The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-28 00:00:00

CONFISCATION OF RUSSIAN ORDERS IN

WALLACHIA.

A letter from Vienna, says:—
" The Wallachian Council of Administration of Bucha-
rest has ordered the confiscation of all the Russian
crosses and decorations conferred on Wallachians during
the Russian occupation. These crosses will "bP sold by
auction, for the value of the gold and silver they contain,
and are to be melted down. The reason of this measure
is, that these decorations confer no honour on any one.
as all the Montenegrin brigands wear them. A commit-
tee has been formed to ascertain the amount of the da-
maize caused by the Russian occupation, in order that
an indemnity may be demanded from Russia, when she
shall be called on to pay for the expenses of the war.
All the decrees issued arid all the nominations made by
the Russians have been annulled."

ENTRY OF THE AUSTRIAN TROOPS INTO

WA LLACHIA.

The Official Gazette of Vienna, of the 22d; says :
—" The Austrian troops entered Wallachia yester-
day. The two brigades of the Woaicliio division
proceeded from Hermanstadt, and General Burlo
also from Cronstadt. Count Coronini, who has
been named general-in-chief of th'e troops of occu-
pation, will proceed with the two brigades of
Sehwarzl and Burlo to Bucharest, which place he
thinks he shall enter on the sth September. These
three brigades will remain under the command of
General Baron Alleman in Wallachia; whilst
aeneral Count Coronini, as soon as he has posi-
tively heard that the Russian troops have retreated
from Moldavia, will occupy that principality with
three other brigades of his corps de armee, and will
reside alternately in the two capitals."

THE RUMOURED DEFEA.T OF THE TURKS

IN ASIA.

The Constitutionnel contains the following re-
lative to the rumoured defeat of the Turks in
Asia:—

" Intelligence, which has reached Vienna from
Warsaw, states that the Turkish army in Asia has
been defeated at Kars. A few days before, news had
been sent from St. Petersburg to Austria' announcing:
.a pretended defeat of the Turks at Bayazid, on the
frontier of Armenia. We may be permitted to en-
tertain doubts of these rumours published by the
Russian telegraph ; and it is to be remarked that they
are not in accord amongst themselves, since one speaks
of a battle at Bayazid, and the other f one at Kar?. It
is, however, certain that the two armies were in pre-
sence recently at Subatan, near Kars, and were observing
each other. The Turkish army was more numerous,
hut it contained within itself an element of weakness,
which the nomination of the Hungarian General Klapka
to the chief command was destined to remove. The staff
of the army was divided, and the Mushir Zarif-Pacha had
not as yet given any proof of activity and decision.
Has General Andronikoff taken advantage of the situa-
tion to risk a battle ? Has he determined in that way
to anticipate the arrival of a new and able adversary ?
That is what we shall soon learn. But, what we know
already is, that the Russian Government is doing all it
can to reinforce its army in Asia. Marshal Paskiewitch
has, it is said; proposed, and got adopted at St. Peters-
burg, a plan which consists of remaining altogether on
the defensive in Europe, whilst the war should be pushed
on vigorously in Asia. That plan agrees with the an-
tecedent life of the Marshal, who owes the greatest part
of his military reputation to the successes which he
had obtained in Persia, and in the Asiatic provinces
of Turkey. General Andronikoff is a Mall well fitted
to execute the part of the plan which is confided to him.
He had not the political scruples Of his il!
W
ustrious pre-
decessor, General
oronzoff, and he is far from being
wanting in military talents. He is a Greek, whose name
was A ndronicos, and who Russianised the termination of
it. His countrymen are proud of his promotion. They

also cry up the hardihood shown by rinotly.,r Grp, k, in
exectuin_r with the Russian frigate, the Wlacimir, the
coup de main, unattended, however, with any re:it'll; of
importance, which displayed, in spite of the vessels
cruising about, the Russian flag at the entrance of the
Bosphorus, and captured three Turkish barges laden
with coals. This Greek ie named Photiades. It appears
that the Russian Government intends to heap honours
on him, partly to recompense him for his boldness, and
partly to win over the sympathies of his countrymen.