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

THE REVOLT OF TRW 13A SHI-BAZOUKS.

We seek in vain in the Constantinople journals
for some particulars relative 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 for punishment, and the
ringleaders were arrested. Such an act, quite foreign
to the habits of the Bashi-Bszouks, accustomed as
they have always been to impunity, produced the
greatest fermentation amongst the whole body, and
some of them threatened vengeance on Gencral Beat-
sou, who had ordered the arrest, He, however,
set them at defiance, and in the end they were ob'iged
to treat with that officer. Accordingly, delegates
presented themselves to the General, and laid before
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 flag 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-Keni, 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 Pacha, the go-
vernor, assurances of aid. A Turkish • division,
with two field pieces, patrolled the immediate neighbour•
hood, and the Eumdride 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,
would be needed to compel them. Such was the state
of affairs at the 16th,, when the last accounts left Con
tantinople."

REPRESENTATION OF4CAITHNESS.—It isisaicl that Mr.
Traill, 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-
struther, Captain Macleay, of Keiss, and Mr. Sinclair,
of .Übster, have also been named.—Northern .Ensign.
SINGurAn WlTlrmyrtm....-01 the afternoon of Friday
last tiler° was observed in cue of the plantations at
Abbotsrord- a whirlwind,
row, Aaliitl;c and twistioc.: the ;Ranches as if it had been
running like a dark fur-
some serial monster seeking to suck the trees from their
classic ground. The same phenomenon was seen in the
plantations at Dryburgh, shortly before the thunder-
litcam !hid-broke over the distriO.
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