The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-19 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Although we are still without any official decla-
ration as to the future Government of Spain, it is
generally understood' that the Queen's advisers
have resolved :-
1. The present Cortes to be dissolved.
2. To be again reassembled according to the
Constitution of 1845.
3. A complete new municipal organisation.
4. The National Guard throughout the country
to be disarmed. •

TURKEY.
(From Correspondent of the Morning Herald.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 7.—You will see by the
Journal de Constantino* of to-day a report of the
trouble and inconvenience occasioned to certain
French merchants at Kertch by the Russian autho-
rities, who have compelled them to make thence a
voyage to Constantinople and back (1000 miles), in
order that, by presentation and appearance at the
Russian Chanceaerie in the Turkish capital, all
documentary formalities might he carried out with
punctilio which the dignity of Russia (unbribed)
requires, before a foreigner may venture to sell at
Kertch, or export therefrom even a little fragrant to-
baccoor cordial gin or other his own property, which
the allies failed to consume during the war, and which
therefore remains on the merchants' hands. To
this Kertch case of hardship I could add more than
one in connection with Odessa, but one may suffice.
I have taken care to see two of the parties mixed
up iu the following affair, which spesks for itself,
and is a pretty sample of the civility Englishmen
meet with in the " City of Corn" (query, " City
of Chaff ?") which the Downing-street Government
were fools enough to spare, though the British
fleet could have blown it to atoms, and have de-
stroyed those supplies which, forwarded to Sebas-
topol, alone enabled that city to hold out so long.
Now for the Odessa case just referred to. Mr.
Darnley Stuart arrived at Constantinople in the
Vigilant, as an English merchant who during the
last 21 months has lived in the Crimea. Before the
English abandoned that peninsula, Mr. Stuart ob-
tained from Captain M'Alester, the proper British
officer, a passport from Balaklava to Odessa, and he
&A passage in the Hanoverian schooner Ewald,
which re sched Odessa on or about the 22d July,
and there he remained eight or nine days. Before
leaving Balaklava Mr. Stuart applied to the Rus-
sian C smmandant, by Mr. Borkohn, with whom
he was connected mereantilely, and who had to
• pply for other vises for Odessa—four in all—when
tine Commandant (Scatnati) stated that no vise was
neces,ary at all ! This was five days after the
Engish had left. When the Ewald arrived at
Odessa there was no quarantine. Mr. Stuart and
her other passengers duly passed throush the exa-
mination at the quarantine office, and then went
before a Mr. Carruthers, the chief passport officer
for •the Russians, where the usual signalement was
taken as to height of forehead, length of nose, &c.
Ordered again on board the Ewald, Mr. Stuart
received no cemmunication from the passport-
office for three days, so that his desire to
enter Odessa on business was not gratified. One
passenger, a Turkish subject, had the vise of Sta-
mati, but with it or without it all the passports
were declared not in order, and the governor
would not allow Mr. Carruthers to permit Mr.
Stuart and his companions to enter the city. Ono
of the passengers, however, had a Foreign-office
passport, and he, at the end of the third day, was
permitted to leave the Ewald and land, on
giving a guarantee that he visited Odessa for
no political purpose, and that he would adver-
tise his intended departure one week before
he wished to leave 0 lessa ! The governor would
not recognise Capt. M'Alester's Crimean passports,
and a gicardino was placed on board the Ewald.
Two days afterwards quarantine was established at
Odessa, whereupon Mr. Stuart and three of the
passengers, an English servant, and a Turk, and an
Austrian subject, were carried to the lazaretto,
and put altogether in a room, without table, chair,
or bed, or eating or washing utensils ; and, as to
performing their ablutions, I may at once mention
that their only chance was going down to the sea-
sllose, which they did. The commandant pointed
oat a sort of ship-chandler's, on the Mole, as the
only place whera they could get provisions ; but
these were to be sold in quantities too large, fit only
for ships' crew; and then, " How about the cook-
ing?" It woul Ibe an endless job to go into fur-
ther detail as to these grievances, and the inatten-
tion experienced. So great were they that Mr.
Stuart offered to give a bond in the penalty of
t'iree thousand pounds not to leave the Vigilant
—a ship bound to Constantinople—if allowed to
go on board that vessel at once. But this was
refused, though guaranteed by a merchant in
Odessa. He remained, therefore, two days more in
the lazaretto. There was a coffee-shop on the Mole,
but scarcely anything could be obtained there
but a dram of vodki. At last two English captains
heard of Mr. Stuart's case, and addressed the
authorities, and offered to take him on
board to join their mess, or to bring him food from
their ships, and ultimately he was allowed to join
one of them, on a guarantee to return to the
' lazaretto at three o'clock on the day appointed for
the ship's sailing. At four the Vigilant was ex-
pected to sail ; Mr. Stuart aud " other prisoners"
were thereupon embarked in the poor Tiger s
launch (as if purposely to wound his feelings as an
Englishman) ; he was kept lying off the ship 21
hours, re-landed, again taken off to the ship, and ul-
timately (on her captain's entreaty) permitted to