The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-03 00:00:00

OUB SUSPICIOUS ALLY-AUSTRIA.

There are some facts, connected with the Crimean
expedition, upon which the journalists, who attribute
to them unreal and impossible incursions into the Do-
brudscha touch Tory gingerly. Marshal St. Arnaud
and Lord Raglan sent an account of their successful
landing to Omer Pasha as soon as to Constantinople and
their own Governments. This haste to acquaint the
commander of the Turkish army on the Danube seems
to imply a previous understanding between him and the
allied commanders, in virtue of which the success of
our arms in the Crimea was to deterinine the time and
mode of his advance upon the retreating Russians. In
other words, it would appear that the movement upon
Sebastopol was to be combined with a movement upon
the Bessarabian frontier. Connected with this combina-
tion we have another trait of Austrian duplicity. A few
days ago we re-published from the Parisian Moniteur
a statement to the effect that instructions had been
sent from Vienna to General Hess, by electric telegraph,
to the effect that he was to permit the Turkish troops to
occupy Galatz and Ibraila, with a view to ulterior ope-
rations against the Russians. We now learn, by a letter
from the Bucharest correspondent, that before this tele-
graphic message reached that city the Austrian authori-
ties had taken upon them to interdict the entry of the
Turks into Galatz and Ibraila. Before the Austrian
army of occupation entered Wallachia General Hess had
been at Vienna, and had had frequent and prolonged
interviews with Ministers. It is impossible, therefore,
to avoid the conclusion that the first instructions given
to General Hess by his Government were to prevent
the occupation of Galatz and Ibraila by the Turks, a
measure which would effectually have shielded the Rus-
sians from the pursuit of their enemies ; and that the
subsequent instructions to allow the Turks to enter
those towns were only extorted from the Vienna Cabi-
net by urgent remonstrances on the part of France and
England. There are many circumstances, trifling
enough in themselves were it not for their obvious con-
nexion with these double instructions, that help to
bring home to Austria the imputation of still trying to
play fast and loose both with Russia and the Allies—to
run with the hounds and hold with the hare. There is
the pertinacity with which Austria has insisted upon and
carried its point of the re-instalment of the wretched
trimmer Stirbey as Hospodar of Wallachia. There is the
recent publication, by order of General Hess, of his
address to the Wallacbians in its exceptionable form,
with the omission of the important words alleged to
have been in the original draft, which restricted the in-
terference of Count Coronini with the Wallachian au-
thorities in matters connected with the army of occupa-
tion. There is the suspicious attempt of a number of
Austrian officers to cross the Turkish lines and visit
their friends in the Russian camp in defiance of military
regulations. There is the glad eagerness with which the
creatures of Austria assumed Omer Peas's 'visit to
Rustchuk, for the purpose of inspecting his troops there,
to be the first stage of his journey into the interior of
Turkey, and their premature announcement that he
was on his way to Varna. Every new day bring'
forth new reasons for suspecting the imbecile and Jesuiti-
cal Government at Vienna of a wish to " play booty" in
the momentous game new in progress in the East. Upon
what other ground can the unheard-of and anomalous
arrangement be explained that the officer ostensibly
second in command to General Hess is authorised to de-
cide in cases of difficulty what course shall he pursued
by his ostensible chief ? In such circumstance every
indiction that the Western Powers are aware of the
duplicity of Austria, and keep a strong bridle-hand upon
its skittishness, though their language respecting this
questionable ally continues to be impregnated with all
the sweetness et diplomatic honey, are eagerly caught at.
To this class of indications appear to belong the prompt
and cordial communication to Omer Pacha of the suc-
cessful landing in the Crimea as a guide for his own
ulterior movements, and the timely pressure by which
Austria has been compelled to rescind its original orders
to prevent the occupation of Galatz and Ibraila by the
Turkish troops.—[The visit of the Austrian Ambassador
' to M. Drouyn de l'Huy's at Paris to congratulate him
on the success of the French arms is another piece of
hypocrisy.]