The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-06 00:00:00

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Constantinople letters and journals to May 28
have reached us, but their contents, with the ex-
ception of what relates to the proceedings of the
Prince of Wales, are not of much interest. The
following is a summary of the principal incidents
connected with his Royal Highness's stay from his
arrival, on May 20, down to his departure on
the 27th :

" On the evening of the 20th, the dinner party
at the British Palace was confined to the Royal
suite and the staff of the Embassy. On 21st his
Royal Highness visited Admiral Mustapha Pasha
on board the steam frigate Taif, which had escorted
the Osborne from the Dardanelles. Later in the
day he visited the Capitan Pasha at the Arsenal,
over which he was conducted by his Highness, and
inspected the workshops and the new frigates
and line-of-battle ship on the stocks. In the
evening, a small but distinguished company,
including their Highnesses the Grand Vizier
and Capitan Pasha, the Marquis de Moustier,
Baron Prockesh Oesten, Lord Hobart, Sir
Adolphus Slade, K.C.8., and a few other high
officials,were honoured with invitations to meet his
Royal Highness at dinner. On the morning of the
22d, he visited the Bazaars in strict incog., accompa-
nied only by the Prince of Leiningen, Mr. Mowat,
first attache, and one aide-de-camp ; and in the
afternoon proceeded, in nearly similar privacy,
through Galata across to the Old Seraglio, over
which and its adjoining kiosks he was conducted

by Mustapha Pasha, the mehmindah, attached to his
Royal Highness by the Sultan. Thence the Royal
party proceeded to the Treasury, the Mint, the
Armoury, the mosques of St. Sophia, Sultan Ach-
met, Sultan Bayazid, and the Suleymanie, return-
ing to Pera by the old bridge and the Petit Champs
des Morts. The 23d being the gala day of the
week at the Sweet Waters of Europe, his Royal

Highness honoured the Capitan Pasha by accept-
ing an invitation to luncheon at the kiosk of his High-
ness in the poet-sung Valley. From the windows of
this elegant little lodge he had a near and full view
of lively, Mtuiptougued, Laud
crowd of Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Persians, Cir-
cassians, and Franks of every nation of Europe,
who make up the Friday monde of the Sweet
Waters—afloat in caiques, stretched in pleasant kief
on the grassy and shaded banks of the stream, or
moving about afoot, on horseback, or in quaint and
gaudily-decked arabas between hill-side and river—
wild barbaric music gipsy songs blending with the
noisy murmur of the whole. The dinner party at
the Embassy in the evening included Kiamil Pasha,
Mehemet Djemil Pasha, the new ambassador to
Paris, Hadji Mirza Khan, Hussein the Persian Mi-
nister, Count Dudzeele, the American Minister and
Mrs. Morris, Lord and Lady Hobart, aria General
Chesney. On the 24th the Sultan paid his Royal
Highness one of the most graceful of the many
compliments received by him during his visit.
About 9 a.m. the Prince and those of his suite
who were to attend him during the day's excursion,
were leaving the Embassy palace-gate, when his
Highness the Capitan Pasha met him with a mes-
sage of congratulation on the day—the Queen's
birth-day—and an intimation that, in honour of the
day and of his Royal Highness' presence during it
in Constantinople, his Majesty had ordered the
release of all British (Maltese and lonian) subjects
confined in the police and debtors' prisons of Stam-
boul, for slight offences or small debts—his Majesty
granting a free pardon in the one case, and in the
other paying the amounts due out of his privy purse.
After acknowledging this act of Imperial courtesy,
his Royal Highness proceeded on board the Osborne
and steamed up into the Black Sea, some half a
dozen of miles past the Blue Symphlegades—far
enough to have a full view of the coast on either
side of the entrance to the strait. The yacht then
turned and landed the Royal party at Kanlidja,
where the Prince breakfasted with Fuad Pasha.
This over, his Royal Highness and party crossed
to Buyukdere, and taking horse there proceeded
at en almost unbroken gallop to the forest of Bel-
grade. An hour sufficed to glance at the historic
tree which sheltered Godfrey of Bouillon, and the
hardly less historic cottage that lodged Lady Mary
Montagu. Then to horse again, and bridle hardly
drawn over the eighteen miles of intervening road,
till Prince and party alighted at the palace gate
about 6 p.m. In the evening, the invitation to meet
his Royal Highness at dinner included Mumtaz
Effendi, the Minister of Finance, the first secretary
of the Sultan, the Italian, Spanish, and Hellenic
charges d'affaires, M. Rothan, the first secretary of

the French embassy, and Count Ludolf. On the

25th (Sunday) his Royal Highness attended divine
service in the Embassy chapel, when the Rev. C. B.
Cribble preached to a very full congregation. In
the afternoon, the Prince crossed to Scutari, and,
under the guidance of Major Gordon, R.E., visited
the British Cemetery and the neighbouring Turkish
barracks and hospital, occupied by our troops during
the Russian war. Early in the day his Highness Ali
Pasha has been the bearer from the Sultan to his
Royal Highness of the first class of the Osmanie in
brilliants. And a propos of this, we may mention
that amongst the jewels which stud the decoration
thus presented—the first of the new Order con-
ferred on any foreign sovereign or prince--is one of
extraordinary size and purity of water, which was
formerly worn in a ring by Solyman the Magnifi-
cent. On Monday, his Royal Highness was the
guest of the Sultan at a magnifient luncheon given
at the imperial kiosk at the Sweet Waters of Asia.
This entertainment was all the more special a mark

of his Majesty's desire to do exceptional honour to

his illustrious guest from the fact of its being
wholly without precedent in the annals of Ottoman
court ceremony. Both the Grand Duke Constantine
and the Duke of Brabant breakfasted, en particulier,
with the late Sultan on the occasion of their visits
to Constantinople ; but his present Majesty resolved
to pay a much more remarkable eompliment to the
British heir-apparent, and for this purpose invited
his Royal Highness to a quasi-public defeuner, at
which for the first time in Turkish history his
Majesty's chief ministers and other distinguished
personages were to sit at table with the Padischah.
This novel act of hospitality—which is significant
of more than a mere expression of his Majesty's
extreme cordiality towards the royal traveller—took
place about half-past one p.m., in the dining mile
of the exquisite little building whose exterior, at
least, is so well known to local residents, and whose
whole interior is a chef-d'o3uvre of the riehest orna-
mentation. His majesty the Sultan occupied the
end of the table—an oval one—and on his right
sat the Prince. Next to his Royal Highness sat Sir
Henry Bulwer, and, below his excellency, A'ali
Pasha, Prince Leiningen, and Kiamil Pasha in the
order named. On the left of the Sultan sat their
Highnesses Fuad Pasha, the Capitan Pasha, and the
Seraskier. The chef de cuisine for the occasion was
Mr. Petala, of the Hotel d'Angleterre at Therapia,
whose staff of waiters served outside the dining-
room; inside, the service was performed by Palace
servants in the new Imperial livery—blue with
white facings. During the hour and a half for which
the luncheon lasted, his Majesty's private band
played at intervals a choice selection of operatic airs,
and at its close God Save the Queen.' The usual
finale of coffeeand pipes wound up the entertainment,
and, as a memento of the event, his Majesty imme-
diately afterwards asked his Royal Highness's
acceptance of the magnificent narghileh which he
(the Prince) had smoked on the occasion. This very
beautiful apparatus, which was gorgeously chased
and thickly diamond-studded—its estimated value
being nearly £3,ooo—was shortly afterwards sent
on board the Osborne in charge of Arifi Bey, the
first dragoman of the Divan, and was accompanied
in another box by a splendid suit of the new Zouave
uniform, the gift of his Majesty to Prince Alfred.
In the afternoon his Royal Highness received at
Embassy palace their Highnesses Murad Effendi—
the heir-apparent—Hamid Effendi, Reshad Effendi,
and Kemal-Eddeen Effendi, the nephews of his
Majesty and sons of the late Sultan.
On the 27th, which brought this round of visits,
to a close, his
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Pasha, and the Capitan Pasha at the Embassy,
where their highnesses delivered the Sultan's mes-
sage of valedictory compliment, and afterwards
joined the P!;Lce at lunch, couple of hours later,
the Magicienne got under way, as avant-courier

to the royal yacht,- and saluted the-Turkish flag-a 8
she proceeded out into the Marmora. At half-past
6 p.m: the Prince embarked from the palace stairs,
and the Osborne shortly after headed south, under_
a royal salute from the Fetie,which, as also the ad-
joining corvette, dressed and manned yards as the
yacht steamed past. His Royal Highness will halt.
at Myteline to visit Troy, after which he will pro-
ceed -without further stoppage to Athens; and,
thence, after a look-in at Malta, to Marseilles and
Paris."