The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-10 00:00:00

FRANCE•

PARIS, SUNDAY.
The Constitutionnel contains the following
article :

" We learn that the ambassador of France, the
Ministers of Prussia, of Russia, and of Sardinia at
Constantinople have broken off diplomatic relations
with the Porte. If we are well informed, these
diploraatic agents had orders to demand from the
Ottoman Government the annulment of the elec-
tions which have tak-in place in Moldavia, in
flagrant and undeniable violation of the law or of
the electoral &man, drawn up at Constantinople
by the Porte and tie representatives of the other
pow( rs who particirated in the treaty of Paris. As
the Porte did not taint proper to offer a declaration
conceived in that anse, M. Thouveuel and his col-•
league of Prussia, Lussia, and Sardinia have been
compelled to act on their instructions. We shall
return to a subject, the serious nature of which
cannot be entirely appreciated without a full know-
ledge of its details. We blieve ourseves justified
in denouncing as utfounded any information which
may represent circumtances in a different light to
the at_iove."

The Debats exprGses in the following terms its
entire approbation A the step taken by France and
her three allies at ionstantinople :
" However aiuci the conflict which has arisen
between the Porteand four European Powers is to
be regretted, it nuy nevertheless be considered as
a step towards thesolution aimed at by France and
by toe three other Powers who support her policy
at Constantinople. It is high time that the
question should ha sA:led. When the Congress of
Paris, in the tuaeth of April, 1850, took gene-
riusly in hand the interests and the destny of the
Danubian Plinchalities, who could have expected
that this queiticn would produce such serious
and prolonged eifficulties ? The Eastern war
was concluded more than sixteen months
ago ; the points of the treaty of Paris which
threatened to ofbr the greatest difficulties in their
execution, have been settled ; but of all the ques-
tions, regulated by that treaty, that of the prin-
cipalities had not made a step in advance. Inci-
dents and quibbes have it 18 true, taken place,
but it cannot be said that the question has pro-
gressed in the sightest since the day when the
treaty of Paris was signed. Private interests, the
secret thoughts cf three powers, have obstructed
Vie settlement calmed by the greater part of
Europe. Can lesslegitimate pretensions than those
which are more or less openly avowed in Constan-
tinople and Vienna be conceived. The grand
araameat brougit, to bear against the Union of
the principalities a, that the union was not deter-
mined on in the -treaty of Paris. Nay, it is even
in.inuated that fle treaty of Paris is hostile to
that measure. We may say with sincerity, that
courage must be required in order to bravo public
opinion in so direct a mannor. Doubtless, the
union of the principalities is not formally laid
down in the treat! of Paris ; it could not have
been established since the wise decision was come
to of appealing to the population, and of allowing
it to decide on the question. The whole world
know that the union was formally proposel and
recommenced by the first plenipotentiaries of
France as the best plan for the reorganisation of
the principalities, an l that it was no less formally
supported by Vie first plenipotentiary of Great
Britain. But there can be no necessity for discus-
ing so clear a question which has been settled by
every impartial mind. Public opinion has a right
to depend on the wisdom and firmness of the four
powers who only seek the sincere anl loyal exe-
cution of the treaty of Paris. A continuation of
the existing state of things might result in seriously
disturbing the tranquillity of Europe. The late
events at Constantinople seem to indicate that the
four powers have comprehended the importance of
the question, and are resolved on obtaining its de-
finite solution in conformity with the letter and
spirit of the treaty of Paris."
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