The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-19 00:00:00

THE GREEK INSURRECTION.

TRIESTE, April 17.--=lt is said that, upon the
expulsion of the Greeks from Constantinople,
Prince Danielo, Vladika, of Montenegro, published
a proclamation calling upon the people to take up
arms.

PREVESA, April 15.—The Prometheus and other
steamers have arrived here. By the latest accounts
Janina and Arta still held out against the insur-
gent& Skirmishes took place every day, but -with-
out results.

ATHENS, April 13.—Volunteers continue to ar-
rive in Greece from the lonian Islands and. the
Peloponessus, and. numerous fugitives to quit
Thessaly. Numerous well-armed Greek volun-
teers are passing through Missolonghi to join *the
insurgents. Thousands of Thessalia families have
fled to Greece. -

The Pays publishes the following from Athens,
dated the 6th :—"The insurrection in Epirus and
Thessaly has made very little progress. The chiefs
are more disunited than ever, and, consequently,
there is but little unity in their acts. Tzavellas
gives himself up to drink, and Negri, -a rich and
respectable Greek, has abandoned him. Victim
of his confidence in the sanctity of the Greek cause,
after having given a part of his fortune tO- -insure
its triumph, not being able any longer- to tolerate
what he seen passing before him, he haiquitted
his companions.' ,The acts of- brigandage com-
mitted - by .th 6 Greek *Olunteers on the Ottoman
territory canto the: most: ardent defenders of the
great idea- to reflect seriously. The Turks, on their
side, have been perhaps in the wrong to employ, for
the repression of the-insurrection, Albanians, who
commit great excesses and whO merit" to be treated
with- seVerity. Not snaking any distinction between
villages which were in insurrection and those which
remained faithful to Turkey, they pillaged and
burnt everything on their passage. Lately, in
Thessaly, some Greek volunteers, endeavouring to
induce a village to take up arms, killed an old
rayati who resisted them. Some days alter, some
Greek dealers who are in the habit each year of
proceeding to Thessaly. to purchase cattle, pre-
sented themselves in that "'Pr Tillage; the 41"

habitants of which seemed inclined to menace them.

The Turks took to flight ; but in repassing the
frontier to return to their o•wn country, they were
robbed and murdered by their countrymen. The
Government continues to follow the same course

as before. This day was the anniversary of the
commencement of the war of independence.
Usually, was to be.seen on the ti inn-Thal•arch under
which. the King and Queen of Greece passed on
their way to the church of St. Irene to hear the

'Pc Denn-t, the inscription " The three protecting
Powers for ever !" but this year the following
words were put up, " The Powers, our allies, for
ever !" in allusion to the aid promised by Russia.
The Ministers of the four Powers abstained from
being present at the Te _Dewm, to mark in a pub-
lic manner their disapproval of the course pur-
sued by the Government. They have this year
shown no sympathy for an independence of Which,
so bad a use has been made for the last two years.
M. Necludoff, first secretary of the Russian Lega-
tion in Greece, arrived here yesterday with de-
spatches from St. Petersburg. He announces with
great emphasis that the Russians have crossed the
Danube on three points, and that millions of men

are marchirg on Turkey ! He is making great
promises for Greece, and notwithstanding the de-
clarations of_the Emperor Nicholas in his secret
overtures to England when speaking of the Hellenic
Kingdom, a greater inclination is felt to place con-
fidence in what he says, because his language is
identical with that employed at another period by
Admiaat Koniloff. I will terminate my letter by a

fact which will give you an idea of the amount of
affection which the Government of Athens bears us.

An individual sent to the Government a plan for
making fire-ships, destined to set fire to our fleets.
The Government took the proposition into consi-
deration, and sent it to a committee for examina-
tion. The committee declared that to carry the plan
into practice was impossible, but that still the in-
ventor was entitled to a recompence for the idea."
A letter from Patras, of the sth, states that
on the Ist the French man-of-war brig Mercure,
of 18 guns, arrived there from Nauplia to observe
the movements of the Greeks and to prevent their
going over into Epirus. On the 3d, 500 Pelopo-
nesians, under the orders of Calamogdatti, Londo,
and Petimezas, attempted to embark for Misso-
lungi and penetrate into the insurgent districts, but
the Mercure thwarted their design. They then
resolved to embark at Rio, about an hour's march
from Patrae, but even there the Mercure was be-
forehand with them. Nevertheless, another body,
under Panaghioti Calamogdarti, that had not gone
to Rio, managed to embark during the absence of
the French vessel ; but to little purpose, for their
craft fell in with the Mercure on her return and

was forced to put back. They succeeded, how-
ever, in re-embarking and making off during the
night, and upwards of 800 left by land. Twelve
hundred more were expected at Patras for Epirus.
The Journal de Constantinople, of the sth, pub-
lishes two interesting documents. The first is a
reply from Reschid Paella dated the Ist, to a note
of M. Metaxa, the Greek ambassador. It is as
follows :