince Gort-

schakoff arrived here; he was received at the gate of
the town by Generals Luders and Euglehard.t, ac-
companied by their respective staffs, as also by
the governor and president of the municipality.
The latter, in offering him the bread and salt which
is customary, made a laconic address ; after which
he was conducted to the house prepared for his re-
ception. The rest of the day was devoted to the
inspection of the barracks and hospitals of the town.
Yesterday, at daybreak, a regiment of Russian in-
fantry increased our garrison. These troops arrived
by a forced march of three days, in a fearful snow-
drift, and the feet of nearly all the men are frozen.
This morning, at six o'clock, the two Russian
batteries, one of 12 and the other of 8 guns,
attacked the most advanced Turkish battery; the
latter replied, and though having only four guns of
small calibre, fired away manfully for four hours. '
Seeing, however, that resistance was useless, they
carried off the guns within the entrenchments,
joining the battery to another much stronger bat-
tery beyond the Russian fire. The cannonade
lasted till eleven o'clock, when it was relinquished
on both sides. The Turkish battery suffered so
severely that it is doubtful whether it cau maintain
a second attack. The Russian batteries scarcely
suffered—being well covered. Thirty wounded
were, however, taken to the hospitals. The dead
are immediately buried on the spot, so that it
is impossible to tell the exact number killed.
General Gortschakoff left to-day for Galatz, but
returns to-morrow. His sojourn at Braila, as well
as the concentration of troops of all arms, which
arrive daily, leaves no doubt of the intentions of the
Russians to cross to the right bank of the Danube.
At the same time every preparation is being made
to ensure a safe retreat in case of defeat. Bridges
have been erected on the Sireth and Pruth ; and
some of the inland towns, as Fokchany and others,
are being fortified. The Greco-Bulgarian volun-
teers are deserting in numbers. Eight of them
who were recaptured were led out and shot imme-
diately, by order of the Russian authorities."
The Amsterdam, Journal of the 9th publishes the
following article relative to rumours which are in
circulation concerning purchases of arms, and the
conveyance of warlik stores and ammunition to
Russia in Dutch vessels :

"We cannot say what truth there can be in the
rumour that a proposition is made to have a consider-
able quantity of arms and stores carried to a Russian
port. Our countrymen have too much good sense to
allow themselves to be caught by such a bait. The
high price offered ought to show them how great is the
danger. No shipowner certainly will undertake such
transports without previously ascertaining if he can
reckon on the protection of the Government ; and we
cannot see how a neutral Government could accord that
protection once that war has been declared."
The Journal de St. Petersburg contains the fol-
lowing :—" The Odessa Messenger publishes a letter
from Elizabethgrad of the 27th ult., which

says :
If you have ever been at Elizabethgrad, that small
but pretty town of the military colony of new Russia,
you must know its principal street, in which are all the
best built houses, and the fine building where the
tribunals sit, and in front of which runs the Boulevard.
On the 21st this street was at daybreak crowded with
people, attracted thither by an account that nearly 300
Turks, made prisoners by our victorious armies, were
to arrive from Odessa. A shout at length arose of
"they come ! they come !" and in half an hour after
they passed through the street. The nine officers who
were among the number were lodged in the best hotel
in the town, and the others were conducted to another
hotel, where, thanks to the solicitude of the local autho-
rities, and to offerings made by the inhabitants, an ex-
cellent dinner had been prepared for them, in which the
pilaw,. the favourite dish of the Turks, had not been
forgotten. After dinner coffee was presented to each
prisoner, and Turkish tobacco, purchased expressly for
them, was distributed. The inhabitants of Elizabeth-
grad, who were present, gave pecuniary assistance to
such of the prisoners as demanded it. In considerine•
the placid and almost cheerful countenances of the
Turks, who seated in a circle and forgetting their
fatigues, tranquilly sipped their coffee and smoked
their pipes. I felt fully convinced that never when at
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being during that time treated with the gieatesatn co
lity, they were supplied with warm clothing. .Appre-
ciating as they ought this generous treatment, com-
prehending, as it deserved, this christian charity, they
more than once testified their warmest gratitude, and I