The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-21 00:00:00

THE GREEK INSURRECTION.

The following joint note was addressed by the
ambassadors of the four powers to the • Foreign
Minister of Greece in support of the note of Nechet
Bey,:--

" TO M. PAIOOS, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

" Sir,---Our colleague of Turkey has just commimi-
cated to us the new note which he has addressed to you
by order of ins government. Amidst circumstances so
serious we feel compelled, sir, to repeat that which we
have uniformly told you respectiug -the very decided
views of our Government re.pecting the unpleasant
events which have taken 'place for this month past, and
the grave responsibility which the Government of his
Hellenic Majesty would take upon itself, if, considering
the great complaints of the Sublime Porte, it should not
hasten to put an end to a state of thing 4 which must
inevitably entail 'incalculable misfortune on this coun-
try.—We are, &c., •
(Signed) B. LECKHAIf, Baron FORTH ROUEN,
T. WYSE, N. DE THILE.
" Athens, March 20, 1854." -

News was received yesterday, says a Constanti-
nople letter of the 10th inst., that the Arnaut B°l-
- iers at Prevesa had sallied out, burned 15 villages,
massacred the men, violated the women, and car-
ried off everything valuable. The British Ambas-
sador is said to have been extremely indignant at
this outrage, and to have demanded of the Porte the
inmitbdiate and exemplary punishment of the offend-
ers. The cruelties committed on both sides in this
dreadful struggle seem to equal any that took place
during the former revolution. No prisoners are
taken, and not unfrequently women and children
share the fate of these captured with arms in their
bands. No reliable accounts reach this place as to
the progress of the movement, but it seem; to be
extending in area and deepening in ferocity. Un-
less the troops lately sent for from Egypt succeed in
restoring tranquillity, there seems no likelihood of
a speedy close to these troubles, for the Porte will
require every available man for the Danube and the
Caucasus, while the insurgents are receiving addi-
tions to their numbers every day. Three-fourths
of the Hellenes expelled from C..nstantinople and.
Smyrna will probably set off for the frontier imme-
diately on arriving _at the Piraeus. Subscriptions
are being openly made in Athens for the purpose of
the war, and persons of all ranks are contributing
largely to what is represented as a patriotic
struggle. Even those who disapprove of the
movement are obliged by the popular excitement
to lend their aid. The Court, even if inclined
to oppose the movement, is totally powerless. That
the signal of insurrection has been given by the
Czar is probable enough, but the outbreak is not
the less a national movement, and has been long
expected by all acquainted with the country. The
publication of the secret correspondence between
the Czar and the English Ministry has opened the
eyes of the educated to the folly of exp .cting the
independence of their country from Russian aid ;
but the great body of the people, led by their
priests, still consider the cause of Nicholas as their
own, and count upon his sincerity and the prothises
he has made in their favour. The clergy are
almost all Russian partisans, and the Czar stands
high in their favour on account of his supposed
devotion to. the Church, and by means of a judi-
cious distribution of ecclesiastical furniture, in the
shape of plate and altar cloths, to • the poorer
churches throughout Turkey and Greece.