The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-05 00:00:00

TWO STEAMERS STRANDED IN THE
BLACK SEA.

ODESSA, JULY 2. —Two steamers have been
stranded off the Sulina mouths, beyond the reach
of the Russian batteries. The crews are endeavour-
ing to get them off.

BATTLE NEAR _ SILISTRIA-2,500 RUS-

SIANS KILLED.

The Wanderer of Vienna has the following from
Orsova, dated the 29th ult. :—" Sami Pacha, the
governor of Lesser Wallachia, bas stated officially
that, according to a despatch from Omer Pacha,
dated the 24th, the Russian rear-guard of 25,000
men and 21 pieces of cannon was attacked on the
22d, near Silistria, by Girotli Mehemet Pacha, the
new governor of that fortress. The battle, which
lasted two days, ended in the defeat of the Russians,
who are said to have had 2,500 killed. All the
Russian troops are stated, on hearing that the army
of Schumla was about to march to attack them, to
have abandoned not only the environs of Silistria,
but also the Dobrudscha."

MOVEMENTS OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY.
BELGRADE, July 3.—Prince Gortschakoff has
promised the Wallachian militia to remain in the
principalities.
BUCHAREST, July I.—PrinCe Gortschakoff 's
head-quarters are removed to Untenzi.
General Anrep and victualling horses have been
sent to Plojesti.

The retirement of the Russians behind the Pruth
within two weeks is highly probable.

Prince Gortschakoff has ordered General Bud-
berg, with the chancery, to Fokschan within forty-
eight hours.

A despatch from Bucharest, of July 1, says that
three Russian transports laden with ammunition
were lost while going down the river to Galatz.
The crews were saved.

A letter from Warsaw of the 26th ult., in the
Press of Vienna, says :—" It is said here that de-
spatches had arrived from St. Petersburg, ordering
the evacuation of the principalities and the retreat
of the Russian army behind the Pruth ; but from
what we understand it is only Wallachia that is to
be evacuated, and the Russians will continue to
occupy Moldavia. As to the evacuation of Wal-
lachia that fact is certain, General Rudiger having
been officially informed of it. But in military
circles here this retreat is not by any means con-
sidered as a proof of any want of success on the
part of our arms. It is, on the contrary, explained
as a consequence of new strategical plans, requir-
ing the concentration of all the forces on a single
point. It is only when that concentration shall
have been effected that the great blow, it is said,
will be struck. The Princess de Paskiewitsch has
just set out for Jassy. Her passports had been
refused her in consequence of a rule having been
laid down by the Prince himself, which was to
prevent every officer's wife, were it even his own, to
proceed to the theatre of war."

FORTIFICATIONS OF WARSAW.
On the Ist instant the persons at Warsaw who
inhabit the streets near the citadel, received orders
to evacuate their houses, which are to be imme-
diately demolished in order that the fortifications
may be extended.

THE RUSSIAN LOAN FORBIDDEN BY THE

EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS.

Correspondence from most of the leading com-
mercial towns of Europe, says a letter from Brus-
sels, July 2nd, announces that all the Governments
have agreed to forbid the public negotiation of the
Russian loan. The Journal Allemand of Frank-
fort, in an official communication, pronounces an
energetic denunciation against whoever may be
disposed to participate in that operation. It is
so reprobated in Germany, that the house of Beth-
mann has explained that it only took part in the
Russian loan in consequence of its connexion with
the house at St. Petersburg charged with the
affair. The executive power of Hamburg, the
Dutch Government, and the Belgian Government,
have declared that they will oppose, as far as de-
pends upon them, any transaction relative to the
Russian loan. In England the Crown lawyers
have declared that all participation in the loan
would be considered as an act of treason. In the
face of such unanimity, it is useless to add that the
new Russian loan was from the very first looked
upon with suspicion, and considered in itself as an
operation without solidity.