The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-14 00:00:00

TURKEY.'

Constantinople letters and journals to the sth
have reached us, but with the exception of the
account they give of the unsettled state of the money
market, their contents are not of much interest. The
Levant Herald has the subjoined observations on
the subject just alluded to :—" The decision which
the meeting of the brokers on our local Stock Ex-
change arrived at regarding cash prices of securi-
ties being adopted as the basis of operations, has
not yet been put into operation, notwithstanding
the support of the outside public. The plan of
August last for limiting operations in 'air' was acted
upon Friday last. A large operator delivered
real titles with 2f difference below the price of
the operation, and although this was anticipated on
the place, the market was not in a position to abide
by the rule agreed to, notwithstanding every effort
was made to obtain cash for the engagements due,
However, eventually, one-third of the delivery was
paid for by the united action of the brokers, and the
holder ultimately agreed to retain the remainder for
a month at 1 per cent. interest. The result of this
caused great dismay, and a considerable number of
the early supporters of the new plan began to sug■
gest the re-adoption of the old obnoxious system.
Yesterday (4th) a meeting of brokers, speculators,
and subscribers to the Stock Exchange was held,
and the decision arrived at was, that for the future
there are to be two liquidations per month on cash
prices. We trust this rule will be acted upon."
The following are some items of general intelli-

gence Haider Effendi, Imperial Commiscioner
at Tunis, has arrived here from there, on board the
frigate Muhbithoi-Surow. The Peiki-Cheriff,
which formed part of the Turkish squadron sta-
tioned in Tunisian waters, arrived in company•--
&li Bey, first chamberlain to the Sultan, has left
the capital on board the frigate Feizi-Bakri for
Alexandria, being charged with the delivery of a
portrait of his Majesty to the Viceroy.—A fine
❑ew steam corvette, named the Naziret-Asis,
recently constructed at the Arsenal, has been
successfully launched in presence of the Grand
V.zier, the Capitan Pasha, and several other
State functionaries.—News from Phillipopoli re-
ports that a considerable amount of rain had

fallen there, and that the cotton crops were al.
most completely destroyed.—Letters from Erze-
roum speak in a eulogistic manner of the attention
paid by Ismail Pasha, the Governor, and Dervish
Pasha, the Commander-in• Chief of the 4th corps
d'armee, to the intellectual requirements of the
youthful population in that p art of the empire.
Hitherto not a single public school had been esta-
blished in the three large provinces of Trebizond,
Erzeroum, and Kharpoot, with a population of about
two millions, but, thanks to the exertions of the
above-named functionaries, this serious want, it ap-
pears, is about to be supplied, and preparatory schools
are on the point of being opened at Trebizond,
Erzeroum, Kharpoot, Kars, and Erzingian.—
The lonian community at Odessa, represented by
a deputation of influential merchants and bankers,
have just presented, on the occasion of their with-
drawal from British protection by the cession of the
lonian Islands, to Mr. Grenville Murray, H.B.M.
Consul-General for the Russian ports in the Black

Sea and the Sea of Azoff, an address of thanks for
past official services and personal courtesies, to
which Mr. Murray made a suitable reply. The
resident lonians of Odessa number more than ten
thousand. Many of them are wealthy bankers and
merchants, whose ancestors sought refuge there

after the massacre of the patriaroh and primates of
the Greek Church at Constantinople, on the out-
break of the war of independence. They have been
the founders of the immense corn trade of Southern
Russia, and most of them have branch houses at the
chief ports and capitals of Europe."

A CENTENARIAN IN TUE HARVEST FIELD.—OZ
the farm of Hill of K•ir, Belhelvie, occupied by Mr. Shand,
Miss Margaret Crockat assisted at the harvest about ten
days ago. Margaret was born in 1762, was shearing in
1782—the " snawie hairst"—and, although now in her 102 d
year, has all her faculties unimpaired, and is quite lively;
so much so that she travelled a considerable distance to
enjoy the " clyack feast."—Aberdeen Journal,

REPAVING OF MOORGATE STREET AND THE
ClTY•ROAD.—yesterday the contractors commenced the
repaving ot• Moorgate-street throughout. It is also intended
to repair the whole Of the thoroughfare in continuation
from Finsbury-square to the Lying-in Hospital in the City-
road, at the outlay of £3,750,