The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-27 00:00:00

OCTOBER, :'27, 185 e.

LATEST NEWS.

EARTHQUAKE IN EGYPT.

MARSEILLES, OCT. 2G.

A shock of earthquake was felt throughout
Egypt on the 12th inst. At Cairo 200 houses
were thrown down, and the remainder were nearly

all damaged. The vast population, 300,000, had

encamped outside the city.
Smyrna and the Greek Archipelago were skaken
by simultaneous shocks. The Isle of Rhodes has
been devastated, and one of its largest forts rent
open and thrown down.
At. Canea, the capital of the Isle of Candia, the
destruction and loss have been enormous. The
city and mole are partially destroyed.

MARSEILLES, SATURDAY.

By intelligence from Constantinople of the
16th, we learn that the difficulties relating to
Bolgrad hare been arranged, a study of the
localities having enabled a satisfactory solution
to be arrived at. This is asserted both by the
Journal de Constantinople, and the Presse
d' Orient.

The occupation of the Isle of Serpents has also
been conceded by the Russians.
The evacuation of the Turkish territory will
take place on the 28th of October.
From that date the Straits of the Dardanelles
will be closed to all vessels of war, except as
stipulated by the Treaty of Paris.
The Cressy and the Colossus, line-of-battle
ships, and the Curacao frigate are expected. The
French squadron has not made its appearance.
Sir Henry Bulwer is expected at Bucharest.

Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has not succeeded
in his attempt to overthrow the Ministry in favour
of Redschid Pacha. Omer Pacha is restored to

power.

Admiral Dundas arrived at Malta on the 18th,

from Ajaccio.

The Porte has resolved, says the journals, to
convoke the Divan on the subject of the Prin-

cipalities.

Some English capitalists have proposed to lay
down a telegraph from Constantinople in con-
nection with one to India by the Overland route.

The Austrian Cabinet is at this moment en-
deavouring to bring Prussia over to its manner
of viewing the occupation of the Principalities.
A. note has been received at Berlin endeavouring to
prove the necessity of the occupation. The Cabinet
of Vienna principally grounds its arguments on the
assent of the Porte.

The Spanish Government has issued orders for
granting passports to return to Spain to all Spanish
subjects who have taken refuge in foreign countries
on account of political reasons, and including such
of the Carlists as are disposed to acknowledge the
Government of the Queen.

The French squadron destined for Naples stil
remains at anchor at Toulon.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post
(Second Edition), in his letter dated yesterday,

says :--

" The most reliable intelligence I can get about
the retirement of the English and French missions
from Naples is that M. Brenier and Mr. Petre
will leave about the 28th. The Austrian Mini-
ster at the Court of the Two Sicilies has received
instructions to support the demand of England
and France. It is not considered in Paris that
the rupture with Naples will be attended with
any political results of a revolutionary nature."

The Pope has deoided on proclaiming a very
liberal aWnesty for the Bth December. He has
already granted pardons to the parties condemned
in the trial of the 15th August. They are less
numerous than was mentioned by the Venice
Gazette, but will be completed on the anniversary
of the Immaculate Conception. The Pope con-
siders the proclamation of that dogma as the
glory of his reign 1 ,

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.

VIRNNA., Oct. 23.—The Ministerial Oesterrei-
chische Correspondenz contains the following article,
in refutation of the assertion of the French organs
of the press, that Austria is bound by treaty imme-
diately to withdraw her troops from the Danubian
Principalities : _

" The prolonged occupation of the Danubian
Principalities by the Austrian troops has recently
greatly occupied the attention of the Paris papers.
For the sake of accuracy we will at once state a
fact of which the French journals seem to be igno-
rant—it is that Turkish troops still occupy certain
parts of the Moldavo-Wallachian territory, with
the same legal right (Rechtstitel) as the Imperial
Royal troops. It is the same legal right which
justifies the prolonged stay of the English fleet in
the waters of the Black Sea, and that notwith-
standing the strict stipulations of the transitory
and additional article to the treaty of peace, signed
at Paris on the 30th March.

"As Austria,, Great Britain, and the Sublime
forte take the same view of the case, and act i❑
the same way, it cannot but excite surprise that
the French press should attack and express dis-
trust of but one of those Powers, and at the same
time represent the sole cause for the stay of the
three Powers in their military positions in Molda-
via, Wallachia, and the Black Sea as an unimpor-
tant and indifferent matter. _ _

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" The Treaty of March 30th is signed and sealed,
and we are convinced that no one thinks of impugn-
ing it, that no Power will attempt to avoid the
fulfilment of its stipulations. The Paris Conference
understood by them that the Commissaries should
go to Constantinople as soon as the gradual evacua-
tion of the Ottoman territory, stipulated by article
31 of the Treaty of the 30th of March, should be
sufficiently advanced, and that the Commission
should combine (combiner) its arrival in Bucharest
with the complete cessation of the temporary armed
occupation, as also with the fulfilment of Article
20 in respect to the rectification of the Moldavian
frontier.

"Now the rectification of the Moldavian frontier
has not beex completed; on the contrary, it is still in
dispute.
. .

As is known, Russia refuses to cede Bolgrad
and the Isle of Serpents, although those Govern-
ments which are more directly interested in the
regulation of the frontier question insist on its
doing so, and that in virtue (auf Grund) of the
treaty of peace.
" We are told that the fulfilment of the condi-
tions relative to the frontier, which were made in
a solemn treaty, is a matter of secondary import-
ance to the realisation of the peace, but that the
evacuation of territory by the troops or fleets of
the allied Powers, although neither demanded nor
desired by the Sovereign or Suzerain, is a point
which must, before all others, be discussed. This
is a kind of international logic which we do not
profess. . _

" We repeat that the prolonged Austrian occu-
pation of the Danubian Principalities is based on
the same legal right and titlo as the Turkish—on
the same legal right as the occupation of the Black
Sea by Great Britain.

" The occupation of a part of the Turkish terri-
tory is not continued on account of any distrust of
Russia, but simply because the regulation of the
frontier is not yet settled. For the present, the
troops and fleets of the three Powers will remain
in positions which they must quit as soon as the
frontier line of the Ottoman territory is definitively
settled.
" This 'mode of proceeding is in strict keeping
with the closinr, sentence of Article 31 of the Paris
Treaty of March 30th, which, in speaking of the
evacuation of the Ottoman territory, says literally,
The periods (Les delais) and the method of execu-
tion shall be the subject of a convention between
the Sublime Porte and the Powers whose troops
have occupied its territory.'
" Now, as has above been said, the Sublime
Porte has fully agreed with Austria and Great
Britain as to the proper periods (delais).
" Having shown that the prolonged stay of the
Imperial Royal troops and of the Turkish forces in

the Principalities is based on the same legal foun-
dation as is the stay of the English fleet in the Black
Sea, it follows, as a matter of course, that the occu-
pation will cease as soon as the cause for the same has
ceased to be—that is, the occupation will cease as soon
as the frontier question is arranged and settled.
The settlement of the internal affairs and the future
organisation and government of the Danubian Prin-
cipalities are in no connexion with the occupation,
and the interest which the Imperial Royal Govern-
ment takes in the prosperity and peace of those
countries will be shown by her friendly understand-
ing with the other great Powers, and in particular
with the Sublime Porte. The settlement of the
question of the Danubian Principalities cannot be
adduced as a reason for the prolongation of the
occupation."