The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-12 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

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THE WAR.
WITHDRAWAL OF THE FLEET FROM
CRONSTADT.

Telegraphic despatches from Dantzic announce
that Admiral Sir Charles Napier, after spending
above a fortnight before Cronstadt, endeavouring
to tempt the Russians into action, has returned
with his ships to Barosound. The cholera was
raging at Cronstadt, and the Admiral was un-
willing to keep his men unnecessarily in its neigh-
bourhood.

The fleets retired from reconnoitring Cronstadt
on the 6th.

THE D ANUBE.

The Oesterreichische Corresporbdenz of yesterday
contains the following :—" On the Bth, after a long
struggle, the Turks got possession of the islands of
Mokan and Olneika, and subsequently of Giurgevo.
The Russians were then totally defeated on the
Wallachian territory."
Prince Gortschakoff is forming a camp of
30,000 men between Bucharest and the Danube.
The same journal gives it to be understood that
the Russians will not withdraw from Wallachia, and
that the Austrian troops will not pass the frontier.
Other despatches confirm generally the staie-
meat of the defeat of the Russians, but they differ
as to the day when the engagement took place.
One says :
" A smart action took place on the Danube on
the sth. The Russians lost 160 killed, and 800
wounded. Everything implies a defence of
Bucharest."

Another, dated Belgrade, July 11, is to this
effect :

" On the morning of the 7th, the Turks crossed
the Danube at Rutschuk, with 40,000 men. At
11 o'clock they were masters of Giurgevo. 900
men of General. Seymonoff's army were killed or
wounded.

" Prince Gortschakoff was to take up a position
on the Bth, four miles in front of Bucharest, but
has "only 30,000 men with him."
The Presse mentions that Osten-Sacken is ex-
pected at the Russian camp.
According to a letter of the 3d from Bucharest,
the Russian transports and gun-boats that have
arrived at Galatz from their station off Silistria,
where they were employed, are having their arma-
ments taken out. This seems to be the commence-
ment of what has become necessary, the entire
breaking up of the Russian flotilla on the Danube.
This subject is at this moment most seriously occu-
pying Prince Gortschakoff's attention, and it is
thought by no means impossible that the ships will
be burned. The mouths of the Danube are block-
aded by the allied fleets, and the Russian vessels
have no longer an escape that way.
A letter from Schumla of the 28th ult. states
that the Turkish army of the Balkan is continuing
its movement on the Dobrudscha ; detachments of
the auxiliary army are expected to arrive at Pra-
vadi on the 24th inst. Kustendji is occupied by
the Turks, and the Egyptian regiments of the gar-
rison of Varna are marching on Bazardschick.
There now only remains at Varna a garrison of
French and English troops. The Duke of Cam-
bridge has left for Schumla. An expedition
against the mouths of the Danube and the
Crimea is spoken of as certain. Omer Pacha was
to leave Schumla on the Ist for Silistria and
Rustchuck.

A letter from Orsova, of the 7th, mentions that
the Arpad steamer which was to convey to Rust-
chuck the suite of Colonel Kalick, had not been
able to pass Sistowa ; on her return the Russians
fired at her when near Nicopolis. The Russians
occupy the left bank of the Danube from the Aluta.
Consequently these positions have not been eva-
cuated, as }vas alleged.