The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-28 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR.

THE ATTACK ON SEBASTOPOL.

It is confidently stated that the expedition
against the Crimea will sail on the 30th.

It will he composed of 70,000 men, of whom
20,000 are Turks.
The expedition is provided with 2,000 boats.
The troops are full of enthusiasm.
Prince Napoleon, who had returned to Constan-
tinople under an attack of fever, has gone back to
join his division.
The defeat of the Turks near Kars is not con-
firmed.

ARRIVAL OF OMER PACHA. AT
BUCHAREST.
VIENNA, Aug. 25.---A telegrahic despatch from
Belgrade brings the account of the entry of Omer
Pacha into Bucharest on the 22d. He was received
with great solemnity, and afterwards- reviewed
12,000 Turkish troops and the Wallachian militia.
He has taken up his residence at the Convent of
Kotrocomi.

RETREAT OF THE RUSSIANS.
A telegraphic despatch from Czernowitz, of the
20th, states that the Russians were effecting their
retreat across the Pruth with great precipitation,
and that thousands of carts had gone to transport
the sick and provisions. The demands made for
the supply of the storehouses of Wallachia must
now have ceased.

THE GERMAN POWERS.
BERLIN, August 24.—The Correspondence an-
nounces the approaching conclusion of a treaty,
offensive and defensive, between Austria and the
Western Powers. The preliminaries are settled.
A letter from Munich, 23d, in the Moniteur,
says :—" It is positively stated that the Austrian
Government has shown itself very well satisfied
with the communications exchanged at Rustchuk
between Omer Paella and Colkalik. All the ques-
tions of administrative organisation will be arranged
in concert and in a conciliatory spirit between Der-
vitch Pacha, the commissioner of the Porte, and M.
Bach, the brother of the Minister of the Emperor,
the Imperial commissioner. As to the question
of proper names raised by the approaching re-esta-
blishment of the national authority in the princi-
palities, it will only be solved conformably to the
conclusions come to after the inquiry which will
be instituted by the two Governments."
A letterfrom Vienna, 22d, in the Cologne Gazette,
says:—

"On the 16th inst. Count Esterhazy, our ambassador
at St. Petersburg, communicated to Count Nesselrode
the Austrian note of the 9th, in which it recommends
the French propositions laid down by M. Drouyn de
"bye in his note of the 22d July, and states that
Austria not only find these conditions just in principle,
but that, in the present state of the question, she adopts
them completely, which is as much as saying that if
they are not now accepted more will be demanded here-
after. The Prussian note on the same subject was only
sent off to St. Petersburg on the 18th, when it was ac-
companied by a more secret and more confidential
despatch."

The Breslau Gazette has the following from
Vienna, dated the 21st :
"It is interesting to see how Russia gives evidence
of being more and more disposed to make concessions,
according as the attitude of Austria becomes more sig-
nificant. Count Demidoff, attaché to the Russian em-
bassy, who arrived some days back, was the bearer
of several despatches in that sense. Prince Gortscha-
koff yesterday handed to Count Buol a note in which
Russia proposes a common protectorate of Austria and
Russia in the Danubian principalities, with the idea
that that step might facilitate a solution. It is not yet
known of what nature was the effect produced by this
apparent concession, but it is certain that the result will
be so much the less satisfactory to Russia that the com-
plete exclusion of Russian influence on the Lower
Danube is in the contemplation, as well as to deprive
the Russian Cabinet of all means of menacing Constan-
tinople. As to Prussia, no further co-operation is ex-
pected from her, and the return of Count Arnim from
Berlin has no longer the signification that it had some
days back. Declarations have arrived from several
German States, expressing their satisfaction at the policy
followed by Austria, and promising to 'support it in the
Germanic Diet. .Several Austrian officers of rank are
shortly to leave this place to be present at the ma-
noeuvres of the camp of Boulogne."

The Moniteur quotes' the following private cor-
respondence from the Independance of Brussels :
"I am able to make known to you with precise
details an act which has already justified the doubts
I have expressed as to the correctness of the accounts
which stated that Prussia was disposed to break, and,
according to some, had even decided on breaking with
the policy of the allied powers. You know that the
identical notes which France, England, and Austria
exchanged at Vienna on the Bth, reproduced as the ne
cessary conditions of peace the four guarantees pointed
out in the despatch of M. Drouyn de l'Huys to M. de
Bourqueney. You are also aware that Austria ad-
dressed on her part to the Russian Cabinet, in reply to
the notification of the order given for the evacuatio❑ of
the Danubian principalities, a note which declares
that such evacuation could not satisfy the powers
assembled at thci Conference of Vienna to secure the
independence of the sovereignty of the Sultan, and
which mentions as indispensable the four guarantees.
Prussia had not been called on to sign the note ex-
changed between the three powers. Notwithstandit,g
that, as soon as she knew that Austria had addressed
a note to St. Petersburg, she a few days since sent
one strongly supporting it. Prussia in this document
does not confine herself to a vague and general recom-
mendation. She in her turn enumerates the four
guarantees : she explains and justifies them one by one,
and insists on their adoption by Russia, presenting
them to her as the only possible chance for the re-
establishment of peace. Whatever may be the private
hesitations of her Government, Prussia, influenced by
the position she assumed at the commencement of the
crisis, by the force of circumstances, and by public
opinion throughout all Germany, will not, I persist in
thinking, separate herself from her allies in the Con-
ference of Vienna."

CONFISCATION OF RUSSIAN ORDERS IN

WALLACHIA.

A letter from Vienna, says :
" The Wallachian Council of Administration of Bucha-
rest has ordered the confiscation of all the -Russian
crosses and decorations conferred on Wallachians during
the Russian occupation. These crosses will be sold by
auction, for the value of the gold and silver they contain,
and are to be melted down. The reason of this measure
is, that these decoraticns confer no honour on any one,
as all the Montenegrin brigands wear them. A commit-
tee has been formed to ascertain the amount of the da-
mage caused by the Russian occupation, in order that
an indemnity may be demanded from Russia, when she
shall be called on to pay for the expenses of the war.
All the decrees issued and all the nominations made by
the Russians have been annulled."

ENTRY OF THE AUSTRIAN TROOPS INTO

WALLACHIA.

The Official Gazette of Vienna, of the 22d, says :
—" The Austrian troops entered Wallachia yester-
day. The two brigades of the Woaichio division
proceeded from Hermanstadt, and General Burlo
also from Cronstadt. Count Coronini, who has
been named general-in-chief of the troops of occu-
pation, will proceed with the two brigades of
Schwarz' and Burlo to Bucharest, which place he
thinks he shall enter on the sth September. These
throe brigades will remain under the command of
General Baron Alleman in Wallachia ; whilst
i3reneral Count Coronini, as soon as he has posi-
tively heard that the Russian troops have retreated
from Moldavia, will occupy that principality with
three other brigades of his corps de armee, and will
reside alternately in the two capitals."

THE RUMOURED DEFEAT OF THE TURKS

IN ASIA.

The Constitutionnel contains the following re-
lative to the rumoured defeat of the Turks in
Asia:— ,

" Intelligence, which has reached Vienna from
Warsaw, states that the Turkish army in Asia has
been defeated at Kars. A few days before, news had
been sent from St. Petersbuig to Austria, announcing
a pretended defeat of the Turks at Bayazid,' on the
frontier of Armenia. We may be permitted to en-
tertain doubts of these rumours published by the
Russian telegraph ; and it is to be remarked that they
are not in accord amongst themselves, since one speaks
of a battle at Bayazid, and the other of one at Kars. It
is, however, certain that the two armies were in pre-
sence recently at Subatan, near Kars, and were observing
each other. The Turkish army was more numerous,
but it contained within itself an element of weakness,
which the nomination of the Hungarian General Klapka
to the chief command was destined to remove. The staff
of the army was divided, the Mushir Zarif-Pacha had
not as yet given any proof, of activity and decision.
Has General Andronikoff taken advantage of the situa-
tion to risk a battle ? Has he determined in that way
to anticipate the arrival of a new and able adversary ?
That is what we shall soon learn. But, what we know
already i., that the Russian Government is, doing all it
can to reinforce its army in Asia. Marshal Paskiewitch
has, it is said, proposed, and got adopted at St. Peters-
burg, a plan which consists of remaining altogether on
the defensive in Europe, whilst the war should be pushed
on vigorously in Asia. That plan agrees with the an.
tecedent life of the Marshal, who owes the greatest part
of his military reputation to the successes which he
had obtained in Persia, and in the Asiatic provinces
of Turkey. General Andronikoff is a man well fitted
to execute the part of the plan which is
confided to him.
He had not the political scruples of his illustrious pre-
decessor, General Woronzoff, and he is far from being
wanting in military talents. He is a Greek, whose name
was Andronicos, and who Russianised the termination of
it. Ilia countrymen are proud of his promotion. They