The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-09 00:00:00

TURKEY.

The following are the principal portions of the text
of the decree lately issued by the Sultan, relative to
financial expenditure in Turkey :—" Considerable
sums wastefully expended or swallowed up in remu-
nerations and pensions of all kinds, have taken the
place of useful and profitable expenses ; the persons
employed by the state, blindly giving way to a style
of living beyond their means, have gravely prejudiced
the interests of the treasury. And, nevertheless, we
take nothing so seriously to heart as to secure the
progress of the power and glory of our empire, and
to consolidate the repose and the welfare of all our
subjects, who are in our hands a sacred deposit, of
which we must render an account to God in our
quality of High Caliph, and to increase their pro-
sperity, by the development of commerce and agri-
culture. It is for this reason that not only a few days
since we instituted a special commission, composed
of some of our ministers, and who have been already
deliberating on the amelioration of the financial
situation of our empire, on the means of preventing
the funds necessary for the general expenses be-
coming the prey of waste and dissipation, and on
the measures to be adopted in order that the reve-
nues of the state shall be devoted to their proper
purpose ; that is to say, to procure a good govern-
ment, and the welfare, security, and contentment of
the people from whom the revenue is drawn in the
shape of taxes, and to complete other ameliorations
which are considered as useful to the country. It
has been also by my orders officially notified to the
purveyors of my imperial palace, to those of the
Sultanas, as well as to speculators who advance
money to them, that whether they belong to foreign
nations or to corporations or trades of our empire,
from the day that the Seraskier Pacha was placed at
the head of that commission, none of their demands
would be admitted. I have thus manifested myfirm and
unchangeable resolution to devote for the future a
special attention and solicitude in order that the
tut:lds of my civil list and of my privy purse shall
be managed with order and economy. I will have
my Ministers and others employed under the Go-
vernment act in the same manner; they shall
labour energetically to introduce perfect regularity
said economy in all branches of the public and pri-
vate expenses in general. Such is my decided
determination." The commission alluded to is, it
appears, at work. A number of orders sent to Paris
and elsewhere have been countermanded, and dif-
ferent articles to the amount of 15 or 20 millions,
which had not been paid for, have been returned
to the different dealers.

A Constantinople letter in the Austrian Gazette
gives the following as the address delivered by the
Sultan in the Divan, when enjoining economy on
the governors of provinces and other high digni-
taries :—" I appointed you to your offices in order
to ensure the welfare of my subjects, without dis-
tinction of form of worship or nationality. But I
have found you negligent and unfaithful servants,
and many of you have not done your duty. I
have been good to you, but you have made an
abusive use oemy kindness, you have trifled with
my indulgence. Henceforth I shall be most severe,
and whoever does not obey shall be chastised."

FRANCE.

PARIS; WEDNESDAY.

The Emperor and Empress, since their arrival at
Biarritz, have received numerous personages of dis-
tinction. The Princess Aima Murat is on a visit to
their Majesties. The Empress has begun: taking
sea-baths. The Mayor of Biarritz has published an
address to the inhabitants, requesting them not to
disturb their Majesties' privacy by making demon-
stration s in their promenades.

The Prince Imperial who, as already mentioned,
left Paris on Saturday evening, arrived at Bayonne
at a quarter before 12. A great crowd of the in-
habitants of the latter place had assembled near the
station, and received his Imperial Highness with
the loudest acclamations. Their Majesties went
from Biarritz, and met the Prince half-way between
that place and Bayonne. The health of the young
Prince is excellent.

A letter from Bayonne of the '7th inst. says :
" The day before yesterday the ceremony of
giving the religious benediction to the first works
of the new jetty and barrage took place in pre-
sence of the Emperor. These works, which were
ordered by his Majesty, notwithstanding the un-
favourable opinions given of the plans by several
engineers of merit, have been, daring the last year,
carried on with great rapidity, under the direction
of M. Daguenet, the engineer who proposed them.
The results may be already judged of, and there is
every chance of complete success. At noon all
the sailing and row boats of the port were in
requisition, filled with elegantly-dressed persons,
all proceeding towards the bay, and a number of
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ties of the town, the members of the chamber of
commerce, and other constituted bodies. At three
o'clock their Majesties and suite proceeded, with-
out escort, to the point of attraction in two caurt
carriages and four. The Emperor was in full
military uniform, with the cordon of the Legion of
Honour. Their Majesties alighted on the shore,
which was crowded with people, and proceeded
to the extremity of the platform of the new jetty,
where they took their seats under a canopy, round
which were assembled all the authorities and clergy.
The bishop delivered an address to 'the Emperor,
and his Majesty replied in a few words, which
were received with cheers, afterwards conferring
the decoration of the Legion of Honour on M. La-
font, a member of the council-general, and on M.
Detroyat, vice-president of the Chamber of Com-
merce. After the religious ceremony of blessing
the sea and a pile which was about to be driven,
the steam-engine erected on the spot was set to
work, and in a few minutes the pile, under the
stroke of the powerful machine, sank several yards
into the ground. The Emperor, with the Empress
on his arm, then descended from the raised platform
on which they had been seated, went towards the
machine, and attentively examined the different
works, and addressed questions to the engineer.
After remaining an hour and a-half on the jetty,
which as yet only consists of a single row of piles,
with a temporary platform, and vibrates at the beat
of every wave, the Emperor and Empress returned
to their carriage, and proceeded to the villa Eugenie
amidst loud cries of Vive l'Empereur ! Vive l'lm-
peratrice !' "

Prince Jerome, according to the Journal clu
Havre, will soon leave that port to return to Paris.
The boats which the Prince has been in the habit
of using have already been replaced in the store-
houses of the naval department. The day before
yesterday the Prince received the Mayor and de-
puty Mayors of Havre, preparatory to his final
departure.

General Baron Renault, ad interim governor-
general of Algeria, has receiving the following
telegraphic dispatch from Prince Napoleon dated
Paris, Sept. 1 :—" I hasten to inform you that by a
decree dated yesterday, the 31st of Augu3t, the