The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-11 00:00:00

TURKEY.

We have received Constantinople journals and
letters to the 31st ult., brought by the Sinai. The
great affair of the moment was the diplomatic con-
ference so frequently postponed. The meeting took
place in the apartments of the Grand Vizier
Rschid Pacha, the other personages present being
M. de Prokesch d'Osten, the Austrian internuncio ;
M. Thouvenel, ambassador of France ; Lord Strat-
ford de Itedcliffe, the representative of England ;
M. de Gundlach, charge d'affaires of Prusssia ;
Baron de Boutenieff, the envoy of Russia ; Gene-
ral Durando, minister of Sardinia ; and Ali
Ghalib Pacha, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The sitting commenced at two o'clock, and lasted
until evening. The discussion is said to have been
warm occasionally, but never stormy. The follow-
ing letter gives some interesting details relative to
what passed on this important occasion :
"I by no means pretend to state to you fully
what took place, but the information which I
receive from a trustworthy source enables me to
give some general idea of the proceedings. The
day before the conference, the representatives of
Russia, Sardinia, Prussia, and France, met at the
residence of the latter at Therapia ; and it being
ascertained that the views of the four governments
were identical, M. Thouvenel was charged to re-
present at the meeting the complaints of the four
courts. That preference was given to the French
representative from the decided attitude which M.
Thouvenel had assumed in the affair of the princi-
palities. and from his personal influence. Accord.
ingly, at the conference itself, M. Thouvenel spoke
first, pointing out at great length the facts which
had taken place in Moldavia and Wallachia in
direct contradiction, he said, to the treaty of
Paris. He produced a vast number of documents
to prove that both caimacans, and more particu-
larly Prince Vogerides of Moldavia, had been acting
quite illegally. I understand that M. Thouvenel,
from the statements, facts, and papers transmitted
to him by M. de Talleyrand, made out a very
strong case. He then proceeded to inquire at
whoseinstigation Prince Yogorides was acting, and
asked if the Turkish Government would venture to
support their agent in such conduct. He did not,
he said, mean to accuse the Porte of countenancing
the two caimacans, but it was indubitable that
both had received a certain amount of encourage-
as well as from the peculiar bias of the pre-
ment from the known views of England and Aus-
tria,
ceding Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ethein
In reply Reschid Pacha unhesitatingly declared,
that such conduct could not be too entrgeti.
catty blamed ; far from the acts of the caimacans
being of service to the Porte, they only
served to raise supicions against the frank
bearing of the Turkish Government ; and the more
so that the Sultan considered it a point of honour
to carry out completely the stipulations of the
treaty of Paris As for himself, who then ad-
dressedvheere reprimand, and to insist on their
pledged himself to send to the
.ediately sent to them. Lord adhering Stra-
tford to the
.instructions which he promised
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caimacans
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from a certain reserve,
rtain reserve, and apparently with a
strong deaire to justify Ids personal conduct. He
did not attempt to deny the exactitude of the facts
brought forward by M. Thouvenel, and he ad-
mitted the necessity of having recourse to mea-
sures calculated to prevent a repetition of them.
M. de Prokesch, lam informed, was much less
conciliatory, and even gave way to a certain
amount of recrimination. Ali Ghalib Pacha spoke
more than once, and after stating clearly what he
conceived to be the character of the treaty of Paris
and the spirit of the firman of convocation, he as-
sured the meeting, as the Grand Vizir had done
before, that it was the decided intention of the
the. other powers. The repre-
sentatives to execute loyally the treaty of March 30, in
conjnnctio with f
Sardinia, Russia, and Prussia con-
fined themselves to admitting the correctness of M.
Thouvenel's representations, and announced the
complete accord of their governments with the
opinions expressed by the French ambassador. In
fine, the conference terminated satisfactorily for the
wishes of France, Russia, Sardinia, and Prussia.
In the evening, a telegraphic despatch was sent to
Paris to announce the result ; and this day, full
instructions have been despatched to the cai-
macans at Jassy and at Bacharest to guide their
future conduct. In addition, M. Lesourd,
secretary of the French mission in the prin-
cipalities, will return to-morrow to Bucharest to
join M. de Talleyrand, and to convey to him the
necessary powers to constrain the Turkish autho-
rities from the highest to the lowest to executd
strictly the treaty of Paris."
The Sultan has renounced his excursion, which
had been recommended chiefly on account of the
measles and the scarlatina having made their ap-
pearance in the palace.
These maladies have now
almost entirely died away, and in consequence his
Majesty has resolved not to leave Constantinople
at the present conjuncture.