The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

THE LANDING OF THE ALLIED ARMY.
The Moniteur says :—" We give with all reserve
the following news which was received last evening
by private telegraph :
" VIENNA, 20th.—A letter from Constantinople, 16th,
states that, on the 14th, 25,000 French, 25,000 English,
and 8,000 Turks, landed at Eupatoria without meeting
with any resistance, and immediately marched on Sebas-
topol. The transports bad returned to Varna to fetch
the corps of reserve."
Although the Moniteur says it gives this news
with reserve, we may reasonably suppose that
it knows tke source to be respectable. The
qualification of reserve has probably been con-
sidered necessary, only because the account had
not come froth an official source. Another
private telegraphic despatch from Vienna, dated
yesterday afternoon, which has been sent round to
the Paris journals, says :—" 58,000 men landed on
the 14th on the coast of the Crimea. They took
possession of Eupatoria without meeting with any
resistance, and marched directly on Sebastopol.
The funds at Vienna rose, after the regular business
hours, one per cent." Eupatoria, called by the
Russians Kosloz, is about 25 English miles in direct
line to the northward of Sebastopol, at the bottom
of the small Bay at Kalamita. The port is narrow,
but safe.
A third private telegraphic despatch, dated
Vienna this day, repeats the news given above,
and states that the reserve at Varna, for which a
division of the fleet had returned, consists of
15,000 men. The Emperor of Austria has re-
turned, says this despatch, to Vienna.
The Emperor and Empress arrived at the
Tuileries yesterday evening at nine o'clock. Their
Majesties are in excellent health.
A letter from Compiegne, in the Journal de
St. Quentin, says :—" The Emperor and the
Empress are expected here towards the end of
the present week, and it is said that their Ma-
jesties will remain here much longer than was
at first supposed. If our information 'is correct
the Empress will reside here the whole of the
month of October, as the Emperor can arrive in a
few hours from this place at Boulogne to direct the
manoeuvres at the camp of the army of the North."
The Moniteur says :—" The sanitary state of
Paris has considerably improved within the last
few days, and it may be considered that the
epidemy, which, however, has never been serious,
is drawing to an end. The number of cholera cases
admitted into the civil hospitals was only 8 on the
14th, and 8 on the (sth, and the number has since
fallen, for the two following days, to 6 and 4."
There is rather more interest in the leading
columns of the Paris journals of this day than
there has been for some days previously. The
Siecle has an article on the last hatti-scheriff of the
Sultan against the corruption of public functionaries.
The following is the article :
"When, some time ago, we endeavoured to point out
the true character of the war now carrying on in the
East, and when we called it a war of liberty and civili-
sation, we did not fear to meet with opponents. To the
situation of Turkey was opposed the precocioUs and fac-
titious civilisation of the empire of Russia, and in mat-
ters of administration there was placed on a parallel
with the Muscovite hierarchy what it was thought
proper to designate as the Ottoman chaos. When the
provinces which form the object of litigation was
spoken of, it was said that between two despots it
was of little consequence which of the two masters
had them under his yoke. If we mentioned reforms
already effected or announced others which were
in contemplation, the strength of the old Turkish party
was brought forward against us, and it was said 'that
that party could only be put down by force, and that a
recourse to force would lead to the f .11 of the Sultans.
These were sinister predictions, and it was besides said
that the population already viewed with displeasure the
progress of the civilisation of the West among them ;
conspiracies were talked of, and fears were even ex-
pressed for the throne of Abd-ul-Medjid. If the Turkish
Government itself was mentioned, it was said that it
promised much, but would do nothing, and that it would
be paralysed in its best intentions by those around it.
When we carried the thesis on another ground, and
said that the war against the Czar was a war of liberty,
as it was carried on against the greatest despot in
the universe, we were replied to by the past state of
Turkey being brought forward, by provinces formerly
ravaged, and by the slavery to which certain populations
had been so long subjected. We cannot call to mind
all the insults which one journal, since become more
wise, launched forth against us ; that journal called
us Mussulimans, and accused us of defending the
Koran at the expense of the Gospel. Facts have
arrived, and every day occur, to justify the sanctity
and grandeur of the cause that we defended. That
cause is evidently that of nations, and of their pro-
gressive emancipation. Thus Russia and Austria
are by their conduct causing words of liberty to mur-
mur in the ear of Poland. The Roumanians of the
Principalities approach the hour of salvation. The Greek
religionists have no longer any protectorate to envy ;
they are under the protection of the whole world. On
the other hand, Russian despotism, by its excesses and
by its desperate resolutions, render itself more and more
odious to all those who make a profession of humanity.
The defenders whom it once had have become by de-
grees silent both in France and in Germany. Thus we
say, that whatever may be the issue of the war—and
we hope it may be favourable—that war will have
been most profitable for liberty and for civilisation.
If any doubt still remained, it is only necessary to
read the document by which the Ottoman Government
has just shown that it is equal to its mission from the
providential assistance furnished to it by the two great
nations of the west, With a magnanimity almost un-
exampled in the annals of Governments, the Sultan
here publicly piaces his hands on the wounds of his
empire. He does not fear to avow what are the rea-
sons which have retarded the entrance of Turkey
among civilised nations. He goes straight to the point,
giving in some measure the rudest lessons to some Eu-
ropean Governments which have hesitated on the road
of resistance. Wounds pointed out so clearly
:and con-
scientiously are wounds half cured." (The Steele here
gives the text of the Hatti-Scherif of the Sultan, and con-
cludes as follows) :—" Thus vanish all the prejudices
which had been conceived and intentionally propagated
greaterfor the triumph of Muscovite ambition ; thus are
overthrown the violent attacks of those who declared
the regeneration of the Turkish empire to be impossible.
The united fleets and armies of Great Britain and France
may now strike the great blow at Sebastopol ; they are
certain of only acting for the cause of civilisation and
progress ; they are assured that they only fight for a
cause worthy of the mission of the two great nations of
the West. The Sultan has given undoubted pledges to
the principles which form the basis of the public law of
Europe.'"

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