The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-25 00:00:00

IMPORTANT FROM CONSTANTINOPLE.

Accounts from Constantinople to the 14th inst.
state that a serious conflagration had broken out
at Varna, by which one-third of the town was de-
stroyed.

These_despatches state that the greatest part of
the munitions belonging to the allied forces, in-
cluding the powder magazines, were saved.
Cholera and typhus fever are raging fearfully.
The French division under the command of Gene-
ral Canrobert has lost 3,000 men.
Prince Napoleon had returned to Constanti-
nople, sick.
Sir Edmund Lyons had sailed into the Black Sea
with his division. Ships of war and transports are
still proceeding there, but the object of the expedi-
tion is kept strictly secret.

The cholera is raging at Adrianople. The
French forces intended for that city have been or-
dered to return to Gallipoli.
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Forty thousand Russian troops are said to be
encamped round Sebastopol.
Letters from Damascus to the 10th inst. state
that an armed insurrection of the Mussulman
population had broken out ; but it was quelled by
the use of artillery.
There is news from Trebizonde to the 4th inst.
The accounts from the Asiatic army are bad.
The Presse contains the following announcement
from Constantinople, under the date of the 14th
inst. :

" Sixty thousand .men ha.ve embarked for Sebas
topol.

" Everything was saved from the fire at Varna,
except the hay, wine, and some camp utensils."
Advices from Constantinople of the 17th August
state that the last ships destined for the expedition
to the Crimea left for Varna on the 15th, with
12,000 Turks, 2,000 French, horses, cannon, muni-
tions, and numerous flat-bottomed boats.
Prince Napoleon is ill of the fever.

The cholera is abating at Constantinople and
Varna, increasing in the Dardanelles, and has dis-
appeared at Gallipoli.
Official advices from Varna, of, the 14th, make
no mention of any conflagration there.
A despatch from Odessa, of Aug. 15, says :
"A band of Circassian mountaineers, commanded
by a son of Schamyl, have made a razzia into the
provi ace of Tiflis. They have sacked several places,
put some people to death, and carried off a general's
wife and a Princess Orbelian, her sister. The news
caused a panic at Tiflis.

" Two Lancer regiments have been sent by forced
marches from Odessa to the west.

"According to Austrian advices, requiring con-
firmation, 45,000 men, allies, had been embarked
at Varna up to the 13th.
Other telegraphic despatches from Constanti-
nople, received in London this day, say the fire at
Varna broke out on the 10th inst., at seven o'clock
in the evening.

One hundred and eighty houses were totally de.
stroyed, with a great quantity of provisions be.
longing to the French army.
All the English and French transports had left
for the Black Sea, with pontoons and other ma.
terials of war.

The fire is supposed to have been the work o
incendiaries, and several Greeks have been arrested
on suspicion.

Great preparations are in progress at Constanti-
nople and Varna for the embarkation of troops.
The expedition was to sail on the 20th.
The Bay of Varna was filled with vessels of all
sorts, to the number of 500 ; and a large fleet of
transports had been assembled at Baitchik.
Numerous flat-bottomed boats, fur the landing of
troops and heavy guns, had arrived at both places.
Officers from nearly every regiment in the service
have gone home invalided.
The incorporation of the Bashi-Bazoulca into a
new corps had caused considerable disturbance at
Giurgevo and Nicopolis, but the malcontents were
overpowered.