The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-15 00:00:00

OMER PACHA AND HIS OLD ENEMY.

A letter from Bucharest of 29th ult., says :
You will have learned that Omer Pacha only left
Rustchuk for Varna on the 18th of this month, and
that he hoped to be able to embark for the Crimea OA
the Ist of January. You know also that his accusation
against Riza Pacha, the Minister of War, who is his
mortal enemy—having left him in want of everything—
has had no success in the Council, and that Riza Pacha
has proved on the contrary that he had provided for the
wants of the army, and that Omer Paella had neglected
1 the means of transport. The latter, who always wishes
to do well, but does not always clearly see the
means, was greatly irritated and wished to go to
Constantinople to support his accusation ; but he
could not obtain the necessary authorisation. His
corps d'armee, which is at Varna, refused to embark for
the Crimea before receiving three months' pay, and being
assured of its subsistence. There only remain in Wal-
lachia ten battalions of infantry, and a regiment of ca•
valry ; and they are stationed at Bucharest, Braila,
Giurgevo, and Kalarash. Ismail Paella (of Kalafat),
replaces the Muchir Omer Paella in the command of
the army of the Danube. The Imperial Commissioner
of the Sublime Porte, Dervish Pacha, is decidedly
to leave to-morrow, to return to Constantinople
with `his suite, to report on the investigation he
has made into the administratio❑ of Prince Stirbey.
This departure has naturally reanimated the hopes
of all the pretenders to the office of Hospodar. The
partisans of Prince Stirbey comp'ain that the investi-
gation of Dervish Pacha has been made without his
participation, and without the slightest explanationbeing
demanded from him. They ask if such an extraordinary
and exceptional measure as that of an investigation
against the administration of a reigning Prince ought
not to have been based on a formal act of accusation,
and if that act ought not to have been communicated
to him. They represent that when in 1841 an in-
quiry was instituted at the request of Russia, by two
commissioners, one Russian and the other Otto-
man, into the conduct of Prince Alexander Gliika,
it was preceded by a hostile address from the general
assembly of the representatives of the country. What
causes it to be believed that no very friendly sen-
timents towards Prince Stirbey are entertained at
Constantinople, is the text of the conclusion of a
despatch from Reschid Pacha to Dervish Paella, dated
• the 30th September, 1834, and which time latter coin-
municated at the time to the Consuls and to the boyards,
• who are candidates for the office of Hospodar : ' You
will not embarrass the adtninistrit'on of Prince Stirbey,
but you will Pursue the inquiry, and it may lead to the
dismissal of the Prince.' The Goveinment continues to
make extensive changes in the administration, and it
cannot be denied that they will prove advantageous.
The Russian protegjs are being removed to make way
for a class of young administrators, who have almost all
been educated at Paris, and who will soon propagate in
an efficacious way the civilising ideas of the reigning
Prince. Tile children of the Prince have for some time
been at a college in Paris.'!