The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-27 00:00:00

THE LEVANT MAIL.

We have received papers and letters from the East
by the Levant mail, which arrived yesterday. The
dates are—Constantinople the 7th inst., Smyrna the
9th, Alexandria the 6th, and Malta the 15th.

The state of affairs in Syria gave rise to a new con-
ference of the Ambassadors, which was held at Bujuk-
dere on the 29th ult. On the same day a Cabinet
Council was held at the Porte to deliberate on the
same subject. The results of those conferences had
not transpired; but it was believed that no definitive
arrangement would take place until the Five Powers
had returned a reply to the last note forwarded to
them by the Ottoman Government.
Private accounts, however, state, that Riza Pacha,
whom Sir Stratford Canning expected to find more
favourable to his views than Izzet Pacha, had been as
inflexible on the Syrian question as his predecessor,
and as little inclined to be influenced by the repre-
sentations of the British Ambassador. All the con-
cession the representatives of the Allied Powers had
been able to obtain from the Divan was, that the
hatti-scheriff placing the Druses and the Maronites
under the jurisdiction of a Turkish governor should
not be issued for the present. The Porte had not yet
expressed any opinion on the late revolution
in Servia, nor had the representatives of the
European Powers made any proposition to the
Turkish Goverment on the subject, as they
were waiting instructions from their respec-
tive Courts. It was believed that the Russian Mi-
nister would not act with the other Ambassadors in
this question, as the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh had
disapproved of the conduct pursued by the Russian
Consul-General at Belgrade ; nor was it believed that
the Russian Government looked with a favourable
eye on the family of Obrenowitsch, because Prince
Milosch had courted the protection of Austria; nor
could Prince Michael have adopted a course more
displeasing to the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh than to
have taken refuge on the Austrian rather than on the
Russian territory.
The Sultan removed, on the 29th, from his country
residence of Tcheragan to his winter palace. All the
high functionaries of the Porte had followed the ex-
ample of the Sultan.
On the 30th M. de Boutenieff, the Russian Envoy,
waited on Saritn Effendi, the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, and on the 3d inst. was admitted to an au-
dience of the Sultan. On the same day M. de Titoff,
the former Minister Plenipotentiary of Russia, took
leave of his Highness, and left in a Russian steamer
for Odessa.
Chekib Effendi returned to Constantinople on the
29th ult., accompanied by the Servian deputation,
which had been sent to submit to the approbation of
the Porte the election of the new Prince chosen by
the people to replace Prince Michael. Chekib Effendi
obtained a private audience of the Sultan on the 4th.
The Egyptian steamer Boulak arrived on the 30th
from Alexandria, having on board Sami Pacha, En-
voy Extraordinary of Mehemet Ali, whose return had
caused a lively sensation in the Turkish capital. He
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The feast of the Ramazan commenced on the 4th,
at 8 o'clock in the evening, by the sudden illumina-
tion of all the mosques of Constantinople.
Fuad Effendi, the last Charge d Affaires of the
Porte in London, arrived at Constantinople on the
4th in the French steamer Eurotas.
The news from Persia continued to be pacific, but
the neighbourhood of the frontiers in both countries
was infested by robbers, who rendered the roads in-
secure for travelling, and impeded the commercial
relations.
On the 3d the Tahiri Bahri, and two other steamers,
left Constantinople for, it was supposed, Beyrout,
where they were going to take on board the Albanian
roops, whose presence. in Syria had been the occa-
tion of frequent complaints on the part of its inhabitants