The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-27 00:00:00

IRISH DRAINAGE COMMISSION.

In reply to questions from Col. Dunne,
Mr. WILSON said the report of the Irish drainage
commissioners was now ready, and would L e laid on the
table next week.

RELATIONS WITH THE OTTOMAN PORTE.
In reply to Mr. DISRAELI,
Lord J. RUSSELL said I will communicate to
the house as much information on the s.aject to which
the right hon. gentleman has referred as it is pos-
sible for me to communicate, without injury to
the public service. The right hon. gentleman has made
a statement which requires some correction though not
material correction. Her Majesty's Ministers had
received information from the Government of
the Emperor of Russia, that the Emperor thought
it necessary to dispatch a special mission to Con-
stantinople in order to obtain a confirmation of those
concessions which had been made with the Greek Church
in reference to the holy places. He was informed
at the same time that the Emperor of the Russias had
occasion to complain that former concessions had not
been observed, and that he considered it necessary to
have some security that the present concession
would be duly observed. What was the nature
,of the security required the Russian Govern-
ment did not state, nor what were the instructions
of the Russian ambassador. Certain circumstances, how-
ever, occurred which induced the Grand Vizier to
entertain some apprehension as to what might ultimately
be the result, and under these circumstances he applied
to Colonel Rose for advice, and that officer asked for
the presence of an English fleet in the Dardanelles.
Col. Rose did not communicate by telegraphic mes-
sage t 3 Malta, but he sea a steamer to Malta

with dispatches, and with a request to the admiral,
after reading those dispatches, to consider the
grounds on which the Grand Vizier requested him to
proceed to the Dardanelles. Admiral Dundas forwarded
these dispatches through London, and said he should
wait the orders of the Government before he left Malta.
The Government entirely approved of the discretion of
Admiral Dundas. Colonel Rose himself was informed
—I think not more than two or three days afterwards—
by the Grand Vizier that there was no necessity for
the English fleet leaving Malta, and accordingly
a dispatch was again sent by a steamer to Malta, with
a request that Admiral Dundas would not prose-
cute his voyage to the neighbourhood of the Dardanelles.
I believe both that Admiral Dundas exercised a wise
discretion, and that Colonel Rose was perfectly justified
in that second order that he sent that the English fleet
should not leave Malta. The negotiations continued,
and Lord Stratford, whose ability and long experience
in Turkish affairs was well known, had been able mate-
rially to assist those negotiations, and to enable Prince
Menschikoff to obtain declarations and acts sufficient
in his estimation, and to which the French Ambassador
offered no material objection. It was hoped in London
and other courts of Europe that a matter which
had unhappily been the occasion of difference,
and been the source of considerable disquietude to
the Turkish Government, would have been settled,
and that the mission of Prince Menschikoff would
have also terminated favourably, but it appeared
that the demands made by Prince Menschikoff, in
accordance with the instructions he received, were such
that, though in the opinion of Russia they were no more
than were necessaay in order to secure the fulfilment
of the concessions made by the Porte with regard to holy
places, they were, in the opinion of the Turkish
Government, as well as of her Majesty's ambassador
at Constantinople, and the ambassador of the
Emperor of the rench, in a nature which could not
but be considered as dangerous to the independence of
the Porte, and as infringing in some degree those stipula-
tions which all the great powers of Europe agreed to in
1815. The last dispatches received from Lord Stratford
were of the date of the 9th inst. Both the English and
French ambassador took the same view of the articles of the
convention which were proposed. In the present state
of the negotiations it would not be consistent with the
public service that the Government should produce the
instructions under which Lord Stratford was directed
to act. I can only say, that they may be generally
described as instructions leaving much to his discretion.
but pressing on him that it was the fixed policy
of the Government to maintain inviolate the faith
of treaties and to support the integrity and independence
of the Turkish government. (Loud cries of hear, hear.)
Perhaps I may be permitted to say, that though we
have received no later official information, I trust from
the appearances at the present moment that the Russian
Government will finally seek no other security for Tur-
key than is compatible with the full authority of the
Sultan, as Sovereign of Turkey, and with the mainte-
nance of the peace of Europe. (Cheers.)
[LEFT BITTING.]

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, MAY 26.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Honourable
Amelia Matilda Murray, to be one of the Bedchamber
Women in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of the
Honourable Mrs. George Edward Anson, resigned.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 23.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Edward
V. Ferro as Consul at Malta for his Majesty the King of
Denmark.

George Fead Lamert, from the Ceylon Regi
sign Henry George Edward Somerset, from the Cape
Mounted Riflemen, May 27.
To be Assistant-Surgeons—Assistant-Surgeon Grahame
Auchinleck, M.D., from the 80th Foot ; Assistant-Surgeon
Donald Sinclair Smith, from the 38th Foot, May 27.
98th Foot—Ensign Francis Barker Hassard, from the
31st Foot, to be Ensign, vice Cassidy, whose removal has
been cancelled, May 27.
Ist West India Regiment—Ensign John Frederick
Napier Hewitt to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pat-
terson, who retires ; Quartermaster Charles Stokely, of the
Ist West India Regiment, to be Paymaster, vice Smith,
deceased, May 27.
2d West India Regiment—Quartermaster Thomas Fitz
Gerald, from half-pay of the 71st Foot, to be Quarter-
master, vice Carroll, appointed to the 78th Foot, May 27.
Gold Coast Corps—Assis;ant-Surgeon Peter Henry Roe,
from the Staff, to be Surgeon, vice Kehoe, deceased, May 27.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—William Beale rallis, Gent., to be
Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Fox, appointed to
the 52d foot, May, 27.
BREVET.—TO have .lhe rank of Major in the East Indies.
—Captain Charles Vyvyan Cox, of the Bengal Artillery ;
Captain Alexander Robertson, of the Bengal Artillery ;
Captain Peter Christie, of the Bengal Artillery, March 4 ;
Captain Henry Alan Olpherts, of the Bengal Artillery,
March 7.

COMMlSSARlAT.—Commissariat Clerk William C. Ball
to be Deputy Assistant Commissar y General, Fob. 1.4,1852.
MEMORANDA.—Comet Harry William Pigott Wilson,
of the 6th Dragoons, having died on the 28th April, 1853,
the appointment of Mr. Henry Timson, to the Cornetcy,
by purchase in succession, on the 14th May, 1853, has been
cancelled.

The removal of Ensign Frederik Young Cassidy from
the 31st, Foot to the 98th, as announced in the Gazette of
the 13th May, 1853, has been cancelled.

COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Hampshire Regiment of Militia—Chas. Lambert, Esq.,
to be Adjutant, April 28.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
County of Cardigan—Morgan Jones, Esq., to be Deputy-
Lieutenant, May 23.
Royal North Lincoln Militia—John Mulhall, Esq., Ad-
jutant, to serve with the rank of Captain, May 26.
Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Lieut. John Kirkes to be Captain, vice Parker, resigned,
May 24 ; Ensign Arthur Wallace Munro to be Lieutenant,
vice Cary, promoted, May 23 ; Ensign Culling Eardley
Knowlys to be Lieutenant, vice Hansard, promoted, May
24 ; Ensign George Robinson to be Lieutenant, vice Ough-
ton, resigned, May 25 ; Ensign John William Whitle to
be Lieutenant, vice Brown, who exchanges, May 25 ; En-
sign Ivan Swen Andrea Herford to be Lieutenant, vice
Marshall, who resigns.
2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
William Hargreaves Manifold, Gent., to be Ensign and
Assistant-Surgeon, May 25.
3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia.—
Lieutenant John Bayly to be Captain, May 11.
sth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia.—Richard
Lomax, Gent., to be Ensign, May 23.
Artillery Corps of the Royal Lancashire Militia.—George
Hall, Esq., late Captain and Brevet-Major of Artillery in
the Honourable East India Company's Service, to be Cap-
tain, with Brevet Rank of Major ; James Hay, Esq., late
15th Foot, to be Captain; William Graham Furnivall,
Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, May 23.
Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Ham
lets Militia.—George Alexander Falconer, Gent., to be
Assistant-Surgeon and Ensign, May 25.
King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia.—En-
sign William Ghrimes Kell to be Lieutenant, vice March,
resigned, May 24.
Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia—Morgan Wat-
kins Harris, Esq., to be Captain, May 20.
The Earl of Chester's Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—
John William Fox, Esq., late Captain in the 12th Lancers,
to be Captain, vice Nicholson, resigned ; Cornet John
Coutts Antrobus to be Lieutenant, vice Antrobus, resigned,
May 10.