The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-21 00:00:00

SPAIN.

According to a table published by the Gazette,
the floating debt of the treasury, which amounted
on the Ist December last to 354,628,487 reals
(88,657,122 fr.), had fallen on the Ist inst. to
348,146,180 reals. During the month of Decem-
ber, the Treasury Bonds were negotiated at from
8 to 9 per cent. per annum for the public, and at
6 per cent. for the Bank. The Clamor Public() of
the 14th, and the Esperanza, the Nacion,-and the
Diario Espanol of the 15th, had been seized. A
general opinion is entertained that the Ministry
will at the approaching elections obtain, a strong
and compact majority. The Diario Espanol says :
—"There is a talk in the financial world of different
propositions made to the Government by foreign
houses, before M. Aristizabel left the Ministry of
Finance, to purchase the bonds of the purchasers
of the National Property, which amount to 100
millions of reals, at the rate of 87 per cent., bear-
ing an annual interest of 5 per cent., and 2 com-
mission." _ _

The Throe per Cents. were done at 42f ; the
New Three per Cents. at 23 5-10 ; the Debt of the
First Class at 101; that of the Second at sg.

TURKEY.

Accounts from Constantinople to the 6th have
arrived. The financial question was still unsettled.
The Divan had, however, after rejecting the offers
of M. Baltazzi, accepted those of M. Missiani, a
rayah merchant (rayah is a non-Mussulman. Otto-
man subject), to wind up the affairs of the Bank.
This was considered a new triumph of the Russian
party, as M. Missiani's partners are Russians. The
rate of exchange kept up, owing to the demands of
corn for England being very numerous. The first
instalment of the loan had not been reimbursed,
because the firm of Abo and Baltazzi, of London,
to which it had been sent, had employed it in the
payment of bills fallen due, and in guaranteeing the
payment of those about to become due. This
affair would, however, it was said, be arranged by
Vely Pacha, the Ottoman ambassador at Paris.
The proclamation of the Empire took place at the
embassy on the 26th ult., in presence of nearly all
the French residents. The declaration of the
Legislative Body on the vote of the plebiseitum,
and the speech of the Emperor in reply, were read ;
then the ambassador cried " Vive rEmpereur ! "
which was repeated by the persons present ; a Te
Deum was afterwards chanted in the chapel of
Saint Louis, and the ambassador then cried three
times " Vive rEmpereur !" which was also repeated;
and in the evening he gave a grand dinner, at which
toasts to the Emperor and the Sultan were drunk
with enthusiasm. The Ajaccio had arrived from
Syria, where it had been with dispatches relative
to the affair of the Holy Sepulchre. It was said
that the convention with France was about to be
executed. The English charge d'affaires, Colonel
Rose, had, in compliance with the solicitation of
the Divan, sent orders to Mr. Wood, the English
agent in. Syria, to use his influence to bring about
the submission of the chiefs of the Druses. The
Journal delConstantinople states that the Turkish
Governor of Scutari, Osman Pacha, had driven the
Montenegrins from Piperi and Djabljak, to within
their own frontier. Twenty-five thousand Imperial
troops were to be assembled, and it was believed at
Constantinople that the mountaineers would soon be
reduced to subjection. Letters from Bagdad announce
the arrival in that town of the brother of the Shah
of Persia, who, though aged only fourteen, is said
to have been compromised in the recent plot
against the Shah. The same letters make known
that the Persian Government has placed a tax of
12 per cent. on all Persian goods destined for Bag-
dad. Letters from Teheran state that Hassan-Ali-
Khan adjutant-bachi, was about to be sent to
Constantinople as Minister-Plenipotentiary of the
Shah. Accounts from the Caucasus, by Trebizond,
had arrived. They were unfavourable to the Rus-
sians. Chamil Bey had forced the Russians to
abandon all the positions they had gained last
year ; and Mehemet Anim, his Naib, amongst the
Circassian. tribes on the Black Sea, had, after ob-
taining several decided advantages, succeeded in
taking in hand the government of the provinces
occupied by them. It is added that Circassian
vessels had broken the blockade of the Russian
squadron on the coasts of Circassia, and had arrived
at Trebizonde, Synope, and Constantinople, with
slaves.—The Journal des .Debats has the followinc,
from Constantinople :
" It ie-known that some months ago the Turkish au-
thorities ordered that vessels on their arrival should be
visited by the quarantine agents, in order to ascertain
if the lists of the crcw and passengers were exact ;
so that at every hour of the day and night the sanitary
agents penetrated into the interior of the vessels
in spite of capitulations (which ought to be
more strictly maintained than ever), and of
the sanitary regulations which expressly interdict
the Turkish authorities from entering French ships.
Complaints on the subject were made from all parts to
the French Embassy. To the violation of treaties and
regulations were joined the vexations of all kinds which
these visits occasioned. Prejudicial delays were caused;
and there was indecency in allowing women who might
be on board to be subjected at any hour of the night to
the inspection of subaltern agents, most of whom were
unqualified for their delicate mission. The Marquis de
Lavalette demanded of the. Porte some time ago that
these measures should be abandoned. Evasive replies
were given to him. At length, a few days back, the
Ambassador declared to the Turkish Government, that,
after waiting patiently so long, he was determined not
any longer to allow treaties to be violated to the preju-
dice of the honour of the French flag, which ought to
protect our ships ; and that he would call on the com-
mander of our fleet in the Levant, which was anchored
at Smyrna, to second him, The Porte was obliged to
yield to this energetic protest, which was based on the
most indisputable right. Immediately orders were sent
to all the quarantines that the measures complained of
should cease to be executed on board French ship. Omer
Pacha has commenced military operations against the
Montenegrins. The Woywode of Grahow assists the lat-
ter. The Montenegrins appeared determined to make a
desperate resistance to the Turks."