The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-07 00:00:00

TURKEY.

A letter from Constantinople of Deo. 16 says :
The immigration of the Oirosesisas continues without, in-
termission. According to the ofikial ntarne, 16,000 souls
have arrival, and quite as many are expected. News from
Ken* received her. yesterday, states that 8,000 wanderers
bare spin assembled there The name of Cirourians is
not, properly Ong, correct, for among thine emigrants
Mw real thneesiens have been remarked ; they are for the
most pert Noisy Tartars, who speak a Turkish dialect, and
some are Oalansake of a Mongolian race. It is candy the
het win lave quite recently appeared, end they are recog-
nised by *dr bon! type ; their Ideas and daughters wear
nee-rings. The caws of their erodes Is varionaly exphdned.
I have board the fallowing reason assigned .—liithsrto these
ass were inerely'required to de military duty on the frontiers
of the Lusa ; the Roseau government has now abolished
the serve*, and requires from them in Iles of ft a poll-taz of
16 roubles per annum. Upon remonstrating, they wars told
that they must either pay it or quit the empire, and they
have chosen the latter alternative. The Turkish government
be embarrassed for the moment by their arrival, Audi's It
Mot& to provide employment during the winter for such a
number of destitute persons. They are all being oonveyed
either to Anatolia or the Wands of the Add where
they will provisionally remain. Unoaltivated spots will be
assigned them in the spring, for waste land of the best
quality is abundant. Part of the new-coossee are already
located near Heidi-Use, in Pitrygia, scathe part ea the
beautiful plain of Chlbouk Ovasi, near Angora, the same
plain where Tameriene, lan
1406, deemed the Turkish Sal-
ton, &Janet I. Others have been conveyed to Rhodes, for
W whirr, but next spring they as. to be went to till the
pleas of Itordum, better known am Radek.
Some ties ago an Ansonia. obtained from the Porte a
trump, gremlin him permission to go to Van end emirate
antiquities there, under the proviso of giving all the gold
end silver he might find to the Porte. Armed with this
document he went, and amongst other things pulled dawn
an old wall of what had been a church. Behind it be found
• somber of &engem, metallic imagm, and Mole, end in par-
neuter a larp round eopper table, covered with screw-heeded
inscriptions. These oboes the worthy Armenian melted
'down immediately, and had them converted into divots pots
and pass. The learned world in Europe will be sadly
grieved to her of this act of Vandalism.

EXPORTATION OF HORSES FROM PRUSSIA.-.-
SOLED or THLDH, WHITEHALL, JAM. b.—Tie Right Hon.
the Lords of the Committee of Privy Connell for Trade and
Plantaikes have reosited, tbrough the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's
Minister at Balla, stein that the prehititice of the expor-
tation of pumas from Prussia has been withdrawn.—Georte.
THE ALPACAS IN AUSTRALIA.—The shearing of
the alpacas was oommenced on Saturday last. Two--a white
sae sad a black one--wen selected indlecrimlnately from
the Sock, sad were stripped of their fleeces by the South
Americas heredmen employed under the superintendence of
Mr. ledger la sanding these animals. The black alpaca
yielded Mlle, of wool, and the white one 12lbe. Both
these produces were much larger than had been anticipated.
The alpacas being pure bred, the wool le extremely See,
while the eltreordinary weight of the fleeces indicates the
ley" of the staple. It should be stated that the alpacas
ha been short jag bean belag gipped, the wool to
steal feats= acetate growth. The sheaifngfe proomeding
rather skierty, as most of the females being in lamb,lt is
fared that taking of the deems now might bele( oa glens
ears dropping. In conwouseoe of this, the immedist=
se Tin net be more as It otherwise would be. The
are thriving well A few deaths occurred through the want
of fodder Sadder arid the severe cold combined, daring Yr,
s abseece, bat these have been more than counter-
behaved by the births, so that the present number of the
Sack exceeds that of the animals which landed in Sydney.
The Raabe bora in the colony are particularly healthy and
sheag.—Brisey Herald, N0v.12.