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 were taken to put an endtothe
aggressions of the natives who are 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 lieraklo of Madrid, says :—" It appears that
there has been sonic 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 Cargol.

TURKEY.
On Friday last an aide-de-camp arrived in a Spe-
cial steamer from Odessa, bearing important dis-
patches for Prince Menschikoff. 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-
gardinc, him as the responsible agent for the good
order of his people, whom he 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
of the Sultan. In other words, their allegiance is
to be transferred from Constantinople to Si. Peters-
burgh.
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
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refusal. Reschid Pasha has been apPointed,to the' '
post of Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Univers publishes the Itiman, granted .by
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the Sultan to Prince Mena:lo4off, relative to tli.,
holy places. It is entitled . eirman relative to-r
reconstruction of the Cupo . td' the Ciankh
of the Holy Sepulchre, addre : t!:,- iv: Pa
and the Cacti of Jerusalem, a . •:.:: lifted
to the embassies of Russia and France at Con-
stantinople on the sth of May, 1853."
The Univers says that as the French Govern-
ment has declared, through the Moniteur, that
the concessions made to Prince Menschikoff did
not make any change in the concessions previously
made to M. de Lavelette " which could not be, on
the part of France, the object of any compromise,"
it must conclude that the French Government has
not accepted the firmaus which Prince Menschi-
kelt* has obtained in favour of the Greeks, as they
modify in several points to the detriment of the
Latins the arrangements agreed to with M. de
Lavalette.

GERMANY.
A letter from Baden, of the 18th, says
" Friendly hands had planted crosses over the
tombs of the persons who, in 1849, fell in the
various combats, and in particular over the tombs
of the insurgents buried in the cemetery of Heidel-
berg. On these tombs there was also placed an
epitaph, exceedingly simple and inoffensive—viz.,
'He died for the liberty of his country.' The
regime of the Prussian occupation, though noted
forits severity, had seen nothing to blame in the
sentiment of piety which dictated this tribute of
respect. The police of Heidelberg had just had
the crosses and tombs painted black, which has
effaced the epitaphs which they bore. An order
has also been issued, declaring that for the future
every epitaph must receive the authorisation of
the police before being put up."
Baron Bemer, late Bishop of Varaclin,„in Hun-
gary, who took some part in the revolution of that
country, arrived at Neustift, Tyrol, on the Bth,
under the charge of a commissary of police, that
place having been assigned to him for his residence.
A letter from Berlin states, that the canon
Foerster has been definitively elected Prince Arch-
bishop of Breslaw.
The Minister of Commerce of Prussia, M. Von
der ileydt, has given orders to have the railway
from Konigsberg to Brauxsberg, that is, all the
Eastern line, opened at once to the public.
The Cologne Gazette, under date of Frankfort
20th, says :—" The Senate has proposed to the
Legislative Assembly an organic law to regu-
late the rights of the Jews. According to its
provisions, the Jews will be electors and eli-
gible in such a manner that they may have
four deputies in the Legislative Assembly,
but these four deputies cannot vote for the
election of senators. As to public dignities and
employments, the Jews cannot form part either of
the Senate, or of the College of the 51, or be judges
or exercise any public functions in the administra-
tion of the schools and of the Christian churches.
The Assembly has named a committee of seven
members to examine a report on the bill."
The Augsburg Gazette contains a letter from
Vienna of the 18th, which says—" The rumour
-which was in circulation, that the Government de-
sired to contract a new loan in foreign countries,
gains ground. It is believed that this loan will be
applied to the regularisation of our securities, and
that consequently it will be considerable."
The Augsburg Gazette states from Constantinople
—" We learn that the second capital point of the
mission of Prince Menschikoff, after the question
of the Holy Places, is the demand of a cession of
territory near the Caucasus. The place in question
is the port of Baltoun. If Russia were to obtain
this port, the line of defence of the inhabitants of the
Caucasus might be attacked in the rear, and this
port might also serve as a basis for ulterior opera-
tions against Turkey in Asia and against Persia."

SWITZERLAND.
According to the Paris Moniteur, the Austrian
Chargé d'Affaires has left Berne, after notifying
the rupture of diplomatic relations between Austria
and Switzerland.

AUSTRALIA.

PLYMOUTH, MAY 23.

By the Atrevida, Captain Sheare, which left
Port Philip on the 23d of February, we have re-
ceived some Melbourne papers, the latest of which
is dated the 18th of February.