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London, England, 1839-12-06 00:00:00

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§ASPHALTES AND BITU NIENS.
Yarn (Maberly's)

The Hatti Scheriff lately promulgated by the
Ottoman Government, is reported to have given
umbrage to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. Ac-
cording to a letter from Constantinople, dated the
13th ult., M. BOUTINIEFF, the Russian Ambas-
sador, represented to the Divan, at his first inter-
view with REDSCHID PACHA after the public
reading of the new law, that the reform contemp-
lated in the administration of the Empire was in-
auspicious, and unsuited to the wants of the
people, and that the better course would have been to
assimilate the changes as near as possible to the sys-
tem established throughout Russia. What effect this
representation may have upon the future Councils
of the SULTAN, it is impossible at present to de-
termine. Unless France and England bestir them-
selves—the latter to secure some degree of civil
and religious liberty to the inhabitants of Turkey—
and the former to give vitality to a Constitution which
she claims the honour of having suggested, if not
actually framed—it will not be difficult for Russia
to render so flimsy a production as the Hatti Sche.
riff a dead letter. It will be easy to show that it
wants all the requisites of a law for guiding,
the administration of any country, being too gene-
rally declaratory to apply to any particular
case out of ten thousand that may occur calling for
its interference ; whereas in those points in which
it is truly valuable, it is directly opposed to the
letter of the Koran, as all who are acquainted with
the text of that most extraordinary book must know
well. Thus, for example, the part of the new law
which extends equal protection, equal justice, and
equal rights to the Mussulmans and Rayahs, or
Christian subjects, of the Porte, is completely at
variance with the precepts of the Koran, and there
would be no difficulty in directing against it all the
bigoted and fanatical fury of the Mussulman
priesthood, who, to do them justice, are not a jot
less zealous for the rights of the " Establishment"
than are their Popish and Anglican brethren in
Austria and England. But this is a question upon
which we shall soon have further opportunities of
descanting. The Fast of the Rhamadan began a
few days before the date of the letter from Constan-
tinople, to which we are referring, and therefore all
political discussions were for some time necessarily
suspended.

The Prince DE JOINVILLE was to spend the
winter at Pera. He had gone on a short excur-
sion to Trebisonde, but was expected to return
in a few days. Nearly all the Turkish Ministers
visited him on board the Belle Poule frigate, and
the SULTAN presented him, through the hands of
REDSCHID PACHA, magnificent presents. It was
reported that the Porte had arranged a loan to the
amount of five millions sterling with the house of
ROTHSCHILD. Another rumour, of a less plea-
sant nature, prevailed. It was that the Pacha of
EGYPT had started fresh difficulties, and had abso-
lutely refused to give up the Turkish fleet. What
credit is due to such rumours, we pretend not to
determine.

The following additional intelligence from Con-
stantinople and Alexandria is from the German
papers received this morning:--
CONSTANTINOPLE, Noy. 13.--While the elder
Nourri Effendi goes as Minister Plenipotentiary to
France, the younger Nourri Effendi is appointed
Charge d'Affaires at the Court of Berlin.
The French fleet has left Besika Bay, and is gone