The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-30 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE.

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On Monday, the 16th of January, General Bara-
guay d'Hilliers, the Ministera of France, accompa-
niedt by Major Gourjon
Meslin, his aides-de-cam' Captain
ap in Foy,
ndTew an c d Lieu
Pacha,t.
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head of the staff at the Ministry of War, was to
leave
on an excursion to Cara Bourmon, in the
Black Sea. The precise motive for this visit was
not known at Constantinople.
On the next day a special mission was to leave
for Shumla, composed of Colonel Beurman, of the
French artillery, and aide-de-camp to General
Baraguay d'Hilliers. Five French officers, who
have obtained situations in the Ottoman army as
instructors, were to leave ou the same day to join
Omer Pacha's army. Major-General Tair Pacha,
who was partly educated in England, was to leave
on Wednesday next, to join the army at Kars.
Tair Pacha, distinguished himself in the campaign s
•undertaken against the Arab insurgents.
The foundry of Tophane, under the superinten-
dence of Lieutenant-General Halil Pacha, who was
for a long time at Woolwich, and is a very able
engineer, was kept working incessantly. Ammu-
nition of all kinds is being prepared in great quan-
tities. Seventeen field batteries and twenty-eight
nieces of artillery were ready to be sent to the
armies, fart Way tc, be twarded to Asia, And

part to the army of Roumelia. A portion of the
artillery and ammunition had already left on Thurs.
day and Friday by sailing vessels ; two other ships
were busy loading the rest. Hal Pacha was full
of activity in his department.
It was said that the Turkish Government had of.
late shown much more inclination to take foreign
officers into its service, and a manifesto to that end
was spoken of.

Lord Dudley Stuart had returned from Shumla•
His lordship was actively engaged in furthering the
object of the numerous Polish refugees at present
at Constantinople, and desirous of entering the
Ottoman service.

In a council held at Constantinople by the sani-
tary board, it was decided that quarantines should
be abolished for vessels coming from Egypt. They
are also suppressed at Trebizond for everything
coming from Turkey in Asia, but are maintained
for the frontiers of Persia.
The Turkish Government had just named a
com-
mission, formed of several merchants, amongst
whom are three Europeans, to examine the various
financial plans presented some time back to the
Porte, and in particular that for revising the ac-
counts of the old bank, and to make a report 011
the advantages which the bank that was on the
point of being formed hold out under the auspices
of some English houses.

ST.- PETERSBURG.
Letters from St. Petersburg of Jan. 20, are of a
warlike tenour. Extreme measures are resolved
upon, if the explanations from the Western Powers
should not be satisfactory.
A letter from St. Petersburg of the 19th, in the
Cologne Gazette, says :—" The Emperor has ad-
dressed a letter to the merchants of Moscow,
thanking them for the readiness with which they
have supplied articles for the hospitals of the ar-
mies who are fighting against the enemies of Chris-
tianity. The Czar, on the advice of Count Nessol-
rode, has considered the entrance of the combined
fleets into the Black Sea as a measure similar to the
entrance into Besika Bay. There is, therefore, a
hope that peace will be maintained. The Emperor
besides, has not ordered any note rejecting the
propositions of peace to be drawn up. It is pro-
bable that the difference with Turkey will be ad-
justed without any intervention."