The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-23 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

r THE GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending March 12,1854 £18,250 6 1
Corresponding week last year 14,359 13 10
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending March 19, 1854 £17,592 8 3
Corresponding week last year 17,478 9 9
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending March 19, 1854 £3,680 14 7
Corresponding week last year 3,194 16 4
---
Increase in 1854 £4Bs 18 3

EXPORTS FROM ODESSA.—Telegraphic advices from
Odessa state that an order had just been received from
St. Petersburg that all grain-ships which had not already
cleared were to be stepped and forced to unload. Should
this prove correct it will be followed by heavy losses,
since it has hitherto been believed that, notwithstanding
the prohibition against further exports after the 13th
of March, all ships which had commenced loading be-
fore that period would be allowed to fill up and depart.
THE_ ST. FERGUS MURDER.—The new trial of Dr.
Smith for the murder of M‘Don:Ad is fixed for Wednes-
day, the 12th of April next.
CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.—On Tuesday at the
meeting of the Court much attention was given to cases
of projecting light reflectors placed against shop win-
dows, and obstruct', g the public thoroughfares, and the
inspectors were ordered to summon all parties offending
in that way.
EXTENSIVE FIRE IN THE BLACKFRIARS-ROAD.
Yesterday afternoon, between the hours of one and two
o'clock, a fire, attended with a considerable destruction
of property, broke out on the premises belonging to
Messrs. William and George Howard, scale-board and
splint-cutters and wholesale box manufacturers, carrying
on an extensive business in York-street, Blackfriars-
road. The premises comprised sundry erections, and
stretched in one direction almost as far as Rowland
Hill's Chapel ; and had the outbreak taken place in the
night, it is quite propable that that sacred edifice would
have been also reduced to ruins. The discovery was
made by a gentleman named Nash, whose attention, it
appears, was attracted to an unusual body of smoke is-
suing from a building nearly 60 feet long, used as the
cutting-houses, in which were some valuable machinery
worked by manual power, and a costly stock in trade,
Adjoining this building, and also under it, were sundry
piles of deals, and a short distance off was the main
factory, composed principally of timber, so that at one
time a terrible conflagration was expected. The moment
the discovery was made, information of the disaster was
despatched to the engine-stations, and forthwith Kibble-
white attended with the Christ Church parish engine,
and was quickly followed by Messrs. Henderson and
Hambleton with the Brigade engines from Southwark
Bridge-road and Waterloo-road stations, as well as the
West of England engine and the company's firemen.
Fortunately, an abundant supply of water was pro-
cured from the mains of the Lambeth and Southwark
companies, and the firemen taking advantage of
the same, they set their engines to work, and power-
ful streams of the opposing element were thrown
upon and into the blazing building ; but notwithstand-
ing the work of destruction continued, and in spite of the
exertions of all present,
the flames could not be extin-
guished until the premises in which the disaster com-
menced were burned out, the contents including the ma-
chinery consumed. Fortunately, the other buildings
belonging to the firm received little, if any, damage.
Mr. Howard and Mr. Nash, in endeavouring to subdue
the fire before the arrival of the engines, had the hair on
their heads and eyebrows much burnt. The origin of
the fire is unknown. The premises and their contents
i
were insured n the IJAity Fre-office.

THE GREEK INSURRECTION.
A telegraphic despatch dated Vienna, yesterday,
says the insurgents have completely invested Ja-
nina. The Turks resist firmly, though short of
provisions. Zenos, Mylos, and Temeli, with 800
Greeks and 4 guns, have gone to Epirus ; 1,000
Moreots, under Kolocotroces, Pestimenzams, and
Laputas, are gone to Patras. A bulletin announces
that 1,400 Turks, who landed at Prevesa, have
been beaten.
Advices from Constantinople of the 13th March,
state that England demands that Gallipoli shall be
fortified, to serve as an English naval station, this
being a condition for the lauding of the troops.
The fleets were at Beycos.
Advices from Athens of the 17th say that 200
English troops had disembarked at Prevesa, but
the Pacha ordered them to re-embark. This re-
quires confirmation.
Letters from Corfu, of the 14th, state that the
Greek insurrection is subsiding. Fifty villages
have submitted. The Asmodee and Pomona,
French frigates, are at Corfu ; 1,600 Turks had
landed at Prevesa, marching on Arta. Grivas has
failed at Janina.
Letters from Constantinople represent the atti-
tude of the Greek population in the Ottoman domi-
nions as more and more tl reatening as regards the
power of the Sultan. The conspiracy in favour of
Russia is not only flagrant, but no attempt is made
to disguise it. Subscriptions are openly entered into
by the Greeks for the avowed purpose of aiding the
Czar, and men are publicly enrolled for the support
of the insurgents on the frontiers of the kingdom
of Greece. It is principally at Smyrna that these
reprehensible proceedings are carried on; but even
at Constantinople the Greeks do not conceal their
sentiments or 4""' I.,pes. It i faareu briat as
soon as the tine weather comes there will be a for-
midable explosion, which will embrace a large por-
tion of European Turkey.
Russia is pushing forward large bodies of troops
towards the Danube. Her object is to concentrate
a sufficient force to be able to strike a decisive blow
before the arrival of the English and French expe-
ditionary armies. If Omer Pacha should suffer
any serious reverse, Turkey would find her best
military resources annihilated. These are the im-
pressions of a distinguished officer in the French
navy, from whose letter they are extracted.

The Cassel Gazette announces the return to
Berlin of Count Furstenberg-Stammhein, who had
been sent on a mission into the Western provinces
of Prussia. The Count has made to King
Frederic William, at a private audience, a circum-
stantial report of the anti-Russian movement which
has manifested itself in these provinces.
The Emancipation of Brussels of the 19th
says :—"Yesterday Vely Pacha received, at the
Hotel de Bellevue, the members of the diplomatic
corps accredited to the Court of Brussels. The
Minister of the United Stateswas unable to attend.
It is almost unnecessary to say that the represen-
tative of Russia was not present. The various
diplomatic members appeared in their grand cos-
tumes of ceremony. The Turkish Ambassador oc-
cupies in the Hotel de Bellevue au apartment close
to those of M. de Kisseleff, the Princess Lieven,
and other Russian personages of rank.

FRANCE.
A report, in the Moniteur, from M. Ducos, Mi-
nister of Marine, to the Emperor, recommends that
an allowance shall be made to the children of all
sailors called out to serve the State either at sea or
in the military ports. Art. 31 of the law of the
3d Brumaire, year 4, on the maritime inscription,
declares, he says, that " there shall be accorded a
monthly allowance to each of the children of both
sexes below 10 years of age of every sailor on active
service for the State." When a sailor is called out
the first time, the report observes, to serve for
the three years required from him, he is rarely
married, as his age scarcely ever exceeds 20
years. But when he is called to serve a second
time, it most frequently happens that he has a
family, whom his absence throws into misery. The
position of a sailor's family so situated is really
a melancholy one, and it is in order to alleviate it,
that the Minister recommends that an allowance of
3f. per month shall be made to each child under
ten years of age belonging to every sailor now
called on to serve the State on active service.
" Our brave sailors," says the honourable Minister,
" will then proceed gaily to meet all the chances of
their perilous life, because in taking their departure,
in place of leaving hunger in their dwellings, they
will carry with them the pleasing confidence that
their children are placed under the safeguard of
their Emperor, the august name of whom is for
them, on the day of combat, a glorious cry of war."
The allowance in question, which the honourable
Minister intends paying out of the savings of his
budget, he proposes to accord for three months,
but only to the children of sailors called out the
second time to serve the State. The signature of
nagp proved
on th e oe f.
ee
re t
the Emperor is affixed to the report
as a mark of
the suggestions
cggoesntsitointustoiofnMnei,
.Dinucorna
sebeairkgin
ot
correspondence between Russia and
the English Government on the subject of Turkey, says :—"
A.
indignationoaf , reading willh
e arise,se doe bothen
documents,
jFurastn imeseenatnd eunntglndn
which attest, at the same time,
,the contempt of
Russia for right and equity,
,her pride, her audacity,
and her ambition, and the g • t
lea precision of the
views and the perfect loyalty of t"
sen iment which
for a long time past have inspired the conduct of
the British Government in its relations with Con-
tinental Europe on the
subject of the Eastern
question."
The Sfon't t eur, speaking of the propositions
made by Russia for the partition of Turkey, and
the replies of the English Government, •
says .
"As regards the French Government, there is
only one observation to make upon the care with
which Russia left her aside in its plans of territorial
rearrangement—it is, that it returned to her as
soon as it failed at London ; and that in her turn
France had to decline advances, more or less direct,
which are not with Out analogy with those first
made to England."
The Moniteur denies the rumour that the Go-
vernment intends to retain. the amount of the sub
scriptions, exceeding 250 millions fixed for the
loan, as an addition to the loan.
The Bourse experienced yesterday numerous
fluctuations. The Three per Cents. opened at 64f.
40c., rose to 65f., and closed at 64. 95c. for the
end of the month. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
closed at 91f. • Orleans Railway Shares, I,oBof. ;
Rouen, 855 f. ; Havre, 442 f. 50c. • Great Northern,
730 f. ; Strasburg, 712 f. 50c. ; New shares, 543 f.
75c, ; paris and Lyons, $Q6f. 25c. ; Lyons to the

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

THE WAR IN THE EAST.
It is probable, says the Paris correspondent of
the Times, that hostilities may have by this com-
menced in the Black Sea, between the French and
English on the one side, and the 'Russians on the
other. Such an event is most likely, if the follow-
ing extract of a private letter, just received from
Beycos, and dated the 12th, is exact ; and I have
reason to believe in its accuracy. It is to this
effect :

"The English sent yesterday, at three o'clock, the
fine steam-frigate the Retribution, with orders to force
the stockade which the Russians have established at the
mouth of the Danube, and which completely prevents
the merchant ships from descending the river, which, for
commercial purposes only, they had ascended. If the
Russians oppose the destruction of that stockade, the
Retribution has orders to fire upon them. It is pro-
bable that the act will be the commencement of hostili-
ties. The French steam corvette, the Caton, left with
that frigate. We shall know in five or six days the
result."
The following letter, dated March 7th, has been
received from Bucharest :—" Major Toms, attache
to the Prince Schwartzenberg, on the staff of
Prince Gortschakoff, for the purpose of surveying
the movements of the Russians. has just been re-
called by his Government. This recall has pro-
duced a great sensation among the Russians. It
has been considered as a first step towards a rup-
ture between Austria and Russia. The Austrian
Consul has said at Bucharest that the day on which
the Russian army should pass the Danube the
Austrians should pass the Carpathians, for the
purpose of occupying Wallachia."
The Banshee steamer, whose arrival at Mar-
seilles is announced, left Malta in the afternoon of
the 17th. She is said to be the bearer of important
despatches from Constantinople. The contents of
those despatches have not transpired, but it is ge-
nerally believed, here that they contain the accept-
ance by the Porte of the Anglo-French alliance,
and also the acceptance of the propositions recently
made by the Ambassadors with reference to the re-
forms in the social and political condition of the
Christian subjects of the Sultan.
The Patric announces that the Sultan intends to
place at the disposal of the expeditionary army,
its landing, 1,200 horses and 1,800 mules.
The Sultan has sent to Om er Pasha a splendid
sabre, ornamented with diamonds, and written to
him an autograph letter informing him that he had
appointed him Generalissimo ofllle Ottoman armies.
Om er Pasha is to have the general direction of the
military operations both in Europe and Asia.
According to a letter from St. Petersburg, of the
10th inst., the Chief of the Staff of Prince Paske-
witch had left for the Danubian provinces. The
Prince himself was shortly to follow that officer,
and it was expected that the campaign would coin-
mence in the first fortnight of April.