The Sun. — 1859-04-12 (London, England)

THE KM T.  Constantinople journals an, I letters to the 30th ult. have reached us. The c. reditors of the Civil List have given in their answ ler to the proposals  which Riza Pacha had submitted to them with reference to a settlement of their claims. These proposals embraced three categories of payment— namely, one by which the claims in question should be cut down at Witte to v 2,t' tlowittul amount, of which 20 per cent. should now be paid in cash and the remaining 50 per cent, in a year ; a second, by which the sums due should submit to no present reduction, but be paid in five yearly instalments without interest, and a third, that they be paid in ten yearly instalments, with 6 per cent. interest till finally liquidated. The delegates ~.who attended for the various parties interested demanded permission for each to make his own choice of the three methods proposed; this was granted, and the interview ended by a large majority consenting to accept one or other of the forms of the Pacha's offer. A minority declined to avail themselves of any of the three, but insisted on prompt and full satisfaction of their claims. On the occasion of the approaching departure of Mr. Cumberbatch, her Majesty's ConsulGeneral, who, it is believed, will not return to his post, but receive an appointment elsewhere, the English and lonian merchants of the place determined on presenting him with an address, expressive of their high personal respect and esteem. The address terminates with the request that on his his arrival in London, Mr. Cumberbatch will sit for his portrait, to be placed in the new Consulate. A letter :from Tokat,lin Asia Minor, contains the following : " The American Missionary Establishment here has met with a severe loss, the entire mission buildings having been consumed by fire. These buildings were originally the property of a Turk, but were many years ago purchased by a Swiss merchant, who sold them to the American Mission. They were occupied at the time of the accident by three missionaries, the Rev. Messrs. Van Lennep, Winchester, and Pettibone, the two former with their families; and a portion of the buildings was also used for a theological school, in which native Protestant young men were being educated for the holy office of the ministry. The fire originated in the basement storey of the main building, though by what means It is not known. There are strong suspicions that it was the work of an incendiary. Most, if not all, of the timbers in the lower part of the building were of pitch pine, so that the flames spread with very great rapidity. Mr. Van Lennep, being at the time suffering from fever, was only able to escape, with his family, without saving an article of his things. His furniture, clothing, and library are all lost, as we infer from the information we have received, and some valuable manuscripts and drawings also, which can never be replaced. It is understood that most of the things belonging to Messrs. Winchester and Pettibone were saved."  A Smyrna letter of the 25th says " A few weeks ago, an Alsatian colporteur' landed in Smyrna with his wife and child, and took up his lodging in the quarter inhabited by the Maltese. Early one morning, the body of this man was found in a blind alley of the Jewish quarter, in a sitting posture, the head nearly severed from the body, and the arms and hands gashed in several places. A Greek butcher, who was seen running from the spot by some of the Jewish women dwelling in the neighbourhood, has been denounced as the murderer by them, and he on his part charges them with the crime. On the person of the Greek was found a large knife, and certain blood stains, for which he accounts in a professional point of view ; he does not, however, account in as satisfactory a manner for the fact of his running away from the spot upon which the murder, if murder it be, was committed. On the other hand, the old story of the Jews employing human blood in their Easter ceremonies is renewed by all our gobe-mouches,' who do not understand that the myth is trumped up every year in the East for the purpose of extracting a round sum from the unfortunate Israelites. My own opinion of the whole affair is, that there has been no murder committed either by Jew or Greek, but that the Alsatian in a fit of despondency, to which he had by the statement of his wife given way for several preceding days, committed suicide. The antecedents of the Greek are most decidedly in his favour ; nothing in his previous conduct is known that lead one to infer him capable of such an atrocious deed, and it would be ridiculous to suppose that some half dozen Jewish women, never at the best very temperate characters, should attack a lusty and'strong man in open day for such a preposterous purpose as the one assigned."  A Berlin letter, in the German Journal of Frankfort, says :—" The Sardinian Cabinet has definitively declined to accede to the demand of Austria relative to disarming, although England and Prussia declared themselves ready to guarantee Sardinia, in case she should disarm, against any attack on the part of Austria. No resolution has yet been come to on the proposition made to Austria and Sardinia to withdraw their troops from the frontiers. To arrive at an arrangement, it was lately proposed to evacuate the frontier districts for a less distance than the ten leagues at first proposed ; `but it is, not kb own whether this proposition has been accepted. Generally speaking, serious doubts are entertained a the success of the negotiations on the matter."  ) r•