The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-15 00:00:00

FIRST ENGAGEMENT OF THE ALLIED

TROOPS WITH THE RUSSIANS.
The Moniteur publishes the following telgraphio
despatch from Vienna :

"-It is positively known that at Rustchuk from
15,000 to 18,000 men of the Anglo-French army
have joined the Turkish forces, which are com-
manded by Omer Pacha in person, and who on the
7th and Bth obtained considerable advantage over
the Russians at Giurgevo. It is believed that the
Turks crossed the Danube at the same time near
Ol tenitza."

Other despatches says that the Anglo-French
army greatly contributed to the glorious results ;
also that the Russians were marching on Giurgevo,
and on Oltenitza, and that a battle was expected.
JASSY, JULY 9.—The number of the wounded
(Russians), on the day of the 7th only, may be
imagined from the fact that 450 carts laden with
them have arrived here.

All the accounts from Transylvania state that
the Austrians and Russians are concentrating their
forces on their respective frontiers.

PECUNIARY NECESSITIES OF RUSSIA.
POLISH FRONTIER, JULY 10.—General Rudiger
has enjoined the clergy of the diocese to make an
offering to the country. The Government will
accept money, the sacred vessels, or other objects
of value. It has already taken from the convent
of St. Paul, under the name of a loan, consecrated
plate in gold and silver to the amount of 1,000,000
roubles.

' HOSTILITIES BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND
RUSSIA IMMINENT.
A letter from Cronstadt (Transylvania) of the
2d, in the Moniteur, says:—" War appears to have
commenced, or on the point of doing so, between
Austria and Russia. For the last three weeks
fresh troops have been arriving here. All the
houses in the faubourgs are crowded with troops.
Scarcely sufficient time is allowed them to take a
little repose when they are directed towards the
Wallachian frontier. The day before yesterday,
a regiment of grenadiers from Gallicia was
sent forward to Botsa. Amongst the first
troops which arrived here was a battalion of
pontooneers, composed of six companies, placed on
a war-footing, containing two hundred men, with a
complete pontoon-equipage, and sixteen waggons
per company. Each waggon, drawn by four horses,
carries a boat and all its accessories. A small
Russian infantry corps, with a detachment of Cos-
sacks, has been sent from the interior of Wallachia
to the frontier of Transylvania to observe the move-
ments of the Austrians. Ou June 29, an Austrian
patrol of frontier guards having met a Russian
patrol, an engagement ensued, in which, it is posi-
tively affirmed, the Austrian corporal was killed,
and two of his soldiers badly wounded. More se-
rious hostilities are shortly expected in the neigh-
bourhood of this place ; military hospitals are being
prepared here, and this day 18 waggons, constructed
for the conveyance of wounded, are proceeding to
the frontier. General Count Schafgotsche has
been here for some days with Generals Horvath
and Chollitch. Several others are expected. The
passages leading to Wallachia, which the Austrian
troops occupy, are : Temesch, Ochans, Botsa, La
Croutcha, Feultchra, and Verechtoroivn. So veral
other passages exist, but they are not practicable
for infantry."