The Press.
London, England, 1854-04-22 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Sardinian Government has issued an order
prohibiting any privateers under the Russian flag
from being armed, provisioned, or harboured, with
their prizes, in Sardinian ports.
Serious disturbances broke out at Arezzo, in
Tuscany, on the 7th, on account of the rise in the
price of corn. It seems that, it being market day,
some wholesale dealers offered to buy up all the
corn on sale, in order to retail it afterwards at a
much higher rate. This caused discontent among
the peasants, which ended in a tumult, in which the
dealers were severely maltreated. The gendarmerie
were obliged to have recourse to their swords to
restore order, and many persons were wounded. Six
carriages full of persons arrested on the occasion
arrived at Florence on the 12th.
Carlo Poerio, who is still a prisoner in irons, has
been sentenced to pay the sum of 6,000 ducats (or
1,2001.) to the public Treasury, cn account of a debt
alleged to be due to the Crown estates in Calabria,
by his property of La Sila.

TURKEY.
THE STATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

The great event in the Turkish capital is the de-
parture of the Greek envoy, and the resolution of the
Porte to expel all subjects of Greece from the Sul-
tan's dominions. Fifteen days' time had been given
them to depart. This measure is by many viewed as
impolitic, as the bulk of these men will, it may be
presumed, join the standard of revolt as soon as they
put their foot out of the Ottoman territory. It is,
however, impossible to foresee the turn of events ;
and, after all, the presence of from 20,000 to 25,000
known enemies at the capital could not be considered
an agreeable circumstance for the Turks.
A letter of the Bth from Constantinople says :
" The measure of expulsion has been carried out
with unexampled severity. Every steamer for Syra
is crowded with human beings, so thickly wedged
together that to walk the decks is impossible. At
least 400 are said to have taken their departure in
one vessel. Most of them have been reduced to the
depths of poverty, and when thrown ashore, friend
less and destitute, at the Pirieus, three-fourths of the
men will probably go to swell the ranks of the
Thessalian insurgents, or to take to their old trade
of piracy in the Agean. The deep and well-wooded
inlets of the Lycian coast and islands may probably
again swarm with corsairs as they did in the time of
Lambro and Conrade, though war-steamers are rather
different enemies to those which were encountered
by the grandfathers of the present race. Numbers
of the shops in Pera will be shut up by the expul-
sion of their owners. More than thirty medical
men, the most skilful in the capital, are about to
leave. Hotel-keepers, dragomans, domestic servants,
both male and female, are all comprised in this
sweeping edict. Of the 13,000 Greeks who reside in
Constantinople alone, but a small number possess
the means of transporting themselves to Athens
and seeking another occupation. They are selling
everything to obtain the passage money for their
families, and, when disgorged by the steamers on the
shores of Greece, they will be as destitute as if
thrown on the beach of a desert island."

A commission has since been named to superin
tend the departure of the Greeks, and the Porte has,
to a certain extent, modified the order of expulsion.
A large number of the subjects of King Otho, who
have acknowledged allegiance to the Sultan, will be
allowed to remain in Turkey. It is also stated that
the order of expulsion is not to include the Latin
Greeks. Great fears have been entertained that
something may be attempted by the Greeks before
they left Constantinople. Several incendiaries were
arrested on the 7th, and a regular conspiracy is said
to have been discovered. It were an easy matter to
burn down this vast wooden city, and, once lit in
several places, it could not be put out, but would
soon crackle up into one huge blaze, and there would
be an end to Stamboul.
Meanwhile Constantinople may be said to be in a
state of siege. The strictest police regulations are
being enforced. Everybody has to be at home by
eleven o'clock at night. If any one be out after that
time, he is taken to the guardhouse, and kept a
prisoner for the night. After dark everybody must
have a lantern. These measures are strictly neces-
sary. The place is full of villains and thieves. For
the last three months the houses at Pera have been
broken into by the dozen.
Trade at Constantinople is exceedingly dull. The
merchants of Galatz had undergone a panic of future
failures among themselves, and none would do busi-
ness except for cash, each mistreating his neighbour