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TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES.
The following is a circular addressed by the
Turkish Government to its representatives at the
European Courts, early in this month of December :
" The direction which the Divans ad hoc of the
two Principalities have given to their task raised a
question, the solution of which required a prelimi-
nary understandine, amongst all the Powers that
signed the Treaty of Paris, namely, whether the
task of the Divans ad hoc was to be regarded as
accomplished, and whether they should be dissolved
as soon as they should have tendered to the Euro-
pean Commission the result of their deliberations
on the political part of the subject, or whether it
would be expedient, on the contrary, to induce
them to complete the labours which the Congress
had indicated to them ?
"Our information confirms us more and more
in the opinion that it would have been very
difficult to induce the Divans to express any
ulterior wishes respecting the administrative laws,
before they had solved the points touching the
political organisation. In such a case it would
have been rendered necessary
" 1. To permit their continuance until the Con-
gress should have formed a decision on these points.
"2. To require afterwards of the said Assem-
blies the completion of their unfinished labours.
"3. To meet again in conference, and proceed
to the conclusion of the final act or settling the
definitive organisation of the two provinces.
"In addition to the material difficulties which
this mode of arrangement would have been sure to
occasion, there would have resulted from it certain
dangers, the gravity of which could not escape the
wise foresight of the cabinets.
" In fact, during the interval employed by the
Congi ess on the questions connected with their po-
litical condition, the existence of the Divans as a
constituted body would have been, in our view of
the case, a powerful motive for prolonging and in-
creasing the agitation that has prevailed in those
countries ; there would even have been reason to
fear the occurrence of serious disorders, thereby
aggravating the state of things which was already
so complicated. The very grave symptoms lately
exhibited at Jassy, when th authorities were com-
pelled to guard with troops the spot where the
Moldavian Divan hold its sittings, with a view to
protect thorn from an attack on the part of the mob,
the excitement still displayed by most of the mem-
bers of both assemblies, the intrigues of the parties
into which they are divided, the anxiety into which
this state of things plunges all the inhabitants,
hive s3rvecl to enhance our apprehension. To all
these considerations another is added, not less im-
portant, namely, the embarrassment which the
Divans would infallibly have given rise to at the
Conferences, availing themselves each respectively
of its character of a constituted assembly.
"It is therefore with the greatest pleasure that
we find the opinions of the different governments
accord respecting the necessity of dissolving the
Divans the instant the European Commission shall
have made its final report.
" I consequently invite you, sir, to furnish ex-
planations to the government to which you have
the honour of being accredited in conformity with
the foregoing remarks, and to transmit to us with-
out delay the answer you shall have received.
(Signed) " Am.
"P. S. You must clearly give it to be under-
stood that we have no wish or intention
to effect the dissolution of the Divans before the
completion of their labours, as stipulated in the
treaty of March 30th. The sole object of our desire
is that they should not continue sitting when the
Conference shall have met to legislate upon their
expressed wishes—that is to say, that the alterna-
tive should not be admitted of allowing them to
exist until the points concerning the political or-
ganisation shall have been solved by the Congress,
in order to ask of them afterwards the completion
of the work.
" In fine, we mean that with the sending in of its
final report by the European Commission the Di-
vans ought to cease, as the aforesaid treaty, more-
over, intends, whether they have completed the
task imposed on them, or whether they have per-
sisted in their demand to wait for the solution of
the first pelt of their labours, in order to undertake
at a later period the discussion of the second part.
(SigneA) " AALI."
The local news of Constantinople is of but
trifling interest. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe had
been paying some farewell visits previously to his
departure. On the 6th his lordship dined with
Reschid Pacha, and on the following day with Aali
Paella. Mr. Spence, the American representative,
had had an audience of the Sultan to take leave.
Ho proceeds to Italy prior to his return to the
United States. His successor at Constantinople
had not yet arrived. The two Christian Armenians
who have been raised to the dignity of pacha are
M. Tiiighir, head of the office of correspondence in
the department of foreign affairs, and M. Vartan,
first interpreter of the Admiralty. The first takes
the name of Yever Pacha, and the other Yassuf
Paella. These nominations were very favourably
received at Constantinople, as the new dignitaries
had done excellent service to Turkey.
A letter from Tiflis anuounces that the Prince of
Souenneti, who murdered Prince CalgAr:ne, was
shot at Koutais on the 17th ult. in pursuance of
the sentence of the court-martial. ;