The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-29 00:00:00

POLAND.

The Independance Bclgo publishes the following
letter from Hamburg, of the 22d inst.:—

" We received the night before last the Warsaw mail
of the 11th. It was stated in that capital that the last
order from St. Petersburg enjoined the military en-
gineers to terminate the additional works of the citadel
of Alexander, commenced three months ago, in the first
fortnight cf January next. Marshal Paskiewitch had
ordered the organisation of three parks of flying artil-
lery. The Inspector-General of that arm in Poland,
Lazareff Stanischtsheff, whom he had especially charged
with that organisation, returned on the 10th to War-
saw, to report to the Marshal the result of his inspection
in the Government of Mohilev, where one of those
batteries had been completely organised at Bodrojsk
It appears that, in the two provinces bordering on Prus-
sian Poland, the number of Russian troops is very small.
A. few squadrons of cavalry, which arrived there lately,
()Idly stopped a few days. Detachments of Lancers and
Cossacks assist the Customs officers in repressing smug-
gling, which is organised on a large scale along that
frontier. The recruits of the new levy, decreed by the
Czar, are intended to create a second grand army of
reserve, which is to be concentrated at Moscow and in
the neighbouring provinces. Those recruits are not to
lee incorporated into the reserve battalions of the regi-
ments formed, in virtue of an imperial ukase, issued in
March last, with the soldiers sent home on unlimited
furloughs. Those battalions are included i❑ the different
divisions of the corps of infantry of the six active armies
which Russia has now in the field."

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, DEC. 24.

It was yesterday known that Colonel Manteuffel
was the bearer of the congratulations of his Sove-
reign to the Empress Elizabeth on her birthday,
and in the evening it was related that the military
diplomatist was also charged to explain to the Aus-
trian Minister for Foreign Affairs the nature of M.
von Usedom's mission to England and France.
Such is the version which has been given by a per-
son generally well informed, but a Government
organ of the press this morning hints that Col. Man-
teuffel and M. von Usedom have probably been sent
" to endeavour to find out the true nature of the
secret conditions which have been made between
the three Allied Powers." Not more than 20,000
or 25,000 Turks would 1 e left in the Debrudseha
and Moldavia, as all doubt as to the resolve of
Austria to defend the lines of the Pruth and Danube
against any aggressive operations on the part of
Russia was entirely removed.
Not only the whole of the British Embassy—
with the exception of its chief, who is still unwell
—but many other persons of distinction, as well
civil as military, were present at General Duplat's
funeral. Among others were M. de Bourqueney,
the Turkish Minister ; Baron Hess, General
Letang, and a great crowd of generals and staff
officers. Our local papers tell us that all the qua-
rantines between Orsova and Galatz have been
abolished, and consequently the communication
between the two banks of the Danube is perfectly
free, which was not the case under the former
regime, because the Russian Consul-General ob-
jected to it. The communication between Tultscha
and Galatz has also been restored. A more satis-
factory postal communication is likely to be estab-
lished by the Austrians in the Danubian Princi-
palities.
Another letter from Vienna states that the
answer of the Russian Government to the last pro-
positions had been expected there for two days,
but had not arrived. The Russian Ambassador,
however, had stated that he should soon re-
ceive it.

The last bulletin of the health of the King of
Bavaria, dated the 24th, states that his Majesty is
in a fair way of•prompt recovery.
The Constitutiounct states, on the authority of
a Warsaw informant, that the news of the recent
calling out of the battalions of reserve of the Rus-
sian corps of grenadiers is incorrect. The resource
in question was exhausted as long ago as February
last.

A letter received in Paris yesterday from Bala-
klava, of the 10th says—" The arrivals of troops,
ammunition, and provisions go on incessantly, and
wooden houses for receiving them are rising up on
all sides. We expect by the Christophe Colomb a
number of draining pipes, which will carry off the
water into the ravines, and improve the salubrity
of the camp. The sanitary condition of the troops
is excellent. Our friends the Turks are full of zeal,
and perform with the most perfect goodwill all the
work which is assigned to them."

The military engineers at Warsaw have positive
orders from St. Petersburg to finish the citadel of
Alexander by the middle of January. Paskie-
witch has ordered the formation of three parks of
flying artillery. The frontiers of the kingdom of
Poland next to Prussia are denuded of troops.
The field hospitals of Austrian mobile army have
been placed under the command of a colonel. The
3d Artillery Regiment is being placed on a full war
footing, and in a few weeks is to proceed with a
powerful staff to Gallicia. Several companies of
engineers and pioneers have also recently received
orders to be prepared to march.