The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-24 00:00:00

SPAIN.

There is no political news in the Madrid journals
of the 18th, The Gazette announces that, in order
to give employment to the labouring classes, the
construction of prisons and other public works in
the provinces of Corunna and Pontevedra has been
authorised. The Clamor Publico states that
General Narvaez will shortly be authorised to re-
turn to Loja. The weather was very severe, and
there were heavy rains. A good deal of sickness
was the consequence. A letter of the 20th, re-
ceived by express, announces the nomination of
M. Bermudez do Castro, brother of the Minister of
Finance, to the embassy of Naples, in the room of
the Marquis de Viluma, appointed to Paris.
The Moniteur says :—" Some sea-port journals
in publishing news on the insurrection of a
part of the population which surrounds our
factories of Grand Basam, demand that prompt
assistance shall be sent to that establishment.
The Moniteur of the 18th of April last, made
known that the steam advice-boat Grand Bas-
sam, and the transport Tactique had been sent to
Grand Bassam with the reinforcements expected
by the commander of the factory. The commander
of the naval division of the Western Coast of
Africa has joined those two vessels with the steam-
frigate the Eldorado. Thus from the month of
March all measures wore taken to put an end to the
aggressions of the natives who aro hostile to us,
and to assure, to the interests of our commerce in
those parts, the protection which is due to them."

A letter from Manilla of the 23d February, in
the _Herald° of Madrid, says:—"lt appears that
there has been some dispute with the English Con-
sul at Manilla relative to the prosecution for rob-
bery of a Jew named Megives Abraham, who,
however, was set at liberty. Complaints are made
of the unbecoming manner in which the consul
expressed himself in the affair. It is desirable that
the Government should be able to impose respect
when necessary on the foreign commercial agents
in that country, who, without any diplomatic cha-
racter, permit themselves to meddle with our judi-
cial administration.

The French gendarmes on the Spanish frontier
have just arrested a noted Spanish insurgent chief,
named Cargo'.

TURKEY.

On Friday last an aide-de-camp arrived in a spe-
cial steamer from Odessa, bearing important dis-

patches for Prince Menscliikoff. On the same day
the Porte had communicated with Lord Stratford,
who, at midnight, dispatched her Majesty's steamer
Wasp with dispatches for England. The meaning
of these diplomatic movements was that the Rus-
sian Ambassador had at length given in his ultima-
tum to the Porte, signifying his intention to wait
for an answer until Tuesday, the 10th, when, in
case of receiving any but an entire compliance with
the Emperor's demands, he will at once take his
departure.
Russia demands that the Porte shall guarantee
all the immunities and privileges accorded by the
predecessors of the actual Sultan to the Greek
Church in the Ottoman Empire, and that any
favour or privilege granted to any other Chris-
tian church or community shall also be ac-
corded to the Greek Church. That the
Patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexan-
dria, and Jerusalem, and the Archbishops and
Bishops of the Greek Church, be not deposed for
the future, except for a legitimate motive, and
that the berats, or diplomas of investiture, granted
by the Porte be no longer dead letters, but receive
a full and entire application in all their clauses.
That the Ambassador of Russia at Constantinople,
and the Consuls and agents of Russia elsewhere,
shall have the right to protect the Greek Church
against all kinds of persecution and oppression on
the part of the Turkish authorities. That the
cupola of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre be re-
built under the inspection of the Greek Patriarch,
and the priority in the tomb of the Church of the
Virgin be assured to the Greeks. That the sanctu-
aries be confirmed perpetually and for ever in the
hands of their present possessors. That a church
and monastery be constructed at Jerusalem, in
which Russian monks shall officiate.
The most important privilege the Christians of
this country possess is that of self-government.
The Patriarch of each Christian community is
elected by the people and clergy, and receives a
firman of investiture from the Sultan, and is then
the spiritual and .temporal head of his people. All
the jurisdiction of the Greeks is managed through
the Patriarch, the Porte not interfering, but re-
garding him as the responsible agent for the good
order of his people, whom lie can punish by fines,
imprisonment, and personal chastisement.
All this is expressed by the berat, or diploma of
investiture, which, at the dictation of Russia, is no
longer to be a dead letter, since all this temporal
power will be exercised for the future (through the
Patriarch) by the Russian Ambassador at Constan-
tinople. Thus does Russia demand the exclusive
protectorate over 12,000,000 of the Greek subjects.
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The Russian ports of the Black Sea are at this
moment crowded with the munitions of war, and
the heights above Odessa are covered with the tents
of a large army. On the banks of the Pruth, we
are assured, the pontoons are already made, and
the vast army collected there waits but the signal to
ready to
unfavourable bear him
away
enter the principalities. The Russian Ambassador
is already at Buyukderi, a village at the mouth of
the Bosphorus,
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answer is given. _

The new Ministry in Turkey," says the Debats,
is composed of men friendly to reform, and little
favourable to Russia. Among them is Fuad
Effendi, appointed Minister of the Interior, and
who, when Minister of Foreign Affairs, was dis-
missed after the affront which he received from
Prince Menschikoff on the day of his first visit to
the Porte."
Up to the 12th the Porte had made no reply to

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the part of France, the object of any compromise,"
it must conclude that the French Government has
not accepted the firmans which Prince Menselii-
koff has obtained in favour of the Greeks, as they
moldy in several points to the detriment of the
Latins the arrangements agreed to with M. da
Lavelette.

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