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.

Tintitzv.
(Front Correvondenl of the Morning Beam.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 7.—You will see by the
Journal de Constantinople of to-day a report of the
troy ble 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 Chancellerie in the Turkish capital, all
documentary formalities might he carried out with
punctilio which the dignity of Ramie (unbribed)
requires, before a foreigner may venture to sell at
Kertch, or export therefrom even a little fragrant to-
baoco or 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 in 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 McAlester, the proper British
officer, a passport from Balaklava to Odessa, and be
to passage in the Hanoverian schooner Ewald,
which re tched Odess% on or about the 22d July,
aid there he remained ei;ht or nine days. Before
leaving Balaklava Mr. Stuart applied to the Rus-
sian Commandant, by Mr. Borkolm, with whom
he was connected tnereantilely, and who had to
:ipply for other vim for Odessa—four in all—when
the Conatrandant (Stamati) stated that no vise was
necessary at all ! This was five days after the
English had left. When the Ewald arrived at
Odessa there was no quarantine. Mr. Stuart and
her other passengers duly passed through 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, Ic.
Ordered again on board the Ewald, Mr. Stuart
received no communication 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 go- ernor
would not allow Mr. Carruthers to permit Mr.
Stuart and his companions to enter the city. One
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 Odessa ! The governor would
not recognise Capt. McAlester's Crimean passports,
and a guardino 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 pat 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 ohance was going down to the sea-
shore, which they did. The commandant pointed
out a sort of ship-chandler's, on the Mole, as the
only place where 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 would be 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
three 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 ho was allowed to join
one of them, on a guarantee to return to the
lazeretto at three o'clock on the day appointed for
the ship's sailing. At four the Vigilant was ex-
pected to sail ; Mr. Stuart and " 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 2i
hours, reslanded, again taken off to the ship, and ul-
timately (ou her captain's entreaty) permitted' to