The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-28 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE.

MARCH I.—The ceremony of Sayd Pacha's presentation
to the Grand Vizier took place on Saturday last. After in-
vesting him with a richly embroidered mantle of honour,
and presenting him with a magnificent order in brilliants,
the Sultan desired the Seraskier and the Commander-in-
Chief of the Imperial Guard, Achmet Pacha, to accom-
pany his son-in-law to the Porte, in order to introduce him
to the different Ministers of State. On their landing at
Baksh Kapoussy, while the bands were executing the most
lively of their martial symphonies, the Kekiayahs of the
Vizier and other Ministers advanced to welcome them, and
after kissing the hem of their garments, assisted thorn to
the Porte. The Tevdjehatelgi Effendi, or Master of
Ceremony, opened the march, followed by a regiment of
troops of the line in full uniform. Achmet Pacha ad-
vanced next, escorted by fifty body guards ; behind him
were placed the military bands, and at some distance from
them the Seraskier with Sayd Pacha ; a detachment of sol-
diers closed the cortege. The eyes of the multitude, which had
flocked from all parts of Stamboul to witness this pageant,
were solely fixed on the happy youth whom fortune had ele-
vated to the pinnacle of human distinction. The Turkish
ladies seemed to be much struck by the charms of his person,
and often professed their admiration aloud. The matrons
blessing the mother who had made him so handsome—the
younger ones, as he passed by, murmuring the Mashallah
to defend him from the cattivo occhie. On the arrival of the

cortege at the Porte the different Ministers and Members of
the Divan stood, with hands reverently crossed, at the bottom
of the staircase leading to the hall where the Vizier holds his
sittings. Several officers, holding in their hands gold censers
emitting the smoke of hurtling Arabian perfumes, advanced
to meet them, and then escorted them to the gate of the Arz
Odassy. Vessaf Effendi, the Sultan's Private Secretary, ad-
vanced to an elevated platform, and, drawing out of an em-
broidered satin purse the autograph haat of the Sultan, read
aloud its contents before the Assembly. After receivinc, the
Grand Vizier's congratulations, as well as those of' the
Grandees present on the occasion, Sayd Pacha, rose, and,
after taking leave of the Assembly, proceeded to the Pa-
lace of the Sheik Islam, where he was received by the whole
body of the Ulemas with the same ceremony as at the
Porte. The Seraskier accompanied him afterwards to his
own palace, where the superior officers of the line had pre-
viously been invited, and informed them that the Sultan had
been pleased to appoint his son-in-law their Lieut.-General,
and exhorted them to be ever mindful of the duties they
owed him as their chief. The whole of the following day
was spent by Sayd Pacha in offering thanksgivings to Pro-
vidence for the high favours showered upon his head. He
visited by turns all the Imperial mosques in the city, and,
after performing in each the sacrifice of holocausts, accord-
ing to the rites of Islamism,distributed alms to the poor, and
largesses to the students and professors of the Mcdressehs.
The latest accounts from Asia Minor represent the army
of Reschid Pacha as concentrated on the frontiers of Bag-
dad, and amounting to about 70,000 men, of which 30,000
are disciplined on the European model. The troops of
Ibrahim amount to 35,000, which are reported, on good
authority, to be inferior, if anything, to those of the Sul-
tan ; and as it is certain that in the event of another war
the Syrians would rise en masse against their oppressors,
there can be little . doubt as to what the result would be.
The Pacha of Egypt has returned an equivocal answer to
the firman, and it is clear that no measures short of actual
compulsion will bring him to his senses. The English Ca-
binet ought immediately to co-operate with the Sultan for
this object. In so doing they will compass two points of
the greatest importance, and on which the solution of the
Eastern question wholly depends. They will re-unite the
Ottoman empire, and they will make a friend of the Sul-
tan, who, on these terms alone, will consent to relinquish
Russian protection for our own.