The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-26 00:00:00

LATEST NE WS.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 14.
The present state of the Government here must
be looked upon as entirely provisional. The
late Ministry has left a very unpleasant
legacy to its successors. By its vacillating
conduct, its dubious policy, and its contradic-
tory assurances, the questions of Bolgrad and the
Serpents' Island, the final evacution of the Ot-
toman territory, and the re-organisation of the
Principalities have been considerably aggravated.
Indeed, the hopeless confusion into which they
had thrown all these questions, and the manner in
which they had compromised themselves by it,
were the main cause of their fall.
Redschid Pasha's first care will be to settle the
pending questions, and thus pave the way for his
administration. Something has already been done
towards this. Every day since his accession Mi-
nisterial Councils have been held, and what is
more they led to a resolution, a result which has
been rather out of fashion in Turkish Ministerial
Councils of late.

Redschid Pasha goes further back than the treaty
of Paris for the solution of the disputed points. He
starts from the Vienna Conferences, which laid
down the basis of the treaty. These bases are laid
down by England, France, and Austria without the
concurrence, and one might almost say without the
knowledge, of Turkey. In these Conferences it was
assumed that Turkey and Russia were the principal
parties concerned, and the three Powers, by laying
down the conditions which they thought necessary
for the raaintenance of the integrity and indepen-
dence of Turkey, made themselves, in the name of
Europe, arbitrators of the struggle between Turkey
and Russia. Turkey, by accepting these bases for a
pacification, recognised this arbitration and placed
thus her fate in the hands of these three Powers.
The treaty of the 15th of April, in which these same
three Powers pledged themselves to maintain the
integrity and independence of Turkey, recognised
by the treaty of the 30bh of March, was nothing
more than a corollary and confirmation of the posi-
tion assumed by the Allies from the beginning.
Turkey, then, for her part proposes to refer the
disputed points to the decision of these three
Powers to whom she has already once before sub-
mitted her fate. With this view she consents that
the disputed questions should be settled in the
Paris Conferences ; but neither of the parties im-
mediately concerned, nor those who took only a
secondary part in the Eastern question, should take
part in the decision.

A proof that the Turks fully appreciate the value
of Bolgrad may be found in the circumstance that
the attempts made lately to induce them to give up
Bolgrad for a compensation have utterly failed.
It was proposed to Redschid Pasha to annex the
whole Delta of the Danube, together with the Ser-
pents' Island, not to Moldavia, but to Turkey Pro-
per, if the latter consented to give up Bolgrad.
The answer was a polite refusal.
No positive answers have been as yet given to
the proposal of the Porte. The telegraph is, how-
ever, busy in carrying questions and explanatory
answers between this and Paris and London. By
the aid of it a solution, one way or another, may
be soon expected.

Yesterday morning the American sailing corvette
Constellation, 21, came into the Golden Horn,
and exchanged her salute with the batteries of
Topkhane. The appearance of a man-of-war not
belonging to the allies caused rather an excitement,
especially as the first report had enlarged her into
a 60-gun frigate, for how could a Russian man-of-
war be excluded from the Dardanelles if the straits
were not closed to an American? but she belongs
to the class of smaller vessels which have always
received the permission to come up even in times
of peace for an occasional visit.