The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-12 00:00:00

TURKEY.

A letter from Constantinople of 25th ult. says :
" The French Ambassador has lately had several
conferences with the Grand Vizir and the Minister of
Foreign Affairs. It is supposed that they relate to
the late events in France. M. Ed. de Lesseps, the
French Consul at Aleppo, has just arrived here, ac-
companied by the persons belonging to his consulate,
and several witnesses in the affair of the murder
of Father Bazile. This affair, which some time back
was stopped from want of sufficient proof, is to be
at once resumed. 'The Purte has expressed its de-
termination to act in the case with the utmost im-
partiality. On the report of the Finance Minister,
the Sultan has issued a firman to regularise the ad-
ministration of orphans' property, hitherto subjected
to daeadful mismanagement. The persons placed at
the head of this amount of property have, it appears,
been speculating with the proceeds, end thus les-
sened its amount by several millions. The imperial
firman renders the managers for the future fully
responsible for the property committed to their
charge. The Sultan has also ordered measures to be
taken to secure the capital for the future from a
dearth of water. Fountains and reservoirs are to be
created, in order to render the distribution of the
water from the sources of Belgrade more regular."

LIBERATION of GENERAL CAVAIGNAC.
CORRESPONDENCE WIINIST TH THE PRESIDENT'S
MER.
(From the Scotsman.)
It has fallen to us to be the medium of first publish-
ing the documents regarding a question which has
been made the topic of much dispute, and the facts of
which have not hitherto transpired either at London
or Paris—the terms and circumstances of the libera-
tion of General Cavaignac by the French President.
The letters, with which we have been favoured from
a trustworthy source, and which we proceed to give
in translation, need no preface, except it be necessary
to inform some readers that M. de Morny is the
President's Home (or Chief) Minister, and that Ma-
dame Odier is the mother of the young lady to whom
General Cavaignac was about to be married in a day
or two after the 2d of December, when the coup
di etat was struck and he arrested. It may be added
that the correspondence appears to do credit to both
parties—to the spirit of the General, and to the po-
liteness and dexterity of the Minister.
The correspondence began, we believe, with a letter
from Madame Odier to M. de Morny, requesting an
order of admission to the prison of Ham, in order to
have the marriage of her daughter and General Ca-
vaignac performed there. The Minister wrote the
following reply, of which the date appears to have
been the 15th or 16th of December:—

" Ilsclam,—The President of the Republic found it
necessary to take very severe measures in the first mo-
ments, and could not yield to personal considerations,
but he has expressed to me the desire, immediately after
the re-establishment cf tranquillity, to restore General
Cavaignac to liberty, whose services to the cause of
order and society he has not forgotten, and whom he
does not confound with the conspirators who meditated
the ruin of his power.
"Knowing the opinion of all your family, and
desiring to give it a proof of his friendly interest, he
charges me to say that he would see with pain the eere-
mony of the marriage of your daughter with the honour-
able General saddened by the walls of a prison, and to
send you an order to set him at liberty. I need not
say with what pleasure I execute this commisssion, and
I request you to accept the assurance of my profound
respect.

(Signed) " MORNY."
To that letter General Cavaignao replied as fol
lows :

"Fort of Ham, 17th Nov., 1851.

," Monsieur le Ministre,—Madame tOdier, about to
be my mother-in-law, has this instant sent me the order
for my liberation._,That order is accompanied by a letter
which you have addressed to her.
" If the Governor of the Fort of Ham had received
the order pure and simple to open to me the gates
of that prison, I would also purely and simply have
resumed my liberty which has been illegally snatched
front me. But the order which relieves me is accom-
panied by a letter which you could not have considered
as confidential, and which fell naturally to be communi-
cated to me. The commentary which it expresses, and
the motives which it ascribes to the power in whose
name you act, are not of a nature to be accepted by me.
Certainly no one has suffered and does suffer more than
I from the sad delays to my union with Madlle. Odier;
but I have no apprehension that even she would con-
sider this a reason for accepting my liberation. I ought
to leave this
.place, Monsieur le 141inistre, for ono sole
reason—viz., that I have done nothing to bring me here.
I have no desire to be a prisoner hero in spite of those
who have illegally arrested me, but it rests with me, and
it concerns my honour to accept of no compromise in-
consistent with the duty I owe to myself.
" In consequence, Monsieur le Ministre, I have the
honour to declare to you that I shalt remain here till Fri-
day, the 19th of the month. At that date I shall deliver to
the governor of the fort the order which I retain. If he
has received none to the contrary, I shall be entitled to
say, and to consider as admitted by the Government
itself, that, as I said above, I go out of prison on this sole
ground that there is no lawful reason for retaining me
here. (Signed) " CAVAIGNAC."
It will be seen that this letter intimating the
General's intention to remain till the 19th, is dated
the 17th ; it would not have been received by M. de
Morny till the 18th ; and on the 19th—the very day
announced for the exodus—he wrote the following :
" General,—ln transmitting to Madame Odior the
order for your liberation, I had no other object than to
do sn agreeable thing to a family which I love and re-
spec,;.. I never thought of anything else.
" If allowed myself to speak of the sentiments of the
President of the Republic, it is (and you know it, Ge-
neral, better than anybody) that, if the great political
acts whose object is the safety of a country sometimes
impose stern necessities, they do not efface the senti-
ments of esteem which may be entertained for an adver-
sary, aond do not forbid the expression of them.
You will understand that I do not reply to what you
havo done me the honour to say regarding the illegality
of your arrest, and that I limit myself to congratula-
tions that the date selected by you of 19th December is
so near at (Signed) " MORON."

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette,)
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THE LATE LIEUTENAIAT•COLONE: kN The
officers of the sth Dragoon Guards, statioineGd. in the
Royal Barracks, Dublin, have caused to be erected a
very handsome white marble monument, in Arbor-hill
military cemetery, to the memory of the late Lieute-
nant• Colonel King, 14th Light Dragoons.
RECRUITING FOR THE GUARDS.--It has been shown
that during a period of five years 3,583 men have been
enlisted for the Infantry Brigade of Guards, and that
out of that number 481 men were rejected upon their
arrival at head-quarters.
BRIGADE OP GUARDS.—In five years 892 men have
been discharged from the Foot
.Guards at their own re-
quest, and the sum paid for their discharge was 7,2741.;
and after deducting the amount of levy money allowed
to replace them, a balance of 3,6661. 195.. 6d. was paid
to the Secretary-at-War to the credit of the public.
A MILITARY COMfANDANT WANTED.—We under-
stand that Colonel Slade, 90th Light Infantry has de-
clined the appointment of Commandant to the Royal
Military Asylum, at Chelsea, but will most probably be
selected to succeed Sir Richard Doherty, .as Inspecting
Field Officer of the London Recruiting District.
RECRUITING DISTRICTS—It is said that the Glasgow
and Coventry recruiting districts arc to be abolished.
We understand that there is no truth in the statement
that the 52d and 85th Regiments aro to be equipped as
Rifle Corps.
llottouaaßLE TESTIXONIALS. The officers of the
85th Regiment have presented two massive silver ink-
stands, with suitable inscriptions, to Paymaster Thomp-
son and Quartermaster Neil, late of that corps, on their
retirement on half-pay, after serving respectively 36 and
34 years in the regiment.
We have been requested to state that the recent re-
tirement of Major Ashmore, of the 16th Regiment, took
place at his own request, induced by ill-health, he hav-
ing officially, applied. to retire from the service by the
sale of b.is commission.
Mai-or Findlay, 3rd West India Regiment, is about to
'necr.ed Lieutenant-Colonel Maclean, retiring from the

ROYAL MARINES.
The following gentlemen cadets have been granted
commissions in this corps and appointed to divisions as
under. Dated December 30, 1331:—
Gentleman Cadet Edward COl3 grey° Longley Durnford,
to be Second Lieutenant, and appointed to the Ports-
mouth division.
Gentleman Cadet Edward Gladstone, to be Second
Lieutenant, and
--- appointed to the Portsmouth division.
Gentleman Cadet Useher Lee Morris, to be Second
Lieutenant, and appointed to the Portsmouth division.
Gentleman Cadet Joseph George Shanks, to be Second
Lieutenant, and appointed to the Plymouth division.
Gentleman Cadet Arthur Charles Joshua Arfileekain,
to be Second Lieutenant, and appointed to the Chatham
division.

Gentleman Cadet Gaorge Frederick Walker, to be
Second Lieutenant, and appointed to the Portsmouth
division.

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Captain and Paymaster George Narlo, of the Wool-
wich division, has obtained two months' leave of absence.
Lieutenant Ilarington has joined from leave, and Cap-
tain Foote joined from the, recruiting service at Lincoln,
having been relieved by Captain Ramsay.

Noun:tem:Tor; RACES.—Sir Rowland Trenchard
aheuld have been added to the nominations for the
Northamptonshire Stakes, and ffungerford and Wood-
lark omitted.