The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-29 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN N IN S. 12,000 men. Turkey will, however, have to supply
theta with arnis and equipment."
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- I In add i tioll to the above information from Con-
stantinople, a letter of two days' later date IntS
reached Paris, via Malta, brought by the English
steamer the Admiral, and from thence to Mar-
a -illes by the usual packet. On the 17th the
earadoc, which had taken Lord Raglan to
Varna, returned to Constantinople. That vessel
announced that on the 16th the allied fleets
were still at Baldjick, and the Turco-Egyptian
fleet at Cavarna ; she also brought the intelli-
gence of another assault on Silistria, so that on
the 17th the news of the raising of the siege
was still unknown at Constantinople. The last
division of the English troops took their depar-
ture for Varna on the 17th. The Russian prisoners
who had been brought by the Sidon and the Cyclops
were transferred to the Megere, to be conveyed to
Malta. They amount to about 220, some of whom
are officers, and others Greek ,sailors. All the
Greek vessels which arrive from the Black Sea and
the Danube are seized, and their crews confined in
the arsenal. The blockade of the Sulina continues,
but all the vessels hitherto taken at that point by
the English and French have been let go, after
having been subjected to a strict search at aldjick
or Varna. It was rumoure t at Constantinople
that Rifaat Pacha, who had succeeded IVlaissa Paella
at Silistria, was killed in a sortie.

THE WAR.

ASIA.

Knts, May 30.—Schamyl is reported to - have
advanced to Kachetie. Three British officers are
with him.

The_ Ottoman army here is being organised. Its
moral state is satisfactory, and supplies are begia-
fling to become abundant.
_

Ii is known, besides, that the armv of the enemy
is not numerous, and is not in a condition to.assume
the offensive.

Trebizoride letters of the 9th make no mention
of a rep )rted defeat of the Turks beyond Redout
Kaleh.

THE ANGLO•FRENCH .EXPEDITION TO

THE EAST.

VARNA, June 19.—The Duke of Cambridge has
arrived between Varna and Shumla, on the Balkan.
The English forces are estimated at 20,000, the
French at 40,000.
A letter from Constantinople, of the 15th, in the
Moniteur, says :—" Some foreign journals have
spread the report of the concentration of the supe-
rior command of the Ottoman troops in the hands
of the General-in-Chief of the French troops, and
of dissensions having taken place on the subject
'between Omer Pacha and Marshal de St. Arnaud.
These reports are totally unfounded. Omer Pacha
preserves the fullness of his command ; and, in
their first interviewat Varna, the three commanders
of the allied armies came entirely and without diffi-
culty to an understanding on all the combinations
which they had to concert."

LETTER FROM THE BRITISH CAMP,
NEAR VARNA.
We extract the following from the letters of the
special correspondent of the Times :
"Camp at Aladyn, near Varna, June 12 —The light -
division received orders to march at five o'clock on last-
Saturday morning. It rained all the previous night,
and early in the morning Captain Pearson, A.D.C. to
Sir George Brown, rode out to countermand the march,
for some reasons which appeared good to the authorities
at Varna, and which may be supposed to have altered
the intentions of Marshal St. Arnaud and the English
General. There is now no sign of a move. The divi-
sion parades every morning early, and marches out with
baggage, mules, artillery, &c., for a couple of miles and
returns. .
" The 10th company of Sappers and Miners (Captain
Gordon, Captain Bent, Lieutenants Creyke and Pratt,
R.E.) are busy every morning repairing the roads and
making a bridge across the lake.
"The camp healthy, and the men in excellent health.
"June 13.—The first division arrived at Varna yes-
terday, and the Duke of Cambridge, his Staff, and the
Brigade of Guards landed on the following day. Lord
Raglan has not been able to come up here in conse-
quence of an indisposition, which confines him to his
quarters at Scutari. The vessels in which the division
commanded by his Royal Highness arrived were the
Melbourne, the Jason, the Hydaspes (broken down),
the Andes, the City of London, the Emperor, and the
Golden Fleece steamers ; and the Sir George Pollock, -
the Pyrenees, the Coigrain, the Morayshire, the Arnskt*
dale, the Negotiator, and the Monarchy sailing. trans-
ports. The division consisting of the Brigade of Guards!'
and the Highland Brigade (42d, 79th, and 93d Regi--
ments) was conveyed with the greatest eamfort and
celerity from Scutari, and err{ this letter leaves the men
now on board will be landed in all probability, with bag-
rage stores, horses, &c., complete, as the boats of the
English, French, and Turkish men of war lying in the
bay are all working in friendly rivalry, and rowing the
troops on shore as fast as they can. The Himalaya,
with the sth Dragoon Guards on board, arrived in the
bay on Monday evening, havin left Ck on the 28th
May. She carried 320 horses and 323 men of the regi'
rnent, and she reached Malta in 7 days and 22 hours
(all well). It need scarcely be stated that she has made
the quickest passage ever known. The feat is no easy
one, as few vessels, if any, have ever gone over the
same course, but it will be difficult hereafter to match
her astonishing performance. From point to point she
was only 11 days and 19 hours under steam between
Cork and Varna.
" The commanding officer, Major Le Mai chant, and
the officers of the regiment, presented Capt. Kellock,
the able and indefatigable commander, with a highly
flattering and very complimentary address, in which
they expressed their deep sense of the attention paid to
their comforts, and of the kindness and consideration
with which they were treated on board his noble ship ;
and Mr. Lane, the purser, received a letter to the same
effect, and, was complimented on the excellent forage
provided for the horses. The men disembarked this
morning in fine order and spirits. Every man rode his
own horse (a fact, perhaps, without a parallel after such
a voyage) ; and both the Frenck and the natives on
shore testified in the liveliest way their admiration at
the gallant martial look of the regiment as it formed 00
the beach, and rode away to its camp, by the side of the
bay, opposite to the town of Varna. Only two hors'es
were lost on the passage, and these died from disease
contracted on shore. The Jason, with 297 pack horses
and mules, belonging to the Uuards and Highland regi-
ments, arrived this morning all well. She had on board
Captain Butler (staff), Drs. Cooper and Wishart, "Mr'
Burgoyne, and Mr. Bouvelie (Guards), Mr. Strickland,
Mr. Blackwood, Mr: Rolleston, See., of the Cominissa.
riat department.
"The disembarkation of the Guards was effected this
morning in excellent order, and with a rapidity and corn'
fort which confer great Credit on the officers engaged in
superintending it. The French assisted with the most
hearty goodwill. Of their own accord the men of tme
artillery and the Chasseurs came down to the beach, -
helped to load buffalo carts, and set to work at once to
thump the drivers, to push the natives out of the way, t°
show the road, and, in fact, to make themselves gene'
rally useful. The men, though not quite so stout as We are
-accustomed to see them in London, were nevertheless je
capital ease, and good-humoured and high-spirited, not-
withstanding a heavy storm of rain that broke over then
on the march to their camp, about a mile outside the
town. The tents of some of the Egyptians are pitched
on the road-side, and as the first company of the Grena-
diers marched past a murmur went through the place,
and the swarthy little warriors came swarming out like
bees, and drew themselves up with staring eyes and opa l
ff mouths to gaze on the Anakiin. At first they appeared
to be affected by mute wonder only, but as man after
man strode by, and the fact grew upon them that there
was a whole regiment composed of such tall fellowst•
they burst into a grin, and at fast expanded into iaughter
ar.d chatterieg delight. Tue two troops of the 81,11 Hus-
sars lying outside the town gave the men a hearty cheer
:is they came in sight. Most of the men wore no stocks.
It appears that soon after Sir George Brown came up
to Varna an order was issued to the Duke'S division an-
cording to which the wearing of the stock was optional.
Most of the men at once flung off their leathern cncenli
brances, but with 'the usual taste of 501,1i,-rs for civil
attire, they began t. -wear ga...ioldtired han ',kerchief%
and neckerchiefs, so that the authorities weee obliged tO
order them to wear either the stock or nothing.
" The Dragoons wore white calico covers to their hel-
mets, but Sir George will not allow them to wear them
if he can help it. He dislikes these covers exceediner
because they are, he thinks, unsoldier-like ; an 1 his own
division (the Light) is forbidden to wear them oil any
account. They certainly do not improve the appear-
ance, but as surely they contribute greatly to the Ora'
tort of the men.
"For the present the division will occupy
the site of
the camp of the Light Division before it moved to
Aladyn.
" 1 role into Varna from the camp this morning, but
so changed was the appearance of the principal streets
by the restless activity and energy of the French, that
could not recognise them. Old blind side walls bad
been broken down, and shops opened, in which not only
necessaries, but even luxuries could he purchased ; the
streets once so dull and silent, re-echoed the laughter
and rattle of doiniee, 4 in -the newly egii-R1,1;. bed eerl'
Wine merchants and sutlers from Algiers, Oran, (-)°°;
stantine, Marseille,, Toulon, had sec no uoutiis an
shops, at which liqueurs, spirits, and French and count*.
wines could be purchased at prices not so tolerably
high. The natives had followed the example. Strings
of German sausages, of dried tongues, of wiry hams, ,0,
1
bottles of pickles, hung from the rafters of an 01'
Turkish khan, which but a few days before was the
abode of nothing but unseemly insects: and an emptily
storehouse was turned into a nicely whitewashed en
gaily painted " Restaurant de l'Arinee d'Orient pour
Messieurs les Official; et sons Officiers." The names
of the streets according to a Gallic nomenclature,
painted in black on neat deal slips, were fixed to
the walls, so that one could find his way from place to
place without going through the erratic wanderings
which generally mark the stranger's progress through a
Turkish town. One lane IS named the Rue Ibrahim,
another Rue de l'Hopital, a third Rue Yusuf ; the prin-
cipal lane is termed the Corso' the next is Rue des
Postes Franc: ises ; amid, es all these names are very Con-
venient, and h .vs a inCarlitiglattadheetto them, no oleo'
ing ought to deter one from confessing that the /leech
manage these things better than wo do. Where is the
English post-office ? No one knows.. Where does the
English General live ? No one knows. Where is the
hospital to carry a sick soldier to ? No one knows'
Does any one want to find General Canrobert !
the first Frenchmen you meet, and he will tell you to
go up the Corso, turn to the right, by the end of the
Rue de l'llOpital, and then you will see the name of the
General painted in large letters over the door of his
quarters. The French post-office and the French hospi'
tal are indicated sufficiently by the names of the streets.
Our sappers and 'Mews have done useful work by
the seaside, have built piers, trenched up the shore,
and deepened the little harbour. The French have
done the same ; they have built piers and banked up
the shore, and erected a- sea-wall to land at. Lord
George Paulet has been inexhaustible in his bospi.
talitits on board the Bellerophon, and has done
much to "amalgamate" the higher officers of both ar-
mies by his friendly reunions, so that they become bet-
ter friends every day. There is no jealousy between the
men, or any rivalry, except in the path of honour. Ru-
mours are afloat that the French marshal and our gene-
ral were not quite so friendly at the close of their recent
interviews, as they differed materially in their views of
the mode in which the war has to be carried on, but I
know nothing io make me give credence to these reports,
which I only mention because they aregenerally circulate' l•
Besidee, Sir George Brown only commands a divie'D
and it is scarcely probable that be would act in any way
without the authority and concurrence of Lord Raglan'
Sir George Brown still continues with his staff at Varnel
General Telden is camped with his staff by the side oa
the bay, near the cavalry camp, and contains Captains
Gordon and Hassard, Mr. Martin of the Royal Engl.
Deere, and a few sappers and miners, remain in the
town, close by the wall, in order to be ready for all
work in their way.
I" As to the camp at Aladyn there is not much to gap'
I Never were tents pitched in a more lovely spot. `visa
the ;wain 6314 144 riwa wooded the riot111;14%

RUSSIANS ON THE AUSTRIAN FRONTIER.
On the 25th, says a telegraphic despatch from
Vienna, the Cossack picquets entered far into the
Rothenthurm pass, in Transylvania.
In several places on the Transylvanian frontier
supplies for the Russian cavalry have been col-
lected.

RUSSIANS DEFEATED BY BASHI-
BAZOTJKS.

The Journal of Constantinople confirms the suc-
cesses of the troops at Silistria.
Three thousan l Bashi-Bazouks, who had taken
a Russian outpost, had been attacked by a Russian
force triple their - number.. After a desperate
struggle 1,500 of them were killed, Asham Bey
among them. The Russians lost 1,400.