The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-19 00:00:00

STATE OF ST. PETERSBURG.

A letter appears in the Elberfeld Gazette, from
Dortmund, dated Juno 13. The writer says :
" The foreman of a large engine manufactory, who
has lately returned from St. Petersburg, has given
we the following statement :—Everything looks now
very gloomy indeed in St. Petersburg, in doors and
out of doors. The city, once so beautiful and full of
life, is no longer to be recognised. The palaces are
converted into barracks, bridges are broken down,
the streets covered with tents, for more than 40,000
Bashkeers are said to have come from the govern-
ments of Orenburg and Perm, from their steppes
and nomad encampments, and to have entered St.
Petersburg for the protection of the city,lvhere they
make a hideous impression. Whether their numbers
are really so treat as assigned I cannot take upon
myself to a ffirin ; but they Miglit, if every man
of them has been brought, for the Bashkeors, in
1853, were set down in the census as 29,000 (ami-
ties. They have still the Tartar weapons of bow
and arrows, of lance and billhook, and will there-
fore make capital food for powder. They steal
more dexterously than the crows, and they possess
all the other Tartar virtues, theoretically and prac-
tically. But the proud and magnificent guard has
gone away, partly to Poland, partly to Finland,
and thus, in the total absence of moving life and
daily intercourse, the city looks desolate. On the
broad and glorious Neva stream, which once during
the clear summer nights afforded one of the most
enchanting sights, which bore on its dark waters
thousands of ships and boats, a solitary barge filled
with bricks is now towed along, or a steamer runs
down laden with soldiers for Cronstadt. As the city.
is in a state of war, no person is allowed to show him-
self in the streets after nine at night--a hard
blow now for these poor northerners, who have
for more than half the year been forced to keep
their stove-warmed rooms. The higher classes of
society are said to be quite out of tune, for to be
always obliged to be making voluntary and in-
voluntary sacrifices without receiving anything in
return is not exactly very edifying. Besides,
there seems no end to the whole business, and not
a soul will give a rag on tick to another any longer.
The common people, however, are fanaticised.
" Our dear papa Czar knows best," is a proverb,
and grim rage do they feel against the foreigners,
whom they insult in the open street, and whom
the police are constantly obliged to warn
not to go beyond the gates of the city, where
they could no longer be protected. For the
rest, the foreigners have been obliged to sign a
printed form, by which they were compelled
to engage that they would submit in every-
thing to the laws of the land, and suffer them-
selves to be tried and judged by them in case of
their transgressing them. Trade is stagnant, all
manufactures are at a stand still, for amongst
other causes there are no coals. What stock there
was of them has been reserved by the authorities
for the whole use of the steamers, though their
price has gone up immensely. For this reason
most of the foreign inspectors and workmen, &c.,
are leaving the country. The crowds are so great,
wanting to take places in the coach running daily '
to Memel, that if a person does not book his
Place six weeks bcfore band, he L t ands a poor chance
• ',,;% F-.1-111:,31:S Who havc money in itlt3
bank find great difficulty in getting it, for the
bank pays out t 9 no person whatever per day

more than 50 silver roubles. In this way a poor
Frenchman, who- wanted to draw out the hard'
earned savings of many years, namely, 1,500 ea'
ver roubles, was obliged to run backwards and
forwards for more than a month, having to wait
every morning in the crowd till he could get served
before he could get back his own again, though he
lost thereby the place he had booked and paid for
at the coach office weeks before. These things
are all sad enough, and may perhaps incline the
Czar to a truce and then to peace, but they rawt
be taken advantage of, so that he 'may be kept
within due bounds for the future."

GREECE.
TRIESTE, June 12.—The Austrian frigate the
Venus, as well as two light vessels, have received
the order to hold themselves in readiness to start
for the waters of Greece.
VoLo, May 31.—After the Turks had been
worsted at Kalambacha they received reinforce-
ments and totally defeated Hadji Petros.
Vow, May 31.—The last accounts transmitted
to England have proved but too true. The Greeks
surrounded the little town of Calabaka, and set fire
to it, and 4,000 Albanians (Turks) found their
death there, partly in the flames, and partly by
being killed in flight, or shot down. 2,500 wet'
taken prisoners. The Albanians had, however,.
previously burnt 15 villages, in which numbers or
unfortunate families (men, women, and children)
were destroyed. This, of course, exasperated the
Greeks, who took their revenge in the manner
above described.

The Turks appear much alarmed. In fact it is
dangerous to go any distance from the town. The
rebels seized a man near here, and took him up to
the mowitains, and now demand 50,000 piastres for
his ransom. Numbers of them are still levying,
contributions from the unfortunate inhabitants of
the villages. In short, the country is in a mos",l
horn Nate, and no one can see where it will end.

FRANCE.
The following is from the Paris correspondent Of
the Times, dated yesterday :—" It is evident that
the moment is rapidly approaching when Austria
will enter resolutely on the field, and co-operate
with the Western Powers in ejecting the Russian'
from the territory they have invaded ; and if vie
may judge.from the intelligence which reaches us
from every part of Germany, and the strategic
arrangements adopted for the Austrian army, there
can be no doubt as to the resolution the Cabinets
of Vienna and Berlin have come to. The move-
ments, which was for some time back in the diree",
tion of Poland, has ceased, and the battalions which
were en route for that point are now directed to-
wards Galicia and the Moldo-Wallachian frontier.
The most obvious conclusion for that deviation is,
that if Austria has ceased tomove hertroops towards
her Polish frontier, it is because she will be covered
on that point by the armies of Prussia. It is n°l
forgotten that, in accordance with the treaty
Berlin, Prussia is bound, when the moment comes
for takinga part in the contest, to support the move:
ments of Austria by protecting her to the north and
east against all attack. The rumours in circula
tion of the mobilisation of the Prussian arm)"
and the telegraphic despatch received here to-dal
which announces a first emission of 15,000 e
thalers on the loan already authorised by tee,
Chambers, would indicate that Prussia is at lss"
preparing for the emergencies contemplated by her
treaty with Austria. On the other hand, Buss'a"
seems to labour undee no delusion as to the deter"
mination of her late friends and allies. We again'
hear of new modifications in the plan of campaiger'
Jassy, it appears, has become the centre of the three'
corps d'armee, the head-quarters of which are to
be Warsaw, gilistria, and Odessa. The armY
Warsaw can only be intended against Prussia and
Austria, while those of Silistria and Odessa are,
no doubt, to meet the allies and the Turks 011
the Danube and Black Sea. To render such *
plan complete, Silistria must first be taken, sill'
as far as we can yet learn, the siege has not maul
any great progress ; the'Russians experience ratelj
loss, and suffer considerable checks each day, 032_,,"
their chance of successs must be much diminish!'
now that the allied troops are advancing to the'
succour of the army on the Danube, and are:
perhaps, at the moment I write, near the enereli•
MM. Jerome Bonaparte, father and son, the s°u,.
and grandson of Marshal Prince Jerome by his firs;
wife, Miss Patterson, have just arrived on board:
the Franklin from the United States. The grand'
son is said to be a striking likeness of Napoleon I.
The Moniteur of yesterday says
The Government of the Emperor had invited ars
French Minister at Turin to call the attention of
Piedmontese Cabinet re the necessity of adopting the
necessary measures forpressing the acts of piracy which-
threaten the security of navigation in the Mediterranean-
General Dabormida has just replied to the Duke 'II
Guiche that the Sardinian Government had anticipated'
the communications made to it by the measures 3"
adopted on the first notice of the appearance of pivate/.
in the Greek seas. It did, in fact, at that tithe send int°
the Archipelago the Eurydice frigate, giving her enEcv
wander instructions to adopt, in case of the arrest of nut
pirates, measures analogous to those which the Frenvn,
and English Governments have prescribed in cases 01
that kind. The Sardinian Minister. of Foreign Affaie4'
added that he would direct the Captain of the Eurydice
to concert with the rear-admiral commanding the Franc
division in the Archipelago for the prompt repression .0
piracy."...

The Moniteur de l' Armee publishes two Imps`
rial decrees relative to the organisation of the
corps of cavalry to be called the Cent-Gardes.
is to be composed of 137 men and 11 officers, an,
is to be commanded by a lieutenant-colonel. This"
squadron is to depend exclusively for its service,
and administration on the Great Marshal of the
Palace. The expenses are to be included in th' s
attributions of that high functuary. The portal
to be contributed towards the expenses of the war
department is to be 400,000 f. for the first yeah
(1854), and 300,000 f. for every succeeding one'.
For that sum the Grand-- Marshal of the Palaces
will be bound to reimburse the value of the horses.,
supplied to the Cent-Gardes by the services of the'
remount, as well as the other objects which maY
be obtained from the military stores.
The Moniteur publishes the official notifications
of the blockades of the mouths of the Danube, anal
of the Russian ports, harbours, and roads in th(2
Baltic.

The Moniteur announces that the Archduke
Albrecht had arrived at Seinlin for the purpose of'
reviewing the division of infantry which is
quar—
tered. in that place, and that he bad been visited,
by the Prince of Servia. It also states, under date
Trieste, June 12, that the Austrian frigate Venus,.
as also two smaller vessels, bad received orders to-
proceed to the Greek waters. .

Some speculators met yesterday on the Boule-
vard, but very little business was done in. the
French Thre• per Cents., which, however, are a.,
little better than on Saturday, being last done at
71f. 90c. _