The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-12 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE.

JULY 20.—0 n the 14th, a messenger arrived from Pa-
ris, bringing despatches from the French and British Am-
bassadors ; and the latter on the following day sent off an
express for London. Nothing is publicly known as to
the precise nature of these communications, but it is
said that Admiral Roussion has been directed to abstain
from further opposition to the views of Lord Ponsonby,
and I have heard that a French man-of-war is to be sent
up immediately to the Gallant Admiral, who has obtained
leave of absence for six months. In about a fortnight,
Lord Ponsonby ought to receive from his Government in-
. structions how he is further to proceed, in order to obtain
the requisite satisfaction for the insults which have been
heaped upon us. Whatever he may be directed to ask
will, I am convinced, be immediately granted ; and the
Turks themselves are most anxious that the disagreeable
business should be set at rest.
To-morrow, Ferik Ahmed Pacha will set out on his em-
bassy to Vienna. A frigate will convey him to Trieste,
where he will perform his quarantine. He will be accom-
panied by the Secretaries who went with him last year, but
he has changed his interpreter, and instead of an intriguing
Greek, takes with him M. Zenop Manas, a Catholic Ar-
menian, well known here as a most worthy and honest man.
Government has been treating for the large new French
steamer Phocecn, which recently arrived from Marseilles ;
or rather, as some say, Ahmed Pacha has been told he may
have the honour of presenting her to the Sultan—an ho-
nour which will cost him about 28,0001., the sum demanded
for her, less the produce of two old worn-out boats, which
are to be sold. One is made over to the Ottoman com-
mercial body for 4,000/., and the other to various PacLas
for 12,500/., and the boats are to be put in activity for ac-
count of the new owners. Should a bargain not be struck
for the French steamer, it is probable that one will be built
in England for the Sultan.

The Austrian Admiral Dandolo is at the Dardanelles, in
the 176nere frigate, on his way to Constantinople. Mr.
M'Neil, our Ambassador to Tehran, is expected to arrive
here to-morrow, in the steamer from the Danube. Mr. Ur-
quhart, the new Secretary of Embassy here, reached Sem-
lin about ten days back, and, it is said, he is now on a visit
to Milosch, Prince of Servia, no doubt to thread the mazes
of intrigue, which Russia has, at undisturbed leisure, long
been occupied in planting there.
The quarantine at Orsova on the Danube, for passengers
from the Levant, has been reduced from ten days to five
days, which will be a piece of most agreeable intellig2nce to
travellers who have that route in view. We have no plague
here, but, I am sorry to say, it is getting worse at Adriano-
ple, where, by last accounts, there were fully forty attacks
per diem. Fera, a town about eighteen leagues below
Adrianople, is said to be completely deserted, the few inha-
bitants who escaped the plague having taken to flight. At
Smyrna it still continues, though without violence ; and at
Magnesia 300 to 400 were dying a day. All the towns in
that neighbourhood were more or less infected.
Effectually to prevent a return to idolatry the Koran
severely prescribes all representations of animated beings.
This precept has, amidst the errors of other creeds, pre-
served during thirteen centuries, in its primitive purity, the
sublime truth established by Mahornet and his successors
on the ruins of Paganism—the belief in the unity of God.
The present Sultan has been the first who has presumed
openly to violate this sacred religious dogma. Mindless of
the discontent he excited by adorning his palace with pic-
tures and engravings, lie caused shortly after his own like-
ness to be taken, and, led away by the mania of imitating
the Monarchs of Europe, sent it as a present to his grandees
as the highest token of favour a Sovereign ran confer on
his subjects. Mote lately, however, he has thought proper
to make a present of his portrait to the fleet, and subse-
quently to the army, and allowed on 'thoie occasions public
honours to be paid to this copy similar to those offered to
the Monarch himself. This pageantry repeated three times
during the space of two months, with all the marks which servi-
lity and the most abject adulation can suggest, has occasioned
general disapprobation among the Turks. The symptoms of
public indignation have become lately so evident, Govern-
ment has judged it expedient to bring into activity some of
the measures it usually has recourse to when necessary to
overawe the disaffected. Several thousands of individuals
belonging to the working classes, and members of the
abolished Ortas of Janissaries, have during the course of
the present week been seized in the streets, and, under pre-
tence of havir', come into the capital without authorization
of the police, been transported to Nicomedia, thence to
find their way back to their homes.
The Turkish Government having come to the resolution
of monopolizing the sale of coffee throughout the empire,
has issued an order to prevent this article being sold by in-
dividuals who have not received a license. This privilege
being sold to the highest bidder, Government has, in order
to enable them to recover the money advanced, fixed the
price at which this article is to be sold. Its average price
at Constantinople is 7 piastres ; the licensed vendors are
authorised to sell it at 11 piastres when raw, and 13 pias-
tres when pounded. No other shops at Constantinople
(except those at Galata) but the licensed ones are allowed
to retail this article. This measure, the oppressive conse-
quences of which will especially be felt in the provinces,
has occasioned much discontent. The English merchants,
foreseeing that it will prove highly injurious to their trade,
have applied to Lord Ponsonby, requesting that he would
exert his influence at the Porte to obtain the removal of so
odious a monopoly.

THE HAGUE, AUG. 7.—Accounts from Flanders
say that the rye harvest had already begun. The crop is
abundant beyond-example, exceeding even that of 1818. All
the standing crops are extremely fine. Oats alone do Lot
look so promising.
The harvest is in rapid progress in the whole of this
district (Newbury). In many parts the yield will exceed that
of last year, but the crop, taken generally, may be termed an
average one. —Reading
Mercury.
LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, AUG. 9.—The
same temper of Market exists to-day as yesterday. Perhaps
the business done will not prove quite so large. The sales
will amount to 4,000 bags. The buyers seem to be looking
with a real view to business, and the holders arc somewhat less
pressing 'to sell. Up to this moment spinners are very anxious
to buy, owing to the good inquiry there has been to-day for
yarns. 130 Pernams, I 1 d. a 131 d. ; 210 Maranham, 100.
a 14d. ; 70 Surat, 51d. a Mil ; the rest American,
70. a 110;

" penetrating" noise, which I myself hear at the distance of
from Oxford-strcet to the church. The effect of this is,
that we cannot occupy a front room, nor even a bed-room,
till after eleven o'clock at night, and on Saturday nights not
till after twelve. I cannot carry on my trade, as people
will not come to my shop, owing to these dreadful noises.
Several other respectable witnesses, also residing in High-
street, concurred with:the other witnesses who were exa-
mined.

Mr. PRICE, for the defendant, called Samuel Rogers, a
baker, residing in High-street, who did not consider the
organs, or the whistler, or the pictures, to be a nuisance.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The judgment of the Court was, that defendant put in
bail, to come up for judgment when called upon, the nui-
sance in the meantime to be abated.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

LAMBETH- STREET.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SEDUCTlON.—Yesterday
Mrs. Ann Goodwin was brought before Mr. HARDWICK
and a county Magistrate, on a warrant, charging her with
threatening to tak the life of Joseph Fisher. The com-
plainant, a singular-looking person, 73 years of age, had
formerly lodged in the house of the defendant, and latterly
she not only seriously annoyed him at his own residence,
No. 7, Edward-street, Limchouse, and the public street,
as he went along, but threatened to stab him to the heart.
The defendant, who appeared much agitated, said that
the complainant, who had been formerly a sailor, and served
in some of the memorable engagements with the immortal
Nelson, had been for some time a pauper in the parochial
workhouse of St. Sepulchre, but being left a legacy of 500/.
by a deceased relative, he emancipated himself from that
establishment, and, unfortunately for her, came to lodge at
her house. While there, his manner occasionally was ex-
ceedingly singular ; as an instance, she (the defendant)
said that at one time he stated that he had received
" notice to quit," and would positively die at a parti-
cular hour on a particular night, and he in consequence
bad his room handsomely decorated, placed three bottles
of Port and three of Sherry, with pipes and to-
bacco, on the table, saying that he and the " old
boy" should spend a comfortable hour and have
a bit. of a spree before they started. In consequence of
his singularity of manner the defendant's husband, who is
employed in the brewery of Messrs. Taylor and Co., gave
him notice to quit, and he took a small house to reside in,
but on leaving he requested their daughter, a young woman
not quite twenty-two years of age, might be allowed to
wait on him as his servant, and that he was to allow her

101. a year. Having not the slightest suspicion, from his
extreme age, that anything_ improper would occur, they
consented to his request, and the result unfortunately was
that he succeeded in seducing her, and she was at present.
seven months advanced in pregnancy by him. On ques-
tioning her daughter as to the cause of the great increase
in her size, and receiving an answer that she was not only
pregnant by the old man, but that he had encouraged her
in taking some drugs for the destruction of her infant,
which had var./ nearly cost her her life, she (defendant)
certainly did say that she felt disposed to stab the old villain
to the heart.
Mr. HARDWICK (to the complainant)—ls is true that
you have seduced the daughter of this woman as she states?
The complainant was silent. But Lea, the officer who
served the warrant, replied, It is true enough, Sir. He
does not deny it ; but, on the contrary, appears from what
I have learned to be quite proud of it. Besides, it seems
be is about to marry her, as he put up the banns on Sa-
turday last.
Mr. IttanwicK—ls the girl in attendance ? Lea—
No, Sir. I wished her to come up, but she is too ill. I
saw her this morning- at the old !MALI'S house.
MAQISTRATE—She.must have a most extraordinary taste
for a person at her ale, to fancy or be seduced by a hoary-
headed old wretch like that.

The complainant appeared much offended at this remark.
The defendant sail that there were one or two circum-
stances in the conduct of the complainant which she had
omitted, and which she thought she. should mention. While
' living at her house a young man, about her own age, paid
his addresses to her daughter, and the old man became so
jealous of him, that he actually purchased a brace of pistols
to blow his (the young man's) brains out, but he fortunately
went to sea before he had an opportunity of carrying- his
threat into execution.
Complainant—Yes, and he had pistols to shoot mc.—
(Laughter.)
Defendant—Since that occurrence took place, and after
he bad ascertained that my daughter was in a state of pre.--
nancy, he used all his efforts to prevail on her to get married
to a young man of colour, and he succeeded so far that the
banns were published, but for some reason or other, the
marriage was delayed until thel'eturn from another voyage
of the young man, who is a sailor: Previous to his going
to sea, however, the old man Prevailed on him to leave his
mcnthly note for the paymentof half his wages with her
daughter, and by this:it was thashe and the old man were
principally supported.
MactsTaATE-Then is his own money all gone ? De-
fendant—Very nearly, Sir, and 'he is now endeavouring to
get back to the workhouse where he had been before, so
that the consequence will be, that I'll have to support ray
daughter, and the offspring of the old wretch.
Mr. liaanwtcK said, that as far as the warrant went that
was discharged, and asked what the defendant wished to be
done for her daughter ? She replied that the old man kept
her locked up and would not perMit any person to see her.
She would be very willing to .pay for her support in the
workhouse, or any place where she would be taken care of.
The magistrates told Lea to see the daughter with her
mother, and if she was willing 'remove her from the house.
The hoary-headed old sinner left -the office apparently much
dissatisfied with the result, and on his getting into the street
it was found necessary to protect him from the summary
vengeance of a number of female

A party who were fishing stiti the Avon last week,
within a quarter of a mile of 'the .Rev. Mr. Knottesford's
house, observed at some distant off the clothes of two per-
sons on the bank ; but after sortie length of time, not per-
ceiving any appearance of the owners of the clothes, they be-
came alarmed, procured a boat and drags, and commenced a
search, when they discovered the 'bodies of two unfortunate
persons locked in each others arms ;" from which it is supposed
that the younger, who was the son
of Mr. Knottesford's gar-
dcner, bad gone out of his depth, and that the other, who was
footman in the smile family, had, in the endeavour to extricate
him, shared the SarCe fate.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Sc en o• Clock.

THE LOYDON GAZE fTE

THIS EVENING.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, AUGUST 10, 1836.
The Rev. John Rye Wood has been appointed, be the King's
command, Rezideut Deputy Clerk of the Closet to his -Majesty.

ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, Jur.r 5.

The King has been pleased, on the nomination of the Right Hon
Lord Foley, to appoint David William Davidson, Esq., one of his
Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlr men at Arms, vice Layburn.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Arc. 10.
The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight-
hood upon Col. P. Lindsay, Companion of the Most Honourable
Military Order of the aith, and 'Military Knight Commander of
the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order.

WHITEHALL, AUG. 9.
The King has been pleased to give and grant unto the Most
Noble Charles Duke of Richmond and Lennox, Knight of
the most Noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Ma-
jesty's Most Honourable Privy Councit, son and heir of Charles
late Doke of Richmond and fennox (also Knight of the Most
Noble Order of the Garter), by Charlotte Duchess of Richmond
and Lennox, his wife, eldest daughter of Alexander, late Duke of
Gordon, arid sister and co-heir of George Duke of Gordon, a Ge-
neral in the Army, and Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable
Military Order of the Bath, lately deceased, his Majesty's Royal li-
cense and authority that he and his issue may, in testimony of re-
spect for the noble family of Gordon, henceforth assume, take,
and use the surname of Gordon, in addition to and before his and
their own family surname of Lennox: and also to command that his
Majesty's concession and declaration be registered in the College
of Arms.