The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-02 00:00:00

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

The Fremden, Watt has received news of the
19th from Rustchuk, which tends to confirm what
was yesterday said relative to the future move-
ments of the Turkish army under Omer Pasha.
On the 18th the Turkish forces—infantry, ca-
valry, and artillery—began to cross the pontoon
bridge fromilustchuk to Giurgevo, and their march
was still continued on the 19th. The Austrian
Military Commissary, Colonel Kalik, was with
Omer Pasha on the 18th, when the troops filed
off before-him, but he left in the afternoon for
Varna with important despatches, probably con-
taining intelligence of the occupation of the Prin-
cipalities, which, as you will recollect, was .to have
taken place on the 18th or 19th. The destina-
tion of the Turkish army is said to be the Lower
Pruth (Reni and Ismail). Mustapha Giritli
Pasha goes to Babadagh in the Dobrudscha, but
by way of Kostendje, instead of along the right
bank of the Danube. It is supposed that by the
20th of September the whole of the Turkish army
will be concentrated on the line of the Danube ex-
tending from Matschin to the Black Sea.
The Ost Deutsche Post has received a letter of the
20th, from Bucharest, which contains information
of so strange a nature that it deserves quotation.
After premising that his intelligence is worthy of
confidence, the correspondent writes :

" Omer Pasha is moving with the Bros of the Balkan
army across the Argish to the Jalomnitza, and some-
what later he will advance to the Lowar Sereth and the
Pruth. All the other disposable Turkish troops are to
assemble in the Dobrudscha, where they will be placed
under the command of General Bosquet. At the same
time it has transpired that a diversion by sea and land
will be made by the allies against the Bessarabian for-
tress of Akerman. An attack will very soon be made
on the Russian positions in the south of Bessarabia, from
the Pruth, from the Dobruclscha, and from the sea, and
it appears very likely that the undertaking will succeed.
The campaign of 1854 will, in all probability, end in
Bessarabia, and the winter quarters of the allies be
established there. This is the last version of the plan of
operations of the allies, and of the Turkish army."
The Lloyd of Vienna has the following from
Jassy, dated the 20th ult. :—" A considerable
change has taken place in the position of the Rus-
sian army. The object appears now to be princi-
pally that of fortifying the line of the Sereth. The
points now strongly occupied and fortified are
Bodo, Congesta, Scheix, Rotunda, Baken, Beykau,
Kukowa, Adschews, Tekush, Lungose, and Galatz.
The head-quarters are at Roman. It is said that
the orders are not to abandon the line of the
Sereth, except at the last extremity."

ADDRESS OF BARON VON HESS TO THE
WALLA° [HANS.
,The following proclamation has been issued by
the Austrian Generalissimo, Baron Von Hess, to
the inhabitants of Wallachia and Moldvia
" Inhabitants of Wallachia and Moldavia—ln confor-
mity with the convention concluded between my Impe-
rial master the Emperor of Austria and the Sublime
Porte, the Imperial Austrian troops now enter the
Principalities. They are to deliver you from the afflictions
of the war, and to restore to you the blessings of peace.
Receive then the sureties for your future tranquillity
and security with kindness and confidence. They will
deserve the same by dignified conduct, and by an invari-
able observance of good order and discipline. The pri-
vileges secured to you by the Sublime Porte remain in
full force ; still I shall expect from your civil authorities
that without complaint every assistance be afforded requi.
site for the quartering and provisioning of the troops,
for the supply of whose wants due compensation will in
every case be made ; and from the people I shall require
tranquillity and good order, for every-species of disturb-
ance, or even the threat of such on the part of riotous
individuals or parties, will be punished with the utmost
severity of the law. At the same time the civil autho-
rities collectively are required to lay all matters of ad-
ministration before General Count Coronini, appointed
by his Majesty commander of all the troops in both
principalities, or before the military authorities em-
powered by him, for that purpose."

THE BLACK SEA..
VARNA, AUGUST 19.
•
Something is going to be done, and that speedily.
The opinion is Sebastopol. Kaffe. is spoken off ;
some even say Anapa is to be attacked ; and others
that no place at all is to suffer, but that the troops
are merely going to occupy winter quarters at
Scutari. All believe that Sebastopol will be at-
tacked by our combined forces, and that the em-
barkation will take place in a few days. This
morning a sort of rehearsal took place in the em-
barkation and disembarkation of guns on the south
side of the bay ; also as to the number of men
paddle-box boats would contain. Lord Raglan,
Admiral Lyons, General Brown, kc., were pre-
sent, and the operations were very successful.
The seamen and marines of the ships here assisted,
and, at Admiral Lyons's desire, all the execu-
tive officers of the ships who could attend
did so. The Leander's crew are to be broken
111)) to all up vacancies iu the fleets-i—also that of

the Jena, by the French. The Diamond, it is
said, will have her • guns taken out and wil
transport troops. The Agamemnon, Sanspareil,
and Highflyer (with other ships) are to belong to
the covering division, and, of course, will take
no troops, but will cover their landing. Sixteen
liners will be kept clear to take care of the
Russian fleet should it make its appearance. These
are the on dits of naval and military circles, and I
think there is a great deal of truth in them. This
fall of Sebastopol will be a fine and a splendid
thing. This bay is crowded with merchantmen
and transports The fire in the town has caused
much ruin of streets and buildings. A Greek was
captured yesterday morning trying to raise another.
The day before yesterday a little Austrian mer-
chant brig arrived here. Such a fact might not
have been perceived, had she not commenced an
irregular salute to our own flag, and kept it up
till she had attracted attention. Then it was ascer-
tained that this proceeding was caused by the day
being the fete day of the Emperor Francis Joseph.
Then the French and English ships dressed "in
rainbow," with the Austrian flag at the main, and
English, French, and Turks expended their powder
together.
European intercourse has greatly changed affairs
at Constantinople. An Englishman or a French-
man may now, by merely taking off his shoes, sans
firmau, "sans everything," enter the mosque of
Santa Sophia itself without let or hindrance, and
also may stroll (again taking off the shoes,
though retaining the hat) into that of Sultan
Achmet during " Divine service," listen to the
monotonous chaunt of the Imaums, and observe
the prostrations of the worshippers. Continuing
his walk, he may wander about the Seraglio
Gardens without suspicion. The officers of the
guard, it is true, may stop him, but it will be
merely to offer pipes and coffee, and to chat about
the war ; and then, disregarding a doubtful shake
of the head from an old Mussulman, he may walk
into the courts of the Serai itself, and criticise the
odd heterogeneous mass of splendour, a little taste,
and much barbarity. The splendour is in the pro-
, fuse gilding, now in a state of rapid decay. Pera,
too, has its attractions—in the evening bands
of music may there be heard, and good beer may
be obtained. The Bosphorus is in all its beauty,
shining like silver in the bright sun, except where
the highly-coloured houses contrast in reflection
with the tall black cypresses, and where its sur-
face is varied by the passage of numerous mer-
chant craft and huge transport steamers (such
as the Orinoco and Himalaya), or the swift little
Turkish steamers with their odd mixture on board
of pretty Greek faces, Turkish yasmacks and their
fezzed brethren, a few English and French officers
on leave being intermingled, and a pretty fair
sprinkling of travelling Englishmen, dressed in a
mixture of straw hat and turban, and a sort of style
oscillating between the West and the East wonder-
ful to behold. The Turks are much improved in
civility ; the women wear their yasmacks generally
smaller and thinner, and one may prophesy the
time not far distant when that article may become
merely a fashionable custom in dress, an air-woven
web, and used but to set off to advantage that
which it is now supposed to conceal.
Intelligence has arrived from Varna, via Rut-
schuck, that the allied fleet was expected to leave
Varna on the 27th. Its destination is reported to
be, not Sebastopol, but the mouths of the Danube.
On the 24th instant a great number of troops
were embarked. The cholera was decreasing in
violence.