The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-13 00:00:00

1860:

IMPERIAL TURKISH SIX PER CENT.
LOAN.
(Sanctioned by special Finnan of.) his Imperial Majesty the
Sultan
Messrs. T. Mires & Co., the Contractors for a Turkish Loan,
have instructed the London Agency of the Bank of Turkey
to receive subscriptions on account of the 125.000,000 Francs,
or X.-,,000,0, 0 sterling, offered to the public at Paris, London,
Antwerp, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Hamburg.
This Loan will be redeemed at Par by means of a sinking
fund, in 36 Years, in half-ye irly drawings, the first drawing
to take place in June, 1861, and the obligations drawn will
he paid at Par, on the Ist July following, with interest.
Special revenues are assigned for the payment of interest
and sinking fund, which revenues were farmed last year for
.£1,282,560 sterling. This amount will be sent in equal
monthly remittances to the Contractors, or their representa-
tives. The above amount exceeds the requirements, and
the balance will be banded over to the Turkish Finance
Minister.
The Contractors, with the approval of the Turkish Govern-
ment, have appointed four Commissioners at Constantinople
to receive the Revenues ; as well as four at Paris ; and the
London Directors of the Bank of Turkey, to see to their ap-
plication. The duties of this Commission will be confirmed
by an Imperial Firman.
The Loan will be represented by obligations of the Turkish
Government of 500 Francs, or £2O sterling, bearing Interest,
at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, at
either London or Paris ; and these obligations will be issued
at the price of 31250 Francs or £l2 10s. sterling, and will be
redeemed at the rate of 500 Francs, or £2O sterling. Interest
to commence on the let January, 1861.
Obligations of a larger denomination may be had, if re-
quired,
These obligations will be issued on the following condi-
tions, calculated on the price of issue, viz.:-
20 per cent. as deposit on application.
16 „ within 10 days of allotment.
16 „ before the 30th January, 1861.
16 „ „ 28th February, 1861.
16 „ „ 31st March, 1861.
16 „ 11 30th April, 1861.
Any parties desirous of paying their obligations in full will
be entitled to a deduction of 45. at the time of allotment.
On default of payment of any instalments at the time
named, previous payments to be forfeited.
The deposits on application will be carried to the credit of
each Subscriber, and, in the event of such deposit exceeding
the amount payable upon allotment, the balance will be im-
mediately returned.
The Drawings of the Obligations will be conducted in the
usual manner, in the presence of the Ambassador of. the
Sublime Porte, in London or at Paris, the Contract ors of the
Loan or their representatives, and a Notary Public.
The numbers of the Obligations drawn willan be
at
atdvertised
in one or more of the daily papers in London Paris.
Applications for allotment to be sent to the—
Agency of the Baltic of Turkey, 61, Moorgate-street •
Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., Mansion-House. at. ;
Union Bank of London, Princes-street.
Forms of Application may be obtained of the above, or
from
Messrs. J. Hutchinson and Sons, Angel-court;
Messrs. Ricardo, 11, Angel-court.

THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, DAD, L 3, 1860.
THHEMOMETER, IN THE SHADS.
44—highest since noon yesterday.
33—lowest this morning and during the night.
42—this day at noon.!
BAROMETER--30.15 ; still rising.
WIND—North-Easterly; fresh and cold, with dull ha!),
weather. Rain came on suddenly yesterday afternoon—
but now again the indications are frosty.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tani lh. 59m.—Afternoon, 2h. 22m.
To-monnow.-Morning, 2h. 45m.—Afternoon,: 3h. Bm.

The FOUCHE of Prussia is STIEBER the Police
Director. In his grasp rather than in the grasp of
the chief among the responsible Minisftheriss
Rofotyhael
Crown, rather than in the grasp even o
Highness the Prince Regent, acraelove Zhceor
allnesdtiauthority
together
the converging reins of that so-
b
Government. He is virtually
whatsoever, either judicial
or administrative.
a
More accurately than Sir JOHN FALSTAFF could
exclaim, on the accession to the throne of Prince
Hal, his late boon-companion, " The laws of England
are at my commanding!" fir more accurately
might M. STIEBER declare the laws of Prussia to
be at his behest upon an emergency.
It is only just now, in fact, that the reality
of this supreme and super-.eminent autho-
rity appertaining to the Pl'llBBlElll Police
Director has—upon a somewhat ei-traordinary
occasion—been rather glaringly demonstrated.
Allusion being here made, of course, to the
sudden close put mysteriously to the trial of anOther
Prussian official, to wit, the Public Prosecutor, the
Ober-Staats-Anwalt SCHWARCK. The revela-
tions of this saidpfficial—official now, however, no
longer, M. SCHWARCK having been dismissed from
his post very summarily, not to say ignominiously
—were becoming so inconvenient (to say the least
of it) upon the occasion of this trial that—wonder-
ful to relate—the trial itself was abruptly termi*
nated ! And how terminated ? By the premature
acquittal of the all-powerful Police Director afore-
said. M. STIEBER, in fact, was acquitted honour-
ably (?) at the end of these astounding proceedings.
M. SCHWARCK on the contrary was, as we have
said, summarily dismissed ! The Police Director
got the better (almost as a matter of course it will
now be understood—in Prussia!) of the Public
Preseeutor. And this actually too after such
revelations ! Revelations of a character so
flagrant and outrageous that the illegality
of the arbitrary acts authorized by M.
STIEBER on the part of his subordinates in
their treatment of our fellow-countryman, Captain
MACDONALD, sinking by comparison into absolute
insignificance when compared with the mass of
illegalities on the part of the Police Director now
brought to light opportunely or inopportunely as
the case may be regarded by M. STIEBER'S
antagonists or partizans. For example, has it not
now been " proven" that within an interval of no
more than eight months' duration, dating namely
from July, 1855, to February, 1856, the enormous
number of 387—close upon 400—illegal arrests and
detentions have been brought home to this energetic
FOUCHE of the Berlin Administration ? Seven
days being moreover the shortest period of
imprisonment noted in this dark catalogue of
illegal detentions ! Added to all which detestable
violations of the law relating to persons, there have
been numerous other scarcely less detestable out-
rages perpetrated at the instance of this police
inquisitor, with a view to the strangling of the
freedom of public opinion as expressed (surely in
the boldest instance yet upon record, in a very
moderate way) by the press of Prussia. Gladly do
we note, however, sufficiently significant indica-
tions that the press of Prussia is not quite so
readily to be silenced as M. STIEBER appears to have
imagined. Instance the Cologne Anzeiger, that
upon the very morrow of its condemnation,
reverts to a manly discusssion of the pro
ceedings, for thus discussing which it has been
so very recently condemned. As incorrigibly in-
different to reproof, in truth, is this same out-
spoken and irrepressible Prussian contemporary of
ours, the Cologne Anzeiger, as even the unblenehing
Liberator himself when—the Speaker of the House
of Commons having formally notified to him the
stern reproof decided to be pronounced, against
him (the Liberator) by that branch of the Im-
perial Legislature—O'CONNELL rose, and pulling
his wig over his ears as the indication of a long
speech coming, began thus, with oily accents and
his eye twinkling, " Sir, I have listened atten-
tively to every word that has fallen from your
lips, and I take leave to say to the House at once
that I don't feel in the least reproved, Szo.” It is
precisely thus with the Cologne Anzeiger. It has
hardly been twenty-four hours under sentence of
condemnation—when it is at it again !

However much STIEBER may be backed up by the
authorities at Berlin, and more or less throughout the
chief part of the Prussian Sovereignty, we take it
for certain that the policy of which that unscrupu-
lous official is the willing instrument cannot much
longer be persisted in nowadays with con-
tinued impunity. The Police of Naples was
scarcely more an outrage upon the spirit of the
age, the laws enforced against the Press through-
out the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies were
scarcely more monstrously in defiance of the genius
of this latter half of the nineteenth century than
the Police and the Press policy sheltered and fos-
tered now for years and years past, so
perversely under the shadow of the mantle, so to
speak, of the nominally, and for the most part only
nominally, Constitutional Government of Prussia.
For the continuance of this haughty and grinding
system, to whom can the Prussians look as responsi-
ble? Not assuredly to that poor maunderingfameant
now dreamiug away the last days of his life in
the galleries and gardens of Sans Sorsa—most
melancholy of all misnomers in the motley nomen-
clature of the royal palaces of Christendom ! No,
not to poor FREIDERICH -WILHELM IV. can. his
people now look as upon one in these matters in
any way responsible. It is elsewhere they must
look, it is elsewhere they will inevitably sooner or
later look to discover and arraign the real possessor
of this responsibility. Let the Prince Regent
\ therefore see well to it—and this betimes.

Sir C.
in England, a
igh
justification civil insubordination,
d li
ination, recall
m
REVELYAN was re
ehas orbeaenn ascotmoe
time f
L d f
length he has published
a pamphlet in
os;y o
of his conduct. His
own views of the necessity of f a
ither_p l
acourse ihv
give
adopted have never yet been
given to the public,
and it is of course but English
rd
him a patient hearing. It ill
aY well be that his
views were right, but that his mode
of compel-
ling attention to them was wrong; so wrong
that the recal of Mr. WILSON, perhaps of Lord
CANNING also, or the recal of Sir C. TREVELYAN,
were the only alternatives. On the latter point
there can hardly be a doubt. Jf the man Was

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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 13, 1860.