The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-03 00:00:00

DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS

A startling victory over the Russians—start-
ling even among the many brilliant triumphs
already won by the Turkish army over their
antagonists—will be found recorded elsewhere in
our impression of this evening. News of this
victory, it will be
_observed, passed through
Vienna as recently as this (Wednesday) morning.
It rests upon a report in circulation at Bucha-
rest. A rumour that the Russian forces
under General TAMERS had been signally defeated
between Rassova and Silistria—OMEß PACIIA hav-
ing advanced with 70,000 Turks in a sudden march
towards the Dobrudscha. Nothing, it would
appear, could have been more masterly than the
skill displayed by the Ottoman Commander-
in-Chief as a tactician. His right movement
would seem to have been a masterpiece
of generalship. By detaching a division
of his army, under cover of the darkness,
in the direction of the Black Sea—and,
then, during the • crisis of the battle, on
the following day, when the conflict was at
its height, directing this corps unexpect
edly upon the rear of the Russian forces,
031A.R PA.CRA. is stated to have thrown the enemy,
and no wonder, into " unexampled confusion and
consternation."

Have not the Turkish soldiers by their valour,
not less than the Turkish statesmen by
their moderation proved themselves, up to this
moment, in every way worthy of the support of
the Allied Governments ?

The dastardly conduct of the Government of
Greece
With this difference, however, that the ruler of
the latter has done openly, and so far bravely,
what the rulers of the former have only ventured
upon doing meanly, because surreptitiously. It
will have been remarked, we doubt not, that a
Proclamation has been addressed to his subjects
by Prince DANIEL, the Vladika of the Monteneg-
rins, calling upon them to rise in a "holy war'
against the Ottoman Administration. This flagi-
tious document, it will ba perceived, was dated
some, time back from Cettina, and is throughout
of a character most irritating and inflammatory.
It reminds the Montenegrins that they
are the descendants of the old Czernagores.
*tells there, that they are the children of
iho formerly worsted Mire° Turkish
Viziers, who defeated the troops of France, and
who took by assault from the SULTAN
some of his
strongest fortresses. Recalling
all these things
minds of the people, it gives them the
formal summons to share honour and glory with
their leader by fighting in defence of their coun-
try, of the Orthodox Church,
Cross and of the sacred
adding them "combat, b
symbol of the
in the holy name of GOD " with which words theusi
Manifesto is brought to its
c With Which wor the
Manifesto is brought to its con I •
c on. The docu-
ment is, in every respect, consonant with the
latest Proclamation put forth 1) Y the Russian
AUTOCRAT, the Proclamation recently I • ssued to
the world through the official Gazette at St.
Petersburg—representing the war against Tur-
key and her allies as a contest undertaken
for the defence of the Orthodox Faith and the
Christian Religion. Throughout the whole of the
subordinate, or rather subsidiary, movements
along the European frontiers of the Ottoman do-
minion, it is perfectly manifest that the move-
ments made, whether by signal from Athens or
from Cettina, whether in Thessaly, or Epirus, or
Montenegro, are all arranged with the entire cog-
nisance of the CZAR, if they have not been actu-
ally organised under the direct and immediate super-
vision of his Government. The inspiration in
every instance COUIC3. from the Cabinet of NISSEL-
DE. There is a perceptible cmsistency through
all the mazes of these apparently confused risings,
or insurrecticms. It would be nothing less than
wilful ' fatuity to regard these movements made
simultaneously near the opposite- extremities of
Albania—here in Thessaly, there in Monte-
negro—as other. -than portions of the preconterted
scheme of the, Czar NICHOLAS. • •ng
An
them as such it would be NT d -viewi
orse than folly to