The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-09 00:00:00

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 28. The Turks are
greatly exasperated at the behaviour of the crews
of the British and French ships lying at anchor
here. 'or the last few days there have been
rumours of plots over at Stamboul, revolutionary
movements, Aie. The Turks are the last people to
be successful at such proceedings, and not the
slightest fear of any rising of the Mussulman popu.

lation need be apprehended, though they are justly
outraged at the behaviour of the British and French
crews. Scarcely a night passes without one or two
:ailors being found murdered at Galata, and some c,f
the Turkish guards have been seriously hurt. Several
taverns and coffee-houses have been pulled down by
the tars at Galata, and a good many Greeks have bad
their heads broken. Jack, however, invariably
gets the worst of it, being drunk.
Sir George Brown arrived here yesterday from
the Crimea.

Captain Brock, our late governor at Eupatoria,
has arrived here. 10,000 Turks had landed at
Eupatoria when he left, and Omer Pacha was ex-
pected there with an army of 30,000 men, with
which he would march upon Simpheropel, thus
causing a diversion in favour of the Allies at Sebas-
topol.

The Robert Lowe sails this evening for the
Crimea with detachments of the 4th, 24th, 38th,
and 44th Regiments on board, and also stores and
ammunition. The day before yesterday the British
transport, No. 119 (the Chapman, laden with coals
and stores), took fire in the Bosphorus, off Scutari.
Though every exertion was made, it was found im-
possible to save her.
Prince Napoleon is still here, indisposed ; as also
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. The
latter will proceed to England shortly, it is said,
and return in the spring to rejoin the army.
The Sultan's brother-in-law, the ex-Grand Vizier
Mehemet Ali Paella, has been condemned by a Maz-
balta of the grand council to restore to the Treasury
75,000 piastres—a bribe which, it appears, had
been accepted during the interminable judicial in-
quiry set on foot respecting the affairs of Djezaerlu,
the Armenian banker.

Mehemet Ali Paella is now "fallen from his high
estate," perhaps ruined irrevocably, and there is
very little chance of his being entrusted again with
any of those important postswhich lie had occupied
with zeal and ability at various intervals. One
fact, however, which will prove some consolation
in his retirement is that he has ever been a friend
to the British and British alliance, a deadly enemy
to Russia, and that he was a principal instrument
in urging the Sultan to a declaration of war. He
was invariably on the very best terms with our ex-
charge d'affaires, General Rose,• and quite of his
opinion at the very outset of this question, in re-
spect to the vital importance of bringing up our
fleet from Malta almost immediately on the arrival
of Prince Menschikoff at Constantinople.

RUSSIA.
THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS A SAINT !

The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort publishes
the following letter from Kragujewaez, in Servia,
dated the 26th ult.
" Prince Alexander is endeavouring to free himself
from panslavistical influences, and to draw closer to
Austria. But on the other hand the panslavists re-
double their efforts to thwart the tendency of the Court,
and the last fete of St. Nicholas furnished an excellent
occasion for the display of their zeal. The clergy, in
their sermons, declared clearly that the fete did not con-
cern merely the deceased saint, but at the same time his
living namesake now on the throne ; they endeavoured
to show that the martyrdom for the orthodox faith
and the contest for the Greek Church were still far
from being near their termination; and they added that
all who fought and suffered for that church should be
ender the particular protection of the mother of God
and of St. Nicholas. At private meetings and in the
liquor-shops toasts were proposed to the Czar, and a
crowd of villagers, in returning home, raised a song
composed to the memory of a Montenegrin hero, in which
are these expressions By the oath which you have
taken at the foot of the altar, by the victory which your
friend Bazado has c tused you to obtain, he conjures you
not to repose your head on cushions of silk, and not to
empty cups of gold, and not to enjoy the love of woman,
until from that sword, which has already destroyed
thousands of unbelievers, there shall flow on his tomb
at Serajevo the blood of thousands on thousands of
Osmanlis.' The same demonstrations took place at
Semendria ; and at Prebno they went the length of de-
claring the Czar Nicholas to be the saint of the day
resuscitated."