The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-21 00:00:00

THE BLACK SEA.

We have correspondence from the fleet up to the
9th instant.

Vice-Admiral Dundas and our allies remained
at Baltchick at that date.

The Tribune, 31, screw, Captain the Hon. S. T.
Carnegie, and Diamond, 28, Captain Peel, . joined
the fleet, the former from England, and the latter
from the Piraeus, on the 7th inst.

The Admiral had despatched the Sidon, 22, pad-
dle, Captain Goldsmith, to the coast of Georgia.
Fury, 6, paddle, Commander Tatham, had not
returned from Odessa.

Rear-Admiral Boxer had hoisted his flag on
board the Harpy, 3, paddle, on her arrival on the
Ist inst. at Beycos.
The Wasp, 14, screw, Commander Lord John.
Hay,and. the Medina, 4, paddle, Lieutenant Com-
mander Beresford, were at Beycos on the 10th.
The following is an extract of a private letter
from the fleet. Lieutenant Glyn referred to is
the son of Mr. Carr Glyn, M.P., the City banker.
BALDRIC, July 8, 1854.—There is nothing going
on. The armies are unable to move as yet, or if
able nothing great would be undertaken before
Austria is fully committed in the war. Let her
come into the provinces, and we will think seri-
ously of the Crimea. But the troops, French and
English, are not iu a state, just yet, to carry on
any difficult operations on even a sea-board. The
commissariat is the universal object of complaint.
If the Russians hatt been able to contend against
the Turks, they might have taken Silistria for all
that the allied armies could have done, for want of
a commissariat. The defence of Silistria has been
very glorious to the old Turks, and I hope they
will get full credit for it. The Russians, no doubt,
put forth all their strength against them.
There have been but few changes in the fleet
since I last wrote. We have three steamers off
Sebastopol observing the enemy's fleet and block-
ading. The screw-ship in Circassia; the San.spareil
is at Varna ; the Diamond and Tribune, ships,
joined to-day.
Captain Symonds, of the Agamemnon, has gone
back to his old ship, the Arethusa.
Lieutenant Glyn, of the flag-ship, having under
him the Prince Ernest of Leiningen, belonging to
the same ship, and 30 petty officers and seamen
from the fleet, has been detached from the flag-
ship, and placed under the orders of the military
commander-in-chief.

They disembarked yesterday at Varna from the
Caradoc, and proceeded, by land of course, towards
Rustchuck. Mr. Glyn expects to find at that place
some gun:boats belonging to the Turks, which he
will take command of, and man them by his own
seamen. He is a clever, active, zealous young
officer, and will either sink in the Danube or suc-
ceed. His second in command, Prince Ernest,
although not actually belonging to the service, will
go in with no less gusto against the Muscovites.
They started yesterday from Varna, accompanied
by a party of sappers, all mounted. How the
Jacks will get on, mounted on Arab steeds, is more
than I can say ; but they will be more fatigued by
this short journey to the Danube than by a voyage
of 10,000 miles. This little naval expedition is, I
suppose, to reconnoitre and feel the way with gun-
boats in the Danube, and will probably be soon fol-
lowed by other parties detached from the fleet. If
destined to remain here much longer this will be a
popular service. We are still detained here by the
military chiefs. I repeat, my idea is that neither
the armies nor the fleets will move till Austria has
fully committed herself.
The Fury passed through the fleet last night on
her way from Constantinople to Odessa, with the
Russian prisoners that were captured on the coast
of Circassia on landing ; the admiral having lately
received a favourable answer to his proposdtion for
the exchange of prisoners.