The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-25 00:00:00

A LETTER FROM CONSTANTINOPLE.

The Constitutionnel publishes a letter from Constanti-
nople, dated November 9th, which is curious as shewing
that before Prince Gortschakoff's Circular was dispatched
the crisis was foreseen in the Ottoman capital. The writer
says :—" The despatch which announced the rupture of
the negotiations for an armistice has caused great excite-
ment here, all the more because great hopes were enter-
tained of the success of the efforts on behalf of peace.
The Funds, which had improved, and were at 53, fell
yesterday to 50. We are still as far removed from the end
of this horrible war which attacks progress, humanity,
and civilization. There is much snrprise, and indeed
regret, here that Europe does not interpose more ener-
getically to impose equitable conditions of peace on the
belligerents, and does not see the dangerous character
which the war assumed after Sedan. We have just received
from Odessa a very important piece of news on this sub-
ject. The population of Odessa has lately addressed a
petition tothe Emperor of Russia, asking him to take mea-
sures to protect the port and town of Odessa from any aggres-
sion on the part of Turkey, whose powerful iron-clad fleet
is a constant menace to the Russian ports of the Black Sea.
It must be added that this petition, of which all the com-
mercial letters arrived here by the last mail speak, was
prepared at the instigation of the Cabinet of St. Peters.
burg to support Prince Gortschakoff's pretensions, and
it is being asked what the Neutral Powers
can do in the present state of things to
check the tendencies of Russian policy. We are
undoubtedly on the eve of great events, and if
Europe does flat intervene in time to defeat the ambition
of King William, the war now pending will have a fatal
conclusion on the shores of the Bosphorus. The Turks
foresee this, and consequently, since the rejection of the
armistice, they are deeply discouraged, and look with
terror to the return of General Ignatieff, whom they
already call the Russian Bismarck.

HUNGARIAN OPINION.

The journals of the Deak party are extremely severe
with Prince Gortschakoff. The Pesti Naplto says that it
cannot and ought not to be permitted that two men should
constantly be compromising the peace of Europe.
Bismarck and Gortschakoff respect no treaty, however
general it may be, hence it follows that Europe is
never tranquil. A change must be made in this
respect. The Lloyd, of Yesth, without attributing
great importance to the Russian demand, declares it to be
the more culpable because the St. Petersburg Government
could easily attain their object by adopting more suitable
measures. It can only explain the Russian proceeding by
regarding it as the policy of Prussia transferred to Asiatic
policy, and it trusts that in case of necessity Austrian
Hungary will know how to defend herhonour and interests
by force of arms. The organs of the Hungarian Left
though apparently more calm, express themselves in
equally resolute language. Russia, says the Hon, take
all her neighbours for sick people, but she will do wisely
not to reckon too much on their internal conflicts. These
conflicts are only struggles in favour• of constitutional
liberty, and hardly a man exists who looks for any
guarantee of constitutional liberty from the Russian
Government. To judge by the Czech journals, however,
men of this kind are not as scarce, for the Pokrok, and the
Narodin Listy have been praising the arts of Russia and
felicitating themselves on the effects they will have on
the Sclave races.