The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-28 00:00:00

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY s.—The Sultan still remains
undecided in the choice of his new Ministers, and in the
present unsettled state of things public business may be
said to be almost entirely interrupted. In the mean time
Mustaplia Pacha, who took his departure last week for
Adrianople, but was immediately sent for again by the
Sultan, has now been urpointed to' the Sanjaks of
Yanina and Tricala in the place of Ernie Pacha, who-
was considered too young and inexperienced for so difficult
a government, and who will receive the pachalik of
Adrianople in exchange; and Tahir Pacha has been de-
prived of • his post at the head of the Ordnance Depart-
ment, and it is supposed will now retire altogether into pri-
vate life.

The Porte is not yet -decided on the measures to be
adopted relative to the permission of the free export of
wheat. An order was last week issued by the Porto, to the
effect that all vessels coming from Smyrna or other pi-aces
infected by the. plague are to perform a strictquarantine at
the Dardanelles, which has been communicated to the
different :ambassadors and consuls ; • but this is ge-
nerallji supposed by . those who are likely 'to be in-
formed on the subject to be more a side blow aimed
by Said Pacha at the Austrian steamers, to which he has
been long opposed, than any desire on the part of the
Turks to take precautionary measures to prevent the fur-
ther spreading of the contagion. The plague is, in the mean
time, I am sorry to say, rapidly on the increase, and will, I
fear, be much worse before better. Mrs. Dwight, the wife
of an American -missionary, residing at the village of Ste-
phen°, is attacked with it, and cannot, it is expected, re-
cover ; her child, who took it from her, is already dead.
Several other American families residing in the village are
also compromised, and many must fall victims to it. .
A letter has been received here from Odessa, dated 3d of
June, in which the writer states that the Vixen, which has
been, converted into a man-of-war, has now gone to make
her first cruise.under the Russian flag. Their Majesties the
Emperor and Empress were not expected there till the be-
ginning of September, when a grand review of all the troops
in those parts was ordered to take place ; after which their
Highnesses would proceed to the Crimea in a man-.of--"war
steamer, which is now being fitted up for them, and the
fleet wtis to be reviewed en peasant.
The latest news here from Egypt is contained in the
Snlyrna Gazette of the Ist instant, and is dated Alextui•
dria, 18th ultimo. Some serious difference had, it appears,
arisen between our .Consul, Mr. Campbell, and Mehemet
Ali, relative to a refusal on the part of the latter to permit
the entry of .a cargo of wheat from Sicily, belonging to a
Ciglio, a Maltese merchant at Alexandria, which Mr,
Campbell had given him to understand, if he persisted in,
would be looked upon as a violation of the existing treaty ;
and when he found himself obliged to submit, the unruly
Paella insisted on an import duty of twenty piasters being
paid. Mr. Campbell also informed him that any attempt to
exact more than the regular duty of three per cent, would
equally be considered a violation of his treaty with our Go-
vernment. He therefore left him to act as he pleased, but
appears, not-been able to stomach the Erman of the Porte
permitting the importation of British colonial coffee into
Egypt.
A Government messenger arrived here from England on
the Ist inst., bring ng letters and dispatches fur Lord Pon-
sonby ; and a dispatch was the same day received by the
Porte, announcing an important victory gained by Hafons
Paella over the Kurds in the Singar mountains.