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

AFFAIRS OF TURKEY.

Constantinople journals and letters to the 18th
have reached us. The subjoined items of intelli•
germ 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
Hague.—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 for the assassination of the Tur-
kish woman, Emirs.—A letter from Anapa informs us 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 recentfine
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 okes
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.—eve
have intelligence from Trebisonde of painful interest. The
unfortunate Circassians, driven from their native districts
under circumstances which we have often narrated, and
which are familiar to our readers, continue to swarm into
into that city in great numbers. Towards the end of last
month there were as many as 10,000 of these unhappy people
clustered within the walls. Typhus fever and other diseases
had carried away 3,000 of them since the 10th December,
and the contagion had spread greatly amongst the ordinary
inhabitants. The evil, however, having assumed serious
proportions, the Government, on the requisition of the
Board, have, we learn, despatched Dr. Barozzi to Trebi-
sonde, with full powers to take every sanitary measure that
he may deem necessary to arrest thisaffliction. Dr. Ba-
rozzi's talents and experience, and his energy of character,
lead us to hope fir desirable results from his mission. we
understand that he is about to camp the Circassians out in
tents, to organise hospitals, introduce disinfectants, put the
cemeteries in proper order, and adopt every possible hygienic
means to relieve Trebisonde from the scourge which stalks
abroad there.—Riza Effendi, the inspector of the province
of Trebizonde, recently submitted to the Government a re-
p )rt representing that if certain works were executed to fa-
cilitate irrigation from the river which passes by Tzanik, a
considerable quantity of land Would be rendered available
for the cultivation of cotton, rice, and sugar. The
Government, aeting upon this representation, has
ordered the execution of the works indicated at
the cost of the Treasury, and has forwarded to
Riza Effendi a quantity of cotton seed for dis-
tribution amongst the agricultural population. An Trade
has, moreover, been granted to Hogan Serkis, residing in
Tzanik, giving permission to open a sugar factory in that
locality,"