The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-05 00:00:00

MALTA.

We extract the following from a Malta letter of
the 29th :—The Terrible and Furious, after de-
stroying the wreck of the Tiger, communicated
with the blockading division at the mouths of the
Danube, and received in charge eight other prizes,
namely, 3 Wallachian, 2 Dutch, 2 Greek, and 1
Sardinian vessels, with which prizes the Furious
left for Constantinople, whither many others have
already been towed, some of which have been
sold without any vice-admiralty court formalities.
The Firebraud, after the interment of the
remains of her 'much-lamented captain, left Con-
stantinople on the 18th for the Black Sea.
The Cyclops is loading ammunition from the
Turkish arsenal, with which she will proceed to a
given rendezvous in the Black Sea, whither Rear-
Admiral Boxer has proceeded to superintend the
fleet of transports collected at Varna, numbering,
English and French, fully 400, many of them being
steamers. The Phoebe, merchant steamer, from
Trebizond, brings a report that a large Russian
steam-frigate from Sebastopol had ventured out
and captured, in the vicinity of the ever-
memorable Sinope, two Ottoman and one
English vessels, the latter being coal-laden ;
and that the Sampson, on the coast of -Cir-
cassia, had been surprised by an unequal force
of the enemy, and had been captured ; but neither
of these reports is credited, for if some 14 sail of the
line and steamers not only hesitate to give battle
to, but run away from, two English and one French
steamers, close off Sebastopol, it is hardly likely
that one single ship, or a small division of ships,
should have ventured to cross over to the Asiatic
shores of Turkey. A French steamer, troop-laden,
had arrived at Varna, infected with cholera, of
which disease one single case had manifested itself
on board the Diamond frigate, Captain Peel, but
under skilful treatment did not prove fatal.
The Egyptian, French steamer, on board of
which some cases of cholera had manifested
themselves during her voyage from Marieilles,
proceeded on her voyage to Gallipoli and Con-
stantinople, after being purified on the 22d,
but at the moment of departure had to land a
Maltese, taken on board at Malta, who was at-
tacked shortly after embarkation. On board the
postal steamer Ville de Bordeaux, which arrived
at Tunis from Marseilles, on the 16th, five cases
of cholera manifested themselves. On the evening
of the 22d, the Canada, French steam-frigate,
arrived from Toulon, having in tow the Pandore
frigate ; the former had on board six officers, 700
non-commissioned officers and privates, and forty
horses, from which vessel some dozen men were
landed in the lazzaretto, also attacked with cholera.
Both these vessels left for Constantinople on the
24th.

On the 25th July several cases of sporadic cholera
manifested themselves in some of the regiments in
this garrison, and on the following day others, all
of which, with the exception of one, ended
fatally after a few hours' suffering. Among the
natives, the family
of a milkman, who supplies the
military, but living at the village of Birchircara,
some four miles from the nearest barracks, has also
been attacked. A memorial, signed by upwards of
1,300 persons, was presented by the Hon. Mr.
Michel Angelo Xerri, a member of the Government
Council, praying for the establishment of quaran-
tine upon all arrivals from places where cholera
prevails. The Government, more to allay the fears
of the
public than from a persuasion of the utility
of the measure, had already . ordered a quarantine
of five days, including the time consumed in the
Passage ; so that, under ordinary circumstances,
the steamers arriving from Marseilles direct will
have to perform one-and-a-half to two days' qua-
rantine, whilst those coming by- the Italian coast
will be admitted to pratique, as they usually take
six days to perform the voyage. Cholera, with all
the quarantine enactments of the local Board of
Health, has broken out at Naples, Algeria, Greece,
the Dardanelles,
Gallipoli, and Varna, are also in-
fected, but at the latter place it has not spread
beyond the troops on board of a French steamer
from France.

ST. PETERSBURG.
Letters from St. Petersburg of the 26th ult.
state that troops from the interior are again seen
entering the capital. The Czar personally inspects
the new arrivals, and then orders the distribution
to each soldier of one or two florins, according to
the degree of satisfaction which he has experienced
at the parade. The troops are s9nt on at once to
one of the armies now on campaign. The Czar is
borrowing from the army of Orenburg, to make up
the deficiencies in that of the south, and several
thousand soldiers are to be marched from it to the
capital forthwith.

THE RUSSIAN ARMY IN THE PRINCI-

PALITIES.

At Jassy the Rus.-Aitus have made up their
for a long stay ; iu the town and environs winter
quarters have been provided ; for the present, how-
ever, the troops have drawn 11P OP 23,0ar the

town. The petition of the Boyards to the Czar for
protection has only three signatures affixed. The
police have confiscated a petition to Austria, Prus-
sia, England, and France, which circulated secretly,
the prayer of which was that these Powers would
free them from the yoke of Russia.
We have reliable intelligence says a Vienna letter
of the Ist, that the Russians intend to concentrate
their forces between Bucharest and Ibraila, with
isolated reconnoitring detachments between Giur-
gevo and 81obosia. The Russian reserves were
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posted in Moldavia, between Jassy and Ibraila ready
to make front against the Transylvanian frontier.
Thus the Russians have it in their power to oppose
an enemy at either Bucharest, Ibraila, or Jassy.
The result of a battle would then decide the tem-
porary possession of Wallachia, but iu case of the
defeat of the Russians would not particularly
affect their position in Moldavia. The Wallachian
official paper has already begun to affix to the
name of the Emperor the title of " All-powerful
Protector of the Principalities." All the journals
which contained the notes of Austria and Prussia
to Russia were forbidden publication, either in
Bucharest or in Jassy. The emigrating Bulgarian
families, learning that they were to be employed
on the fortifications in Moldavia, wished to return
to their homes, but were forced by the Cossacks to
proceed to Fokschan, where they are at work at
the trenches.

A correspondent of the Fremden Blatt, writing
from Bucharest, on the 24th July, says :
" The announcement made that Prince Gortschakoff
had retreated from Frateschti to Kalugereni, on account
of want of water, is untrue, as the Russians have sunk
wells in the valleys near Frateschti, by this means ob-
taining a sufficient supply. Their main force, consisting
of from 70,000 to 80,000 men, occupies a position on
the heights of Frateschti ; and in a direct line with
Ursitscheni, a bridge has been thrown over the Argisch,
probably to facilitate a retreat to Bucharest. As the
Russians have no more stores here, they obtain their
provisions by carriage from Moldavia—a very bad state
of things. The greatest hardship the Russian soldiers
have to endure is the perpetual marching and counter-
marching through swamps and marshes, without any
visible object. The strategical grounds of the Russian
field-marshal for thus harassing the troops, whereby
several hundreds have been obliged to be sent to the
hospital, aro not understood. Advices from Lesser
Wallachia confirm the report that the Ottomans had con-
fiscated the moveable property of Prince Milosch, Cols.
Charatambi and Salomon, and the Boyard Kostakee
Glagerion, and had sent the cattle, corn, hay, &c., to
Widdin. The 1,000 volunteers who fought with the
Russiahs at Silistria are quartered here, and are destined,
it is said, to form the rear-guard on the retreat of the
Russians. On the other hand, the rumour is again cur-
rent in the circles of the Russian party, that Wallachia
will not be voluntarily given up either to the Austrians
or the Ottomans."

Another correspondent writes from Bucharest,
dated the 25th :

"Prince Michael Gortschakoff is at last fully im-
pressed with the conviction that he must evacuate Wal-
lachia. The Anglo-French troops and a strong division
of the Turkish army is now on the way to and in the
Dobrudscha, as far as the heights of Babadagh. Their
object, in the first place, is to force the Russian troops,
still remaining in the Dobrudscha, to retreat ; and then,
by making a movement to the left, to the line of the
Danube, if possible to cut off the retreat of the army of
Prince Gortschakoff. Under these circumstances, what
remains to the Russian Commander-in-Chief but a re-
treat ? Every preparation is already made here for this
event."

Referring to the affair of the 23d, the writer
says :

" Gortschakoff returned in despair, and, as I learn
from good authority, in his report to the Czar, used the
phrase, Tout est perdu, sauf l'honneur !' He is right
—the Russians, it is true, fought bravely, but the Otto
mans fought yet more bravely than they. Gortschakotf
concentrating all the troops in Wallachia, in order to
make the attempt to partly retrieve the honour of the
Russian arms.. His animosity to the Wallachians, to
whom he blames his ill-fortune, has now no bounds.
Should this last attempt against the Ottomans fail, said
the prince yesterday (the 24th), in his irritation against
Kantakuzeno, then the inhabitants of Bucharest should
first feel his revenge. Kantakuzeno heard this burst of
anger silently, for the prince is irritable, and only be-
comes more excited by contradiction."
A traveller writes from Bucharest, under date of
the 21st :

"On the summits of the hills and mountains on the
Tra,nsylva,nian frontiers a sort of telegraph is constructed,
consisting of a pole with dried bushes and straw, which,
in case of necessity, is ignited, and serves for a signal of
alarm. In Valeni de Munti the boors removed the
poles, and kindled the straw. Immediately all the other
signal-posts as far as Plojesti blazed the alarm. The
Russians advanced in great numbers to the Austrian
frontier, but, instead of finding the enemy, they met
some herdsmen with their great flocks of sheep. The
Cossacks fell to like hungry wolves to attack the sheep,
and raged among the innocent beasts like Don Quixote
among the swine. The herdsmen," continues the writer,
" complained to the general in command, but are not
likely to obtain any compensation."

Aavices of the 27t11 July inform us that on the
Cronstadt frontier all was tranquil. A small divi-
sion of Russian troops was stationed at Kimpolung,
which acted as a patrol. In Wallachia, Moldavia,
and Bulgaria, two remarkable letters are to be
found in everybody's hands, which throw a new
light on the manner of enlisting religious and po-
litical proselytes in these lands. One letter is ad-
dressed by the Sultan Mustapha 111. to the Em-
press Catherine 11. of Russia ; the second is the
answer of the Empress. The people believe them
to be "as true as Gospel." They have been trans-
lated from the Greek into the Wallachian and Bul-
garip,n languages.
According to a telegraphic despatch from Widdin,
of the 30th, orders from Omer Pacha were issued
in Widdin, on the 25th, to all the commanders of
corps, to withdraw their troops over the Danube
when the Austrian troops advanced into the prin-
cipalities. The troops at Giurgevo have received
a similar order.