The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-28 00:00:00

THE DANUBE.

The following is dated Hertnannstadt, July 2G :-
"The Russians consider the mouth of the
Danube no longer tenable.
"Prince Gortscha.koff, having convinced himself
that Giurgevo and the Danubian islands opposite
are occupied by a Turkish detachment, and not
by the Balkan army, is withdrawing a great part
of his army to Bucharest.
"It is believed that the right and left wing of
the Russian army are retreatirki to the Serail line
of operations."

According to a despatch from Vienna of the 27th,
Omer Pasha and Prince Napoleon were at Giur-
gevo.

UNFRIENDLY RESOLUTION OF THE
DANISH GOVERNMENT.
The Danish Government refuses to allow the
establishment of a cholera lazaretto for the allied
forces.

PRINCE PASKIEWITCH.
We read iu the Independance of Brussels :
" The rumour of the disgrace of Prince Paskie-
witch was completely inexact. The accounts,
which have arrived to-day from Kamenetz in Podo-
lia, announced that since the Marshal's arrival at
his seat at Hommel his health has much improved.
These letters confirm the rumour that he will
shoitly resume the command of the Rus-ian army
in the Principalities, and they even give the date
of the 27th as that of the dty on which he is to
depart from Hommel for the army."

THE BRITISH EXPEDITION IN THE EAST.
CAMP NEAR DEVNO, BULGARIA, July 13.—Lord
Cardigan has returned to camp with the detach-
ments of Light Caval-y, with which he effected a
reconnaissance along the banks of the Danube,
towards Rustehuk and Silistria. It is reported
that at one point of the river they saw the Rus-
sians in force under General Linters, and that the
General asked a Turkish officer who went over
with a flag of truce, on some business, the nature
of which has not transpired, whether the cavalry
at the other side were French or English. He
was informed they were English, and he then took
a long look at them, but he did not make any .ob-
servation, nor did he direct any fire to be made
upon them. The noble lord and his men were
without tents, and bivouacked for 17 nights.
On the 11th, Tuesday, the distressing intelligence
of the affair at Giurgevo on Friday last reached
us, and caused the liveliest sensation. No pal.-
ticulara are known here as yet, and the versions
of the story differ very much, but all agree as to
the names and number of the British officers killed.
Captain Bent and Mr. Burke, of the Royal En-
gineers, &c., had gone up to Silistria on particular
service connected with the defences of e place,
and with the object of surveying and reporting on
the forts along the Danube. It so happened that
while they were iu Rustchuk the Turks resolved
to force the river and attack the Russians, who
were on the other side of the river. Among the
British officers on the spot at the time were Mr.
Burke, Royal Engineers, Mr. Meynell, 75th Regi-
ment, and Mr. Arnold, of the 'lndian army, and
they all engaged in the expedition' which was not
the first of the kind in which Mr. Burke had
taken part within a short time previously. Tie
result is melancholy. In a fierce attack on the
Russian intrenehed camp on Friday last the Turks
were received with such a heavy mitraille that they
%wavered and fell back. Mr. Burke, Mr. Meynell,
and Mr. Arnold rushed forward to rally and cheer
them on, and, rendered only too conspicuous by
their gallantry and daring, they fell dead before a
deadly fire from the Russian riflemen. Mr. Burke
was a universal favourite, an excellent officer, and
courageous to a fault. He is much. regretted
throughout the Light Division, and great sympathy
is felt for his brother, a captain in the C ounaught
Rangers, who was deeply attachedtto him. Some
peopleis bu
think that " Arnold" a mispronun-
ciation of the name of an engineer officer who is
known to have been up
u at
Rustchuk a short time
back, along with Captain Bent. The night before
this there was a general belief that peace would
soon be proclaimed, inasmuch a s an Austrian envoy
was reported to be dining with General Brown,
and this Austrian envoy was on his way from
Shumla, where he had held long interviews with
Omer Pasha, to Varna, where he was to consult
Lord Raglan and M. St. Arnaud. Then there was
a universal rumour that " the Czar had abdicated,"
and, further, it Vira,s said that " the Duke of Cam-
bridge had said that the cavalry would be home by
November, and the infantry by May." Later in
the evening, however, this story received a severe
check in the shape of an opposing current of gossip,
to the effect that it was " certain we are going to
Sebastopol, because A told B that C had said
so ;" though some stoutly held out that peace
was actually proclaimed, and that they knew the
conditions, but did not like telling them. Peace
proclaimed ! Why, surely it cannot be affirmed we
are at war, or that the allied armies have taken a
belligerent part or exhibited warlike action since
they landed in Turkey. Our parades, reviews,
drills, and inspections are as harmless and innocent
as if they took place at Satory or Chobhain, and
our whole operations of offence by land have been
confined to, first, a reconnoitring excursion by Lord
Cardigan ; secondly, the despatch of some engineer
officers and Sapoers to Silistria and Rustchuk ;
thirdly, the march of a few French Pontoniers in
the same direction (on Tuesday, the 11th) ; and
fourthly, the further despatch of a company of
150 sailors to Rustchuk, to construct a bridge across
from the bank to the islands, and thence across to
to the other side. To those who advocate the
necessity of striking some powerful blow at the
most vital point of our gigantic antagonist there is
one reply,—" It would be madue.:s to attempt
•Sebastopol." The Generals say our fleet is not
prepared for it, and it would take one or
two years to provide our army with the means
of disembarking in the face of a powerful
enemy and of prosecuting with success the siege
of such a fortress. Surely all these difficul-
ties, if they exist, ought to have been foreseen.
several acts of Violence have been committed by
the natives on the road to Varna. A gentleman
who is correspondent for one of the London jour-
nals has been fired at, and the person who shot at
him has been arrested and flogged. A canteen
man has been, murdered. Some of our mail-bags
have gone astray, and letters for the 88th Regi-
ment have been found scattered by the hedges all
along to Varna.
On Sunday last Major-General Bentinck ad-
' dressed his officers, after church parade, on the
subject of shaving, and informed them that they
must use their razors. The Duke of Cambridge
referred the matter to Lard Raglan, and it is un-
derstood that his lordship has decided that mous-
taches may be worn, but not beards. It is said
that upwards cf 70 horses of Lord Cardigan's de-
tachmelit have been laid up in consequence of sore
backs during the recent reconnaissance. The French
still remain around Varna ; their engineers are