The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-04 00:00:00

AFFAIRS OF TURKEY.

Constantinople letters and journals to the 22d
June have reached us. The principal intelligence
is contained in tho subjoined extract from the
Lerant Herald :—" Something like a formal settle-
ment of the Danubian dificulty has at length been
effected. On Sunday (the 19th), the Marquis de
Moustier, Baron Prokesch-Osten, Count Brassier
de St. Simon, A bro Effendi, of the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, and M. Negri, Prince Couza's
agent in Constantinople, met Sir H. Bulwer at the
British Embassy to consider the details of the com-
promise which had been agreed to in principle
between the Porte and the Hospodar; The latter
has persistently striven during his visit to have
his late measures not merely condoned but
legalised, but neither tha Porte nor a majority of
the foreign Ministers could extend their formal
sanction to acts which violate a solemn convention.
However, making a virtue of necessity they were
willing—whilst protesting against the illegality of
the prince's acts—to accept accomplished facts so
far as that could be decently and wisely done. It
was therefore agreed in substance on Sunday, that
the constitution imposed by the Paris Conference of
1858 shall be replaced by a new one more directly
recognising the autonomic rights of the Princi4
palities, but at the same time modifying the Hos-
podalr's late electoral law, and superadding the
check of a Senate, the majority of whose members
shall be elected by the people. A short protecol of
this understanding was drawn up, and will be
submitted to the Porte and the foreign representa-
tives this week far their formal sanction. In the
meantime, the Commission appointed by the Con.
ference to deal practically with the monastic pro-
perties is nearly completed. Mr. Dalyell, H.M.
Consul at Jassy, has been named the British member;
Tissot, French Consul at Jassy, will represent
M. de Moustier; and Count Beccio di Bayo, recently
Italian Consul at Rome, will be the Italian nominee.
The Austrian and Russian members have also been
appointed, but as yet we are unaware of their
names."

The following are a few items of general news
—" the Turkish Government is paying special
attention of late to the remount of the cavalry
artillery. Numbers of horses have already arrived
from different quarters, where they have been care,
fully selected; and 8,000 Russian horses are ex-
pected in the course of a few days from Odessa to
complete the equipment of these two important
branches of the service.—On the 17th a fire
broke out in the quarter of Egri-Capou at Stam-
boul, and fifty houses were burned to the
ground.—At a recent meeting of the lonians re•
siding in Constantinople an address was drawn
up, which was presented yesterday to Sir Henry
Bulwer at the English Embassy by a deputation
from that community. The persons selected,
MM. Vagliano, Inglessi, Antiopa, and Valso-
machi, were naturally well received by the Am.
bassador. The address, after an allusion to re-
cent changes, expressed the gratitude which the
lonian body feel towards the Ambassador and
the Consular authorities for the care with which
the personal and commercial interests of the
lonians had always been vigilantly guarded. His
Excellency, in reply, expressed his gratification at
receiving the address.—The Messageries Lupe-
riales, Austrian Lloyds, and Russian Steam Com.
panies having refused to charter any of their
ships for the transport of the Circassians, the
Porte is seeking vessels for this purpose in Eng•
land, and has already engoged the Plata,
a large and very roomy steamer, which is expeoted
during the coming week, with the biscuits
sent from Malta by her Majesty's Govern-
ment. In the meantime the exodus continues.—
On the 18th Rza Effendi, the Imperial commis-
sioner at Samsoun, left that place for Trebizond
to superintend the immigration going on from
that port. At the date of the last advices, there
were still nearly 60,000 destitute Circassians at
Samsoun, and numbers continued to arrive,—We
are glad io find that news which comes from
Varna and Silistria promises well for the grain
harvest in those districts.—A correspondent writes
from Mostar on the 10th that Djevdet Effendi, the
Imperial Commissioner, has distributed in several
districts of Herzegovina 500 ekes of cotton seed.
The distribution of seed last year in this province
was on a very small scale, but trifling as it was, the
result was promising, and there is every reason to
believe, with proper encouragement, the cultivation
uucton would prove a great element of prosperity
in this poor section of the empire.—We *egret to
learn by a communication from Eskizara, Bulgaria,
that the ripening harvest in that district has been
damaged by storms of hail and rain, and consequent
inundations. The hailstorms did great
mischief,
many of the stones, we are assured, being as large
as eggs. Eski-zara is one of the principle centres
of trade in otto of roses, and the rosaries have sus.
tained considerable injury."

" We have reason to know," says the Nation,
"that the commission on the eiMr of the Isthmus
of Suez has terminated its labours, and that M. Thouvenel
recently bcd an interview with the Emperor on the subject.
We underete:d that his AlpiestY has signed the decision
come to by the Commission, and according to which the
Viceroy of Egypt will have to pay
over to the company,
by Ns-ay of indemnity tu rthe lands given up and for the
fresh-water canal, a surn o.f. SI millions.,,
The Mooviteur pcblishea a decree confirming three
our in the Mexican expe-
ditionln nominations
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thatagiiioYnc country.
ni conferred by the French Corn-
DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITII A SEIARR.—A
gentleman writing from Macao on the 143 th of April,
Bays was witness to an extraordinary scene in the out-
ward harbour on Saturday last. Several boy? from the
French Menageries lmperiales ship were bathing, when a
shark was observed making for them. They heard the cries
of their shipmates, and attempted to regain their vesesel,
distant half a mile. They would have been too late but
for an officer belonging to the celebrated Liverp, of clipper
Back Seneca, Mr. Lamb, who, arming himself with a
sheath knife, sprang from the rail, and attacked the
monster in his own element. The shark inanediatdy
turned upon his antagonist, when occurred a eeene more
easily imagined than described. Mr. Lamb dived again
and again, each time, coming up beneath the monster, end
succeeded in inflicting several wounds. The sea was lite-
rally dyed with the blood of the shark. Several boats
having been put off, he was finally despatched with a hats
peon, and hauled ashore oa the beach. He proved to be a
blue shark fully 15 feet long."
The Madrid journals announce that Clc•vrrn.4
meat has accepted the resign4tion of M. 6Alay.: y
Mizarreb,