The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-16 00:00:00

4"" r^"nvernnin,nne of .1-,01.7 +l,e 1-m7.' I cannot
a`Couei tor s.:ce, t()
Perbaps, by their being the wives of some of the warriois
°!i the beach, who, perhaps, were very jealous fellows.
We took three of these people in our boat, and numerous
,wore their expressions of astonishment and Ma,shal-
14118' on seeing the ship and its contents. A book with
',Jews of Stamboul particularly elicited their admiration,
but at the sight of a revolver and its six successive
4Plosion of caps came a Mashallali, Mashallab,' and
A about of laughter. On seeing an engraving of the
Greek Slave, the old gentleman laughed, and put his
bands before his eyes like the most sensitive of American
allies. They ate bread and salt (the latter is most
/aluable among them), and took back with them some
charges of powder. Before coming off I noticed a mark
of delicate feeling on the part of one of them. Seeing
We Were unarmed, he took off his pistols, knives, and
4abre, and, unslinging his rifle, insisted on leaving them
shore behind him. When the admiral went on shore,
he was at once recognised, and received as a prince ; and,
leaving, the whole of the hundreds of rifles were dis-
charged at once by their owners.
" We left Bardan during the night, and in early
II morn-
.. were off Navaginsk. Here the admiral sent a boat
.
ashore to look at the destroyed fortress, where were still
"RA, left behind, 24 brass guns. What a gift these
Would be to our friends the Turks at Redout-Kaleh I By
the bye, I forgot to tell that those Turks are cf the
Th
tT"tio- After leaving Navaginsk, we passed the blown-
GP Russian post of the Holy Ghost,' and then came
api.
The Circassians are a remarkably good-looking race
L'tall and well made, and generally fair, some even of
the older warriors having quite pink cheeks ; and, odd
enollgh, when one considers their roaming life, their feet
all 4 hands are remarkably small. They cut their skin
ilui.e'es to fit the foot exactly. In dress they carry a huge
affair on the bead, of the calpac species ; a high cone of
Yellow
cloth rises from a forest of fur which encircles the
head ; their coats are principally made of a coarse
Woollen fabric, and reach fir below the knee. The
higher orders have this of brilliant yellow cloth ; round
the throat a linen under-garment buttons exactly, and
03:er this is frequently worn a smart silk affair, showing
1 tween the folds of the coat. In their breast they
„,
rrrY about a score of bone or ivory oases, filled with
ire powder, having the ball at the top. Some of the
tter sort wear smart scarlet leggings and yellow or red
lIIPPers; round the waist of all are fastened multitudi-
nous knives and pistols, upon a leather belt, and slung
ova' the shoulder, in a cloth case, the rifle. They look
',gather like a set of aristocratic savages. We were
egreatly disappointed that the birds had flown from
elendjik ; the plan of proposed attack was perfect ;
the plan for attacking Soudjee was also made out.
"At Sinope we found the place as mournful looking
48, ever—exactly in the state as when we first saw it,
. ;7eept that two small forts have been erected. Not a
"ngle house is re-built, and the Russian shot are still
Reattered about • even the Austrian Consul has not re-
paired the shot-holes through his domicile. Our Bus-
.ilan Captives were mightily afraid of being left at Sinope ;
that case, they said, they were sure the inhabitants
.iT°llld hang them. We looked through one of the
urkish forts to-day. Its officer showed lively satisfac-
tion at our pantomime of the occupation of Redout-
tkaleh by his brethren. All the muskets, swords, stores,
fie,) took are gone to be sold with the prize at Malta,
,_e Circassians being posses°ed of far better weapons of
their own. We gave them however, lots of shirts, and
nistributed 20,000 rounds Of Russian ball cartridge. We
captured a Russian gun-boat with the brig, fully
equipped, and have kept it in tow and used it constantly."

RUSSIAN PRIZES AT MALTA.
letter from Malta of the 7th states that the
Russian vessels the Elchina, freighted with salt,
and the Craffni Kiti, freighted with linseed, which
sere captured off Odessa, on the 19th ult., by the
French frigate the Descartes and the English
steamers the Retribution and the Niger, had ar-
Z7ed in that port under the command of two
nglish officers, and were about to be condemned
as lawful prizes by the Admiralty Court.

MOVEMENTS OF THE AUSTRIAN TROOPS.
The Universal German Gazette says :—" It is
remarkable that all the troops which belong to the
several corps stationed in Galicia, or which are
marching in that direction, have received orders to
they their arrival as much as possible, whether
employ railway or steamers, or make forced
larches. A company of Engineers has been sent
ip the greatest haste from Breda to Cronstadt, in
Trans lvania, to defend with entrenchments the
Passages which to the south of that town lead to
'Transylvania. All this shows how little cause
there was for the rumour that the levy of 95,000
thewas suspended. In the present state of things
"I ere does not appear any further chance of a pa-
clic solution.

RUSSIAN TACTICS ON THE DANUBE.
l'he Pays has an article on the news of the
Russiansi having established their head-quarters in
capifal of Moldavia. This journal does not
le.{,i'ard the movement as an indication of an inten-
-311 to evacuate the Principalities of the Danube,
but as a proof of the determination of the Emperor
" Russia to reject the demand of Austria, and
prepare for the COnSequonc©a of the rcjcction. It
18 of opinion that the Emperor of Russia would
consider himself disgraced in the opinion of his own
subjects, and irreparably injured in his political
I4fluence in Europe, by a compliance with the
summons of the Austrian Cabinet, which is said to
have been backed by a direct application from the
.""Ing of Prussia. This, however, is not the only
obstacle to the arrangement proposed by Austria.
Now that the Emperor of Russia has acquired a
conviction that his designs upon Constantinople
are for the present, at least, impracticable, and
Via the continuation of the war, although he may
hope to preserve his • fleets from destruction by
keeping them under the protection of his fortresses,
must soon impoverish his treasury, and misery for
I.lpl people, he might be disposed to treat for peace
4. he could obtain by the evacuation of the Prin-
cipalities and the withdrawal of his army of
Invasion, the re-establishment of things on the
"le footing as they were before the mission
(4 Prince Menschikoff, for with time the pro-
jects of Russia in the East might be resumed
under more favourable circumstances, if she should
:have the same means of realising them ; but
l'ue Emperor of Rssia thinks probably that,
40wover willing Austria and Prussia may be to
accept such a solution of the present dispute, the
Governments of France and England would de-
reand new guarantees, which, if granted, would
render impossible any new attempt to obtain pos-
session of Turkey, or reduce her sovereign to a
state of vassalage. If, as the Pays says, the Em-
peror of Russia does not consider it consistent with
Illehonour or his interest to yield to the represen-
tations of Austria, and thinks it necessary to at-
tempt to place himself by some signal advantage in
position to treat as an equal, if not exactly as a
conqueror, the same consideration must have equal
Weight with his adversaries, who can hardly be ex-
Noted to retire from the contest with the suspicion
that they had undertaken to do more than they
the
accomplish, and without an indemnity for
'he enormous expenditure to which they have been
Put by the pretensions of Russia.

InSERABLE CONDITION OF THE RUS-
SIANS IN THE DOBRUDSCHA.
The Wallachian correspondent of the Vienna
Medical Journal, who is evidently completely dis-
couraged and disgusted, wrote on the Ist of June :
"The embarrassment of the Russians in the Dobrud-
aoha increases from hour to hour. The outposts are con-
byd deceived, attacked, and taken unawares
the Turkish irregulars, who receive all possible assist-
anee from the malevolent inhabitants of the country.
These people, who inhabit holes in the earth, the
roofs of which are not higher than a horse's back, alone
know where the few wells with drinkable water are to
be found, and they can always maeage to collect some
little forage and provi-ion for the hostile army, and are
besides most indefatigable spies. For us they have no-
thing, and being full of the low cunning and faithless-
ness which characterise the Wallachians and Slaves who
are under the Ottoman yoke, we cannot even depend on
thent for the assistance which is so much required by
our unhappy sick and wounded men. If one of
their burdehs is entered it is generally found empty,
the inhabitants having altogether fled, or being
Concealed in some other burrow. There is neither
chair, table, bed, nor linen in these boles. The light
:3f day enters only through the doorway, and one
is almost obliged to creep into a kind of cellar, which is
filled with smoke and foul Smells. If we want to pre-
Pare our own provisions, we must find wood, water, and
vessels. The villages and hamlets are entirely composed
of such miserable places as those above described. Even
as regards towns, it is not necessary to make any great
Change in my description of Basardschik and Rust-
Kainardji cotsists of miserable huts constructed
of twisted brushwood, with a rough coating of clay,
and a shutter, which is opened in the morning and
closed in the evening, serves instead of a wind >w.
It is only in the more civilised places on the
Danube, such as Hirsova, that one sees windows with
glass, or instead of it bladders of oxen or swine. As a
consequence of this comfortless state of things we are
Obliged to remove our sick and wounded as quickly
Possible, and their transport is effected by means of the
returning provision trains. Our largest temporary hos-
Pital is at Slobosia. All the patients were removed from
liirsova the day before yesterday, and the sick have
already been conveyed from Isaktcha, Tultscha, and
/Cilia to Reni. Those who can be removed from Mallow,
Kalarasch, and Oltenitza are trans-
Ported to Fakschani, and thence in the direction of Jassy
and Leova. These arrangements probably arise from
a desire not to have the hospitals near the Danube,
over filled. In truth, we from day to day require more
I.oom and accommodation ! Rassova, Silistria, and Tur-
tukai continue to decimate and di.hearten our troops,
arid this affords ill-concealed and mischievous joy to the
Wallachians and Moldavians who are around us. It is
a proof of the sinking courage of the conquerors' and
liberators' -- under which, titles the Popen (Greek
priests) in particular do homage to us—that the police is
lao longer so severe about expression of countenance and
Political sentiments. The efforts to take Silistria, which
have been as fruitless as they are fearfully sanguinary,
have not only disheartened the common soldiers, but
even the superior officers and commanders, The present