The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-14 00:00:00

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Mail just leaving. Specie continues to fall. The fol-
lowing are the latest prices :—Sovereigns, 5 dol. 14c. to
5 dol. 13c. ; Half-dollars only 54 premium ; Quarters, 4 ;
Mexican dollars, 6 ; Doubloons, 16 dol. 62c.; Patriot,
16 dol. 40c.
MEM.—A broker has just called to say that sovereigns
are down to 5 del. 12e., and some have been done at 5 dol.
11c. ; Treasury drafts still at 14 premium.—Morning
Chronicle.

The Greenock Advertiser states, with some proba-
bility,• that the Duke of Roxburgh is likely to move the
Address in the House of Peers, at the opening of the
Session.
BEGGARS IN TIIE OLDEN TlME.—There iS a
curious description of the life of a beggar of the time of
Elizabeth, in the Belntan of London, published in 1608.
After describing his various modes of raising supplies, the
writer adds, " The whole kingdom is but his walk, a whole
cittie is but his parish : in every man's kitchen is his meat
Brest ; in every man's cellar lyes his beere ; and the best
men's purses keep a penny for him to spend."
The Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship
Leith arrived at Blackwall yesterday morning at ten o'clock,
having performed he: passage from Edinburgh in forty-ono
hours ; and the Company's packet London Merchant
reached Downes' Wharf on Thursday night at twelve, hav-
ing made the voyage from Newcastle in thirty-five hours.

TURKEY

CONSTN ATINOPLE, SEPT. 20.—The ministers of the
Sultan have not yet had time to recover from blow as
a the state of
stupefaction and surprise into which so unexpected
the sudden discovery and punishment of the crimes of one
of their number had thrown them, more particularly
un as he
was one whom all had unanimously agreed in pronecing
to be the ver type of honesty itself. la fact so gre
y at
shment has the dismissal and disgrace t
degree of astoni
Perteff Pacha excited in the minds of all here, that " Is be
not honest ?" was almost the sole question re-echoed from_
mouth to mouth for some days in the. political circles of
Constantinople. The Sultan, however, basing discevererdl
that both Perteff Pacha himself and his brother at the bee
of the war department, had been guilty of the basest etos
cf injustice and cruelty, he with his own hand wrote to thei
Grand Vizier, stating that, having convicted them of the
blackest ingratitude, he ordered they should both be In-
stantly dismissed from his service and exiled, and be re-
placed by Hakiff Effendi and Defterdar Ali Bey. The
whole of the property of Perteff Pacha has since been con-
fiscated, and his magnificent palace given to one of tir
Sultanas. The disgrace of Perteff Pacha has been
t
subject of much discussion here, as being considered a se-
vere blow to British influence at the Ottoman Crt.
That influence must be little indeed if it can suffer anY
detriment from the fall of a bigoted fanatic, whose sole aimand ambition has been to gratify his ow n
n avaricious -
sires by abusing the confidence with which his Sovereig
honoured him.
Several other changes have taken place this kin thie
wee
minor departments of the Government, all the individ:
removed being of Perteff Paella's party, but though
rtol
grand blow is struck, the scene is not yet over. It
seems beyond doubt that the ex-Seraskier, Husreff pucka,
will again come into power, but it is not yet known wile
appoiltment he is to have. Intrigues of all kinds are
going on, and it will be some time before the Government
is again settled.
Affairs are beginning to look rather black here between
the French and Ottoman Governments with regard to
Tu-
nis, and it is reported here that the Capitan Pacha has in-
quired of the Governor of Malta what part would bee taken
by the British fleet in the event of his finding it nessary
to interfere in the war which at present menaced the T"--
nisian states. A Grand Council was held at the Porte °9
Monday, in which it is supposed this question was. d,
couxtsToserhodeo,lTbauffrtea,biirinssoh)tiliztilee,opresent unsettled state of the
steamer beenalmost i entirelyarrived
here n e gyloesetteert
y, but
brought no news of any kind from Persia.
At Trebisonde the plague has committed the most fear-.
ful ravages, and all business was at a stand-still in cwe,
quence. The Russian review at Wornesenk is now n'e.r,
and private letters from thence describe it as being the mos!,
brilliant spectacle Europe has witnessed for many Yeal
The number of troops reviewed was 44,000 cavalry aln
15,000 infantry, with 168 pieces of cannon. The receptinu
and attention the British officers met with who went from
here was most flattering. The Archduke Jean is expecte(
ri
here about the 24th, and grand preparations are nn'ek!n°,,
Ministr3,
for his reception. After leavire• here he intends Inal'n°
the tour of tent. -
A contract hasLeva lately been entered into by. one of t!'e
large merchants here with the Turkish Government for the
r
re!covery of the brass guns and other imperishable nf..
terials of the ships of war which have been sunk at d!
ularly
ferent times in various parts of the Levant, partic
those sunk in the Dardanelles by Duckworth, and the
ficitt
burnt in the little harbour of Tchcsme by the Itussio
squadron wider Elphinstone in 1770. The means
employed is the new diving apparatus invented a I
years since by Mr. Dean, with which he is enabled to re
main a long time under water. Mr. Dean's brother ca3n):
here a short time since in his little cutter, the SPilf rff
n
for e
which is fitted up for these purposes. He went dow
aboutras otm o
exhibit the apparatus • and after walkmi
things to which
timehe
a tatto
ctihi
eed brootpteosma,
and sent
d fi p
nodi see -
le cola
nt
out again at the Arsenal wharf, much to the astonishm- t
of the Turks, who could not believe but that there 05
be something more than human in a man who could walk
at the bottom of the sea as well as on dry land, withnut re-
ceiving any injury.
With ' last
tae extremely fine weather which set in here
week the plague has again broken out, and the very first (I 'Y
there, were seven new cases in the Frank hospital. l'hc
•lolera is also now said to be here, four decided cases havin;:.
been reported this week. If tl • dreadful epidemic is rn't"
to be added to the one we already have,
the
horrors of last
year will be far surpassed. ave