The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-16 00:00:00

posed of the landwehr is to be formed there. Two
regiments of the garrison of Warsaw have received
orders to proceed to the Danube.
Several inhabitants of Jassy have arrived at
Vienna to make purchases, as articles of luxury
have become almost entirely exhausted in Mol-
davia, and have doubled iu price.
A letter of the sth from St. Petersburg, in the
Cologne Gazette, states that the Emperor of Russia,
in his quality of Chief of the Orthodox Church
and Protector of the .Moldo-Wallachian religion,
is seeking at present to conciliate the ecclesiastical
as well as temporal dignitaries of the Danubian
Principalities, by distributing decorations among
them.
The following is the address of the Patriarch of
Moscow to the Russian 6th corps on its departure
for the Danube :
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" Children of the Czar our father, and of Russia our
mother, our brothers of the army—the Czar, the country,
and Christianity call upon you. The prayers of the
church and of the country will accompany you. Russia
is again provoked by the enemy who was vanquished
tinder Catherine 11., under Alexander L, and under
Nicholas I. Already have your brothers revived
the old habit of beating him by land and by sea. If it
be decreed by Providence that you are to see the enemy
in front of you, recollect then that you are fighting for
the most pious of Czars, for your dear country, for the
Holy Church, against the persecutors of Christianity—
against the profaners of the holy and venerated cities
which have seen the birth, the passion, and the re-
surrection of Christ. Now, if ever, victory, glory,
benediction, and eternal salvation are due to those
who give their life for their faith in God, for their devo-
tion to the Czar and to the country. It is written of
the ancient defenders of the country, By faith you will
gain the victory.'—(Epistle to the *Hebrews, chapter xi.,
verse 13.) You likewise will conquer by faith. We
bid you farewell with our prayers and with Use symbol
of faith. In former times Sergius, an old and vene-
rable father and predecessor, who ever lives for Russia,
blessed the victorious contest of your ancestors against
the oppressors of the country. The holy image was carried
in our regiments under the Czars Alexis, Peter 1., and
Alexander 1., in the great battles against 20 nations.
Let the image of the venerable Se, gins accompany you,
as a pledge of the pressing and efficacious prayers which
he is addressing to God for you. Carry with you and
recollect the warlike and victorious speech of the Czar
Prophet David—' Salvation and Glory is in God.'—
Psalm 41."

THE GERMAN POWERS.
The Preussisch,e Correspondenz of yesterday says,
it is authorised to refute the groundless rumours

afloat of further joint proposals on the part of the
German Powers with a view to mediation on the

Eastern question.
The Circular forwarded to the diplomatic agents
of Austria, says a telegraphic despatch from Vienna
yesterday evening, is in the following sense :
Austria considers the armed intervention of the
Western Powers in Turkey extremely dangerous.
Austria has full confidence in the loyalty and
rectitude of the Emperor Nicholas, and will take
the necessary measures for securing her own
frontier.

In addition to the note which the French Mi-
nister at Frankfort, Marquis de Tallenay, lately
delivered to the Bund, expressive of the pacific
intentions of his Emperor towards all the German
States not parties to the conflict that is about to
break out between Russia and the Western
Powers, similar notes have been still more recently
delivered from the French Government, to the
various minor States of Germany individually, so
as much as possible to remove the suspicion and
apprehension entertained by them against their
Gallic neighbour. The French diplomacy seems
also to have obtained signal success in Belgium and
Rolland, and even from the Court at the Hague,
so long believed to be influenced by Russian sym-
pathies, we may shortly expect the manifestation
of a different feeling. The position that these two
Netherland Powers will assume will be that of
strict neutrality in the war, but in close political
and commercial approximation to France.
A battering train of 80 guns and 6,000 cwt. of
powder has been sent from Vienna to the south-
eastern frontier of Austria.

Austria is buying up as many horses as can be
got, as well at Vienna as at Prague.
The Voss Gazette of Berlin of the 11th says :