The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-16 00:00:00

THE EAST.

We have received the Constantinople journals
and letters to the 4th brought by the Jourdain, but
as regards the Turkish capital itself they contain
little of interest, the fete of the Bairam causing a
lull in public affairs. Italy was the paramount
object of attention, and intelligence from the seat of
war was looked for with the greatest anxiety. The
state of Servia, the Danubian Principalities, Monte.'

negro, Bosnia, and Bulgaria also caused consider-
able uneasiness to the Porte, and every exertion was
being made to organise forces so as to be able
to meet eventualities. Prince Milosch was said to
be placing himself in opposition not only to the
Porte but against all modern institutions. The
journals affirm that he has closed the public schools,
dismissed all functionaries whom he considered
inclined to civilisation, and replaced men of mo-
derate opinions by those advocating extreme mea-
sures. These accounts are evidently much exag-
gerated, and are not confirmed by accounts from
other sources. The Levant Herald of the above
date says :—" An influential meeting of bankers
aid merchants was held yesterday at the Ottoman
Bank, to consider the means of checking, if
possible, the ruinous fluctuations in the exchnages.
It was there stated that a further amount of
41,676,650 p. in large caimes had been cancelled on
the 26th April, and that the total amount called in
was now 297,701,350 p.; that, in addition to this sum,
about 100,000,000 p. in small caimes were now lying
in the Hasne and at the Ottoman Bank, of which the
verification had been delayed by the fast of Rama -
zan, but which which would be cancelled as soon as
they could be verified; that there still remained a
portion of the loan, which would also be applied to
the withdrawal of caimes ; that the available pro-
ceeds of the loan exhausted, about 160,000,000 p.
caimes would remain in circulation; but that
against this amount might be set a sum of £460,000
which the Turkish Government had left in London
in the hands of its bankers, with the object of main-
taining the price of its scrip, and which it would
not be advisable to realise in the present state of the
money market ; and also £620,000 of the second
portion of the loan which could be negotiated at any
price after the 31st August. To relieve the market
from the incubus of the remaining 160,000,000 p.
caimes, it was first proposed that a subscription be
immediately entered into by the bankers and mer-
chants for withdrawing this amount from circula-
tion, until some arrangement could be come to
with the Government for its final extinction ; but,
after prolonged discussion, it was agreed to propose
to the Government a local loan of 160,000,000 p. to
be raised on easy terms and to be applied to the
withdrawal of the remaining caimes. This loan
would be secured in the first instance on the
£460,000 Turkish :scrip in the hands of the Go-
vernment bankers, and on the £620,000 to be
negotiated as soon as circumstances would permit ;
80,000,000 p. of this loan to be taken up by the
bankers and merchants of Galata, and 80,060,000 p.
by the capitalists of Constantinople. A subscrip-
tion list was at once opened at the meeting, and
30,000,000 p. were at, once subscribed among the
capitalists present, and if the commercial public
and the native population generally are really
anxious to get rid of the remaining caimes, there
will be no difficulty in obtaining subscriptions to
the full amount required. The plan has been sub-
mitted to the Government, but the Bairam will
probably delay any decision for a few days."

A letter from Dresden states that the treasury of
the State and all the deposits of specie have been
removed to the fortress of licenigstein. The Dres
den Journal assigns as the reason for this measure
that there is not sufficient room in the hotel of the
Ministry of Finance.

The Belgian Chamber of Deputies, in its sitting
of yesterday, voted a credit of a million of francs
for establishing primary schools.

The Madrid journals of the 10th have reached us.
The Chamber of Deputies had, after a long discus-
sion, rejected by 94 votes to 18 a motion for doing
away with the penalty of death for political offences.
Some of the members of the Moderado party had
held a meeting, and had resolved to send a deputa-
tion to the Duke de Valencia (Narvaez), to request
him to return to Spain. The Government was said
to have determined on sending military agents to
each of the combating armies, in order to have
Accounts of their operations.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA.
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.
The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Capt. Stone,
which sailed from Boston on the 4th instant, and
from Halifax on the night of the sth, arrived in
the Mersey at 10.25 this •morning, making the
passage in little over 9-} days, mean time. She
brought 163 passengers, and 166,051 dols. in specie
on freight.
A telegram from Toronto, dated the 30th ult.,
says :—" The Government was defeated this morn-
ing in the Upper House, the supplementary esti-
mates being thrown out. This result was in con-
sequence of the difference which exists between
the Upper and Lower Houses on the question of
removing the seat of Government to Quebec."
From Mexico we have full details of the last im-
portant telegraphic advices. The dates from the
capital are to April 18. General Miramon managed
to make his escape from the Constitutionalists by
forcing the lines of General Traconis, and arrived at
the cityof Mexico on thellth with two aides-de-camp
just in time to congratulate General Marquez on his
-rictoi7 over General Degoßadio. His army came in
'during the next day or two, most of the troops in good
condition. Miramon's passage of the Cumbres was
effected only after hard fighting. Three several times
idid this reckless commander assault the enemy's
ulmost impregnable position, and three times was he
beaten back. On the night of the 7th he suc-
ceeded in turning La Llave's wing, took the more
difficult mountain pass which that general come
manded, and from that time forth the way was clear..
Gen. Degollado arrived before the city of Mexico
on the 22d of March, and might then have easily
entered the city, but suffered himself to be deceived
by the millionaire Escandon (at whose place in
Tacubaya he was living) and others of the Robles
party, who made him believe that he had a large
party within the walls of the city, and that his
great personal popularity would Je damaged by
'violent measures.
On Sunday night, the 10th, preparations were
made for an attack upon Degollado's head-quarters
by a force of 500 men, under Marquez. During
that night they were allowed to flank the
enemy's positions, and on Monddy morning and
the following day the force of Degollado, though
fighting like tigers, were made to feel the
superiority in numbers and efficiency of that very
artillery and those very men whom their stupid
chief had allowed to come unmolested to the
aid of the city. It is said that the traitors and
cowards (the chiefs) fled early in the fight, and left
their brave soldiers to make what feeble resistance
they could. The result was, of course, a complete
rout. After the action upon the field deeds of
horror were committed such as can hardly be be-
lieved, but which can nevertheless be true. The
cavalry of Marquez, urged on by several priests,
amused themselves by lancing the wounded, with
whom the field was covered, none of whom were
spared. It appears that such deeds of blood and
murder were not approved by all the members
of Miramon's Government. Mr. Black, the Ame-
rican consul, has had his passports tendered him.
He applied to Mr. Otway, the English Minister, to
take the American citizens and property under his
protection in the absence of any representative of
the American Government in the capital, and his
request was denied. During the stay of the
Federalists in Tacubaya not the slightest disorder
was permitted. Everything went on well and the
rights of everyone were respected. But as soon as
the Centralists entered the scene changed, private
houses without number were sacked by the drunken
soldiery, citizens were outraged and murdered, and
those who have escaped the tempest of religious
fury still shudder at the atrocities they have been
comApceilrled to
cular oisfittinieess.
British Minister, Mr. Otway,
dated April 4, addressed to Frederick Glennie,
commences :-
4, Sir,—From a despatch which I received from the Earl of
Malmesbury by the last mail it would appear that her
Majesty's Government, wearied out by
its fruitless exer-
tions to obtain from the Government calling itself the
tral Government of Mexico a settlemento()ftheo outstanding
uponclaim stohfeSt riGtiesvhernsumbjeenctts,thaned influence being ,
bunable
of th to B
bring'ttth to
naval
force now off Vera Cruz have determined
oen nieholding the
whole Government indifferently responsible for the observa-
tion of all international obligations, so far as England is
concerned. It is therefore the intention of her Majesty's
Government to take advantage of the presence of the fleet
in the Gulf, and to hold Vera Cruz, by whatever party it is
occupied, to be, as it were, the treasury of Mexico, and to
enforce there as far as possible, the payment of all outstand-
ing claims of 'British subjects in Mexico."
NEW YORK, May s.—The Canadian Parliament
was prorogued yesterday, the supply bills having
been finally passed.
The British barque Ozell, from Port Spain, bound
to Dublin, was abandoned at sea on the 4th of
April, in a sinking condition.
FAILURE OF ANOTHER FILIBUSTERING EXPEDI-
TION AGAINST CUBA.—lntelligence has been re-
ceived here to the effect that an attempt to land a

small filibustering expedition on the shores of Cuba
has failed. The small boats in which the filibnsters
sought to reach the shore were swamped, and all
the munitions were lost. The filibusters them-
selves were saved, and had been conveyed in a
vessel to Hayti.