The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-28 00:00:00

PRINCE PASKIEWITCH.

We read iu the Indepenthinte of Brifssels
"'rue rumour of the disgrace of Prince Paskie.
witch was Completely inexact. Tne account:,
which have arrived to-day from Kamenetz in Podo.
ha, Inu;aiticed that since the MarAat's arrival a
seat at Hummel his health has much improved,
These' letters confirm the rumour that he wil
s tort:y resume the command of the Et us-iau arm)
,u the Principalities, and they even give the daft
of the 27th a 4 that of the d,y on which he is tt.
depart from Hommel for the army."

THE BRITISH EXPEOITION IN THE EAST.
CAMP NEAR DEVNO, BULGARIA, July 13.—Lord
Cardigan has returned to camp with the detach-
gloats of Light Cavalry, with which he effected a
reconnaissance along the banks of the Danube,
Towards Rust.huk and Silistria. It is reported
that at one point of the river they saw the Rus.-
sianm in force under General Linkrs, and that the
General asked a Turkish °dicer who went over
with a -Hag of truce, on some busine,s, the naturt.
ot which has not trauspirtk,whether the cavalry
at the other side were French or English. lit,
-was informed they were English, and he then took
t long look at them, ''.l;`Ut he did not make any ole
4,_levation, nor did he direct any fire to be madt
up in them. The nohle-.lord and his men- wets.
without tents, and bivouacked for 17 nights.
Oa the 11th, Tuesday, the distressing intelligence
,f the of at Gturgevo on Friday last reached
'is, and caused the liveliest eensatiou. No par.
• iculars are known here as yet, and the versions
,f the story differ very much, but all agree as to
the names and nambei of the British off ert ki!le+l.
Captain But and Mr. Burke, ot the I'uyal
4ineers, '&O., had gone up to Silistria ou particular
svrviee connected with the defences of e place,
'tad with the oltject of surveying and reporti eg-
the forts along the D inube. It so happened thim
while they were. ia Rustelnik the Torks resolved
to force the river and attack the Russians, who
were on- the other side of the river. Aining the
British officers on the spot at the time were Mr.
Burke, Royai Engineers, Mr. Meynell, 75th Regi-
ment, and Mr. Arnold, of the Indian army, and
they all engaged in the expedition, which was not
the first of the kind in which Mr. Burke had
taken part within a short time previously. T.te
result is melancholy. lii a tierce attack on the
Russian intrenched camp on Friday last the Turks
wei e received with such a heavy mitraille that they
wavered and fell back. Mr. 1316ke, Mr. Moyne'''.
and Mr. Arnold rushed forward to rally and cheer
'llO,ll 011, and, rendered only too cou4picuous by
their gallantry and daring, they tell dead bef,orei a
fire forn the Russian ritlemen
was a universal favourite, an excelleuthoth
and
courageous to a fault. He is
and
sympathyr,i'gr'etted
throughout the Light Division, aht greatheConnaught
rein felt for his brother, a captain. in the ito
liiin:onstuolhiot
Itingeerts ut a mispronu,i-
peopl liiWukhotlwiaats ‘d'elpritylolaAcillb
elation of the name of an engineer officer who is
known to have been
up. at
BRustchuk a short time
back, along with Captain alt. The night before
this there was a general belief tit at peace would
soon
be proclaimed, ina.su inch as an Austrian envoy
was reported to bedining with General Brown,
and this Austrian envoy was ou his way from
3humla, where he had held lung interviews with
Omer Pasha, to Varna, where he was to consult
1.4..nt Raglan and M. St. Aruaud. Then there was
a universal rumour that " the War had abdicated,"
anti, further, it was said that " the Duke of Cain-
bridge had said that the cavalry would be home by
November, and the infantry by May." Later in
the evening, however, this story received a severe
check in the shape of an opposing current of gossip,
to the effect that it was " certain we are going to
Sebastopol, because A told B that C had said
so ;" though some
.stoutly held out that peace
was actually proclaimed, and that they knew the
conditions, but did not like telling them. Peace
proclaimed I • Why, surely it'cannot be affirmed we
are at war, or that the allied armies have t ken a
belligerent part or exhibited warlike, action since
they landed in Turkey. Our parades, reviews,
drills, and inspections are as harmless and inhoceza
as if they took place at Satori or Chobhani, and
our whole operatious,Of offence by laud have been
confined to,; first, a reconnoitring excursion by Lord
Cardigan ; secondly, the despatch of some engineer
officers and S tpoers to Sdistria and Rustehuk ;
thirdly, the march-of a few French Pontoniers iu
the same direction (on Tuesday, the 11th) ; and
fourthly,.the: further -despatch of a company of
140 sailors to Rustchuk, to construct a bridge across
from the bank to the islands, and thence across to
to the other side. To those who advocate the
necessity of striking some powerful blow at the
most vital point of our gigantic antagonist there is
one reply,—" It would be madness to attempt
Sebastopol." The Generals say our fleet is not
prepared for it, and it would take one or
two years to. provide our army with the means
of disembarking in the face of a' powerful
enemy and- of prosecuting with success the siege
of such a fortress. Surely all these difficul-
ties, if they exist, ought to have been foreseen.
Several acts of violence have been committed by
the natives on the road to Varna. A gentleman
who is correspondent for ono of the London jour-
nals has been flied at, and the person who shot at
him has been arrest:d and flogged. A canteen
man has been murdered. Some of our mail-bags
have gone astray. and letters for the 83th Regi-
ment have been found.. scattered by the hedges all
along to Varna.
Ott Suuday last Major-General Bentinck ad-
dressed his officers, after church parade, on the
subject of shaving, and informed them that they
must use their razors. The Duke of Cambridge
referred the matter to L )rd Raglan, and it is un-
derstood that. his lordship has, decided that mum-
taches may be • worn, but not beards. It is said
that upwar as cf 70- horses (,f Lord Cardigan's de-
tachment have been laid up in consequence of sore
backs durino, 0 the recent 'recomibuiesance. The Ftelicil
atia .real aill Wilma Ir#VA 01104._ 0141040e;ii see

ut.:Teying the passes
of Pontoniers went
Sihitaia un Tins lay.

of the Balkan, and a number
up past this to Sliumla and

OMER PACH.A.'S V.L411 TO SILISTIUA.
SILISTRIA, giant; Generalissiino, Oiner•
Pacha, has just arrived in this city. The Governor
of the place, Mahanoud Paella, went out to meet •
him, and received from his hands the grand cross
of the Metijid. Omer 13,&a-t, in presenting the
cross, said that he had come for the purpose of
congratulating the garrison on its excellent con-
duct, and ho charged the Governor to express to
all the troops the satisfaction which he felt. On
the very day of his arrival he paid a visit to the
fort of Arabqa,bia, of which the heroic resistance
was sufficient to cheek, during forty days, one of
the most powerful armies of Europe. It is really
impossible to understand how the Russians did
not, on the very fist shock, carry this lit-
tle earthen fortress. It has only three demi-
bastions, and is open at the gorge. Omer Paella
has expressed his deep sorrow at the loss of Cap-
tain Butler, who died on the very day of the re-
treat
of the Russians. He has decided that a py-
ramid shall ba erected in the middle of the fort in
honour of the soldiers who have died in its defence,
and that the mortal remains of Captain Butler
shall be carried to the saute place. A special mo-
uttruent is to be erected to iihmortalise the devotion
of that valiant' officer. On the following day the
Generalissimo inspected the trenches constructed
by the Russians on the right bank of the Danube.
These trenches were constructed with great care
and are of immense extent. It is evident that the
Russians had been making preparations to offer
battle at that place to the allied army if it had
advanced for the purpose of relieving the town.
The Russians did not carry away the remains
of their bridges till the 26th. The Turks have
advanced a battery which has forced the Rus-
sians to send down towards Rassova, the last of
the --pontoons which remained in front of Silis-
tria. Their batteries have killed' two Turk-
ish soldiers and three horses. It is calculated
that during the whole duration of the
siege the Russians have lost, in kilted
wounded, and sick, about 16,000 men. The Turks
!lave had 650 killed, and about tire same number
wounded ; but that calculati does not include
;,he irregular troops, which were more exposed
ban the others. The Arnatics have done great
mischief to the Russians ; they established them-
4elVes in the ditches of Arab-Tabia an•l kept firing,
ipon the Russians with remarkable effect and cor-
,ectuess of aim. Tse Bashi-Blzottks have a!so
iaffered much. From the heights of Silistria we
lis.inguish perfectly the whole of the Russian army
wilich is concentrated near Kalarasch. Eight sepa-
care camps be reckoned. Several deserters,
.rho passed the Dann be by swimming, state that great
iseouragement exists in the Russian army. • The
vigilance of the Cossacks, who whip up all laggers
vith the knout, prevents desertion ; but if the
Liglish and French armies come up there is not a
loubtin my mind that numbers of the Russians
.vould come over to them, having more confi hence
in them than in the Turks. It is calculated that
he ar..ty which blockaded Silistria did not consist
if more than 50,000 men and 2,000 horses, and
that the whole of the troops from Ginrgevo to Ras.:
soya was not more than 70;000 men. But the
Ittissians have left very considerable troop's in Bes-
sarabia, and the reserve corps of dragoons has re-
ceived a counter-Order and taken up its canton-
ments in Moldavia. The town of Silistria is much
injured, and the quarter of the Christians is nearly
iestroyed. Scarcely a house can be shown without

he mark of a cannou ball, an I the streets are torn
with shells. The Russians having left their
lead bodies buri d within a few inches of the
grotmd, the air •is quite infected with the odour,
knd the c.ins.;quence is an *name() of fever.
['here is near this place a considerable camp,
which is under the orders .of Ismail Pacha, an
ixcellent general, the conqueror of the Russians at
Jitate. Another camp is to be formed near R.ist-
;bilk, and the division of Hassan Pacha has re-
.;rived orders to proceed there. The Generalis-
:lino is to return to-morrow with his staff to
ichtunla. It will he a difficult matter for the
['urks to come up with the Russian army as it
wants the m...tins of constructing bridges over the
Danube. The RussiimS. have Xestroyel a part of
the boats which they possessed, and the Turks have
no bridge equipage. They are masters of some
boats, sufficient to carry over a few detachments.
;inly, and not a large body of troops. The villages
around Sitistria winch were abandoned during the
4iege are now again inhabited. The inhabitants,
who had buried their wheat, in order not to deliver
it to the Russians, have already furbished 300;000
kilogrammes to the Turkish authorities, which will
suffice for the support o' the army of Ismail Paella
and of the garrison of Sdistria, now, to-all appear-
ance for a great length of time, free from the hot:
rocs of a siege.