The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-30 00:00:00

THE EAST.

We extract the following from the Levan
Herald of December 21 :

KUSTENDJIE, Dec. 17.
The harvest in the Dobrudja has this year been
above the average, and the grain market has been
unusually active. It is crowded with carts by hun-
dreds, full of corn, so as positively to impede the
circulation in the streets of this flourishing new
town of ours. The great fair of Medjidie, esta-
blished by the energy and activity of Nusret
and Sabri Pashas, was almost deserted, the faro
mars being all occupied in getting in their har-
vests. Oar general prosperity is in great measure
due to the intelligence of Nusret Pasha, who is
Imperial Commissioner for the colonisation of the
emigrants. New buildings are rising up on all sides.
The Commissioner has established a hospital at
Medjidie, in a highly salubrious situation, where
the sick emigrants are received and carefully tended,
and a normal school, on a large scale, end under
admirable arrangements. He has further appointed
a municipal council, under whose supervision the
paving, lighting, and cleansing of the streets are
carefully attended to. He has cut dykes for the
drainage of the environs, heretofore extremely un-
healthy, and thus turned the marshes into market
gardens, and has planted more than 100,000 trees in
front of the town. Woodmen have been dispatched
to Aratchin and Babadagh to procure trees of the
most fitting sorts to be planted round the villages of
the Dobrudja, and 100,000 mulberry trees have
been sent for from Broussa, which are to be planted
at Medjidie itself.
The works of the canal in course of construction
under the direction of the Commissioner from Med
jidie to the Danube have been suspended till next
spring, This is in consequence of the ground being
frczP,n and the non.arrival of tools ordered at Con-
stantinople. The railroad company has engaged to
take immediate steps for draining the land along
the Hee, where at present the water stagnates in
abundance, and produces the intermittent fevers
known commonly as the " Dobrudj i fevers"—a
disease of a sad celebrity, and which hitherto has
yearly decimated our population.

We have had severe storms during the past
month. The packets for Odessa and Constantinople
were detained in port, and the postal service was
repeatedly interrupted. Notwithstanding the im6
portant works constructed by the company in our
harbour, it btill affords refuge in bad weather only
to small boats, and that by no means certain. In
prospect of the stormy weather which always pre-
vails in the Black Sea at this period of the year, the
Commissioner begged the Russian authorities to
prevent any embarkation of the Circassian emi-

grants after the 13th of November. Not withstand.
ing this prudent precaution, we hear that more
than 30,000 mountaineers, with their arms and
effects, have reached Novorasysk (Joondiak). It was
impossible to leave these poor wretches without
home or food on the desert shore ; Nusret Pasha,
consequently, sent immediate advices to the Admi.

ralty, and five frigates were forthwith despatched to
the rescue. It will depend upon the weather whether
they are brought to our port or that of BaltzilE or
Bourgas. In either case, the Commissioner has sent
word to the authorities to provide lodging, cloth-
ing, and food for these ill-starred strangers. He
has obtained a promise from the Russian General

Babitch, that so many of the 30,000 as cannot be
taken off at present shall be provided for till next

spring, when the emigration will re-commence as
before. The expense of their maintenance in the
Russian territory, strange to say, will fall upon the
exchequer of the Porte, a fresh proof of the humanity
of the Sultan and his advisers. In prospect of
the growing prosperity and great capabilities of

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this town Nusret Pasha has called a meeting in the
konak of the principal inhabitants, both Mussul-

man and Christian, for the purpose of form,
ing a municipal council, as at Medjidie.
The project was warmly approved, and Messrs,

Negroponti, neolets, and Bendtzli are seconding
the plans of the Commissioner with all their insu•

ence. I must not omit a trait of hospitality un-
fortunately less common among the Christians than

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the Mussulmans. When the Tonna arrived here,
half dead with cold and hunger, M.:.Negroponti,
Who is oue of the large3t traders in the town,
ordered all his magazines to be thrown open for
their reception."