The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-17 00:00:00

TURKEY.
THE CHANGE OF MINISTRY.

The Levant Herald of the 7th has the following
account of the ministerial changes in Turkey :
The ministerial crisis which has been looming for a fort-
night, but to which premature allusion was, in official
phrase, " inconvenient," has come at Jut —more suddenly
and sweepingly than perhaps any one of the many who fore-
saw it would hove ventured to predict. In the course of a
eines twenty-four hours nearly the whole personnel of the
government has been changed, not, aa would be the case in
western Europe, by any collective action of the cabinet
itself, but partly by the separate motion of the sovereign,
and partly by that of the individual mioisters conceroed. Even
now that the crisis is mooed, the conditions under which
we write leave us free to do little more than chronicle the
mere champs that have taken place.
Even under the restraint of this compelled reserve
however, we may still mention that the fact of a certain
jroideur on the part of the Sultan towards Fuad Yacht
had been no secret in official circles for the past two or
three weeks. His highness's " indisposition," we were
glad to know, was explained rather by this feet than by
any physical ailment whatever. We have beard a reason
given for the imperial coldness, but will not be expected
to make it public. lie the cause, however, what it
may, when on Friday last the Sultan summarily
ordered the dismissal of the Capitan Pacha and
the Seraskier, without the usual prior consulta-
tion with the Grand Vizier, the latter had hardly
any option but to tender his resignation, and, from
the known relations of the two ministers, the
public would have been surprised if Aali Pacha
had not followed his example. Accordingly, on Saturday
afternoon both ministers laid their "seals," of office at the
feet of his Majesty. On the previous d►y the dismissal of
Mehemet Aali Plebe was speedily followed by that of the
Minister of War. Rumour states that reports—in which
we of course place no confidence whatever—reached
his Majesty, implicating both these high function-
aries in gravely compromising abuses connected
with the late Montenegrin campaign. Another cur_
rent explanation of the Capita° Pacha'a fall is, that he
bad retained Salih and Rachid Pachas in their places in the
arsenal in the teeth of an imperial order for their dis-
miseaL The fact certainly is that both the latter func-
tionaries have since been placed on half pay. Be the
cumulative cause of his Majesty's action, however, what
it may, both ministers were very summarily dismissed, and

Rear-Admiral Mehemet Pacha—now in London on •

mission connected with the construction of mailed frigates
—and Rachid Pacha, President of the Council of War, were
respectively promoted to the vacant posts. Kalil Pll6llll,
Director of the Imperial Foundries, was at the same time
named Grand Muter of Artillery—one of the m►ny attri-
butes of the disgraced Capitan Puha. Pending the arrival
of the new chief from London, whither he was immediately
telegraphed to return, Mustapha Paths, President of the
Naval Council, was awned his caiman.
As we have said, the resignation of the Grand Vizier, ac.
companied by that of the Minister of Foteign Affairs,
speedily followed thew important modifications. We have ,
reason to believe that, with a degree of faithful courage'
worthy of his high character, Fuel Poch• accompanied
the tender of his portfolio with a report on the state of
the Empire, which was well calculated to give hie
Majesty some new and wholesome ideas as to the condition
of the finanoes—at least. Whatever may have been the
effect of this document on the imperial mind, it is said that
the very prompt resignation of its author gave but indiffe-
rent satisfaction to his Majesty. On Sunday morning,
however, the Bheikh•ul•lslam was summoned to the
Palace, and after • long conferenos—during which
the Chief of the Ulemu is said to have doge
generoua justioe to the patriotism of the late Vizier—
his Majesty, though at first disposed to give the vacant reins
indifferently to Mehemet Kibrisli Pacha, or to Nevus
Pacha, selected Kiamil Pacha, the president of the Council
of Tansim•t, for the post. Before this decision was arrived
at, however, the offer of it was actually made to
Neves Pacha, who—u the public will consider, wisely—
declined the onerous honour. This arrangement having
been come to ARIL Pasha was then requested to
retain Mhos, and after a long interview with the Sultan
yesterday, his highneee so consented.
Of the new ministers there is little to be said. The
Grand Vizier is Egypiabs by early life and marriage with
the daughter of Mehemet Ali Pacha. During the vice.