A good deal has been said, in the Tory newspapers,
of the anti- cipated refusal of the Porte to allow Lord Deimos to pass through tile Dardanelles in a B1 itish frigate ; as, by the secret article of the famous treaty concluded by Count ORLOFF with the Sultan at Unkiar Skelessi. all Sireign vessels of war are pre- eluded from entering the Black Sea. It appears to be settled that the Barham frigate, with Lord DURHAM on board, shall pass through the Dardanelles beyond Constantinople to Therapia, on the Bosphorus. At present the Porte asserts its right to refuse permission to foreign vessels of war to pass through the Darda- nelles and anchor in the Black Sea ; and hitherto the Czar has shrunk from making the Dardanelles a passage for his squadron from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean. When the Russian fleet is permitted to take that course, it will be impossible for the Sultan to prevent French and English vessels of war from passing through the Straits from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. Unusual activity is visible in the arsenals and flock-yards of Con- stantinople; and it is supposed that the Sultan meditates an attack on MEHEMET ALI.
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