The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-14 00:00:00

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

A Bucharest correspondent of the Presse, writing
on the 3d, bitterly complains of the conduct of
some of the Turkish officials there in meddling with
the political affairs of the Wallachians, and, in par-
ticular, accuses the English renegade Lakeman
(Mashar Pacha), the town commandant, of in-
triguing against, and even acting in open oppo-
sition to, Prince Stirbey. He supports his asser-
tion by enclosing a proclamation addressed to
the prefects of Police in Bucharest, forbidding any
manifestation taking place. The correspondent
takes the opportunity of referring to "a similar
arbitrary act of Omer Pacha, who, as is known,
sought to prevent the dissemination of Baron Hess's
proclamation in Bucharest ;" and says that the
Austrian internuncio at Constantinople has laid
this affair before the Porte, and demanded satis-
faction, and that this demand vas the subject of
discussion in a grand council of the Porte on the
26th inst., but the result is not known. However,
the correspondent says that Omer Paella's arbi-
trary proceedings at Bucharest are much blamed
at head-quarters, and that he has been reproached
for the imprisonment of MM. Golesco and Czerna-
tesco, and for the arrest of some correspondents of
German and English journals.

RUSSIA.

RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS FROM THE ALMA,

ST. PETERSBURG, OCT. have just received
two letters, one from a marine officer, and the
other from an infantry officer—both of whom fought
at the Alma against the English •, and I hasten to
send you the following extracts from them. The
infantry officer writes:—" The battle (of the Alma)
was discontinued on our side solely because our
battalions would have been exposed to the fire of
the English and French ship guns, which have a long
range. The battle had for us no disadvantageous
result, for the enemy required just as much time as
we did to rally. The English, whom we had on
our right wing, fought brilliantly : we could not
deny them our admiration. The fire of the Millie
rifles with their long range did us a good deal of
mischief, and would have done us much more, if
the enemy had had better shots among them. Our
antagonist has not, as yet, obtained the smallest
advantage over us. The Prince (Menschikoff) is
quite well, and the state of the troops very satisfac-
tory. The Cossacks are constantly bringing inFrench
marauders as prisoners, but it is a fact that we have
as yet not taken a single English marauder. The

old British Ex( eilency (L')rd Raglan) who coin- •
mands up there must be keeping up good disci-
pline."
The letter from the officer of Marines i 3 of an
older date, Sept. 16, written two days after the
landing of the Allies. He says : "For the first
time these six long and tedious months I see at
last cheerful faces again. There is everywhere
music and singing, and people are wishing each
other joy. We have formed eight battalions and
a light battery out of the sailors ; they are com-
manded by Kornileff (chief of the staff of the fleet).
This man will rather eat himself up than surren-
der." _ _

A letter of the Ist, from Warsaw, says that 100
more houses were being pulled down in the neigh-
bourhood of the citadel. The banks of the Weich-
sel, near Rachow, are being fortified, " which will
make the passage of the Weichsel secure for the
Russian troops in any case." On these works
there are more than 10,000 soldiers employed. The
fifth and sixth battalions of the Guards remain at
St. Petersburg. The seventh and eighth battalions
are concentrating there. The troops in Poland are
moving by three routes on the Austrian frontiers,
viz., on the railway from Warsaw to Maczki, on
the road to Miechowo, and along the Weichsel.