The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Baron d'Ompteda, the Hanoverian Minister, and M. de
Bourqueney, the French Charge d'Affaires, visited Viscount
Palmerston yesterday at the Foreign Office.
Mr. Borradaile and a deputation had an interview with Lord
Glenelg yesterday at the Colonial Office, on business relative
to the Cape of Good Hope.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will arrive at Liverpool
this day, from Weston, Chipping Norton.
The Marquis of Lansdowne has arrived at Limerick.

LORD DURHAM AT CONSTANTI-

NOPLE.

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 9.—The COUrrier Francais
publishes a letter from Constantinople of Sept. 8, accordinc,
to which the Sultan has given to the Earl Durham two of
his principal officers, to act in the capacity of extraordinary
mehmandars ; he has, moreover, sent his Lordship presents
with a Hatti Scheriff,a favour which formerly was conferred
on no Christian, whatever might be his rank. The Sultan
has likewise ordered that, in all places which Earl Durham
may wish to go to, his slightest wishes be immediately gra-
tified. This distinguished reception has been suggested by
Russia. Count Strogonoff, Aid-de-Camp to the Emperor
Nicholas, is in Greece, entrusted with negotiations relative
to a matrimonial alliance, but he is hourly expected to re-
turn to Constantinople, where it is reported that he is to
accompany the Earl of Durham to the Black Sea, in order
that the English diplomatist may know and see but that
which it is impossible to conceal. The letter adds that the
Earl of Durham, well aware of these designs, was anxious
to take a sudden departure, and was, on the 7th, reported
to have actually sailed.

(From the Temps of Saturday.)

Our Minister for Foreign Affairs has received very re-
cent intelligence from Constantinople. Lord Durham was
still in that capital, determined, it seems, to bring to a
definitive and formal solution the question of the closing up
of the Dardanelles. Meanwhile the British fleet has ap-
proached the entrance of the channel, not with a view to
commence hostilities, for bloody conflicts are no longer to
the taste of diplomacy, but to support, by the appearance
and presence of considerable forces, the negotiations now
going on between the Noble Lord and the Ottoman Porte.
It was reported that Lord Durham had demanded of our
Ambassador to join him in his application to the Divan,
and that he had not met from the Admiral with that com-
plete adhesion which alone could impart strength and
energy to his negotiation. The French Ambassador is
said to have declared that he had neither mission nor powers
to act in so decided a manner. . .

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Our intercourse with Great Britain is no longer so cor-
dial and so warm as it was at the conclusion of the qua-
druple alliance. Russian intrigue has interfered ; promises,
engagements and professions have been received from St.
Petersburgh, and the Doctrinarian Cabinet, delighted with
those advances, now co-operate but timidly with the Cabi-
net of London. France is no longer in Spain, or in the
East, the sincere ally of England. Lord Melbourne and
O'Connell frighten her ; the Juntas and M. Mendizabal's
new system strike terror into the Doctrinaires, who have
do other hope than in Toplitz ; that is, in the predominacy
of Russian interests, and, consequently, in the secession
from British policy, which was directed to crush Russian
domination over the Bosphorus.
This explains why the French Ambassador refused to
co-operate sincerely and actively with Lord Durham.