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London, England, 1856-09-01 00:00:00

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BERLIN, AUG, 29.

The governor of Poland, in consequence of the
contemplated establishment of a credit bank, has

given notice that all commercial c3mpauies, the
capital of which shall exceed 150,000 roubles,
must bofore commencing operations b 3 duly autho-
rised by the Government.

HANOVER, Aua. 29.

In place of eight million frAnc4 which were re-
quired for the bank, four milliards have been

subscribed, and to ni tint tin order it was necessary
to call in the aid of the military.

MADRID, AUG. 28.

The Gaette publishes the nomination of M .

Qitereodo to the post; of Spanish Minister to

Venezuela. Dieorations have bean granted to

several general officers.

TURKEY.
(From the second Edition of the Times.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 21.
The question of the Serpents' Island seems to
complicate itself more than could be expected in
the first instance. Circumstances have transpired
which plainly show that the Russian occupation
was not due, as might have been supposed, to mis-
understood instructions or over zeal of the autho-
rities ab Odessa, but rather to positive instructions
from St. Petersburg.
In this state of the question it will, therefore,
not be amiss to give an exposé of the whole affair
up to this moment. The first, news of the occupa-
tion was very vague. The Porte received an inti-
mation from the officer commanding the Turkish
party of 50 men sent to the island to restore the
light-house, that a Russian detachment had landed
on the island. Neither the number of the Russian
detachment, the manner of their arrival, nor the
explanation made by them, was given in the first
instance.

Iu order to ascertain all the details, which was
necessary in order to judge of the nature of the
Russian occupation, Lord Lyons despatched her
Majesty's ship Giadiator, Captain Hillyar, to the
spot, will() the Turkish Government sent a com-
missioner there for the same object. The news
which they brought back was, as you know,
that seven Russian marines, with a lieutenant, had
come to the island, giving as the object of their
arrival the restoring of the light-house. As the
officer commanding the Turkish detachment had
no instructions to prevent their landing—which he
could easily have done, considering that his force
was not only superior in numbers, but were armed,
while the Russians were not—the Russians landed
without opposition, and wore quartered in the only
house which exists ou the island, where they were
living on the hospitality of the Turks, who treated
them as their guests.
Before these details arrived, which showed that
the Turks were actually in possession of the island
and not the Russians, and that the Turkish flag
alone was waving over the lighthouse as a symbol
of their occupation, the simple fact of the Russian
occupation was sent to England, the answer to
which was the order to Lord Lyons to remove the
Russians from the island. By the time this answer
arrived the Gladiator had likewise arrived, bring-
ing the above-mentioned details, which modified
considerably the first impression that prevailed
when the occupation became kuown, and under'
which impression the order to remove the Rus•
sians had evidently been given.
The gallant Admiral followed, therefore, more
the spirit than the letter of this order, and sent
back Captain Hillyar, of the Gladiator, with in
structions to offer to:the Russian Lieutenant com-
manding the detachment on the Serpents' Island
to give him and Lis men a passage to Odessa ; and,
if they did not consent to this, to proceed to Odessa
and ask for their removal by the authorities there.
Captain Hillyar proceeded accordingly to the
Island and made his offer, which, as might be
expected, was not accepted by the Lieutenant, who
excused himself by his orders to remain on the
Island until further instructions from his superiors.
So Captain Hillyar went to Odessa, and asked,
according to his instructions, for the removal of
the Russian detachment on the Serpents' Island.
The Governor asked for 48 hours' delay, to tele-
graph to St. Petersburg for instructions. The
answer from there was that the Russians could not

be removed until the question of the Serpents'
Island was settled by the Conference at Paris.
The answer gives a key to the view the Russians
hrve taken upon this question. They consider the
Serpents' Island as part of the territory of Bessarabia
to be annexed to Moldavia, and they will not give
up their pretensions to this part until the whole
frontier question be settled and the matter finally
arranged by tl* Conference of Paris, which is to
meet after the labours of the Commission in the
Principalities have
. been brought to a close.
According to theretter of the treaty the Russians
are, of course, not obliged to give up, before the
whole frontier question is settled, any part of the
Bessarabia!' territory which they actually possess ;
but it may be questioned whether they can be
allowed to stretch the letter of the treaty so far as
to re-occupy a place about the cession of which
there ought surely to be no doubt, and which they
had abandoned.

When Captain Hillyar received the answer at
Odessa he returned to the Serpents' Island and
stationed himself there, sending down the gun-boat
which bad been put at his disposal with the news
to the Admiral, who sent back instructions to him
to remain there in observation and prevent any at-
tempts the Russians might make to increase their
force. This precaution was not useless, as the
sequel showed, for on Friday last, the 15th
instant, a Russian steamer made her appearance
before the island, having on board M. Boti-
anoff, Conselior d'Etat and Gentilhomme de la
Cour, and a staff for the re-establishment of the
lighthouse. The Conselior d'Etat, when he made
the Turkish commander acquainted with his mis-
sion, which was to see the lighthouse restored, was
told that the thing had been done, and that the
commander of the Turkish detachment bad no or-
ders to receive any further reinforcement of Rus-
sians on the island. Seeing that his intention
of ,landing an additional force on the island had
been foiled by the precaution taken by Admiral
Lyons and the Turkish Government, M. Botianoff
left in the evening in the direction of the mouths of
the Danube. Captain Hillyar, suspecting that this
was done with the view of taking the superior com-
manding Turkish 'officer there by surprise, and gain
an order of admission through him to the island,
sent the Snake gunboat, which overtook and passed
her, so that when the Russian steamer arrived M.
Botianoff found the Turkish Commander au fait to
what had passed and on his guard, so that his ob-
ject was foiled there just as well as at the island.
Thus tie question rests for the moment.
It seems that if the allies forgot to mention the
Serpents' Island in the treaty, the Russians have
forgotten to re-occupy it in tune, and they are now
trying to-repair the omission, •in which intention
they have been, however, hitherto foiled by the
rapidity with which the Turks restored the light-
house and by the vigilanCe of Lord Lyons. The
actual occupation and the keeping up of the light-
house by the Turks give these latter the benefit of
possession, which, in politics, may be said to be
more than nine points of the law. The Russian
detachment cannot be said to be in possession of

the island, for they have nothing todo with the
lighthouse, and it is the Turkish flag which is wav-
ing there.
M. do Boutenieff has arrivad at last. He came in
on Tuesday afternoon on board a small Russi
steamer, and landed at his palace at Bujukdere, over
the gates of ►vhich the Imperial Eagle had been pre-
viously replaced. Yesterday Mr. Argyropoulo, tiffs
first dragoman, the same who accompanied Prince
Aienschikoff in his mission, announced his arrival to

the Porte. 'ln consequence of M. de Boutenieff's
arrival Mehemet Kepresli Pasha was to leave to-
day.
Last week several hundred Montenegrins and
Croats, who had been working in the different vil-
lages of the Bosphorus, left this place for their
own country, with the undisguised intention of
fighting there against the Turks.

YRANCE.

PARIS, S VNDAY EVENING.

"Accounts from Biarritz," says the goniteur,
"state that the sea bathing has been of great ser-
vice to the Empress, and that the 'climate is most
favourable to the health of the Prince Imperial.
The Emperor takes the most lively interest in the
improvement of the port of Bayonne, on which
subject the Chamber of Commerce of the town has
presented a very important report to his Majesty.
The Emperor, after a long conversation with the
engineer of the port, gave orders for the immediate
adoption of means for removing the bar by alopting
the system invented by some Italian erigineers,
and which has been attended with the beit results
under similar, circumstances at the mouth of the
Reggui-Lagui, near Naples. The Emperor has