The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-09 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

FRONTIERS OF SERVIA, SEPT. 20.—The preceding
accounts from Constantinople, which were very alarming,
have been greatly modified by the last letters from that
capital, which are dated the 10th of this month. Tran•
quillity was restored, and business had become active.
The damage caused by the fire is said not to he so consi-
derable as at first represented, and the Government has
adopted measures to afford all practicable relief to the suf-
ferers. The Sultan, who was represented, in the former
accounts, to have been wholly passive dut ing the fire, is
now stated to have been very active on the occasion, and
to have contributed greatly, by his presence, to the sub-
duing of the conflagration.
It is still doubtful whether the fire was accidental, or
the effect of design. It is affirmed that individuals,
strangers to the capital, were observed, and a short
time before the fire, appeared to be very active in different
quarters of the city. Some suspicious characters were
said to have been arrested, chiefly Italians, who could not
give a satisfactory account of their business in the capital.
It is also asserted that one of them was found to be in
possession of papers which disclosed a very extensive plan,
the chief purpose of which was to keep the East in a state
of fermentation ;—that it is not yet known with whom
the project originates, but that it is conjectured that the
same party is concerned which takes so much pains to
excite anarchy in the West. At all events these dangerous
plots have for the present failed, and it is to be hoped
that the police, which is pretty well organised, will be
able to prevent farther disasters in the Turkish capital.
The Sultan is now gone on an excursion of pleasure in
the environs of the capital ; if circumstances permit, he
will perhaps extend it farther than he at first intended.
This appears to he a favourable indication of the tranquil-
lity that prevails at Constantinople, as otherwise the Sul-
tan would certainly not have left the city. The French
poet La Martine, on his return from Asia. came out of
quarantine a few days ago, and is gone to Vienna.
VIENNA, SEPT. 28.—M. de Monthel has returned
from his mission. He found the Duchess of Berry at
Bologna, and had an interview with her. It seems
that ler Royal Highness will go to Prague, and pass some
time in the bosom of her family. The French poet, La
Iklartine, has arrived here.
We have received favourable accounts from Greece.
The Regency is indefatigable in its exertions to organise
the interior of the country, and to restore it to a state of
prosperity.
CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 10.—The spirit of discontent
which has prevailed here for some time past among the
people and the soldiers, and which is considered as the
cause of the repeated attempts of incendiaries, continues to
keep up great uneasiness in this capital. On the 29th ult, an
attempt to set on fire the manufactory of arms at Dochabali
was discovered, and prevented at the moment from taking
effect. On the following day, however, a second attempt
succe?ded ; for in a short time the manufactory of arm.,
and the neighbouring houses, were on fire ; and, the flames
being carried by the wind in all directions, a great part
of Constantinople was reduced to ashes in the space of
nineteen hours. The number of buildings and shops de-
stroyed in the various quarters, amount to 6,000.
Among these are several mosques, namely, that of Schell-
sade, Caschi, and some smaller ones. Many persons who
took refuge on the minarets of these smaller ones, were
burnt to death. Upwards of 100 corpses of the victims,
have been picked up. An incendiary, who was discovered
in the act of setting fire to a house, was immediately
thrown into the flames. Several suspected Greeks have
been arrested, and taken to the palace of the Seras-
kier. By this fire several hundred thousand sacks
of fl ur were destroyed in the public granaries !
About the same time another fire broke out in the vicinity
of Rebels, near the channel, but this was got under before
it had done much damage. On the 7th inst. the Seraskier
Parker gave a grand fete to the Sultan at San Stefano,
which lasted two days. All the Grandees of the Empire
were present. A council was also held there to deliberate
on the means of securing the capital, at which it was re-
solved that the utmost vigilance, as well by day as by
night, should be observed. No one is to appear in the
streets at night without a lantern. The strictest orders
have been given to the police to search out the
incendiaries and malcontents, and many of them
have been discovered and put to death. The
Sultan, after the fall cf San Stefano, set out on
a short journey to Nicomedia and Hemlek, where
he will visit the arsenal, thence he intends to go to
Brussa. The Reis Effendi is seriously indisposed, in
consequence of an alarm on the 3d inst., while at sea
during a storm, and his illness has occasioned consider-
able interruption in the despatch of public business.
Mandeville, the English Charge d'Affaires, left on the
Jat inst. On the same day, M. de Carbob I, the newly
appointed Spanish Ambassador to the Porte, arrived from
Odessa. A courier from St. Petersburgh brought word
on the 31st Aug., that M. Calacazi has been appointed
Russian Charge d'Affaires in Greece. General Butenieff,
the Russian Ambassador, has sent a lugger to Greece, with
the news. We learn from Napoli that M. Zograsso is
appointed Ambassador from his Majesty the King of
Greece to the Sublime Porte.
According to letters from Canea, the Pacha of Egypt
arrived on the 12th August in the Gulph of Inda, Island
of Camila, where the fleet which accompanied him, con-
sisting of four ships of the line, ten frigates and vessels,
cast anchor. The Pacha, who was accompanied by the
English Consul General, Colonel Campbell, immediately
went to Canea, where he inspected tl e fortifica-
tions. On the night of his arrival the town was illu-
minated, and on the following day be gave audiences to
the European Consuls. The ordinances which he issued
during his stay relate chiefly to the culture of the land
Mehemet Ali left Canea on the 22d, and returned to
his fleet, in order to proceed to the western parts of the
island. To add to our distress, the plague has for the
last fortnight increased at Constantinople, as well as at
Pera Galata and the villages along the channel.
VIENNA, SEPT. 28.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 93g- ;
four per Cent, 82t ; Bank Shales, 1196.—Allgemeine
;.teitung.
17RJINEFORT, OCT. 2.—The German Patriotic Ga
zette contains an article on the political events of the day,
in which, after expressing an opinion that the late con-
ferences of the Sovereigns had no object but to maintain
peace and the existing institutions against the efforts
of propaganda at anarchy, and says, with respect
to Luxemburg, though they desire peace, they
,do not fear to gird on the sword when called on to
guarantee their principles and established rights ;
and though they wish the continuance of this peace, it
,cannot be dissembled that there are many elements of
war, Ilow, for instance, will the question of Luxem-
burg terminate ? We hope to the honour of Germany.
We hope that haughty England and France will at length
acknowledge that the territory of Germany is as sound
and inviolable as their own. What cries of surprise and in-
dignation should we hear from these kingdoms, if it were
pretended to impose on them anything resembling
what Germany would suffer by the cession or the
dismemberment of Luxemburg--that Gelman province,
which is indisputably such—with touch more right than
Alsace is a French province. Such a pretension would
be considered as equivalent to a declaration of war. The
ct of the German Confederation is to protect Ger-
many, within and without, and above all things to gua-
rantee its frontiers. We cannot dispute that the Confe-
deration would lose in public opinion equally at home and
abroad (which, in the present critical state of affairs,
would be an almost irreparable misfortune), if, on the first

occasion that it is put to the proof, it should not an•
swer the object of its institution. For this reason
!J,e differ from those who despond, and fear that the
ponfederation will yield to the demands of France
#Pri Engi,nd (which would not stop there), and that it
at ill a4crifice a part of Germany. If, when they insolently
violated the German territory, at the beginning of the re-
volution, the German troops bad once driven them out,
the matter would have stopped there—no war would have
ii)sued. The organs of the French Government, such as
the Moniteur and Journal des Lebots, then acknowledged
that the Be!gians had no right to Luxemburg, and that
neither Belgium nor France would have a right to corn•
plain of the German Confederation asserting its just rights.
Recollecting the adage Beati possidentes, they have since
This only shows the necessity
changed their language.
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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1833.

Having more than three weeks ago been
enabled to inform our readers of the exact posi-
tion of the Belgian Question, we have abstained
from making any remark on the official expose
to the Belgian Chamber of Deputies recently
made by General GOBLET. There was not
one fact of the slightest interest in that statement
which had not already been stated by us. Whilst
our contemporaries were indulging in day dreams
of the moderation and generosity of the King of
HOLLAND, we steadily adhered to the assertion
that the Belgian Question was just as far from
a settlement in the month of September, 1833,
as it had been in 1831. The official expose
has confirmed all that we said. We understand
now, that Lord PALMERSTON expects that the
Dutch Chamber, which is to meet on the 21st
instant, will insist on the settlement of the
question, as the obstinacy of the KING has
produced no other effect as yet than that of
allowing the Belgians to navigate the Scheldt
free of toll, and to keep in their own treasury
the sums which would otherwise have been
paid to Holland, as the Belgian portion
of the interest on the national debt. Lord
PALMERSTON may not be quite so much
deceived in his expectations on this point as
he has been on others. Lord CHESTERFIELD
has said that the honour and delicacy of
a Dutchman are in his breeches pocket—
touch that, and you rouse the dignity of the
Hollander. It is not improbable that as the
statu quo system affects the sensitiveness of the
Hollanders in a pecuniary way, they may really
take courage to ask the KING, whether he is
playing at bowls with Belgium in order that his
subjects may have all the rubs. It may be a
very important consideration with King WIL-
LIAM to make a great struggle for the sovereignty
of Belgium ; but unless he can find the means of
compensating his subjects for the injuries which
they sustain by the statu quo system, they may
be induced to take the management of the affair
into their own hands, and compel the KING to
renounce claims which they know he cannot

sustain.

We are assured, by a gentleman who is but
just arrived from Siberia, that on his way to
'Moscow from that country, he met several de-
tachments of Polish prisoners on their way to

It is stated to day, in a respectable quarter,
that Lord ALTHORP has resolved on the intro-
duction of a Bill, shortly after the meeting of
Parliament, for the material reduction of the
assessed taxes, and the modification of the entire
system. His Lordship had, if we recollect aright,
almost promised something of this kind before
the close of the last session ; but it is probable
that the refusal to pay the assessed taxes in many
places, however partial the determination may be
as regards the kingdom at large, has created
doubts in the mind of his Lordship as to the
possibility of carrying on the system of taxation
in its present state. As Lord ALTHORP, how-
ever, is not, according to report in the best cir-
cles, yet a convert to the doctrines of those poli-
tical economists who would substitute a fair and
moderate property tax for the whole of the
assessed taxes, we cannot conceive what scheme
he intends to propose. Anything so reasonable
and agreeable as the reduction of a large standing
army, or other expensive machinery of Govern-
ment, we do not expect ; and yet without a re-
duction of expenditure much more sweeping
than any that has yet taken place, we do not see
how the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is
to accomplish the object which he is said to have
in view.

We refer the clergy of the Established Church
as a warning, and the rate-payers of the kingdom
as an example, to the refusal of the people of
Nottingham to levy any further church-rate.
The numbers on one side and the other were
even more decisive of the question than they
have been in some of the larger towns, and must
convince all men, not blinded by the most be-
sotted prejudices, that at least this usurpation
of the clergy is drawing to a close.

The French Papers of Monday, and the
Gazette de France and Messager desChambres,
dated yesterday, mention that serious apprehen-
sions had begun to operate on the public mind
at Paris, respecting the rumoured Carlist insur-
rection, which were partly, however, occasioned
by a Royal ordinance, dated the 6th, calling
into service 35,000 conscripts. It was rumoured
also that a military cordon, to consist of from
35,000 to 50,000, was about being formed on the
Spanish frontier, and that Pozzo DI BonGo had
declared that the Russian Court would not recog-
nizethe young ISABELLA as Queen of Spain.

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FRENCH FUNDS.—PARts, OCT. 7.
Five per Cents., 101 f. 90c. 25c.
Three per Cents., 74f. 90e. 9.5 e.
Bank Actions, 2,730 f.
Rente de Naples, 89r. 75c.
Roman Five per Cents., 89.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 18.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 33
Itoya: Spanish Loan, 7,,t.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 553.
Belgian I oan, 1831, 921 A.
Haytian Loan, 260 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 45e. ; money, 251. 40c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 35e. ; money, 25( 30c.
—Cours Authentique.

We learn by the German papers that tranqi.
lity is for the present restored at Constantinople
Extracts will be found in another column.

His Majesty, attended by Sir Herbert Tay-
lor, arrived at St. James's Palace, from Windsor, at a
quarter past one o'clock, escorted by a party of the 17th
Lancers. The King then gave a private audience to the
Foreign Amb issadors, and held a Council, which was at-
tended by all the Ministers now in town.

All his Majesty's Ministers will be in town
this week, their presence being considered necessary in the
present posture
to-morrow.of affairs in Spain and Portugal. Earl
Grey
is expected in Downing-street this day or to-morrow.
The Duke of Wellington and several other
military officers of distinction have received invitations to
be present at the grand military review of Prussian
troops, amounting to about 100,000 men, which will take
place in the course of a few days. Berlin is expected to
gayety this autumn, as it will be crowded
cers from all parts of Germany and
France
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