The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-27 00:00:00

TURKEY.

A letter from Constantinople says that the Porte
has informed the different foreign embassies that
it intends to draw up a series of general regula-
tions for settling mercantile disputes, and asking
for their opinions on the subject. The Govern-
ment, adds the letter, was constantly receiving
voluntary donations from different persons ; it had
just received from Mersine and Karatsch 23,000
kilogs. of oats for the army.
The Journal de Constantinople, of the 15th,
says :—" Three days ago, at about half-past nine
o'clock in the evening, Mr. Knight, correspondent
of the Morning Herad, who had only arrived in
the morning from the Crimea, and was returning
on hoard the Taurus, by which vessel he was going
back to the camp, was assaulted by four ruffians in
the open street, who robbed him of everything he
had about him. Notwithstanding his cries for
assistance, no one had the courage to go to his
assistance. We cannot too strongly call the atten-
tion of the police to such facts, which require a
severe repression. The kiosk of Haidar Paella has
just been placed at the disposal of the English
army as an hospital for officers. Forty-five of dif-
ferent ranks are already installed there."
A letter from Jerusalem, of the 9th, announces
that on that day M. Botta, who has been residing
seven years in that city as French Consul, took
his departure for Tripoli in Africa, a more impor-
tant post, to which he has been promoted as a re-
ward for his services. The disturbances which had
distracted part of the adjacent country bid been
appeased, and the road between Nazareth and
Jerusalem had become safe for travellers.

RUSSIA.
THE WAR IN ASIA.

The Invalide Busse publishes the following :
" Aide-de-Camp General Mouravieff has sent the fol-
lowing details from Mougaradjik (situate to the south-
east, and about half a station from Kars), dated Bth and
13th (20th and 25th) June :
" 'On the 6th (18th) June, in view of the town of
Kars, and of the Turkish army shut up in it, I made a
flank march with all my troops and their baggage train
to the camp of Agdja-Kala, near the mountain of Maly-
Yaqny, close to the village of Mougaradjik, from which
point I threaten the communication between Kars and
Erzeroum.

" The troops were formed in two marching columns,
being equivalent to two lines of battle and a reserve ; the
avant-garde marched in advance of the right column
under the orders of Major-General Baklanoff.
" It was followed by the main body, under Lieut.-
General Prince Gagarin, Commander of the 18th divi-
sion of infantry. Each regiment marched in two lines,
the battalions were formed in order of battle, and the
batteries in the space between the first line.
" On a level with the main body, at 300 paces to its
left, marched the left column, under the orders of Major-
General de Maydell, temporary commander of the bri-
gade of the Grenadiers of the Caucasus. The infantry
marched by regiments in double line, its left flank
thrown forward, and the artillery formed a line per
battery, its left also thrown forward. These troops
were to form the reserve of the order of battle.

" Nearer Kars and on the right of these columns a
special corps of observation advanced under the orders
of Major-General Count Nirod, consisting of the Prince
Royal of Wurtemberg Dragoons, with batteries Nos. 6
and 7 of the Don Cossacks, and flanked by two sotnias
of cavalry volunteers, commanded by Colonel Loris
Melikoff, a sotnia of Karapapakhe Militia, and two
sotnias of Mountain Militia, which had only arrived the
day before at the camp of Agdja-Kala.
" The arriere.garde, under the command of Major-
General de Wasmund, was to follow in the rear of the
right column.
"'The baggage train of all the troops accompanied
by a special escort, took a more oblique direction to the
left, following the road of the arabas, which runs by
Khalife-Oglou and Zizinkoff to Mougaradik. As regards
the hired transport convoys and moveable parks of
artillery they were sent round by Kuronk-Dar and Sou-
bahtan. The care of that column was entrusted to Ma-
jor-General Freytag de Lohringhoff, in command of the
Wilna Chasseurs.

" I commanded the main body in person, and
ordered Lieutenant-General de Brummer to march with
the rear-guard which first covered the direct route from
Kars to Agdja-gala,and which, as the baggage train
gradually disappeared, in the given direction followed,
in the track of Prince Gagarin.
" As the troops had to make a flank march from
Agdja-Kala to Mogaradjik over 27 versts of country
totally destitute of water, the troops were ordered to fill
their canteens before starting.
" The troops left the camp of Agdja-Kala at 5 a.m.
Count Nirod's column, which had taken the lead of the
infantry, halted at seven versts from Kars, after crossing
the Khallfe-Oglou road to_that fortress, and remained OA

that point until all the baggage had passed him. Half
way the troops made halt of two hours, after which they
resumed their march on Mougaradjik where, having
joined the baggage train, they encamped at six in the
evening.
" 'The garrison of Kars, which remained the whole
Clay under arms, did not venture outside the walls. A
detachment of Turkish cavalry followed the movements
of our columns, which marched across country, without
following the high road, and which approached, as stated
above, within seven versts of Kars.
" 'The order and threatening attitude maintained by
our troops throughout the whole of the march prevented
the Turks from attempting an attack, although a move-
ment of our troops so near the fortress, and a halt or
two hours within seven versts, was a challenge to battle.
" After having taken up a position near the village
of Mougaradjik, taking advantage of the proximity of
the high road to Erzeroum, which offered the facility of
pursuing the Turkish army, which has shut itself up in
Kars, I at once ordered out detachments to intercept all
provisions or ammunition intended for the fortress, and
to cut off all communication of the enemy with Erze-
roune by the high road.
" Thus, on the morrow, that is to say on the 7th (19th)
of June, a company of volunteers, under Colonel Loris
Melikoff, sent to make a reconnaissance in the village of
Begly-Akhmet, captured the quarter-master of the
artillery reeiment of Arabistan, which had been sent
from Kars to procure barley in the villages.
" Oa the Bth (20th) June, at daybreak, a patrol of
Cossacks of the combined regiment No. 2 carried off
under the very walls of the fortress part of a caravan
proceeding there. The advanced posts of the enemy
who saw the seizure made a show of an intention to
resetre it, but the advance of two sotnias of reserve
stopped the Turks, and the Cossacks brought all their
booty unhindered into camp. It consisted of 168 sacks
of rice, 8 camels, 86 oxen, and 36 armed drivers in
charge of the caravan.
" 'lnformation was at the same time acquired that
the Turks had collected a store of provisions for Kars in
the villages of Begly-Akhmet and Tchiblakhlou, on the
hieli road to Erzeroum, and consequently Major-General
Baklanoff was sent there with four squadrons of the
Prince of Wurtemberg dragoons, five sotnias of Cos-
sacks, and two sotnias of militia, with four field-pieces
and a rocket battery. General Baklanoff was instructed
to carry off as much as he could, and to destroy the

rest,
" 'On the same day, General Freyta9; de Lohring-
bon column, which bad been sent by Kurouk-Dar and
Soubahtan. and a newly-formed regiment of Kurds, No.
24 numbering five sotnias, arrived in perfect order. The
horsemen are athletic, and well-armed and mounted.
" On the 9th (21st) June a detachment was sent from
the cPmp to support Major-General Baklanoff, who sent
back the following report On the Bth (20th) June he
reached the village of Begly-Akhmet, where he found
and seized 150 tchetwerts of barley, and 150 ponds of
biscuit. On the 9th (21st), at daybreak, Major-General
Baklanoffadvanced on the village of Tchiblakhlou, where
the Turks had collected 800 tchetwert3 of barley, which
they had deposited in a mosque turned into a store-
house. Having carried away as much as he could in
arabas, Major-General Baklanoff set fire to the rest,
storehouse and all, and returned the same day to Begly
Akhrnet.
"During the halt of our troops at Tchiblekhlou, the
mountaineer sotnias, who formed the outposts, seized
two mails, proceeding from Erzeroum to Kars, and cap-
tured the mail postman, with three men who accompa-

flied him.
" this time the rain poured down in torrents,
maMng the roads almost impracticable. The waters of
the Kars-Tchai increased so considerably that the ferry
at the village of Tikma was rendered very difficult.
Major-General Baklanoff crossed the river, ho,rever, on
the 110th (22d), without accident. He did not once see
the Enemy during his expedition. He brought back a
poi tion of the provisions seized at Begly-Akhmet.
" t Thus four days' sojourn at the camp of Mouga-
radjik have procured us, without the slightest loss on
our side, a certain number ot prisoners (one of whom is
an ofheer). and a considerable quantity of provisions,
whilst the Turks have been cut off from their chief com-
munication with Erzeroum.
" 'Since the return of General Baklanoff, mall de-
tachments hare been sent in the direction of Saganloug,
which carry off and bring away Turkish deserters from
the garrson at Kars,
" 'From the position we occupy, the fortifications of
Kars, and the enemy's army shut up there, are visible.
The Turks continue to strengthen their works of defence,
and are throwing up new ones on different points. The
Turkish troops have not once left their entrenchments.
The cavalry pickets which they keep outside within can-
non range of the fortress are in saddle day and night.
At the least movement on our part reserves come out,
and only retire when the detachment that has alarmed
thonfreturns to camp.
" 'Since the 3d (15th) of June the Erivan detach-
ment, which has crossed our frontiers under Major-
General Sousloff, is encamped at a place coiled Doutv.
The Turkish troops are entrenched near the Monastery
of Sourb Oganes, and remain strictly on the defensive.
The news from the Erivan detachment reaches to the
9th (21st) of June.' "
A letter from Odessa, of the 14th, in a Vienna
paper, says :
"As long as Austria preserved a menacing position
towards Russia, the Russian army which had returned
from. the Principalities was obliged to watch the fron-
tiers of the Upper Prutb, and to maintain communica-
tions with the troops in Poland. For this reason Kis-
nbeneff was chosen as the central basis of the army.
The situation having since changed, the Commander-in-
chief of the army of the south, General Luders, has re-
ceived orders to remove his head-quarters from Kische-
neff to Odessa, in order to prevent the enemy from
seizing the territory between Ismail and Perekop, and
to support more efficaciously the operations which are
preparing in the Crimea. The staff of this army is
to arrive in this town on the 17th. The four regi-
ments of cavalry now here, two of them uhlans
and two hussars, and the eleventh division of re-
serve are about to leave for Nicolaieff ; they are to
be replaced by troops of the first corps. Travellers
from Bessarabia state that Ismail is perfectly fortified,
and that it has a garrison of 20,000 men. The troops
who are to leave for the Crimea are to be passed in re-
view to-morrow. The Archbishop Innocent of Kherson
his been to Sebastopol on the demand of Prince Gcrtscha-
koff to encourage the combatants and give them his
blessing. He was received with great enthusiasm and
he harangued the troops. Since the affair of the 18th
ult. all persons have been forbidden visiting the south
side of Sebastopol. All persons have also been inter-
dicted from passing the Isthmus of Perekop without
permission from Prince Gortschakoff or General Luders.
Since the death of General Todtleben it is General
Melukioff who is charged with the internal defence of
Sebastopol."

THE REVOLT OF THE BASHI-BAZOUKS.

We seek in vain in the Constantinople journals
for some particulars re'ative to the revolt of the
Bashi-Bazouks at the Dardanelles. The Journal
de Constantinople excuses itself for postponing the
account until its next number by some accident at
its printing-office. We learn, however, from a
private letter some particulars, which may be thus
summed up :
" It appeals that on the 7th a band of these irregular
troops broke into a country house in the vicinity of the
Dardanelles, and acted in the most shameful manner
towards some women and young girls who lived there.
Such conduct evidently called fnr punishment, and the
ringleaders were arrestsd. Such an act, quite foreign
to the habits of the Bashi-Bnouks, accustomed as
they have always been to impunity, produced the
greatest fermentation amongst the whole body, and
some of them threatened vengeance on General Beat-
son, who had ordered the arrest. He, however,
set them at defiance, and in the end they were obliged
to treat with that officer. Accordingly, delegates
presented themselves to the General, and laid bsfore
him this alternative—either to set the persons under ar-
rest immediately at liberty (amongst them was a chef
d'escadron), or to see the whole corps desert en masse.
The general refused, as was his duty, to listen to these
insolent propositions. On this refusal the delegates
returned to their own men, who, on learning what had
taken place, rushed round the general's tent, tore down
the English ft ig and trampled it under foot, and in a
few minutes quitted the town with tremendous cries,
not more than 500 remaining behind, and proceeded
towards the village of Rein-Beni, threatening to soon
return, and set fire to the town. This withdrawal
excited the greatest alarm amongst the population,
who knew well what excesses these undisciplined
soldiers were capable of committing ; the shops
were at once closed, and the doors of the houses
barricaded. General Beatson then endeavoured to
make use of the regular troops in the town to op-
pose the irregular body should they return, but was
at last obliged to apply to the French and English
consuls, who obtained from Siva Paella, the go-
vernor, assurances of aid. A Turkish division,
with two field pieces, patrolled the immediate neighbour.
hood, and the Eumeride and the Tisiphone French
steam-corvettes having landed bodies of their men, the
inhabitants soon recovered from their apprehensions.
Since then, the town is described as quiet, but such
was not by any means the case with the environs,
where the Bashi-Bazouks took up their residence as
in a conquered country. They pillaged a farm in the
Troad, though not without resistance, and losing two
of their men who were killed by the occupants of the
house. Rein'Keni was pillaged and burnt; and other acts
of violence were apprehended along the coast. A body
of 300 Ottoman soldiers were despatched by the Turkish
authorities in a steamer to try and put a stop to such
ravages, and they were followed by a corps of Syrian
cavalry. Out of the Bashi-Bazouks who took no part
in the rebellion, one half submitted to an order given by
General Beatson to embark for the Bosphorus, but the
others refused to depart, and force, it was thought,
world be needed to compel them. Such was the state
of affairs at the 16th, when the last accounts left Con-
tantinople."

REPRESENTATION OF CAITHNESS.-It isitsaid that Mr.
Trail], the sitting member, is to resign, and Lord Ber-
riedale is to succeed him in the representation of the
county. According to our information the preliminaries
for this change are already arranged. Sir Ralph An-
strnther, Captain Mackay, of Keiss, and Mr. Sinclair,
of Übster, have also been named.—Northern
SINGULAR WHIRLWIND.—On the afternoon of Friday
last there was observed in one- of the plantations at
Abbotsrord a whirlwind, running along like a dark fur-
row, shaking and twisting the branches as if it had been
some aerial monster seekin,, to suck the trees from their
classic ground. The same'phenomenon was seen in the
plantations at Dryburgh, shortly before the thunder-
Ntorm which broke over the diet/it:bi--Scotto& Record.