The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-26 00:00:00

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Ssrr. 5.
The Sultan has given away his daughter Fatinie to
Ali Gulib Bev, third son of the Grand Vizier, Iteshid
Pasha, and has appointed his son-in-law, Mushir, a
member of the great council. This is a great victory
of the reform party, of which Reshid Pasha is the
real representaut. The honour conferred on his
family was a spontaneous act of the Sultan, without
any direct or indirect step from the Grand Vizier,
and the Sultana, mother of Fatime, thanked the
Sultan that he chose for her daughter the son of a
man so distinguished in merits. fhe influence of the
Grand Vizier is of course evidently strengthened by
this alliance, and the ministers who might perhaps
have counteracted his general plans are reduced to
the management of their own departments, so that
they cannot any more interfere with the general
direction of policy.
The brother-in-law of the Sultan, the energetic
opponent of Russia, Mehemet Ali Pasha, has been
appointed at the same time Kapudan Pasha, Chief of
' the Admiralty.
The new Kapudan Pasha has served in the navy,
and therefore ho is able to sift every plan before it
is adopted.
Another nomination is not less fortunate—we
mean that of Nafurz Pasha to the ministry of finances.
Though his predecessor, Italeb Effendi, was also a
good financier, he lucked the energy of Nafurz to
cheek the impostures of the Armenians, who were
the leeches of the treasury. An iron hand, like that
of the new minister, is required to control the spe-
culations of these people, and to carry all
the economical measures necessary to re-
establish the finances of the realm. One
of these measures is the restitution of the
Nishans by the civil and military officers.
You probably are aware that every officer, with
his nomination, got a badge in diamonds accord-
ing in value to his rank. This was a heavy expense
to the Treasury, without any real advantage to the
state. '1 he Nishan of the officers will be replaced by
epaulettes, similar to those of the European armies.
A national bank is to be organised in a short time;
the funds are ready, and Fuad Effendi, formerly
commissary in the principalities, is to be its director.
More than half a year since I directed . your atten-
tion to the Egyptian affairs, so easily misrepresented
in Europe. The Porte has not the slightest inten-
tion to counteract the railway to Cairo, but he objects
' that a Pasha should enter into lasting engagements
with foreign companies without the consent of his
legitimate sovereign. The cravings after inde-
pendence are not yet extinguished in the family of
the late Mehemet Ali. '1 he letter of the Grand
Vizier to Abbas Pacha has been accordingly
altered once more, and insists more expreasedly on
the rights of sovereignty. It is to be feared that
these facts will be represented by the enemies and
by many apparent friends of the Porte as an oppo-
' sition to the railway itself, whilst it is but a legiti-
mate resistance against the encroachments of the
Pasha of Egypt, who avails himself of the popularity
of the railway to cover his ambitious plane.
The liberation of Kossuth, in spite of the threats
of Austria, is a noble act of generosity; but it may
involve the Porte in serious difficulties. Austria
strongly protested, and will probably send the chiefs
of the Bosnian rebellion, who are now at Carlstadt,
in Croatia, not to England, but into Bosnia, to re-
kindle the rebellion. She concentrates her troops oaths
frontiers of Bosnia, Servia, and Wallachia. She at-
tompts to gain the leading men in Servia, and she
encourages and patronises the Obrenorich, formerly
princes of Screw, and still pretenders. Thus it m
tried to kindle a new revolution in this country, and
to create hero a centre of Russian Fooleries' against
Turkey. Russia apparently keeps aloof on the ques-
tion of the liberation of Kossuth, ready to profit by
the opportunity to present herself either as protect.big the Porte, should the revolution succe d, or as
mediator, should the difficulties with Austria lead to
the brink of a rupture. Russia thus prepares herself
to regain her lost influence, and she spreads
already the tidings of the arrival of Prince ,
Mentlikoff or Count Orloff as extraordinary
ambassadors to the Porte. Should England,
instead of lending her good offices to r.nelle the
difficulties with Egypt, take the railway for a pre-
text to abandon the Porte, then the Sultan would
have no other choice than to throw himself in the
arms of Russia, and to a second and worse treaty of
Unkiar Lskelessy.
Omer Pasha, his great general, remains in Bosnia
as long as the difficulties with Austria are not settled.
In consequence of the Austrian movements he had
concentrated 30,000 men in this province. The
Servian government has given orders for the arma-
ment of the militia, at the same time an explanation
has been required from Austria as to the concentra-
tion of her troops on the frontiers. The French am-
bassador has no influence at all, France fears her own
shadow.

The tidings from Persia say, that there are misun-
derstandings between the Shah and the Russian and
English ambassadors. Russia expostulates on ac-
count of the attack of the Turkoman tribes on the',
Russian flotilla on the Caspian, though the Turko-
mans are nomades and but nominally subjects of
Persia. With England there are difficulties about
the occupation of Herat by the Persian troops.

GERMANY.
•
PRUSSIA.
The well known case of the ex-deputy Harkort,
*ceased at Perlin of exciting to hatred and a breach
of the peace, by the publication of a political pam-
phlet, has terminated in the acquittal of the defen-
dant. The pamphlet which was the ground of accu-
sation commenced with the following words : " Those
who govern have frequently interests far different
from those of the people who pay the taxes." Tho
accusation of hatred to the government and excitation
to breach of the peace were founded solely on the
tendency of the pamphlet as expressed in the words
quoted. It is leas a wonder that the prisoner was
acquitted than that the government should think fit
to prosecute on such ridiculous grounds. Tho case
was tried under the new press act, and the defendant
was therefore acquitted not by a jury but by the
judges.