The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-02 00:00:00

TURKEY.

WWII 001 SPECIAL COR/MPONDEXT.)
CONdTANTINOPLE, Ocr. 23.
On Wednesday afternoon, Sir H. Butwer was the
object of an outrage in the main street of Peru, which
has created a oonsiderable local sensation. Attended
by a black groom, his Excellency was riding down
this narrow thoroughfare, when he met one of the
court carriages filled with ladies, aid seseriul,
canal, by a troop of eunuchs and palms .are at As
these lumbering vehicles filled up nearly the whale
width of the street, Sir Henry's groom called
out to the coachman to draw a little to one
side to Ist hi. master pass. Conchae, with the
usual insolence of these palace menials, replied that
he would not move au inch for a Giaour, and kept
on till Sir Henry was in imminent danger of being
crushed against the side of the adjoining house.
Seeing this, the groom struck the near carriage

horse, to turn the vehicle aside, whereupon the driver
returned the blow across the shoulders of the former,
who, showing fight, was speedily beset by the armed
servants and eunuchs in attendance. As short work
would have been made of the poor black if left to
the mercy of these ruffians, Sir Henry rode into the
melee to the rescue, bat although the groom and the
bystanders called out to the palace people that it was
the English ambassador, it was not until, I believe,
more than one blow had fallen upon his Excellency
that the spectators snooeeded in putting an end to
the outrage. During the latter part of the squabble
the confusion of the scene was enhanced by the dim-
oordant screams of the veiled occupants of the car-
riage, who, to do them justice, however, encouraged
their myrmidons right loudly with shouts of Aferim!
aferim! (Well-done, well-done) till they heard that
the object of the indignity was the redoubtable
English Elchee. Fear of the result then took the
place of vixenish glee, and encouraging laughter
gave way to screaming orders to desist. The prin-
cipal actors in this disgraceful outrage have, it is
said, been severely punished ; but till something
more than dogging and an apology is exacted for
these brutalities, which are of frequent occurrence
even in the heart of this Frankish quarter, their
pampered perpetrators are not likely to practise
better manners. As it is, their prmtorian insolence
is beyond all toleration.
After another postponement of a day, Lord Strat-
ford finally departed yesterday. His visit of leave to
the Sultan was paid on the previous day, when, I
am informed, the farewell between the old lord led
his imperial protigl was touchingly warm and in-
formal. Yesterday a deputation of the resident
English accompanied him front the British Palace
to the landing-place at Tophaneh, off which the
Caradoc lay; and as the calque moved off from the
pier more than one loud and hearty "God bless
you!" followed the unmanned old diplomat to the
ship. His lordship has gone to Civita Vecchia,
whence be proceeds to Rome for the winter.
The anniversary of the Prophet's birth-day wax
celebrated with the usual waste of gunpowder and
round of raves-show ceremonials at the Palace and
Stamboul, on Wednesday.
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UNITED STATES

(11011 0171 SPECIAL 0011111PONDENT.)

NEW YORK, Ocr, 19.
We are labouring in the throes of a Piccolomini
mania. The lady arrived with her relations a
few days ago, and the Opera-hothe iB now besieged
from morning till night by a tumultuous throng,
seeking tickets. Without intending the smallest
disrespect to the lady, I must add, however, that she
divides the public attention with a great " mill "
which is to come off to-morrow in Canada between
two Irish prizefighters, named Morkeey and Heenan,
for 6,000 dole. and " the championship of America."
The rapid rise of the ring into the character of
an " institution " here is one of the most curious
signs of the times. Fifty years ago, when it flou-
rished in England, and found some votaries amongst
gentlemen, it was unknown on this aide of the
water, at least in the North. Prizefighters are now
quite important political personages. They are
courted for the aid they render at elections, either in
mailing or defending the polls. When they commit
an assault, as they often do, it is almost impos-
sible to get a conviction against them ; while
they are training for a braising match, the leading
papers keep the public constantly informed with
almost as much assiduity as Bell's Life of their
" points " and " condition, and retail all the small
I gossip that can be picked up about them with great
gusto. More marvellous still, nearly all the leading
journals of this city are sending special re-
porters to the soene of action to-morrow,
and we shall have hourly reports of the
progress of the fray by the aid of carrier pigeons.
Newspapers in this country depend so largely for
their circulation upon a class to whom such details
are intensely interesting, that they cannot refuse to
administer to their appetite ; but that any such
demand should extensively exist, and that a pound-
ing match between two blackguards should assume
the dimensions of an important public event, even in
the midst of the election excitement, is a fact which
no admirer of democratic institutions can afford
to overlook. The "native Americans" contend that
these brutal tastes and barbarous tendencies are of
foreign importation; bat, even if this is the case, it
is somewhat disheartening to feel that a flight of
English and Irish gaolbirds have it in their power to
drag down a refined and religious community to
their own level. However this may be, there ie no
question that pugilists have attained in the United
States a standing knd influence such as they have
never enjoyed anywhere since the last of the
Olympic games.