The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-28 00:00:00

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THE ARMY.
A public announcement, offering a reward of £3O, was
test week put in circulation at Woolwich and elsewhere by
she authorities of the War Department for the apprehension
of a recruiting sergeant named James S tundcrs, who has
been employed in that garrison, it is stated, for many years,
end who, it now appears, has succeeded in realising some
thousands of pounds, by means of perjury and false attes-
tations. It was his duty to enlist and receive recruits from
other depots, and to carry out the preliminaries for their
being sworn in. On the production of the attestation papers
bearing the signatures of the local magistrate, the majority
of which, it has been prayed, were forged, he was entitled
to a bounty of 15s. Considerable sums of money, it ap-
pears, were likewise 'paid over to him, under a ctaira for
rations and pay due to recruits not in exi-teace. Cennel
Wodehouse, who has recently succeeded to the command
of the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, at Woolwich,
having received informatim which induced him to suspect
the sergeant's probity, he was ordered to the guard-
room, and was placed in charge of Sergeant Harvey,
recently reduced from the grade of sergeant-major for in-
subordination and breach of discipline. At roll call the
delinquent managed to make his escape from the custody of
his guard, and has not since been heard of. The circum-
stances of his escape are suspicious, and Sergeant Harvey
has now taken his place under arrest. Other persons, it
is feared, under authority in the garrison, are implicated.

AFFAIRS OF TURKEY,

Constantinople journals and letters to the 18th
have reached us. The subjoined items of intelli-
gence are taken from the Levant Herald :
" The Sultan returned on Monday afternoon to Dolma-
Bagtche from a shooting excursion at Ghiumlek.—We
understand that the wife of the Viceroy of Egypt is shortly
expected in Constantinople with her children and suite.—
The Duke of Rutland, and his medical attendant, Dr.
Kingsley, who have been staying in Constantinople for
some weeks, has left by the steamer for Athens. The Duke
is greatly improved in health.—On Sunday last a fire,
which at one time threatened rather serious consequences,
broke out at Stamboul, in the Mahmoud Pacha quarter.
Five private houses and fifteen shops were destroyed, and,
strange to say, the fire communicated itself to the top of the
minaret of the Mahmoud Pacha mosque, which was much
injured.—The Count Della Minerva, formerly charge
d'afaires here for Italy, has been appointed Minister at
Athens. Count Della Croce, first Secretary for Italy at
Lisbon, has been appointed to the same position here in
place of Count Patella, who, it is said, will proceed to the
liague.—We are informed that a Vizierial letter will
shortly be forwarded to the Pacha of Egypt, for the pur-
pose of reminding him that the six months' term fixed by
the Porte to enable M. de Lesseps to arrange his plans,
having expired without any measures of this kind being
adopted, the Viceroy must at once suspend the works of
the Suez Canal.—Executions are fortunately rare in Con-
stantinople, but we had two of them yesterday morning.
The Arab fisherman Kiritli Mustapha, who was condemned
some time ago for the murder of a Zaptieh, at Kalatat Yeri,
was hanged at the Bridge ; and at the same time the gar-
dener Ibrahim suffered the last penalty of the law in a
similar manner at Scutari fur the assassination of the Tur-
kish woman, Ewire.—A letter from Anapa informs ns that
the Governor, Zia Bey, is busily occupied providing
localities for a body of 6,000 Circassian immigrants who have
recently come to establish themselves there.—The recsntfine
weather has completely broken up the last remnants of ice
on the Danube, and the navigation of that river is now quite
free.—We learn from Salonica that the produce of the cot-
ton crop will probably amount to 100,000 bales of 50 ekes
each. About two-thirds of this quantity has been already
exported. The import trade in this city during the past
year has been also very active. The customhouse receipts
for the past year amount to 15 millions of piastres.—We
have intelligence from Trebisonde of painful interest. The
unfortunate Circassian, driven from their native districts
under circumstances which we have often narrated, and
into
into are familiar to our readers, continue to swarm
into that city in great numbers. Towards the end of last
month there were a
clustered within the walls. Typhus fever and other diseases
s many as 10,000 of these unhappy people
had carried away 3,000 of them since the 10th Decem. camber,
and the contagion had spread greatly
having assumed serious
inhabitants. The evil, however, amongst the ordin.ary
proportions, the Government, on the requisition
. of the
Board, have, we learn, despatch -d Dr..Barezzi to Trebi-
sonde, with full powers to take every sanitary measure that
he may deem necessary to arrest this
. affitction. Dr. Ba-
rezzi's talents and experience, and his energy of character,
lead us to hope fer desirable results from his mission. We
understand that he is about to camp the
introduce disinfectants, put the
Circassians out in
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rietC:ilatEly ffenal'the inspector of the province
of Teb submittedz to the Government a re-
rened
pert representing that if certain works were executed to fa-
cilitate iirigation from the river which passes by Tzenik, a
considerable quantity of land would be rendered available
for the cultivation of cotton, rice, and sugar. The
Government, tiding upon this representation, has
ordered tho execution of the works indicated at
the cost of the Treasury, and has forwarded to
Rive Effendi a quantity of cotton seed for dis-
tribution amongst the agricultural population. An Trade
has, moreover, been granted to Hogan Serkis, residing in
Tzenik, giving permission to open a sugar factory in that
locality.".