The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-21 00:00:00

Hsi). squadron of evolutions should quit Malta,
where it now is, it will only be to return to the
lonian Islands."
The Moniteur, of Paris, announces that the
Fre_:-Ich squadron now at Toulon has received
orders to leave that port and proceed to the Greek
waters. The arrangements for the establishment
of a new Bank at Constantinople were proceeding
very satisfactorily. Ten of the principal bankers
and merchants of the city—eight of them Arme-
nians, and Iwo Europeans—are to be the founders
of the bank. These gentlemen are MM. Miran
and Boghos Duz, Abraham Alaverdi, Ovanes
Tinghir, Bedros Yaglisian, Diran, Psichari, J. B.
Belisigdji, David Glav:ny, and Hanson. They
have adopted a scheme drawn up by a Mr. Stanley,
representative of some important London houses.
It was said that a Frenchman, M. Trouve-Chauvel,
at one time Minister of Finance under the Provi-
sional Government, was to be at the head of the
bank ; but it appears that he had only been con-
sulted about it. The capital necessary for the
operations of the bank is to consist of five-tenths
supplied by the founders, two-tenths by the Go-
vernment, and the remaining three by means
of shares. The principal object of the institution
is to restore public credit, by replacing, within a
given period, all the bad money which has only a
nominal value by good, and by reimbursing at par
and on demand the paper-money of the Govern-
ment, which is to continue in circulation. The
agio on exchanges arising from the difference be-
tween good and bad money will cease to exist when
the latter shall be no longer in circulation, and the
Government will thus economise the enormous sac-
rifices which it has had to submit to of late years,
in order to maintain the exchange at a reasonable
rate, and which have been the principal cause of its
pecuniary embarrassments. The bank will have its
paper accepted by the first houses of London, Paris,
and Vienna ; and to facilitate transactions, it will
issue a certain amount of notes payable to bearer.
The bye-laws drawn up by the founders have to be
submitted to the Government before they can be
published. They propose, amongst other things, to
subject its operations to the surveillance of a com-
mission nominated by the Porte, and to publish
an account of them annually.—The Sultan has
granted a large piece of ground for a cemetery for
Christians of all communions, and it was said that
he would even pay the expense of building a wall
around it.
The Moniteur of yesterday confirms the report
that the French fleet is about to sail for he Levant.
It is said the instructions given to the admiral are
that he is to cruise off the coast of Asia Minor, and
not to approach near to the Dardanelles without
further orders. As regards the settlement of the
question between Turkey and Russia, it is very
doubtful if the orders given to the two fleets will
have much influence. The belief of the French
Government is that the whole question will have I
been settled before the Porte can be aware of the
approaches of these forces. It is said Russia de-
mands that the Emperor shall be aclatowleclged
head of all the Christian population in the Turkish
dominions, or, in other words, of nearly one half of
the population of Turkey in Europe. She
demands, moreover, that the Greek Patriarch
at Constantinople, shall, after being elected by
the faithful, be confirmed by the Emperor of
Russia as head of the Greek Church ; and lastly,
that the protectorate of the Holy Places shall be
conceded to Russia, to the full extent of her de-
mands. It is evident that if these concessions be
made, the power of the Sultan over the Christian
population will henceforth be little more than
nominal. The Czar will be the actual sovereign of
Turkey in Europe. A few years since any one
who would have ventured to predict that England
and France would allow such to nas to be forced
upon Turkey would have been laughed at • but
the opinion here certainly is that they will not
only be conceded, but that, on the part of France
at least, there will hardly be a remonstrance on
the subject.
The accounts received in Paris yesterday did
not add much to the information on the affairs
of the East. The organs of the French Govern-
ment persist in saying that Colonel Rose sent
for the English fleet spontaneously, and not at
the solicitation of the Turkish Government. The
only object of the papers which make this as-
sertion seems to be to save t'ie amour propre 20
of France. If Turkey appealed to the protection 20
of England alone, and de nanded the presence ‘5,0
of her fleet, why should France send her fleet 10
without any such solicitation ? This question 10
being rather an awkward one, the French Minis- St.
terial journals find no better means of getting over 25
the difficulty than by saying that both fleets are 25
sent without any solicitation on the part of the St'
Turk. The following article from the Pays of yes-
terday, though written with great care, is.entirely
in that sense :
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" In accepting, in its textual terms and as completely
true, the dispatch which has caused so much excitement,
it would only state one thing—that the English fleet, at
the solicitation of the Turkish Government, would draw
near the spot where more or less important diplomatic
questions were about to be agitated, and that, instead of
remaining at Malta, it would anchor in the waters of the
Archipelago. A fact of great importance in our eyes
would result from this ; it is the accord which would
thus exist between England and Turkey. The Turkkh
Ministry would in a m3asure have placed itself under
the protection of British diplomacy, and that protection
would not have been refused to it. Certain persons find.
0-..-eater;ng eventr-lities in this fact ; we, on the con-
trary, see in it the most serious guarantees for the main-
tenance of peace, and of a conciliatory solution. If
Turkey were isolated, or abandoned, without strength,
and Without counterpoise to all the greedy ambi-
tions which agitate around her—if no one took up her
defence, and if no power protected her rights—then there
night be perhaps reason to fear violert enterprises,
which might in a mor:elt compromise the balance of
power in Europe. But such is not the case. Turkey
is, besides, more vigorously organised than is generally
stated, and the new effort which she has just made to
reconstitute a new bank on solid bases, proves that her
financial resources are in a better state than has been
pretended. The support which she appears to find in
British intervention is a poweilul counterpoise to the
force which acts on her or the other side. England
wishes for peace, and it is evident to every impartial
mind that it is only by diplomatic means that all the dif-
ficulties will be solved. Besides, it is not yet clear to
any one what is the real character of the difficulties,
and the positive object of' the mission of General
Mentschikoff. Doubtless, the high rank of this pleni-
potentiary, the considerable personnel of his legation,
and the hauteur with which he is said to have carried
himself towards certain members of •the Turkish Go-
vernment—his ostentatious review of the Russian fleet
in the Black Sea, before his departure from Odessa—all
announce that Itaiss'a attaches great importance to the
success of this mission. We repeat that we are ignorant
of the character of the instructions of the Russian pleni-
potentiary, but we do not think that the present diffi-
culty exceeds the limits of a question of influence and of
protectorate over certain of the inhabitants of Turkey.
Austria has, it is said, obtained by the mission of Count
de Leiningen certain advantages which, it cannot be dis-
sembled, increase her authority in the eyes of the inha-
bitants of Bosnia, Montenegro, and the Herzegowine.
Russia will not remain in the background. She hopes
to obtain in her turn some new concessions of a nature
to increase her moral influence in the Ottoman Empire.
We are convinced that in spite of the pompous appear-
ance of the mission of General Mentschikoff, it does not
bear on any territorial question of a nature to give rise
to any threatening casus belli. Russia knows as well
as the other Powers interested that the dismember-
ment of Turkey would compel a remodelling of the
chart of the balance of power in Europe in the midst of
perils and commotions ; and not more than the other 10
great states is she disposed. to stake the peace of the 25
world and the future state of society in this terrible 10
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game. The policy of Russia in this respect is well known.
That vagre hopes in the future may excite her ambition,
20
and point out Constantinople as the definitive object ot 5
her dreams, may be conceived ; but it would be madness St.
to suppose that she can think that the moment is now
arrived to attempt such a decisive blow. The question 17
of the East will be once more settled by the habitual 25
prudence and skill of negotiators. The attitude which
has been already assumed by England is a guarantee for
it. In order to make the question assume any more
formidable appearance, one of the Powers interested
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must tyoanvidolnaetuetry
aaliptart of the Ottoman territory, 10
h
of which are so important to
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Europeanner
20 eace. Who will have the courage to attempt
such on ? Is it that Russia is on the point of 20
tein daretg
aggression
le? I England about to Egypt?
taking Constantinnor ones of those skilful financiers who so 20
Not a statesman,
imprudently set an example of a thoughtless panic, can 5
believe such a thing.
Lt us then reduce this agitating 20
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can only be confined to em
partition of
question to its real proportions. s
oTfhaeseperoentednasriyonnastoufrße;utshseiy 5
Russia 20A
cannot imply the dismemberment and the
20
and, if we may believe the dispatches,.
and 10
in the
negotiations a support 6
sought from England a counterpoise
Turkey. They have, however, agita tedthietOisttosmaiadntl:ihm,
diplomacy, with its habitual prudence,. is said o
10
the British fleet would 20
are
preten- the 2200
which are about to be opened.
to
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thought that the proximity of
give more weight to its intervention.et
facts, looked at coolly and truly. B
what ought
sion of Russia and the protection of England, 20
16
have to judge of. At the present time, however, there
weSenucthhe
to be the conduct of France ? That is what we shall
20
is nothing more than a diplomatic difficulty, which will
be settled by these pacific means which modern Govern- 10
ments have for the last thirty years put in practice when- 20
ever a cloud has made its appearance on the horizon of 20
European diplomacy." 200

A CHILD ATTACKED BY A GAME COCK. —OII the
morning of Sunday last a little boy, four or five years of
age, was attacked by a game cock belonging to Mr.
Daykin, of the Turf Tavern, in St. James's-street. The
child fell on his back and was defending himself with
his feet as well as he could, whilst the infuriated bird
was making vigorous attacks on his face. Some passers-
by happily drove the bird away, or the consequences
might have been most serious. As it was, the child was
bleeding profusely from the nose and mouth, ard, but
for the timely assistance afforded, might probably have
lost both his eyes, as the attack of the cock was always
directed at the face.—Donostor Chronicle.