The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-24 00:00:00

DEATH OF GENERAL LUDERS.

According to information from Bucharest of the
18th, General Luders had his jaw shattered by a
bullet before Silistria, and has since died. This
fact had been concealed from the Russian troops,
who had great confidence in the talent and bravery
of that general, and whose discouragement it was
feared might be thereby increased.

RUSSIAN ACCOUNT OF THE ATTACK
UPON GAMLA•KARLEBY.
We extract the following from a report contained
in an extraordinary supplement of the Invalide
Busse :

"On the 26th of May, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
two English steamers were signalled as being in sight o
the town of Gainla-Karleby. A. few gunboats approached
the shore to sound the channel, and at 9 in the evening
9 sloops of 16 oars, and 16 of 20 oars, each armed with
a gun, were put to sea.. One of them, under a flag of
truce, came close to the shore. The burgomaster, who
received the English officer who was on board this boat,
replied to all his questions and summonses that he could
not allow him to come any nearer to the town, or to
destroy the vessels, or what he called the contraband of
war. The English officer then withdrew, threatening to
enter the town by force. In fa,ct towards 11 o'clock at night,
the 9 boats advanced towards the shore. Two pieces of ar-
tillery of the garrison, two Finland companies of the line
No. 12, and 100 armed inhabitants of the town, favoured
by the localities and the country buildings, received the
enemy with a cannonade and a fire to which the artil-
lery and musketry of the boats replied. The combat
lasted till nearly midnight. In the end the enemy was
forced to retire, towing two boats which had been da-
maged with a great number of killed and wounded, and
with very few of the rowers left. One of the boats re-
mained in the possession of the conquerors with 22 sea-
men, who were made prisoners. Among the latter there
were four wounded men. The dead body of the officer
and the bodies of five sailors were in the boat, and dur-
ing the fight several other bodies bad been thrown into
the sea. With this boat we captured its flag, a bronze
cannon of large calibre, munitions, guns, pistols, and
the whole of its armament. According to the state-
ments of the prisoners, the other boats also received
severe injuries, and one of them was sunk. Thanks to
God, the loss on our side was quite insignificant. Four
men only were slightly wounded. Thus the town of
Gamla,-Karleby, threatened with the same fate as Bralie-
, stadt and Uleaborg, was saved by a handful of troops,
assisted by the brave inhabitants. It is to be remarked
that these troops rushed from very distant points with
unheard-of rapidity."

AUTHENTIC DET AILS OF THE ROYAL
CONFERENCE AT TETSCHEN.—POLICY
OF AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.
The Debats publishes a long article on the inter-
view of the two Sovereigns of Austria and Prussia
at Tetschen, in which it gives some curious infor-
mation on the important resolutions adopted during
the conferences which took place. The interview,
as is known, took place on the invitation of the
Emperor Francis Joseph, who wrote an autograph
letter to King Frederick William, his uncle, pro-
posing that he should come to Tetschen to see the
new Empress, unless be preferred to receive the
visit of his nephew and niece at Potsdam. (The
Queen of Prussia, the Archduchess Sophia, and the
Duchess Louisa, of Bavaria, are sisters.) The
King of Prussia went to Tetschen. The confer-
ences had a double object ; first, the conduct to
be observed by the two Sovereigns with respect to
the States which met at Bamberg ; and, secondly,
with respect to all the eventualities which might
happen in the East. The first was considered
secondary, at least for the .moment ; and the at-
tention of the Sovereigns was directed to the
second. But on this point the questions were al-
ready clearly settled by the treaty of Berlin of the
20th April, the military convention between
Prussia and Austria, and the note which Austria
addressed on the 2d of June to the St. Petersburg
Cabinet. The Sovereigns had, therefore, to con-
sider what they were to do in either of thel three
cases—first, that the Czar should yield ; secondly,
that he should resist ; and, thirdly, that in an-
nouncing the intention to yield, he should demand
previous explanations as to what would be done ul-
teriorly touching the state of war and the opening
of a congress. All this has been regulated at Tets-
chen with great precision ; but at the same time the
Sovereigns were desirous to make a last attempt,
and to renew the demands of the note of the 2d of
June, by a personal appeal to the Czar. After the
conference, other notes were sent to St. Petersburg,
again insisting and formally offering the mediation
of the two Powers if the St. Petersburg Cabinet
would accept the conditions proposed by the two
Powers. In these notes an express demand is
made upon the Emperor Nicholas that he should
order the immediate and absolute evacuation of
the principalities by his army, and engage himself
to terminate pacifically his difference with Turkey,
by means of a conference of the four Powers, which
would thus become a conference of six. If the
Emperor made these two concessions, and if he
executed them without delay or reserve, Austria
and Prussia would engage to serve as intermedi-
aries at Paris, London, and Constantinople, to ob-
tain for him an honourable peace. These conclu-
sions do not differ from those of the note of the 2d
of June, with this exception—that Russia is no
longer allowed to fix the period of the evacuation,
and that Prussia and Austria are more explicit in
their offers of mediation, and their engagements to
procure for Russia an honourable peace. The
Debats then goes on to say :
" If the answer should be a refusal, everything is pre-
pared at Vienna as well as at Berlin to commence the
war, and to commence it on a grand scale. Austria will
take the initiative, leaving to Prussia the care of cover-
ing her frontiers against internal troubles. The parts
being thus distributed, the means will not be wanting to
either Power. Austria has given developments to her
armies which surpass all that has been previously seen ;
nothing is wanting to them—neither discipline, nor in-
struction, nor numerous battalions, nor stores of every
kind, nor able and approved generals. The young- Em-
peror has brought them together in these great circum-
stances ; and very recently General Benedick, who was
the right hand of Marshal Radetzky, has been sent to
Vienna. General Hess will remain near the Emperor.
We are assured that an Austrian army of at least
180.000 men will enter the Principalities the very day the
refusal of the Emperor Nicholas is known in Vienna, and
that the refusal is considered irrevocable. Prussia is
ready on her side. She has already commenced the
mobilization of her army. That army is immense. The
lists of the Ministry of War prove that she can have
an effective force of more than 500,000 men. For the
present, so great a number will not be collected ; but
Austria has assured herself that, in certain foreseen eir-
curnsta.nces, Prussia will place the whole of that force
at her disposal. Prussia will not make direct war
against Russia ; she will merely assist Austria, so as to
allow the latter the free disposal of all her forces, and to
direct them against Russia. This expedient was con-
trived because the King of Prussia was unwilling that
his troops should meet those of his brother-in-law in the
field of battle."
The Wats says that against so great a mass of
enemies there cannot be a doubt but that Russia
will be forced to abandon the Principalities, and
to defend the southern provinces of the empire,
which will inevitably be invaded, " and after their
invasion there can be no longer any question as to
the integrity of Russia, for no one will wish to give
up what Russia loses." Russia will consequently
lose by this war what she got by previous wars,
and, above all, lose her prestige and influence.
If the refusal be categorical, the next step of the
Powers is clear. " The chances are against Russia,
who will probably be so much weakened that, for
a long time to come, she will not again be a danger
to the European equilibrium."
The_Debats thinks it more difficult to foresee what
will happen if the Czar should accede to the propo-
sitions of the two Powers, repass the Pruth, and
consent to another conference at Vienna. " But
even in that case," says the Debats, " Russia will
not find herself such as' she was before the crisis,
and it will be justice : for it would be a bad exam-
ple that she should be allowed with impunity to
disquiet Europe and trouble its repose." It fore-
sees great difficulties in conciliating so many inte-
rests, but says that the Vienna Cabinet is prepared
for that second hypothesis, and that, in accordance
with the Cabinet of Berlin, it will undertake the
negotiations, the two Cabinets being determined
not to separate, and to insist on the acceptance of
their mediation. They will say that it is a con-
sequence of their participation in the conference of
' Vienna ; that it was as mediators they took part in