The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-30 00:00:00

TURKEY.

It has already been stated that the English mai-
dents had given n grand dinner to Viscount Strat-
ford.• At this dinner a very complimentary address,
numerously signed, was presented to the noble lord,
and his health was drunk nith great enthusiasm. He
replied in a spetch in which he said:
Such a striking acknowledgment of the services which
you have been kind enough to ascribe to me, indicates that
in estimating them you have weighed the spirit io which
they were conducted, and the difficulties by which they
were surrounded. It .s true, gentlemen, that the obstacles
I have bad to combat were sufficiently furmidaale. Their
nature is such that a man of my princip'es must expect to
see them arise in Turkey as certainly as in the other coon-
' tries of the East ; they are—corruption, which undermines
society to its foundations, and cupidity and in-
trigue, which obstruct the march of progress, and
poison the atmosphere wherever they exist. A
good deal was to be expected from the generous and
benevolent disposition of the reigning loser. ign, and from
the salutary chinos which have taken place in the admi.
nistmtion of the country since the adoption of the new sys-
tem. A good deal was also to be expected from the counsels
and policy of • minister who had wisely contributed to the
introduction of a system, on the continuation and extension
of which depend so entirely the renovation and subsequent
security of this noble empire. A great deal of the expt cted
good has, no doubt, been accomplished under these auspices;
but mores much more, remains to be accomplished, end I
must add with the most profound sorrow that indications
of errors and weakness arc seen in more than one place,
that the energy of the government is embarrassed by finan-
cial complications, and that even the great charter of
Ottoman progress:is to a certain point discredited by negli-
gence in the execution, or rather the non-execution, of its
provniscs. Ido not say this to place in doubt the intentions
of the government, or to insinuate that ! despair of the final
restoration of the empire to a more prosperous position. A
state of transition is always more or has a state of weakness;
and 1 entertain the hope that efficacious measures will be
adopted before it be too late :o dissipate darkness, and cause
to shine unclouded the rays of European civilisation.
Viscount Stratford concluded by calling attention
to the importance of establishing railway► and in-
troducing othtr improvements into Turkey; and by
proposing a Waist to the prosperity of British com-
merce. _ .

Fears were entertained in some provinces that ex-
tensive injury would be done to the crops by the
large quantity of locusts. lu the province of the
Dardanelles, Mr. W. Calvert, acting as English con-
sul, had rendered great services by the measures
he had takes for the destruction of those insects; and
Hassan Haider, the Pacha, had, in the name of the
inhabitants, expressed their thanks.
A letter from Beyrouth announces the formation
of a company for establishing in that city a steam
mill and steam-apianing manufactory.
Accounts from Damascus state that military re-
inforcements had been sent to the Pacha to put
down the revolt of the inhabitants of Adjilun, Ileu-
m, and Gebel ileum which was caused by their
determination not to submit to the law of recruit-
ment ; but he had been obliged to retire, and to pro-
mise that the recruitment should be postponed for
three months, until the crops should be got in.

CONSTANTINOPLE:JuNn 15.
The Ports has not yet ratified the quarantine con-
vention, but the conditions reserved arc not of much
importance, and it is expected that the convention
will be concluded without delay. Dr. Fauvel, sani-
tary physician of the French government at Con-
stantinople, who has taken an active part in these
negotiations, has arrived in France by the boat which
left Constantinople on the 13th.
Puad Effendi was undergoing quarantine at
Smyrna, and expected at Constantinople on the 19th.
Loed Stratford de itedclifie, whose denunciation of
Turkish corruption at the dinner given to him by
the merchants, had produced great sensation, had
obtained a private interview with the Sultan at the
Sweet Waters, and remained long in conference
with him.

An English company is in negotiation with the
Porte for the construction of a railway from Bel-
grade to Constantinople, and it would seem with a
probability of success. English engineers have
examined the ground, and found in the Balkan a
passage which would only necessitate some works
of art of little importance. The company will
undertake to finish the line in five years, and as
the railway from Vienna to Belgrade is already far
advanced, Constantinople would then be only five or
six days' journey from Vienna. The financial situa-
tion appears in a favourable position. A combina-
tion has been devised which would permit several
banking houses of Europe to advance the bank of
Constantinople, on good security, from 30 to 40 mil-
lions of francs.
The news from Bagdad continues to represent the
banks of the Tigre and Euphrates as a prey
to the civil war between various Arab tribes.
Two brothers of the tribe of Muntefick,
Shiekh Mansour, and Sheikh Faris have
been set at odds by Namik Pasha, the 'creakier of
Asia, who has invested one of them with the chief-
tainship of the tribe. Vady Bey is gone with 4,000
horse to take command of the rebels, in defiance of
the prohibition of the Porte.