The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-28 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE.

It is stated that Omar Pacha has received com-
munications from the Austrian Commander-in-
Chief to the effect that the refusal by Russia of the
ultimatum will be followed by au advance of the
Austrian army. Omar Pacha is requested to pre-
pare to co-operate with the troops ofFrancis Joseph
in such a manner as to cause the most speedy expulsion
of the Russians. The advance of the Austrians
will be a most re-assuring event to all here, where
the general opinion seems to be that Austria will
not commit herself to open war with the Czar ; or
that, at least, she will endeavour to abstain from
attacking his forces, and will be content with oc-
cupying the positions abandoned by the retreating,
Russians. A rumour prevails here that the Rus-
sians are about to retire beyond the Pruth, and
that a proclamation of the Commander-in-Chief
announced the determination to the army of Wal-
lachia.

The marriage of the Sultan's daughter, or rather
her delivery to her husband, took place on Thurs-
day. The hour fixed was one o'clock (or 6 Turkish),
but the equipages did not make their appearance
until four hours later. The principal dignitaries of
the Empire were present and offered their congra-
tulations to Redschid Pasha, who has now attained
the highest position to which a Turkish subject can
rise, in having received the honour of a Royal
alliance. Every one who has at heart the success of
the policy which Redschid Pasha has represented for
15 years, will be glad of the event which has taken
place, and which seems to bind the Court to the
reforming party, or at least to that Statesman
who has generally shown himself anxious to listen
to the counsels, and to adopt the maxims, of
the Western Powers. Whether or not Redschid
has risen superior to the practices which stain
his brethren, or whether the invectives of the
people against his character, which a few months
since were so strong, be well or ill founded, he is
still the man whose influence is most valuable in
advancing the object of the allies, and whose great
acuteness will show him how to use to the utmost
the new means of p,,wer which the late nuptials
have given ;him. He is now, certainly, the most
important subject in the empire.
Prince Napoleon, who has been staying at The-
rapia for the last, few days, to recover from indis-
position, will return to Varna.
The cholera, which has been so bad at Varna,
and amongst the British and French forces, has
abated. It has, however, cost many victims. It is
now showing itself pretty well everywhere, though
only in single cases, at Constantinople, Pera,
an lin the villages along the Bosphorus. There
has been considerable mortality amongst the Bri-
tish troops encamped on the heights of Unkiar
Skelessi in the Bosphorus.
General Prim and all his staff passed through
here the other day. They hastily embarked for
Spain.
CONSTANTINOPLE.—The telegraph has already
announced that a fire which broke out at Varna on
the 10th, at seven o'clock in the evening, consumed
a large portion of that town. Some of the French
stores were burnt.

The damage done is not so great as was at first
reported. One hundred and eighty houses have
been reduced to ashes. It is supposed to have been
the work of incendiaries, and some Greeks have
been arrested.
All the transports have proceeded to the Black
Sea, laden with pontoons, &c. The Charlemagne
is lying at Tophana, taking in heavy artillery : and
the Napoleon is embarking Turkish troops for the
same destination.

THE CAPTURE OF BOMARSU Nio.Dg .
Aug. 16.—The cannonade upon, the lon
g fort
lit
ha av nhge bwecaosmeentsiorewlyarsmu,rtnlmaitidthede,brwoayserenoonrstsreaeininedg
to surrender, and at 1 p.m. the white flag of truce
was thrust out from one of the
.embrasures.
The Edinburgh, Bulldog, and Driver immediately
hoisted a similar flag to the fleet to suspend firing,
while Si r Chas. Napier and Admiral Chads proceeded
in a small unarmed boat to the shore. It was a period
of breathless anxiety, for the advanced Chasseurs
and some few English sailors were seen mounting
the rocks, and eagerly pressing on to the very gates
of the fortress. General Baraguay d'Hillers and his
staff at the same time wound round the roadway
and galloped up to the fort. The General motioned
the soldiers to remain off a few yards, for fear of
treachery, and at length the Governor, General
Bodisco, came forth to parly, but finding that
an unconditional surrender was demanded, he
delivered up his sword to the Englis'a Admiral
and French General. A French aid-de-camp was
then depatched to order a general advance of the
army, and at the same moment the Royal M trines
and Artillery, and the remainder of the Chasseurs,
came scrambling down the ridges. They at once
mitt rod the fortress, surrounded and took charge of
the magazine, and the troops pouring down either
entered or drew up in line outside.
It was a scene of singular interest to behold the
conquerors animated with victory, and contrast the
dejected air of the Russian soldiers as they bent
forth from the embrasures looking sullenly upon
them. Under the walls of this huge fortification
the ground was completely bestrewed with 841 b.
shot, broken shells, grape and canister intermixed
with enormous sheets of iron that had been dislodged
from the roof, and the granite walls have been
broken away in thousands of places. In the interior,
which was a large square and parade ground, the fatal
missiles, and heaps of broken granite and brick-
work, bespoke the terrible vigour of the siege.
The Commanders then demanded the arms, which
the prisoners brought and piled up in the square,
near to the furnace where their red-hot shot had
been heated, an I the soldiery were scouring every
nook and corner of the place, and posting senti-
nels therein. The prisoners having collected their
personal baggage, were ordered to be immediately
removed on board the men of war.- This occupied
about half an hour, and the ceremony of playing
them out took place. The Commanders-in-Chief,
Sir Charles Napier and General B traguay d'Hilliers,
with Admiral
.Chads, Captain Ramsay, Captain
Pelham, Captain Yelverton, General Jones, the
Colonelf of the French Regiment, the Hon. Capt.
Cochrane (aide-de-camp to the French Commander),
Lieutenant Agnew and Lieutenant Chads (Flag
Lie utonants), with a brilliant staff of French officers
on horseback, were drawn up in a space of ground
on the outside. The whole army lined the way fdr
800 yards, extending from the gateway to the mole,
or lauding place, and they stood with loaded guns
and fixed bayonets, the Royal Marines and marine
artillery being ranged on one side of the entrance,
and. the Chasseurs on the opposite. Between
this file of men the prisoners came forth two by
two, the drums and fifes of the marines striking
up natio.nal tunes, which were taken up by each re-
giment in the rear. The Russians looked dispirited
and careworn, the only repose they could obtain
for five days having been by the side of their
guns. At intervals a few drunken shouts
escaped from the fort. A partial revolt had arisen
previous to their surrender, and on seeing the
army enter many had rushed to the spirit casks.
These men were the last that could be got out,
and on hearing the music they commenced their
national pastime, and ludicrously danced a polka
through the whole lino. One man was brought
out between two French soldiers. This
wretch had been discovered attempting to fire
time powder magazine when in a drunken fit. I
have heard that the following day he was shot.
The large pinnaces and cutters from the
squadron rapidly embarked the men, and ill

thleo All', a: t3r Llie surren,ler they were placed
on board the men-of-war. In the afternoon the
Governor (General Bodisco), with two.colonels and
the priest, were taken on board, in company with
some few French officers.
expressed
The Governor, in conversation, had
that their chance of holding out longer had become
quite hopeless, a 10-inch gun turned from their
own mud battery against them, being well handled;
he observed also that the battery from the heights
was brought to play upon him (this was Captain
Ramsay's), and that the French were gradually ad'
vancing and securing their position. The last two
shells that were fired were from Captain Pelham s
gun on the mud battery ; they entered the same
embrasure, and set fire to the officers' quarters.

SWEDEN AND THE ALLIES.
COPENHAGEN, August 27.—The Aftonbletcleg
affirms that General Baraguay d'Hilliers has offered
the King of Sweden fourteen million francs for the
first month, and seven for succeeding months, as a
subsidy to be paid on his actively joining the
Western Powers.

ALAND.
DANTZIC, Saturclay.—The cholera is very bad at
Bomarsund. Sixty French soldiers died on the
231. The Balmoral steam-ship has arrived.

PRUSSIA.
A correspondent writing to a contemporarl
says :—Certainly Prussia is expecting war, ana
that soon. The palisades of the ditch are set to
all the outworks here. This would not be done
unless there was a probability of an early attack;
The palisades are generally housed or preserved
from the effects of the weather. If the surmise
should prove correct, and war takes place between
Prussia and the Western Powers, it seems hardlypossible for Prussia to escape a revolution or 1,"
change of Sovereigns. The antagonism of political
feeling is already pushed to the verge of colision.
With one party the King is almost a God.
the King wishes, God wills I" What
of the nobles. " I am a noble, aristocrat, and
Royalist," said one of this section, and s's
he spoke he held out the ring on his fore-
finger. "My ancestors carried this crest in the
Holy Wars. We haVe been for ages more than the
mere companions in arms of the King's familr—lve
have been friends ! Three generals of nly.n3ge
were killed in the Seven Years' War ; one 111 d
war against Napoleon. lam myself a general an
all that I have in the world is for mylcing. lat
boy, not yet higher than my walking-stick, is a Ter
Bier already ; he knows the exercise, and can or
the manual. One day he will be a general,
en,
is the motto
already he has learnt that his life, his honour ev4a
is for his King. What the ing wishes, urea
wills ! Upon my estates I have nearly 1,600113 v
and their families. Every man is a soldier. „
'.
cannot understand why England is at war Whiith
s
Russia. One of my men, who was decorated for 0
bravery in 1815, and who is now an old mall, eaniof
to me when he was called on to pay his
the extraordinary tax of 15 millions just ralgecti;
and said, How is this ? They say we are to go _
war with England. I don't understand it. Frain
indeed, would be another affair.' The King
,Ivi,„
do as he thinks right.' The King ! Good. 1,11,er
is my tax. What the King wishes, God wills.
In the army generally there is 'another feeling',
which is still more likely than the purer loyalty
the nobles to hurry Prussia into an injurious w 3,1,,
portion ,
a
Every Prussian soldier desires to have a shot
Frenchman ! With the commercial classes,
itra,7
mercantile marine, and generally among the.,l.on
yelled and literary men, there exists an oppos:: (if
to the Government, a feeling which is aline'
not absolutely) disloyalty and personal hostilityt
the King. Among a party of these classes to pross
pose the health of the King would be thought 1,1,4
Prussian an insult, in a foreigner a mistake. 1".
Prussian would be turned out of the corapaq"
l
the foreigner would be requested to drink sora
other toast. A war with England would be a siglie!
to these men to offer the crown of Prll'Sla to soul!
other member of the Royal family. They lon
that for a time all the strength of an organise_
force would be against them ; but they rely up?"
the influence of family and connections in he
army, and expect that a very shurt interval 0111
suffice to break up its union and strength.
This brief summary of the internal political
state of Prussia would be incomplete if ne
notice were taken of the extreme aristocrali
and democracy which are found in the ranks of the
two great divisions of the country. But as evert
one knows how much these two principles oppon
each other, the object of this letter will be answered ,
if you are made aware that the aristocratic extreme
is as tyrannical and Russian as the other is vision'
ary and uncertain.
Enough has been said to show you the danger
that menaces society in Prussia. One other element,
and that perhaps the most powerful, must not be,
forgotten—the women of Prussia have a bitter and
well-founded hate of France and Frenchmen.

AUSTRIA
VIENNA, AUGUST 24.
Yesterday's Official Vienna Gazette contained the
appointment of Baron Edward de Bach, till net
governor of Upper Austria, and brother of his Pc"
cellency the Minister of the Interior, to the Po.°
of Austrian civil commissioner for the Danubian
principalities. Baron E. de Bach has made biS
diplomatic visits here to-day ;he prcceeds to tlis
head-quarters of Baron Hess forthwith; and by the
sth of September, the day on which the Austriao
troops are to enter Bucharest, he will most probablf
have reached the capital of Wallachia. In tliq
absence of intelligence from the seat of war of a
more stirring and exciting nature, we have to coo,'
tend with a species of ne%N s evidently disseminate'
for the most malicious purposes by the comnina
enemies, id est, by the minions of Russia and the
revolutionary party respectively.
The following telegraphic despatches have beell
received here :
" ORSOVA, August
" The birthday of his Majesty the Ernreistji
Francis Joseph was festively celebrated on the J-,..fr
at Rustchuk. Omer Pacha, with his whole sin_
and all the foreign officers, gorgeously attirl'
attended the solemnisation in the Consulate's chaq;
during which a salute of 21 guns was fired frorooo,4
fortress. A grand parade of the troops als° tbo,
place in honour of the day. At Rustchuk the co,
lera has broken out among the Turkish troops.
Giurgevo and Nicopoli the disarming and ine°l.l-se
ration of the Bashi-bazouks in the new corps .°%.y.
nised by the French has led to several sangalboji
scenes. The rebels were overpowered in very
places. Trade on the Lower Danube is
lively." WPC°
CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG: 17.—The day 0%;
yesterday the last of the ships destined for 1101
pedition of the Crimea left here for Varna.
ch 0
lead 12,000 Turkish troops and 2,000 Frei' tike'
board. Horses, cannon, and munitions wel,.eboate
wise shipped, and a number of flat-botton3ea_ bore
were taken. Prince Napoleon, who has bee_Puot
since the 10th, has returned really on no;rvisil
sickness—he is suffering from fever. ,11__;oo te
Pacha has to-day left on a diplomatic lo'usss'taot
Bucharest. , The cholera is decreasing in C°6l3tiroli
no le and Varna ; and at Gallipoli it hag
Geasi,g
disappeared. In the Dardanelles it is ini,dors
trutd while
in violence. By the use of so manY
transport ships, trade has suffered here _ area
there is abundance of money, there is r'
scarcity of goods. o°ll
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" CONSTANTINOPLE, August 14.—S—, ,025th I
men embarked at Varna from the 18th to 0,600 o
their destination is Sebastopol. The rolLutibo hen
the Anglo-French, with the exception °I sae 1,
the wine stores, and some catnp utensils, goreow'
from the conflagration at Varna. Some 111,
ings have been noticeable in the Fret"'
r
-tri
lately." acel
1
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" ALEXANDRIA, August 16.--The
rived here on the 12th ; the town was
illuminated. On the 14th he set out for
c
tinople." neolintro
" TRIESTE, August 24.—According t° a there
ments from Constantinople of the
not a single three-masted vessel now in is to be
phorus. The point where the landing', t. 4
made is a profound secret, known °ndbo
admirals and principal commanders. "- ostriril
of the approaching entrance of the
received
troops into the Principalities was reeriieblve Chola'
satisfaction in the Turkish metropolis. .01 cilro
prevails there, but it is not of an epiderai to
hes
ratter. Intelligence from Smyrna vac
16th. There is an average of from thre.e
_bitst;
140,
the II;
cases of cholera per day. The richer ion,a,NreOs,
are leaving the town. The Austrian frigelL:, he t
has arrived here. Several bands of p„ir3l'o, 00'0
been seized at Lorvio. Wo learn from vnr is Ps,
the loss of the French by the conflagratial_ tore!
than that of the English, the whole of whosviiitojlr
of provisions are destroyed. According tt°bot al
gence from Beyrut of the 14th inst., en. 00°
the Emir Beschir A..chmet was named Ida
the Maronites."

of AtlhAeppßrlonv,inAceu.G. 524P.-LATII-ieNC.aPtain"Gel3/013P
General
;
Guipuscoa has given orders to dissolve the
1034'
Narvaez has a.pplied for passports to go a
Jose Concha bas set out for the HavatJa• •oes
still cooti
The reports of a Ministerial crisis I
A Madrid letter of the 21st says :-- totioi),
" toldWell-infore persons pretend that the q • 01
which appears ivide most seriously the 131(20010
the present Cabinet is that of the departurl,° Witi t
Clariitina. Ally* All the) Ilinivtend Ow"
• ;

avour her departure ; but they meet with a strong op-
position, it is said, on the' part of Marshal E-partero
and his aide•de-camp, the Minister of Ailarine, M.
Allende Salazar, They both imagine that there would
be danger of making themselves unpopular, were they
to oppose the national will, so strongly expressed on this
point. A rumour has been in circulation that General
San Miguel and M. Luis Sagasti are likely to be before
long replaced, being considered too moderate by the
President of the Council. The names of their successors
are not given. It appears that at the meeting of the
persons transported in 1848, a question of a serious cha
racter was raised, namely, that of indemnifying them,
and taking that indemnity from the private fortunes of
the persons who decreed that transportation. In 1848
it was Narvaez who was at the head of affairs in Spain.
It is evident that if such a spirit were indulged in, it
raisrlit go exceedingly far. M. Calderon de la Barca, ex-
Minister of Foreign Affairs, has left Madrid for a
foreign country."
The Madrid Three per Cents. were 34.25.