The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-18 00:00:00

THE DANUBE.

Despatches from Orsova state that Mehemet
Pacha defeated the Russian brigade at Czernawoda,
in the Dobrudscha, on the Bth, after five hours'
hard fighting, and took possession of the place.
Nine thousand men of the fourth division of the
French army of the East arrived at Varna on the
2d inst., and disembarked.

The death of Captain Butler, one of the English
defenders of Silistria, is confirmed by letters from
the Danube. His remains were buried in a Chris-
tian cemetery not far from the fortress.

STATE OF BUCHAREST.
According to letters from Bucharest of the 10th,
the state of public feeling in that city was one of
indescribable alarm and confusion. No one there
doubted that Wallachia was about to be purged of
the Muscovites, but it was feared that the town
might be laid in ashes in the meanwhile. Russian
couriers were riding to and fro ; battalions were
driven through on forced marches, and all kinds of
rumours were in circulation. The wounded Rus-
sians, of whom 150 waggon loads had been con-
veyed to Bucharest, had increased the general
anxiety by their dismal accounts of the state of
things at Giurgevo.
The Lloyd, under date of Bucharest, Gth, says:
—" Great alarm prevails in this place. General
Budberg this morning ordered all the keepers of the
archives of the Wallachian ministries to make up
their documents in packages, ready for immediate
removal. A picket of Cossacks is placed before
each building containing the archives, and every-
employe on leaving the office is closely searched, in
order that no document may be removed. This
singular measure can only be accounted for by the
fear entertained by the Russians of seeing certain
documents published. In the archives of the Mi-
nister of Foreign Affairs is a document of Peterhof,
of Ist May, in which the most insulting expres-
sions are made use of towards such Boyards as are
hostile to Russia, and in which the Sultan is repre-
sented as being absolutely crushed to the earth by
the Czar. In another document, of Ist Juno, the
Wallachiaus are threatened with the severest
punishments if they manifest any friendly feelings
towards Austria.''

The Paris papers of yesterday publish private
despatches from Vienna, according to which the
Turks under Omer Pacha have entered Bucharest.
The Monitcur does not mention such an occur-
rence.

AUSTRIA OUTWITTED.
Letters from Vienna state that it was known
there that the forward movement of the Ottoman
army and that of the allies was resolved on and
commenced as soon as it became evident that the
Austrian Government did not mean honestly to
fulfil its treaty with the Porte and enter Wallachia
to turn out the Russians. It is stated that the
Minister of the Sultan at Vienna has requested
that the Austrian Government will not, under the
circumstances, send its troops into any other pro-
vince of the Sultan's dominions, under the sup-
posed authority of the convention, or -of the notes
which have been since exchanged.
Col. Manteuffel proceeded on Monday night on
a special mission from Berlin to Vienna.
The semi-official Zeit. of the 13th publishes an
article for the purpose of Showing that the engage-
ments undertaken by Austria in her treaty with
Prussia are on no account to be understood as bind-
ing her to demand the unconditional and immediate
evacuation of the Turkish Principalities by Russia.
"If Russia declare she will continue merely to oc-
cupy Moldavia, with perhaps a portion of Wal-
lachia, for a season, until the affair be peaceably
arranged," the casus WU will not have arisen. .

CONSTANTINOPLE.
OBJECT OF THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE'S
RETURN.
A letter from the Turkish capital, of July 5, says :
—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ar-
rived here on Sunday, 2d inst., on board the Retri-
bution, and returned to head-quarters at Varna on
the following day.
The object of the Prince's short
visit to Constantinople was, it is understood, to con-
fer with M. de Bruck, and ascertain the final decision.
and attitude of the Austrian Government. This deli-
cate mission was undertaken by his Royal High-
ness at the express desire of Marshal St. Arnaud
and Lord Raglan, who declared,
they can no longer rest under arms, and are fully
Internuncio,
entitled to demand whether Austria may be con-
best. of his judgment, it appears, that
sidered a friend or foe in the coming struggle.. The
protested,. it is said, in the honourable intentions
of his Government, and that there was not, to the
in reply to the queries of the Prince,
deviation from that line of policy already
.traced
out, but that no advices had yet reached him re-
was. elicited the smallest chance of a
specting the final result, and the impression pro-
duced at St. Petersburg by the last propositions of
to throw any
the Austrian Government. Nothing, therefore,
during the Prince's interview, and his Royal
Highness had to return to the camp as wise as
light on this question
he came, after having communicated the result
to Lord Redeliffe. What the effects of this an-
swer may be as regards the Commanders of the
allied forces, it is, of course, impossible to deter-
mine. However, the latest intelligence from the
Danube announces the expected arrival of Omer
T
Pacha at Varna, that the
urkish army is advan-
cing in four columns, 36 battalions each, to effect
ajunction with the Anglo-French force, and that
the Dobrudscha as well as all the enemy's positions
on the right bank have been completely abandoned,
and the whole country laid waste—a scene of ruin
and desolation. Such atrocious acts of these bar-
barous hordes merit prompt vengeance—and aro,
it must be admitted, an awful requital for the
.humanity and generosity displayed by the admirals
in sparing the town of Odessa. The Turkish fleet
entered the Bosphorus on Saturday last, Ist inst.,
with the exception of a small steam division under
the command of Ahmet Pacha, which has remained
with the allied squadrons. The cause of this inci-
dent is not generally known, but it is supposed
that Admirals Dundas and Hamelin consider the
force under their command quite sufficient for every
purpose in the Euxine, and that the Turkish squad-
ron, by guarding the pass of the Bosphorus/ would

contribute best to the success of their present plans.
It is generally supposed that a contingent of the
British troops will be despatched without delay to
the Crimea, and that the destruction of the Russian
fleet and Sebastopol, if it can be effected this year,
is the great and absorbing object in contemplation.
The Turkish Government has sent in within the
last few days a note to the Hellenic Government,
offering to reopen its ports to Greek commercial
enterprise, on condition, however, that within a
delay of two months, a public reparation be made
and an indemnity allowed for the losses and in-
juries resulting from the invasion of the Ottoman
territory by the subjects ofKing 0 tho. The Turkish
government is preparing a plan for the entire re-
organisation of the Danubian provinces. Although
nothing as yet has assumed a definite shape, there
was a question somedays ago of despatching a high
functionary on a special mission, for the purpose
of ascertaining all that is required for the new
order of things, and the entire reconstruction of the
administrative system. It cannot be too urgently
impressed on the Porte the absolute necessity of
discarding irrevocably the whole personnel
hitherto in employ, which has been invariably more
or less hostile to the interest of the Sultan, and the
indefatigable instrument of Russian intrigues.
There is no longer any question of the Hospoclars
Stirbey and Ghika, but whether the Porte will at
length comprehend its true interest, by the rigour-
' ous exclusion of other not less dangerous notabili-
ties. Austria is very anxious for the reinstatement
of Stirbey and Ghika. On the Ist inst. some more
vessels, with Russian prisoners, arrived at Constan-
tinople. That© men having been questioned on
many points relating to the present condition of the
Russian army, declared, without hesitation, that
the losses and misfcrtunes sustained during the
seige of Silistria had produced such an affect, such
utter demoralisation in their ranks, that those di-
visions could no longer take the field without being
remodelled, and drafted into other regiments. The
poor fellows also frankly admitted that they had
been labouring under a gross delusion, and that
they were now fully convinced that the walls and
cupolas of the Holy City were not, as represented
to them, situated exactly behind the fortifications
of Silistria.

THE BALTIC.

COPENHAGEN, July 11. To-day's post has
brought no further intelligence respecting the
second bombardment of Bomarsund. There would
appear, therefore, to have been some mistake or
exaggeration. Its capture cannot be difficult, and
cannot be far off, for the French landing troops will
doubtless be quartered there.
The Swedish Parliament—that is, the House of
Burgesses, and the House of Yeomen, the only
two which have any independence, the two upper
houses being mere court tools—have made a deter-
mined effort to free their country from the despotic
reactionary and Russianising Cabinet now in power.
The Burgesses have demanded the dismissal of
Palmstjerna, Reuterdahl, and Gripenstedt ; the
Yeomen that of Sparre and Palmstjerna, and also
(without even a division) of Reuterdahl, Fahraatv,
and Gripenstedt. This is an important event, but
it is doubtful whether it will lead to any immediate
change. Notwithstanding such a vote of want of
confidence, it is expected that the Swedish Minis-
ters, like their comrades in Denmark, will not go
out. Many of the speeches were bitter in the ex-
treme. The most eloquent and remarkable was
that of the Yeoman Sahlstrom, who gave a lively
picture of the despotism and degradation which
now overwhelm a nation of the noblest origin, and
with the noblest capabilities. The Valorous has
been at Gefie ; and while there, its officers were
invited to a dinner by a number of the citizens.
Finland has now reached another stage of Russi-
fication. On its seizure, highwayman fashion, by
Alexander, that Czar guaranteed its privilege not
to subject it to any conscription colonised militia.
Instead thereof, it had to furnish and keep
two regiments of recruited soldiers. But, as
we know, all Russian oaths and treaties are not
worth the paper they are written upon. An
ukase has just appeared, announcing that Fin-
land hp made such immense moral and material
progress, that its time has now come to be
blessed with this new military conscription, and
that, as a beginning, two battalions of sharpshooters
shall 1-13 immediately established, one in the Abo-
Bjorneborg district, and the other in Vassa-Ulea-
berg, all at the expense of the Finlanders them-
selves. If the West does not know what Finland
is good for, the Autocrat does. These two batta-
lions are expressly stated to be only "a beginning,"
and unfortunate Finland may therefore expect to
be drained of blood and money quite openly, at
the caprice of its robbers. These troops will be
sent to Poland, or the Crimea, or somewhere whore
their fidelity will be unquestioned, while Cossacks
and other bandits will take their place.
King Frederick had made a triumphant entry
into his newly-purchased palace of Jmgerspris,
which is to be restored to its ancient splendour.
His Majesty is so much the more popular in its
neighbourhood, as he has freed all the peasants
attached to the domain from overyremaining feudal
tie, hereby carrying into effect the object aimed at
by the peasant league, which will, however, make
this change compulsory, instead of the result of
voluntary conviction and mutual advantage.
The following is an extract of a letter, dated her
Majesty's ship —, Barosund, July 10 :
"We sailed from Cronstadt on the Ist inst. The
reasons for our retrograde movement were of course not
communicated ; but, as cholera was somewhat in-
creasing, it was attributed to that pest. The French
screw liner Austerlitz has been the greatest sufferer ;
she is said to have lost thirty men altogether. But,
since we left Cronstadt, the cases have much di-
minished. On the 2d, the Imperieuse and four other
steamers were detached to look at Viborg, and see if any
shipping lay there. The town stands at the northern
extremity of a narrow inlet, about thirty miles long, with
a very intricate passage. The steamers worked up within
about three miles of the town, but as they could only see
afew boats near the shore, they were not molested. It is
extraordinary. hat none of our vessels have been able to
fall in with or discover any of the Russian armed row-boats,
•of which we heard so much boasting. They seem to keep
as snug as their large vessels. On the 3d the detached
steamers rejoined, and we all proceeded to Barosund, which
we reached on the 6th, leaving orders in passing Sveaborg
for Admiral Corry's squadron to follow. The whole fleet
reached the anchorage in perfect safety, except a French
line-of-battle ship in tow of a steamer. This vessel struck
upon a rock somewhat heavily, as she was going five
knots. All the boats of the fleet were immediately
ordered to her assistance, and succeeded, after she was
lightened of her principal heavy guns, in getting her off
in about twelve hours, with scarcely any damage, except
a few sheets of copper ripped off from the bottom. The
whole fleet is now assembled here, with the exception of
Plumridge's squadron and a few steamers on blockade
duty."
The above extract accounts for, and sets at rest,
the reports emanating from St. Petersburg, and
propagated and amplified with pious zeal, by Rus-
sian friendly continental journals, of the loss and
capture of sundry vessels of the Baltic fleet.
An English naval officer is reported to have rob
turned home in all haste from Memel, by land in
order to take the command of the shallow-going
gun boats destined for the Baltic. The Dauntless
left Copenhagen Roads on the 11th, taking a
southerly course.

were put on board, to their great delight and some-
what of astonishment at the promptitude displayed.
The Stromboli, with her two transports, under the
direction of Lieutenant William Hay, will get
under weigh this afternoon for the Baltic. Tons
of camp equipage, shot and shell, field-pieces, and
ammunition waggons, continue to pour into the
town, which is so full that there is no bed to be
got for love or money. A ball will be given this
evening to which all the officers of both nations are
invited.

The Emperor and Empress leave for Bayonne on
the 19th. Their Majesties will return by the 15th
of August. _

TheEmperor\having put off his visit to Toulon
and Marseslles until September, the " Camp of the
South " will not assemble before that date, on ac-
count of tie cholera.

The Moniteur publishes a decree fot ded on a
report of the Minister of the Interior, orbning an
additional credit of 300,000 f. from the budget of
1854, to be employed in giving assistance to chari-
table establish

" General Baraguay d'Hilliers," says the Con-
stitittionnel, "arrived in Paris ou Saturday even-
ing, where, however, ho will make but a very
short stay."

General Baraguay has been replaced
by General Schramm, in the command of the expe-
ditionary corps which has just been embarked for
the Baltic. A second division of French troops is
shortly to be despatched to the same destination,
under the orders of General Baraguay
and 6,000 English are to be joined to them. The
allied Powers will then have in the Baltic a force
of about 30,000 men, capable of taking up and
guarding any position which might be considered
of a nature to servo as the base of operations in
the war ; and of giving Sweden a sufficient mate-
rial guarantee, that in no case, should she consent
to depart from her present system of neutrality,
will she be exposed without aid to the resentment
of Russia. Letters have been received here
from a good source in Sweden, which affirm
that the Swedish Government hasformally declared
its intention not to join in the course adopted by
the Western Powers, and which they solicit Sweden
to give her adhesion to, unless the Isles of Aland,
or some important point in Finland, should be occu-
pied by a body of Anglo-French troops, of a force
sufficient to be spared the necessity of withdrawing
at the approach of winter. Sweden does not as yet
undertake absolutely to act against Russia, but she
allows it to be understood. These letters declare
that she would so act, on certain conditions, one of
which is the payment of a monthly subsidy, as has
been already stated. The amount of that allow-
ance would be calculated, it is said, according to the
difference of keeping 60,000 men on a peace footing
and one of war.

A telegraphic despatch from Copenhagen states,
that the Chamber of the Clergy in the Diet has
adopted the bill for emancipating the Jews.
We read in the Constitutionnel :—" The Empe-
ror has presented to M. Monello de Loisne, the
sub-prefect of Boulogne, a very valuable autograph,
namely, the proclamation of his Majesty to the ex-
peditionary corps of the Baltic, wholly written by
his own hand, and dated from the camp of Vime-
reux."

The Three per Cents. opened to-day at 71f. 60c.,
rose to 71f. 80c., and then fell to 71f. 10c. the
closing price for the end of the month ; the Four-
and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 98f. ; the New
Loan was not quoted ; Orleans Railway Shares,
1,160 f. ; Rouen, 1,025 f. ; Havre, 585 E ; Great
Northern, 817 f. 50c. ; Strasburg, 780 f. ; New
Shares, 612 E 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 937 f. 50c. ;
Lyons to the Mediterranean, 840 E ; Western of
France, 640 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 600 f.