The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1863.

Loss of the Anglo-Saxon Steamship,

The steamship Anglo-Saxon, from Liverpool and
Londonderry, for Quebec, while in a dense fog,
some three miles distant from Cape Race, on the
27th of April, went on shore, and in a short time
became a total wreck. Of 444 passengers and crew
who were on board 180 have reached land, or been
picked up in small boats; the fate of the others is
❑ot yet known. Steamers have been despatched
to the scene of the disaster, with the hope of res-
cuing any of the survivors who may have taken to
rafts or boats belonging to the steamer, which have
not yet been heard from. Among those saved are
the Hon. John Young, of Montreal, his wife, and
seven children. A despatch from the mail officer,
dated the 29th, states that all the mails are lost,
and that 237 lives are lost out of a total of 445 souls,
The following telegrams contain all the intelli-

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Bence received et Boston before the Arabia's depar.
Lure :

" St. John's Newfoundland, April 27 (via Port
Hood, April 28).—The steamship Anglo-Saxon,
from Liverpool 16Eh inst. and Londonderry 17th,
fur Portland (or Quebec, should the St. Lawrence
be open), was wrecked, it is supposed, about three
miles east of Cape Rice. Three of her passengers
arrived at the Cape Race telegraph station about
four o'clock on Monday afternoon. They report
that the Anglo-Saxon was broken up and a great
number of passengers lost. The crew of the Asso-
ciated Press news yacht left immediately for the
wreck, and will on their return make a full report.
steamtug has gone down to the wreck."
" SECOND DESPATCH.

" Pictou, Nova Scotia, April 28.—The steamtug
Dauntless picked up two boats' crews of the Anglo-
Saxon between Cape Ballard and Cape Race, and is
returning without landing at Cape Race. The
steamer Bloodhound has gone to Cape Rice."
" THIRD DESPATCH.

" St John's Newfoundland, April 27 (via Port
Hood, 28tn.)—The Anglo-Saxon had 360 passengers
'and a ship's crew of 84 men. She was wrecked
four miles east of Cape Race on the noon of the
27th, during a dense fog; 73 persons escaped from
the wreck by means of ropes and spars, and 24 in
two lifeboats. The total number saved is 97. Boats
Nos. 4 and 6 have not arrived off the Cape in con-
sequence of the dense fog, and seven more on a raft
are also missing. There is a heavy sea, with a
dense fog.
" The commander of the Anglo-Saxon is supposed
to be among the number drowned. The purser,
first and second engineers, and the doctor are among
the saved, as also one cabin passanger. Lieutenant
Sampson, of the Royal Artillery. The Hon. John
Young and family are supposed to be in one of the
missing boats.

" The deck broke up in about one hour after the
Anglo-Saxon struck. Nothing but the mizenmast
is standing. Several persons clung to the fore rig-
ging until the foremast fell. No assistance could be
rendered. Guns are being fired at the Cape to at-
tract the attention of the missing boats.
" The Associated Press boat's crow went imme-
diately to the wreck."
" FOURTH DESPATCH.

"St. John's, Newfoundland, April 28.—The
steamer Dauntless, at 9 a.m, to•day, picked up two
boats belonging to the Anglo-Saxon containing 90
persons.
" The following passengers are reported to be on
the Dauntless :—The Hon. John Young, lady, seven
children, and servant ; Miss Hope, Miss Bertram,
Mrs. Captain Stoddart, Mr. Greene (mail officer),
Mr. Towers, Rev. Mr. Eaton, Capt. Cassidy, Mrs.
Jackson and child, John Martin, James Kirkwood
and sister, Mrs. Eliza James, Catherine Cameron,
Mary Ann Thomas, Mary Ann Adams, Edward
Mans, Thomas Caldwell, Mr. hart (first officer),
Robert Allan (third officer), Mr. Scott (fourth
officer), James Henderson (fourth engineer).
" The steamer Bloodhound has gone to Cape Race
for the rescued persons there.
" The weather is N ery fine and clear on the coast
to-day."
" [The telegraph lines were kept open from New
York to Cape Race to-night, to enable a despatch of
the disaster to the Anglo-Saxon to be forwarded to
the press, but at 11 o'clock the wires failed to work
beyond Bangor, consequently we are without fur-
ther particulars. It is expected that the line win
be in working condition to-morrow (Wednesday),
when full details may be expected."]
The following is a list of the passengers on board
the Anglo-Saxon :
CABIN PASSENGERS :—Miss Malley, Hon. John Young
and family, 11 in number ; Captain and Mrs. Stotherd and
servant ; Captain Cassidy, Rev. C. P. Eaton, Mrs. Wright,
Captain T. R. Read, Mr. Caldwell, Lieut, Clark, Mr. J. S.
Mill, Mr. J. Martin, Mr. Guy Pemberton, Mr. &Rodgers,
Mr. Fraser, Mr. Tealby, Mrs. Jackson and child, Captain
Hyler, Lieut. Simpson, Mr. P. H. Nott, Mr. J. M'Gregor,
Mr. Houghton, Mr. W. Kirkness, Mr. James Bullock,Miss
K. Ashwith, Mr. Towers, Mr. and Miss Kirkwood, Mrs.
James and child, Mr. Withers.

STEERAGE PASSENGERS FROM LIVERPOOL.—SamueI
Stevens, wife, and child ; Thomas Churchyard, wife, and
three children ; Honor Ripley and one child, Mrs. Bur-
roughs and two children, Mr. Lille, Jane Fulton and one
chile, R. Mitchell, Edward Dance, George Dance, William
Berry, John Fisher, Wilhelm Cronebry, wife, and two chil-
dren, Isaac Chapman, wife, and one child,Bernard Shauley,
John Rourke, Peter Spahr,Christen Olson, Hans P. Chris-

tianson and wife, Neils C. Anderson, Michael Callan and
wife, Thomas Jones, David Evans, Walter Waller, Thomas
Lockett, Allen S. Horne, Mrs. Thomas, Susannah Cooper,
Richard Jones and wife, Richard Harrison, David Rees,
wife, and two children, David Lloyd, David Beran, Mar •
garet Evans,William Jones, William Griffich,Johu Griffith;
Griff Griffith, David Davis, wife, and two children, John
Morgan, Catherine Davis, Evan George, wife, and four
children, Mary Harris and two children, William Ankres,
William Wainwright, Benjamin Douglas, John Douglas,
Sarah Douglas, Edwin Dingle, William Trevellian, James
Cunnell, W. H. Stanley, T. A. Feler, Rueben Painter, wife,
and one child, Lembros Painter, J. Hartley, Thomas
Irwin, David Newsome, Philip Jones, wife, end ono
child; J. Chadwick, John Jones, John Vickerman, Henry
Callaghan, wife, and six children ; George Dallir, Mrs. J.
Alexander and two children, Thomas Bishop, Jonathan
Walker, Bangroft Marsden, Richard Tapper, Harriet
Roberts, Mary Roulston, Ellen Ryan, John Townsend,
Samuel Wharmby and wife, Henry Brookfield, Edward
Wultor, wife, and two children ; Joel Mellor, Thos. Barber,
Denis Woolhouse, John Duckworth, Joseph Hill, Samuel
Bardsley, John Booth, Frederick Boyes, John 'White, Wm.
Cross, Mary Ann Boyes, Elizabeth Stevens and five chil-
dren, Ambrose Underhill and wife, James Stevens, James
Wood, Wm. Sape, John Wickett, WM. Burrow, James
Damrell, Thomas Allen, Win. Allen, James Brent, Isaac
Backwell, Wm. George Backwell, Thomas Geo. Backwell,
Wm. Furtey, Robert Legg, Mary Waldron and one child,
Wm. D. Woonacott and wife, John Headon, Wm. Hock •
ridge, Henry Morgan and wife, Richard Colvil: and wife,
Robert Oatsons, Chas. S. Dunbar, Robert Blair, Christina
Brown, Martin Shechy, Luke Wood, Lesette Graetz and
two children, Martin Schneider, Eliza Schneider, Jean
Beeker, Jean Felton, wife, and five children ; Jean Melen-
stein, wife, and four children; Augusta Lonbure, Alex.
Lafercade, B. Billyard, Andmo Brigio, Fidele Eischi,
Mathios Nejer, Sybella John, Beall Christen, wife, and one
child; Wm. Jessy, Alex. Meuri, Thomas Jessy, Hyacinth
Jessy, Josephine Jessy, Rudolph Beningusta.
From Londonderry—Matilda Ganley and one child, Jas.
Kirk, Robert Bruce, Hamilton Magee, Edward Kerr,
wife, and one child ; Wm. Johnstone, Mary Keeney, Alice
Stewart, John Keeley, Daniel Furguson, John Meaney,
Daniel Coulter, Mary Coulter, Catherine Earley, Bernard
Earley, John Marrow and wife, Marjurie Morrow, John
Carroll, John Reidy and wife, George Atkinson, Robert At-
kinson, Ellen Atkinson, Joseph Egan, Mary Eagan, Win.
Rogers, John M'Nally, Francis M'Donald, Peter Nolan,
wife, and two children ; Peter Watson, John Davison, wife,
and child ; Thomas Power, Mary A. Adam, Martha Rimp,
Francis Gornley, Patrick G..ftnley, Anne Gornley, Samuel
Cotter,Wm. Glover, wife, and seven children; John M'Crew,
Alexander Storey, Thomas M. Cornbridge, James A. Direa,
James Finlay, Rose A. Gartin, Sarah Smith, Charles
M'Clusky, David Dinsman, Daniel Gerahty, James Mur-
tagh, C. Crawford, Mary Binnek, Margaret Binnek, Mrs.
Black, George Black, Ann Orr, John Livingstone, Peter
Crumplin, Samuel Mence, John Wright, Peter Connagher,
Margaret Fernie, James Barclay, Peter M'Millan, Thomas
Anderson, John Small, Rose Winch, Catherine Cameron,
Rose Bell, Michael Davis, Hugh Strachan, Samuel Mor-
gan, M. Henderson, Rose Jamieson, Louisa Gibbs and two
children, John Norman, W. S. Finley, Angus
List of the Crew—W. Burgess, matter; 'Lane, F.
Mackenzie, Robert Parker.
John. Hoare,

first officer; John M'Allister, second officer; Robert Allan,
third officer; George Scott, fourth officer; Alfred Patton,
surgeon; Wm. Jenkins, purser; Gilbert Little, assistant
ditto; John Allan, carpenter; Wm. Read, carpenter; Ed-
ward Nowell, boatswan ; Hugh Jones, boats wain. Able-
bodied seamen•—Wm. Cape, John Williams, Andrew Gib-
bie, Robert Cain, John Johnson, Win. Bennett, Thomas
113‘Cormiek, Thomas Lloyd, John Larkin, Thomas Quayle,
John Pritchard, James Wilson, Wm. Edmonston, Joseph
Heasley, Thos. Chapman, Fredk. Hunter, Thos. Phelom,
George Taylor, John M. Ellis, Peter Patterson, James
Martin, George Moffat, nos. Hannibal, James Redmond,
John Halloran.

Engineers' Department—Wm. M'Master, first engineer;
Alex. Mackay, second ditto; Wm. Ritchie, third ditto;
James Henderson, fourth ditto; Charles Cardle, fifth ditto.
Firemen—John Dow, Michael Toole, Thos. Murphy,Henry
M 'Kenney, John Williams, George Roberton, Thomas Da-
vidson, John Murphy, John Riley, Henry Norton, Thos.
White, Berry Bridge, John Howard, Jas. Baxter, Patrick
Purcell, James M'Cartney.
Stewards' Department--Thomas Wood, first steward;
William Jones, second steward; Charles Barlow, William
M'Stay, Henry G. Davies, John J. Carr, George Parcel,
John Davidson, Robert Corlett, William Montgomery,
John Reeve, George Woolner, John Leah, Edward Emans,
John Haggup, John M‘Dermot, Martin Cleary, John Pen-
nington, and Edward J. Lloyd, assistant-stewards; Mrs.
Parry, stewardess ; Arthur Grace, first cook ; John Harvey,
second cook; Henry Weston, Alfred Costello, and Robert
Hodgson, ship's cooks ; Andrew' Kennedy, baker's mate;
William Jones, butcher; William Cerro!, baker.
The following is a list of the steerage passengers
saved from the Anglo-Saxon :
Parker, Parsons, Saint Marie, Collogan, Dallie, Cooth,
Fleck, -Ferguson, Callaghan, Pautrie, Wilpolm, George
Wood, Stanley, Naglies, Lahn, Barbour, Coulter, Finlay,
Morgan, Rooke, Lloyd, Furre, Jones, Griffiths, Churchard,
Wickett, Burrow, Nance, Blocke, Jones and wife, Fideles,
Jones, Lubrier, Barclay, Jamieson, Small, Bishop, Gourley)
Corder, Mackillarey, Johnston, Drusmon, Reid, Howell,
Mackay, Murtagh Garretty, Christianson, Davies, Tupper,
Macnally, Atkinson, Rees and child, Townsend, Mansell,
Cross, Cronen, Berry, Crawford, Gauley, and child, Chris-
tiana Brown, Elizabeth Wood, Dance, Pale, Harrison,
Walter Bruce, Jones, Wamby, Mary Ann Thomas, Mary
Ann Adams, Mina Christian, Jessie Christian, Mary Wal-
dron, Mary Lenwick, Martha Lenwick, Maggie Lenwick,
Ann Gouneley, Jane Colton, Mary Ralston, Ann Stevens,
Mary Callan, Mary Callighan, Alice Stewart, Mary Ken-
ney, Fanny Mackenzie, Mary Reed, Jane Walker, Ellen
Ryah, Sarah Smith, Kate Early, Margaret Evans, Sophia
Davis and Child, Eliza Gritty and two children, two
children unknown.
The New York jouinals say

The terrible disaster to the Anglo-Saxon would undoubt-
edly have been avoided but for the unaccountable refusal of
the British Government to permit the Associated Press, the
New York underwriters, the Transatlantic steam companies,
and other parties in New York to place one of Daboll's
powerful air trumpets at Cape Race, which could be dis-
tinctly heard in foggy weather from six to ten miles at sea,
and would save millions of property and hundreds of lives.
Naval and Military Intelligence.

month, and will thereafter be despatched to relieve
the Ariadne, 26, 800 horse power, Captain E. Van-
sittart, on the North American station. •
Admiralty orders have been received for the line-
of-battle steamers Hood, 79, 600 horse power, and
Anson, 81, 800 horse power, belonging to the 2d-
class Chatham steam reserve, to be completed with
all possible despatch for the first. division.
The ddlewheel steam frigate Valorous, 16, Capt.
Forsyth, having embarked supernumeraries for dis-
tribution among the fleet, left Plymouth, on Frid iy
evening, for the Cape of Good Hope.
The amount of subscriptions paid in to the Com-
mittee of the Orpheus Fund, at the It )yal Naval
College, Portsmouth, to this date is, as nearly as
possible, £1,500. His Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, following the example of her Majesty the
Queen, has sent to the committee a subscription of
£25. The Committee have also received, as the
proceeds of Capt. Coles's lecture on Wednesday
evening last at Hirst's Portland Hall, Southsea, on
" Revolving Shields and Ironclads," £24 Bs. The
sums handed in from the officers, seamen, marines,
and boys of her Majesty's ships are as follows :

Asia, and Portsmouth steam reserve, £lO5 8s lld ;
Victory and tenders, £36 1 le ; Victoria and Albert,
Royal Yacht, £l7 15s 6d ; Defence, £29 9s 6d;
Duke of Wellington (Ist donation), £25 lOs 4d ;
Excellent, and marine cadets on board, £B2 8s 7d ;
Black Prince, £5; Resistance, £26; Sealark, £1 9s
6d ; colonel commandant and officers of Royal Ma-
rine Artillery, £18; Britannia and her naval cadets,
£6B 13s; Indus, £62 19s 9d; flagship at Queens-
town, £6 17s Gd; Boscawen, £6 18s 6d ; Impreg-
nable, £l2 5s 4d; Colossus, £lO 7s Gd; Cadmus,
lls 4d; Pigmy, £1 Os 6d; Herring, £1 13s Gd;
transport department of the Admiralty, £4 is ; offi-
cers and men of Haulbowline Hospital, £6 15s 6d.
From coastguard stations have been nceived
mouth, £5 15s ; Isle of Wight, £37 17s ; Clyde, £4;
Carlisle, £3 lls ; Queenstown, £6 17s 4d.
The following commanders were on Saturday pro-
moted to be captains :—The Hon. T. A. Pakenham,
A. C. Strode, H. F. W. Ingram, F. S. Tremlett, T.
Brandreth, and J. G. Goodenough. The following
lieuts. were also promoted to be commanders :—G.
M. Temple, T. Stackhsuse, E. S. Meara, J. D'Arcy,
A. A. W. Onslow, J. P. J. Parry, E. F. Lodder,
and R. 0. Leach.

The following appointments and promotions were
made on Friday at the Admiralty :—Commander
J. C. Soady, to the Royal Oak, and not to the
Warrior, as stated on Friday; F. Day, assist.-

engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernumary ; J.
Sinethers, of the Jackal, J. F. Hattersley, of the
Edgar, W. INl‘Glashan, of the Electo, Peter Thomp-
son, of the Pembroke, E. E. Williams, of the Rha-
damanthus, and Thomas C. Cameron, of the Prin-
cess Charlotte, promoted to be Ist class-assistant.
engineers ; Thomas Marsh, of the Orlando, Robert
L. 0 wen, of the Charybdis, Henry J. Packer, of the
Algerine, Matthew Blank, of the Bacchante, Chas.
Wiggins, of the Coromandel, and James 13. Scarlett,
of the Encounter, promoted to be acting Ist class
assist.-engineers.
The following appointments were made on Satur
day at the Admiralty :—James 0. Jones, master ad-
ditional, to the Cumberland, for the Arethusa ; Jas.

Fisher, second master, to the Fox ; Wilmot H,
Fawkes, midshipman, to the Liverpool ; Albert W.

Whisb, Henry C. Aitchinson, and Henry C. Kane,
midshipman, to the Defence ; Philip Musgrave,
naval cadet, to the Royal Oak; James Melrose,

assist.-engineer, to the Warrior; Thomas S. Gissing
in the Asia, for the Foam, promoted to engineer ;

George Bolster, assist.-surgeon, to the Triton, and
W. L. M'Dermott, acting assist-surgeon, to the
Egmont.

THE ARMY.

Major-Gen. Stransham, Inspector. General of
Royal Marines, last week issued a notification of
his intention to commence his half-Yearly inspection
of the Woolwich division to-day, at half-past 3.

The interesting ceremony of presenting colours to
the 10th Regiment of Foot (North Lancashire) took
place on Friday in the Phoenix-park, Dublin. A
large number of persons were present. His Excel-
lency the Earl of Caz lisle, who presented the colours,
delivered an address to the troops. He traced the
history of the regiment from the wars of Marl-
borough to the close of the Indian mutiny, when it
received 423 medals. In giving it the colours, he
knew, he said, that he had put them into the hands
which would never disgrace them. Col. Longden
having returned thanks, the colours were trooped,
and the proceedings terminated.
A notification has been received at Chatham from
the War-office announcing that in future the
allowance for libraries of the Royal Artillery will
be at the rate of £2 per battery, and not, as hereto-
fore, £2O per brigade. This alteration, however,
is not to affect the Depot or Coast Brigades, for
both of which special arrangements are made.
The following promotions and appointments in
the corps of Royal Artillery have been announced
at Chatham garrison :—Col. F. B. Boileau, on the
retired full pay list, to be Major-Gen., the rank
being honorary only; Lieut-Col. and Brevet-Col. C
Hogge, C. 8., 16th Brigade,to be Col.,and appointed
to the 25th Brigade; Capt. and Brevet-Major W.
A. Mackinnon, C,8., 22d Brigade, to be Lieut.-
Col., and appointed to the 16th Brigade ; Second
Capt. R. Murray, 24th Brigade, to be Capt., and
appointed to the 22d Brigade ; Lieut. H. Elliott,
2d Horse Brigade, to be Second Capt., and ap-
pointed to the 24th Brigade ; Gentleman-Cadet C.
F. B. Grey, to be Lieut. ; Second Capt. M.Tweedie,
7th Brigade, to be Adjutant of the 6th Brigade;
Second Capt. A. D. Burnaby, 9/11 Brigade, to be
Adjt. of the Depot Brigade; Lieut.H.B. Shakcrley,
Ist Horse Brigade,to be Second Capt., 9th Brigade
Gentleman. Cadet W. E. Sharp, to be Lieut., and
appointed to the 3d Brigade ; Riding-
master J. Everett, to be Second Capt. and Adjt.,
Royal Horse Artillery; Sergt.-Major H. Nelson, to
be Quartermaster, and appointed to the Depot Bri-
gade; Quartermaster-Serg. R. Steven, to be Quar-
termaster, and appointed to the Depot Horse Bri-
gade ; Second Capt. P. Macfarlane Syme, 22d Bri-
gade, to be Capt., and appointed to the 16th Brigade ;
and Lieut. D. M'Farlan, 2d Horse Brigade, to be
Second Capt., and appointed to the 22d Brigade.
The following officers of the Royal Artillery have
been raised to increased pay :—Lieut.-Col. D. C.
Vanreman, 24th Brigade; Lieut. H. L. S. Jamee,
22d Brigade; Lieut. P. Boyd, 25th Brigade; and
Lieut. J. A. Campbell, 9th Brigade. The following
exchanges have been sanctioned by the Duke of
Cambridge :—Between Second Capt. W. C. Nangle,
Depot Brigade, and Second Capt. W. N. Persse,
13th Brigade ; between Second Capt. 0. Carr, 3d
Brigade, and Second Capt. J. Kelly, 7th Brigade;
between Lieul . C. C. Elwyn,Bth Brigade, and Lieut.
R. J. P. Saunders, 3d Brigade ; between Lieut. R.
N. Young, 4th Brigade, and Lieut. R. P. W. Free-
man, 6th Brigade; and between Lieut. L. M. Bug-
den, Bth Brigade, and Lieut. the Hon. V. A. Yorke,
sth Brigade.

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS
Pettinsularand 0. iental Company'asteatnahip Delta.
Capt. Weds, with the heavy portion of the Boznbay and
Mauritius mails, arrived at Southampton yesterday. She
brings in all 93 passengers, and on freight 4 packages specie
value £571 7s. 6d., also 64 cases shawls, ono halo cotton, 33
packages wine, 19 cases orange trees, and 190 packages sun-
dries. Gibraltar exchange on London, 90 days date, 50A to

; Paris, sf. 30c.
Our Alpine Club says the header, of which Mr.
William Longman is one of the leading members,
ie giving an irnpulso to the establishment of similar societies
all over Europe. A " Schweizerisehe Alpenclub" is now
in process of formation at Berne, with branches in other
Swiss towns. Its object, according to the programme, is
the systematic attack of the last hidden corners of the ice
Peaks not Yet trodden
regions, as well as of the highest
bq
man." Another special object of the " Alpeuclub" is
tho
erection of huts in the most interesting locailties of the
Alps, built for the double purpose of
for travellers and of giving fixed stations for topographical
meteorological, and other scientific obsertations.
The'
labours of the society are to commence early this summer.

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THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.

(From the limes' Correspondent.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 30.
From every quarter I receive most interesting
accounts of the progress of the Sultan, and if I were
engaged in the collection of materials for a" History
of the Sultan's voyage," instead of supplying only
an outline of these events for the information and
amusement of your readers, without exhausting the
subject and their path nw, I should not be wanting
in matter for a detailed and interesting narrative of
this expedition. From no place, however, have I
received such abundance of detail as from Stnyrtr,
and the enthusiasm of all classes in that, the second
city of the Empire, seems to have amounted almost
to fret zy. Nor was this feeling limited to the
Turkish population. The Greeks, the Armenians,
the Jews, but particularly the European residents,
in that ancient seat of commerce, seem to have vied
with each other in the heartfelt welcome which they
offered to the Sultan ; and this seems so much
to have touched him that he is reported
to have said that, while the arrangements
for his reception and stay in Egypt evinced a
Princely magnificence difficult to rival, the ovation
which attended his reception at Smyrna denoted
the deeper impulses of the heart. And this wound
seem to be a correct estimate of the case.j_ Ani
mated by this feeling, the Sultan on this occasion
departed from all the traditional exigencies of
etiquette and the exclusive reserve which has
always been observed by his predecessors. Enter-
ing into the spirit of this manifestation, he made
himself accessible to all classes of his subjects, both
in public and private. Deputations, addresses,
petitions—many, no doubt, tedious and intru-
sive—were received by him with the graciousness
and good humour of a constitutional monarch,
rather than the forbidding austerity and apathy of
a despotic ruler, whose very frown would prostrate
millions to the dust. On all these occasions he
seems to have evinced consummate tact and good
taste in the graceful answers and observations
which he addressed to those who came within his
presence. Of the official members of the community
it would appear that he selected Count Bentivoglio,
the French Consul-General, for his special conde-
scension, without, however, falling short in civility
towards the others. Count Bentivoglio is the brother-
in-law of Count %Valewski, and has distinguished
himself both in Syria, where he was French agent
during the massacres, and in his present post, by a
spirit of hostility and opposition to the Turkish
Government which very often went beyond the
bounds of justice and good policy. With the good
caste of a French gentleman, he seems, on this occa-
sion, to have laid aside his old animosities and taken
the lead in the preparations which were made to re-
ceive the Sultan in a becoming manner. He has been
rewarded by the most marked civility and the pre-
sent of a horse from the Imperial stables; and it is
not unlikely that these Oriental blandishments will
contribute to make him more just and more tract-
able in his future relations with the Turkish autho-
rities, and perhaps also obtain the favour and good-
will of the Count's influential relatives and patrons.
Next to him the Latin Archbishop of Smyrna has
succeeded so far in ingratiating himself with the
Sovereign that the Sultan presented him with the

liberal donation of £5OO towards the erection of a
cathedral in Smyrna. This gift was accompanied by
expressions of interest and goodwill in the welfare of
the Latin subjects of Turkey. In addition to this
munificence the Royal bounty has been extended in
an impartial manner to all deserving institutions and
to the relief of distress, without regard to creed or
political sympathies and considerations. The pro-
gramme of the Imperial visit to Smyrna may be
briefly summed up as follows—A review of the
troops, a visit twice repeated to the works of-the
railroad, an expedition by rail to Ephesus, visits to
the country houses of two leading merchants—one
English the other Greek, at the former of which he
partook of a collation—a circumstance unprece-
dented, I believe, in the annals of Imperial conde-
scensions—and, finally, a dinner on board the Im-
perial yacht, including about 40 of the leading per-
sons of the community.
On the departure of the squadron from Smyrna it

was expected that the Sultan would return imme-
diately to the capital, without halting at any other
point. It is now announced that he Rill only arrive
here on Friday next. With the evident object of
giving to this excursion the colouring of usefulness,
and with a serious intention, I have no doubt, of
the Sultan to profit by it, we are now informed that
the intermediate delays are being employed in a
careful and minute inspection of the defensive posi-
tion and fortresses in the Hellespont. Here, again,
the ruling motive of the Sultan in his martial pro-

pensities declares itself; bat in this instance it only
indicates a wise and prudent precaution, and so long
as his military tendencies are governed by the in-
terests of the country, in the legitimate extension of
its defensive resources, and do not aspire to wild
schemes of aggression, no fault can be found with
him for devoting himself to the attainment of a
position which may inspire internal confidence and
respect from without.
It has often been my ungracious duty, in supply-
ing your readers with information respecting this
country, to represent many subjects in a manner
not favourable to its administrators. In speaking of
the government of the provinces I have pointed out
the corrupt misrule which prevailed, and which in
a few years has brought them to such a depth of
degradation. In alluding to the finances of the
empire I showed the confusion and disorder which
threatened impending ruin and disgrace. In com-

menting upon the corrupt practices of Pashas I
have exposed a system which for years has been
undermining the country. In recording the public
acts of the Sultan I ventured to point out that the
reactionary tendencies which be displayed on
various occasions, and which not long ago brought
about such a crisis in the Administration as threat-

ened to degenerate into a panic, might estrange him
from his allies and result in danger to the country.

In dealing with these various subjects I abstained
from all partiality, and limited myself, to the best of
my ability, to a faithful record of the actual state
of things. It is a pleasing duty to me, therefore,
return, to
on this occasion, in giving an account. of the Sul-
tan's voyage and of his approach!nfgotrientnu
which
give expression to the general satisata
tended that
is felt at the proceedings which
~. a memo,
voyage, and which will Tax
seiit'an. When
able event in the life
of td:rtaking this voy-
the Sultan decided upon, un the
public with
age it is not wonderful thattuioned before them—with
the precedents I have
imoreover,me of the unsettled state of
and the European provinces
the knowledge,
the exhaustion of the Treasury,
in particular, an
I replenished at that time by
the country
the
which had not been
h •
new £6,000,000 loan—should me looked upon this
generally
that it has been accompnshed without an
scheme with anxiety and even with apprehension,
uNnufwaveurable results—now that the Sultan is withiny
150 miles of his capital, that ,telegraphic and other
information has been received of the entliusi4Em
with which he has been greeted everywhere, the
public feeling seems to be that this voyage may,
after ail, be productive of benifit to the country and
to the Sultan himself. He seems to have devoted
himself entirely to the object of acquiring a know-
ledge of the country, and of conferring such bene-
fits as his presence can produce. There is stilt
one point against it, and that is the enormous ex-
penditure which has attended this expedition.
When I stated that it would cost the country half
a million I was within the limits of the amount

which has been actually expended. When it is
considered that this in itself exceeds the civil list

of the Royal family of England, that is, moreover,
raised at a time when the measure of most moment
to the Turkish Empire is the reconstitution of its
financial system—which can only be accomplished
by the strictest retrenchment in all the departments