The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-15 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,-I, have to thank you for thelinsertion of my
letter of the bth, and mark with satisfaction the
tone in which you treat the subject of the Danu-
bian Principalities. Correct premises are the key-
stones of argument. Nine-tenths of the press dis-
cuss the question from false premises. Moldavia
and Wallachia are not—never have been, and I
trust never may become—provinces of Turkey. In
proof, vide their h;story ab initio—their treaties
with the Porte—their representatives ,at the Court
of the Sultan—Election of Princes—Ant.-momy—
European Protectorate, &c. The April numb: rs of
the Edinburgh and of the Westminster Reviews may
enlighten some of your readers. The Sublime Porte
is most anxious to convert the Principalities into
provinces, in which attempt Austria and Britain
back Lim up: This is not kindness to Turkey,
although it would be destruction to the Rouinaus.
The Moldo-Wallachians ask no favours—they
demand rights=rights recognised by Eur, pP, wfrch
Austria and Turkey would fain see annulled. Bill.-
garia and Roumelia are Turkish provinces. Would
you rank Servia, Wallachia, and Moldavia in the
same category Turkey formerly made the at ertipb
in Servia that she i 3 now making in M, ldo-Wal-
lachia. The Servians had not the promises of
assembled Europe to rely on, but they had Kara.
Georgy, and stout hands and hearts—Turkey ac-
knowledged her mistake, and the Serbs rectified it
foi her.

You want proof of the iniquities practiKd at the
elections in Moldo-Wallachia. I refer you to the
" Grievances of the Moldavians," as laid before the
European Commissioners-115 pages of print—a
tithe of the proofs given to the Commissioners—the
columns of your contemporaries of the press—the
"Special Correspondents" of the Times and Daily
News—a late article in the Press newspaper, &c.
Britain entered on the late war to defend Turkey
and protect the Principalities—not to aggrandize
Turkey and enslave the Roumans.
It is difficult to prove that the almost unanimous
wish of the Moldo-Wallacians is "union under a
foreign prince," first, because the Divan has not
yet been formed ; and secondly, because the press
is totally suppressed in Moldavia, and virtually so
in Wallachia, by au unlimited Censorship. The
columns of your cotemporaries, the publi4hed
plaiuts of the Moldavians, the enormous efforts
made by the government to crush any expression in
favour of union, and the details of the elections
you allude to, confirm what I saw and heard on
this point in the country itself.
Protest after protest had been forwarded to Con-
stantinople by the majority of the members of the
European Commission at Bucharest, and as matters
were not altered, it resulted as you have seen at
Constantinople. The proposal to cite the Caima-
cans to Constantinople, that they might deny the
charges of which the European Commission hell
the proofs at Bucharest, was indeed a " refits
derisoise" co the request that the 'illegal elections
be declared void, and that new ones take place in
' accordance with the Treaty of Paris and Firman of
Convocation.
The case of Greece is not in the least analogous to
that of Moldo-Wallachia—that of Belgium much
more so, both from its geographical as well as poli-
tical points of view. The Roumans have only had
the Greek religion engrafted on their nationality,
as thi Hungarians the Roman. They do not hold
the Czar to be their chief—they have no Russian
sympathies in race, religion, or language. Their
country can carry twenty millions of inhabitants as
easily a 3 its existing five millions. They have pre-
Erred their nationality intact up to the present
day, against Austrian, Pole, Turk, and Russian,
and they will not yield it up at this hour, even
should liberal England desert them, or force
them to follow the example of Servia in seeking
for

JUSTICE TO THE OPPRESSED.
August 9.

THE _INDIAN MUTINY.

BAREILLY AND MORADABAD.

The following is a list of the English officers,
ladies, and families who had escaped either from
Bareilly or Maradabad, and had arrived at Nynee
Tal, up to the 12th of June, as referred to iu the
summary of the Bombay Times :
" 'Residents," or on leave of absence : Major-
General and Mrs. Story, ditto Huthwaite, General
Lane, Brigadier Moule and Mrs. Stewart, General
Richards and family, Lieutenant-Colonel Car-
michael, B..M.'s 32nd, ditto ditto Sherwill, wife
and family ; Major and Mrs. Troup ; Major
Powell, 28th N.I. ; Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Price,
chaplain of Nynee Tal and Moradabad ; Rev. Mr.
Poynder and Mrs. Poynder and family, chaplain
of Bareilly ; Rev. Mr. Butler and family,
American missionary • Captain and Mrs. Ram-
say, Mr. Colvin, Mr., Mrs., and Miss
Batten, Captain and Mr?.. Maxwell, executive
officer ; ditto ditto Melville, 7th Car., Captain
Baugh, 26th Light Infantry, Captain and Mrs.
Gibney, 59th N. 1., ditto Dicks n, 33rd N. 1.,
ditto Smith, invalids, ditto and Mrs. Brownlow,
Captain Garstin, 73rd N. 1., Captain and
Mrs. Cumberland, H.M.'s 70th Regt., Captain
Blackbume, ditto Campbell and family (invalids),
Captain Crossnian, 45th N. 1., Lieutenant Chap-
man, 28th N. 1., Lieutenant and Mrs. Bowles (in-
valids), Lieutenant Munro, Artillery, Lieutenant
Cunliffe, Lieutenant Shouldham, Artllery, Mr.
Chapman.and family (hotel keeper), Captain and
Mrs. Ouslow, 41st N. 1., Dr. Wilson, Mrs. Sibbald,
Miss Smith, Mrs. Watson, C.S., children and
nurse, Langham, Mrs. Edward. C.S., At-. Fair-
fax, C.S., Mrs. Ricketts,C. S. , Mrs. Simons, Artil-
lery, Mrs. Hay and children, Mrs. Hot.igberger,
Miss Robinson, Miss Brown and four children of
Dr. Stiven, Mr. Mason, C.S., and Miss Masson,
Mrs. Wrotesley and Mrs. Fanshawe, Mr. Reid and
family.
"Late 68th Regiment Native Infantry, Bareilly
residents and 18th Native Infantry.—Lieutenaut-
Colonel Troup, Captain and Mrs. Roberton, do.
d); Paterson, do. do. Gibbs and family, Lieuten-
ants Warde, do. and Mrs. Christian, do. do. Staun-
ton, Ensigns Rogers and Jacob, Sergeant-Major
and Mrs. Jennings and children, Mrs. Henry
(widow of Quartermaster-Sergeant), Dr. and Mrs.
Bo w hill.

" 18th Regiment In fantry. —Lieul enaut Hunter,
Ensign Barwell, Dr. Oakicy and Mrs. Oakley, Mr.
and Mrs. Alexander, C.S., do. do. Carmichael,
Mr. Guthrie, C.S., Mr. Currie, C.S., Mr. Pasley,
Mrs. and Mrs. Templeton, Mr. Beddy, Mr. Ber-
keley, Mr. Berkeley, jun., Miss Berkeley.
"The late 29th Regiment, Native Infantry, and
residents at Moradabad ; 29th Regiment Native
Infantry.—Lieutenant-Colonel Graham, Captains
M. B. Whish, Faddy, Terrot, Davidson, Gardiner,
Thelluson, Lieutenants Orman, Clifford, Tucker,
Smith, Ensigns -Garstin, Skinner, Graham,
Sergeant-Major Bowley, Quartermaster-Sergeant
Nolan, Mrs. Graham, Miss Graham, Mrs. Whish
and child, Mrs. Faddy and child, Mrs. Davidson
and child, Mrs. Orman and child and Miss Bell,
Mrs. Thelluson and two children, Mrs. Bowley,
Mrs. Nolan and children, Mr. and Mrs. Thornhill,
C.S., Miss Wilson, C.S., Miss Chambers, Mr.
Warwick, auctioneer, Captain and Mr. Kirby, Ar-
tillery, Mrs'. Home, U.S., Captain and Mrs. Clark-
son and family, 44th N. 1., Mrs. Clarkson, senior,
Miss Young, Captain and Mrs. Hume and Mrs.
Hansbrow, Mr. Campbell, gent., Col. Richardson,
Mrs. Richardson and child, 18th N. 1., Mr. Raikes,
C.S., Sergeant Shields and family, Sergeant
Wilson.
" Bth Irregular Cavalry—Captain Mackenzie,
Lietenant Becher, Dr. Currie.
" Civilians•-• Mr. Alexander, Commisioner, Mr.
Guthrie, Collector Mr. C. Currie, Mr. Pasley, Mr.
B-!rkley and son.
"College Teachers—Dr. Anderson, Mr, Tempstoe,
Mr. Boddie, and Rev. L. Poy nder.—i, ahore
Chronicle, June 24.
"Missing of 18th Regiment N. I.—Major Rea-
son, Captain Richardson, Captdn Hathorn, Lieu-
tenant Gowan, Lieut. Stewart, Ensign Dyson,
Sergeant-Major, wife and four children, Quarter-
master-Sergeant Cross.
~~ Killed Brigadier Sibbald ; Ensign Tucker,
68th N. I. ; Pensioned Sergeant Hardy, wife and
five children, with his nephew ; Private Hardy,
H. M.'s 33d Regiment ; Mr. Matthews, pen-
sioner, and family; Mr. Wilkinson, writer; all
the above lived in cantonments, and nothing has
been heard of them, or Quartermaster-Sergeant
Henry, 68th Regiment, N. 1., and two European
sergeants belonging to the Artillery.
" Civilians Misising—Mr. Robertson, judge ; Mr.
Raikes, judge ; Mr. Wyatt, deputy collector; Mr.
Orr, deputy collector ; Dr. Buell, College ; Dr.
Hansbown, Woorl, gaol-sergeant ; Dr. Hay, civil
surgeon.
"All the bungalows burnt to the ground at
Bareilly, and the civilians and officers have lost
everything they possessed."— Lahore Chronicle,
June 19.

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FATAL ACCIDENT.—The Phare de la Loire relates a
melancholy accident whish occurred two days ago, near
Nantes. Two ladies, IVlnie. Dault and Mme. Mathieu,
went to bathe in the Sevres, near the property of M.
Massion, the father of Mine. Dault. Mlle. Boitard, a
friend, was waiting for them on the bank. The ladies
bad not been many minutes in the water before they
both slipped into a deep bele and disappeared. At the
cries of Mlle. Botard, MM. Boitard, Dault, and Ma-
thieu, who were within a short distance, rushed to the
unfortunately
three l
lifeless
swithont
bodies
spot. M. Boitard, who was a good swimmer, but of
an advanced age, immediately jumped in and also dis-
appeared. The other two gentlemen used every exer-
t lrindle but
tthe u
l t o
effect. Isvboo thutaenir
houre
were got out oicsely looked together,