The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-04 00:00:00

THE DANUBE.

A person who happens to be at this moment
near the Wallachian frontier, writes to the follow-
ing effect, under date the 17th April
" Princa Gortschakoff has, by order of the Emperor,
signed a decree, by which he confers on M. Aristarchi
(late Logothete) a pension of 3,000 ducats per annum•
The money will be for the present taken from the civil
list of the Princes. The reasons assigned in the decree
are the services rendered to Wallachia and to Russia hi
the said M. Ari-tarchi. Prince Stirbey has written to
Count Nesseirode a letter, in which be makes his pro-
fession of faith, and declares that he is still devoted to
Russia, as he has often proved himself to be. He re•
con►niends the Rus.sian Cousul•General at Buchinestp.
HurschurAi, as a man who is destined to play a great
part in the PrincipalitieS—if not the first part, certainly
the second.

" The letter has fallen into the hands of the Turk',
and copies of it must be now circulating at Constanti-
nople. Prince Stirbey, had from Russia a pension of
12,000 ducats per annum, and yet he wrote to the Porte.
stating that he hail reflised.this pension. It is now as-
certaineLl that the pension was duly paid to his intendant
and recently the clearest proof of the fact has been
brought forward. The intendant claimed the amount of
the pension in gold from the Finance Minister of Wal-
lachia. The Minister not having the amount of ducats
in the treasury to pay the, demand, referred the matter
to the Council of Ministers, who decided that the pen•
sion should be paid ; and it was this which discovered
the .whole business.

" The formation of tLe Greco-Slave Legion advance'
rapidly, and the insurgents of Greece are already in co'
btderable numbers. A merchant named X--, an,
another hare given considerable sums, and
M--- has subscribed for 500 ducats. We are surprised
that the Porte does not organist a Wallachian Legion
for the manner in which we are treated by the Rm,siany
makes us earnestly desire then; speedy expulsion from
this country.
" We are awaiting with the utmost impatience the.
arrival of the French troops, when'the Principalities will
rise to a man. All we demand is to give us arms and
ammunition, and we shall soon have an army of 100,000
men. Many of our countrymen have gone to the Turks,
but they were not admitted into their ranks as they said
they bad no orders. We are burning with impatience,
but without being able to do anything. Thy RussianS
have, taken every sort of rieapon from us. The.. veil
scythes have been taken from the peasants, the axes—Ln
'act, every instrument that could at all be turned to one
in case of a rising.
" It would be difficult to give you an ideaof the fright'
ful misery into which the country is plunged. We are
literally deprived of everything. Recently, the Russians
organised a service of carts to Bucharest to Matschiur
where they have established their head quarters since they
psssed the Danube. At each station they have from 400
to 500 of these carts to transport the baggage of the
Russian army. Our wretched pea‘ants are obliged W
give up their carts and their bullocks, to guide them
themselves, and, as the Russians do not give them
morsel of food, they drop down from hunger and fatigue'

• .GALIAPOLI..
Letters from Gallipoli, of the 20th ult., state that
commissions of officers had Leen sent to different
points of the theatre of war. Rustem Pasha',
Governor of Adrianople, had repaired to Rodosto,'
with several offiCers, charged by General Canrobert
to select the most eligible site for the establishment
of a camp. Colonel Desaint, chief of the topogra-
phic department, bad left to survey the militarr
road between Gallipoli and Adrianople. General
Bosquet atter visting Shumla, had departed for
the Balkans. It was not true that the horses landed
at Gallipoli had arrived there in a sickly condition.
The contrary was the case. After two or three
days' rest they had completely recovered from the
fatigues of the passage.