The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-26 00:00:00

were dissatisfied with the new orders and regulations
to which they were subjected, and which at length
they refused to submit to, and that disaffection pre-
vailed in the Ottoman Cabinet, all this naturally
leads to a conviction that the fire was occasioned by
the mutinous soldiery ; but as the packet came away
without having seen the final result, nothing posi-
tive can be known. According to the extent of the
ground that is left bare by the flames, it is calculated
that the number of houses destroyed amounts to
16,000. The Board of Health here has just pub-
lished a notice that the plague has broken out in
Albania, and that, consequently, all arrivals from that
country will be subjected to rigorous observation."

The Perlin State Gazette of the 18th inst. says :
—" According to letters from Saxony, the Emperor
of Russia will proceed from Munchengratz to Mod
lin, where the Russian and the newly-formed Polish
troops are to be encamped and reviewed by his Ma-
jesty." The same paper announces the return of
the Princes of Prussia, the Duke of Cambridge, and
the hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Meck-
lenburg Schwerin to Berlin from Magdeburg-.
Prussian Four per Cents. are 9f3 96k; ditto, Five
per Cents. (1822), English Loan, 1031.
A letter, dated Toulon, Sept. 19, gives the fol-
lowing :—" Orders have just arrived for the flotilla
destined ler Bugia, to receive the troops on Friday
ne,..1. The stores for clothing and for the barracks
will begin to be shipped to-morrow. Six block-
houses are to be sent out, for the purpose of being
placed at the outposts. The frigate La Victoire
and Lc Cygne will be moored with their broadsides
to the shore, within half cannon-shot, if there is a
sufficient depth of water, and will keep up a constant
fire, to protect the landing of the troops. The
transports will afterwards advance and set the horses
on shore, which will be immediately harnessed to
the field-pieces, under the fire of which the columns
will pass Bugia, and proceed to place the Mock-
houses to guard the avenues to the town. The
troops will be partly lodged in the houses which
have been abandoned, and partly encamped in the
environs. The division which is to join the expe-
dition from Algiers will be made acquainted with
the departure of this flotilla from Toulon, in order
that they may unite at sea, and effect a simultaneous
landing,"

(Private Correspondence of a Morning Paper.)

PARIS, TUESDAY,4 O'CLOCK, 13.31.-Mr. Mande-
ville, late Secretary to the British Embassy at Con-
stantinople, arrived at Ancona, from that city, on
the 11th, and landed on the following day. Al-
though bearer of important despatches for the Bri-
tish Government, Mr. Mandeville was not allowed
to proceed to his destination without first perform-
ing the customary quarantine in the Lazaretto of
Ancona. Mr. Mandeville did not think proper to
forward his despatches by another messenger, deem-
ing their contents of such a nature as to make it
necessary that he should be himself the bearer of
them as far as London. He left Constantinople on
the 31st ult,, not, as seems to be implied by some
of the letters from Ancona, for the express purpose
of bringing the particulars of a revolution which
had broken out in that capital on the 30th, but
merely because his departure had been resolved upon
soon after the arrival of Lord Ponsonby as Am-
bassador Extraordinary, Mr. Mandeville having
till then directed the affairs of the Embassy in
the character of Minister Plenipotentiary. Your
Government is in the habit of sending credentials to
the Chief Secretary, which enable him to appear in
the character of Minister Plenipotentiary during the
absence of an Ambassador, at all Courts where it
is customary to have one of first class, in lieu of
allowing, as formerly, the Ambassador himself to
leave the direction of affairs to the Chief Secretary,
with the title of Charge d'Affaires. But the Secre-
tary who has once appeared as his Sovereign's
representative, which his powers as a Plenipoten-
tiary constitute him, necessarily ceases to fill the
subordinate functions of Secretary, instead of resum-
ing which, on the arrival of a newly appointed am-
bassador, he withdraws, Mr. Mandeville's depar-
ture from Constantinople took place in pursuance of
that practice, and had not, therefore, any of the im-
portance which the letters from Ancona of the 11th,
and some of the Paris papers which published them,
attributed to it. I think we may pretty safely con-
clude that the revolution spoken of occurred only
in the imaginations of those who had been led to
expect one from the various accounts from Turkey
previously published, and who in a moment of hurry,
made up their minds that no chief secretary could
leave his post, if he was not in a manner driven out
of the country by the actual event which had
been anticipated. The news of another great
fire in Constantinople seems, however, to be true.
Fires are of frequent occurrence in that city, the
houses of which are built of wood and planks, in
such a manner as almost to make a stranger suppose
that they are expressly intended for the purpose of
affording, every now and then, to the inhabitants,
the edifying spectacle of a conflagration. The won-
der is, not in the number of houses burnt when a
fire has occurred, but in that of the houses which
have not been burnt, for the escape of any would
seem to be an impossibility. Some of these fires in
Constantinople are supposed to originate in discon-
tent, and that cause is ascribed to them not only by
many of the European journalists who have occasion
to speak of them, but by many of the writers of let-
ters giving an account of them from Constantinople
itself. Nothing can be more ill-founded than the
notion to that effect. I have resided some years in
Constantinople, and have witnessed the burning
of houses without number; among them ray own,
on two different occasions, and I can assure you
that the origin of every fire was traced, or
traceble, to neglect, and the immense facilities of
ignition afforded by the dry sun-burnt wooden
materials of which the houses are constructed,
the manner in which they are warmed in winter,
and the practice of smoking pipes incessantly
on straw mats, wooden floors, and chintz sofas.
You will perceive by the reports of legal proceed-
ings, published by some of the papers, that the Tri-
bune underwent yesterday its 81st Government pro-
secution, and Bth condemnation. Its responsible
editor, M. Lionne, already suffering imprisonment in
virtue of the sentence of the Chamber of Deputies,
was yesterday condemned to five years' further im-
prisonment, and the payment of a fine of 20,000
francs. Whatever, however, may be said against
the libelous matter which formed the ground of
this extraordinary sentence, the prosecution itself
would have been an extremely impolitic act at all
times, hut especially at present, when the country
has begun to settle into something like general tran-
quillity, party spirit was losing much of its acrimony,
and the popularity of the Government was gaining
ground. Such a prosecution was calculated to stop
the progress of this general improvement in the po-
litical feeling of the country, and the voice of
discontent has already been heard among those
who were best disposed towards the Government.
Mo=t people here seem inclined to view the pro-
ceeding as one of mere persecution, and as founded
on a desire of revenge, more than that of insuring
public tranquillity and order, which are the objects
of the formation of laws and their application. But
the laws against the press in France were not made
with any reference to the good of the community
merely, but chiefly with the view of affording
means to satisfy the vindictiveness of the Govern-
ment of the restoration, at whose bidding the do-
cile legislators of yore passed them without scruple.
Their application,
after the revolution of 1830, in-
fallibly reminds the French people of all that has
been left undone by that revolution, and when, at-
tempted as many as eighty-one times against a paper
which would remain unnoticed without them, it is
apt to do infinitely greater injury to the power on
whose behalf it is intended than to produce the be-
nefit the Government professes to expect from it.
As this trial and its result seem to have produced
much sensation in the upper circles of society here,