The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-10 00:00:00

THE BALTIC.

COPENHAGEN, Tuesday, May 9.—The French
fleet, consisting of eleven sail, has reached Elfs-
nabben or its immediate neighbourhood. The
Austerlitz, French liner, is already there. The
British fleet has been reinforced by Prince Regent
90, and Cumberland 70, both just arrived from
England. The French squadron did not anchor in
Wingo Sound, but proceeded immediately up the
Baltic to join the British fleet.
A letter from Helsingfors, 28th ult., states that
the works of reconstruction of the town of Wasa,
which was destroyed by fire about two years since,
have been suddenly suspended by order of the
Government. This town, which stood on the Strait
of Quarken, which unites the Gulf of Bothnia to
the sea of that name, is now to be rebuilt on another
site at a greater distance from the coast.
The following is an extract of a letter received
from an officer on board the Duke of Wellington,
flag-ship, dated Stockholm, May 2

"The Austerlitz joined us yesterday, and saluted with
17 guns. She is a very flue-looking ship, of immense
beam, and has an enormous gilt figure-head ofNapoleon,
copied from his statue in Paris. Her stern is pretty,
but fantastical; in the centre there is an eagle, with out-
stretched wings, and on each quarter a figure of Fame,
with flowing drapery, blowing a long trumpet. She
steamed completely round and round the fleet before
coming to an anchor, and did it very well. Her rudder
is very much exposed, and is rather too conspicuous a
mark. lam sorry to say the small-pox is growing
worse. The Cumberland has arrived at Kioge Bay.
We were to have sailed yesterday, but the fog would not
let us ; and we are detained from the same cause to-day.
I think the admiral is only waiting for the French to
commence proceedings ; and now they have appeared
we think we shall begin. Where can all our letters be ?
We have had none now for more than a month. It is
rumoured with some confidence that we may expect to
return in October next for the winter."

CONSTANTINOPLE.
Letters from Constantinople state that the ex-
pulsion of Greek subjects from the country had be-
come a source of serious difficulty for the Ministry
of the Sultan. The Greek Catholics, to the num-
ber of about 1,000, had demanded to be excepted

from the general measure, founding their request
Op their well-known sentiments, which they thought
ought certainly to exempt them from any suspicion
of taking any part in the insurrection, and which
even guaranteed their being opposed to the rising
in Epirus and in Thessaly., In favour of the ex-
ception which they solicited, they had obtained
the intervention of several influential personages
in the diplomatic corps, and it appears that at
first Reschid Pacha replied in an encouraging
manner to the overtures which were made to hint
on the subject. When, however, it was submitted
to the consideration of the Divan, the opinion was
almost unanimous against granting the demand•
Reschid Pacha was, therefore, compelled to dis-
pel the hopes which he had at first given rise
to. The consequence of this was said to have
been some rather warm discussions with a cer-
tain number of members of the diplomatic corps•
Advices had been received from the head-quarters
of Omer Pacha to the Ist ult., which stated that the
Generalissimo had completed his movement of con-
centration on Schumla, where the whole of his right
wing was collected, reinforced by the last troops
which were sent from Constantinople, and by those
which he had been able without risk to withdraw
from certain points of the Danube, which were
not at that time menaced. This part of the Balkans
is therefore sufficiently provided to check the march
of the enemy, and even to gain some successes in
the event of being attacked. As to the Russians
their position was still apparently the same ; they
were every day receiving fresh re-inforcements, but

they did not show any inclination to advance.
They appeared to be waiting for more troops in
order to advance against Omer Pacha with a very
considerable force, immense superiority in num-
bers being for them the only means of balancing
the chance of arms. They calculate on doing by land
what was done by sea at Sinope ; the position, how-
ever, is not the same, and they are expected by the
Turks with confidence. On the 24th ult., the body
of an English soldier was found lying in the street,
at Scutari, having been killed by a stab with a
knife in the abdomen. The murderer had not been
discovered, but it was suspected that the crime had
been committed by some wretched fanatic. Ac-
counts had been received from Adrianople to the
20th ult. Some French officers were there making
arrangements for establishing the head-quarters of
the allied corps d'armee which was marching to-
wards that city. Several large Turkish, Greek,
and Armenian houses had been fitted up for the
reception of the French and English officers, and
quarters were ready for the troops.
The Presse of Vienna has the following from
Constantinople, of the 24th ult. :—" The police
has just discovered a new plot, in which are com-
promised some Poles seduced by Russian gold ;
also, 300 Greeks are implicated in this conspiracy-
Three Poles have been arrested, and in their papers
proofs have been found of intelligence with persons
near the person of the Czar. The conspiracy was
to burst out on the 26th, but the police was aware
of what what was going on, and the conspirators
were arrested when holding their last meeting."
The Lloyd of Vienna of the 4th says piper
Pasha has sent a courier to Constantinople to assure
the Government that Silistria could hold out until
the arrival of the allied troops, even were they to be
delayed for two months. Gen. de Schilder is at
Kalaradsch. On April 28, he caused Silistria to be
bombarded, but without success." The Russians

have 150 guns. Austria strongly insists on the
Porte proceeding against the Montenegrins as rre'bels, as appears from a correspondence between
Count de Leiningen and the Ministers of the
Porte." ' -

The following is from the correspondent of
the Morning Chronicle, dated Constantinople,
April 27
"The heights between Scutari and Kadi-Kiew are at
present a sight such as has never before been known on
the Bosphorus. Four British regiments are there en-
camped, whilst some 5,000 or 6,000 men are quartered
in the adjacent barracks. The 77th and 95th, the
Fusiliers, and the 88th (Connaught Rangers) are all
under canvas. Every day, from nine in the morning
until two, this undulating plain is covered by the regi-
ments going through their exercise, with bands playing,
and drums rattling. As the eye rests upon this field ca
green, dotted with the white tents of the different regi'
ments; and spotted with several thousand red-coats, you
can scarcely imagine that you are in Turkey. The picture
is too British—English is spoken all around—and were A
not for Constantinople, which rises to your right, with it°
hundred minarets, and for the presence of motley grono
of Turks and Turkish women in their Eastern coo'
tumes, you might well imagine that you were assisting
at a camp in Old England. Yesterday a great number
of Circassians were on the ground, in huge yellow
picked fur caps, and their otherwise peculiar and comical
costume, to the great amusement of the soldiers. Bashi'
bazouk horsemen—those independent irregular ma"
rauders, who, on the plea of fighting the Russians, have
been ravaging Bulgaria—gallop about occasionally on
wretched scraggy ponies, whirling about their lancCat
and indulging in sundry braggadocios. These men aro
the pest of every country they pass through. Some
15,000 to 20,000 of them are at the present moment in
Bulgaria. Omer Paella does not know what to do with
them. They will not fight, and they misbehave them-
selves everywhere, and in every way. He has hanged
some of them, and had others severely beaten, but all to
no purpose.

Though I have already announced to you the
several arrivals of the different regiments, it will be a 0
well to give some history of the British force in Asia
Minor, from their first embarkation to this date. The
first ship which arrived was the Himalaya, Peninsular
and Oriental steamer, which cast anchor at Scutari 00
the 14th of April; but she arrived in stormy weather,
ominous of her stormy mission. It was difficult to
communicate with her from the shore, and the unfortu-
nate staff officers who had to go to Scutari to prepare
quarters and provisions, and such like, had no small
difficulty in getting across the Bosphorus. It rained
and snowed alternately the whole day, and 'the air wag
bitter cold. These unfortunates found it impossible to
get back from Scutari ; and wet clothes, cabobs, and
the floor of a khan were their fate for the night.
"The troops continued to arrive in the following Or'
der :—By the Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s steamer
Himalaya, on 14th April, the 33d and 41st Regiments ;
on Tuesday, 16th, by 'the Indus, towed by the Cambria,
the 49th Regiment ; and by the Sultan, the 47th Regt.
On the 18th inst. the Giorgiana arrived with horses and
mules, and the Apollo, towed by the Sultan, with the
47th Regiment on board. On the 19th, the 88th Regt:
arrived by the Niagara. On the 21st the Orinoco brought
the 7th Royal Fusiliers. On the 23d the City of Lotkdoo
arrived, with Major-General Sir De Lacy Evans and
staff, with 36 horses, the property of himself, staff, and
assistant quartermaster-general ; Lieutenant- Colonel.
Herbert, Lieutenant-Colonel Cunninghame, Assistant
Adjutant-General Lieutenant-Col. Greene, Sir Rich/ 01,
England and staff; also, the horses of his Raja'
Highness the Duke of Cambridge. On Monday, •the
24th, the Emperor arrived, with one company of the
19th Regiment, and the horses of Lord Raglan andi EttO
and baggage.

" Commissary-General Filder, who arrived on the
23d, remains at Pera. The commissariat arrangeme ots
have been very good, and the regiments, as they portr .
one after the other, are fed and rationed as regularty 55
in a garrison. Assistant-Commissary Strickland has 115,
the entire management of this truly arduous task; .0,5"
he has well fulfilled the honour conferred upon him,
being the first commissariat officer to ration a Bril
fish
force in Asia Minor, with the assistance of a large Istas
of officers serving under him. The medical departai enti
too, is well organised, under Deputy Inspector Gen er3,
of Hospitals Dumbrich. A host of surgeons and assi,st ,asv.
surgeons have arrived, but have, I am happy tio 057'
nothing to do as yet."

GREECE.
AUSTRIAN INTERVENTION IN GRE Eta'
The Moniteur of this day, publishes intelli gone!
from Trieste, stating that two Austrian ship B-01-
war have received orders to proceed to Pr, ev esaf
and to come to an understanding with the cora'
manders of the French and English ships.
General Mamula, commandino, in Dalmai 5219 i 5.
charged to concert measures, with the Pacha o I SO:
tari, and to place the Austrian troops at his di ispos'f
tion, for the repression of the disturbances in Alba'
nia, and the incursions of the Montenegrins.

GRIVAS KILLING HIS OWN MEN
When Grivas was reduced to extremities he fa' Oa
he must cut his way through the Turks. I 4/I,`, he
had 100 wounded with him, and these, of con rseY
would fall into the hands of the Sultan's troc )0'
He therefore preferred to kill them himself bat 303-
hand. He administered to them all the last sa eras
ment, and he then gave his sound men order s
shoot them every one. This was done in the e• ve11;
ing of the 10th of April. On the following n ,
he got through, and escaped with his handl ul of
followers to the Agrapha-hills, but incessantly Pt'''
sued by the Turks. Utterly destitute, he is : unly'
it is said, on the eve of returning to Greece.
The New Prussian, Gazette says :—" At las t the
blockade of Greece has been officially alumna ell
the Greek Government, and it is said. that it Iv
commence in the course of this week. The am bias-
sadors of the Western Powers have officiadly "Li):
dared to the Government that the admiral of the
squadron at anchor in the waters of Dalmatia 411
received orders to detain the three Russian men- °f
war that were bought by' the Greeks at Trie4(3P
and which are shortly expected there."
The following from Greece, 28th ult., is pub-
lished in the Nouvelliste of Marseilles :—" an the
evening of the 25th, a Turkish steamer arrived in
the Pincus from Constantinople, with a note ad-
dressed by the Sublime Porte to the Greek Govern"
ment, in which it is announced that, if within o'3
days the Greek Government did not give a sati s'
factory reply to the demands made by the Ottomail
Minister before he left Athens, Turkey would be'
compelled to declare war against Greece. T
French and English Ministers are said to have an..",_
nounced their intent ion to quit Greece in the e vei 1.1
of a rupture with Turkey."
We read in the Trieste Observer:—
"A Council of Ministers and Generals was recent,