The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-24 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Constantinople letters and journals to the 15th
have reached Iv. Prince Couza's visit is the prin-
cipal incident of interest. The following account
of the proceedings connected with the visit is given
by the Levant Herald, which journal, however, it
should be premised, has never been very favourable
to the Prince :—" Whatever may be the difference
of opinion as to the political morality of the Hos-
podar's late proceedings, or as to the real motive of
nis journey to Constantinople, there can be no ques-
tion as to the character of the reception he has met
with. Externally, at least, his visit has been a
great success." From first to last the event has
gone off as well as the best managed royal progress
ever burlesqued at Astley's or Cremorne Conveyed
from Tehernavoda to Kustendjie by a special train,
he was saluted on mounting the quarter deck of the
Beyrout with the full royal complement of 21 guns.
Again, as the corvette passed Buyukdere on the
early morning of her arrival—flying the Moldo-
Wallach standard at her fore—the French gunboat
saluted the princely bunting, whilst her crew
manned yards and hurrahed as lustily as if the
Gallic Caesar himself had been sweeping by. On
landing the captain of the corvette again tran-
scended the exigencies of etiquette and repeated the
21 gun salute. Ashore his Highness found not an
ordinary yali—such as lodged the Viceroy of Egypt
during his visit to the capital—but a private kiosk
hitherto sacred to imperial occupancy alone; and
so consistently on throughout the week. On Wed-
nesday (the Bth) he was honoured with a most flat-
tering audience by the Sultan, at which, however,
the Grand Vizier, and not the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, attended—the fact of his Highness's
mere vassalage being thereby ceremonially indi-
cated. On Thursday forenoon he received the
visits of Fuad and A'ali Pashas; and, later on the
same day made his own round of calls on the foreign
ministers, in Court carriages, attended by his suite
and escorted by a couple of Sadyk Pasha's dragoons.
Sir H. Bulwer, as doyen of the diplomatic body,
received of course the first visit, which lasted about
Half an hour, after which his highness passed on to
he French embassy, where he honoured the Mar-
quis de Moustier with, we believe, a causerie of
nearly two hours' duration. The round of other
diplomatic visits being completed, the Prince pro-
ceeded to the Porte and made the usual calls on the
chief members of the Divan. These done, he visited
in rapid succession the Greek Patriarch and the
patriarchs of Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria,
by all of whom his highness was received with as
much show of affectionate unction as if the little
affair of the Convents had never happened. On
Friday, the foreign representatives returned the
Prince's visit. In the matter of these diplomatic
calls, we may here mention, occurred the first of the
two or three hitches which have slightly—very
slightly of course—marred the ceremonial harmony
of the week's proceedings. Without pretending to
the confidence of any one of the august personages
who have contributed to this Hospodaric triumph,
we are, we believe, accurate in saying that it had
been arranged that the important first visit should
be exacted from and not paid to the Prince by the
foreign Ministers. From this understanding, how-
ever, Count Greppi, the Italian charge d'affairee,
appears to have departed, by himself calling the
first on the Hospodar. Again, on Friday evening,
the Marquis de Moustier, though only second in the
diplomatic hierarchy, displayed his friendly zeal in
being the first of the corps to offer a banquet to
Prince Couz a. His Excellency's invitations to this,
however, were not accepted either by Sir H, Bul-
wer, Baron Prokeech Osten, cr M. Novikoff, the
Russian charge d'affaires. On Saturday, after re-
ceiving the return calls of the patriarchs, the Hos-
podar visited the imperial yachts, the various bar-
racks, andaTophaneh, and in the evening entertained
Count Greppi at a quiet dinner en familie. Sunday
forenoon was passed in hearing mass in the Fanar,
where something like a scene occurred when the
Patriarch volunteered his blessing iu terms unaccep-
table to the Hospodar, who protested, a haute voix,
against the formula employed, and retreated hastily
before the conclusion of the service. In the evening
his Highness was entertained by A'ali Pasha at a
grand banquet, at which the whole of the Ministers
the Grand Vizier excepted—and high functionaries
of the Porte were present. On Monday he was
the guest of Sir H. Bulwer at a dinner for which
no diplomatic inv s ions had been issued, The
presence, however, o leading members of the
Government, with that of Lady Herbert of Lea, Mr.
Consul-General Cumberbatcb, and a few leading
members of our local society, gave sufficient weight

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to the compliment. The toast of the eveteittrOn'
this occeasion was—` 17tie prosperity of the theitt4:
Provinces under the sovereignty of the Port.
and with the liberties and conditionss guaranteed
by treaties,'—coupled with 'the health of the
reigning Prince.' In proposing this toast, Sir
Heery expressed his hope that a satisfactory ar-
rangement of the present difficulty' arising out
of late events in the Principalities would be effected,
and that a good Constitution would be established,
which would preserve property, maintain justice,
and establish a juet equilibrium betwcee the dif-
fercut classes of society in both provinces. We are
auable to report either the corresponding senti-
ment' or remarks delivered at the French Embassy
on Friday evening. Such, briefly told, have been
the leading outside incidents of this princely visit
during the week."
The following are some items of general inlelli-
gence :—" Oa Sunday (12th) the Sultan took a
trip in the Talk to the Black Sea ant ranee of the
Besphorus, in order to inspect the fortiflcetions
which are being erected and restored there, and re-
turned to Dolma-Baghtche the same evening.--
We have already mentioned that the mother of
the Viceroy of Egypt has brought many rich
presents, on her visit to Constantinople, to the Sul-
tan and the Court. Conspicuous amongst them is
a superb diadem of diamonds and other precious
stones, valued at £60,000, and a single ring dia-
mond, valued at £:ls,ooo.—The Bishop of Gibraltar
again preached on Sunday morning at the Embassy
Chapel to a numerous congregation, and in the
afternoon held a confirmation, at‘w'aicii -the rite
was administered to 39 persons. During this latter
service the chapel was crowded by perhaps the
largest congregation that ever before assembled in
it. On Monday his lordship met the resident Eng-
lish clergy—nine in number—at a ccnference, which
was joined by Archdeecen Philpot, now on a visit
to Constantinople. The bishop will, we believe, bring
his interesting and useful visit to a close to-morrow-
(l6th), when he proceeds north to Kustendjie,
Galatz, Pesth, and Vienna.—Major Nee:jib Effendi
has just arrived in the capital from Transylva-
nia, bringing with him 200 superior horses for
the remount of the artillery. A squadron of
fresh horses have also arrived from Aleppo, and#
were yesterday sent to grass at Sasli-dere,--.The
steamtug Bob Chambers, the property of Mr. Smart,
was unfortunately destroyed by fire on the 9th, The
vessel was moored at Moumhane, alongside the
steamer Champion, and the smoke being perceived
by the watch of the latter vessel, the man on board
the tug, who was asleep at the time, was aroused,
but the fire spread so rapidly that it was found
necessary to tow her away. Capt. Beevick; of the
Brothers, accordingly towed her across to Scutari,.
where she was scuttled and sunk in shallow water.
The fire is supposed to have originated from some
neglect in clearing away the hot ashes, which
ignited the coal-bunkers. The Bob Chambers

was a new vessel, and only arrived here about
eight months ago. The vessel, we are sorry to
learn, was uninsured.—A carriage road is about to
be commenced from Konitza, between Herzegovina
and Bosnia, and engineers have already arrived in
the various localities with the requisite materials
for their work. The commercial importance of this
undertaking is manifest, forming as it will do the
main route of communication between two extensive
provinces.—The Minister of Public Works has
despatched engineers to commence a carriage
road from Varna to Rustchuk. Two other roads
will also be begun immediately in the same
province, both branching out from Rustchuk,
one to Tirnova, and the other to Siliatria.—One
result of the Circassian immigration has been
to give a revived and immense impetus to
the slave trade. At Trebizond and Samsoun
a brisk commerce is carried on in likely' boys
and girls at prices which place these inter■
eating chattels within the reach of all.' Girls of

- ---- from ten to fourteen, for example, who would five

or seven years ago cost 10,000 p. a piece, are now a
drug at 500 p., whilst lees prime' samples can be
purchased by the score for 40 or 50 per cent. lees.
Here, in Tophaneh, the metropolitan headquarters
of the trade—where the raw material is burnished

up for consumption—rates are of course higher ;
bat even from this high-priced der ot a moderate
establishment may now be stocked complete for
what would, a few years ago, have been the cost
of a single slave. The famisiing Circassians con.
tinue to be brought off from the coast of Abhasia in
great numbers by the Turkish Government, who are
making every effort to colonise them in suitable
localities on Turkish territory. On Saturday and
Sunday last, the Government steamers Malakoff and
Taif, and three sailing 'vessels, arrived in port laden
with Circassians, numbering in the aggregate to
5,600, and, without landing any, proceeded on Sun-
day evening to Panderma in the Sea of Marmora,
to reinforce the Circassian colony already estab-
lished there. The Omer Pasha transport also
arrived on Sunday, having on board about 300
picked men, volunteers for the imperial army. The
number of these mountaineers who have been thus
converted in to Turkish soldiers, and who are destined
for the sth corps d'armee in Sprig, amounts now to
above 2,000."

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openly and meant more covertly. The consequence
of this untimely hint being thrown out was tit at the
inhabitants very naturally declined to, con gregate
at a place where Danish opinions were certain to be
at a discount, and where they would not •be able to
get their wishes attended to at all. It ma ybe sup-
posed of what incongruous elements the so calleo
meeting was composed, and yet this apology
for an assembly was des!gnated a gathering of
the inhabitants of the locality for the purpose
of protesting against the propositions entertained
at the Conference relative to the Diechies. The
circumstances that took place at this meeting fully
carried out the descriptions given of the manage.
ment which had convened it, and the marceuvres
that had animated its assistants or presiding sieleitE,.
A large concourse of the meeting was composed of
that heterogeneous class who go about from place
to place for the purpose of aiding and abetting any
designs that may be convenient at the moment, and
enact the role of any community that may pro(
convenient to the parties actively engaged in the
carrying on of a transaction. The "little clique"
made desperate efforts to effect their ingenious but
unprincipled purpose, and tne decorations, See., were
very profuse. There does not appear that muct;
was done, after all, in the way of proving the
eagerness of the assembly for a change. A few
protestations were made which called forth expree-
sions of dissent from the few Danes who were there,
which c:rcumstance significantly declared hoe
much and bow far their interests were concerned it
the hffi.ir. As might have been exvected there wilt,
some dist urbaece witnessed on the separation of the
motley group for divers places, which professed to
be the inhabitants of the place assembled together
for the purpose of unanimously declaring their feel-
ings in their new and strange position. Of couret
in the skirmishes the Danes were selected for
the victims, and a few of the burghers.
who . had already been insulted, were
arrea•ed. The Anil rian soldiers, however, had the
sense to put an end to the absurd arid unjust pro-
ceeding. Had the troops been Prussian, how di►
ferent would, in all probability, have been the
remit. This event proves that there must be some-
thing fundamentally wrong in a system whict
upholds such subterfuge, and takes advantage o
ouch mean devices to gain a trivial purpose an(
accomplish the desired end. Toe greatest tyranny
has been exercised in dealing with the North
Scaleswigers throughout, and they hove ad along
testified their unwillingness to become exclusively
Germane; and in consequence of this exhibition o
feeling on their part, great outrages have been
committed on their liberties, and their rights anc
privileges have been sacrified on several occasions.
Their newspapers have been interfered with, their
editors put into prison, and their deputies have ales
been incarcerated. After many arbitrary regula-
tions have been laid down, such as preventing tht
rise of the Danish flag and forbidding the celebre
tion of the birthday of CIirtISTIAN the Ninth, al
insult is put upon common sense by this endeavour
to get up an apparent demonstration in favour a
the Germans. When a people are in earnest ape(
a subject it needs not the meeting cc the assembly
to give it utterance, their feelings are expressec
in a hundred unmistakeable forms, but the wily
deceivers and archehypocrites persuade themseivet
that they can contrive to hoodwick others, and thu,
overawe the natives themselves by their dex•
terity.