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London, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

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0f.04 to the Ottoman Porte, in the name of the whole

tireek community.
Namik Paella had at length left Constantinople on
his financial mission to Paris and London. Itis im-
mediate objeet is to obtain a loan of about 2,000,000 L
sterling, which will, it is said, be employed in re-
purchasing some at the vast mass of paper money
now issued by the Porte. dust before his departure)
another mill lllllllCs worth of paper was thrown
into eireulation in Constantinople.
The combined fleets of tireat Britain and France
were to take up their positions near Conatantineple.
at the entrance of the Parttimelles, at Oathrob, at d
at Helens, in the Bosphorus, oft"Therapia.
A singular tragedy has taken place in the Frank
quarter a Constantinople. A number of Italians,
some, but not all, refugees, were assembled at a low
cabaret, drinking and making merry. Becoming
very uproatraous, a I ireek, who lived next door, re-
quested the watchman to desire them to make less
noise. The watchman did so, and was stabbed ti
death tat the spot. Some camases, or policemen,
were now called, and entered the room to take the
offenders into custody. The Italians, being tinned
with sword canes, ilaggerS, mid other urns, attacked
the Turks, and killed two or three. The house watt
now surrounded by soldiers, and the of sum-
moned to surrender by the racha in command of
the guard. They answered this summons by firing
through the windows upon the ',Others, and a (avails
chose by the Pavlof fell dead. on this the soldiers
were ordered to fix bayonets and storm the house,
whereon the Italians defended themselves with
firearms and daggers. A short and bltssly struggle
ensued; most of those in the house were taken
11erisonen4; but about five of the number were
bayoneted, while an equal number of Turks wete
killed, anal ten wounded. The Frank quarters of
i'mistantinople, Perm and f :slats, are tilled with
desperadoes, the scum and afitcouting of Europe;
and it is supposed that this event will assist to keep
out for the future many such who now final a nest
there.
It is now considered that Persia will remain strictly
neutral. It appears that to bribe her to act against,
Turkey the Czar went so far as to offer Persia srVe•
ral of the principal provinces of Asiatic Turkey, and
to pay the expenses °fill." war. The Court of 'retie.
ran was much tempted by the offer, and hesitated for
a long time, but, mows arriving from Europe of the
decided attitude of France Rail England, the English
eliarge-d'afikires made the Shah acquainted with the
true state of the case, and gave him to understand
that by taking part against Turkey he would run
great risk, while by remaining neuter he would lust
safe in any event.
The Alighting are stated to have tient an mahatma-
dor to the Shah, entreating him to take the part of
Turkey, and threatening, in ease of non compliance,
to march upon Miamian.
ATTACK ON TUE ltlllTl.ll CO SULATE AT Tnrutzooso.
The last Levant Mail brings accounts of a tumult at
Trebizonol, and that the British consul, Mr. Francis
Iliff Stevens, to whom the protection of lonian anal
tireek subjects is likewise confided, had been com-
pelled to call upon the Paella of the plop to furnish
him with a military guard to repress a contemplated
attack upon his dwelling by an infuriated Mahome-
'lan Mali. It appears that a I;reek, the director of a
commercial firm of that city, had had criminal rela-
tions with a Turkish married woman, whose husband
having suddenly disappeared, suspicions of foul play
1'4.11 upon the I ins.k, who, fearing for his life, fled to,
and souk refuge in, the lititooli
to which flight the tircek'a domestic had been ar.
rested, and having deposed that his master had
enticed the Turk to his house, and there murdered
him, a mob collected rental the British consulate to
insist upon the immediate surrender of the alleged
delinquent, which of course, miller such circum-
stances, the consul refused. On the departure of
the steamer from Treloizond the consulate was still
guarded by the military, to avert any act of violence
on the taut of the nook The population of Trebi
zond bears at all lilacs uo friendly feeling towards
Christians, and this OCCIIITCHCP has 1144 by any memo&
tended to improve matters— The British consul had
sent away several Of the female members of his
family to Sounsoon, where the people are more tweet:-
Ale and less bigoted.
NEW NOTE oF THE For It PoWERS.
A LAST project of accommodation has been prepared
with much care by the representatives of Englund,
France, Austria, and Prussia, and was ou t 151 t
ire
ultimo communicated to the Plait! by M. ale Bruck.
This scheme is entitled a " Confidential Project,"
and has since been published in the Paris Debuts.
It runs as follows *—
" I u unanimously wh ding the Soblitoe Porte to ailsopt
the prujeet of notes agreed t.. at Vienna, the Courtstof
Austria, Frauee, }:nglaval, and Prussia arc petietraiell with
the V. onvictiun tient this 111.414 hill in say stay
violist'. the sovereign rights and the dignity of hies ioijcouy
the soothe,.
"'This conviction is f Ira ou the positive assurancts
that the Cabinet of St. l'etersburg has given with respect
to the iutrulivue which ataisnak his Majesty the Mutterer