The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-10 00:00:00

TURKEY.

We extract the following from the supplement to
the German Allyenseine Zeitung, at Leipzig, of
October 6 :

SMYRNA, San. 24.—We had a sort of a revolution
here last week, which is partially suppressed. it is
true, for the moment, but is not
.yet over. The resi-
dent Greeks of this city have, since the introduction
of the Greek constitution, been compelled to pay an
annual impost to the consul, and, consequently, these
taxes for the current year were nquired to be paid at
the consul's as heretofore. A rumour got abroad that
the ccnsul had no right to demand and collect them
taxes, that he did so by a power not in reality exist-
ing, but usurped by him, and that the Turkish autho-
rities connived at it, because they went halves. This
report was believed, and the payment unanimously
refused. A large number of the taxpayers held a
meeting, where they got up a memorial or petition,
which they all signed, about this alleged extortion
and on the 17th of September it was to have been
sent to the Greek government. The consul, informed
of what had taken place, caused the landlord's house
where the petition was lying to be searched, the
document in question to be seized, and the landlord
arrested; but instead of having him sent to
the Greek prison, the captive was marched off to
the Turkish one. Hardly bad this self-authorised
and violent proceeding got wind, when about 2,000
persons assembled before the consul's house, de-
manded the giving back of the petition, the liberation
of the prisoner, and were not very gentle in this
demonstration. The consul, not thinking himself
quite safe, managed to slip out by a back door, and
went to claim the interference of the Turkish mili-
tary. Some companies of soldiers were accordingly
sent, but the crowd would not give way, and in-
sisted on what they had demanded. As evening
came on, and no ono retired from the spot,
the governor judging, by some sots of vio-
lence that bad already occurred, that the night
would not pass over without greater disturbance, is-
din.ed the consul to promise the liberation of the pri-
soner on the morrow. The next morning they
assembled as before in front of the consul's house,
received the liberated landlord with shouts of triumph,
then got up a fresh petition, into which they took good
ear. to introduce what had jut transpired and gent it
actually off by express to Athens. It will, therefore,
soon be @hewn whether the consul had a right to levy
these taxes or not. If it should turn out that he had
not, why then he will not have to expect much for-
bearance on the part of his countrymen.
The writer adds in a papaya:oF, that the steamer
just arrived from Constantin brings the news,
that great excitement there, that placards
of an insurrectionary nature had been posted up at
all the corners of the streets, and that the govern-
ment had recalled a part of the troops sent
previously to Wallachia, and that 2,600 of
the cavalry had already returned to the capital.
On September 22 there was a sitting of the
divan, at which all differences were to be settled.
Tae Sultan has sent a letter of congratulation to the
Pope, and accompanied it with a present of 160,000

PERSIA.—We extract the followiagfrosa a Vise=
paper, the Wandarer. "The government has again
sent, in all heats, 4,000 ma to Oberman. The rea-
son for this step was not known in Tableau.

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