The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-08 00:00:00

THE RUSSIAN CALL TO ARMS IN ASIA

The Invalide Busse publishes the following pro-
clamation addressed to the noblesse of the Transcau-
casian provinces after the landing of Omer Pacha,
by Lieut.-General Prince Bebutoff, commander of
the army of Tiflis :

Illustrious Princes and Nobles,—Yon know that upon
the great men of a country rest the foundations of the
social life, and that they always precede their inferiors
in the trials to which peoples are subjected.
A trial now awaits your country, where the Christian
faith has been established since the time of the Apostles,
and where hostile forces have always succumbed before
your fidelity to the Czars.

- The reason for which our enemies have risen against
our Emperor, the only orthodox Czar in the world, is not
unknown. They have envied his power, they have been
jealous that he, full of love for men, conformably to the
law of the Saviour, should demand for the Christiana
living in Turkey relief from wrongs and sufferings.
Three powers, calling themselves Christian, have con-
sulted with the enemy of Christians, and have proposed
to overturn the grandeur of Russia, and to destroy the
protection beneath which we now repose.
The Turk, in entering your sacred country, pollutes it.
He threatens to destroy the law observed steadfastly by
you in the course of eighteen hundred years ; he threatens
to destroy all upon which your prosperity rests ; the
church where sleep your illustrious ancestors ; the houses
which shelter your wives, your children, and your pro-
perty ; the distinction of classes by which the high are
distinguished from the low, and which has been from all
time your privilege.
The enemy has not remembered that in your prayers
to the Almighty you utter these words, " Make my heart
pure, oh God ! and raise up my spirit in distress ;" he has
forgotten that your faith has been watered by your
blood, and that the prosperity of your families rests in
your own hands, which have never proved unfaithful.
Our Government is persuaded that there is not one
amongst you who cannot discern falsehood from truth,
and defeat the snares of the enemy. Faithful to the
Emperor and to his service, you have often shed yeur
blood in circumstances where the danger was less im-
minent. Now the enemy is before you • he has already
crossed your frontiers; he seeks to afflict the heart of
the Emperor by your misery, the loss ofyour property,
and the destruction of your faith.
The time of trial, sent by the impenetrable decrees of
God, has come ; the hour in which the soil, desecrated
by the feet of your enemy, must be purified—that the
soil consecrated by St. Andre and the holy martyre—
the hour in which the ashes of your ancestors, lying in
your temples, must be protected from sacrilege ; your
personal dignity be maintained intact ; your wives, chil-
dren, and property be defended from outrage and vio-
lence ; thus honouring the precious traditions of your
fathers, and showing your fidelity towards God and His
anointed, our Monarch.

Arm, every one of you! Ann the peasants and your set%
vents ; unite yourselves to the victorious troops of Rus-
sia, who have shed their blood for you. Show the
enemy that you are the children of those noble 'men-
tions, Gouriens, and Mingrelians, who were never van-
quished in the times of old.

It now depends on you that this war with the enemy
become the cause of the entire people, and be waged
throughout the length and breadth of the country. In
every shrub, in every hollow, behind every stone, pre•
pare his death, in order that the indefatigable adversary
of our faith may learn at last that be is unworthy to be
buried in Christia❑ and consecrated ground ; let him
know that you will bury him where the sound of church
bells is unheard—in the spots which serve only for the
lair of savage beasts.

Salvation-to you, in the name of the Lord, illustrious
princes and noble gentlemen ; raise above you the vic-
torious sign of Hie cross, and, marching under its pro-
tection, drive the enemy from yOur territory.
The Lieut.• Gen. Prince BaBUTOFF.
The following proclamation has been issued by
General Mouravieil

In my absence from Tiflis Lieutenant General Prince
Bebutoff, at my orders, addressed to the noblesse some
words full of honour and truth. The moment is come in
which you must prove before the entire world that you
are the true sons of those fathers who fought for some
centuries in defence of the faith and the sacred ties of
the domestic hearth. You must prove that it was not
in vain that Russia shed for you her purest blood, and
that you are worthy of the sublime and holy affection
which the heart of the Emperor hears for you as his or-
thodox children. lam fully convinced that you will all
respond to Prince Bebutoft's appeal, accompanied by the
benedictions of the priests, who will unceasingly offer
up prayers in your behalf. lam convinced, too, that
the example of the glorious nobility will be followed by
all the other classes of the inhabitants of Imeritia,
Gouriel, and Mingrelia, by the bourgeois, as well as by
the freemen and the serfs. Your cause is glorious and
agreeable to God ; and the whole world is watching
you. Arm, brothers, and crush, in the name of God, the
perfidious wiles of your implacable enemy. "The cross
on your breast and sword in hand," as said the Emperor
Nicholas, of imperishable memory. "God is with us,
who shall make us afraid ?" _

The Lieutenant of his Majesty the Emperor
in the Caucasus,
Aide-de-Camp General MOuRAVIEFF,
Kars, Nov. 30, 1855.

EXPLOSION OF A POWDER MAOAZINE.—The Persian
Gazette of the 24th November states that a large powder
magazine at Cashin, near Teheran, had blown up with a
tremendous explosion. Twelve persons lost their lives
by the accident, the cause of which remains a mystery.
By the exertions of the inhabitants the firs was pre.
vented from extending beyond the building itself.
SOMETHING LIKE A CHRISTMAS•BON.—Mr.
Heywood, of the firm of Heywood, Sons, and Co.,
extensive bankers, Liverpool, has given the handsome
sum of 1,001 guineas, to be divided among the clerks
and employes of the establishment, as a timely aid to
them, as clerks with fixed salaries, during the pressure
eausei by the,war.
The Pressa d'Orient of Constantinople, says that
the Czar has admirably received the French offi-
cers who were taken in the neighbourhood of Kin-
burn. His Russian Majesty is reported to have
said to them, "I shall soon shake hands with you
as your friend."
The Swedish journal .b'aedrelandet reports, under
date Stockholm, Dec. 24 Activity unexampled
reigns in every manufactory for producing articles
necessary to the equipment of an army. The
colonels of all the regiments have received orders
to supply their troops with everything necessary to
prepare them for marching at the first signal. The
order was given secretly, but it was in its nature
impossible of concealment. All leaves of absence
to officers are refused. Everybody here believes
that in case the allies should open the war with
vigour in the Baltic next spring, our government
will feel itself compelled to take au active part
therein,"