The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-26 00:00:00

TURKEY.

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We read in the Constitutioauel--" Intelligence
has been received in Paris from St. Petersburg,
and letters arrived from Constantinople, of the
10th, being the day after Prince Mensehikoff had
his first audience of the Sultan. These various
sources of information confirm our previsions. The
difficulties which may exist in the East are less
grave and less extensive than was at first asserted.
According to what is written at the same time
from Constantinople and from St. Petersburg,
hopes may be seriously entertained that' these
difficulties will not go beyond the circle of
diplomatic negotiations, and that they will soon re-
ceive a pacific solution. M. de Lacour leaves Mar-
seilles this day. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has
left Vienna for Constantinople, and the internuncio
of Austria is about to return to his post, so that
the negotiators will find themselves assembled at
Constantinople, furnished with recent instructions.
As to the resolution come to, according to some of
the English journals, by the Cabinet of St. James's,
to keep the Mediterranean squadron temporarily in
the port of Malta, it could have in present circum-
stances only a middling importance. Were the integ-
rity of the Ottoman empire menaced, England,
which is a contracting party to the treaties of 1840,
would certainly be the first to defend them. But if, as
it appears, the matter relates merely to the question
of the holy places, it is natural that the English Go-
vernment should not see in that matter either a
sufficiently direct interest or a difficulty sufficiently
grave, to call for the displacement of her squadron
in the Levant, which, in the position which it
occupies at Malta, is already sufficiently near the
theatre of the negotiations. In addition, the Mar-
seilles journals which we received last evening,
announce, under the date of the 22d, that the
Caradoc was still waiting in that port for orders
from the British Government. It may, conse-
quently, be concluded that whatever may be the
decision of the Cabinet of St. James's, it has not
yet been forwarded to Admiral Dundas. At all
events, it is this day, Good Friday, that the Egyptus
is expected at Marseilles. That vessel was to leave
Constantinople on the 15th, so that we must soon
receive such information concerning the affairs of
the East, as will allow the real state of things to be
exactly judged of."
The Ministerial Zeit, of Berlin, has an article on
the Oriental question, which merits attention :

"The Augsburg Allgenteine Zeitung had some time
past kFeb. 2 and 3) an article calling to mind a memo-
rial, written without doubt by an Austrian pen in 1850,
albeit probably not by a diplomatist of eminence, the
object of which was to show that should the inevitable
progress of inward decay in the Turkish empire, lead to
its partition, it was the palpable interest of Austria and
of all Germany to come to an understanding thereon
with Russia, to the effect that the portion of Turkey.
east of Widdin, to the bay of Karvala, with Constanti-
nople and the Dardanelles, should be made over to Rus-
sia ; that Servia, Bosnia, the Herzegowina, North Alba-
nia, to Durazzo and Macedonia—in short all to the west
excepting South Albania and Thessaly, should become the
property of Austria. Nothing was said in the memoir
relativn to the disposal of the two-last-mentioned por-
tions, but it was evident that these were intended to be made
over to Greece, which would thereby certainly receive a
most respectable addition. The memoir says nothing
either of the Porte's Asiatic possessions, but it is to be
presumed that the author intends that the Turks, after
being driven out of Europe, shall be allowed to remain
in quiet possession for the time being of their Asiatic and
African territory, unless England and France should
think proper to claim them as compensation for the aug-
mentation of power obtained by Russia and Austria.
We attach little importance to this partition plan (con-
tinues the Zeit), notwithstanding the high tone assumed
by the Allgemeine Zeitung. The silence of the memoir
as to the conduct likely to be pursued by the other Euro-
pean Powers in regard to such a monstrous change of
possessions guaranteed by treaties—and this in favour
only of two of these Powers—makes us regard the plan
as a mere play of imagination, without any practical
meaning. As regards Prussia, the omission of the me-
moir has been in part filled up by a recent article
in a Warsaw journal, which, in setting forth the
probability of an approaching partition of Turkey,
generously offers to us a portion of Russian-Poland
as a compensation. If conclusions be drawn,
from the fact of this latter article being published in a
journal under Russian censorship, that the Russian Go-
vernment approved or authorised the same, we are of
opinion that such conclusions would be erroneous. We
rather see in the freedom with which the Polish-Russian
journal has treated the subject a proof that the Russian
authorities consider the article as completely harmless,
and the less worthy of suppression in proportion as the
point was the further removed from fact. We do not
pretend to be initiated in the secrets of Russian policy,
but we think we may say with confidence that nothing
can be more opposed to the consistent march of the same
than any immediate plan for Oriental conquest. That
which Russia seeks for in the East is an extension of its
influence, but not of its territory, because it is well un-
derstood!. a.t7S4 Petersburg that the latter would be a
source of incZculable embarrassments, and, in point of
fact, anything but a real increase of power. As regards
the rest of th Austrian partition plan, we must remark
that it is as little suited to benefit the real interests of
Austria as would be the compensation so generously
accorded to us by the Warsaw journal. The idea put
forth in the memoir, of connecting the Danube with
Salonica, by a railway, and thus obviating the necessity
of re-shipping goods on the Lower Danube, and of thence
drawing the traffic with India to this route, is so chime-
rical as to show an utter ignorance of the conditions re-
quisite for the opening of all new commercial channels.
Nevertheless, the greatest advantage which the memoir
awards to Austria from its portion of the projected
aggrandisement, seems to be this very railway project
from Belgrade to Salonica."
All that can be added at the present moment to
the above, is that, albeit the Prussian Government
may be resolved to maintain strict neutrality and
diplomatic silence during the present momentous
crisis, it nevertheless is utterly averse, and would
under no conditions give its assent, to any measures
tending to realise any plan approaching that put
in the memoir above alluded to.
Letters from Constantinople. of the 14th announce
that on the preceding day Prince Menschikoff had
his first audience of the Sultan, and that all passed
off in the most friendly manner. The new Mini-
ster, Rifaat Pacha, successor to Fuad Effendi, ap-
p yletioenßnuassia.
for Constantinople on
PtheeLarso2r4tdt:S.bteraftafvoordurle
The Caradoc was, on the 22d, still waiting a
Marseilles for dispatches from the English Govern-
.

went.
The Egyptian, which is due at Marseilles to-day,
will bring the mail of the 15th from Constanti-
nople.

TOTAL Loss OF THE BRITISH SHIP GOVERNOR HIG-
GINSON, BY FlRE.—This unfortunate calamity, involving
a loss of upwards of 36,00 k Madraslac on the night of
the 27th of Jan. last, in the road, under circum-
stances which have led to a supposition that it was the
act of an incendiary among the crew. The ship was
within 12 hours of her departure from London,
her cargo
comprising cotton and other merchandise, an e
Clarendon
d her mas-
ter, Captain Anwyle, was ashore, at th
Hotel, completing his arrangements for sailing, when a
boat containing the chief officer arrived with the sad
intelligence that his ship was on fire. Soon afterwards ,
the sentries at the forts observed flames ascending high
above the deck of the Vessel. Capt. Anwl lo ti
st no me
in repairing to the ship, and calling his meyne , made a des-
perate effort to confine the ravages of the fire to the fore
part of the vessel. Thi flameson found to be impossible;
for it was evident thehad extended throughout
the cargo, both fore and aft, and the destruction of the
ship was perceived to be inevitable. The boats and rafts
having arrived from the shore, the crew, after saving all
they possibly could, got on to them, arid abandoned the
burning vessel, which was speedily burned to the water's
edge. It has been clearly ascertained that the fire ori-
ginated in the hold, immediately under the forecastle,
and suspicion points to a part of the crew, who are not
Europeans, and who, it is said, displayed some ill feeling
after being shipped on board. The vess el belonged to
Messrs. Blyth and Co. of London, and was 664 tons
burthen.
THE ROYAL .GENERAL DISPENSARY. PRESENTATION
OF PLATE TO Mn. S. B. STOLI'T.—On Thursday a public
dinner of the friends of the above charity was held at
Mr. James Stone's, the Queen's Head,
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of the esteem in which he is held by several of the sub-
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respect for his private worth and public virtues. March,
1853." Several other toasts were drank, and the meet-
ing separated.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A LADY. Yester-
day information was forwarded to the various metro-
politan police stations, of the following sudden and mys-
terious disappearance of a lady, who is said to be r
highly connected. It appears that about the commence-
menten
of the present month the lady left her residence,
but was traced to a house in the vicinity of Bond-street,ce'
from which, however, she disappeared on the morning of
the 9th instant ; and although every effort has been
made by her friends and the police, yet no clue has been
obtained as to her whereabouts.
GOVERNMENT ORDER FOR THE CLOSING OF THE GRAVE-
YARDSIN MARYLEBONE.—A letter has been received from
Lord Palmerston, by the parochial authorities of Mary-
lebone, stating that his lordship would recommend to her
Majesty to issue an order in Council for the immediate
closing of the burial grounds north and south of Padding-
ton-street and around the parish chapel, and for the clos-
ing of the St. John's-wood burial-ground, within eigh-
teen months, on condition that only one corpse be
interred there in each grave during that interval.
STEPS TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.— Some
French savans have resolved to assemble in Paris in the
course of the present month a congress of philologists
from the different countries of Europe, to discuss questions
relative to different languages, and to prepare the way for
esablishing, if possible, a universal alphabet, as the first
step towards the creation of a universal
foreign linguists is requestedlanguage. The
presence.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 25

The Highflyer, 21, screw-frigate, Captain Heathcote,
arrived at Spithead last night, from Bermuda, with the
dispatches of the Commander-in-Chief and the mails of
that island, the steamer from Halifax having injured her
machinery. This vessel left England in September last,
at the same time as the ill-fated Dauntless, and, like her,
had the ill-fortune to touch at St. Thomas's in December
last, where she also received the seeds of yellow fever,
which soon after carried off her captain (H. J. Matson),
a valuable officer, most deeply regretted by all on board,
and a loss of no small consequence to the country gene-
rally, as he was acknowledged to be a first-rate sailor, a
good officer, and equally able with his pen as his sword
to improve and uphold the naval service. The same fatal
disease also carried off Mr. Hay, assistant-surgeon ; Mr.
Mickerr, clerk ; Mr. Mills gunner ; two seamen and
one marine ; all in the month of December. The
Highflyer left Port Royal on the 3d of February,
and on the 7th received the Commander-in-Chief,
Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, K.C.8., and took
him to Bermuda. The West India squadron was
stationed as follows on her departure :—The Cum-
berland, 72, Captain Seymour (flag), at Bermuda,
with the Persian, 12, Commander T. Mitchell, which
latter vessel it was thought would have the officers and
crew of the steam-sloop Geyser (except her commander)
turned over and remain out for some time longer to as-
sist in the strict slave blockade to be established against
slavers round Cuba. The Geyser was at Grey Town,
and was expected at Bermuda, en route to England, un-
der sail, her boilers being unserviceable. The Calypso,
18, Capt. Forbes, was on the Barbadoes division of the
station. The Vestal, 26, Capt. C. B. Hamilton ; Buz-
zard, steam-sloop, 6, Commander Dobbie ; and the Dar-
ing, 12, sloop, Commander G. Napier, were cruising
around Cuba. The Devastation, 6, paddle steam-frigate,
Capt. C. Y. Campbell, was at Belize ; and the Bermuda,
4, schooner, Lieutenant Jolly, at Port Royal, with the
receiving depot ship Imaum, 72, Commodore M'Quhae.
The last intelligence received of the Dauntless, 28, Capt.
Halsted, was that she was preparing at length to leave
Barbadoes, and would touch at Bermuda on her way to
England, On the 6th inst., the Highflyer passed an
English merchant ship, standing apparently towards
Ireland, or St. George's Channel, second distinguishing
pendant No. 7,348, in lat. 43.22, long. 24.38. The High-
flyer only brought about 50 of the 56th Regiment from
Bermuda, not 500, as erroneously represented by the
telegraph.
PORTSMOUTH STEAM RESERVE.--The Blenheim (screw),
60, Captain W. H. Henderson, C. 8., remains at tempo-
rary moorings in this harbour, but will move during the
ensuing week. Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane,
K.C.8., commander-in-Chief, visited and inspected her
this week, minutely examining every part, and, we are
informed, found her in excellent order—clean, well-
regulated, and perfectly ready for immediate service.
The Admiral was accompanied by Captain Henderson
and the inspector of steam machinery afloat, whose
report on the condition of the engines was equally satis-
factory. The Admiral's inspection included the paddle-
frigates Bulldog, 6, and Vesuvius, 6. Nothing can
exceed the order and cleanliness f these vessels after
being a short time at their moorings. The Gorgon, 6,
paddle-frigate is in the basin, has her lower rigging
over, and coals in, under Lieutenant L. Peyton, of the
Blenheim, who is to complete her for service in the first
class of the steam reserve. The -Vesuvius, Stromboli,
Bulldog, and Hecla, all paddle-wheel sloops, of six 'guns
each, are perfectly ready, and are reported to be at Spit-
head, if required, within, we believe, five or six hours
after being commissioned, with two months' provisions
on board. The Conflict, 9, screw-sloop, is nearly rigged
in the steam basin ; her equipment is under the superin-
tendence of Lieutenant Close, of the Blenheim.
THE ROYAL SCREW-YACHT FAIRY AND THE SCREW
PROPELLER. —Her Majesty's yacht Fairy, Master Com-
mander D. Welsh, went out of harbour on Thursday, to
Stokes Bay, to make another trial with Griffiths' patent
propeller. Two new blades were employed, but they
were so much more strikingly at variance with the usual
screws that it was considered before going out that
Messrs. Swayne and Bovill, in their desire to demon-
strate more conclusively the new theory, had on this
occasion carried the principle too far, and certainly the
propeller had an extraordinary appearance as compared
with the Fairy's usual screw, being only one-sixth of the
width of the latter at the periphery. The runs made
over the measured knots and the results, to the astonish-
ment of everybody, proved superior to any of the former
trials with Griffiths' propeller, and will no doubt estab-
lish conclusively the -correctness of this description of
propeller, and must therefore speedily lead to a change
in screws for our war steamers. No less than 12i knots
were obtained, which is an extraordinary result, and
must be highly gratifying to Captain Crispin, R.N.,
through whose foresight and zeal for improvement thiS
valuable invention has been prominently brought under
the immediate attention of the Admiralty. To obtain
a variety of valuable engineering data, we understand
Captain Crispin will make some further experiments
next week with the new propeller, in that beautiful
vessel.

ROYAL MARINES.—CoIoneI Menzies, K.H., aide-de-
camp to the Queen, Commandant of the Portsmouth
division, is in temporary command of Portsmouth garri-
son and district, Major-General Simpson, the Lieutenant-
Governor, being absent on leave. Major James Rives
Hore, on the retired list, died a few days since. He
was a gallant and distinguished officer, fought under
Lord Cochrane (the Earl of Dundonald), and had'a pen-
sion of 1001. per annum for wounds received in the ser-
vice. First Lieutenant Lewis relieves First Lieutenant
J. C. Symonds, in her Majesty's ship Odin.
The Cruiser, 14, screw-sloop, Commander the Hon.
G. IL Douglas, returned to Spithead this morning from
a cruise, and saluted the Commander-in-Chief.
There are ships of war at Spithead of sufficient power
to satisfy the most nervous—Sidon, 22, paddle ; Leo-
pard, 16, paddle ; Odin, 16, paddle ; Highflyer, 25,
screw ; Encounter, 14, screw ; Cruiser, 14, screw ;
Prince Regent, 90 ; London, 90 ; Espi6gle, 12, brig ;
Meg era, 6, troop-frigate,
In Harbour.--Duke of Wellington, 131 (screw) ;
Agamemnon, 90 (screw) ; Blenheim, 58 (screw) ; Con-
flict, 8 (screw) ; Gorgon, 6 (paddle) ; Growler, 6 (paddle);
Dragon, 6 (paddle) ; Bull Dog, 6 (paddle) ; Vesuvius,
6 (paddle) ; Stromboli, 6 (paddle) ; Hecla, 6 (paddle).
The above ships could be manned by the guard-ships,
Excellent and Victory, and with the coast-guard service
and marines, and could put to sea at 24 hours' notice,
with the exception of the Duke of Wellington, and she
could go as a sailing ship, if occasion required.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 25.
The Vulture 6 (paddle), Captain Glasse, returned from
the Chops of the Channel on Tuesday night. There is
some defect in the valve of her steam pipe. She came
into harbour this morning, and the diver is going down
to see if he can discover the defect. It is very probable
she will have to come into dock.

Everything respecting the launch of the St. Jean
'Acre went off remarkably well, and gave general sa-

tisfa,ction to an immense concourse of people.-Her draft
of water, when clear of everything, and water still, was
—forward, 11 feet 10 inches; aft, 20 feet 8 inches. She
will be taken into No. 5 Dock on Saturday morning.
Mr. Duprezne Larin and Captain Bourgis, officers of
the French navy, visited the dockyard by Admiralty
permission yesterday. The former is said to be the
master shipwright who built the Napoleon. They took
a great interest in the launch and ship, and appear
gentlemen of superior ability, and have been shown
every civility and attention. They took lunch with
Commodore Seymour to-day, and after that they went
to the Breakwater in his boat.

WOOLWICH, MARCH 25.
Rear-Admiral Armar Lowry Corry, Commander-in-
Chief of the Channel Squadron, has had his furniture re-
moved from the Prince Regent, 90, his flag-ship, at
Portsmouth, and sent to Plymouth, to be put on aboard
one of the ships there preparing for departure to the
Mediterranean station, the gallant Rear-Admiral being
about to succeed Rear-Admiral Edward Harvey as Ad-
miral Superinteoent at Malta. It is still the general
belief in well-informed naval circles that there will be
two Channel squadrons farmed during the approaching
summer.

Although this is Good Friday, and a close holiday in
the dockyards, Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field's
workmen are employed, as on week days, in fitting the
engines of the Tribune, 30, screw steam-frigate, in the
dock at Woolwich, making ready for commission with all
possible dispatch.
A few hands have also been employed in shipping
stores on board the Isabel, Lady Franklin's screw steam-
vessel, her departure having been postponed until Mon-
day next.

GREENWICH SCHOOL AND THE OFFICERS OF THE 'NAVY
AND MARINES.—We deem it our duty to inform our
naval friends that at the present time there are nume-
rous vacancies in that portion of the upper school of
Greenwich Hospital, which is reserved for the sons of
commissioned and ward-room' warrant officers in the
Royal Navy and Royal Marines. These vacancies re-
main unfilled merely because no applications for them
are made by qualified persons. The excellence of the
education given at Greenwich has been placed beyond a
doubt by the annual reports presented to Parliament by
the Privy Council, and printed every year. Professor
Moseley, the Government inspector of schools, has re-
peatedly described it as the best school in England of its
kind. All the expenses are defrayed by the institution,
and the cleverest boys have always the best chance for
appointments in the navy. We are quite sure that it
only requires to be known that there are numerous vacan-
cies, for those parents whose sons are eligible for admis-
sion to the school to make applications at once to the
First Lord of the Admiralty for nominations. Some of
the best officers at present in the navy are the sons of
officers educated at Greenwich in the school.—Herald.
Our Marseilles correspondent confirms the fact of the
French fleet having left Toulon for the Dardanelles • and
our Paris correspondent states that three more sail Of the
line are ordered to be got ready at Toulon to reinforce
the fleet in the Archipelago. Her Majesty's steam-
packet Caradoc, Lieutenant-Commander Derrimaniwas
waiting at Marseilles on the 21st, but by this time she
has probably proceeded to Vice-Admiral Dundas with
dispatches from the Admiralty. It appears she dragged
her anchors on the night of the 20th, and was obliged to
get up steam to ease herself. We presume her anchors
were the "Admiralty anchors," which have been proved
to be 40 per cent. inferior to Trotman's in the late

SUDDEN DEATH AT THE PORTSMOUTH TERMINUS.—On
Thursday night last Mr. William Smith, manager of the
Portsmouth Gas Works, and well known in the northern
coal districts, whilst on the platform of the Portsmouth
Railway terminus, was suddenly teized with a fit of
apoplexy, and in the course of a few minutes was a
corpse. Deceased was a councillor of the borough, and
highly aespected.

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