The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-17 00:00:00

AALI PASHA, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TO

HIS EXCELLENCY THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR.
" AUGUST 4.

" The last important communications from
your Excellency and the three other Embassies
concerning the eleztions is Moldavia have again
been taken into the most serious consideration of
the Ministers of the Sublime Porte and presented
to His Imperial Majesty the Sultan. As the
Imperial Government will not &low the friendly
and intimate relations happily suhsisting wit!) the
French Government, the coninuation and per-
, tnanence of which is the most anxi,us desire of my
Imperial master, to suffer the slightest alteration,
the expressions contained in your Excellency's
last communication have caused a deep feeling of
conc-rn. _

" The desire of the Imperial Government in this
matter was, while endeavouring to ensure a con-
tinuation of the friendly disposition of the allied
Powers, to execute loyally the duties imposed upon
it by the Treaty of Paris, and while duly consider-
ing all observations made to it on the subject of
the elections, faithfullyt o observe all its prescriptions.
Its efforts to obtain unanimity of opinion on the
part of the representatives of the allied Powers who
took part in the conference which est ktfli,hed the
mode of election were founded on that desire, and
it did not allow itself to act on its sole judgment
in an affair of joint interest. But, alas ! it has
not been able to obtain this unanimity, and the
matter is still in dispute. The Sublime Porte is
dispensed from altering a rule formed by all parties
without obtaining the consent of all parties.
" But at the same time the Sublime Porte
'
openly declares at once that she will have no hesita-
tion in performing the duty required of her by
justice, when the irregularit es alleged to have oc
curred in the execution of orders issued by his
Imperial Majesty and confided to his agents ap-
pointed by his Imperial Majesty shall Lave been
proved in a formal and legal manner.
" It is hoped that your Excellency will admit
the necessity in which the Porte is. placed to ex
amine and inquire how her orders have been exe-
cuted previously to taking such a grave step. The
easiest mode of performing this inquiry is to bring
here the Kaimakans, who are the heads of the Pro-
vincial Governments appointed to execute the
orders of the Porte.

"It bas, therefore, been agreed upon and de-
cided to -write to the Kaim:k.,ins to start im-

mediatly and -come here, leaving the admi-
ni,tration of the country to a suitable deputy.
On their arrival here they will be examined on tt.e
manner in which they have execu'ed the orders
they were charged with execurinz. After every

sort of inquiry shall have been fully gone into the
affair will be carefully and impartially scrutinised,
and the result Wilt be submittA and referred to the

impartial judgment of the Embassies of the con-
tracting parties.
"Should the occurrence of irregularities in the
elections be formally proved, it is clear that neither
the Port) nr r any of the other Governments would
accept an illegally conducted election.
"Too Porte, therefore, esteems it a duty re-
quired by justice to declare at once that it will
hold itself at lit.ettY to annul it in than case.
tt In the firm Lope that a decision in accordance
with the principles of fairness and the spirit of
business, and wit the respect and con4leiatir,n
.due by the Sublime Porte to the French Govern-
ment will be agreed to by your Excellency and ap-
precia-ed by the Emperor's Government, I hast,n
to communicate it to you by order of his
Majesty."
To this note of the Porte—in which the principle

of annulling the elections, should it prove on in-
coiry that they bave been fallacious, is clearly ad-
mitted by the Porte—the French Amb tssador re-
plies by reiterating his demand that they be
annulled at once, and intitnates his intention of
suspending diplomatic relations unless he receives a
favourable answer before 8 o'clock next morning.
The Council of Ministers assembles once more :
they are deeply impressed with the gravity of the
circumstances, but, after deliberating all night,
they are unable to alter their previous decision, and
they express with great dignity their opinion in this
second note :

THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO HIS Ex-
CELLENCY THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR.

" AUGUST 5.

Your Excellency's note, sent to me inreply to
its thle to
Suhbili
my communication to your Excellency, by order of
his Majesty, concerning the decision of the Council
of Ministers, in the question of the Principalities,
received wi h great concern and sorrow, was im-
mediatelyhid before the Council of Ministers, and
submitted
111eajpesotle cannot in any way allow
its relations of sincere friendship with the French
Government to suffer the least disturbance, it
must be evident to your Excellency that the adop-
tion by your Excellency of measures such as these
you announce as about to be taken by your E 1 xce -
lency, if your Excellency's demand is not granted
in toto, will afflict and distress the Porte to an ex-
treme degree.
" The proposition of the Sublime Porte concern-
ing the elections of Moldavia and the demand put
forward by your Excellency and by your Excel-
lency's three colleagues are in reality alike in prn-
ciple. If the annulment of the elections is made
to depend on a formal verification of the
irregulirities alleged to have been committed, this
is rendered necessary by the des re of the Porte
to
act fairly and justly towards all the other parties to
the treaty. It could never, therefore, have occurred
to the Porte that a decision in harmony with the
rule of justice could be construed into a refusal of
your Excellency's demand, and it wAs intimately
convinced that such a meaning would not be given
to it by your Excellency, and it still entertains this
hope.
" The result of the deliberations of the Council
of Ministers is therefore that the Sublime Porte
cannot see any reason for the measures the adoption
of which is announced in your Excellency's note,
and sincwely requests the exertion of your efforts
for the non-interruption in any way whatever of the
sincere and friendly relations existing between the
two Governments, the continuance and permanence
of which are so anxiously wished for by my august
master.
"At the same time, although there is no doubt
that you will not be remiss in making known to
your august master, the Emperor, the sincere and
friendly dispositions of the Sultan's Government
towards that of France, as well as the consider-
ations put forward by the Porte in this matter,
yet his Majesty, in order to give further proof
of ,his regard, and in order to make known by a
direct channel the reasons and real source of his
opinion, has desired that a special letter be sent
to the Emperor himself.
"I am ordered by his Majesty to inform you that
he entertains no doubt that you will again weigh
these friendly communications in the balance of
your judgment, and tbat you will give still further
proofs of the well dis-posed zeal hitherto displayed
by your Excellency for the maintenance of the
alliance of the two Governments.
A short time after the reception of this note,
which does not seem animated by any very hostile
spirit, the French Ambassador struck his gag in the