The war news by the Asia, although brief, is highly important. On the 9th, Prince (Alexander) Gorchakoff announced to the Austrian Government that Moldavia, as well as Wallachia, will be immediately evacuated. Consequently the Austrian troops on their way to Gallicia, the Bukovina and Transylvania have received orders to halt for the present. Simultaneously with this announcement is a telegraphic statement that 3,000 French troops have effected a lodgment in the island of Aland, and that an equal number have landed on the Isthmus of Perekop, to prevent Russian re-enforcements from reaching the Crimea.
Sir Charles Napier was to attack Bomarsund “next day,” and a formidable expedition against Sevastopol was making ready to embark on board the fleet of transports that had assembled in the bay of Varna.
The other items of interest by this arrival are the death of the King of Saxony, and the indictment of Queen Christiana on a charge of treason, before the Spanish Cortes.
A force of 18,000 Russians has arrived at Tiflis, after three months on the march.
The Paris Moniteur of to-day, (11th) publishes the Austrian demand on Russia, with the Russian reply. Also, the answer of the French Government refusing to grant an armistice, but stating that peace may be had on the following terms: First, Abolition of the Russian protectorate over Wallachia, Servia and Moldavia; Second, Freedom of the mouths of the Danube; Third, Revision of the Treaty of 1841 with reference to the limits of Russia in the Black Sea; and Fourth, No power to have protectorate over Turkish subjects.
Five prisoners were executed at Parma on the 4th, for having taken part in the recent insurrection.
On the 9th of August the carriage in which the King of Saxony was driving, was overturned at a place called Inst., near Insprück. (Another dispatch says “near Brennbuchell.”) The King was thrown among the horses' feet, and received a kick which fractured his skull. He died half an hour afterwards.