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 fine-looking ship, of immense
beam, and bas 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 qikarter a figure of Fame,
with flowing drapery, blowing a long trumpet. She
steamed completely round and round the fleet before
coining 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 7
We have had none now for more than a month. It is
rumoured with some confidence that %,v,e 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 4000,-bad demanded to be excepted


from the general measure, founding their request
on 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 him
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 ca-
taro 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 ; thei
were every day receiving fresh re-inforcemeuts, 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 1)04
of au 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 bad
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 fronl
Constantinople, of the 24th ult. :—" The police
has just discovered a new plot, in which are cow
promised some Poles seduced by Russian golds"
also, 300 Greeks are implicated in this conspiracy
Three Poles have been arrested, and in their paper
proofs have been found of intelligence with persons
near the person of the Czar. The conspiracy wa°
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 Omer
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 re-
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 00
the Bosphorus. Four British regiments are there en;
camped, whilst some 5,000 or 6,000 men are quartere'
in the adjacent barracks. The 77th and 95th,. 01
Fusiliers, and the 88th (Connaught Rangers) are s,"
under canvas. Every day, from nine in the morning
until two, this undulating plain is covered by the .rege
ments going through their exercise, with bands playings
and drums rattling. As the eye rests upon this field 0'
green, dotted with the white tents of the different ITO;
ments, and spotted with several thousand red-coats, Y°:
can scarcely imagine that you are in Turkey. The pieta:
is too British—English is spoken all around—and were it
not for Constantinople, which rises to your right, with its
hundred minarets, and for the presence of motley grog°
of Turks and Turkish women in their Eastern 00e.
tumes, you might well imagine that you were assisting
at a canip in Old England. Yesterday a great number
of Circassians were on the ground, in huge yoll°ll
picked fur caps, and their otherwise peculiar and corns
costume, to the great amusement of the soldiers. Bashi.
bazouk horsemen—those independent irregular Inv
rauders, who, on the plea of fighting the Russians, have
been ravaging Balgaria—gallop about occasionally 00
wretched scraggy ponies, whirling about their lances,
and indulging in sundry braggadocios. These nips' are
the pest of every country they pass through. Some
15,000 to 20,000 of them are at the present moment is
Bulgaria. Omer Pacha does not know what to do with
them. They will not fight, and they misbehave thew'
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 as
well to give some history of the British force ill Alia
Minor, from their first embarkation to this date. "r"e
first ship which arrived was the Himalaya, Peninsular
a.nd Oriental steamer, which cast anchor at Scutari ~
the 14th of April ; but; she arrived in stormy weather'
ominous of her stormy mission. It was difficult te
communicate with her from the shore, and the unforte"
nate staff officers who had to go to Scutari to prePl
quarters and provisions, and such like, had no elliaa
difficulty in getting across the Bosphorus. It rale%
and snowed alternately the whole day, and the air
bitter cold. These unfortunates found it impossible to
get back from Scutari ; and wet clothes, cabobs,
the floor of a khan were their fate for the night.
"The troops continued to arrive in the following
der :—By the Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s steer'''.
Himalaya., on 14th April, the 33d and 41st Regiment!'
on Tuesday, 16th, by the Indus, towed by the Cambri::
the 49th Regiment ; and by the Suitau, the 47th ilega
On the 18th inst. the Giorgiana arrived with horses ali
mules, and the Apollo, towed by the Sultan, with tot.
47th Regiment on board. On the 19th, the 88th rteght
arrived by the Niagara. On the 21st the Orinoco broUP.,
the 7th Royal Fusiliers. On the 23d the City of LOUdelti
arrived, with Major-General Sir De Lacy Evans Ova
staff, with 36 horses, the property of himself, staff. e A
assistant quartermaster-general ; Lieutenant- Colon
Herbert, Lieutenant-Colonel Cunninghame, Assists!,
Adjutant-General Lieutenant-Col. Greene, Sir Ricbal;
England and staff ; also, the horses of his Itele
Highness the Duke of Cambridge. On Monday, 1,0
24th, the Emperor arrived, with. one company of
19th Regiment, and the horses of Lord Raglan and et'
and baggage.
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" Commissary-General Filder, who arrived on 0
23d, remains at Pera. The commissariat arrangement,,
have been very good, and the regiments, as they pour
iis
one after the other, are fed and rationed as regularly a
in a garrison. Assistant-Commissary Strickland has " a
the entire management of this truly arduous task, 1/901
he has well fulfilled the honour conferred upon hill' isb
being the first commissariat officer to ration a Brit
force in Asia Minor, with the assistance of a large ey-t.
of officers serving under him. The medical departroe;ll
too, is well organised, under Deputy Inspector Genet,
of Hospitals Dumbrich, A host of surgeons and assista",
surgeons have arrived, but have, I am happy to 0'9./,,
nothing to do as yet."

GREECE.
AUSTRIAN INTERVENTION IN GREOc;
The Illoniteur of this day, publishes intelliga
from Trieste, stating that two Austrian shipo-°
war have received orders to proceed to Prepand to come to an ,understanding with the COc)
manders of the French and English ships. ,ig
General Mamula, commanding in Dalmattotr
charged to concert measures with the Pacha of,P oi,
tari, and to place the Austrian troops at his dispby
tion, for the repression of the disturbances in
nia, and the incursions of the Montenegrins.

GRIVAS KILLING HIS OWN MEN.
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When Grivas was reduced to extremities he fens
he must cut his way through the Turks. Bil",go,
had 100 wounded with him, and these, of Collh-o.
would fall into the hands of the Sultan's tr°°P
He therefore preferred to kill them himself beff/fro..
hand. He administered to them all the last saa'to
ment, and he then gave his sound men order° v.
shoot them every one. This was done in the efebt
ing of the 10th of April. On the following ?Pi of
he got through, and escaped with his hanaltior.
followers to the Agrapha hills, but incessantly P
sued by the Turks. Utterly destitute, be is ll° 9
it is said, on the eve of returning to Greece. the
The New Prussian Gazette says :—" At lased to
blockade of Greece has been officially annoulle,eivill
the Greek Government, and it is said that 'l' box
commence in the course of this week. The 01 do.
sadors of the Western Powers have oflieiallY; tbe
dared to the Government that the admiral boo
squadron at anchor in the waters of Dalinat'3„..d.
received orders to detain the three Russian ree" to,
war that were bought by the Greeks at Tries
and which are shortly expected there." ,
The follovring from Greece 28th ult., 15.,. tbe
lishecl in the Nouvelliste orilarseilles :--" in
evening of the 25th, a Turkish steamer arrive ad..
the Piraeus from Constantinople with a 13,°te,ero•
dressed by the Sublime Porte to the Greek ur?' foe
-ment, in which it is announced that,
days the Greek Government did not give 3,500
factory reply to the demands made by the would be
Minister before he left Athens, Turkey wou•whe
compelled to declare war against Greece. :1;10,
if VI itbluatio,
French and English Ministers are said to ha 11t
flounced. their intention to quit Greece in the ev
of a rupture with Turkey."
We read in the Trieste Observer:-- oah'
" Council of Ministers and Generals was r

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