The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-15 00:00:00

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

Intelligence has been received from Jassy and
Bucharest to the let, from which it appears that
the firman of the Porte closing the session of the
Divans was an act, perfectly regular in its nature,
and not interrupting in any way the labours or-
dered by the congress of Paris. At Jassy, the
Divan at the above date bad named commissions
to consider the series of questions set down on its
order of the day relative to the internal organise-
ion of the country. It was at that time expected
that the sittings could terminate in about ten days.
At Bucharest, the Divan, after having come to the
determination not to express an opinion on any
question except these included in the four points
of the national programme, bad separated without
any day being fixed for their next meeting, their
act amounting in fact to an unlimited prorogation.
Prom the advanced position of the labours of these
e
two bodies, therefore, it is quite clear that the fir-
man of the Porte only confirms otliciaty a state
of things already existing. As to the question
of the firman having obtained the assent of the
powers which signed the treaty of Paris, every-
thing leads to the bolief that they fully approve
the course adopted by the Porte. P-, is even
said that the cabinets, charged with the solution of
the problems connected with the reorganisation of
the Principalities, have come to an arrangement on
the principal bases of the determinations . to be
adopted at the approaching conference of Paris.
The Divans leaving accomplished their mission, and
transmitted the result of their labours to the
European commissioners, these latter can, in their
turn, leave' the Principalities, and cornfmunicme
their observations to the committee
opened on the subject cf the wants ofinquiry
the 0 Danubian
province's. The period of their departure, it is
supposed, will be about the end of the present

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month ; and soon after, the meeting of tho pleni-
potentiaries at Paris will take place.

SERVIA.

A letter from Belgrade of the Gth says :—" Sena-
tor Garaschanin, who has
,been:residing some time
at Paris, has arrived here, and is about to under-
take the presidency of the Senate in the room of
Alexis Simich, resigned. Dissensions continue to
exist between our Government and the Porte, but
the latter appears determined to maintain its rights
of suzerainty in Servia more energetically than in the
other principalities; and as the Government is no
longer supported by the national party, it is too
weak to offer opposition—bekides the French and
Russian agents support the parties opposed to it."
A letter from Koutais states that the funeral of
Prince Gagarine, who was lately murdered by a
native chief, took place on the 9th in that town
with the greatest pomp, all the civil and military
authorities, deputations of all classes of society,
with banners, and of all the public bodies, being
present, together with a vast number of spectators.
The religious service over the body was celebrated
by the Bishop of Imeretia, assisted by all the clergy
of Koutais, in the church of St. Michael, and the
body was deposited in a vault in the Cathedral of
the Assumption of the Holy Virgin, the building
of which was commenced by the deceased, and is
not yet terminated.