The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-15 00:00:00

SIR HENRY BULW ER AT BROUSSA.

BROUSSA, SEPT. 29.
Thursday last witnessed the greatest banquet
which has ever been given in this place in the
European style. Namyk Pacha had invited the
British Consul and the few Englishmen who hap-
pened to be here, together with the authorities of
the town, to meet at dinner Sir Henry Buiwer,
who is at present in Broussa for the benefit of his
health. About 30 persons sat down in the Go-
vernor's residence to a very substantial repast.
Sir Henry Buiwer, being one of the Commis-
sioners for settling the constitution of the Danubian
Principalities, is on his way to Bucharest. The
treaty of Paris has given riso to no fewer than five
commissions, besides divans, deliberations, reports,
ren awed conferences, convocations, and Kati-sheriffs,
hardly any of which have yet come into play. There
is a commission for fixing the Bessarabian boun-
dary ; two commissions— one general and one per-
manent—for improving and regulating the naviga-
tion of the Danube ; a special commission for
settling the organisation of the Principalities ; and
a fifth commission, whose labours ought to be
terminated before the end of this year, for ascer-
taining the eastern Turco-Russian frontier. The
most important of all those commissions, un-
doubtedly, is the one to which Sir H. Bulwer
belongs, forming as it does a real constituent body.
The duty of this Commission will be to elaborate
a Constitution in accordance with the popular
feeling in the Principalities and the fundamental
provisions contained in the treaty of peace. Those
fundamental points are :-
1. Suzerainty of the Porte without right of armed
intervention.

2. Independent national administration:
3. Full liberty of legislation, (tc.
4. National defensive army.
5. Guarantee of all the parties to the treaty.
Notwithstanding the stipulations of the treaty
of Paris for taking account of the wishes of the
inhabitants themselves, through the agency of the
divans to be named for that purpose, it is very
clear that more than one of the parties having a
representative in the Commission have prejudged
the case, and come to a conclusion respecting
certain measures which will be brought under
their consideration. The question of the union
of the Principalities has been notoriously
treated in this spirit—the Porte taking the
lead in denouncing it as injurious to the interests
of the provinces themselves, and subversive of
the sovereignty of the Sultan. In the text of the
treaty of peace there is to be found nothing what-
ever either for or against the amalgamation of the
Principalities ; but not a single expression occurs
to support the pretensions of the Porte to sovereign
power in those provinces. The Turks, no doubt,
conquered the Principalities more than once, and
have repeatedly exercised sovereign power over
them. But the history of the Danubian provinces
in recent times exhibits beyond a doubt the Sultan
in a very different position from that of sovereign ;
and the late treaty of Paris sets the matter at rest
by a distinct use in three different places of the
word suzerain., or suzerainete, as well as by the
imposition of terms incompatible with the exercise
01 sovereign power. It would seem, however, that
the Porte has set its face against the union of the
Principalities.—Correspondent of the Morning Post.