The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-16 00:00:00

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

Accounts from Bucharest of the 6th state that
two days before a deputation of landed proprietors,
advocates, and several young boyards of higher
station paid visits to the commissioners of the Eu-
ropean powers. On the occasion the following ad-
dress was presented to Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer :

" Excellency,—The Roumains welcome with delight
in you the worthy representative of free England—
the envoy of her most gracious Majesty the Queen
of Great Britain. They indulge in the firm hope that
your presence among them will powerfully contribute to
deliver them from all restraist, and thereby secure to
them an unshackled manifestation of the wishes of the
country, with entire independence in the elections. We
have the greater right to expect an attentive surveillance
on the part of the commissioners, in the application Gf
the electoral law, that we have not taken any part in
drawing it up. We have too long lived without liberty
for abuses not to be rife, particularly at a distance from
the capital. We solicit the attention of your Excellency
to this point. We take great pleasure in reminding you
that at the congress of Paris the representative of her
Britannic Majesty was the first to strongly insist on the
necessity of taking into account the free wishes of the
country • and from what power can we expect this elec-
toral independence, which is so necessary for us, if not
from that one which has had the happy privilege of
enjoying for ages the benefits of free institutions ?
Your Excellency, who has shown yourself everywhere
and at all times the warmest defender of liberty of
conscience, as also one of the most constant supporters
of representative government, cannot fail to secure
that liberty in our country. We pray you, therefore,
to accept the sentiments of hope and of gratitude which
we offer you in the name of our countrymen of all
classes."

The following reply was made by the English
Commissioner :

",.Gentleinen—,l have listened attentively to the words
which you have just addressed to me, and my first duty
is to thank you for all the obliging sentiments you
have expressed towards my country, my Government,
and myself. With regard to the question to which you
particularly call my attention, namely, the elections which
are shortly to take place, the Ottoman Government has
declared its intentions in the most solecin and preci-e
manner, and, arriving direct from Constantinople, I am
able to assure you that the Sublime Porte desires with
sincerity what it has declared without hesitation. I
must also believe that the Government of this princi-
pality at the head of which is placed a prince whose
family is one of the illustrations of your annals, and
who, from his reputation of frankness and straightfor-
ward conduct, was pointed eut to the confidence of
the Sultan, will, in such a critical moment, execute
the instructions it has received with scrupulous fidelity.
Such is certainly its duty. On the other hand, it is fer
the Wallachian people, and especially for you, gentle-
men, whose position in the centre of society should main-
tain a proper equilibrium in it, to render, by the prudent
ability of your conduct, the task imposed on the autho-
rities easier. No one doubts your intellgence ; that gift
the
of Heaven is visible on all the faces which surround me ;
but experience alone enables what is difficult to be di,-
thetphoei m
tinguished from what is impossible, theory from practice,
and so it is permitted to doubt it, in circumstances as
novel as they are difficult, you will have ail the prudence,
all andatoionlishm ana: l
proud the tact, which
epithet which you
have accorded to his country) every nation which is , which (believe on
ntoder
Englishman, an
de-
sirous of enjoying the advantages of a liberal Govern-
meet and a representative syst:m should possess. E 111.•
ploy, then, I beg of you, all your efforts to make yi,ur-
selves remarkable by these virtues and these civic
talents, which perhaps are what is the least expected
from you, but which will confer on you the greatoht