The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-24 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS,

FRANCE.

Despatches were received at the Foreign-office
yesterday from Vienna, dated the 19th, and were
immediately sent off to the Emperor to Dieppe.
Their contents have not transpired, but it is sup-
posed that they bring a satisfactory solution of the
Turkish question. The questions of the day are
now the state of the crops, the measures taken by
the Government to provide against any deficiency
in the food of the people, and the vast commercial
speculations which are on the tapir. It is said in
the commercial policy of France that important
modifications are in contemplation.. There is every
reason to believe that the Emperor himself is a
free-trader ; in the Cabinet there is a difference of
opinion, but one influential member of it, who to a
late period has been of a contrary way of thinking,
has become a convert. The movement in favour
of free trade has commenced.

The Emperor is expected in Paris to-clay from
Dieppe, to preside at a Cabinet Council.
- In the absence of any news respecting the dis-
pute between Russia and Turkey, the Paris
journals abstain from comments on that subject.
There is an article in the Siecle on the memoran-
dum of the Austrian Government to the Courts of
Europe, with reference to the affair of Kossta.
It says :
" The principles set forth in this memorandum are
true, but who is it that has violated them ? Evidently,
Austria, which, in a neutral port, caused to be arrested
in a most offensive manner a man placed under the pro-
tection of the flag of the United States. If the Austrian
Consul had any doubts as to the legality of M. Kossta's
naturalisation, he was bound to apply to the officer in
the command of the American station, and to ask him
to oppose the evasion of that refugee until the point of
law had been properly cleared up. Austria, disdaining
the use of legal proceedings, attempted to obtain justice
for herself by force. And now she complains of having
met with a legitimate opposition to her acts of violence !
Turkey, always accustomed to yield to a protection which
does not protect her, has dismissed Ali Pacha, the Go-
vernor of Smyrna, formerly Grand-Vizier, and one of
the most intelligent men of the Ottoman Empire. There
is no danger that the same treatment will fall on the
American captain. The United States will uphold the
respect due to their flag, and rather than abandon a man
protected by an American passport, they would burn
down Trieste, and again raise up the Republic of Venice.
They care little about the treaties of 1815, before which
the Governments of Europe stop short, because these
treaties were the affair of princes at the expense of the
rights of nations. In truth, when all slumbers in a kind
of fetichism for the statu quo, it would be almost to be
wished that Austria would venture to brave the anger of
the United States. But she will not attempt it, well
knowing that the Americans would not hesitate to de-
fend the right as it requires to be defended. However,
we enregister, as of good augury, the memorandum of
Austria, for it is of a nature to remove all hesitation on
the part of the Government of General Pierce to stretch
out a friendly hand to those persons who suffer in
Europe from the pretensions and acts of Austrian des-
potism."
It has already been stated that the French sub-
jects who had received foreign orders were not to
be allowed to wear them without special authorisa-
tion. The Moniteur now publishes a decree au-
thorising a great number of persons, whose names
are given, to wear these orders.
The _Mats announces the death in Paris of Ge-
neral de Moutholon, who is well known from his
connection with the Emperor Napoleon.
The Constitutionnel says :—" Different candi-
dates, accepted by the government, for the elec-
tions of members of the Legislative Body, which
are to take place on the 4th of next month, have
been announced. We may mention for the Cotes-
du Nord, Count Jerome Paul de Champagny, son
of M. de Champagny, Duke de Cadore, who was
minister of the Emperor Napoleon I. ; for the
Loiret, M. Nogent St. Laurent ; and for the Nord,
M. Godard Desmarets, member of the Council-
general."

- There was Tlot much business transacted at the
Bourse yesterday, except in railway shares, the
speculators appearing to decline dealing in Govern-
ment rentes until the final solution of the Eastern
question shall be announced in the Moniteur. The
Three per Cents. opened at 80f. 45c., and rose to
80f. 60c., at which they closed for the end of the
month, The Four-and-a-Halfper Cents. closed at
105 f. 55c.; Orleans Railway shares, 1,290 f.; Rouen,
1,098 f.; Havre, 520 f.; Great Northern, 905 f. ; Paris
and Strasburg, 988 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 972 f.
50c., Lyons to the Mediterranean, 832 f. 50c. ;
Western of France, 751 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux and
Cette, 647 f. 50c. ; Great Central, 560 f.; shares of
the Bank of Credit Mobilier, 890 f.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

A conspiracy has been discovered at Aleppo.
Their object was to plunder and kill the Christian
inhabitants of the towns. The ringleaders had
been arrested and transported to Rhodes.
The Cologne Ga:,:ette has the following from
Vienna, dated the 19th :—" A courier arrived to-
day with dispatches from Constantinople, dated
the 13th. They were immediately sent oft' to the
Turkish Ambassador, who is now at Baden. It
is rumoured that after deliberating for three days
the Porte accepted the propositions of the confer-
ence, but will only ratify them after the evacua-
tion of the Principalities."
The Press of Vienna states from Constantinople
that the Russian Consul at Adrianople, who had
left his post, has received orders from the Russian
Consul-General to return to it forthwith.

Baron de Meyendorff, son of the Ambassador
of Russia at Vienna, left Trieste, on the 17th for
Dalmatia, to proceed to Montenegro, whither he is
carrying, it is said, the order of St. Anne to Prince
Danilo.

A letter from Constantinople of the Bth, in the
Wanderer of Vienna, states that M. de Bruck, the
Austrian Internuncio, had declared to the Porte
that in proposing to occupy Servia, the Austrian
government had no desire to make the slightest
attack on the integrity and sovereignty of Turkey,
but merely to aid in the maintenance of order, and
that if the Porte did not consider this aid necessary
the Austrians would not cross the frontier.
A letter from Jassy says :—" General Danuem-
berg, before his departure from our town, set at
liberty all the inhabitants of Moldavia who had
been arrested for resistance to Russia. At the same
time, the inhabitants were informed that they
would be severely punished, if, for the future, they
endeavoured to thwart the views of Russia."

A Count Ostrowsky has published a series of
Slavonian letters in Paris, which show that the
non-success of Prince Menschikoff's mission is the
first step to Russia's downfall ; and, further, that
fall will split the empire into its two component
elements, the Polish and the Muscovite :
"In the next century the world will see with as-
tonishment a powerful and mighty Poland erected on a
new plan, out of the elements it has possessed for a
thousand years, and round it a new cluster grouped, the
-United States of Europe ; and where the sceptre of the
Muscovite Czars once swayed, an imposing Sclavonian
Confederation shall stand indestructible in all time."

The tone of the Constantinople- and Smyrna
papers is decidedly martial. Among other lucu-
brations on possible contingencies, the Impartial
de Smyrne says—
"lf war begins it will not end for lack of warriors,
for many European celebrities have put their talents
and their courage at the Sultan's disposal. When war
breaks out Turkey will not stand alone ; Europe will
not look on with indifference at this political murder."
The Turkish reports from the camps state that
the most untiring assiduity and invincible courage
are to be met with everywhere. Tribes are flock-
ing in on all sides to offer their services to the
Sultan ; even the Kurds were come. A corres-
pondent of the Triest Zeitung writes from Con-
stantinople :
"Nobody will believe that the proposals sent from
Vienna to the Czar have met with his approval. Every-
body here speaks of nothing but war ; and some enthu-
siastic Turks go so far as to talk of giving the Russians
a mortal wound on their own ground, and so reconquer-
ing all the territory Turkey has lately lost."
A correspondent of the National Zeitung (Berlin),
writing from Constantinople, under date of the Bth
inst., takes a calmer view of the matter than we
find in the Turkish papers : he warns his readers
not to allow themselves to be misled by the ac-
counts of the warlike zeal of the Turks.
The definitive reply of the Porte was expected
at Vienna on Saturday evening or on Sunday. The
Wanderer says the passions all of the different par-
ties have been so thoroughly excited, that as soon
as the last Russian regiment has re-crossed the
Pruth things will occur in the two Danubian Prin-
cipalities, and perhaps in Servia, which will war-
rant a new intervention on the basis of certain
stipulations contained in the last treaty of Balta-
Liman. Before General Dannenberg left Jassy
for Bucharest he liberated all the inhabitants
of Moldavia who had been arrested for disobedience
to the Russians. At the same time, however, the
Moldavians were informed that the severest mea-
sures would be adopted if in future they offered
any opposition to the Russian arrangements. A
Russian Commission, which is examining the Su-
lina, mouth of the Danube, is said to have received
orders to draw up a plan for its improvement. The
numerous fires in the Turkish capital are considered
a certain sign of the increasing discontent of the
people with the measures of Government. Hall
pasha is mentioned as the future Turkish Envoy
to St. Petersburgh.