The Express.
London, England, 1857-01-27 00:00:00

TURKEY.

(FROY AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, J.tx. 12.
The mutiny commenced among the pupils of the
Military School, to which I alluded in my last letter,
was immediately put an end to by the mere appear-
ance of their director, Ohalib Pacha, on the scene
But notwithstanding the punishment inflicted e

Professor Major Omer; Effendi, and several of the
pupils, M. Thouvenel, the French Minister, is not
yet satisfied ; and he has recently demanded of the
War Pdinistes, with great asperity of tone, that the
director, Ghalib Pacha himself, shall be dismissed
from his post. It almost looks as if M. Thouvenel
had a mind to acquire here such a reputation as was
achieved by Prince Nlentehikoff ; and it is
easy to see how deficient in tact this young diplo-
matist must be, since demands of this nature will, of
course, not enhance any sympathy he might have
gained among the Turks.
Mina Busurk Khan, the Persian consul at
Erzerouro, has celebrated the capture of Herat with
the greatest pomp and display. On the 19th of
liecember he gave a grand banquet, to which the
Governor of Erzeroum, Vedjihi Pacha, and all the
civil and military officers were invited ; on the 20th,
the day after, the French and Russian consuls were
invited to dinner, at which several European resi-
dents also sat down. The French consul proposed
the health of his Majesty the Shah of Persia, and
this toast was drunk with the greatest enthusiasm
by all the company. Again, on the 21st, the third
day, a splendid banquet was provided by the same
host for all the Persian merchants present in the
town. During these three days the consul kept
open house, and at the end of each repast. as above
described, he distributed Persian shawls amongst his
guests in commemoration of the event.
Mr. Layard, M.P., the president of the Ottoman
Bank, has at length obtained the concession from
the Porte to construct a railway from Rustchuk to
the Gulf of Servs and Enos, for the purpose of con-
necting the prineipalithe of Roumelia and Bulgaria
with the Archipelago, or in other words with the
Mediterranean. By this line the difficult navigation
of the Danube and the " inhospitable " Euxine may
be avoided altogether; and the rich produce of the
Danubian regions may be brought into the markets
of the west at a great saving of price.
Only one third of the shares are allotted to the
English capitalists; the remainder being reserved
for the French capitalists and for those belonging to
this country, to each of which classes a third has
also been assigned.
General Chesney has signed the contract for the
Euphrates Railway with the Sublime Porte, and the
general was at the same time assured that the go-
vernment would concede to him the line as far as
Samara.

Mr. Wilkins has received the following despatch
concerning the establishment of a new bank : " We
(the 'sorties concerned) recognise all the conditions
that Mr. Wilkins has stipulated with the Sublime
Porte." We shall therefore soon cease to be at
the mercy of Constantinople money changers and
usurers, who have often, in the brief space of twenty-
four hours, so contrived it as to inflict a loss of ten
piastres on the unlucky wight compelled to change
his sovereign of sterling gold.
War has been raging hem some time between the
two journals of this metropolis. Two duels have
been fought already between M. Nogues, the editor
of the Journal de Constantinople, and M. Balizot,
the editor of the Press. cr Orient. Neither of the
journals in question is independent, for both these
gentlemen receive an allowance from the Turkish
government—the editor first named to the tune of
thirty thousand, and the editor last named of one
hundred thousand piastres. But on Saturday last,
M. Balizot, sick of the duelling promos, went to the
French consul's and entered his plaint against M.
Nogues for defamation. The proceedings were very

dull, with the exception of the fact that the defend-
ant proved the complete dependence of both the
journals on the Turkish government ; and accord.
ingly the French consul declared that his court was
not competent to deal with the matter, but con-
demned 7;1. Balizot to pay the costs. That gentle-
man had laid his damages at the trifling sum of
100,000 f.