The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-17 00:00:00

In view of these definitely hostile Wand a= en the
wt d ite Fenian government, Murray left
Tabun oa the 9th inst. for Oroonuali ; and the
French mini ter, who had also suspended diplomatic
relatians with the Divan ounnen°l)
of rhea twi-
ioin 'um there
duct in Olio affair, wu exteleteur,th jab whoa, I
about the middle of the month. "T.:llthe impitabis
myself spent ten pleasant days L.
roof of the Amerioan minim:arise ext. """"g -
agois situated se the borders of the bop? enlt Mke ie
which it gives its name, and being within a Awe die-
tame of the Turkish frontier in the direction of Van,
ms dell ss en the direct route from Tabresz through
Imilislan to Mosel, is about the moat convenient
kalikegglass the two envoys could select, pending
the best phew of thus angry proceedings. In the
nosentime, there was strong expectation that Messrs
Steams sad Abbott, our consuls at Teheran and Ta-
brws, would naive orders to follow Mr. Murray
aid if this be dens, the question of pesos or war will
ne banger memis egos.
Pam nesirsess there is no recent news of interest:
The IMO Mem Pasha's recall in disgrace, and his
by Ismail Pacha (of Bilistrian fame),
=a7trwill have already beard of from Capstan-
=ad been learned by all parties with lively
and was hailed as auguries solid nooses
in the sensing campaign, if campaiga there is to be.
It wee even reported, moreover, that Omer himself
has been shelved for his Mingrelian coup mersoyase,
and that Wail Puha is to have the supreme com-
mand of all the forces to be employed in Anatolia
daring the spring and summer; but of this rumour
no confirmation has as yet been received. Colonel
Osals, whose quarrel with the disgraced muohir re-
mained unmade up, had despatched Major Evans to
Ge the road to Lars, to make preparations foe
putting it into a state of defence %suet the opening
of the campaign ; and Major Peel had gone to Br
yuid on a similar miseioe. As Major Cath-
cart had not arrived from Batonm, Messrs:
Gardner and Fraser were thus the only members
of the British commissioner's staff left at Enteronnt.
On the part of the Turkish authorities themselves,
efforts were being made to procure supplies through
the agency of Persian and Armenian contractors, all
of whom were driving excellent bargains with the
heads of the department, in whose bands the commie.
lariat business lies. The old system of bribery was
in full play, and contracts which far eclipse the most
egregious instances of costly mismanagement—Or
worse--in coonexion with oar own Turkish Cow.
lingua have been the iniquitous result.
Blue my last mention of the Erzeroum moan.
late, Mr. Bandersoo, of Browns, has been named to
it, in esecomion to Mr. Brant, appointed to Damas-
cus. It is to be regretted that the alteration which
eve bed
body ex=d, and which the circumstances of
the Oso p • y called for, his not taken place,
Irmo= bang still permitted to remain a full eon-
iodate, whilst Trebixond, which so far act.
passe it in mercantile and every other
fiat of importance, is to continue to be watched over
viee-ceenl. As the nominal capital of Armenia,
t ere may be a shade of excuse for this continued
absurdity, bat of real substance there is none. In
singular keeping, however, with this piece of
Foreign-aloe policy, Binope—whose commercial
mtance is not a tithe of that of Trebisond--has
been created a new consulate, with an moistent
vice•oonsal, besides having placed under its judo.
diadem the viereounlate of Samsun. It is hat
just to lard Stratford to mention that this
must was made, not only without his suggestilaT,2C;
in express opposition to hie advice, as has also been
the perpetuated error in the case of Erseronm. For
the sake of British interests all over the East, it is
devoutly to be hoped that one of the earliest reforms
to fellow the close of the war will be that of our
whole consular system throughout these countries;
fee unless this be thoroughly effected, the in.
Buses which British consuls should and must
Mnilllll, if it be attempted to introduce new
and more liberal institutions into the Empire,
will—in the fullest sense of the three words—be only
a mockery, a delusion, and a snare. During now two
pare' observation of consular doings, over a veey
considerable portion of the Levant and Asiatic
Turkey, I have bad occasion, more than once, to feel
the urgent need of reform in this branch of our
foreign civil service; for, whilst meeting with many
instances in which the highest principles and abilities
were combined in those who held the consular oom-
Wades, I have also come in contact with illustrations
of the reverse. At some future time I may Grave
spurs to state a few of the results of this ex=
and to offer some remark on the general
and efficiency of our consular ureic., as I have had
opportunity of observing its working in various-
parts of the Turkish empire. For the present, how-
ever, it is sufficient to repeat the exilession of re-
gret that the above suggested change has not been
made in thecae* of Erseroum.

The last couple of days have brought intelligence
of a somewhat unusual tragedy in these times—the
murder of the Pacha of Sins by a couple of his own
slaves. Daring my stay at Ereeroum, some two•and-
twenty months ago, I had the honour of dining once
or twice with this personage—Fek-Ullah Puha—
who was then governor of that province. About
eight years before, he bad been attached to the
Turkish embassy in London, where he picked up it
few word, of English, and considerable respect foe
our national character generally; but, whatever in-
flume observation of this last may ham had upon
his own principles at the time, promotion to the
rank of paoha, and appointment to the fat govern-
ment of Erserolim, speedily enough obliterated it,
and tainted him with the corrupt leaven common to
the body corporate of Turkish officials, high and
low. The controlling presence of Mr. Brant,
our consul, had, however, the effect of keep-
ing him in salutary check, and of leaving him
little richer than an honest governor—solecism in
Eastern speech—should be, when, at the beginning
of last year, he was removed to the inferior whine
of Sivas. Is the hearing of one from whom I have
the anecdote, he comforted himself for the loss of
dignity involved in this change by remarking," Well,
thank God, if it be a poorer OM" there le, at all
events, no English consul r Accordingly, once set-
tled in his new government, he gave the reins to his
rime of character, and did very much as he liked with
both the property and the persons of the unfortunate
population of the district under his power. Thus was
Sivas ruled over till the middle of Let week, when,
having imprisoned and tortured a couple of his slaves
who had in some way incurred his displeasure, he
threatened similar treatment to two others. Rendered
desperate by past severities and the fear of sew ones,
these last soon after attacked him with axes as sat
alone in him private chamber, and, on his crying out,
closed in upon and despatched him with their daggers.
They then gave themselves up without the WA
attempt at neaps. By the population of Sires gene-
rally this sanguinary deed has been hailed with on.
concealed joy, liberating them as it has done from •
tyranny which proved more than usually grinding.
[may just add that Feiz•Ullah had already manifested
a lively and determined opposition to the recently
published hatti-ehereef affirming the new rights and
consolidating the old ones of the Christian porde-
' don ; and so far, therefore,oes may almost be disposed
to share in the 'strata:dos which prevails all over
the province whence he has been thus violently but
opportunely removed. Some of the people even ima-
gine that his death took place at the instance of the
government, and are thankful to the Stamboul autho-
rities amordingly ; but on this point nothing, of
course, ma be reasonably conjectured.
From Trebizond itself I have nothing whatever to
report, the only activity of any kind which prevails
being that in onoexion with the disembarkation
of troops from Mingrelia, and their despatch sou to
Erseroum ; and the usual incidents attending these
rossedinp I have already more than once deacribed
in detail.