The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-14 00:00:00

THE AUTOCRAT'S ANSWER.

~ A letter from Vienna of the 9th, in the Pose
-44.mpt Gazette of Frankfort, says

" Were a new proof necessary of its being strategical
motives which determined the evacuation of the Prin-
cipalities we should find it in a passage of the despatch
which
contains the last Russian answer, and which
prince Gortschakoff lately read to Count Buol. The
following is a mammary of the passage :---` Rusia would
not have either yielded the line of the Balkans or
evacuated the Principalities if the demands of the great
rnar, powers had not been supported by the military
attitude of Austria.' On the other hand, it is true that
11"sp. •
4 does not the less make a merit of that evacuation,
fur it is said in the note that the Czar was still dis-
posed to yield to the wishes of the Great Powers,
Whenever his honour permitted him to do so, and the
!vacuation is appealed to as a proof of that disposition.
Prince Gortsohakoff had yesterday a new conference at
the ministry of foreign affairs. It is said that he has
niacin some communication relating to the leave of ab-
sence of which he is about to avail himself. The Russian
counsellor of legation, M. d'Oubril, is to replace him
during his absence."

TILE ALLIED AND RUSSIAN FORCES.
We read in the Soldier's Friend of Vienna 'of
the 91;h
"The state of the belligerent forces of the three allied
powers and of Russia is as follows :—Black Sea—Che
Turks have 120,000 men on the Danube and in Wal-
lachia • the Anglo-French army consisting of 8 divisions
is 80.,4100 strong ; the Anglo-Franco-Turkish fleet con-
sists of 40 vessels of the line without counting frigates
and other vessels, and bears crews amounting to 60,000
men. The Turkish army of Asia, consisting of the corps
of B atoum, Kars, Erzeroum, and Bayazid, is 100,000
strong. The total is consequently 360,000 men. Baltic
—The combined fleets comprise 30 vessels of the line
and 40 smaller vessels; they carry 3,500 guns and
30,000 sailors. The division of General Baraguay
hers is 11,000 strong, and there are besides 4,000 English
marines. The total of the forces employed against Russia
amount therefore to 405,000 men, and they have with
theta at least 8,000 guns. As to Russia she has in
Asia, on the frontiers of Armenia, three corps d'armee,
commanded by Generals Andronikoff, Bebutoff, and
Wrangel, which do not amount altogether to more
than 100,000 men. In Finland, without counting
the local garrisons and the crews of the vessels an-
°bowed in Sweaborg, Russia possesses three strong
div isions of infantry. Cronstadt and St. Petersburg
are well defended by the fleet and the Imperial guard.
Nc r are Revel and Riga without means of defence. In
Po land and in Lithuania are the let and 2d corps d'arinee
h their reserves, and two divisions of the corps of
grenadiers. The army is exclusively destined to protect
Pa land and Volhynia. As to Podolia and Bessarabia,
the y are defended by the 3d, 4th, and sth corps d'arm4e.
In the rear of these troops is a second reserve, con-
sis of veterans who have 12 years' effective service,
an d whose numbers are also very considerable. The
Lc itnea is defended by the 6th corps d'armee, by the
crews of the fleets, and by a part of the reserve of the
Oth corps."

THE AUSTRIAN ARMY.
We read in the German Journal of Frankfort,
ider the head of Vienna :--
"The following are the present positions of the Aus-
Wan troops. Two of the four armies of Austria have
be en mobilized, viz., the third, which is under the orders
of the Archduke Albert, and the fourth, at the head of
which is Count Schlick. General Hess has the chief '
en mrnanl o both theta armies. The line of position
b' Ins at Cracow, and extends,the whole length of the
R.,ssian frontier of Galicia by the Bukowine and Tran-
sylvania as far a; Wallachia. The total amount of this
to Fee may be estimated pretty correctly at 300,000
1-') en. There are 82,000 cavalry. Up to 1848 the Aus-
trian army had never more than 48,000. The army corn-
roanded by General Schlick occupies She line of Cracow.
The Archduke Albert has his head quarters in the Buko-
wine, near Surzawa, where the bulk of his army is, ready
to enter Moldavia. An almost equal concentration
exists at Czernowitz, the frontier fortified town of the
Bukowine, on the side of Bessarabia and Moldavia.
110 12th corpa crarm(c is in Transylvania—of thin