The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-28 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE.

Our latest letters received from Constantinople
bear date the 14th. News from the Crimea

looked for with the greatest anxiety.
The Turkish army is now idle, and likely to re-
main so, unless a campaign on the Lower Danube
form part of the operations of the allies. The forces
of Omer Pasha are in excellent condition, aud,
should they i e kept inactive during the present sea-
son, they might be used with good effect in the at-
tack on Ismail and the surrounding country, which
will be necessary for the deliverance of the Danube
from the enemy. There is a chain of works from Ismail
to the sea, which is exceedingly strong, and will no
doubt be held with great pertinacity, as the chief
defence of Bessarabia, and as assuring the possession
of the river. Should the allied armies return vic-
torious from Sebastopol, they could not be better
, employed than in the reduction of these fortresses,
an operation which might commence with the early
spring, and end successfully before the returning
heats rendered the country unhealthy and the march
of Russian enforcements an easy task. With the
fall of Ismail and Akerman the military possession
of Bessarabia might be easily secured. The people
are said to be unfriendly to the Russian power, and
though statements of this kind are not always to
be relied upon, since the wish of the asserters is
generally father to the thought, still it is probable
that the allies would meet no determined resist-
ance after the evacuation of the province by
the Russian armies. The Romanic popula-
tion cannot have been long enough under the
Muscovite yoke to have forgotten their sympathies
with their Moldo-Wallachian brethren. Indeed,
the latter always assert that those of their race
who fell under the power of Russia by the peace of
Bucharest are anxious to be re-annexed to the
principal stock, and their plans for a future unity
always embrace these as well as the kindred in-
habitants of Transylvania and the Bukowina.
The strong positions which this province affords
will give an easily defended base for the future
operations, and the liberation of the Danube will
allow the Austrians to unite their forces to the
allies without the necessity of painful marches
through a territory where the soil is deep and
muddy, and where the roads, often merely a track
worn by the passage of horses, serve rather to in-
dicate the direction than to ease the journey.

THE PR IN C IPALITIES.
THE RETREAT OF THE RUSSIANS.

JAssY, SEPT. 16.—The Vienna Lloyd says the
retreating Russians are breaking down behind them
all the bridges they throw across the Pruth, and
have fortified all the points on the other side of
that river where they think an attack from their
enemies is not impossible. These bridges built
by themselves have bean, therefore, so built for
their own retreat ; and we have, therefore, not had
to erect golden bridges for effecting the same end.
Our poor country has suffered much from, them.
The utterly impoverished districts of Vilenie,
Epureni, Luncesti, Bolen, Fultsty, Paschkane,
Lassa, Lipovetz, Vintec, Golochei, Korni, Do-
maska, Tomoscheni, Brasute, and many more, are
mournful witnesses of the Muscovite occupation.
These districts, which I have just named to you,
were among the wealthiest, especially in their live
stock, of our principality, arid now, through the
incessant requisitions and robberies of the Cossacks
they have been literally reduced to beggary.
Later reports of the 18th from Jassy supply us
with some details respecting the departure, already
announced, of Prince Gortschakoff. Every ceremony
connected with leave of absence wasforbidden. The
Prince crossed the frontier in his carriage at eight iu
the morning. In spite of the order to the contrary,
some boyards did assemble through politeness in his
apartments and accompanied him to his carriage.
As soon as the Prince had taken his seat in it a
young boyard, in very ambiguous language, re-
minded the Prince that he had, in Krajova and in
Bucharest, promised the speedy return of the Rus-
sians, but had not given the same promise in Jassy,
probably through forgetfulness. The Prince did
not vouchsafe a word in reply, and started in
towering wrath without any parting salutation.
At Bender there was not a single Russian soldier
on the 18th inst. The Moldavian militia is being
reorganised.