The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-27 00:00:00

INSURRECTION IN GREECE.

A telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, yesterday
(Sunday) evening, says :—The insurgents have
taken the citadel of Arta. Prevesa is also reported
to have been taken by them. An insurrection has
broken out at Grybos, in Negropont, equal in
gravity to that in Albania. Two Greek generals
and several staff officers have joined the insurgents.
The Greek Government dreads an extensive deser-
tion of its soldiery. Precautionary measures have
been taken.

The following is the sense of a most important
article in the Oesterreichische Correspondenz of
yesterday (Sunday) :—" The latest news leaves
no doubt that the insurrection on the frontiers
of Greece is extending. This is to be lamented, as
it adds to the complication of the Oriental ques-
tion. The Greek insurrection, if not checked
in time, may become dangerous to the conserva-
tive interests of Europe. When the official organ
of the French Government condemns insurrection-
ary movents in general, and that above-mentioned
in particular, it has the perfect approval of
Austria.

" The sentiments expressed in the Moniteur
apply to all cases and to all the phases which this
ill-omened Oriental question may pass through."
The Ost Deutsche Post of Feb. 21 remarks :

"That it is notorious that an insurrection has broken
out of late on the Greek frontier of Turkey and in Epi-
rus. It is a rising, they add, of the Greek Christians
against Turkey, but taking an extended view of it, it
seems likely to amount eventually to an insurrection of
the whole Greek population against their Turkish supe-
riors, and hence it is of the utmost importance, not only
as regards the position of Turkey to Russia, but in gene-
ral reference to the whole crisis. We feel it our duty,
therefore, to publish the following important document
as to be origin and commencement of this movement :

" PROCLAMATION.
" We, the undersigned inhabitants and clergy of
Radobitsi, in the province of Arta, sighing under the
iron yoke of ruinous taxation which the barbarous Otto-
man conquerors, incapable of any sort of culture or civi-
lisation, are pleased to lay upon us, again resume the
struggle of 1821, and swear by the Almighty and our
Sacred Fatherland, that we will, in no case and under no
pretence, lay aside our arms until we have obtained our
liberty. At the outset of this struggle we hope to arouse
the sympathy, as well of our brethren the free liellenians,
as also of those who, like ourselves, are groaning under
the yoke of Ottoman oppression ; and that they will
again grasp their arms, and resume the sacred struggle
of 1821, and do battle for our faith and our fatherland,
and for the attainment of our inalienable rights.
" Our cause is holy, our strife is just, and every one
who but glances at the weight of the oppression we have
endured, and considers the rights of nations, will have
no word to say on behalf of our ruthless oppressors, or
in vindication of the planting of the Crescent, as sup-
planting the interests of the Cross, on the roofs of our
beautiful churches, Stc.' "

Numerous arrests of political emissaries have
been made in Hungary and Transylvania. The
prisoners have been brought to Vienna.
Baron Meyendorff has complained to Count Buol
of the anti-Russian articles in the Lloyd.
The Czar is again making paper money. By an
ukase of the 17th instant addressed to the directing
senate, he orders the issue of six new series of
credit notes, each of three millions of silver roubles
(75 millions of francs.)
So groat is the press for men in Russia, that sol-
diers who had served for 25 years and been dis-
charged, are again called out and forced to march
immediately.

Advices from Constantinople, of the 13th Feb.,
state that General Sir John Burgoyne, two English
lieutenants of Engineers, and a French colonel,
with an adjutant, arrived at the Turkish capital,
on board the Caradoc. On the 11th they visited
the Dardanelles, to inspect the fortifications.
A treaty has been concluded between the Porte
and France and England relative to future negoti-
ations with Russia. The Sheik-ul-Islam has ad-
vanced 100,000,000 piasters to the Porte, and ex-
pressed his willingness to make further sacrifices.
One English and two French officers has been ap-
pointed to actual commands in the Danubian army.
General Guyon has been appointed Chief of the
Engineering Staff of the Armenian army.
A letter from Constantinople, of the 9th, says :
—Yesterday a council was held at the Porte.
Great anxiety is felt here about Kalafat. How
long this Oriental question is to last it is difficult
to say ; it seems interminable. Commerce suffers
from it, not only here, but everywhere. Down-
right war could not be much worse than the present
state of uncertainty. All commercial enterprise
and speculation are checked, and no one can say
one day what the next may bring.
Lord Stratford de Redcliffa has quite recovered
from his late slight indisposition.
Whilst every post from the East is eagerly
awaited in London and Paris, and all Europe is
anxiously directing it gaze towards Turkey, Con-
stantinople, the capital of the Ottoman empire, is
in the enjoyment of the most uninteresting quiet.
The Turks take things very cooly.
This is the carnival. The French and English
ambassadors, and the family of one wealthy banker,
entertain, and they do it very well and very hand-
somely. The hotels have weekly masked balls—
rather melancholy assemblages, to which you pur-
chase your entrance at so many piastres a head.
The ceremony of dancing is gone through strictly
selon les regles, and with the observance of rather
frigid etiquette. The women are all masked, but
do not seem to know the advantage of that dis-
guise. The gentlemen are almost all unmasked.
There is, however, a sprinkling of male dominoes,
who hover about in a mysterious manner. They
are by some supposed to be husbands ; they do no
dance.

There are also masked balls at the theatre. A
Turkish woman was caught there last week, in a
domino. Her husband had some suspicions, which
turned out true. She had gone to the Giaour ball.
Half a dozen of the cavasses
(policemen) who
haunt that building (they have the entrance to the
theatre free, and sometimes form the bulk of the
audience) escorted her out, and she was marched
home in tears and distress by her angry husband.
Going out at night in winter at Constantinople—
that is to say, in the Christian suburbs (for no
European enters the Turkish city after nightfall)
is not an agreeable occupation. You must neces-
sarily be armed with three things—a pair of overall
boots, reaching to the knee, to trudge through the
mud in ; a paper lantern with an inch or two of
candle in it ; and a stick for the dogs—the latter
may also be used as a private lamp-post, by
hanging your lantern on it. Thus equipped, you
stumble through dingy lanes, and up steep alleys,
until you find your destination. The ladies
go in sedan-chairs, carried by two stout hamals,
and preceded by either a servant or cavass, with
a huge lantern boasting of three candles, to clear
the way. Carriages aro very seldom used at night,
the streets being .so crooked, steep, and narrow.
Though Constantinople possesses a motley Frank
population of a very doubtful character, people are
not robbed very often. One does not hoar of every-
thing that occurs. About six weeks ago an En-
glish officer was knocked down, and his watch and
purse taken from him ; and now and then, every
month or so, you hear of somebody having been
stabbed. The principal use of carrying a lantern
iat night s not so much for personal safety as to