The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-25 00:00:00

We subjoin additional extracts from the papers :

"A report having been current that an influential banking
company had applied to the Government for the concession
of laying down the rails and working the railroad from Paris
to Strasburg by the valley of the Marne, a body of deputies
of all opinions, says the tburrier Francais, proceeded to the
Minister of Public Works, and afterwards to the President
of the Council, to nquest that 110 decision should be come to
as to the direction to be taken, until the whole of the surreys
and inquiries prescribed by the law should have been com-
pleted. They required also that the subject of the 'direction
should, as had been determined on with respect to other lines,
be submitted to the judinent of the Superior Committee ap-
pointed by a preceding inister before it was laid before the
Chambers.: Both Ministers assured those gentlemen that.
their suggestions should be taken into serious consideration.
"It is announced," says the Constitutionnel, " that a con-
siderable amount of subscription has arrived lately from
Germany tt,r the French Railroad Companies. The Prussian
Government ha'S published an order declaring thati!for the
present, it should not authorise any new lines, and this hes
caused the German capitalists to turn their eyes to France."

The same journal gives the following curious details
in a letter dated Constantinople the 3d inst.:—

" Bad news continues to be received from Romelia. The
Albanians have withdrawn, it is true, from the environs of
Adrianople before some battalions sent against them ; but
the country• has not been freed from them, and they have
gone to carry their pillage and waste to other points. We
have already announced that the Minister of Russia had
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England and France have also taken some steps with the
Divan. A great number of Bulgarians assembled at Con-
stantinople have sent in a petition to the Three Powers,
praying them to do something with the Porte, and to
take the necessary measures to shelter their country
from the ravages of the Albanians. Since the beginning
of the military reorganisation, deserters from the army
and a crowd of young men from the provinces, flying the
conscription, had taken refuge in Constantinople. The
Government wished to seize on them, and, to arrive
at this result, a census of the population was commenced,
which was presented as a simple police measure ; complete
documents were thus procured as to their number, position,
and residence, but the most difficult matter was to seize on
them, their 'lumbar not amounting to less than 20,000. The
following was Riza-Pacha's plan of battle. We use the word
designedly, for the undertaking was perilous. On Thursday
morning all Slussulmen were ordered to assemble in the
mosques, under pretext of verifying the lists, and all repaired
there u ith confidence. The gates of Constantinople were
then shut, the mosques were surrounded with troops and tin
names were called over. According as any individual marked
down by the military authorities for the conscription came
forward, he was ordered out of the mosque, seized on, and
carried off to a place of safety. In some hours all was finished.
The women alone made a pretty sharp resistance. When they
underst( od that their husbands and sons were thus being
carried off, they left the harems, tore off their yells, and aa•