The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-14 00:00:00

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AFFA [RS OF THE EAST.

(From the French Papers.)
BESHIKA BAY, SEPT. 26.—We are in good intelli-
gence with the English. The Admirals visit each other,
and some of the officers give invitations, but reserve is
maintained. The Russians and the English have agents
everywhere. They seek to render the people favourable
to themselves, and to foment hatred by invoking. more
or less bitter recollections. The Consuls of the ports
in the Levant keep up an assiduous correspondence
with our Admirals. The Russians are concentrating
imposing forces. They have 14 ships of the line and

' SOO trading vessels at Sebastopol. This formidable
squadron is ready to enter the Bosphorus and the Dar-
danelles. Shall we be for the Russians or the English ?
We watch each other continually. We stand at our
arms, but they are loaded, and ready for firing. As
soon .as an English steamer appears in
_tire horizon w
are upon our guard, fearing secret instructions. The
English ships are ill armed, and we have nothing to
envy in their tnanceuvring. Taeir Admiral's ship, the
Queen Charlotte, has only a crew of 700 men. The
others have only 500, and they are not better sailors
than our own.—Correspondencefrons Toulon.
Extract of a letter from Beshika Bay, quoted by the
Siecle :—" The Austrian Commodore sent us a
steamer a short time since, with an offer to join our
fleets with his small squadron, to cruise off Alexandria,
and, by putting a stop to the commerce of that port, to
force Mehemet Ali to give up the Turkish fleet. Ad-
miral Lalande, however, persuaded ti .e English Admi
ral to join him in declining the offer, and in declaring. to
the Commodore that neither of them had entertained
the intention he supposed. Thus England has entirely
abandoned her hostile projects against Mehemet Al:.
This conversion is most significative, fur the Engl:sl;
fleet had already made preparations. for its departure,
which the officers had been imprudent enough to talk
of openly. I have just arrived from Constantinople,
where I had an audience of Chosrew Podia, who is a
little man, very. old, but with a remarkably quick and
penetrating-eye. I have also seen the young Sultan.
He is diminutive and thin. It appears that he is suf-
fered to indulge in excesses which ruin fris health.",
We have seen a letter from Constantinople, 9.4 th cit ,
which states that the recal of Admiral Raussin has
caused great astonishment in the diplomatic. circles of
that capital.

The Sud of Marseilles, dated the Sth inst., publishes
the following accounts from Constantinople of the 24th :
" The influence of IL•dschid Pacha is beginning to
be felt. Several important changes arcong.the high
functionaries have. taken place under his directions.
Nourri Effendi, Mustachar of Foreign Aflli:_rs, has been
appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary in Paris. Talat Effendi, the present Mirister is
Paris, is to proceed to London in the same capacity.,
Rifat Bey, Ambassador at Vienna, has been appointed
Mustachar of Foreign Affairs. Nourri Effendi. a
creature and relative of Redschid Pacha, is t 3 b' sent
to Berlin. Hafiz Pacha, the unhappy General of Nt zib,
and Akif Pacha, are named Governors of PachalieF,
and Mustapha Kiana Bey, Military Commander of
Broussa."

The Gazelle du Midi publishes also a letter from
Constantinople of the 24th, in which it is formally stated
that Russia had proposed to the Turkish Go7ernment
to place at its disposal a corps of 25,000 men, in ease
Ibrahim Pacha should march upon Constantinople, and
that the Porte had apprised the Ambassadors of the
other great Powers of this offer of Rusia.
The Leip4ic Gazette of the Bth instant states, on the
authority of diplomatic letters received in Vienna front
Constantinople, that the propositions made to the Porte
by several of the European Powers, but particularly by
England, had been rejected through the intrigues of the

Russian: Cabinet, end that the- Porte had declined
leaving the adjustment of its differences with Mehemet
Ali t') the care of the proposed -conference. The four
other Powers, accordingly, had since held their conft-
rences in London, whence the despatches intended for
Vienna are forwarded to Johannisberg. The best pus-•
Bible understanding with regard to the eastern question
was believed to exist between France and the Anst:i•rn
Cabinet, directed, in the absence of Prince Metternich,
by M. de Fiquelmont.
The Journal des Debuts publishes a letter of Prince
_ _

Puckler Muskau, in which the writer expatiates at some
length on the merits and demerits of the Ambass tdors
of the Five Great Powers in Constantinople. Lord
Ponsonby is, linwe.ver, the only one of whom-he speaks
in harsh terms. The Prince " cannot conceive the
haughtiness, obstinacy, and incredible aversion of his
Lordship for Mehemet AP," and " can only ascribe it to
the puerile hatred of mediocrity towards genius." "
Roussin," be says, " is an excellent man, and one
of the moat honourable characters he. knew, but he
found him also fooliihly prejudiced tigablst the P.icha

of Egypt." M. de Boulenieff he describes as a earn
plate optimist, wlio thought that ever, thing was going gat 1
for the best. "M. de Stormer, the Austrian
nuncio, is," he says, " too well acquaitzted with the it s-
tory of Turkey to view matters in so fa'ourable a ligi;t.
However reassured he might be at seeing the pet-fret
accord existing between the Powers, he felt nevertli+less
apprehensive of some movement of the populace against
the Giaours, and was enchanted at having a vessel of
war at his disposal, to take shelter on board of with
his family." " As for the Prussian Ambassador, M. Ka •
nigsmark," adds the Prince, " he iS a good and honest
German ; a real knight errant of logitimaey, according
to cur European ideas, who sees in Meh,met Ali a
mere rebel, and condemns him without mercy." The
Prince accordingly does not consider those diploma
tists competent to act as umpires in the quarrel
between Turkey and Egypt, and he mentions lia‘iog
heard Khosrew Paella express regret at having been
prevented concluding an arrangement with his old
enemy, even at the sacrifice of the hereditary posses-
sion of Sytiut and Egypt. Prince Puckler Mu.kau
concurs on that point in the opinion of the Grand
Vizier, and maintains, that had " the just demand of
Mehemet Ali been conceded, he would have found it
his interest to draw closer the ties which unite hint to
the Sultan, and would have become the surest and per-
haps the only efficient support of the Ottoman empire."
In conclusion, he declares that " the actus quo must
prolong the precarious condition of Turkey ; that the
destruction of the Paella of Egypt would deprive her
of her last natural ally ; that while a European Con-
gress should be sitting in deliberation Mehemet Ali
could array the whole Mu•sulman population againet
the infidels ; that an intervention of Europe would prove
altogether unavailable, and that the Powers of the Etat
should consequently be left to settle their affairs among
themselves."

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL.

BnussELs, OCT. 10.—Orders have been transmitted
to the peveral corps of the army to send to the reserve
the men of the class of 1833. It is thought that the
class of )838 will be called out for the month of Ja-
nuary 1840.

Tne Indepc;zdeni says—" We are assured that the
a,enti of Mr. Cockerill, who were at Brussels yester-
day, declared that there is no truth in ail that has been
stated of assistance received by him from German cud
other capitals.

The Eclair gives further particulars respecting the
affairs of Mr. Cockerin. We leave the respons!ni:ity
to that Journal, and do not pretend to reconcile the
differences between them and the contradiction given by
the Independent.
Our readers will r-member that we announced that
Russian engineers had travelled through the country,
and visited the principal, establishments. We hai,e
since mentioned the arrival of a Russian councillor ; it
was he who was commissioned to negociatc with Mr.
Cockerill, and,the contract for the sale was agreed upon
on the ht of this month at Aix-la-Cimpelle. It will
not be definitive till after the ratification, which is to
take place within four months after the signing of the
contract.

It seems tnat besides the favours granted to the pro •
auctions of the ( Usiues) at Seraing, on the:
importation into Rus,ia of linen thread and linen front
the manufactories of Mr. John Cockerill, the nurn.l)f r
of steam-boats to he built for Russia is very great, and
exceeds what might have been expected.
A Ghent JoUrnal states that the mamufacturers of
Flanders passed the three' folloing measures to encou-
rage the cotton manufacture :-
1. A bounty on exportation.

2. The prohibition of all cotton manufactures.
3. The purchase by the Government of a eer:-.:ain
quantity of Belgian cotton manufactures, to be exported
at the risk of the Treasury, through the medium of one
or more great mercantile houses. _ .

BRUSSELS, OCT. 11.—Gerieral Skrzynecky arrived
at Brussels yesterday afternoon with Ins etd"
sisting of his wife, his mother, his mothee-in-law, and
two daughters (o to sixtem and the otteer ten years of
age).
The Utrecht Courant says—" Se ieral journals have
stated that the Members of the Giftrimission at Utreefit
have left this city for a fortnight. We learn, on the
contrary, that they ha:ce ad,iaurocd sine die, any; that
the Belgian Commissi.eners did not seem willing to ac-
knowledge the debt:"
The Contnierr: Beige maintains that there is no
faendatiou for Vie reports of the purchase of the attn.
blishment at S,craing Ly a northern powt r, and dr., it
will soon ma.tie known the measures adopted by Mr.
Cockerill to settle with his creditors. We shall sar.t.
FRONTI"/RS OP TURKEY, SEPTEMEER
Duclos, I..'rench Consul at Belgrade, is recalled, and
succeeded by M. Kodriga, who has already 'l;r-wed
at Semlin. It may be remembered that M. Duelos,
some months ago, when the Duke of Bordeaux sis‘
;t 1
this frontier, in too great official zeal formally t.akihit
resrects to the Duke as to a Prince of the blood royal
of France, and even sent an official report of the nit tier
to the French Ambassador at Vienna. This cirwm-
stance is Supposed to be the cause of his meal, leerwhich, however, there trai y other motivts.
English Consul, Colonel Hodges, whose position 1815
become untenable since the late events in Sertil, is en
the poi•it of leavitvivrrifeß
olrae f,Or ever, and returnivg to
EnglatP3. The Prince. Mi:oseh is gone iv
Wallac.hia'to induce the Prince not to detain their Jou.
the young Prince Michael, who is Chosen to be 5.3 e-