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

CONSTAN 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
returned here, from Varna the day hPfore
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 astonishment. One
oflthe former said 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.

GALLIPOLI, 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—our breakfast table covered
with fruit—a perpetual pie-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 hous 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.
tachmeuts 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 had 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 hero with return
tickets to see a battle cannot do better than to pass
through Vienna, Pesth, and Belgrade, thence
to Shumla and Varna, providing thomaelves with
horses in Hungary or Ti ansylvania. 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 be very
profitable.

THE BLACK SEA.
The Trieste Zeitung says, that up to the 16th
inst. three steamers bad ken 15 prizes in the
Black Sea.
One French steamer bad run aground near
Odessa, but was got off in 20 minutes.
The following is an extract from a report sent in
to the Minister of thearine and Colonies by Vice-
Admiral Hamelin, ,commanding the French squad-
ron in the Black Sea
On board the Ville de Paris, at the anchorage of
Batshi, April 10, 1854. The English steam-frigate
the Furious had gone on the 6th instant, to
Odessa, in order to claim and take on board
darner) the consuls and such of our fellow-subjects
that might wish to quit that city at the approach of
hostilities with Russia. The Furious arrived here yes-
terday, and, in casting your eyes over the report of her
captain your excellency will seethat, in spite of the flag
of truce which she had hoisted, and which her boat for
landing also bore, the batteries of Odessa, the numbers
of which have been much increased since these recent
events, fired traitorously seven cannon shots upon this
very boat a few moments after it had left the quay and
the naval authorities. This is au unexampled pro-
ceeding in the history of the wars of civilisedn:itions;
we
must go back to 1829, the period when the Dey of
Algiers did the same to the Provence (and here also it
was a ship), in order to find an analagous fact ; that is
to say, we must borrow the precedent from a war of
barbarians. Admiral Dandas and myself are going, to
deliberate on the severe measures that such a proceeding
requires."
A letter from the frontiers of Dalmatia, in the
Moniteur, says :—" Much attention has been ex-
cited by the armaments which aro going on in
Montenegro. It is oven positively stated that
arms and ammunition were very lately sent from
Cattaro to Cettina. It is nevertheless difficult to
believe that the Montenegrins, notwithstanding
the incitement of Russia, would run the risk of
coming down from their mountains to take part in
the Greek iwurrection. Besides, the 6'clayouius