The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-25 00:00:00

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

Letters from Bucharest of the 16th, in the Ost-
Deutsche Post of Vienna, repeat the statement
that the main body of the Turkish army in Wal-
lachia has crossed the Danube and entered the
Dobrudscha, for the purpose of operating against
the thirty thousand Russians who crossed the
Danube on the 10th, between Tultsha and Isatsha,
and that they have taken possession of those places
and of severg,l other strategical points on the right
bank, their outposts being stationed at Babadagh.
The latter place is being fortified by them, and a
bridge is constructing between Tultsha and Isat-
sha. The Russian troops stationed at Kilia, in
Bessarabia, have also received orders to march
towards the Danube. The head-quarters of the
Imperial Guards are established at Warsaw, which
city is also the head-quarters of the Grenadiers,
under General Rudiger, and of the active army in
Poland under Marshal Paskiewitch. The troops
concentrated on the Austrian frontier will then
amount to 166,000 men, viz., 80,000 infantry of
the line, 48,000 infantry of the Guards, 22,000
Grenadiers, and 16,000 cavalry, besides the usual
proportion of artillery.
The Bucharest Gazette publishes a rescript of
Prince Stirbey, accepting the resignation of the
Grand Wornick Cantacuzene, as Minister of the
Interior and President of the Council of Adminis-
tration. M. J. Filipesco, Minister of Finance, fills
the vacant pest ad interim.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Oct. 22.—1 t appears that M. von der
Pfordten, however desirous he may be to mediate,
has not arrived at this place expressly for that pur-
pose. His object has been to ascertain personally
from Baron Manteuffel what !are the intentions of
this Government ; and, if possible, to ascertain
whether it is the will and purpose of the Prussian
Cabinet to persist in its expectant or do-nothinc,
policy, in so far as regards Austria, and, as stated
in its note of the 13th, to abstain from all initiative.
M. von der Pfordten has, it is affirmed this evening,
been assured by M. de Manteuffel that the pro-
gramme of Prussia, as laid down in the
note of the 13th, will be adhered to, and
that, however M. do Mauteuffel may regret dif-
fering in opinion from the majority of German
from
German
States, Prussia will not be deterred by
adhering to the principles it has followed andl
persist in following. M. von der Pfordten is said
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she shall give her support to Austria, not only as

regards the four points, Out as re:ates to die other _
questions which Prussia slurred over in her special
pleading of the 13th.

A Berlin journal of this morning designates the
position of Prussia thus :—" -Union with Russia
in the pre.sant case would be an abruption of trea-
ties (meaning the April treaty), a disavowal of past
engagements, and a breach with itself and its whole
policy."
The Vienna Lloyd has been forbidden to be cir-
culated in Saxony. The cause is specially attri-
buted to its severe criticism upon Baron do Beust's
note of July.

THE BAL FTC FLEET.
REVEL, Oct. 17.—The overland mail from the
Baltic, due here on the evening of the Bth, did not
arrive, in consequence of the boisterous weather
which the Bulldog steamer encountered on her
voyage from Dantzio, until the afternoon of the
10th, several hours subsequently to the letter bags
for England being made up.
The gratifying intelligence of the important vic-
tory over the enemy on the part of the allied forces
in the Crimea having been officially communi-
cated to Sir Charles Napier, signal was made to
the fleet, "to send up top-gallant masts, to dress
ship with flags at tho mastfheads, to hoist at the
main the English and French ensigns side by side,
and to fly the Turkish ensign at the fore." Imme- -
diately after the signal was obeyed, a salute of 21
guns was fired by each ship in the fleet, causing
great excitement to the residents in the town, who
had received information of the signal defeat the
Russian forces had sustained at Sebastopol.
It has been stated that the screw line-of-battle
ship Cressy, 80, Captain R. L. Warren, having
sent her first cutter to intercept one of the
Rnssian.coasting vessels, endeavouring to enter the
port of Revel, was fired on by the enemy, and that
the Cressy had carried away her jibboom. Tie
statements are untrue.

On the 14th the Nile, 90, Capt. G. R. Mundy,
was inspected by Rear-Admiral Chads. The pools
of water on the island of Nargen were observed to
be thickly coated with ice, the trees have lost their
foliage, and vast flocks of wild fowl are departing
to the southward, and, according to the statement
of the natives, the ice within another week will
begin to form along shore.
The Cressy, 80, Captain Warren, was inspected on
the 16th by Rear-Admiral Chads. On his arrival
on board (9 a.m.) the seamen were mustered, and
the marines marched round the quarter-deck. The
order, " Prepare for action," was then given ; the
men went to their quarters, bulkheads were re-
moved, and sent below. On the orlop deck the
necessary preparations for the wounded were made
by the medical officers ; the " amputation table"
was set up, with all the requisite appliances in the
&cashape of tourniquets, bandages, medical comforts,

A court-martial assembled on board the Royal
George, 120, Captain Codrington, this day, at
which all the Captains in the fleet attended, for the
trial of Mr. Stiles-, Paymaster of the Gorgon steam-
ship, Commander Cracroft, on charges preferred
against him by his commanding officer, which were
to the effect that the prisoner had on two or three
occasions been greatly intoxicated, and thereby in-
competent to the proper discharge of his duties.
The prisoner pleaded guilty thereto, and left his
case to the merciful consideration of the Court,
who, after a short deliberation, sentenced him to
be dismissed her Majesty's service.
The Vulture, Captain Glasse, sailed at 5 p.m.
for Dantzic, with the overland mail. The Roso-
mond, Commander G. Wodehouse, is reconnoitring
Sweaborg.