The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-14 00:00:00

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, March 29.—The following is
a statement of the expenditure of the Turkish
Loan up to the Ist of March :

Piastres.
For the Crimean expedition 38,833,659
For the army in Europe and Asia
For Ordnance department and purchase
of sundry military stores
For Irregulars in Roumelia 2,560,000
For the navy
For the Finance Department
Repayment of loan from projected bank 14,062,422
Commission on loan . , 1,761,268

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Total 240,831,347
Equal to about 1,820 000/. sterling.
The loan of 3,000,000/. negotiated at 80 per cent.
yielded 2,400,0001. Received at Constantinople of that
sum 1,961,029/. The difference has been expended in

meeting bills at Paris, &e., in freight and instirauce,
gold brought our, in repayment of advances, an
agmey.

PRUSSIA. tter
The National gazette of Berlin contains a
from St. Petersburg, which says :—" The oat
Duke Constantine proceeded to Cronstadt on the
24th March, to review the two divisions ef the
Baltic fleet. The divisions at Cronstadt, antrg,
third division, stationed at Revel and Sviel,7,-eri
are beint provisioned. A detachment of sn'''',org
from Opotshenie passed through Saint Petersuhig
on the 2d. Their dress consists of a grey CO or
boots, and a cap with a cross on it ; they
beards and long hair, except in front and 81;00;
nape Of the neck, where it. is cut in a right
their arms are the hatchet and musket."

AUSTRIA. 06
'A letter from Vienna of the 9th, in the Col big
Gazette, says :—" Ali Pacha this morning Psiubisii
diplomatic visits, accompanied by the Ter,Dni,
ambassador, Arib Effendi. The two Turkish Pew
potintiaries first visited Count Buol, and the° At
members of the diplomatic corps in succesaien'w
a sort of preparatory conference held this moral
slid,
M. Drouyn de l'Huys, who has brought, it
a new wording of the third and fourth points,
pressed, in the name of the Emperor Nalvie°,l3 idly
desire to have the conferences conducted as 1-4.41 01
as possible, so that the advantages of the Pitons
fine season might not be lost for warlike °Peri/
should peace not seem probable." pSij'
A letter from Vienna, of the 9th, in the 'Je-
tt/Gonne/2 says : it the
" Notwithstanding the solemnity of Easter tce,°",;tsa
Emperor Francis Joseph yesterday received M. .11,1.irt,
de ?Heys, after divine service in the chapel of the vng°-.31
at which, according to ancient custom, the iinirbll
family are present every year in state' Surroulthold.
the great officers of the Crown and of the 110°7 vi
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs Wet:In:101
about one o'clock in the afternoon, to the Imp into
Palace, and was introduced an aide-de-019,r itig
the Cabinet of the Emperor, and presented '°eror
Majesty an autograph letter from the fl 3, P,, at
Napoleon. No one can yet know what took Pia l 0
this private conference, which will doubtless st
a great influence on the destinies of EuroPe• lefts
however, known that when M. Drouyn de 11-103100
be appeared much pleased, and afterwards onlici'L,sion°
several diplomatists, 'however great my e%Pelclig— eetr
were, they have been exoaeded c
by the exalted inte'—' 111"
which I have been able to admire to-day in tag rot
valrous Emperor of Austria. He is the type °f!: gag:
monarch, who, understanding the spirit of tb With
wishes sincerely and in good faith for an alliaoce side,
France.' The Emperor Francis Joseph, on 11,i6c000
expressed to M. Drouyn de l'Huys, througn •th
Buol, bow happy lie was to be acquainted nor
statesman, who, by his talents, since the noliirpif 0°
meet of the Eastern question, has raised hirll'"jo °
high in the esteem of all the Cabinets of EuroPe• tioo
word it is impossible that a more. flattering °lk
could have been given to any one than that 0u.,,,;0n0'
Drouyn de l'Huys bas met with at the Court of ;bich
At the soiree given yesterday by Count Buol,, stni*
the
the other members of the Cabinet, the heaa4 "to•°,
foreign legations, the high functionaries of the drat,
and the elite of the Austrian nobility, were Pir
If. Drouyn de l'Huys was the object of genera ',l g'
ton. Feeling how necessary the presenon,,.oo'
Drouyn de l'Huys in Paris was, Count Pti-claft
vited the members of the Congress to assemble Wive
in order to introduce to them officially Al• P-Zreig°
de l'Huys and Ali Pacha, the Turk WI Minister of now
Affnrs, who arrived here yesterday. In tb!.,l3p,ora
r, t`,e great questions on which peace or war,'
may be entered on at the next sitting. There 14_ ofer
reas(lk that the present week will not Plt-"of to
Nit' out our kt.owin shat we have to hope ff„a be;
fear. l gha esseetisl point is that the understabu'Zbe
tween the Western Po-,%er, and Austria has e" 00
to such a degree of cons stency that unthingoi°'
,hake r weaken it. In tis sta'e of thing°, 11103 so
if she rightly en sr tauds her ewe interet-t Oleg
other choice than to iraiik'y unite in th-; perl4 P°,oo°
Western Power.' in o -der to take part in the a'ttle i eery
pence. I desire this more than I dare. hop; a'°„„ortl
tainly not atta, h great :m rortance t, p the 'Aar
e oral
which are in circulation of an understanfling betwe
tria and. Prussia. I think I cam assure ytmt.,titt °sr
the question of the Straits, the Allie r ;
the same point of view as the Porte, and If; r :necitlJ,
in letters from Constantinople, Ali raCta
the C°llg
charged by the Divan to support in
the maintainance of the closing of the .Straits,
ti_ty
Congress will occupy itseif less- in revising the °'er
of the 13th July than in adding to it °I
planatory regulation, stating the sovereign nighoeoncli'
the Sultan to open the Dardanelles under certain Froio
tions to the vessels of war of a foreign nation- f
tba
the moment that the question of the revisinn,°.
treaty of the lath July, 1841, is thus set aside, '-^k°o
can -no longer ground any claim on that treaty dice
admitted to the Conferences. She must then pr°clo"
other claims, which, accoMing to the P eremptQ
clarations of the Western Powers, can only be enr„pg
ments identical to those entered into by the controc`o".iii
parties to the alliance of Dec. 2. Without this itAer
be useless for the Court of Berlin to knock at the 7-0
of the Congress, and it must resign itself to accept
faits accomplis the decisions of the Congress."

SWITZERLAND. oed
The Helvetic Government was officially info, for
on the Bth inst. that the blockade establishe'rdy
the last two years along the frontiers of 1-1002 n/ the
had been raised on that day, in consequence' coft'
of tbe
ratification by the Cabinet of Vienna De,
vention concluded at Milan on the 18th ulti
tween Austria and the canton of Ticino.
•
GREECE.' 000"
A private letter from Athens of the 3f:8:gill 0
tions the arrival in that city of Prince Gia'figili°
Envoy fo n the Emperor of Russia. The 00._itelv tbe
mission of the Prince is to announce officifi oir
death of the Emperor Nicholas, but the ',Ate i°
ject, according to the letter, is to commune- t:
he Court the decision of the Russians Pic bolo
consent to peace in the event of Sebastopol
taken, and that Russia would trust her triu

to the chances of war :
co " At the same time (continues the letter) the Peof the
peror promises, it is said, to extend at the elPsefrootit!:
war the limits of the kingdom of Greece to the, '-r)
f Macedonia. Promises of money were Witue,bst
same OCCIBIOII, and it is currently rumoured " 110 -
Court will not desist from promoting the I.otrlg-
Russia."