The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-07 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

THE WAR IN THE EAST.
The Gazette de la Baltique announces that the Russian
Government has prohibited the exportation of corn and
breadstuffis by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff.
The Austrian Government, it is said, has sent to the
Cabinet of Berlin the treaty entered into between Eng-
land and France, as well as the modifications it proposes
to introduce into it, with a view to an understanding
with those two Powers.
General Coronini, Commander-in-Chief of the army of
observation on the Servian frontier, has changed his
head-quarters from Temesvar to Semlin.
A letter from Krajova, of Feb. 24, says the Russians
still maintain the defensive. There is as yet no indica-
tion of an intention to attack Kalafat.
On the 2d inst., the two tourers appointed to convey
the ultimatum of France and England to St. Petersburg
passed through Berlin.
A telegraphic despatch from Constantinople, of Feb.
20, states that a camp of 30,000 is forming at Odessa,
and considerable additions are being made to the forti-
fications at Sebastopol.
On the occasion of the disturbances which have just
broken out in Epirus, the secretary of the Lord High
Commissioner of the lonian Islands has addressed the
following, circular to the English functionaries. It is
dated Corfu, 20th ult. :
" Sir-----Your letter of this day alludes to possible eventuali-
ties against which it is more diilicult to guard by means of
special instructions than to remedy by the acquaintance of
localities with their general interests, of which your good
sense is the best judge. His Excellency, consequently, can
only repeat to you that you must not do or allow anything of
a nature to compromise the good faith of England and throw
doubts on the policy of the Queen, conformably to the decla-
rations made by her Majesty's Ministers in Parliament,
and by the representative of England at Constantinople. Her
Majesty, in accord with her allies, has guaranteed the integ-
rity of the Ottoman Empire, without thinking that this gua-
rantee is incompatible with the civil and administrative privi-
leges which the Queen, in complete conformity of views with
the other Christian Powers, wishes to see extended to all Chris-
tians who live wider the domination of Turkey, privileges
which his Excellency doubts not will be placed by the allied
Powers under the protection of Europe. Your duty, sir,
like that of the Lord High Commissioner, is to convince the
authorities of your island, as well as the most peaceable
inhabitants, that the movement which has so unfortunately
commenced in Greece, is certainly calculated to remove all
hope of amelioration in the condition of the Greek po-
pulation of Turkey, by impelling them into a barbar-
ous struggle of a nature to endanger themselves, their fami-
lies, and their property, without the slightest chance of
success, since no one can imagine that the treaties and decla-
rations of the Great Cabinets of Europe can depend on com-
mittees at Athens, the acts of which are assuredly not ad-
mitted by any established government. Yon will, therefore,
sir, call the attention of the public to the fact that the
representatives of the Four Great Powers at Athens have
supported the protest 'of the Minister of Turkey against
the invasion of the Ottoman territory by a band of adven-
turers, for the most part subjects of Greece, and without the
pretence of any difference having arisen between the Sublime
Porto and Greece ; and you must endeavour to prove that
this collective proceeding of the ministers of the Governments
friendly to the Ottoman Porte is to bo considered as au inti-
mation to the Government of King Otho that it will be,made re-
sponsible for acts contrary to all international laws. ,You will
also make known that the Diamond frigate has been sent to take
part in the defence of Prevesa in case that town should be
attacked ; that the French steamer Promethee has been sent
to Corfu to collect information as to the real state of things;
that 22 regiments are on the point of embarking in England
for the Mediterranean ; and that the Lord High Commissioner,
notwithstanding his desire to avoid any pretext for conflict in
the island, will nevertheless not allow any attack to be made
on the policy proclaimed by her Majesty in that protected
state, and which is placed Under the exclusive control of her
Majesty. If, then, meetings should be formed with the view
of supporting the movement iu Epirus, or if attempts should
be made by armed men to quit these islands, you must take
measures for causing the persons compromised in any stay to
be placed under arrest until new orders. In the event of
emissaries being sent with the view of exciting the popu-
lations by means of incendiary publications, and iu the
event of persons visiting the lonian territory without
any avowed cause, or with suspicions intentions, these
persons must bo requested to leave without delay,
and they must be placed under the surveillance of the police
until their departure, as has already been done at Corfu on
two occasions. A rigorous surveillance must be exercised
over the known chiefs of the Movement, and an exact account
of their acts must be given to the police, leaving to the Lord
High Commissioner the decision of the measures to be taken
for remedying the evil by the exercise of the high powers with
which he is invested. The instructions contained in my pre-
ceding circular relative to passports must be strictly observed.
I must, besides, inform you that his Excellency is persuaded
that a firm tone on your part joined to conciliatory language,
and the employment of the means already indicated, combined
with observations in which you will cause it to be understood
that any person who may support the present movement will
injure the veritable interests of peace, will probably produce
more effect in maintaining tranquillity and preventing disorder
than any appearance of sympathy for ideas, which on account
of the present situation of the East aro incompatible with the
engagements taken by the Queen and with the policy of
Europe,, which are your sole guides."
According to accounts from Trieste of the Ist, a body
of Montenegrins, who had entered Albania without the
knowledge of the Government of Montenegro, hiul been
driven back, after losing 300 men.
A. letter from Orsova of the 20th ult., in the Press of
Vienna, says :—" The judicial investigation into the
revolt f Albania is to be conducted at Widdin. Some
arrests connected with this affair have been made in
Bulgaria. Letters from Cattaro state that collisions
have taken place between the Turks and the Montene-
grins on the frontier of the latter. This is, however,
given only as a rumour, and is not guaranteed."
A letter from Vienna states that the subscription for
the new loan of 50 millions of florins will be opened ou
the 7th, and closed on the 17th inst. The sinking fund
for this loan will be by annuities of 1 and 1,4 per cent.
for 50 years ; and each year there will be a drawing by
lottery to cancel bonds. The loan is to be subscribed
for in the Austrian dominions alone.
A Berlin letter of the 3d says :—" In a recent meet-
ing of the Society of the National Bank, of which the
Prince of Prussia is the protector, his royal highness,
addressing the president, General de Malesgewski, said,
Sooner or later circumstances will arrive which will
render it necessary for the army to respond to the appeal
of the King. The object of this establishment will then
be clear to every good patriot, and the soldier will rush
to the combat, knowing that the King and the people
will not forget him.' "
Baron de Brunow, the ex-ambassador of Russia, has
fixed his residence at Darmstadt:
The Journal de Pranefort has the following from
Vienna :—" Some German and English journals have
stated that Klapka, Caeca, and other refugees, had em-
braced Islamism in order that they might be employed
in the Turkish army. The Suabian Mercury, however,
states that it has seen a letter' from Klapka, writ-
ten in the beginning of February, and can assert that
Klapka and Czecz have not-abjured their faith, and that
they have no employment in the Turkish army, and
have lost all hope of having any. So long as Austria
shall remain the friend of Turkey, or even maintain a
neutral attitude, the Hungarian emigrants have little
chance of being employed by the Porte in the military
service."

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE
EMPEROR NICHOLAS.
The following circular bas been issued by the Mini-
ster of Foreign Affairs to the diplomatic agents of the
Emperor :

" Paris, March 5, 1854.
" Sir,—You are now cognisant of the answer of the Em-
peror Nicholas to the letter of his Imperial Malady, and
you have also read the manifesto which the former Sovereign
has just addressed to his people. The publication of these
two documents has destroyed the last hopes which might
have been placed upon the wisdom of the Cabinet of St.
Petersburg ; and that same hand which had acquired honour
by the firmness with which it had offered support to Europe,
shaken to its foundation, now opens the way to passions and
chances. The Government of the Emperor is deeply afflicted
at the inutility of its efforts and the ill-success of its mode-
ration : but, on the eve of the great struggle, which he has
not desired, and which the patriotism of the French nation
will enable him to assist, ho feels it necessary once more to
disavow responsibility for results, and to place the whole
weight of it upon that Power which will have to account for
those results to history and to God. Important considera-
tions of propriety, I know, render my task difficult; but I
shall fulfil it with the certainty that I am not saying one
word which is not dictated by my conscience.
"In addressing the Emperor of Russia in terms hi which
the utmost conciliation was united with the most noble frank-
ness, his Imperial Majesty was desirous of. chairing the ques-
tion of all the obscurities which kept the world in suspense
between peace and ware and endeavoured so to arrange it
that there might be no offence against the dignity of any one,
Instead of acting upon a similar principle, and accepting the
friendly hand which was held out to him, the Emperor
Nicholas preferred to recur to facts upon which public opi-
nion had definitively decided, and to represent himself as
having had to contend, from the commencement of a crisis
provoked by his Government, with a preconceived and sys-
tematic system of hostility which was fatally calculated to
bring about that state of things which has arrived. It is not
my voice, sir, it is that of Europe, which replies that never
at any period did an imprudent policy meet with adversaries
More calm or more patient in their resistance to designs which
their judgment condemned, and which considerations of pri-
mary importance compelled them to resist.
".I will not go back to past events, upon which such full
light has beeu thrown ; but I must once more repeat, that
it is no longer allowable to assimilate the dispute respecting
the privileges of the Latins in the Holy Land with the'
claim now put forward, That question was arranged from
the very commencement of the visit of Prince Meuschikoff
to Constantinople, and it is the Claim which that Ambas-
sador raised upon one point when he had obtained satisfac-
tion upon another which has roused the whole world, and
inspired all the Cabinets with the same sentiment of precau-
tion and the same desire for conciliation.
" Is it necessary to enumerate all the attempts, the failure
of which is only attributable to an invincible obstinacy ?
Nobody is ignorant of them, and there is not any one who
is not aware that if decisive demonstrations were made
during the progress of negotiations, each of those demon-
strations was preceded by an aggressive act on the part of
Russia.

"I will only recall to recollection the fact that if the French
squadron at the end of March anchored in the Bay of Salamis,
it was because since the month of January there had boon au
immense assemblage of troops in Bessarabia. It the naval
forces of Franco and England approached the Dardanelles,
where they only arrived at the end of June, it was because a
Russian army had been encamped on the banks of the Pruth,
and because the resolution to cross that river had been taken,
and had been officially announced since the 31st of May. If
At a later period our fleets were at Constantinople, it was be-
cause cannon resounded on the Danube ; and, in short, if
they entered the Black Sea, it was becs.uso, contrary to the
promise of acting on the defensive, Russian vessels had loft
Sebastopol to destroy the Turkish vessels at anchor in the
port of Sinope. Every step which we took, in concurrence
with England, in the East, had peace for its object, arid we
did not desire to interfere between the belligerent
par.
ties. Every day, however, on the contrary, Russia
advanced openly towards war. Assuredly, if there were
two powers whose antecedents and whose recent relations
rendered likely that they should be indulgent to Russ. ions
abortive to our movements in a dispute which threatened
involve Franco and Great Britain in a conflict with
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