Star.
London, England, 1830-04-20 00:00:00

FRANKFORT PAPERS.

We received last night Frankfort Papers to the 12th April, from
which we make the following extracts :
BUCHAREST, Maims 16.
Accounts from Constantinople paint in dark colours the situa.
tion of the capital, as well as of the provinces. An apparent
tranquillity, indeed, still prevails, but an attentive spectator soon
perceives that it is entirely the result of fear and of momentary
obedience to the commands of the Sultan i but that it by no
weans proceeds from that temper of mind which internal sa-
tisfaction produces, nor even from the natural resignation of
the Alusselinen, and their belief in fatalism. The deep despon-
dency which has seized them is rather the effect of a sense of
uneasiness, and of that general discontent which, like a fire
slumbering amidst the ashes, threatens to break out into flames at
the first gust of wind. The additional taxes which the Porte has
imposed are certairdy a heavy burden on the people. The Turks
also consider certain stipulations of the Treaty of Adrianople as a
chief cause of the lamentable state in which the Ottoman empire
now is. "By these stipulations," they say, " our whole trade is
given up without any indemnity to the hands of foreigners, who will
not only draw advantage from our richest provinces, as if they were
their own, while our own merchants encounter only humiliation and
difficulties at every step, which, as it is impossible to prevent
them, must in the end prove our ruin." A similar temper marl.
fects itself even among the soldiers who arc besides not always re.
gularly paid. Indeed we may affirm, without Foing too far, that
notwithstanding the efforts of the Sultan and his confidential ser-
vants, there is a general remissness and want of harmony in all the
branches of the administration. But what has latterly had the most
injurious effect on the situation of the Porte, is the sudden discharge
of Perten Effendi, who, as Reis Effendi, las hitherto been at the head
of the department of Foreign Affairs. olnui the Ministers who have
filled that office during the last ten years, he was undoubtedly the only
one who saw in a right point of view the situation of the Ottoman
empire, and was thoroughly acquainted with what was necessary to
maintain it firm amidst the storms which threatened it from so
many quarters. It is certain, that having recognized the inefficacy
of the:ancient policy of the Turkish Cabinet, he sincerely desired
peace with all its consequences, howevergreat the sacrifices might be
that the Treaty of Adrianople imposed. Hence he is said to have
protested unequivocally, and without reserve, to the Sultan, of the
secret intrigues of a certain Cabinet, whose representative at the Porte
had found means to gain the confidence of hlahmoud by all kinds of
illusory insinuations. This Ambassador, by anticipating•the most
secret wishes of the Sultan himself, pointed out the course he had to
follow, in order to delay the execution of those Articles of the
Treaty which were most galling to the pride of the arrogant Despot,
in order, by this means, to gain time, and in the sequel obtain
a modifimion. Held Pacha, in consequence of secret instructions
proceeding from the Sultan himself, was to support this plan, and,
in fact, the exertions of that Ambassador at St. Petersburgh are
said to have thrown many impediments in the way of the
negotiation of the Russian Ministers at Constantinople. How-
ever, these Ministers, especially M. de Ribeaupierre, had serious
discussions with the ?ca. Effendi which, as well as the apprenhen.
aims that they excited in him, that Minister communicated without
reserve to his Master. The Sultan hereupon invited the British
Ambassador to a confidential audience, and now the dismissal of
Pesten Effendi was irrevocably resolved upon. However, it was
thought advisable, on account of Russia, to treat this old and tried
servant with some regard, and thus it happened he did not meet the
usual fate of those who fall into disgrace in Turkey, especially when
the individual, who has had the misfortune to draw on himself the
displeasure of his Sovereign, is suspected of the slightest want of
devotedness to his master.

FRANKFORT, Arum 11.
In the sitting of the Legislative Assembly of the lonian Wands,
on the 6th March, the Lord High Commissioner delivered a speech,
in which he gives a favourable view of the progress that has been
made in the establishment of schools, and of the Wands generally.
Public tratiquilliiy has not been interrupted, notwithstanding
the distress felt in almost all the districts in consequence of
the unaommonly severe winter. Nay, there has been since
the last Session, a great decrease in the number of crimes