The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-02 00:00:00

T {KEY.

(From the Correspondent eta Morning Contemporary.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 10.—A circular was thn
morning addressed by the Consul-General to the merchants
of Galata, informing them that, in answer to the represen-
tations made by the Ambassador to the Porte, on the sub-
ject of the restrictions on West India Coffee, his Excellency
has received on assurance from it " that orders have been
given to the Director of the Tahmiz to allow British mer-
chants to sell American coffee eyerywilere as freely as be-
fore. The prompt attention paid in this instance to the
claims of our Ambassador may be considered as a proof of
the respect which he now commands at the Porte, and of
the wisdom displayed in the late energetic proceedings in
the Churchill affair. Advantage will no doubt be taken of
the present favourable dispositions of the Porte to obtain a
remedy for many iradlerable abuses affecting our commerce.
For the last few days there has been some talk of a confe-
rence of the different Chancelleries, in order to take into
consideration the propriety of lodging- a formal complaint
against Tahir Bey, the Director of the Customs. - His ar-
bitrary and unjust proceedings have become too vexatious
to be borne with any longer.
Intelligence was brought here by the Smyrna- packet
that during the night of Friday, the sth inst., almost the
whole town and tower of the Dardanelles had been de
stroyed by fire: The place was considerable in extent, and
contained about twenty thousand inhabitants, who, by a
calamity unhappily not uncommon in this country, have in
ona night lost all they possessed in the woald. It is well
that they arc at the same time endued with Turkish stoi-
cism to encounter it. The fire, it is said, broke out at a
baker's stove, and thence spread rapidly over the town,
consuming in its progress the house of the Pasha. The
efforts of the latter and his followers were exclusively di- '
rected to the preservation of the powder magazine, which,
it is asserted on the best authority, contains 40,000 quin-
tals of gunpowder. They happily succeeded in their ob-

ject at the expense and sacrifice, as I have already
stated, of the greater part of the town and of the lower
batteries, which have been entirely demolished.
I have just heard, on the best authoniv, an incident
which has occasioned a powerful sensatioperiod)te Porte,
and which is as discreditable to the Aust an offiovernment
as it reflects honour on our Foreign Secretr weor the spirit
and dignity he has displayed in it. At tr.e- period of his
daughter's marriage two bags, containing the autograph
letters of the Sultan, were forwarded to their Majesties
William IV. and Louis Philippe. For the purpose of
quarantine they were delivered here into the hands of Baron
Sturmer, the Austrian Internuncio, to be transmitted to
the Turkish Ambassadors at London and Paris. On their
arrival, however, all the seals and the elaborate finery of
their Oriental fastenings were found to have been violated,
and treated with as little ceremony as ordinary letters meet
with at Sena). Having delivered the mission, with many
apologies for its mutilated appearance, Nourri Effendi was
informed that, consistently with etiquette, the letter could
not be received in that condition ; and that the best course
he could adopt would be, with assurances of respect and
expressions of regret on the part of his Majesty, to send it
back to Constantinople. A note was at the same time
dispatched by our Foreign Secretary to Vienna, expressive
of his Majesty's surprise and indignation that a letter ad-
dressed to. him personally by another Sovereign should have
been treated with so little regard to delicacy or honour, and

the established usages of Courts.
The French and English combined fleets are now, ac-
cording to the Smyrna Gazette of the 6th instant, at
Athens. It is composed of six British and four French sail
of the line, with numerous frigates and corvettes. A regi-
ment of infantry was embarked last week at Smyrna for the
island of Rhodes.

Since writing the above I find that Lord Ponsonby has
received an additional proof that firmness and independence
in his dealings with the Porte are the best policy he can
adopt. In the restitution of some confiscated contraband.
property belonging to a Greek who had defrauded his
Eng:ish creditors, the decree states that it has done so for
the first time, and contrary to its established custom, in
order to prove the respect and consideration in which it
held the English Ambassador, who had memorialised it on
the occasion.

(FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.)
• Nicholas Aristakis, alias Logotheti, the most zealous and
efficient among Russia's numerous emissaries at Constanti-
nople, has exhibited during the course of the present week,
within the precincts of the Greek Church at Kooroo-
'Fchesmeh, a representation equally creditable to his melo-
dramatic, diplomatic, and histrionic talents, and which can-
not fail, for these manifold reasons, to secure him additional

titles to the gratitude of his St. Petcrsburgb patrons. The
principal among the personw of his political drama, given
'or the Emperor's benefit by this ingenious and devoted
ervant of his, was the skeleton of his father, Stavraki,
rately dug up from its grave at Bolou, and brought to

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the capital by the son, under the plea of placing these
mortal remains at rest in a sepulture more comfortable and
honourable than the one they had tenanted during fourteca
years in the depths of Asia Minor. The son's part had
been chalked out after llfzmlet's. In order to enable

the English reader to appreciate the effect with which this
exhibition operated on the sensitive minds of the Greek
spectators, it is essential to remark that Stavralti. bad acted
a conspicuous part during the late Greek insurrection.
After serving as interpreter at the Porte for upwards
of a year at that turbulent period he was exiled to Bolou
with his son, the present worthy, and shortly alter his ar-
rival there put to death, by order of his former protector,
Halid Effendi. The remidscence of the days of terror
and bloodshed, during which this tragic episode occurred,
could not but rekindle in the bosom of the Greeks the
feelings which it is Russia's object never to allow to be-
come extinguished, hatred and the thirst of revenge against
their present rulers. In order to rendtir the pageant more
solemn and theatrical, the patriarch, clad in his most mag-
nificent robes, performed the funeral service, in company
of the Archbishops and Bishops of the Synod, surrounded
by the wife and daughters of the departed. After the
mouldering bones had reverently been washed with wine
and anointed with myrrh and aromatic oils, blessed and re-
blessed, previous to their being deposited in the cemetrv,
Aveamios, the most eloquent among the preachers at the
Greek Cathedral, delivered a funeral oration, not unlike
Anthony's over Caesar's body. After passing in review the
events which bad preceded Stavraki's " most foul, strange,
and unnatural murder," he drew liom them a series of
corollaries which certainly cannot add much to the loyalty
of the feelings of Greeks towards the Sultan. The orator
then thought proper to employ the electrifying powers of
prosepopteia to rouse to the highest pitch of excitement the
passions of his hearers. The ghost tie had evoked from the
ebony shades of Erebus uttered prophecies, serving to initiate
the congregation into the secret of their future deliverance,
and entered into digressions of so revolutionary a tendency
that the son himself, alarmed at the consequences so intem-
perate an allocution might, if repeated abroad, bring upon
his own head, enjoined the orator to alter his strain, lest
the Sultan should oblige him in good earnest, once for all,
to give up the ghost. Had other proofs been wanted this
-public and ostentatious display of the feelings which Logo-
theti bears towards the Turkish Government, in whose
service he has been for a series of years, ought at last to
unseal the eyes of the stone-blind Turks, and enable them
to appreciate the real worth of the individual in whom they li
have placed so much confidence.
The Turkish Steam Navigation Company have made a
most inauspicious debut. The bOiler of one of these
steamers has, on its very first trip to Smyrna, been
blown up. In order to extricate the ship from a sand-
bank, where he found her unexpectedly detained, Cap-
tain Kelly had heightened the pressure of the steam to
such a degree that an explosion took place, by which
lie himself was severely wounded. On Thursday last
Mahmoud presented another picture of himself to the
artillery barracks. All this foolery has already let to most .
serious consequences, and the last display, more imposing
than the previous ones, could only have been intended
as a bravado. He appears determined to break the
hearts of the factious Ulemas with vexation, while the num-
ber and improved appearance of the troops, infantry and ca-
valry, which he had collected on the occasion, not only sup:
pressed the murmurs of the crowd, but with the usual
triumph that atteads successful daring, converted their exe-
crations into blessings and invocations to Allah for the Pa-
dishah's prosperity. With respect to the soldiers them-
.
selves, they appear to regud these ceremonies. with
ference, or at most with a stupid sort of admiration. Some
i
of them assert that the Sultan has borrowed this nnova- '
when not disposed to
tion from the French Generals, who,
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take the field themselves, send their pictures to command
the troops for them. This Would certainly be an improve-
mentall useful purposes,
in their own service, since, for the
pictures of their officers would be fully as efficient as the
originals.
I understand that M. Pisani has taken offence at some
remarks which were made on his conduct at the commence-
ment of the Churchill affair. In the first excitement caused
by the outrage, and the protracted incarceration of that gen-
tleman, it was thought that our Drogueman had not dis-
played sufficient zeal in the business. Indeed, such was
the impression of Mr. Churchill himself ; but it appears he
was mistaken.
While, however, on the subject of Droguemans, I must
be permitted to observe that the whole system is radically
bad, and, ought to be changed. In point of trust and re-
sponsibihty the post of Drogueman at Constantinople is
scarcely less important than that of the Ambassador him-
self, and should not be confided to aliens in birth, edu-
cation, and connection. On these latter advantages, how-
ever, it would certainly be necessary to engraft an
Orient.tl education, which is only to be acquired on the
spot. In event of a change, it would be only just that
those whose- zeal and fidelity have been hitherto unim-
peached, and I believe M. Pisani and his family are in that

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number, should by no means suffer from it. C „ • IA
be taken not to foi!ow the example recenty.
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the American Government, which, after payin, ,
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here the salary of 2d Drogueman for four yevs 041e,liiM!'?-4,§
was discharging the onerous functions of the ' :t0...„9.0.-. 47.,;.; 1,,,,,i... /
• expectation that was held out to him that the ' eof ' //oz ow
• tion would be secured to him, has had the incr • 'iii aiitil .-
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nesS of superseding him by a raw Yani:eta of ill :„..4.2.,-,..:),
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Brown, wiio knows nothing of the Turkish lane stage.
. Court where gettgrosity is in some meaaure the criterion
of a country's greatneat, the disg,ust and contempt excited
by this miserable economy cannot fail to be prejudicial to
the interests of the States. A. Z.
On the 4th instant, a three-masted schooner of war pro-
ceeded for Tripoli, bearing despat.chcs Pacha.
On for l'ahir
On the Bth a frigate sailed in the s-...tne direction. O' Mon-
day a grand Council was held at The Por:e, and to-day
another is assembled there. I have heal :1 that a 1,0.-t!?n
of the Cabinet is intriguing to get the Calm:lan Pacha c„ is-
placed from his 'high post, but that the Sultan will lists.`
to no such thing. There is an intrigue also agairst the
Mucata Naziri, who is a determined enemy to peculations-
in office by any other than himself, and who consequently
has many powerful enemies. It is said that the Porte has
lately been requiring of the French Ambassador explana-
tions as to the manner in which France has been behaving
at Tunis. I have not beard what Baron Roussin said its
reply ; but—disguise it as he may—l suppose he makes use
of the old proverb which teaches us that might is better
than right.
The French and English fleets were together at Plialere,..
near Athens. It is said here that they would leave that an-
chorage for the coast of Syria and Egypt, which they visit
by way of showing themselves.
The plague has nearly disappeared from Smyrna ; on the •
other hand, it is on the increase at Adrianople, where about
fifty die daily.
British shipping is amazingly scarce in every part of the
Levant, and if there were any vessels disengaged, they
would instantly be taken up at high freights. Those arri-
ving here, destined for the Black Sea, are not detained by
the northerly winds, as was formerly the case, as Austrian
and English steamers employ their leisure time in towing
ships through the Bosphorus, an occupation with which the
Turkish Government does not in the least interfere.
Letters have been received from Tabriz to the 21st of
.July. Sir Henry Bethune, Captain Wilbraham, anti
Colonel M'lntosh, were gone to Teheran. Captain Shiel,
Secretary of Legation, had been sent to the camp of Rcshid
Mehmcd Pacha, Turkish General-in-Chief, whose head-
quarters are near Moussoul. The Shaw of Persia was fur-

fishing troops, under the Ameen Nizam and Kereman
Mirza, to assist the Turkish army in putting the Kurds
completely down. He requires compensation for the ra-
vz<es committed last year on the Persian territory by the
men of Revandvoz Bey. Nor wes this the only martial
project of the Shah, for he was sendng a corps d'arince,
under Feredoun Mirza and Major-Gwneral Browsky, who
had marched against Herat ; whilst he himself bad set out
off from Teheran, at the head of troops. the major part of
which he intends to send to Astrabad, has lately been
plundered by the Turcomans. He will himself encamp on
the confines of Khorasan.
An English gentleman has arrived here front interest-
ing excursion in Circassia, the details of which will no doubt
be laid before Government.

CATASTROPHE AT JERSEY.

A FAMILY OF FOUR PERSONS POISONED L?

ARSENIC.

The following are the particulars of a disastrous event
wl:ich took place on Sunday evening, the 21st ult., in the
family of Mrs. Anthoine,in the Clarendon-road, Jersey.
Mrs. Richard Anthoine had received a present of four
bottles of perry from a gentleman in the country, and inti-
mate friend of the family. The first bottle was drunk with-
out any unpleasant consequences. On Sunday, soon afte7
dinner, the scored bottle was opened and drunk. This did
not effervetce like the former, and one of the family observed
that it tasted of iepper. The family consisted of Mrs. and

le two Misses Anthoine and a servant maid,

A few nii-

mites after taking the perry, of which they all partook in
nearly equal proportions, some symptoms of sickness at the
stomach began to show themselves. Mr. Lyon, a urst res-
pectable army surgeon, who resides near, was immediately
called in, end took the necessary steps for having the sto-
machs of all well emptied by vomiting ; and to this prudent
step, aided by the administration, instantly after, of large
doses of carbonate of soda, is probably to he ascribed the
averting of the destruction of the whole family. Notwith-
standing these steps, however, Mrs. Antl;oine. who was
aged, and whose health was in a very delicate state, from a
gradual decline, continued to grow worse until about seven
o'clock in the evening, when she died.
A suspicion that the poison was arsenic arising, Dr.
Scholefield broke the bottle, and found about an ounce of a
sediment, which, on being submitted to the blow-pipe, in-
stantly yielded the poisonous mineral in its pure state, and
it was recognized by its characteristic smell and appearance.
In the meanwhile the three remaining cases continued to
grow better under the treatment. of the before-named medi-
cal gentlemen, and we are happy in being able to state that
they are now out of immediate danger.
It is but right to say that the gentleman who presented
the perry immediately hastened to town on hearing of the
sad event, and that his feelings are such as one might ex-
pect to witness in one who had, though innocently, occa-
sioned such an affliction.

A coroner's inquest was held on the body of Mrs. An-
thoine, on Monday, the 22d ult., when the Jury returned a
v..”-dict of " Accidental Daath."

Mr. Richard Anthoine, the husband of the lady who was
so unhappily poisoned, and his son, are at Newfoundland on
a fishing establishment.

The Countess of Kerry was taken from her bed at
Lansdowne House on Wednesday last, at the hour of eleven..
by her father Viscount Duncannon, and placed on u.
litter, and thus conveyed to a travelling carriage, Which, by
sow journeys will proceed to Liverpool, and then cross to
Dublin. Her Ladyship, we are sorry to state, was in a most
pitiable state from the severity of her sufferings at her recent .
loss. She had not quitted her bed from the hour of her hus-
,band's demise, and was reduced to a mere skeleton. Prompt
measures, it is hoped, will restore animation to her system.
NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE SPY,"
THE PILCT," Sec.—The Second Edit ion of Mr. Cooper's
" Excursions in Switzerland," will be published by Mr. Bent-
ley, New Burlington street, on Monday next, Sept. 5.
On the farm of Mr. W. Atkinson of Kihnore, near
Richhill, six stalks of corn, this season, sprung from a single
grain of seed, each stalk measuring about six feet in length,
and the whole containing 475 grains of corn, being the pro-
duce of the one original seed! The entire field from which
this gigantic stalk has been taken was sown with the old Irish
potato oats in the beginning of March last, and the crop is in
general of the height mentioned. The field in question was
nearly barren some years ago, but, through the management
and superior skill of its owner, it has been brought to its pre-
sent state of fertility.—Brtfast News Letter.
It appears that the public authorities at Itamsgate
not contented with the regulations of keeping the public
houses closed during Divine Service, have prohibited water-
drinking during the same time, and to that end have affixed
the following notice on the pump in the High-street :—Take
Notice—That in futUre this pump will be kept locked during
the hours of Divine Service on Sundays, viz., from eleven to
one, and from three to five.
MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW WORK.—We are re-
quested to state that the new edition of " Jonathan Jefferson
Whitlaw ; or, Scenes on the Mississippi," will be ready for de-
livery on Monday next, Sept. 5.
This day is the anniversary of two important events,
hut of a character totally different—the passing of the Bill of
Rights, in 1628, and the disgraceful riots in London, in 1780.
We understand that the distribution of fourpenny
silver pieces is now likely to become more general. A large
quantity was issued on Wednesday at the Bank, and forwarded
into the manufacturing districts.

A French spy, said to be employed by the Duke of
.Montebello, in Switzerland, has just bCen discovered in that
country. The Sails and French press arc loud in exclaiming
against the employment of such agents by an ambassador.
Despatches for his Excellency Count Noyosyltzoff'
(President of the Cabinet Council of the Czar) have arrived
at the British Hotel from St. Petersburgh. They, it is
understood, will hasten the return of the Count, who is at
present on a tour in the north of England, to Russia, he hav-
ing been appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to congratulate
the Emperor Ferdinand of Austria on his coronation.
Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, a young
woman was observed walking backwards and forwards by
the side of the New River, at the back of Rhodes's Fields,
when she plunged into the water. An alarm was in-
stantly made, and in a short time she was dragged out,
apparently lifeless, and carried to a surgeon's, but she was
found to be quite dead. Her body was taken to the vaults of
Islington Church. She was meanly attired, and appeared to
be in distress. Nothing was found on her person to lead to a
discovery of who or what she was. The body now lies for a
Coroner's inquest, and to be owned.
The cholera, after having exercised its cruel influ-
ence here (Verona) for 70 days, is at length (18th inst.)
beginning to retire. A small number of isolated cases only
now show themselves, instead of the 30 or 40 mortal cases
that previously desolated the town every day. The number of
victims has been reckoned at 2.000 out of 60,000 souls. In
the country the ravages have been more alarming; an eighth
part of the population fell under the disease in fifteen days.—
Augsburgh Gazette.
• RECENT ARRIVALS AT BUXTON.—The Earl
and Countess of Bandon, Lady Harriet Bernard, and the
the Honourable H. B. Barnard, Lady Anne \Vardlaw
Ramsay and Mr. and Miss ltarusav, Honourable Sir Henry
and Lady Grey, Sir James and Lady Flower, Sir John T.
Stanley and Miss Stanley, f;eneral Sir J. and Lady May,
Col. Whaley, Capt. Bunn, Mr. B. Carter, M P., Rev. Mr.
and Miss Curtois, Rev. W. Bather, Rev. J. Mackinnon, Rev.
H. Schneider, Mr. and Mrs. Craigg, Mr. and Mrs. Corbyn,
Mr. H. Barret Lennard, &c.