The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-11 00:00:00

TITLE EXPRESS, 'BATITIMAT EVENING, APRIL Up 1857.

TURKEY.

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We have received Camitantinople journals and
letters to the 38th ult., brought by the Indus. The
intelligence of prated interest is the visit paid by
the Sultan, as already mentioned by telegraph, to
Admiral Lyons on board the Prism Albert, screw
line-of-battle ship. This visit took place on the
28th. The Sultan was received at the foot of the

accommedation Mier by the admiral, and entered
the vessel ander the mod salute and three hearty
cheers hem the crow who had manned the yards,
while the band played the Ottoman national hymn.
At the top of the ladder were amentbled the mi-
nisters and several high functionaries of the Porte,
,lArd Stratford de Radcliffe, all the star of the
English swabsesy, mad the principal °dicers of the
mandren. The vessel was dreesed out in Sags,
and the deck fitted up for the visit in such a
manner m to present a most maguifloent coup Asa
The Sultan visited the vessel in every part, and was
more particularly struck by the machinery by which
the screw is worked. After remaining on board
nearly an hoar, the Sultan again entered his barge
under another salute of 21 guns and a renewal of
the cheers. The salute wee returned by the batte-
ries on shore. During the stay of the Sultan on
board the Prince Albert, he announced to Lord
Stratford the conoeseion of a piece of ground for the
building of a protestant Mittel and hospital at
Pees, for which a large Pura has already, it is said,
been subscribed in England.

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OONITANTINOIiLk Yawn M.
Bias Bey has her air me rabassaier extraordi-
my smi =Mir pies4e2seffieg M
erry the coart of St.
Petnihim He was- ibrimeiy Mit =retry to the
'Turkish embassy in Peek ami Hasa he booms the
Turkish rem to (brew Me ii still by no means
an elderly man, bat hoe the reputation of being
*curl to weberans . •
ISSIII IMP ether to the Ministry of War,
lbw amine* nerrsib pin Mater. They
were veq. ygla t am, brewer 20 sad 22 years of
age, and area dry could not ban been more than
=weeks smart!, drill-eergeants care, I saw clearly
MN* what gnat prover they
OW May might shoed- y be draughte had made, and
d off to the dif-
Anent regtreents. If the Turkish government would
may bestow mere care the military education
the oilers, the Turkish army might -before long
be placed pi s of equality with any other in
Hamper; for the sh private soldier, the man of
the rank and file, is good, cheerful, and obedient,
seen entering into and comprehending the service;
but the officers of the Turkish army, for the most
part, are devoid both of military and civil education.
His Majesty the Sultan lately expressed a wish
to visit the British Admiral's ship, the Royal Albert.
Every preparation was at once made; all the cer-
tain of the British squadron were ordered to
appear in full uniform on board the flag ship.
Lord Stratford and the whole of his suite
in court due.; Reschid Pula, the grand
visier; Mehmed Ali Pacha, the minister of
marine; EthemPacha, the minister of foreign affairs;
and Omer Pacha, also repaired to the ship About
11 o'clock to-day a salute of 21 guns proclaimed the
Sultan's arrival. The admiral, Lord Lyons, received
his Majesty at the bottom of the step-ladder below
the ship's side, and as soon as the royal personage
reached the upper deck, the band struck up the Im-
perial hymn. After making a tour of the decks, the
Sultan expressed his delight at the beauty of the
vessel. The band played several piers in
succession, and, as a finale, " Ood save the
Queen." At noon, after expressing to Lord
Lyons his extreme eatisfaction, the Sultan
took his leave amid the hurrahs of the
seamen,who had dressed the ship, and with the same
salute of one-and-twenty guns. The Royal Albert
is the first foreign ship-of-war that a Turkish sove-
reign has ever planted his foot upon. This evening,
at half-past five o'clock, the English squadron raised
anchor, and steered away in the direction of the Sea
of Manama. The squadron consists of the Royal
Albert; the Curacao and Vulture, both of which are
frigates; the Swallow, which is a corvette ; and two
limbers, the Wrangler and the Vigilant They
are all towed for Malta, but have to touch at Berke
Bay, Satyrs% and Syr& Only . one insii.of-war
remains behind, the Coquette : it is a gunboat, and
intended to be s
It is rid that English residents here
IMO rather sessmialbed by the tabkata vivant*
whisk they saw masainted at a party given by the
-amensobarateft Wainteday. The
per-
ibmwas limas nod French
b_dg subtotals tsr_ll sew, selected flan
Ike slid Rued" Yinotk awi %emit Ameba re-
aft here, ma no deal* by the disarbaisating tact
at M. Barri& himself. The fret tabkau sym-
bolised the Ventres and the wander of Russia
ix the person of Peter the ant; and the last
rheas, which depicted the inhale of a harem, was
well calculated to give a Greek maiden a conception
11111tof Turkish but of Russian pregrees in civilisation.
MAICH 30.
To-day the English fleet leaves the Dardanelles.
The bankers here have again been induced to make
aWA to the Sublime Porte. As the bank is not
yet is fall operation they have advanced 16 millions
et piastre, for the war department and 30 millions
for the treasury.
It was announced last year that an English
mining company had been formed to work all the
mimes of the Ottoman empire . but we think the
project must have hybernated, and has not yet
shaken Wits winter lethargy. A Frenchman !as
come here and offered the Sultan a private lota et
120 millions of francs upon condition of having a
firman granted to him that shall empower him
to work every mine in the Turkish em-
pire. The following arc the conditions which
the Frenchman proposes to the Sultan :—He
is to pay his Majesty 30 millions down, upon
receiving the finnan in question; another 30 millions
at the end of six months ; then 30 millions more at
the end of a year, and the remainder at the expira-
tion of 18 months, each of which terms is to com-
mence from the date of the firman itself. lie them
undertakes to work every mine yielding a profit, and
from the profits he will set apart six per cent. as
interest for the loan, and another percentage to form
the sinking fund. He requires the concession
to be for 60 years, and the net profits are
to be shared between the company and the
Turkish government. Now, since the loan of
120 millions must eventually be paid by the
mines, we cannot conceive that these mines will
yield, for the first five years, a profit more than
enough to cover the working expenses and neces-
sary outlay. The company, therefore, would have
to contract a new debt of at least 60 millions of
francs to pay the interest on the 120 millions form-
ing the private loan aforesaid.
Many queer people are arriving here at this time,
and nearly all of them hare some polite proposition
or another to make to the Sublime Porte. M. Val-
macini, the Master of the Ceremonies at the Court
of Vienna, has come with a project for the formation
of a railway from this capital to Belgrade. In
the council, which held a sitting to da-
mn this Project, one of the members exclaimed:
" I think it rather odd that all the railways in the
Austrian empire should be mold to Frenchmen and
Englishmen, and that an Austrian official should
come here now, and ask us for a concession of this
nature." M. Valmacini does not talk about any
conditions, all he wants is the grant ; and the Aus-
trian government is to take care of the rest. But
where is Austria to find the capital ? seeing that she
wishes to drive French and English competitors out
of the field, or at least the latter; for I have just
learnt that M. Valmacini is negotiating with
the young Frenchman who wants to lend the
Sultan 120 millions of francs. Perhaps both are
imbued with the idea, that if once they, can get the
&tuns, shareholders will soon be running to join
them, from every part el the world.
You may remember how bat year, on the premises
of a Mesh merchant, in Saloom, 300 barrels of
gunpowder exploded, and that Skalizsi, the rare-
chant, was arrested immediately. At the request of
the Barka Ambassador this man has been now set
at liberty, but on the 'Audition of his quitting