Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-21 00:00:00

TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES.

The following is a circular addressed by the
Turkish Government to its representatives at the
European Courts, early in the month of December :
The direction which the Divans, ad hoc, of the two
Principalities have given to their task, raised a question,
the solution of which required a preliminary understanding
amongst all the Powers that signed the treaty of Paris—
namely, whether the task of the Divans, ad hoc, was to be
regarded as accomplished, and whether they should be
dissolved as soon as they should have tendered to the
European Commission the result of their deliberations on
the political part of the subject, or whether it would be
expedient, on the contrary, to induce them to complete
the labours which the Congress had indicated to them ?
Our information confirms us more and more in the
opinion that it you'd have been very difficult to induce
the Divans to express any ulterior wishes respecting the
administrative laws, before they had solved the points
touching the political org.tnieation. In such a cane it
would have been reederecfnecessary:—
.

1. To permit their continuance until the Congress should
have formed a decision on these points.
2. To require afterwards of the said Assemblies the
completion of their unfinished labours.
3. Ta meet again in conference, and proceed to the
conclusion of the final act for settling the definitive orga-
nisation of the two provinces.
In addition to the material difficulties which this mode
of arrangement would have been sure to occasion, there
would have resulted from it certain dangers, the gravity
of which c)all not escape the wino foresight of the
cabinets.

In fact, during the interval employed by the Congress
on the questions connected with their political condition,
the existence of the Divans as a constituted body would
have besn, in our view of the case, a powerful motive for
prolonging and. increasing the agitation that has prevailed
in those countries ; there would even have been reason to
fear the occurrence of serious disorders, thereby aggra-
vating the state of things which was already so compli •
cated: The very grave symptoms lately exliinited at
Jassy, when the authorities were compelled to guard wi.h
troops the spot where the Moldavian Divan hold its
sittings, with a view to protect them from an attack on the
part of the mob, the excitement still displayed by most of
the members of both aseemblies, the intrigues of the
parties into which they are divided, the anxisiy into which
this state of things plunges all the inhabitants, have
served to enhance our apprehension. To all these con-
siderations ano:her is added, not less important, namely,
the embarrassment which the Divans would
have given rise to at the Conferences, a►ailing themselves
each respectively of its character of a constitnLed
assembly.

It is- therefore with the greate_t pleasure that we
find the opinions of the different governments accor I
respecting the necessity of dissolving the Divans the
instant the European Comm:ssion shall hare made its final
report.

I consequently invite you, sir, to furnish explanations
to the g )vernment to which you have the honour of being
accredited in conformity with the foregoing remarks, and
to transmit to us without delay the answer you shall have
received. (Signed) AALT.
P.S. You must clearly give it to be understood that
we have no wish or intention to effect the dissolution of
the Divan, before the completion of their isbours, as
stipuiated in the treaty of March 30th, The sole object
of our desire is, that they should not continua sitting when
the Conference shall have met to legislate upon their
expressed wishes—that is to say, that the alternative
should not be admitted of allowing them to exist until the
points concerning the political organisation shall have been
solved by the Congress, in order to ask of them afterwards
the completion of their work.

In fine, we mean thst with the sending in of its final
report by the European Commission, the Divans ought to
cease, as the aforesaid treaty, moreover, intends,
whether they have completed the task imposed on them,
or whether they have persisted in their demand to wait
for the solution of the first part of their labours, in order
to undertake at a later period the discussion of the second
part. (Signed) AIL!.
The local news of Constantinople is of but
trifling interest. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe had
been paying some farewell visits previously to his
departure. On the 61, his lordship dined with
Reschid Pacha, and on the following day with Aali
Pacha. Mr. Spence, the American representative,
has had an audience of the Sultan to take leave.
He proceeds to Italy prior to his return to the
United States. His successor at Constantinople
has not yet arrived. The two Christian Armenians
who have been raised to the dignity of pacisa are
M. Tinghir, head of the office of correspondence in
the department of foreign affairs, and M. Vartan,
first interpreter of the Admiralty. The first takes
the name of Yever Pacha, and the other Yussut
Pacha. These nominations were very favourably
received at Constantinople, as the new dignitaries
had done excellent service to Turkey.
A letter from Tiflis announces that the Prince of
Souenneti, who murdered Prince Galgarine, was
shot at Koutais on the 17th ult. in pursuance of the
sentence of the court-martial.