The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-05 00:00:00

THE GREEK INSURRECTION.

ATIIENS, April 28.—Prince Napoleon, who
arrived at Syra on the 25th, left that place an hour
afterwards, on his way to Constantinople. M.
Jean Soutzo, secretary of the Greek Legation in
Russia, has brought 200,000 f. from St. Peters-
burg. It is expected that 500,000 f. will be sent
from Bucharest. Subscriptions are opened in Rus-
sia. It is said that the Minerva, loaded with am-
munition, has been captured by an English ship.
TRIESTE, Tuesday.—The Greek insurrection
appears to be a complete failure ; all the despatches
of a late date are unanimous in so describing it.
Their head-quarters have been taken by storm ;
two of their principal chiefs, Tzavellas and
Karaiskaki, have been thoroughly beaten ; the
third chief, Grivas, has fled. The rebels were de-
feated even at Mezzovo. With the exception of
Piraeus, all the coasts of Greece are rigidly watched.
English and French ships are stationed at Patras,
Vanetza, Stylide, and Neg,ropont ; they suffer- no
vessel to come out without sending a party on
board to make an effective search. Pirates, how-
ever, are swarming in the Archipelago. An at-
tempt at insurrection made at Samos has mis-
carried.

ATHENS, April 26.—At Peta, the centre of the
Greek insurrection, when it was taken, on the
25th, by Osman Paella, documents were found (it
is presumed on the body of Tzavellas's secretary,
Who perished in the combat) which entirely com-
promise the Greek government.
By the Athens correspondence of the Triest Zei-
tung we learn that the note presented by the re-
presentatives of the Western Powers on the 11th
has totally failed to produce the expected effect.
The Greek writers assure us that King Otho, who
has firmly resolved to do nothing which could be
unpleasant to the Greek nation, has informed the
British and French Ministers that he would rather
lose his crown than act in opposition to the wishes
(if a people which has such implicit:confidence in
his patriotism. This fine phrase may deceive those
who are ignorant of the real state of things, but
here it is well known that King Otho has no will
of his own. Queen Amelia, on the contrary, a wo-
man of strong character and excessive ambition,
appears to aim at nothing less than an Imperial
cro cs-n. It may excite some surprise that such a
State as Greece can venture to beard the great
Powers ; but the Greeks have a fixed idea that no
Christian Power will actively interfere to put down
the insurrection.

The following account from the Piraeus shows
the imperative necessity of paying a little more at-
tention to the Mediterranean. All our forces,
great and small, appear to have been concentrated
in the Black Sea and the Baltic ; but our usual
stations and cruising grounds must not be aban-
doned or neglected, or we shall have swarms of
freebooters interfering with our commercial vessels
in a manner like the following :—" The Harriet,
from Newcastle to Valencia and Constantinople,
was found on a reef off the Island of Andros, on
the 15th inst., supposed to have been plundered by
pirates, and the master and crew murdered, or else
that the crew had risen against the master. Her
Majesty's steamer Triton has gone to take posses-
sion of the vessel."

A special correspondent proceeding to the seat
of war, dating from Malta, April 26, says
" There are rumours here that the pirates of the
Archipelago are again on the alert, and have taken
a vessel bound from this port to the Black Sea, with
coals for the feel. The piracy, it is said, was com-
mitted off the Isle of Andros, where the vessel was
run on shore, and the master and crew, consisting
of 15 men, murdered in cold blood."