The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-17 00:00:00

LLUEST FOREIGN NEWS.

THE WAR.

DZSTRUCTION OF THE RUSSIAN DEPOT
+4'

AT FOKSHANI.

The following private telegraphic despatch was
received in Paris yesterday from Marseilles :
CONSTANTINOPLE, sth.—The depot-general and
the munitions of the Russian army have been
burned at Fokshani through a spirit of vengeance
by the inhabitants. It is an immense loss.
On the Ist May, Prince Napoleon was received
by the Sultan in the most friendly manner. On
the 3d, his Highness returned the Prince's visit (an
unusual honour). During the conversation, which
took place in French, the Sultan assured him
" that he was desirous of following the example of
his allies, and encouraging every species of progress
among his subjects."

The same day, at a grand banquet at the Am-
bassador's, the Prince gave the toast, " To the
illustrious Sultan ! We are come here, gentlemen,
to defend him with sincerity and energy." A grand
ball will take place on the 9th, at the French em-
bassy. _ _

Last night a terrible conflagration burst out ;
from 200 to 300 houses have been consumed.
Prince Napoleon, accompanied by his staff, and
assisted by the crew of the Rolland, lent his per-
sonal aid to extinguish it ; his clothes were burnt
in the endeavour. Buildings having been thrown
down on two points; the fire was at length mastered.
The Turkish squadron, consisting of 22 vessels,
was ready to start for the Black Sea. The sailing
of the fleet has already been announced by telegraph.
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 4.—Prince Napoleon ar-
rived here at twelve o'clock on Monday. All the
French inhabitants of Constantinople assembled and
prepared to meet him at the landing place of Tophana.
The Sultan had ordered out two squadrons of the
Turkish horse guards to await him there, and a regi-
ment of the foot guards were drawn out to receive
him. Gen. Baraguay d'Hilliers went to meet him,
with his aide-de-camp, in the embassy caique, and
joined him as the Roland turned Seraglio Point.
The general went on board. Salvos of artilery
from the Turkish ships of war lying at anchor at the
Golden Horn, and from the British and French war
steamers, welcomed Prince Napoleon to Constanti-
nople. They all manned their yards. Great num-
bers of the inhabitants were gathered on the flat
balconies which crown the tops of the houses of
Pera and Galata, whilst hundreds of people hurried
town the steep hill leading to Tophana, in the ex-
pectation of seeing the nephew of the great Napoleon
land. They were, however, disappointed ; the
Roland proceeded on her course up the Bosphorus,
passing by the Sultan's palace of Tcheragau at
Bechik-Tash, and stopped at the green palace at
Defterdar Bournou, which the Sultan had had pre-
pared with great sumptuousness for his noble
;nests. Ciamil Bey, the introducer of ambassadors,
was in attendance, and neared the Roland in the
Sultan's caique. He welcomed the Prince Napoleon
in the name of the Sultan his master expressing to
him the great pleasure Abd-ul- Medjid felt at being
honoured by the visit of so distinguished a mem-
ber of the imperial family of France. The Prince
went on shore in the Sultan's barge, and entered
the green palace with his numerous suite and at-
tendants. That afternoon he had an interview with
the Sultan at the Imperial palace of Tcheragan,
when he presented all the officers forming his staff
ind attendants. The Sultan has ordered two
palaces to be prepared for his royal guests—the
one immediately adjoining his own residence ;
the other the green palace at Defterdar Bournou,
about half a mile higher up the Bosphorus.
Prince Napoleon having arrived first, the choice
was given to him, and he selected the green
palace ; leaving the other, which, being nearest
to the Sultan's seraglio, is considered the
most desirable, for his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge. This has been done from motives
of delicacy and politeness. Monday was a fine
day, and everything attending the arrival of the
Prince may be said to have been most propiti-
ous. The Bosphorus was in full beauty as the
Roland slowly wended its way up to Defterdar
Bournou—a blue unspotted sky, and still bluer
waters, with both banks covered with the green
verdure of early spring, through which peeped
the pretty white mosques, and tall tapering white
minarets in elegant relief ; whilst the country
residences, the clustering villages, and numerous
shipping, gave the scene an appearance of life pleas-
ing and most strikingly novel to the stranger. Those
on board that ship may well have been startled at
the picturesque beauties that surround the capital
of the Turkish empire, and as they sailed up be-
tween the shores of Asia and Europe they must have
been dazzled by a scene, which at first bewilders,
and to which the eye must be habituated in order
to appreciate its variegated and peculiar beauties.
On Tuesday Prince Napoleon held a levee at his
palace at Defterdar Bournou for all the corps
diplomatique, who proceeded there towards mid-
day, and were presented to him by General Bara-
quay d'Hilliers, the ambassador of France. Lord
Stratford de Redcliffe, and M. de Wildenbruck,
the Prussian ambassador, arrived very late, not
having received notice in time, and conse-
quently had a special audience of him together.
General Prim also arrived simultaneously with
Prince Napoleon. He is accompanied by a
numerous staff of officers, and by a body guard of
twelve Catalan soldiers. M. Branytski, a very
wealthy Polish exile from Russia, is also here. He
E is a colonel in the Paris National Guard, and is
one of the principal shareholders in the institutions
of Credit Fancier and other enterprises which have
been started in the reign of Napoleon 111. Yes-
terday General Baraguay d'Hilliers gave a grand
ontertainment to Prince Napoleon, at which
all the Turkish Ministers of State were pre-
sent, and all the representatives of the different
Powers at Constantinople. The Prince was seated
at a table between Reschid Paella, the Turkish Mi-
lister of Foreign Affairs, and Lord Stratford de
Redcliffe, the British Ambassador. Lord Raglan
and all the officers of the British staff were present.
On Monday, when Prince Napoleon went to visit
the Sultan, his Imperial Majesty came to the gate-
way of the palace to meet him—an unprecedented
attention on the part of Abd-ul-Medjid. The Sul-
tan has been to visit his imperial guest in person.
This is another honour which has never been shown
before by the monarch o. these realms to any per-
son but a crowned head. The Hungarian General
Klapka was presented to Prince Napoleon on
Tuesday.

DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS AT NICO-
POLIS AND RADOVA.

A despatch from Omer Pasha, dated Shumla,
May 6, states that Sali Pasha had, on the 28th of
April, defeated the Russians at Nicopolis, and that
the Russians had lost 1,500 men. On the 2d of
May Colonel Suleiman Bey had also defeated the
Russians at Radova, not far from Krajova.