The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

There are several articles in the Paris journals on the
Eastern question. The Pays continues to manifest a
belief that the negotiations which have been opened will
terminate favourably, and assigns as one of the grounds
of this belief the conviction which, it says, the Emperor
of Russia must have of the impossibility of providing
the pecuniary means which would be required to carry
on a protracted contest with France and England, whose
credit would enable them to maintain a war without
bringing absolute diStress upon the population as would
be the case in Russia.

On. Wednesday, the 20th, •the Emperor and Empress
made an excursion On the Seine, in the Eugenie, an ele-
gant steam-yacht, built by M. Schneider, expressly for
the Seine. On this occasion, 11. Mathieu, the chief en-
gineer of Creuzot, who planned the yacht and directed
the work, received the decoration of the Legion of Hon-
our from the hand Of the Emperor. The yacht was
commanded by. Captain .Eieelmans.
An imperial decree of the 15th enacts that "the pro-
visions of the decree of 22d january, 1852 (Article 10),
and of the decree of the 25th of the same month, rela-
tive to the allowances of members of the Legion of
Honour, shall not be applicable to general officers of the
army and navy who have passed or may pass into the
reserve." The decree of the 22d
.. *January, referred to,
is that which regulated the diSposal of the property of
the Orleans family, one portion of which, it may be re-
membered, was set apart for the Legion of Honour.
Intelligence has been received from Constantina (Al-
geria) to the 13th inst. The Cherilrßou-Seba had in
vain attempted to induce the Ouled littoutnem to rise,
and was at last obliged, after.havinglsiet -5() men in a
conflict with Colonel de- L-Ziurville's troops, to take re-
fuge on the territory of Tunis. General de M‘Mithon
had returned to Constantine, on the 13th, with six bat-
talions with which he had visited the district of the
Beni-Ider. All the tribes there had given him the most
satisfactory pledges of their good dispositions towards
France. As the great heat was approaching, orders had
been given to bring in the troops as promptly as possi-
ble under shelter in the various parts of the country.
The general situation of Algeria is described as satis-
factory.
The Correctional Police Court pronounced the deci-
sion yesterday in the affair of the Commune Revolution-
naire. Felix Pyat, Boichot, Avril, Caussidiere, and
Rougde, have been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment,
6,000 f. fine, and 10 years' surveillance of the police.
Bordol, Buvard, Berlier, Genin, and Granier to 5 years'
imprisonment, 6,000 f. fine, and 10 years' surveillance.
Cordier, to 2 years' imprisonment, 5,000 f. fine, and 5
years' surveillance. The widow Libersalle, and Obin, hus-
band and wife, have been sentenced to six months' im-
prisonment, and 100 f. fine, for circulating printed papers
without the competent authorization; and the woman
Foubert, for the same act, is sentenced to one months'
imprisonment and 16 francs fine. The Court of Cessa-
tion exatnined yesterday the appeallof MM. de Coetlogon
and Virmaitre. The appeal is founded on the Prefect
of Police having exceeded his powers in violating the
secrecy of correspthadence. _

The market at the Bourse was exceedingly firm yes:
terday, and a further improvement has taken place in
the public securities, the general impression evidently
being that the negotiations now,in progress will result
in an amicable settlement of the Turkisliciuestion. The
following were the final quotations cash—Three
per Cents., 78f. 80c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f.
50e. For the account—Three per Cents., 78f. 80c. ;
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 103 f. 50n. ; Bank Stock,
2,735 f. Mortgage 'Bank Shares rose 16E, closing at
70f. ; the final quotation of Societ4 Mobilibre Shares
was 840 f., being an improvement of 10f. In the Rail-
way Share Market the amount of business transacted
was not very extensive. Closing prices :—Northern,
880 f. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,152 f. ; Paris and Strasbourg,
935 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 937 f.; Paris and Rouen, 1,100 f.;
Lyons to the Mediterranean, 765 f.. 50c. ; Western of
France, 749 f. 75c. ; Rouen and Havre, 505 f. ; Bordeaux
and Cette, 640 f.

. TURKEY AND RfTSSIA.
Private letters,' proceeding from a good source, de-
clare positively that the mediation of Austria has been
accepted by the Emperor Nicholas. Austria has been as
earnest in pressing her intervention as Russia has been
willing to accept it. In fact, a choice was hardly left;
England and France, having made a demonstration in
favour of Turkey, were considered by the Czar as par-
ties too much interested to • give a perfectly impartial
decision, while Austria, from her position, cannot but
be deeply interested in contributing to such a result as
would prevent public tranquillity from being disturbed.
Of the precise nature of the propositions described to
have been well received by the Emperor ofßussia, we
can only form conjectures. These are, that Turkey agrees
to maintain the status .quo so far as the immunities and
privileges of the Greek population are concerned, and ac-
cepts the Russian note, the Emperor declaring that he
has no intention to interfere in the tethporal
adminis-
tration of the 'Ottoman Empire. We do not, however, as
yet know how the difficult point of the occupation of the
Danubian provinces and the withdrawal of the fleets will
be arranged. The Porte is still unwilling to treat until
the territory be evacuated, and in this it is considered
probable she will be sided with by the Powers. But once
the mediation of Austria accepted all such matters of
dispute will be referred by.. Russia to her decision.
As the Thissians in Paris have already begun to
cry out against Austria on the score of ingratitude,
it is probable that that Power has not shown herself
as amenable to the influence of 'her friend and pro-
tector as was desired- or expected and they com-
plain that while her sympathy and co-operation were
counted upon. by them, seeing that she had not
joined France and England, she has 'now pretension to
perfect independence, forgetful as she is of the obliga-
tions under which she is bound to Russia. It is thought
likely, too, that. Austria will demand from the Porte
guarantees of a similar nature as those of Russia for the
protection of the Christian population ; so that this lat-
ter Power will not have the monopoly of protection.
At considerable Russian force is being concentrated on
the Pruth, ;probably to act as a reserve in case of neces-
sity. A permanent bridge has been erected at Leowa,
where a, military road, leading into the interior of the
country, is alsb in course of execution.
The following private telegraphic dispatch was received
on Thursday from Vienna
"We have received here news from Constantinople to
the 11th of July. A note of heschid Pacha, destined
to facilitate the negotiations, and bring about 'a
favour-
able result, was much talked of. 'The commerce of Con-
stantinople was excellently disposed."
It will be seen that. the news • from COnstantinople
amounts to very little, "and te are left to divine what
meant' by the excellent disposition 'of the commercial
men of Constantinople.—The importance of this dispatch
is not in what It says, hot
...in *bat it does not say. "No
mention for instance is maicte Of.the departure of an dint
bassador for St. Petersburgh, although it is- hardly pro-
bable that if a circumstance of that 'nature had taken
place, ai stated by the Lloyd of Vienna, no notice would
have been taken of it in letters of, the 11th.
Nothing positive is yet known as to the "approaching
journey of the Emperor of Russia. On the one hand,
the Cologne Gazette states, on authority of a letter from
Vienna of 17th, that his Majesty's visit to Warsaw
has been adjourned; and on the other, the Lloyd of
Vienna asserts positively that he is expected at Odessa
towards the end of the month.

A Viennaletter, of the 17th, in the German journal
entertainewasof Frankfort, states that no doubt was
Vienna of the Emperor of Russia having accepted the
mediation of Austria in the dispute between Russia and
the Porte. On the 17th the Baron de Meyendorff, the
Russian Ambassador at Vienna, had an audience of
the Emperor of Austria to present to him the reply of
the Emperor of Russia.
A letter from Warsaw of the 14th stalks that the
Lieutenant-General of artillery Sieozpatowski, who was
in that city, has received orders to join the army of the
Pruth.

. .
The Vienna journals contain long Accounts of the
recent affair at Smyrna. They do not differ essentially,
as to facts from those which we have'published from
the Smyrna journals, and from other sources, but they
have a colour given to.them in the spirit of party, and
it is pretended that the Austrian consul was justified in
the course that he adopted after repeated and fruitless
applications to the Turkish Government.