The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-04 00:00:00

" There is great despondency on 'Change to-

day.

" According to the last advices from Constanti-
nople nearly the whole of the combined fleet had
returned to Beycos Bay."
From Berlin yesterday, we also learn by tele-
graph that the feeling of the Government there is
strongly against the conduct of Russia. Count
Orloff's proposals have been totally rejected ; and
it has been intimated that, if the Czar persists in
refusing peace on the terms agreed to by the
Vienna Conference, Prussia will be compelled to
take an active part in conjunction with the Western
Powers. The King has, it is said, despatched an
autograph letter to the Emperor Nicholas, stating
this determination.

Another telegraphic despatch from Berlin, dated
yesterday evening, says :—Count Orloff proposes
that the German Powers should draw up a joint
declaration of neutrality under all circumstances.
If one member of the Bund be attacked, Russia
makes common cause in her defence with all the
rest.

Should any territorial changes arise through war,
Russia undertakes to conclude no peace without
duly considering the interest of the German Powers.

Count Orloff has been unsuccessful at Vienna,
and his mission is hopeless at Berlin.
The two army corps stationed in Bohemia and
Galicia are under orders for Hungary and Croatia,
if the Eastern question becomes more menacing.
General Schlick, who a short time since reached
Vienna, will command these corps.
Baron de Meyendorff, the Russian Ambassador
at Vienna, gave a grand ball on the 29th ult., at
which the Archduke William, the Ministers, the
high nobility, and several ambassadors, among
whom were remarked those of France and England,
and Count Orloff were present.

RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS OF THE WAR IN THE
PRINCIPALITIES AND IN ASIA.
The Journal de St. Petersbourg, of the 26th ult.,
says :

" The last reports from Bucharest confirm the news
that the loss of the Turks in the battle of the 6th was
immense. Up to the 15th, the Aide-de-Camp General
Prince Gortschakoff had not receive] any intelligence
of new operations having been attempted by the enemy
from Kalafat. On the 13th a detachment of the enemy
2,000 strong passed from Sihstria, on the left bank of
the Danube, and proceeded in three columns to Kala-
rasch. (Kalarasch, otherwise called Likoreschti, is
situated on a branch of the Danube named Bortscha,
which separates from the river a little below Silistria,
and goes to rejoin it below Hirsova.) But Major-
General Bogouschevski came up immediately with a
battalion of the regiment of light infantry of Lublin to
reinforce our advanced line of Cossacks. His appear-
ance constrained the Turks to retreat ; they rushed to
their boats, and recrossed the Danube to the right bank
in all haste. Up to the 15th January there was no new
act of war all along the river."
The same journal contains the following from
the Turkish frontier of the Trans-Caucasian pro-
vinces :

" Aide-de-Camp General Woronzoff reports, under
date the 9th, that, on the frontier of Gouriel, a Turkish
party attacked in the night of the Ist the port of Kakouti,
but was repulsed with great loss. In the night of the
2d, a little before daylight, another Turkish force, 1,000
strong, attacked a position protected by the militia of
the Gouriel and Imiretia, near the bridge of Tchekhati,
a village situated on the right bank of little river which
falls into the Black Sea at the frontier not far from Ba-
toum. Our intrepid militia bravely repulsed the Turks,
put them to flight, and vigorously pursued them. The
enemy lost in this affair more than 80 men killec. or
wounded ; on our side we had only a small number of
wounded. Everything was perfectly tranquil on other
parts of the frontier."
The Journal de St. Petersbourg also quotes the
following from the Caucasus Gazette :---
"In the attack on the Turkish batteries of Basch-
Kadyk-Lar, the young noble non-commissioned officers
particulary distinguished themselves. When the smoke
of the enemy's cannon had dispersed, and allowed the
attacking column to be perceived, these young men,
scarcely emerged from adolescencv, holding in the left I
hand their muskets, and in the right their papakha
(caps), which they waved above their heads, rapidly and
in good order escalded the height on which the enemy's
batteries were posted. When the enemy's battalions
were driven from the heights of Basch-Kadyk-Lar, and
the batteries were taken, one of the Turkish battalions,
observing a certain regularity in the retreat, seized a
piece of artillery and attempted to carry it off. Our sol-
diers rushed with impetuosity on the battalion to pos-
sess themselves of the piece, and on that occasion a merry
fellow excited general laughter by crying, Eh, Turk,
take this bayonet, if you will, but leave us the cannon !'
and, as if to prove the justice of his words, the gun re-
mained in our power, and the Turkish battalion was
almost entirely put to death with the bayonet. After
the combat of Atskhour, the surgeon went to a wounded
soldier to dress his wounds, but the man seeing a Turk
by the side of him who was also wounded, said, 'Dress
his wound first—it is more dangerous than mine.' On
the 14th November, during a sharp cannonade, the 3d
troop of carbineers, of the regiment of Erivan, sang a
gay military song., without paying any attention to the
whizzing of the balls. A ball of the enemy killed two
of the singers at the same moment, but the song did not
chase for a single instant, and continued to the end of
the combat."

The Emperor Nicholas had expressed himself in
terms of disapprobation with respect to the Treaty.
of Neutrality concluded between Sweden and Den-
mark. In all military circles at St. Petersburg
an immediate mobilisation of the whole army was
expected.
The Czar of Cracow states that the Gardes-du-
Corps will leave St. Petersburg.

The Servian Courier announces that the politi-
cal refugees of Montenegro have returned to their
country with the Russian Colonel Kowalewski.
The same journal affirms, but in a doubtful
manner, that some Russian soldiers have entered
Servia.

It is remarked that the Turks are concentrating
themselves towards the frontier of Montenegro.
A report is current that Prince Milosch will
shortly make au expedition from Lesser Walla-
chia into Servia, and will be seconded by Russian

troops.
The Wanderer of Vienna has the following from
Bucharest, 20th ult. : •

" Some very sanguinary engagements took place
yesterday near Kalaradsche, and near Oltenitza,
but no details are yet known."

The Press of Vienna has a letter from the same
place of the 21st, which makes no mention of the
above battles, but states that three regiments of
cavalry and our regiments of Cossacks, which were
in winter quarters in Bessarabia, received orders
on the 18th to march to the Principalities. They
will be replaced in Bessarabia by other troops.