The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-14 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 3. The Christophe
Colorabe arrived at Gallipoli on the 31st, with
Generals Canrobert, Bosquet, and Martinprey on
board, together with the staff and 800 rifles.
The Mistral has brought 27 officers and 40
horses.

An English vessel is in sight, with the 93d on
board.

M. Metaxa left this place to-day. Greek sub-
jects have received 15 days' notice to quit
Turkey ; meanwhile they are placed under Belgian
protection.
Omer Pacha was at Schumla on the 30th.
The combined fleets were off Varna. The steamers
had been despatched to the mouths of the Danube.
The marines of the French and English fleet will
be landed if necessary at any point to protect the
Turks. The Turkish gun-boat flotilla will enable
the Admirals to communicate with Kustendjee.
There are 7,000 marines on board the British fleet.

ODESSA, April 2.—A11 French and English yes.
sels have been sent out of port. .

THE BALTIC.

COPENHAGEN, APRIL, 12.—The Dauntless has
returned from a cruise up the Gulf of Finland.
She brings despatches from Admiral Plumridge,
who commands the advanced squadron, and who
reports that there is but little ice in the Gulf of
Finland. She saw eighteen Russian ships of the
line in Sweaburg Harbour.
The Imperieuse has chased a Russian corvette
back to Sweaburg.
The English fleet has suddenly left Kioge Bay,
and steered eastwards.

Three more ships of war have arrived.
The Ministerial crisis continues.
A rapid tour through a portion of the east pro-
vinces of Prussia, says the writer of a letter dated
Stettin, Monday, eriables'm 8 to state that the general
feeling is decidedly hostile to Russia. The trading
classes are conspicuous in the manifestation of that
feeling ; and that fact need create no surprise, for
they cannot forget how prejudicial to those pro-
vinces has been, and is still, the commercial system
of their powerful neighbour. It may be almost said
that that system has interrupted the commercial re-
lations between "Russian Poland " and several Prus-
sian provinces, particularly when one compares the
value of the exports of late years with those of former
times. The illiberal nature of the Russian commer-
cial system will be readily comprehended when it is
stated that Prussian exports to Russian Poland are
subjected in the latter to not less than fifteen diffe-
rent duties, the list of which has been communicated
to me by parties who are no little sufferers through
that system. There is scarcely a single article of
trade which in Russian Poland is free from heavy
duties or " dues;" and even the remains of deceased
persons sent for interment to that portion of the
Russian empire are subjected to a certain tax. The
people of East and West Prussia, as well as Posen
and Silesia, know well enough that the object of
the Czar is to exclude from Poland, not only the
produce, but also the liberal principles and tend-
encies, of those parts of the Prussian monarchy—
principles and tendencies which were duly repre-
sented in Berlin at the " United Diet," or first
Prussian Parliament, in 1847, and in following
years. On two grounds, therefore—one commercial,
the other political—the inhabitants of the eastern
provinces of Prussia are decidedly anti-Russian, and
I may add, that the majority are favourable to a free
trade (and the same may be said of the Rhine dis-
trict), and that large quantities of corn and timber
are exported to England from those provinces. Iu
the harbour of Stettin alone there are at present some
25 English vessels taking in cargoes for British
ports, amongst others a very fine and much admired
brig, the Matanzas, of Leith, which came here with
a cargo of iron. As it is highly probable that the
British fleet will make its appearance off the Prus-
sian ports on the Baltic, and that some of the
small war steamers will run into them, I have
made inquiries respecting those ports. - I am told
that supplies of provisions may be readily procured
in Swinemunde, Kolberg (nearly opposite the
Danish island of Bornholm), Dantzic, and Konigs-
berg. At Swinemunde, which may be called the
port of Stettin, the common depth of water in and
before the harbour is 21 and 22 feet ; in the roads,
as well as in the harbour the anchorage is good,
and in the former, which are about two English
miles from the shore, there are at least five fathoms
water. When stormy easterly winds are blowing
vessels must be prepared to carry strong sails, as
the current with those winds runs very strong
to the westward. The common river depth
from Swinemunde to Stettin, and in the latter
itself, is 14 feet. The narrow but tolerably deep
channel to Swinemunde is defended by two batte-
ries which must, of course, be saluted by any
war-steamer effecting an entrance, for the sake of
procuring provisions. Kolberg, as said before, is
a good port for supplies, arid there is plenty of
cattle and spring water in the opposite island of
Bornholm, in the northern portion of which are
two good bays suitable for the anchorage of large
vessels. In Dantzic there are 16 feet water both
on the bar and in the harbour ; in Pillau (which
may be called the port of Konigsberg) and Memel
there are 14 feet water on the bar in ordinary wea-
ther, but the currents sometimes change after the
breaking up of the ice. I may state here that steamers
run from Konigsbergto Pilau, and thence alternately
to Elbing and Dantzic. In a few days a steam-boat
communication will-be established between Stettin
and the Swedish coast. I have spoken with several
experienced captains, English as well as foreign,
respecting the Gulf of Finland, and more especially
with reference to the sinking in that gulf, by the
Russians, of rocks and masses of timber. They all
ridicule such doings, if indeed there have been such
doings, for their conviction is that nothing of the
kind has been effected. I find, however, that there
is a difference of opinion amongst them respecting
the depth of water in what may be called the na-
vigable channel to Cronstadt, some of them giving
it as seven or eight fathoms,
and others as only five.
There is a very active and intelligent British vice-
consul in Stettin, Mr. Campbell, of the respectable
firm of Campbell and Anderson, who are prepared
to render good service to the British squadron
when it makes its appearance off the Prussian coast.