London, Friday, April 21, 1854 

We are informed by the Prussian Correspondence* that the famous 
Chevalier Bunsen is not recalled, but has only obtained, on his 
own demand, a lengthened leave of absence. Count Bernstorff is 
designed as his temporary locum tenens. 

The Commission of Constitution of the Swedish Diet has decided, 
by a majority of 12 to 11, that the ministers should be impeached 
before the High Court of the Kingdom, for their conduct in the 
affair of the simplification of the taxes which has lately been 
under consideration. 

According to a report from Mr. Meroni, Consul at Belgrade, the 
Austrians must be prepared to meet the armed resistance of the 
Servians, in case they should march their armies into Servia. 

On the 3d inst., Mr. Metaxas left Constantinople, to be followed, 
within a delay of less than fourteen days, by 40 to 50,000 of his 
compatriots. No embassy was willing to act as his temporary 
substitute for carrying on the current business. The Austrian 
Embassador declined, because, England and France being the 
protecting powers of Greece, it was the duty of their Chancelleries 
to represent Greece in the interim. Prussia would not accept, 
because Austria had declined. The Embassadors of England and 
France declared the time rather unseasonable for constituting 
themselves the representatives of Mr. Metaxas. The Charges 
d’Affaires of the smaller powers thought fit anxiously to avoid 
making any manifestation either of sympathy or antipathy. Thus 
Mr. Metaxas was obliged to leave behind an Attache of his own. But 

it was soon discovered that his substitute, abusing the power 
granted to him by the Porte, busily engaged himself in distributing 
passports among the Greek Rayahs, in order to enable them to 
join the insurgents in Albania. Consequently, the functions of ‘the 
Greek Chancellery have been altogether suspended, the issuing of 
passports being now devolved on a commission consisting of two 
Turks and two. Rayahs. 

Simultaneously, a notice was posted up that any subject of the 
- Kingdom of Greece, who wished to become a subject of the Sultan, 
might be allowed to do so on finding two respectable persons to 
guarantee his good conduct. As the Hellenic inhabitants of 
Constantinople had uttered loud threats of setting Constantinople 
on fire and pillaging it before their marching off, extraordinary 
measures have been taken by the Government. The Turks patrol 
by day and night, and on the promenade of Pera!" fifty cannons 
are mounted. From sunset to midnight every one walking or 
riding through the streets or the field must be provided with 
a lantern; after midnight all circulation is forbidden. Another 
edict prohibits the export of grain. Greeks confessing the Latin 
religion have been allowed to remain on the responsibility of the 
Latin Bishops of Pera. For the greater part, these natives from 
Tinos, Andros, and Syros, belong to the servant class. The inhabi- 
tants of the Isle of Hydra have addressed a petition to the 
Porte, sharply censuring the Greek insurrection, and entreating 
the Government to except them from the general measure. 
There has also arrived a deputation of the Greek subjects of 
the Porte from Trikala in Thessaly, requesting it to protect them 
energetically against the Hellenian robbers, as whole villages had 
been laid in ashes by them, and their inhabitants, without distinc- 
tion of sex or age, dragged to the frontiers, there to be tormented 
in the most cruel manner. 

A feeling of doubt, mistrust and hostility against their western 
allies is gaining possession of the Turks. They begin to look on 
France and England as more dangerous enemies than the Czar 
himself, and the general cry is—“they are going to dethrone the 
Sultan, and divide the land—they are going to make us slaves to 
the Christian population.” Landing south of Constantinople 
instead of north of Varna, the allies are fortifying Gallipoli against 
the Turks themselves. The tract of land on which the village is 
situated is/a long peninsula joined by a narrow isthmus to the 
continent and admirably adapted for a stronghold for invaders. It 
was there the Genoese of old defied the Greek Emperors of 
Constantinople.''* Besides, the appointment of the new Sheik-ul- 

Islam? fills the orthodox Moslems with indignation, since they 
regard him as little better than a tool of the Greek priesthood, and 
a strong feeling begins to pervade the Turks that it was better to 
yield the one demand of Nicholas than be made the plaything of a 
knot of greedy powers. 

The opposition to the Coalition Ministry and the popular 
indignation at their manner of carrying on the war has grown so 
strong that even The Times is obliged to choose between damaging 
its own circulation and its subserviency to the Cabinet of all the 
Talents, and has thought fit to make a furious onslaught on them 
in its Wednesday’s number.” 

The Quebec correspondent of The Morning Post writes: 

“Our fleet in the Pacific is quite strong enough to capture the whole of the 
Russian forts and posts along the coasts of Russian America (and they have none in 
the interior) and those which they possess here and there among the Fox, Aleutian 
and Kurile Islands, the whole forming a.chain from the American coast to Japan. 
With the capture of these islands, which are also very valuable in furs, copper, in 
the mildness of their climate and in some of them containing excellent harbors 
near the Asiatic main shore, where no good harbors exist, and of Russian America, 
our influence in the Pacific would be materially increased, at a period when the 
countries of that ocean are likely to become of that importance which has long 
been their due. The greatest resistance which would be offered to our fleet would 
be at New-Archangel, in the Island of Sitka, which, besides being strong by nature, 
has been completely fortified, and has now some 60 or 70 guns mounted. There 
are about 1,500 persons there, the garrison being about 500, and there is a 
dockyard where many vessels of war have been built. At most of the other posts 
there are but from 50 to 300 persons and few of them have works of any 
importance. Should France desire to acquire territory as a set off to this conquest, 
should we make it, she might be allowed to possess herself of Kamchatka and the 
neighboring coast.” “ 

The Gazettés returns of wheat sold in the market towns of 
England and Wales exhibit a remarkable falling off as compared 
with those of the corresponding period of 1853, and this may be 
taken as a criterion of the quantity grown in each of the preceding 
harvests. The sales were, in 

January February March 
LOD3 ei hive Se ectsc eee sane qrs. 532,282 345,329 358,886 
SA St cehees cain ciechesicsneas Ge qrs. 266,477 256,061 227,556 

The last weekly return is 36,628 quarters against 88,343 
quarters in the corresponding week of 1853. These returns, then, 

> The Times, No. 21719, April 19, 1854, leader.— Ed. 
“ The Morning Post, No. 25055, April 21, 1854.— Ed. 

show for the three months a falling off of about half a million of 

quarters, when compared with the corresponding months of 1853, 

afford the most striking proof of the deficiency in the last crop. 
The Mark Lane Express says: | 

“The liberal character of the foreign supply has thus far prevented the 
shortness of the home deliveries being severely felt, and there are still considerable 
quantities of wheat and flour on passage from different quarters to this country; 
but can we expect that the importations during the time which must necessarily 
elapse before the next crop can be rendered available will be on an equally liberal 
scale? America has drained her ports on the seaboard to furnish what we have 
received from thence; and, though we do not doubt that she has still considerable 
stores in the far west, it will need high prices to cover the expenses of transporting 
the same to the east coast, and from thence to England. The northern ports of 
Europe have been nearly cleared of previous accumulations, and the war with Russia 
cuts off further supplies from the Black Sea and Azoff.”* 

We offer the foregoing for the consideration of our readers, 
without further comment. 

Written on April 21, 1854 Reproduced from the New-York