The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER, 7, 1854.

strongest granite effectually withstanding a
well-directed fire. It is at Sebastopol, then, that
the negotiations are to be renewed—that terms
may be dictated to which the AUTOCRAT must
submit, although far more onerous than those
which he so contumeliously rejected when sug-
gested by a mediator. When his fleets and
arsenals have been destroyed, and the Black Sea,
in place of being a Russian lake, is thrown
open not merely to the merchant vessels,
but to the men-of-war of every nation—
when his troops have been expelled from
Asia, and the Crimea is in the hands of his
adversaries, his pride will be humbled, and he
will yield to sad necessity. He will find that the
concealed friendship of Austria is no more capable
of saving him from the consequences of his own
misdeeds than the avowed nepotism of Prussia.
The fiat has gone forth, and, insane and impious
as he is in some respects, he must himself be con-
scious of the truth. He may harden his heart
against the fall of Bomarsund, but that of Sebas-
topol will inflict a " heavy blow and great dis-
couragement" on his pride--one, indeed, that
must prove irresistible, inasmuch as it will de-
prive him for a long succession of years of carrying
out his nefarious views against the possessions of
the man no longer " sick," but restored to the
plenitude of health and strength. Such a " ma-
terial guarantee" will be worth all the merely
moral obligations or verbal pledges that could be
imposed. The CZAR has proved beyond the pos-
sibility of doubt, that the most unblushing men-
dacity is one of his characteristics, and that if his
interests require it, he is ready not merely to
quibble away the intent and meaning of any
document, but, if necessary, to deny its efficacy.
His treaties would not, in fact, be worth the
paper on which they were engrossed, unless we
rendered him incapable of violating their provisions.
With Sebastopol dismantled, and the Black Sea Fleet
destroyed, it is clear that he could done more against
his Moslem neighbours. We fancy, too, that, ere
long, we shall have something to record from the
Baltic, and that the capture of Bomarsund and the
blowing up of flange will not be the only results
of the operations of the combined forces in that
quarter. Should this be the case, as we hope and
trust it will be, the season will not have passed
uselessly away. The energy and activity displayed
at its close will have amply compensated for the
apathy so justly complained of during the earlier
months.

which they clung to their verdict of acquittal, he
has been ordered to leave the service, of which he
is considered unworthy to be a member. Here,
then, in two of the three cases, the authorities at
the Horse Guards manifested their unqualified
disapproval of the conduct and proceedings of
these model tribunals.

It would have been well for the reputation of
the Commander-in-Chief had he acted similarly
on the third trial. PERRY was, however, to be
sacrificed ; and, therefore, overlooking the mani-
fest inconsistency of finding him guilty on one
point, and not guilty on another, resting on pre-
cisely the same evidence, pro and con, he approves
the "finding and sentence on military grounds ;"
putting forward the statement that "no command-
ing officer could be safe in the discharge of his
duties, if inferior officers could with impunity
make accusations similar to those of which Lieut.
PERRY has been found guilty." There is nothing
in this of the falsehood of the accusations. It
was, indeed, simply the fact of putting forward
any complaints. That was enough to condemn ;
and it was too bad to carry on the farce of a trial
for sixteen days, when the result was already
" a foregone conclusion."
The matter, however, cannot rest here. Many
months must elapse before the re-assembling of
Parliament, but we believe, notwithstanding the
extent of the military element, that there is
enough of independence in both Houses to insure
a stringent investigation into all the circumstances
of the case, and such an improvement of the con-
stitution and procedure of Courts-martial as will
render the system more in accordance with the
spirit of the age, and better calculated to promote
the administration of substantial justice.

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR.
THE PRINCIPALITIES.

Our latest telegraphic despatches are as follow :

EVACUATION OF MOLDAVIA .

We have advices from Bucharest to the 2d inst.

Reports had been received from the Russian
head-quarters to the effect that renewed orders had
been given for the immediate evacuation of Mol-
davia. The delay which has taken place, in obe-
dience to superior orders, is now to cease.
General Apeman, of the Austrian service, ar-
rived at Bucharest on the Ist inst.

Letters from Jassy, to the 4th, state that
General Prince Gortschakon head-quarters were
at Teknez.

The Moldavian militia had been forcibly incor-
porated into the Russian troops. This had caused
great indignation among the people.
A medical correspondent at Bucharest speaks as
follows of the Russian hospital system :--
"The number of Russian sick and dead was always
great. Every patient who entered the hospital was con-
sidered a lost man. This persuasion did not arise from
a knowledge of the careless treatment of tie patients, or
of their abominable food, but from the circumstance of
there being a magazine for the dead in the rayon of each
hospital. This is a necessary appendix to a Russian
military hospital, because the dead are not buried sepa-
rately. The corpses are carried to a room, stable, or
warehouse, and, according to the size of the place, lie
there six, eight, or ten days until it is full. The cause
of this custom is not a little singular. The director of
the military hospital charges the State for the food,
medicine, &c., of the defunct soldier up to the day, not
of his death, but of his burial, when he is officially struck
off the sick list."

The Lloyd of Vienna has the following from
Jassy, dated the 27th ult. :—" The Russians are
slowly withdrawing their troops from the Austrian
frontier, and taking up a position on the Sereth.
Nearly all the small places are evacuated. Troops
are always passing through the town, going to-
wards the Pruth. The line from Ibrail to Fok-
chani, and from that place to Titenie, is occupied
militarily by the Russians. The news of the ill-
treatment of the Wallachian militia by the Rus-
sians has produced a great sensation here."

nance of such a host for more than a few short
months."

At Sebastopol a great number of prisoners taken
from the fortresses aro to serve the port batteries.
A gang of 200 convicts in irons will convey ammu-
nition to them.

have reached the terminus before instead of after
the time appointed for starting.

RECALL OF THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR.
A Vienna letter, of the 31st ult., in the Augs-
burg Gazette, says :—" Letters of recall of the Rus-
sian Ambassador of Vienna, Baron. de Meyendorff,
arrived yesterday. He is to arrive here on Sun-
day from , Gastien to present his letters, and to
return to St. Petersburg. Prince Gortschakoff
will then occupy the hotel of the Russian embassy.
The obsequies of Baron Wimpffern, who died lately,
took place to-day with military honours. Several
archdukes, all the generals at present at Vienna,
and the body guard of the Emperor were present.
By his death the number of Austrian marshals is
reduced to five, viz,—the Archduke John, Count
Radetzky, Count Nugent, Prince Windischgratz,
and Prince Paskiewitch. The deceased was cap-
tain of the Emperor's body guards. ' Count Wratis-
law, it is thought, will succeed him."
A letter from Berlin, dated the 2d, says—" The
President of the Council, M. de Manteuffel, has
returned from Putbus ; at the time of his departure
from that place the arrival of the Count de Benken-
dorff had not been made known. The count deli-
vered personally to the King at Putbus the auto-
graph letter of the Emperor Nicholas. As to
the note of the Count de Nesselrode, he deli-
vered it to the Russian consul at Stettin, by
whom it was brought to Berlin, and delivered
at the Russian embassy for Baron de Bud-
berg. The baron, who was at Tharand, near
Dresden, with his family, was summoned here
by telegraph, and to-day had a long audi-
ence with the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
to whom he delivered the note in ques-
tion. In addition to the known points of the
note, Russia therein formally demands that Prussia
shall make herself the mediator, in order to reopen
negotiations on the basis of the propositions as in-
terpreted and modified by Russia. The Austrian
ambassador, M d'Esterhazy, waited on the Presi=
dent of the Council yesterday evening, soon after
the return of the latter. He was not, however, re-
ceived, although it. is well known that several
other persons had interviews with the minister.
This circumstance has given rise to numerous com-
ments. It is supposed that the President of the
Council wished to be first acquainted with the
contents of the Russian note, in order that his con-
duct towards the Austrian ambassador might be
guided thereby."
The Press of Vienna states that on the evening
of the Ist the subscription to the Austrian loan had
reached the amount of 492 millions.