The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-30 00:00:00

LETTER FROM AN OFFICER IN THE

TURKISH ARMY.

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BUCHAREST, Sept. 18.—My dear Friend,—l have
addressed one letter to you at Paris ; I now forward
another to you at London. lam in ecstasies at the
marvellous sagacity of the great diplomatists, who have
devised this alliance with Austria, and at the cons°.
quences to which it may lead. As I am no theorist,
but a soldier, who has taken up again his old trade of
arms, I will only trouble you with facts.
Austria has called upon us to co-operate with it
for the liberation of Wallachia ; the French and Eng-
hsh commander-in-chief have pressed us to aid this
new ally. We force the passage of the Danube, we
skirmish with the Russians, and we push onto Bucharest.
We find and we maintain there order and tranquillity,
devotion to the Sultan, eagerness to promote our work
by force of arms ; and everything goes on as well as
can be. The French and English start on their expe-
dition to the Crimea, and we prepare to march into Bes-
sarabia.

On the 6th of September the Austrians arrived
General Coronini declares that be wishes to re-establish
order—which he found re-established ; to bring back jus-
tice, by the recall of Prince Stirbey and M. Johannidee,
who despised and outraged it ; and to confirm the pri-
vileges and prerogatives of the Wallachians, by instal-
ling Prince Stirbey—humiliating decision !
Our Commander-in-Chief invites General Hess to
unite in a forward movement to create a diversion in
favour of the French and English who have landed in
the Crimea, and who might be embarrassed if Russia
were left free to concentrate its forces against the troops
that have been disembarked there. General Hess is in
no hurry to give his adhesion to this proposal ; on the
contrary, he intimates that his troops will occupy the line
of the Pruth, and that they will neither allow the
Russians to re-enter Moldavia, nor our army—the
Turkish—to advance into Bessarabia. Here is a tnag-
nificunt result ! One hundred and fifty thousand of the
best troops of the Allies reduced to a state of inaction
by the new ally; whilst sixty thousand French and Eng-
lish will be exposed to all the forces of Russia, which,
guaranteed and covered as it is by Austria, has its whole
army disposable.

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Tne first-fruits of the alliance are magnificent—art
they not? We shall see in time what are to follow.
If diplomacy continues to work in this fashion, we
shall march from Sinope to Sinope, to arrive at Moscow
and the Beresina. Present my respects to these gentle-
men ; they are great and ipli4irlid men.
I -ay nothing to you of Wallachia ; you will come
and you will see.

THE RESTORATION OF BESSARABIA TO

TURKEY.

(Front the Journal de Constantinople of 14th September.)
A correspondence from Bucharest, which has appeared
in the Af oniteur, seems to deserve notice. It relates to
Bessarabia. After recapitulating the circumstances
under which this province was wrested from Turkey by
the Emperor Alexander, and giving some statistical de-
tails re!ating to its population, the writer proceeds to
remark : " The Emperor Alexander left intact to the
Bessarabians their administrative institutions and their
laws, and ultimately consented to grant them a kind
of constitution. But in 1827 the Emperor Nicholas
decreed measures diametrically opposed to those of
the preceding reign. Deputations sent to St.
Petersburg reclaimed their ancient institutions as a
right they were sent back unanswered. The
opposition of the boyards became Intimated ;
struggle then began between the government of St.
Petersburg and the aristocracy of the province, and all
the measures adopted by Government have since been
directed to one end—the ruin of the country. Since
1829 the resources of this rich province have sensibly
and continually decreased, without inducing the Govern-
ment to pause in the course it has chalked out for itself.
The Wallachian tongue has ceased to be the official lan-
guage ; it is discussed in the courts of law and in the
Government offices. Russian officials are appointed
everywhere, and the province has been treated with a
view to make it lose all sense of nationality. In this
state of affairs it is easy to conceive what are the wishes
of the people, and what vows the presence of the allied
armies on the Danube has caused them to emit." W••
said lately that in order to perfect a just and substantial
work, Bessarabia must be restored to the Porte by re-
uniting it to Moldavia. Only by this means can Bess-
arabia be raised from the state of ruin into which it has
been plunged by the Russians.

TERMINATION OF THE HARVEST IN THE WEET.—The
harvest may now be said to be finally concluded in tke
four western counties, viz., Somerset, Dorset, Devon,
and Cornwall—and, notwithstanding all that has been;
stated in reference to the probable yield of the wheat crop,
there is very little doubt that, so far as the two latter
counties are concerned, it has been very much underrated.
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vonshire; and in Cornwall, where a rough estimate has been,
formed of the yield on the bulk of the wheat farms, the
nal produicsethoef trheesuirltwelfietahteliarnc(
quantity will be rather less, but certainly tar beyond an.
average. Oats have turned out well in all parts of the
western district, and the crops of barley have been good,
and generally saved in splendid condition. Turnips,
mangold wurtzel, and ether root crops are very pro-
mising, and the potatoes which have been taken up
within the last few days are much less diseased than wag
expected. Prices of beef, mutton, wool, and other farm
produce are still remunerative to the agriculturist, lilt
the great bulk of tile consumers of butchers' meat in
Devonshire and Somerset are turning their attention to
a reformation in their butchers' bills.
THE DEEP SEA TRAWL.---Mr. Dempster has invented
a trawl net or dredge, for the use of sea-going vessels, so
as to enable their commanders occasionally to supply
their crews with messes of fresh fish, such as turbot,
halibut, skate, place, and soles, &c. The advantages of
the new trawl are, it never capsises the Wrong way on
the ground, nor is there any possibility of the net getting
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