The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-24 00:00:00

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to the compliment. The toast of the evksit4g on
this occcasion was—' fne prosperity of the. Uc ited
Provinces under the sovereignty of the j'emte,
and with the liberties and conditionss guarantee 4.
by treaties,'—coupled with 'the health of the
reigning Prince.' In proposing this toast, Sir
Henry expressed his hope that a satisfactory ar-
rangement of the present ' difficulty' arising out
of late events in the Principalities would be effected,
and that a good Constitution would be established,
which would preserve property, maintain justice,
and establish a just equilibrium between the dif-
ferent classes of society in both provinces. We are
unable to report either the corresponding ' senti-
ment' or remarks delivered at the French Embassy
on Friday evening. Such, briefly told, have been
the leading outside incidents of this princely visit
during the week."

The following are some Rents of general intelli-
gence :•••-..4. Oa Sunday (12th) the Sultan took tz
trip in the Talia to the Black Sea entrance of :hc
Bosphorus, in order to it::spect 11
which are being erec'el and rc.i!ored there, and re-

fortithmtions

turned to DArnl.-Wightehe the same fez_
We have already mentioned that the mother of
the Viceroy of Egypt has brought many rich
presents, on her visit to Constantinople, to the Sul-
tan and the Court. Conspicuous amongst teem is
a superb diadem of diamonds and other precious

stones, valued at £60,000, and a single ring dia-
mond, valued at £ls,ooo.—The Bishop of GibralLer
again preached on Sunday morning at the Ena!oasny
Chapel to a numerous congregation, and in the
afternoon held a confirmation, at which the rite
was administered to 30 persons. During this latter
service the chapel was crowded by perhaps the
largest congregation that ever before assembled in
it. On Monday his lordship met the resident Eng-
lish clergy—nine in number—at a conference, which
was joined by Archdeacon Philpot, now on a visit
to Constantinople. The bishop will, we believe, bring
his interesting and useful visit to a close to-morryaf
(16th), when he proceeds north to Kustendjie,
Galatz, Pesth, and Vienna.—Major Ned jib Effendi
has just arrived in the capital from Transylve -
nia, bringing with him 200 superior horses for
the remount of the artillery. A squadron of
fresh horses have also arrived from Aleppo, and
were yesterday sent to grass at Sasli-dere.—The
steamtug Bob Chambers, the property of Mr. Smart,
was unfortunately destroyed by fire on the 9th, The
vessel was moored at Moumhane, alongside the
steamer Champion, and the smoke being perceived
by the watch of the latter vessel, the man on board
the tug, who was asleep at the time, was aroused,
but the fire spread so rapidly that it was found
necessary to tow her away. Capt. Bewick, of the
Brothers, accordingly towed her across to Scutari,
where she was scuttled and sunk in shallow water.
The fire is supposed to have originated from some
neglect in clearing away the hot ashes, which
ignited the coal-bunkers. The Bob Co.ambere
was a new vessel, and only arrived hero about
eight months ago. The vessel, we are sorry to

learn, was uninsured.—A carriage road is about to
be commenced from Konitza, between Herzegovina
and Bosnia, and engineers have already arrived in
the various localities with the requisite materials
for their work. The commercial importance of this
undertaking is manifest, forming as it will do the
main route of communication between two extensive
provinces.—The Minister of Public Works has
despatched engineers to commence a carriage
road, from Varna to Bustchuk. Two other roads
will also be begun immediately in the same
province, both branching out from Rustchuk,
one to Tirnove, and the other to Silistria.--One
result of the Circassian immigration has been
to give a revived and immease impetus to
the slave trade. At Trebizond and Samsoun
a brisk commerce is carried on in likely' boys
and girls at prices which place these inter-
esting chattels within the reach of all.' Girls of
from ten to fourteen, for example, who would five
or seven years ago cost 10,000 p. a piece, are now a
drug at 500 p., whilst less prime samples can be
purchased by the score for 40 or 50 per cent. less.
Here, in Tophaneh, the metropolitan headquarters
of the trade—where the raw material is burnished
up for consumptien—rates aro of course higher ;
but even from this high-priced der (It a moderate
establishment may now be stocked complete for
what would, a few years sgo, have been the cost
of a single slave. The famis:aing Circassians con•
tinue to be brought off from the coast of Abhesia in
great numbers by the Turkish Government, who are
making every alert to co:ouiE2 them in suitable
localities on Turkish territory. On Saturday end
Sunday last, the Government steamers Malakoff and
Taif, and three sailing vessels, arrived in port laden
with Circassians, numbering in the aggregate to
5,600, and, without landing any, proceeded on Sun-
day evening to Panderma in the Sea of Marmora,
to reinforce the Cireassian colony already estab-
lished there. The Omer Pasha transport also
arrived on Sunday, having on board about 300
picked men, volunteers for the imperial army. The
number of these mountaineers who have been thus
converted into Turkish soldiers, and who are destined
for the sth corps d'armee in Spria, amounts now to
above 2,000."

LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1864.

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It would puzz7.e any one well versed in the
mysteries of polities, and experienced in the tactics
of manoeuvring, to divine what will be the nest
steps taken by the Prussians and Germans in eras!.
to carry out the designs which they have formed ss,
skilfully and cherish so fervently to their minds and
memories. One of the last attempts, in a minor
scale, was the show of a meeting which was put
forward, soi-disan,t, in favour of the new re-iginze, but
known to the initiated to have been arranged and
planned befor..hand, and not to have sprung spon-
taneously from the wishes and aspirations of the
people it affected to represent. This assembly pur-
ported to have been convened for the sake of pro-
testing against the amalgamation of the northern
part of Schleswig with Denmark. The accounts
given in the German papers set forth in glowing
terms that six or seven thousand inhabitants met
there to testify to the wishes and profess the feel-
ings of the people. This record does not tally with
a Private source of iaformation, and it is well to
note the peculiarities which mark the difference be-
tween them. A letter from Haderslen states that
the demonatration was got up became it was deemed
reeinisite to have one, *and this place was in some
respects the most suitable for carrying it out. The
adroitness and deztesity
emploTed by the origina-
tors of the plan were worthy of a better cause, and
displayed the resources that are at the command of
these mar ceuvrers. 'The placards which announced
the meeting were not suffered to contain allusions
to the real secret of the whole echenae, but they
vaguely wade mention of the div'slon of Schleswig,
which was threatened, and advised a protcat being
made against the fulfilment of such an intention.
The best proof of the nature of these attempts it
given in the fact that Austrian soldiers had to keep
guard over the meeting. A general there went so
far as to say that the troops were to attack tilt
assembly in case of any disturbance taking p!acts
zadtbat such annoyansm was not likely to emanate-
from any but Danes. There was malice prepense it.
the notion of such a remark, and this certainly de,
monstrates very aptly what views are entertained
by the presiding Powers, and what craft they die
Play when working out their designs and putting
their plans into execaton. The utterance of such
a sentiment was a aunesticn that implied much I

We are so accustomed to maintain our forces it
every quarter of the globe, to assert our supre
many, and to guard our rights in every habit.bl
zone, that it has perhaps become too much a mat-
ter of course to enter upon dangerous or difficult
adventures without sufficient consideration. The
risks of climate and the evil influences of undrained
and marshy lands are formidable foes to cope with,
and often prove more deadly to our brave men than
any foreign enemy. In acme instances, too, Sawn
herself protests—the uninhabitable and pathless
swamp and impenetrable thicket baffle the boldest
invader and defeat the most persevering attack.
All the obstacles which soil, climate, and general
condition can put in the way of the soldier appeai
to combine on the perilous shores of the Gold
Coast. According to a detailed account supplied
to a contemporary by one familiar with the dis-
trict, its evils have been underrated rather that.
exaggerated. Food is deficient for sheep, and
cattle are luxuries; the means of communica
Lion are bad, for the roads are no more than
sheep-walks. Dense and almost impassable
forests block the path, bat more perilous anti
more deadly than any other adversary is the pes
tilential malaria of the swamps described by thin
traveller as an irresistible, unseen foe. There it
little room to wonder that Mr. WINWORTH READI
should further add that the whole margin of the
West Coast is the domain of fever, dysentery
and every kindred ill. Nor need it surprise ue
that under such depressing and eisadvantageous
circumstances the forces we sent thither on the
recent foolhardy expedition against the Ashantet
King should be decimated by sickness and morta-
lity. The recklessness with which men wore de•
spatohed to such a coast without a plentiful pro-
vision of all necessaries was altogether unpardon-
able, but the melancholy event has turned publie
attention to the matter, and the question now asks()
Is not only why the men should not have beet,
batter cared for, but whether they should have
been out there at all. According to Mr. WIN
WORTH READE, the Ashantees are very unwilling
to go to war with white men. Possibly being e
sharp and intelbgent tribe they have some idea o•
the hopelessness of the conflict at close quarters,
and also, as Mr. Iteanz suggests, they may be in•
flaenced by the fear of lasing those small luxuriet
have become
accustomed, such as
ng
asbe
effeminate,f°r and
ctoottwonh,ichbetandesy, rum,
.and even ammunition. H,the most part quiet
Cdoeuscrrteiboeuss,thaenmd
affirms that he
learned from an officer engaged in
ones the late expedi-
tion that our men went on occasion througt
an ambush of 20t.) Ashantees, without injury alio
without knowing of the ambush, until they were
told of it by an Ashantee whom the
antis had
captured. This was the first expedition in which
the loss of life from fever was so frightfully rapid,
and it returned without seeing an Ashantce, so that
the natives did not certainly put themselves in the
way of our troops. This unsatisfactory transaction
seems likely to open the whole question of the mili-
tary occupation of such unhealthy quarters. At the
best of times, says Mr. Winvoant READE, mili-
tary hospitals are always tolerably full. It is
by no means certain how far military occupa-
tion tends to foster trade, although it was for its
protection that it was originally designed. Such
'-xpedients are not usually conducive to commercial
Prosperity, and the freer and more unaided the
action of trade, the more extensive and satisfactory
la us action in most cases. It seems that more
might be done by a naval than a military force,
end with lesa risk to health and life. The whole
question stands in need of careful and impartial
inquiry, since before we deport so many
men to se
unhealthy a locality, and insist
on their remaining
in occupation of it, it is surely well to aecaetaie
hew far such a costly sacrifice is a'oaelutely essen-
tial. Nothing short of actual neeessi y can justify
the maintenoce at A face in en ininClibrim A dip..