The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-24 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE.

APRIL 27.—A fire broke out on the 24th instant at the
Fanal during the night-30 houses and as many shops were
in less than two hours consumed by the raj no. flames. The
loss of property .was considerable. The splendid' collection
of plants and other objects of natural history made last year
in Mesopotamia and Persia by Mr. Aucher was entirely
destroyed.
I informed yon in my last of the arrival in this town of
Ibrahim Bey, of Cavaglia, the most wealthy and powerful
chief in North .Albania. A few days after his arrest, the
Roumely Valessy secured the persons of four other influ-
ential chiefs in that country, Abbaz, Bey of Berat,
outiclje Bey, and Suliman Bey, the grandson of the ce-
ichoted Omer Vrioni. These prisoners were, on their
thrown into pris6n, and an officer of the Sultan has
abeenrr
sea .f. to Cavaglia, to take an inventory of the property
belonging,. Ibrahim Bey. His fortune .is said to exceed
40,000,000 me piasters.
Mehemet AIL. remembering no doubt the cavalier recep-
tion given last yea." to his representative, Habib Effendi,
.
has not been temptgO., on-the-reception of the Sultan's in-
vitation to the present r:larriage festivities, to expose himself
again to similar treatment. He sends, however, as present
to the Sultan's daughter an sons on this occasion, the sum
of 2,500,000 piasters.
According to the last letters from Syria, Colonel Ches-
ney had definitively started for Bassorah under the most fa-
vourable auspices. Ibrahim Pa-dia, after inspecting the for-
tifications erecting at Ayntap, a town situate at the foot of
Mount Amanas, had returned to Antioch, where he intends
to fix his residence. His Charge d'Affaires has lately been
intrusted with the difficult and delicate mission of purchas-
ing six Circassian odalisques for hi's harem in that city.

We are glad to hear it reported thig morning that
the nearest Mat;
ves of the ill-fated Mr. Berkeley Cravent in-
tend paying the dei,,ts of that lamented gentleman.
STEPNEY FAlR.—Yesterday a considerable crowd
of persons assembled in Stepney-fields, where the fair used
formerly to be held, and mat_lv were prepared to erect booths,
stalls, &e., when Mr. Miller, tt:e principal officer at Lambeth-
street Police-office, accompanied by James Shields, arrived on
the ground, and on his remonstra.ne the parties desisted.
The attendance of the officers was in _consequence of a repre-
sentation of the respectable inhabitants t.c the neighbourhood,
and soliciting their (the officers') interf,re.nce to prevent the
nuisance. In every instance the remonstrant of Mr. Miller,
had the effect of removing the tent and standing; keepers, as
well as a number of the " thimble rig" fratern.ty ; but a
crowd of boys and girls remained en the ground for a length
of tune.
ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—On Sunday even-
ing a serious accident occurred on the river off Rotherhithe.
Three young men, amateurs, were coming up the river in a
pleasure-boat or skiff of small dimensions, when one of them
(.''abed aloft to the top of the mast for the purpose of fix-
ing .t block to it, when his weight caused the boat to turn
over, and it instantly filled and sank. The party all disap-
peared for a time, but •two of them, on rising again to the sur-
face, managed to keep themselves afloat until assistance arrived,
and they were pick up and taken ashore. Their unfortunate
companion was drownee; anti ':'is body has not yet been found.
REGENT'S PARK.—On Saturday morning, by the
special command of the Comnission:rs of Woods and Forests,
another large portion of the interior ot the Regent's Park, on
id the south se, fronting York, Ulster, an Munster Terraces,
was thrown open to the public as a promeria., c. Since Easter
-usily engaged k
a considerable number of workmen have beet
making- gravel walks, planting shrubberies, levelhu the gr
c.
een
sward, and fixing scats, for the accommodation
The whole of the east, and part of the south sides of th,.• Park,
with a large portion on the north side, on the banks of the
canal, is now free to the public. The promenades 01i t.;:e
banks of the ornamental waters fronting Cornwall, Sussex,
ar.4 Hanover Terraces, is only accessible by keys to sub-

serilers. • •
The letters from Vienna say that the Russian toll
at the mouth Of the Danube, which' has been abolished, had
been transferred, within a few days, to Ishmael. We have but
to look at the map, to be convinced that the concessions of
Besse. are merely apparent. The Levant trade is still al-.
rsed to the same obstacles.—Brussets Paper.
Ntw POOR LAWS.—The Nottingham Review,
founding It§censure on the dietary tables lately issued f,y two
of the Commlsbionr re, vehemently denounces the system which
subjee:s Pal to so spare- a regimen.--[ Advocates as we
were from the first- rs.‘r the principle of the New Poor Laws,
and confirmed in our ortb.mnat conviction as ue have since
been, by seeing the numeroug • Letefits which have resulted
from their operation, we arc still tre:c to admit, that in the
administration of them there may yet remat.:
much that rc-
eteres revision and amendment. We see no reason, however,
fur the Commissioners limiting the supply of food to Pn.i'll-
proper degree. There can exist no motive fur such erinn.la-
lity, They would be obnoxious to a most serious charge in,
deed it, unmindful of their responsibility as men, as Christians,
and CmPalissi§nerA, they were to fix such a maximum rate
of for el as is insufficient for the physical necessities and reason-
apbl;ea irrtagnot ss
strongly
nt hgelyptooo rb.o
soTirtaor rights of humancn,kiyeddleysioruedt-
ty must ever
raged, Whilst 'the promotors fo'ofrgtobteternewolawso
to prevent paupers' from eating the produce of othtS men's
labour, they never oentemplated the introdnetion of a system
of starvation. A pauper's allowance of food certainly ought not
to be less than n felon's.j--:-En.
Some days aeo we inserted an account of the pl'Qo
ceedings at a Coroner's inquest, which was held upon the tidy
gs before
of a young man found in the river, under circumstances which
led to a suspicion that the unfortunate youth had been robbed
orward grid t..,
and murdered. 'The publicity given to the proceedings
the Coroner induced several persons to come
i.name, it appears, was
iv, ry- stable keeper i
body has at length been identified. Hi,
sttiri eec. ta,nriloi
amount
t aboutof 1,0t0e0.01. tearsAs
sago,,3t.,ibaesqhuee attil(_,l,llgt- letion:t: pie.ago-1
tio:Hdusun. His father, v:ho was a
tP°v(i‘ixritf'lliii(e;as about eighteen months ago, lie received the money,
and immediately commenced a career of dissipation which soon
brought him to his last shilling. For some time past he had
been living in coricubiname with a young woman (elm was the
first to recognise the body after the inquest), and while with
her lie bad been reduced orcl
astateofirgistress which had com-
pelled him to pawn ever-
llti
teased. It is supposed every
dre of
irce t! dvaelsupeer‘avthiiocnh lie epooms--
mitted suicide, and that he was not murdered, as was first
suspected,