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TURKEY AND GREECE.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 7. Various reports are in
circulation relative to the Conference held last week be-
tween the Reis Effendi and the representatives of the
three great Powers, guarantees of Grecian independence.
Among other rumours it is confidently affirmed that his
Excellency Rifaat Paella commented in strong terms
upon the extraordinary and inadmissible suggestion made
to the agents of the Porte, that Thessaly shall be ceded
to Greece as the readiest mode of terminating existing
differences with the latter country. His Excellency is
said to have spoken to the following effect :
The three Powers, in guaranteeing Grecian inde-
dependence, could not surely feel themselves justified
in guaranteeing Grecian impunity, when its Govern-
ment or subjects violated laws held sacred by those
Powers themselves. The Porte, so far from being dis-
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authority or acknowledged rights of the Sultan,
was resolved to maintain those rights, sword in hand,
and to repel by force of arms all attempts to violate the
integrity of his dominions. The conduct of the Grecian
Government has long called forth the Sultan's just in-
dignation, and has attained such unjustifiable extremes
as to render it impossible for the Porte to submit any
longer to those repeated insults without neglecting its
duty to itself and its allies. Unable to maintain order,
or to establish an efficient Government at home, the
Grecian Court has constantly sought to enfeeble the
Government of the Porte, and to disturb the tranquillity
of the Turkish provinces. Its avowed agents, supported
and encouraged by certain foreigners, have been con-
victed of overt hostility in Samos, Crete upon
the Thessalian frontier, and elsewhere ; whilst itF,
secret emissaries have been detected in Bulgaria, Servia,
Roumelia, and even in, the capital, in endeavours to
rouse the population to revolt, and in repeated
attempts to produce civil war between the rayas and
Ottoman authorities, as was recently the case in the
vicinity of Mount Athos. Finally, matters hare been
carried to such lengths ,that nothing remains for the
Porte but to declare war at once with Greece, or to take
such strong preventive steps as may curb the license of
the Grecian Government, and ensure the tranquillity of
those portions of the Sultan's dominions most exposed to
the machinations and inroads of Greek emissaries and
freebooters. It being apparent to the Porte, as it must
be to all Europe, that a direct tendency is manifested by
certain foreigners to aid and abet the encroachments and
intrigues of the Porte's enemies, it is incumbent
upon the- Ottoman Government to meet these in-
trigues and inroads by such prompt and vigorous
measures as may avert that war, which it is as
much the Porte's desire to avoid, as it is the
interest of Greece and the three Powers to prevent. But,
unless the Grecian Government can be brought to a
sense of the danger it incurs, and rendered amenable
to laws that bind other nations, the Porte will be com-
pelled to follow the advice of these members of the State
Council, who recommend immediate hostilities. In the
meantime the gravity of circumstances compels the Sul-
tan to employ wholesome _precautions. His Imperial
Majesty has, therefore, directed a squadron, consisting
of five two-deckers and five large 'frigates with other
vessels, to be got ready forthwith for sea; and he has
also given orders for three strong brigades of infantry
to hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's
notice ; the one and the other to be directed upon such
points as may be determined upon by his Imperial Ma-
jesty's councillors.
A note embodying these sentiments was then delivered
to the three Representatives, to be forwarded to their
respective Courts. The replies made by the three
Envoys are said to have been cautious and limited ; but
whilst they admitted that the Porte was not without
grounds of complaint, they strongly urged the Reis
Effendi to abstain from any measures that might pro-
duce open hostilities, and give rise to embarrassments of
a character equally detrimental to all parties. The French
Ambassador, who is understood to have taken the lead
in the conversation, recommended that the Porte should
discontinue its armaments and hostile preparations,
and abandon the adjustment of the affair to the
Three Powers, by which means the Ottoman Go-
vernment would avoid the expenses of outfit, at a
moment when its finances are seriously impover-
ished, and would ensure to itself the unanimous
and amicable mediation of France, England, and Russia,
without exciting doubts as to its ulterior intentions.
The Russian Charge d'Affaires, who was accompanied
by Count Pahlen, followed in the same strain. Mr.
Bankhead is said to have agreed with his colleagues in
principle ; but observed that, in accordance with his
own feelings and anticipations of the sentiments of his
Government, he felt called upon to offer, as his private
opinion, that Great Britain, however well disposed to
unite with its Allies in maintaining and consolidating
Grecian independence, would not only discountenance
any attempt on the part of Greece to enlarge this inde-
pendence at the expense of the Porte, but that it could
not fail to approve of any steps the Sultan might adopt
to secure the inviolability of his territory, and to preserve
his dominions from foreign aggression or inward per-
turbation—providing these measures were limited to
defensive operations, and accordant with established
principles.
If these were Mr. Bankhead's sentiments, they were
equally prudent and prophetic, for it appears that,
subsequent to the conference, a copy of a note addressed
by Lord Aberdeen to the British Minister at Athens,
has been received at the Porte, which note declares, in
the most decided and unequivocal terms, that her Bri-
tannic Majesty's Government will not consent to any
proposition tending to affect the integrity of the Sultan's
territory, and advises the Grecian Cabinet to abstain
from any act that may justify reprisals on the part of the
Ottoman Government. This note, the general tenour of
which is unquestionable, is not only remarkable as a
proof of the sentiments which animate her Majesty's
present Government, but shows that Lord Aberdeen is
determined to pursue the line of policy adopted by his
predecessor, and it is consequently a full admission of
the wisdom and urgency of that policy in regard to
the Porte. _

The advice, said to have been given by M. de Pontois,
is susceptible of a double interpretation. It is perfectly
just as regards general principles, and wears an air of
interest fully accordant with the sentiments that ought
to animate one of the Porte's most ancient allies. But
France has constantly shown herself disposed to enfeeble
the Sultan's authority. She has manifested, and still
manifests, hostile intentions in Egypt, on the coast of
Africa, and in Greece. Thus when the Ambassador ad-
vises the Porte to refrain from the very measures that
France insists upon adopting, and maintaining at home,
that is, when France advises the Porte to abstain from
an armed peace, then it cannot be a matter of sur-
prise if the Ottoman Government questions the honesty
of this advice, and persists, as France persists, in aug-
menting her naval and military forces, and trusting
to her new strength for the maintenance of her terri-
torial integrity. In the meantime the preparations
in the arsenal are carried on with unabated activity,
and a contract has been concluded with the Austrian
Steam Company , for the conveyance of 18,000 men
of the Asiatic Rediff (militia) from Samsousi to Con-
stantinople. These troops are to supply the place of
the three brigades of infantry ordered to hold them-
selves in readiness to march or embark. The ultimate
destination of the naval squadron and corps d'armee
is kept secret at the Porte. Some persons affirm that,
in consequence of so many line-of-battle ships and large
frigates being got ready, a part will be directed upon
Tunis, and the remainder upon Volo. Others affirm
that he whole will proceed to the latter place to pass
the winter, and that the three columns of infantry will
move upon Adrianople, Sofia, and Larissa, there to await
further orders, under the command of Zacharieh Pacha,
who has been appointed Seraskier of Roumelia. If the
object of this corps be to cover the frontiers of Thessaly,
as well as to watch Bulgaria and Roumelia, these prefa-
ratory positions are well chosen, as the columns can be
speedily concentrated in advanee, and the supplies
necessary for their maintenance, especially forage
for the cavalry, can be easily obtained. Instructions
for the formation of magazines have already been
issued. This appears to be the only result of M.
Piscatory's mission to Greece, and of the extraordinary pro-
position to despoil the Sultan of one of his fairest provinces.
As regards the proceedings of the Grecian Govern-
ment, it is but just to say there are some causes for ex-
tenuation. It must be borne in mind that it stands in
an exceptionable position, and that it is at the head of a
semi-barbarous and almost ungovernable people, unfit,
according to M. Guizot's circular, to receive a Consti-
tution. Its Central Government is without power to en-
force the laws, and its provincial administration is with-
out means to control those beneath them. The Court
has little influence beyond the walls of Athens, and its
influence there is far from being of a decided character.
From time immemorial the people of Greece have been
divided, lawless, and opposed to each other. Local jea-
lousies have always prevailed over general interests.
The population, with few exceptions, have formed two
classes—freebooters by sea and marauders by land.
The arts of industry and
_agriculture have been, and
are neglected, and as the territorial radius extends
from the capital, the elements of government be-
come gradually weaker, so that at the extreme
limits the power of control is almost entirely lost,
and to maintain legal order upon the frontier of
Negropont is nearly as difficult as it is upon that of
the American boundary contiguous to Canada. But is
this a reason for giving up Thessaly to Greece ? What
would the people :of England say, if a second M. Pisea-
tory, or any other French philanthropist, were to pro-
pose that the British Goverment should abandon Canada
to the United States, in order to put an end to the
encroachments of the American sympathisers ?
The negotiations alluded to in former letters, for the
recal from exile of the celebrated Kosref Pacha have
terminated in a manner that has surprised even those
who were acquainted with what was passing upon this
subject. On Wednesday, after a secret council held
at Beshiktash, an Austrian steamer was hired to
proceed to Rodosto, and upon Friday morning she
returned, bringing with her the venerable and once
all-powerful Minister, who hadtie.
e prepared himself to
no
embark at a moment's Immediately upon
landing Kosref Pacha proceeded to his yali (sea
or bankside house) at Fonduki, a little above
Tophana, where, it is said
be permitted to end his publicly, that he will
days in retirement. But
there are strong grounds for
believing that his sudden
read is the prelude to his return to office, and that he