The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-16 00:00:00

TURKEY.

`We have received the Constantinople journals
and lctt.;rs of the 4th brought by the Carmel. All
the news will be found summed up in the following'
letter:—" The reply of the Sublime Porte to the
French Ambassador on the subject of the Suez
Canal has just been delivered, It bears the signa-
ture of Fund Pacha, and declares in explicit terms
that the Porte has no objection to the undertaking,
and should have long since authorised its execu•
tion, had the question remained merely a commer-
cial one; but that as it has now become a political
event, the Porte considers it but just that the
Powers should first come to an understanding, and
that Turkey should have every guarantee for the
security of her interests. Reports of further minis-
terial modifications are in circulation. Among
other things, it is said that the ex-Grand Vizir is
to again come into power by replacing Riza Pacha
as Minister of War and Grand Master of the Artil-
lery. Those two personages had a long audience
of the Sultan, but nothing certain is yet known of
the result. The general opinion entertained is
that the present Ministry cannot long hold toge-
ther and that Mehemet Kubrisli Pacha will very
shortly be at the head of the two departments of
war and marine, two branches of the administra-
tion in which economical reforms are the most im-
periously called for. On the eve of New Year's
Day, a whole quarter of Constantinople narrowly
escaped being blown into the air. A fire broko
out at Galata, and in a house near the scene of the
conflagration was a large depot of gunpowder be•
longing to a private individual, or dealer in that
article. For some time the greatest alarm was
felt, but fortunately by tearing down a few houses
the progress of the fire in that direction was
checked, and all danger was put an end to. In
consequence of the bad state of the weather,
accounts from the Danubian provinces rea ch this
capital but very rarely. By the last courier we,
however, learn that Prince Couza has charged M.
Poujabe to negotiate a loan of GO millions of francs
in France, bat in the present state of things
this task will, it appears to me, be rather a difficult
one. Affairs in Servia seem to be every day taking
a more favourable turn. Dorvich Pacha, the new
representative of the Porte in Russia, has been
charged before proceeding to his post to visit
Servia, and to institute an inquiry in quality of High
Commissioner."

AMERICA.

Tke following telegram has been received at Mr.

Reuter's office :

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 16.

The Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, Captain Lott,
has arrived with New York advices to the sth inst.,

but no Specie.

She passed the steam-ships Etna and Glasgow,
bound for New York.

The slavery question was still being discussed in
Congress. No Speaker had been elected.

California advices to the 12th December contain
no news of importance. Business was dull, and.

prices heavy.

Mining operations throughout British Columbia
had closed for the winter, on account of cold
weather. The miners were leaving for Victoria
and California to spend the winter, with the express
determination of returning again in the spring, as
!a' terly they have been very successful.

Mrs. Cameron, wife of the Chief Justice of the
colony, and sister of Governor Douglass, died on
the 26th of November at Esquimalt.
At llavana, on the 30th, sugar was firm. Ster-
ling Exchange, 13 to 151.
A large number of destructive fires had broken
out in New York.