The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-11 00:00:00

soldiers are constantly employed parrying a* ay offal
a Wearing the ground, occupied by horses and
Aes, nothing can pi.event acts of carlessness and
,stiness en the part of the men. Now at
.kladyn the smell from the thickets in the rear
of the camp when the Light Division ]eft it was
,/most intolerable. The Guards and Highlanders
are, however, marched up to within a comparatively
short distance of this abandoned camp, and pitch
their tents at a distance which subjects them, I
should think, to the influence of its tainted
atmosphere. And where do the Light Divi-
.ion go to ? They march to Devno, which is said
o bear a proverbial name for its unhealthiness, and
they remain in a spot which I understand the prin-
cipal medical officer of the army, Dr. Hall, autho-
ritatively conderiined after his recent inspection of
it. The condition of the atmosphere of the camps
outside Varna must be worst of all, from the long-
continued encampment of troops there, and from
the larger masses of troops, Turkish, Egyptian,
Bashi-Bazouk, English, and French, congregated
there. Sir D. Evans's division seems to have
been placed in the most healthy and favourable
spot, and I believe tl►e returns from the various
divisions will be found to support the view
taken of the comparative healthiness of the sites
of the various camps. Another cause of the ill-
ness which prevails may be the long morning drills
and lengthened exposure to the rays of a broiling
sun at a time when the men are little able to resist
its effects, owing to insufficient meals. Oftentimes
they have gone out to a four hours' drill without
anything more substantial to work upon than a
cup of coffee. Sometimes they have not had even
that. Why should the officers escape almost with
impunity ? The fact of the men sleeping 15 in a
single tent, while the officers have tents to them-
selves, or a tent between two, has no doubt some-
thing to do with this difference ; but the better
feeling of the officers has, I suspect, a far greater
influence. The pork ration which is sometimes
issued is decidedly unwholesome. Mr. Warren was
seized with illness after a meal of pork, and several
persons have complained that they are never well
after it. Perhaps Mahomet was a better physiolo-
gist than we think, and found that swine flesh in
these climates is essentially unwholesome. It cer-
tainly should be washed down with something
stronger than lukewarm river water. Our gene-
rals, who were so anxious to get their men
into good working order, to, make them hardy,
to render them temperate, to wean them from
the luxuries of the malt-tub, will feel some-
what astonished if they should find—which
God forbid !—• that this .splendid army is
withered by sickness and decimated by a plague
which might have been prevented, humanly speak-
ing, if the precautions which were pointed out and
insisted on had been taken. Whatever else caused
the cholera, neither porter nor spirits had anything
to do with it. The wine sold in the canteens of the
regiments was not so cheap as to be commonly drunk
in quantities by the men, nor so had as to be delete-
rious. It was examined again and again by the
doctors, at the command of the authorities, when
they found diarrhea% increasing, and the doctors
shook their heads and talked about increase of ra-
tions and better supplies of rice, &c., as being more
germane to the matter. Apricots, which the peo-
ple here eat in enormous quantities long ere they
ripen, wore sold without let or hindrance to the me►,
in the camps, nor were juicy pumpkins and crisp
cucumbers wanting. Toe Turks and Greeks eat
them abundantly, and yet Varna is not a place
where cholera is at all common—on the contrary,
it is generally very healthy, and is not at all sub-
ject to the attacks of this terrible pestilence. In
complance with the request of our authorities the
Turks have ordered all offal to be buried with
quick lime.

RUSSIAN NEWS FROM THE WHITE SEA.

The Invalide Russe says :--On the 6th (18th) of
July, between three and four o'clock on the after-
noon, two of the enemy's steamers, ono of which
was the Miranda, having approached the monas-
tery of Solovetsky, began to fire balls and shells at
it. Between four and five o'clock the cannonade
ceased, and the bearer of a flag of truce presented
himself before the monastery to demand its uncon-
ditional surrender, as well as that of the garrison.
The superior of the monastery, the Archimandrite
Alexander, refused to obey this summons of the
enemy, and the next. day; 'at eight o'clock, the
steamers recommenced the bombardment, which
they continued incessantly until five o'clock in the
afternoon.

In spite of this bombardment of nine hours,
nobody was either killed or wounded in the interior
of the monastery ; the only injury was, that the
wooden inn situated without the walls was pierced
with several shot. As to the edifice situated in
the interior of the ancient walls of the monastery
they did not sustain any injury.
After having ceased their fire the steamers
weighed anchor and sailed for the cape in the Bay
of Onega, where they arrived on the Bth (20th) of
July, near the village of Liamitskaia, and on the
9th the crew landed on the island of Kyi (15 versts
from Onega), sot fire to the Custom-house and
several adjacent buildings, and entered the monas-
tery, whence they carried away a bronze bell,
which they took on board the Miranda, as well as
S3veral articles which they found at the Custom-
house.