The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-29 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE.

By the arrival of the Indus we have advices
from Constantinople to the 20th inst.
The embarkation of French troops for Varna
continued.

The terms of the treaty between Austria and
Turkey had transpired. They lay down that the
ancient order of things shall be re-established in

the Principalities, without admitting a control
over the measures taken by the Austrian troops.
Military measures will be concerted between the
two Powers signing the treaty. The evacuation
of the Principalities to take place on the conclu-
sion of peace. The latter to be based upon the
maintenance of the sovereignty of the Sultan and
the integrity of the Ottoman empire.
Prince Napoleon's division has left for Varna.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 19.—Reschid Paella still

transacts diplomatic business. Schekib Effendi
presides over the administrative department of the
Foreign-office. It is hoped that a new French

loan will be concluded. A letter from Constanti-
nople of the 15th says :—" The last accounts from
the coasts of Circassia announce that a lieutenant
of Schamyl had stopped, in a gorge of the moun-
tains, the Russian troops who were effecting their
retreat from the fortresses of the coast to join the
principal corps of the Russian Caucasian army at
Tiflis. A sanguinary combat took place, and the
Russians were defeated by the Circassians, with a
loss of four guns. Three Polish gentlemen,
Messrs. Tanski, Bodoski, and Gradovich, left Con-
stantinople on the 14th for Bulgaria, having been
sent on a mission by Marshal St. Arnaud, in order
to furnish him with all the information they caii
collect with regard to the Russian army, and also
on the subject of the state of feeling in Bulgaria,
where Muscovite agents are actively intriguing,
though, it is said, without success. Workmen are
actively employed in fitting up the new hospital
which has been provided for the French troops, aryl
it was expected that it would be ready in a few
days for the reception of its inmates. It is a very
extensive building, and capable of accommodating
2,000 patients. It is well situated, not far from
the sea, and of very easy access for any sick who
may be brought by steamers from the army. A
few days ago a suspicious-looking person was ar-
rested near the powder magazine established in the
old chateau of Gallipoli. He is said to be a Rus-
sian spy, and had gone there for the purpose of
settinc, fire to the wooden building, by which the
whole would have been blown up. The health
of Reschid Pacha is said to have lately consider-
ably improved. Some more Greek vessels have
been captured in the Black Sea with supplies on
board of them for the Russian army. The march
of Prince Napoleon's division from Gallipoli to
Constantinople was an exceedingly fatiguing one,
and, in particular, the part of it from Gallipoli to
Radosto. A company of Sappers, and another of
Chasseurs of Vincennes, marched in front to clear
away obstacles, and make a road in such places as
none existed. It was necessary to throw bridges
over some places, to fill up some enormous holes
in others, and, in fact, to perform the office of
pioneers in the fullest acceptation of the word.
But in the midst of all these difficulties, the utmost
gaiety prevailed.. In one place was to be seen in-
scribed with chalk, on a huge piece of rock by the
roadside, the following words in large letters—
' High road from Gallipoli to Moscow, No. I,' and
the bons-mots uttered would delight a vaudevillist.
There are very few ill, but I regret to say that five
soldiers of the marine infantry died on the march.
Still every possible precaution had been taken to
have nothing wanting on the road, and the Prince
carries to a degree of extraordinary minuteness his
attention to the comforts of the men. The Walla-
chians have at last obtained permission to form a
legion, which is to be placed under the command
of General Maierm. As he is exceedingly popular, ,
it will bbe easy enough for him to collect a force of

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12,000 men. Turkey will, however, have to supPu
them with arms and equipment."
In addition to the ab,,ve information from Co?'
atantinople, a letter of two days' later date has
reached Paris, via Malta, . brought by the English
steamer the Admiral, and from thence to Mar'
s9illes by the usual packet. On the 17th the
Caradoc, which had taken Lord Raglan t°
Varna, returned to Constantinople. That vessel
,
announced. that on the 16th the allied fleets
still at Baldjick, and the Turco-Egyptian
fleet at Cavarna ; she also brought the lute'"i;
Bence of another assault on Silistria, so that °
ege
the 17th the news of the raising of the el, .t
was still unknown at Constantinople. The
division of the English troops took their depar-
ture for Varna on the 17th. The Russian prisoner:
who had been brought by the Sidon and the Cycloto
were transferred to the Megere„ to be conveyed
Malta. They amount to about 220, some of svil°,o
are officers, and others Greek sailors-. All a
o
Greek vessels which arrive from the Black Sea 11!,0
the Danube are seized, and their crews confined in
the arsenal. The blockade of the SulinacontinPr
but all the vessels hitherto taken at that point.lr
the English and French have been let goy
having been subjected to a strict search at Bald•Pcio
or Varna. It was rumoure•i at Cons-,antine%
that Itifaat Pacha, who had succeeded Mussa Po"
at Silistria, was killed in a sortie.