The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-01 00:00:00

CONS TAN TINOPLE.

According to advices from Constantinople of the
20th, 10,000 men of the combined French and
English force had reached that city.
The 33d, 41st, 49th, 77th, 47th, and 88th Eng-
lish regiments of the line were stationed at Scutari.
A first instalment of the loan of 20,000,000 f.
lent to Turkey by France and England had been
received at Constantinople.
On the Sunday before the Patriarch published
a proclamation to the Greeks, in which he advised
them to remain tranquil.
There was some talk of the return of Mehemet
Ali Pasha to the Government as Minister of War.

The 44th, 50th, 93d, 4th, and 28th English re-
giments, with the Rifles, were still at Gallipoli.
The journals confirmed the presentation of an
ultimatum by the Allied Powers to the Greek Go-
vernment, and accuse King Otho of having re-
ceived money from Russia. . _

General Allonville is commissioned to buy 3,000
horses in Asia.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 17.—Lord Carlisle, who
has been on a visit to the squadrons in the Black
Sea, returned here from Varna the day before
yesterday. The French General Bosquet has
gone to Varna. This leads to the belief that the
request of Reschid Pacha, that that place should be
occupied by an Anglo-French force, shall be com-
plied with. The Turkish and British soldiers stare
at one another with unfeigned abb--IQhment. Ono
' ogthe former gold he thought our men very fine
fellows, and so very neat ; " but what is the use of
all this ?" said he ; " they cannot speak." They
were eagerly looking about for something in the
shape of a public-house—a thing that does not
exist at Scutari ; but many had installed them-
selves in the coffee-houses, and were solemnly
sucking the chibouk, and exchanging ideas
with the Turks, by signs over a glass of raki.
Constantinople is very quiet, and the arrival of the
troops seems to have made a generally favourable
impression. It is now expected that a force will
be sent to the scene of action. The news which
came the day before yesterday from the Black Sea,
that only a small detachment of steamers had been
sent to Odessa, and not the whole squadron, has
rather disappointed our expectations, after the
shameful reception given from the Russian bat-
teries to the boat's crew of the Furious with a flag
of truce.

GALLIPOLr, April 15.—Last night two men of
the 93d Highlanders died from cold and the effects
of the brandy of the country. The last two or
three nights water has frozen in the tents, and
to-day we had a severe snow-storm. In England,
it may be imagined we are encamped in orange-
groves, with bright sunshine by day and night-
ingales by night—out breakfast table covered
with fruit—a perpetual pic-nic, in fact. Instead
of this, more than one gallant gentleman may be
met returning to his camp, after a walk of 20
miles, with his pockets and haversack full of the
necessaries of life ; after which he has probably to
wait for hours till the tough ration of beef has been
boiled down to flavour some soup. Fuel is very
scarce, at least for the English, as the French
have demanded of the Turkish commission all
that comes from Asia, and all that the country it-
self produces. It is to be hoped that the two
armies will continue on a friendly footing, but
really the French are rather inclined to seize more
than their share of everything. Some of their
arrangements are excellent. They have their
own mills and bakehouses, for instance. De-
tachments of Zouaves are encamped here and
there, making a road to Boulahir. The other day
Sir George Brown rode out to the north to see if a
river marked on the map really existed. He found
the French bad traced the road toward Adrianople
several days before. It should be generally known
in England that 'letters must be prepaid if sent
by Malta. People coming out here with return
tickets to see a battle cannot do better than to pass
through Vienna, Pesth, and Belgrade, thence
to Shumla and Varna, providing themselves with
horses in Hungary or Transylvania. A more
luxurious route would be via Piccadilly, calling at
Fortnum and Mason's, thence by cab and rail to
Southampton. At Gibraltar, a capital horse can
be got, the sail of which in Turkey would bo very
profitable.

He returned to his squadron on the 25th.
The Paris Moniteur says:—" The Anglo-French
declaration relative to the commerce and navigation
of neutrals during the war has been very well re-
ceived by the Swedish Cabinet; and the position of
Sweden, in close proximity to the theatre of hosti-
lities gives particular importance to that fact.
Whilst the Count de hevenhielm made himself in
i Paris the organ of the sentiments of his Govern-
ment, the French Minister at Stockholm received
an expression of the same feelings from the mouth
of the Baron de Stierneld. ' We have, therefore,
the fullest confidence in the manner in which Sweden
will understand the duties of neutrality towards
the two powers who have so widely defined the
rights of it."
A letter from Copenhagen of the 26th, in the
Cologne Gazette, says :—" We see small vessels of
war, passing every day, generally going to the
North, to bring Russian vessels which they have
captured."
We extract the following from a letter dated
Copenhagen, April 24, published by that day's
news, and signed J. S. Trelawney :—As we sailed
by Elsinore this morning, a very cheering and hopeful
_ •
sight presented itself—a large Russian ship with a THE BLACK SEA.
blue ensign, and a man-of-war's pendant. She
'
The Trieste Zeitung says, that up to the 16th
proved to be a prize taken by our fleet. The
inst. three steamers had taken 15 prizes in the
Danish officer who boarded us in passing the Black Sea.
Sound, told us a considerable number of prizes
had been made. He said 23, but here the number One French steamer had run aground near
Odessa, but was got off in 20
from minutes.
is stated at 20. He gave it as his opinion, that
The following is an extract
and
Admiral Hamelin, commandingrin the French a report sent in
Cronstadt is too strong to be taken even by our
Colonies by Vice-
fleet. On reaching Copenhagen, we heard many to the Minister of the
squad-
rumours, of which probably a large portion have
at the anchorage of
Gothland still. Two steamers are here, the
ron in the Black Sea :
reached London. We are told that the fleet is at
°pi a r
10,had gone on the 6th instant, 18to
and the Magicienne have both taken prizes,
in order
the Ville de
The English steam-frigate
deParis
Tribune and the Magicienne. The Tribuneg,
. tOdessa,
13hae;11On Furious
i'board
to claim and take on board (rd.
and so has the little steamer Alban. I clamer) the consuls and such of our fellow-subjects
think the latter has taken more than one. One that might wish to quit that city at the approach of
Russian ship taken had been 80 days at sea, on a hostilities with Russia. The Furious arrived here yes-
voyage from Rio, and was almost within a few terday, and, in casting your eyes over the report of her
hours of concluding her voyage when her capture captain your excellency will see that, in spite of the flag
took place. At our stern lie moored three large of truce which she had
t b hoisted, and which her boat for
Russian ships, which cannot appear outside the an d
which b
hsaveobree,enhebatteries of Odessa, the numbers
batteries. The crew have no better occupation of
events, fired traitoroumsul c s increased since these recent
than that of painting out the names of their ves- very boat a few momenyts seven
itcannon shots upon this
sels. It is said that a ship cannot sail far in any the naval authorities. This is
. had left the quay and
is an unexampled pro-
direction without seeing an English pendant. ceeding in the history of the
the
wars of civilised nations ;
The very sight of a blue ensign, even in a we must go back to 1829,periode when the Dey of
yacht—mistaken sometimes by foreign merchant- Algiers did the same to the Provence men fora tender to a man-of-war—produces great was a ship), in order to find an a:act: (oaunsd f here
t . thatalso i
ist
sensation in each strange sail which appears. to say, we must borrow the precedentg fromae a' war of
To-day the precipitation of some vessels to show barbarians. Admiral Dundas and
their bunting was quite ludicrous. A skip- deliberate on the severe measures that such a proceeding
per, fearful of delay, actually held up his colours requires."
in his hands—his flag was Prussian. By the way, A letter from the frontiers of Dalmatia, in the
it is thought here a misfortune that Prussia cannot Moniteur, says :—" Much attention has been ex-
be induced to show herreal political colours. Should cited by the armaments which are going on in
she decide on opposing us she would suffer severely, Montenegro. It is even positively stated that I
as she has many merchant ships, and perhaps her arms and ammunition were very lately sent from 1
opposition, as well as that of Austria, would enable Cattaro to Cettina. It is nevertheless difficult to
us to cope with Russia more successfully than at believe that the Montenegrins, notwithstanding
present, by giving the peoples a mission in the pur- . the incitement of Russia, would run the risk of 1
suit of self-government and constitutional ends, in coming down from their mountains to take part in
lieu of impracticable and Utopian economics. The I the Greek insurrection. 'Besides, the sclavoniAns 1