The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-25 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Omer Pacha has addressed the following procla-
mation to the inhabitants of the Herzegovine:—
" The Sultan, our august:master,has deigned to
place me at the head of his valiant army of Rou-
melia, and to charge me to preside over the com-
mission, met to inquire into your wants, and re-
dress your legitimate grievances. I come among you
with the positive order of our august and magnani-
mous sovereign, to treat you with the indulgence
and generosity for which he is remarkable. You have
been misled, and have consequently been obliged
for four years to endure many sufferings. The
line of conduct which people, whose interest is to
disturb your repose, have induced you to follow,
would have drawn on you incalculable calamities,
had not H. I. M. shown you great commiseration.
It is now for you to prove that you are his faith-
ful subjects, and worthy of his paternal kind-
ness. Come, then, with confidence to me. I bring
you on the part of H.1.M., and I proclaim in his
august name a full and complete pardon, with a re-
mission of your taxes, which are in arrear. I also
promise you :-1. To confirm the choice which each
village is authorised to make of one or two nzouhtars
or mayors, according to its importance. 2. To nomi-
nate for each nahie two roclja-bachis, taken from
among the natives who enjoy the confidence of their
fellow citizens. 3. Absolute liberty, with the pri-
vilege of building churches like all the Christian sub-
jects of H.1.M., and of using bells. 4. Not any longer
to permit the zabties to lodge in your houses, but
to make them take up their residences in the places
designated in each college for them. 5. To bring
immediately into force the arrangements which
have been adopted in concert with the deputation
of the landowners and farmers of Bosnia, who were
summoned to Constantinople to draw them up ; 6.T0
permit the portion of the taxes due for each house
to be levied, and handed over to the authorities
by the mouhtars and the rodja bachis ; 7. To
recommend to the Patriarchs to send you
henceforth bishops of your nation, or who know
and speak your language ; 8. To facilitate to
you the purchase of real property. You see,
then, that our august master generously offers
you not only forgetfulness for the past, but all that
you can require to assure your future happiness and
prosperity. Hasten to follow the friendly counsels
which I once again address you : profit by them,
and cease to keep up agitation, which may turn to
your detriment. Spare the Imperial Government
the immense pain and the sad necessity of treating
you as rebels. Spare yourselves the disastrous con-
sequences of such treatment.

" OMER PACUA."

This proclamation drawn up in the Turkish and
Bosnian languages, has been communicated by Ur,

Porte to all the representatives of the foreign
Powers at Constantinople by a circular of May 1.

RUSSIA.

The .2Vord gives the following as a summary of
Prince Gortschakoff's despatch on the Syrian affair
to Count de Kisseleff, which has been mentioned by
telegraph :
" The document states that as the moment for the
evacuation approaches, the Russian Government
regards with apprehension the painful consequences
it will probably produce; that in the last con-
ferences it constantly objected to the evacuation,
and that it declines the responsibility of conse-
quences which it was the first to foresee and to
point out to Europe. That responsibility, it says/
must necessarily fall on those who have persisted
in demanding the cessation of the French occu-
pation. Accordingly, Count de Kisseleff is re-
quested, by order of his Sovereign, to speak to
this effect to his colleagues in the recent conferences,
so as to leave no doubt in their minds as to the
views of the Russian Government on the matter.
The despatch at the same time refers to the nume-
rous petitions from foreign residents in Syria, ex-
pressing fears that the recall of the French troops
will lead to grave events. The declaration made
by the Russian Cabinet is of great importance, for
it clearly shows that it is neither Russia nor France
which abandons the unfortunate Christians of Syria
to the cruelties of Mussulman fanaticism, which is
ready to break out anew. This document moreover
proves that no definitive regulation of the Syrian
question has been adopted by the European com-
mission in that province."