The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-27 00:00:00

ST. PETERSBURGII.

A letter from St. Petersburgh of the 17th, in the
Post-Ampt Gazette, says :—" The bad news from
the theatre of war—several generals wounded,
Prince Paskiewitsch having received a contusion
which has obliged him to give up the command,
and to retire to Jassy=has produced a profound-
impression on the Emperor and his snite. His,
Majesty, when he received it, was in the Square
in which military exercises take place, inspect-
ing some fortified works which had just been
terminated ; but he immediately returned
to the palace, and convoked the Minister of
War and such princes of the Imperial fatal
as are of full age. After a long conference with
him these personages withdrew, and Count Nes"
selrode was summoned. The Emperor wrote an
autograph letter to Prince Paskiewitsch to express
his regret at what had' happened, :Ind to inquire
after his health: It is still very doubtful that 64
chief command will be left to Prince Gortschakoff:-.
The blockade of the coasts of the Baltic and the
Black Sea may be said to have nearly destroyed
the ordinary navigation ; and the importance of
the damage done may be judged from the fact that,
in 1852, the number of vessels with cargoes which
entered the Baltic ports was 3,800, and of those
which left nearly the same ; whilst in the Back
Sea there entered 2,600 vessels. The united
tonnage in both seas was about •1,500,000."
The Press of Vienna contains a letter from Bel-
grade of the 6th, which says :—" The pacha is
having the fortifications of this place repaired.
Gen. Knicanin has been struck with apoplexy,
from, which he is not expected to recover. Prince
Paskiewitsch is to proceed from Jassy to Kiev'',
where, it is now reported, the Emperor Nicholas
intends coming. The causes of the prince's depar-
ture are the want of success of the Russian arms,
the differences which have arisen between the Rus-
sian generals, their want of confidence in the prince,
and the disobedience of Geu. Schilders."

RUSSIAN PROCLAMATION TO THE
BULGARIANS.

The following is a translation of a proclamation
lately issued by the Russian commander-in-chief
to the Bulgarians ; it has been widely circulated
by the Russian emissaries all over that country,
without, however, producing any important effect
on those rude children of nature, whose natural
instinct and common sense render them difficult of
accession to Russian wiles and intrigues.
The aforesaid remarkable document, which was
originally published in the Bulgarian tongue, runs
as follows :

"To ourco-religionists living in the Turkish provinces.
The' command of our august master, the Emperor of all
Russians, has sent us hither ; our mighty Czar has sent
us to you—us, his glory-covered, ever-victorious host,
the most faithful of true believers in the glorious redemp-
tion of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We
have come to you, His holy cross in our sacred hands,
moved by the divine spark of religious enthusiasm, and
we will deliver you from the endless miseries of that
abject slavery which weighs you down to the ground at
present; yes, we will break your ignominious fetters, and
we will become your deliverers—unlike to those accursed
chiLlren of Satan who come forth from heathenish lands
for- the purpose of rivetting roiew your chains, and
of heaping again on you all the woes of pitiless
oppression and unatitigated. tyranny: Our supreme
and all-powerful Sovereign and Czar only wishes,
like the true shepherd of the herd, to protect the ortho-
dox Christian faith against the inroads of those accursed
children of Belial, who have trodden to the grouud,the
true belief ; that is his only desire and aim ; and no
worthless, vain, and idle worldly designs pollute the
noble aspirisgs of his magnanimous soul. The precious
Russian ichor has nut flowed hitherto in order to minis-
ter to earthly or selfish objects. No ; the Russian
blood has been spilt for your sakes, and, by the gracious
dispensation of the Lord, it has also been sacrificed for
the orthodox belief ; and all this has been gladly done,
for we have not come hither for idle gossip only about
your condign rights. No ' • by manly deeds we will
restore them to you ; indeed, to you who are our true
brethren in faith. Therefore, be it known to you all, that
mighty Russia has come to raise the true Church front
the vile dust wherein it has been laid low, that it may
again become, a worthy temple of our holy creed; and
then good care will be taken, lest anybody, whosoever be
he, dare prostrate it again. Brethren, in the name of
Jesus Christ, our b'essed Lord and Saviour, who bas
redeemed the world from the grasp of Satan the fiend,
join us now that we may sing united a holy song of re-
joicings, to the honour of our holy Mother Church.
Holy are our doings, Gcd is with us, the Almighty is
our hope and our salvation. Amen.

"The Field• Marshal General, Prince of Warsaw,
" Count PASKIEWICZ EEIWANSKY."

THE GERMAN STATES.

A despatch dated Berlin last night, announces
that the smaller German States have sent in thel r
complete adhesion to the Austro-Prussian treaty.

FR INCE.

We are informed, says the Pays, that the organi-
sation of the camp of the north is advancing ra-
pidly, and that already a part of the troops who
are to compose it have received orders to proceed
to the different positions which they are to occupy
between Saint Omer and Boulogne. General
Renault, who commands one of the divisions of
the camp, has left Paris. In consequence of these
different movements, and until the formation of
the Imperial Givrd, which is being pressed forward
as much as possible, the army of Paris will be pro-
visionally composed of two divisions of infantry of
three brigades each, and of one division of cavalry
also of three brigades. In addition to this force,
which may be estimated at 35,000 men, there are
also the special troops of the garrison of Paris,
namely, two battalions of Gendarmerie d'Elite, one
of the Municipal Guard of Paris, one of Pompiers,
and four squadrons of Gendarmerie of the Seine,
and of the mounted Municipal Guard of Paris, all
of whom had been hitherto brigaded under the
command of the General Commanding the Ist sub-
division of the Ist military division. It is probable
that when the formation of the Imperial Guard
shall have been in part effected, two of the brigades
of infantry of the two divisions will proceed to the
Camp of the North.
Accounts have been received from St. Louis, in
Senegal, to the 4th ult. After the capture of Podor,
and the construction of a fort, in which a strong
garrison was placed, it was believed the natives
would cease to harass the French ; but M. Lebrun,
an officer of the navy belonging to the Pintade,
having gone out shooting in the vicinity of the
fort, was made prisoner by them, and carried some
leagues into the interior, to a village called
N'dialma. On learning this, the governor-general
ordered an expedition against the place. N'dialma
is considered by the natives an impregnable
bulwark of the Ditnar ; still, with the aid of
the inhabitants of Podor and the neighbourhood,
who had retired to it, they thretv up earthworkei
as ae_additional protection to the place. The
Fronch fotces, weal* by a lopg march under *