The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-13 00:00:00

Irtirb I,3bition.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

LIVERPOOL RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
DERBY HANDICAP.

Orestes
Snowdon Dunhill
Antonia

Six ran.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPII.)
LIVERPOOL CUP.

Amm0nia............... ....................
Ulster was scratched.

EGLINTON STAKES.

Sicily

THE WAR.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

The following is the Times Paris correspondent's
letter, dated yesterday, 6 p.m. :
At no moment since war was declared have the
preparations for carrying it on been more extensive and
more energetic than at the present. An expeditionary
corps is on the point of leaving Boulogne to co-operate
in the movements and second the operations of the
Baltic fleet ; and in another direction the army of the
East is receiving each day, from France as from Eng-
land, fresh reinforcements to complete the formidable
army destined soon to strike a fatal blow against the
power of the Czar. On every side the blockade of the
coast of that Empire becomes mere strict, and the fleets
approach more closely to its shore, and but for the ex-
cessive discretion, which might well deserve another
name, and which keeps the Russian fleets under the
shelter of its batteries, the defiance so flung at them
ought long since to have roused them to take it up. It
is in this resolute manner that the Maritime Powers
keep on their way, without hesitation or delay, to the
attainment of their object, while we are told that some
other States occupy themselves in framing and ex-
changing notes and propositions more or less insidious,
though said to be pacific, but the secret of which is to
break up the alliance formed against Russia. The
Maritime Powers are neither softened nor led
astray by the intrigues of the Cabinet of St. Peters.
burg, nor by those delays which are the usual con-
sequences of purely diplomatic relations. England
and France do at this day what they did when they
resolved to adopt action for negotiation—they still make
an appeal to the civilised nations of Europe to join i❑
the noble strife which they have begun. The hesitation
of others does not and will not affect them. They will
not halt on their way, nor will they suspend for a single
instant the preparations which are necessary to make
success certain. It has been frequently shown how
great is the importance attached to the resolution of the
German Powers, and how highly it is appreciated ; but
it would be a mistake to suppose that the active inter-
♦ention of Prussia and Austria is not much more in
their own interest than in the interest of that result
which France and England lavish their resources to ob-
tain ; and after all, the free navigation of the Danube
and the evacuation of the Principalities, which the Ca-
binet of Vienna has so much at heart, touch Germany,
and in particular Austria, more nearly than the rest of
Europe. Europe at large has something more to de-
mand and something more to obtain than the retreat of
the Russian army behind the Pruth. It requires that
the aggressive policy of Russia shall be arrested once for
all, and that the civilisation and liberties of the West

shall not be stifled beneath the gigantic barbarism of the
North. It is clear that it is less on the banks of the
Danube than in the Baltic and the Black Seas that such
a result is to be obtained, and that the only effectual
way to reduce Russia to the proportions of a continental
from those of a huge preponderating Power is to crush
once and for ever the fleet which she has been accus-
tomed to look upon as the instrument of her strength.
The destruction of her navy is the best, perhaps the
only, guarantee against future aggression and aggran-
disements, and when the Russian flag has ceased to
float in those seas, except on more modest conditions
than hitherto, Europe will then, and then only, be freed
from the alarm which her unbounded and unprincipled
ambition has caused it. It is not Prussia or Austria
that can do this. France and England are the only
powers sapable of effecting it, and after all it is perhaps
not otherwise than in an indirect manner that the other
powers can second them.
The " ignorant impatience" of popular opinion finds
fault with the tardiness of the naval operations, and
those who are at such a distance, and who are unaware
of the difficulties to be surmounted, pretend to find
fault with the commanders by sea and land. According
to them Cronstadt should have long since been destroyed
and Sebastopol razed to the water's edge ; but these
complaints do not retard nor prematurely hurry the
movements of the fleets and armies. Whenever the day
comes for such deeds, there need be no doubt that they
will be executed in such a manner as to leave no wish
unsatisfied. When that result is obtained, I suspect
that we shall hear no more of the hesitation of the Ger-
man States, great or small.
It has been observed, and perhaps with some
reason, that the public mind is unduly and ex-
cessively occupied with what passes abroad, and that
little or no attention is paid to events that occur at
home. The great duty of resistance to ambition be-
longs more peculiarly to England and France. If the
German States join in the task so much the better ; if
not, which is improbable, the Western Powers will go on
alone. It is denied here that there is any just reason to
suppose a defection on the part of the German Powers.
It is evident that they have not once varied in the col-
lective declaration they have signed, but that they have
up to the present pursued the same object by means of
many solemn acts--the convention of Berlin, the secret
article which accompanies it, the treaty between Austria
and the Porte, and last, not least, the summons ad-
dressed to Russia is to quit the Principalities. But
-whatever be the conduct of those Powers, or of one of
them, England and France are determined to pursue
with the same energy the line they have traced out, and
if others hesitate about driving the Russians from the
Principalities these Powers will manage to do so in
some way or other. At the moment I write an event
is taking place within sight of the shores of Eng-
land which is not the least remarkable of the many
extraordinary circumstances which have occurred for
the last 25 years. Twice since the commencement
of the present century a camp was formed at Bou-
logne, and on each occasio n an Emperor named
Napoleon went thither to inflame the military ardour
of the army. The first great host was massed against
England. The second—it is on board British steamers
that French battalions are embarked, and the flags un-
der which they are going to fight are the united ones
of France and England. In 1804 France and England
were arrayed against each other ; in 1854 they are both
engaged in the same crusade of civilisation and public
law against the common enemy of the peace and pros-
perity of Europe.
I have received the following letter from Erzeroum,
elated the 19th. My letters from the same place which
I transmitted on Monday were four days later, and gave
the result of the engagement between the Turks and
Russians to which the present one alludes, and which
has turned out differently from what the writer antici-
pated. It is evident that the advantages obtained by
the Turks of the Asiatic army tend to make them care-
less, and to this we attribute the disaster which has
been recently recorded. The letter of the 19th is as
follows :

" I only returned yesterday from the tour which I an-
nounced to you in ray last letter, and which I extended to
the extreme limits of the Turco-Russian frontier, visiting
all the advanced posts of the Turkish army. I regret that I
have not time to-day to communicate to you all the ob-
servations which I have made on the actual state of the
army of Anatolia to send them by the next courier. For
the present I. limit myself to the following few facts, the
only ones indeed which have occurred for the last 15 days.
I had scarcely returned from the last advanced post
which
ri
the Turks have in front of Guin whenwreceived
in-
formation that the Russians were making
demonstration
in that direction, that they had crossed the Arpatchai to
the number of 8,000, that they occupied at this moment places which we had quitted, and that they
were -
gaged with the Bashi-Bazouks of Ismail Pasha (Geneernal
Kmetty). Immediately a regiment of infantry and two
battalions of chasseurs were sent from Kars, under the
command of Aalan Pasha (General Bistrzonowski), to the
succour of the Bashi-Bazonks. In a very short time the
enemy was repulsed, and the Bashi-Bazouks, in their turn
crossing the Arpatchai, pursued them to a very short dis-
tance from Gumri. From 15 to 20 men on both sides were
killed or wounded in this affair. A serious attack is ex-
pected from one day to another on the part of the Russians,
but on another point ; perhaps they may be anticipated.
The Russians are not so strong in this direction as they
were supposed—as they are not more than 56,000 men.
It is true that the Turkish army is not more numerous,
but it is composed in great number of troops accustomed
for a long time to warfare, and it is eager to take, as soon
as possible, its revenge for the defeat of last autumn. As
to the Bashi-Bazonks, whom it was so difficult hereto.
fore to reduce to discipline, they have shown in this
affair what may be expected from them, and from the brave
chief who
commands them. 1,000 of them sufficed to
pursue 8,000" Russiansms
as far as Gumri, and it was only
when forced by superior nnm—bteres,vawnbdomthea csainngnloencoafnntohne
fortress, that they reetreste( ib
shot generally sufficd to put to rout.- Th e French Consul
at Teflis arrived here some days since, accompanied by his
dragoman and a French merchant, theesirrestoftlw him.
the French
residents net having manifested
yellers of some particulars
We are informed by these
which strengthen our opinion
esetravelers
that if a small French divi-
sion were sent to Kars it might advance in a few days to
Teflis, where the population is disposed to receive it well,
but if the rumours in circulation are false, that is if no
expeditionary corps be sent, there
is
reason to fear that
the Turkish troops passing the winter at Kars will not
hold out till nett autumn."
A. private letter from Constantinople, of the 30th, ,
speaks of the unpleasant effect produced on the people
by the announcement of the marriage of the son of Reds-
chid Pasha with the daughter of the Sultan, and which
is, I believe, announced for the 15th. As the nuptials
will no doubt be celebrated with the usual solemnities,
and entail vast expense, it is thought that the present
moment, when the troops of the Sultan are without
shoes, and the Treasury without money, and when the
most desperate efforts are made, and hitherto unsuc-
cessfully to find resources for the most necessary oh-
isct, is not the most propitious for such displays, which .