The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-04 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 6.—1 have, properly
speaking, nothing to tell you. Matters are here going
on as usual. The scheme for a loan is prosecuted with
great alacrity, but nothing positive has yet been de-
cided on. The French government takes an interest
in it, and has latterly endeavoured to impress on the
Porte the necessity of a loan. In fact, the Porte would
be able to assume a very different attitude if its finances
were in a better condition, and so far the opinion
formed at Paris is correct. But what has been over-
looked is, that it is difficult to get money on good terms
when the requisite security for the repayment of the
principal, and for covering the interest, is wanting.
There, however, lies the difficulty ; and a prospectus
for a Turkish loan would have long since been issued,
if any basis could have been formed for it, that
was calculated to satisfy the public. All govern-
ments, it is true, must be desirous of restor-
ing some vigour to the Porte, in order that
it may be able to obtain money on any terms ; but it is
not in the power of governments to afford any assist-
ance in these matters, loans being always subjects of
negotiation with private persons, and not to be carried
into effect but by the support of public opinion, on
which credit is founded. First of all, it must be seen
whether the revenues of the Porte can be brought into
the public treasury more regularly than they have hither-
to been, and especially whether the Divan will consent
to farm out the many estates which the government has
in its own hands. Hitherto it has shown itself extremely
averse to this ; but necessity has no law. I lately
spoke of the protests which France and England
have again made against the treaty of the Bth July ;
I also mentioned that the Porte retained its former
position, and in answers which comprehended the
whole question, had objected to all interference already
made, or which may be made in future; with its ab-
stractedly indisputable right to make treaties with any
power it shall think fit. I now hear that the Am-
bassadors of France and England are at length satisfied
for the present. They would indeed have been glad
if the Porte had wholly receded from the engagements
into which it has entered with Russia, but they seem
to have duly appreciated the assurances that have been
given them on this occasion, in order to correct the
false interpretations which were sought to be given to
tl:e treaty of the Bth July. Especially, the people will
by no gleans allow that it has, in this treaty, given to
Russia ti:tl right to close at its pleasure the
channel of the Dardanelles. It appears that this is not
the case, and that no ization in the world can send ships
of war through the channel without its permission.
This point seems now to have been sufficiently dis-
cussed, and to be at length properly understood by all
the adversaries of the treaty. But as there is never
any stagnation in political matters, the convention just
signed at Petersburgh by Achmet Pacha affords a new
subject to recommendations against the Porte, like
those which have hitherto been lavished on the treaty
of July. The public do not yet know what stipula-
tions unfavourable to the two maritime powers the con-
vention of St. Petersburgh may contain ; but it is cer-
tain that Ponsonby looks on it as prejudicial to the in-
terest of England. On the whole, the convention
seems to be only a corollary to the treaty of Adriano-
ple, and it is therefore strange, that after the maritime
powers have passed over in silence the important stipu-
lations of 1829, objections should now be made to a
convention which flows from them. —Allgemeine
Zeitung, March 29.

Sir Francis Palgrave is appointed successor
to Mr. Coley, as Keeper of Records in the Chapter-
house, at Westminster.
It is well known that Lord Mansfield had a
rooted antipathy to horse-dealers, which was caused by
the following circumstances :—When he became Lord
Chief Justice, he was desirous that his equipage should
make a conspicuous figure, and, with that view, he
endeavoured to procure a set of handsome horses, that
were to be quite black, without any admixture of white;
after much trouble in making the necessary inquiry, a
handsome set of horses was found ; his lordship ap-
proved of them, paid a very high price for them, and
set them to work. In a short time, a star made its
Appearance, in a pure white, upon the front of one
horse., a blaze in the face of another, a white fetlock
upon A third, and some of the forbidden white appeared
won seripe part of all those horses that were expected
by his lord,s'hip not to have had a single hair but what
was black. ilia lordship, in a great rage, sent for the
horse-dealer, reproved, and threatened him with pu-
nishment for the fraud. The man repelled the charge
with firmness, and asserted that, if his lordship exa-
mined his bill and receipt, he would find that they
were given for the horses that he had sold by their
true description. This was done, when the learned
judge discovered that, assisted by bad writing and bad
orthography, the dealer had given him a receipt for
the sum of —, for— horses, coloured black. This
was conclusive ; but many a horse-dealer suffered for
this, for, during the whole time that Lord Mansfield
sat upon the bench, whenever a horse cause was
brought before him, if it was possible there could be
two interpretations put upon the case, his lordship al.
ways charged that to the jury that was most unfavour-
able to the *key.

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