The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-18 00:00:00

THE DANUBE.

Despatches from' Orsova state that Mehemet
Pacba defeated the Russian brigade at Czernawoda,
in the Dobrudscha, on the Bth, after five hours'
hard fighting, and took possession of the place.
Nine thousand men of the fourth division of the
French army of the East arrived at Varna on the
2d inst., and disembarked.
The death of Captain Butler, one of the English
defenders of Silistria, is confirmed by letters from
the Danube. His remains were buried in a Chris-
tian cemetery not far from the fortress.

STATE OF BUCHAREST.
According to letters from Bucharest of the 10th,
the state of public feeling in that city was one of
indescribable alarm and confusion. No one there
doubted that Wallachia was about to be purged of
the Muscovites, but it was feared that the town
might be laid in ashes in the meanwhile. Russian
couriers were riding to and fro ; battalions were
driven through on forced marches, and all kinds of
rumours were in circulation. The wounded Rus-
sians, of whom 150 waggon loads had been con-
veyed to Bucharest, had increased the general
anxiety by their dismal accounts of the state of
things at Giurgevo.
The Lloyd, under date of Bucharest, 6th, says :
—" Great alarm prevails in this place. General
Budberg this morning ordered all the keepers of the
archives of the Wallachian ministries to make up
Their documents in packages, ready for immediate
removal. A picket of Cossac!is is placed before
each building containing the archives, and every
employe on leaving the office is closely searched, in
order that uo document may be removed. This
singular measure can only be accounted for by the
fear entertained by thici Russians of seeing certain
documents published. In the archives of the Mi-
nister of Foreign Affairs is a document of Peterhof,
of Ist May, in which the most insulting expres-
sions are made use of towards such Boyards as are
hostile to Russia, and in which the Sultan is repre-
sented as being absolutely crushed to the earth by
the Czar. In another document, of Ist June, the
Wallachians are threatened with the severest
punishments if they manifest any friendly feelings
towards Austria." _ _

The Paris papers of yesterday publish private
despatches from Vienna, according to which the
Turks under Omer Pacha have entered Bucharest.
The Moniteur does not mention such an occur-
rence.

AUSTRIA OUTWITTED.
Letters from Vienna state that it was known
there that the forward movement of the Ottoman
army and that of the allies was resolved on and
commenced as soon as it became evident that the
Austrian Government did not mean honestly to
fulfil its treaty with the Porte and enter Wallachia
to turn out the Russians. It is stated that the
Minister of the Sultan at Vienna has requested
that the Austrian Government will not, under the
circumstances, send its troops into any other pro-
vince of the Sultan's dominions, under the sup-
posed authority of the convention, or of the notes
which have been since exchanged.
Col. Manteu ffel proceeded on Monday night on
a special mission from Berlin to Vienna.
The semi-official Zeit. of the 13th publishes an
article for the purpose of showing that the engage-
ments undertaken
Prussia are on no account to be understood as bind-
ing hr
they Austria in her treaty with
unconditional and immediate
evacuation of the Turkish Principalities by Russia.
"If Russia declare she will continue merely to oc-
cupy Moldavia, with perhaps a portion of e to demand
Wal-
lachia, for a season, until the affair be peaceably
arranged," the casus belli will not have arisen.

CONSTANTINOPLE.

OBJECT OF THE DUKE.OF CAMBRIDGE'S

RETURN.
A letter from the Turkish capital, of July 5, says :
—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ar-
rived here on Sunday, 2d inst., on board the Retri-
bution, and returned to head-quarters at Varna on
the following day. The object of the Prince's short
visit to Constantinople was, it is understood, to con-
fer with. M. de Bruck, and ascertain the final decision
and attitude of the Austrian Government. This deli-
cate mission was undertaken by his Royal High-
ness at the express desire of Marshal St. Arnaud
and Lord
Raglan, who declared, it appears, that
they can
no longer rest under arms, and are fully
entitled to demand whether Austria may be con-
sidered a friend or foe in the coming struggle. The
Internuncio in reply to the queries of the Prince,
protested, it is said, in the honourable intentions
of his Government, and that there was not, to the
best
of his judgment, the smallest chance of a
deviation from that line of policy already traced
out, but that no advices had yet reached him re-
specting the final result, and the impression pro-
duced at St. Petersburg by the last propositions of
the Austrian Government. Nothing, therefore,
was elicited to throw any light on this question
during the Prince's interview, and his Royal
Highness had to return to the camp as wise as
he came, after having communicated the result
to Lord Redcliffe. What the effects of this an-
swer may be as regards the Commanders of the
allied forces, it is, of course, impossible to deter-
mine. However, the latest intelligence from the
Danube announces the expected arrival of Omer
Pacha; at Varna, that the Turkish army is advan-
cing in four columns, 36 battalions each, to effect
a junction with the Anglo-French force, and that
the Do brudscha as well as all the enemy's positions
on the right bank have been completely abandoned,
and the whole country laid waste—a scene of ruin
and desolation. Such atrocious acts of these bar-
barous hordes merit prompt vengeance—and are,
it must be admitted, an awful requital for the
.humanity and generosity displayed by the admirals
in sparing the town of Odessa. The Turkish fleet
entered the Bosphorus on Saturday last, Ist inst.,
with the exception of a small steam division under
the command of Ahmet Pacha, which has remained
with the allied squadrons. The cause of this inci-
dent is not generally known, but it is supposed
that Ad.mirals Dundas and . Hamelin consider the
force under their command quite sufficient for every
purpose in the Euxine, and that the Turkish squad-
ron, by guarding the pass of the Bosphorus, would

contribute best to the success of their present plans.
It is generally supposed that a contingent of the
British troops will be despatched without delay to
the Crimea, and that the destruction of the Russian
fleet and Sebastopol, if it can be effected this year,
is the great and absorbing object in contemplation.
The Turkish Government has sent in within the
last few days a note to the Hellenic Government,
offering to reopen its ports to Greek commercial
enterprise, on condition, however, that within a
delay of two months, a public reparation be made
and an indemnity allowed for- the losses and in-
juries resulting from the invasion of the Ottoman
territory by the subjects of King 0 tho. The Turkish
government is preparing a plan for the entire re-
organisation of the Danubian provinces. Although
nothing as yet has assumed a definite shape, there
was a question some days ago of despatching a high
functionary on a special mission, for the purpose
of ascertaining all that is required for the new
order of things, and the entire reconstruction of the
administrative system. It cannot be too urgently
impressed on the Porto the absolute necessity of
discarding irrevocably the whole personnel
hitherto in employ, which has been invariably more
or less hostile to the interest of the Sultan, and the
indefatigable instrument of Russian intrigues.
There is no longer any question of the Hospodars
Stirbey and Ghika, but whether the Porte will at
length comprehend its true interest, by the rigour-
ous exclusion of other not less dangerous notabili-
ties. Austria is very anxious for the reinstatement
of Stirbey and Ghika,. On the Ist inst. some more
vessels, with Russian prisoners, arrived at Constan-
tinople. Tli se men having been questioned on
many points relating to the present condition of the
Russian army, declared, without hesitation, that
the losses and misfcrtunes sustained during the
seige of Silistria had produced such an affect, such
utter demoralisation in their ranks, that those di-
visions could no longer take the field without being
remodelled, and drafted into other regiments. The
poor fellows also frankly admitted that they had
been labouring under a gross delusion, and that
they were now fully convinced that the walls and
cupolas of the Holy City were not, as represented
to them, situated exactly behind the fortifications
of Silistria.