The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-11 00:00:00

STATE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.

The letters received from Conitantinople, from various sources,
are all at variance with the ministerial statements of the minis-
terial journals. We know not from what member of the cabinet
the Bulletin du Soir receives its information, but we do know that
some of the ministers have received intelligence of a very differ-
ent nature. In the first place no one thinks of attributing the
fires at Constantinople to, any other than political motives.—
Such,, in that land of despotism, is the expression of popular dis-
content, the prelude or accompaniment of revolution, and in the
state of popular excitement in the Turkish cwoital, people must
rely a great deal upon public credulity to attempt to' persuade
us that ten fires, or incendiary attempts, in the space of a fort-
night, can have proceeded from fortuitous causes. There is but
little address in thus concealing the real state of things. The
evening paper of government is not mote adroit, when it tells
us that it is false that the Sultan had sought anew for foreign.
intervention. Illahmoud has uo other means of personal safety;
and he applied for it as early as the latter end of August last.
The Sultan's treaties with Russia have given him right to do so,
and have conferred upon the Emperor that of protecting him.
No objection was made to these treaties; they were not protested
against, and nothing can prevent their being put in execution.
'All that can be said to explain the ministerial denial is, that
the French ambassador was not officially informed of the steps
taken by the Sultan. It may be easily conceived thatthe Porte
did not consider such an intimation as a matter of necessity.
Moreover, the Russians have never lost sight of their ally;
they have vessels at Bourgas, at Heraclea, and still nearer to
the Bosphorus. If the Russian forces had not made their ap-
pearance up to the date of the last letter, it is because they lose
nothing by gaining time. On arriving, after the consummation
of a revolution, things will be greatly simplified; the greater
the evil the more necessary, the more durable the second oc-
cupation. The situation of the Ottoman empire is more criti-
cat than ever, or rather, that empire no longer exists. It is no
longer indhe power of the Sultan to reconcile to his sway the
population of his capital, and we may daily expect the account
of the catastrophe.
The inertness displayed hy England on this matter is no ex-
cuse for the cabinet of the Tuileries, and there does not exist
a deplomatist who does not feel that the interests and dignity
of France have been constantly sacrificed to a system for
which her enemies are not the more grateful; and whilst the
treaties between Russia and the Porte have met with uo oppo-
sition from France, still less have the arrangements concluded
at Munchengratz been prevented; and there, it is certain, the
affairs of the East have not been forgotten. The case, "in
which Providence should dispose of the Ottoman Empire" had
been foreseen long before the Congress, and the bases of an
equitable distribution of the Turkish provinces laid down.—
Moldavia, and Wallachia, and Servia, belong no more td the
Porte, and ere long both Bosnia and Albania will probably
devolve likewise upon the representatives of Providence. The
Juste-milieu will then, no doubt, boast of their own disinter-
estedness.—Courier Francais.