The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-16 00:00:00

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Lloyd's steamer, arrived here on Monday with division of the Levant which is now united to the M45:8
500 on board, coming from Smyrna. These men terranean squadron. The remainder of our
arrive here in a very raw and ragged state ;an old employed in i,lrs service of our ports, of Algeria,n_
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turban, tattered jacket, and sash, wide coarse linen the colonies, as well as in private missions and in
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trowsers to the knee, leggings or no leggings, as the formation of different stations. The Govern t tor,
case may be, no stockings, and very ill-conditioned carried up the strength of our navy to its presen p in,Z
shoes, a bundle on the back, and a pipe, complete vflthOut neglect „ vesselsan
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in." the new constructions, without al
their costume. Immediately on landing here they amnidnish.imutthestresou. rcensrdeivmoted to the supply of stores,
impeding the great works i,l,
are marched off to the barracks, where a regular
transformation at once takes place. A red fez with • dertawkel nat our.cPpPoirntgs ; it has watched with equal sl':
citude over all which constitutes the naval force of the
a brass plate on the top and black silken tassel, country."
takes the place of the turban, a coarse blue cloth '
jacket is endossed, and legs unaccustomed to close Major Magnan, who assisted Omer Pasha
on
constructing the immense fortifications erectea ';.,'
confinement are thrust into close fitting trowsers of
the same material. A picturesque Turk is thus supere!,
the Danube and in the Balkan, has arrived
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Paris. He is to have an audience of the E
metamorphosed into a very awkward-looking semi- The Mints, which in its advocacy of a reform u,'
rtunit3
European. the French tariff of customs omits no opp? f
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" The Turkish Government has taken a resolution of strengthening its arguments by the opinions
which is, in a moral point of view, of very great practical men, devotes a large space to a notice
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importance. A regiment of Christians (Cossacks) recent work by M. Dollfus, an eminent motif a,
is being organised. This is a proof of progress and turer, on the urgency of a reduction of the import
reform, as hitherto no Christians have ever become duty on cotton-threa
regular soldiers of the Sultan ; neither have they i The French papers of yes'erday had not reached
marched under the banner of the Crescent. The us at the time (,f going to press. The following
li overnment is to clothe and arm them, and to has been received by telegraphic despatch :
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give them horses; during war time they are to The Bourse was dull yesterday. The Three 1:)
receive the same pay as the ancient Spahis ; and it Cents. closed at 74f. 75c. for the end of the month,.,
is proposed, on peace being proclaimed, to form and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents..at 101 f.
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colonies of them on the frontiers of the empire, Orleans Rsilesa,y Shares, I,lBof. ; Rouen, I,ot9i•i:
giving them the same privileges as the Knat-Cos- . Havre, 503 f. 75c. •, Great Northern 8
, 80f. ; 1,;,;',f,
sacks. They wi!l form a body of light cavalry. ' and Strasburg, 832 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, I:,e'ril
Sadyk Pacha is charged with the organisation of ' 25c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 775 t. ; Wes' ,
this force. He is a Pole by birth, who had em- of France 695 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 627 - oucc"'
braced the Mahomedan faith. At Turtukai a body Great 'Central, 521 f. 25c. ; Lyons and Gen,,epo`t-:
of men are being clothed in the Rnssian uniforms, 520 f. ; Shares of the Pank of Credit Mobilier, iu ..
taken from the eeld of battle at Oltenitza. M. de la Cour, late Ambassador at Constants
"It is not true that the Turkish steamer Medari- nople, has arrived in Paris.
Tidjaret, lately captured by the Russians, has been Namik Pasha leaves for London to-day.
restored to the Ottoman Government. She was
captured on the 18th of this month. Two English
mechanics were on board, and refused to leave
their ship. The captain and some of the passen-
gers got on shore in a boat. She has been taken
to Sebastopol. Some relations of the Englishmen
who remained on board have applied to the British
embassy for interference for their release, and steps
are already being taken by the British ambassador
for that purpose.
" It is stated that barracks have been demanded
for troops by the western powers. The Caradoc
arrived here on Sunday afternoon, bringing news
from London up to the 18th. Mr. Purdie, Queen's
messenger, came by•her, bearer of very late de-
spatches, and of a very important character. A
note is spoken of, prepared since the arrival of the
King of the Belgians in England, whose visit to
the Queen is well known to be of a political cha-
racter. On Sunday and Tuesday councils were held
at the Porte. On Saturday last General Baraguay
d'Hilliers had an interview with Reschid Pacha, the
Minister of Foreign Affairs. Lord Stratford de
Redcliffe and the whole of the British embassy
have moved up from their summer residence at
Therapia to the palace at Pera.
• " There is a great movement amongst the Polish,
Hungarian, and Italian emigration here. A great
many, especially of the latter, are continually
arriving. Hitherto none have, however, found
employment under the Turkish Government.
Some Polish officers, who had already been for
several years in Turkey, having come here at the
end of the war in Hungary, have' been sent to join
the army in Asia.
" The crews from the British squadron are sent
on shore every morning from Beycos, where the
fleets are lying. They come several hundreds at a
time, and greatly astonish the Turks by their
pranks. The Turk of the old ,school has a great
horror of intoxication, which he considers as de-
grading. The Koran prohibits the use of wine or
spirituous drinks. Some of the upper classes, how-
ever, manage to get over these scruples, and take
their wine like any European ; it is, however, done
in private. British tars, as everybody knows, will
take a glass of grcg, and will have a spree after-
wards ; neither are they very particular with re-
gard to the etiquette and customs of the land when
in that state. As soon as all the crews of the Bri-
tish squadron will
.have had their turn, it is
thought that the French sailors will be let on shore.
Hitherto the French admiral has prohibited their
landing, it is presumed, to avoid disturbances.
They are, however, much quieter men, and more
orderly than the English tars.
"At the end of last month a Turkish brig of
war, which had been driven by contrary weather
to the Serpent's Island, between the Sulina mouth
of the Danube and Odessa, where the main force of
the Russian fleet happened to be, was attacked by
them,, and, after sustaining a fierce combat; was
finally sunk, and every soul lost.
" Three steamers of the Turkish squadron came
in contact with a large Russian force in the Blac i
Sea. A severe engagement ensued. Two of the
steamers succeeded in making their escape ; the
third, an Egyptian, was blown up by the captain,
who refused to surrender.

GREECE.
A. telegraphic despatch from Athens, Decelllll
3, says :—Several persons who were convicted or
having excited the population of Greece to l,chao
against Turkey have been arrested by order ca
Greek Government.

WEST INDIA MAILS.

The Royal mail steam-ship La Plata, CaPteittit
Welles, arrived at. Southampton on Thursdsk-
midnight, with the West India and Pacific now;
Her dates are—Chagres, Nov. 24 ; Greyto'o'
Nov. 19 ; Jamaica, 27 ; Demerara, 25 ; Barbadcesi
27 ; St. Thomas, Dec. 1. La Plata brings 5010;
sengers, and on freight specie value $630,000, and
a cargo of cochineal, indigo, quinine, jalap,
pimento.
At Jamaica the Import Duty Bill had received
the assent of the three branches of the Let.tislatiirer,
and was to take effect from the 3d of bloveinbe
last, to continue in force till the 31st of December'
1854, if not previously amended or repealed. s
In the new tariff several important reductions
have been effected in the rates chargeable on Wire-
ral of the most Ileavily taxed articles, including
salted beef, pork, tongues, spirits, tobacco, wine'
rice, jewellery, perfumery, gold and silver plate, 4t4
The duty on unenumerated goods remains at
per cent., ad valorem.
In political affairs in Jamaica the dead lock bad
at last been removed, and the different branches
of the Legislature were working harmoniously t?:
gether with some prospects of a continuance of this
favourable change.
The island was healthy, and heavy rains bed
fallen.
The House of Assembly had abandoned their
intention of levying an assize duty on spirits, owing
to the probable difficulties of collection.
In the Kingston market not much business bed
been done, although the market was rather better
supplied. The high prices generally current tended
to limit operations.
The loss of revenue during the period from thei
Ist of May to the 10th of October, from the wan
of an import duty bill, had been ascertained °
amount to nearly 126,000/.
Exchange on -London, 90 days, Colonial Beilk'
r per cent. pm. Pimento was quoted 345. Per
1001 b. Sugar plentiful at 16s. to 19s. The Pro-
spects for the next crop was excellent,
At Antigua heavy rains had fallen, but the
island was generally healthy.
There had been a few cases of fever at. Janie°
and Trinidad, but the rest of the islands were en-
tirely cleared of the scourge.
In St. Lucia some improvement had taken Piece
in the weather, but the fall of rain had been it%
precedented ' • .the roads throughout the iele,l3
were in a bad condition, and cut up by the floods'
In Martinique sugar-making had commenced' a
The Trinidad papers state that an ordinance nit
appeared fixing a new tariff of import duties.
Heavy rains had fallen in Granada.
Via Panama we have dates from Valparaiso to
to the Ist, and Callao the 11th of November.
The Bolivian army in the south has passed t;
frontier into Peru, headed by General Belzu ; t
Peruvian villagers fled before him.
The war between Bolivia and Peru has therefore

" The Turkish fleet are under orders for the
Black Sea."

The following is from Trebisond, dated Nov. 24:
—A Turkish steamer arrived here on the morning
of the 19th, on its way back from Batoum' bringing
news that on the 15th of this mouth the Turks at-
tacked the small outpost called Seffo, about 5 miles
distant from Chevketil to the north, and occupied
by a Russian garrison of about 700 men. An en-
gagement ensued, in which the Russians lost 400
men; the rest were driven to flight, and the place
was occupied by the Turks. Letters from Kars
say that a force composed of 16,000 Turks is
marching on Ghumri (Alexandropol), and that they
have on their way taken possession of several Rus-
sian villages, and that preparations for an engage-
ment were being set on foot on both sides. The
day before yesterday an express arrived here, ad-
dressed to the Governor from Batoum announcing
that seven Russian ships of war, three of which
were steamers, had landed 4,230 men at about an
hour and a half distant from Chevketil, on the
coast, and that they were marching on that place.
The Turkish troops went to meet them, and after
an engagement, which lasted several hours, the
Russians retreated, leaving from 400 to 500 dead on
the field. They succeeded in gaining their boats,
leaving one cannon and other arms in the hands of
the. Turks. On gaining the Russian ships they set
sail and made off. The little Turkish squadron,
composed of three frigates and a steamer, which were
directed to the coast of Circassia, have succeeded
in landing ammunition there ; they then returned
to Sinope. A small Turkish steamer has, as you
perhaps already know, been captured by a Russian
squadron in the waters of Ineboli—the Medjari
Tidjaret, with a cargo on board worth 150,000
piastres.

commenced in earnest. Njel•
By way of Panama we have dates from
bourne to the 23d, and Sydney to the 16th of Sere
tember, brought up by Callao by the Gem 0f...,t))
Sea. The news is anticipated by the steamer
toria.
Accounts from Honduras state that the Gove4
ment of the United States was negotiating v(P,
the President of the State for the cession and Po.'
chase of the island of Tigre, on the Pacifio coast.