The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-17 00:00:00

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TURKEY

CONSTA NTINTOPLE, Aazt 27.
The annou/cement of the participation of Francep in the last
deliberations of the London Conference, and of her adhesion
to the Treaty to adjust the affair.: of the East, had been re-
ceived by the Sultan with the liveliest satisf,ction.
The tirst dragomans of the great Powers had had, for the
last ten days, frequent conferences with R.faat Paella, the
Minister for Foreign Affairs. Although the object of these in-
terviews had not transpired, yet there were many reasons to
believe that they had reference to the Egyptian question, which
was considered to be entirely settled. The Divan, as we have
already stated, have acce.!ed to the modifications of the hatti-
seheriff of the 13th of February last, required by Mehemet
Ali, and a new hatti-scheriff to that effect was being drawn
up, which would be shortly despatched to Alexandria.
The Sultan removed on the 26th to the Palace of the Scsteet
Waters, where he intended to reside during the month of May.
His Highness had been indisposed for some days, in conse-
quence of the change of season, but he was then convalescent,
and it was hoped that his sojourn at the Sweet Waters would
hasten his recovery.

The four Austrian superior Officers who served in the last
expedition to Syria were presented "cii the 24th by Rifaat Be;
to the Sultan, Who received them in the most gracious man •
ner, and expressed to them his satisfaction with their gallant
conduct in Syria, and the services which they had rendered
the Ottoman empire.
Hussein Pacha, the President of the Board of War, died
,en.
the 27th.

Preparaions for ri new expedition to Candia were carried
on with the utmost activity. Several vessels of war had been
taken out of the arsenal, and laden in all haste with provisions
and ammunition. They were to immediately sail for that
island. 1 his expedition, which is to be commanded by Tahir
Pacha, the Grand Admiral, was to consist of two ships of the
line, six frigates, and a number t,f smaller vessels and steamers,
which, after landing 6,000 troops in the Wand, would cruise
along its coasts. A note to that effect had been communicated
by the Porte to the different foreign legations in Constantinople,
together with an official notification of the blockade, after the
15th of May, of the harbours and coasts of Candia, with the
exception only of the four principal towns, Chnea, Suda, Can-
dia, and Retimo.
Some disturbances have occurred lately at Trebizond, which
have caused a momentary state of excitement in the Greek
community. They had been rebuilding an old Greek church
that lay in a quarter of the town inhibited partly by Greeks
and partly by Turks. The latter murmured, but as the former
had obtained a firman f om the Porte for the purpose, nothing
was said until Easter-eve, when the Turks began to complain
aloud that the walls of the building had been carried much
above the limits prescribed by the fit man. The Pacha ordered
that the walls should be reduced to the height prescribed in the
firman, which was accordingly put into execution on Easter-
Sunday. he popular excitement was so great that Kiayoghe
Emir Aga. fearing that something might happen to the Rus-
sian Consul. sent to tell him that should any insult be offered
him during the row, he had fifty armed men ready to pro-
tect him.
Elated by their success, the Turks next turned their atten-
tion to a Greek school that was building in the Christian
quarter of Oise town. The place was inspected by the legal
authorities, and it was declared unlawful to allow the building
to stand as it was, inasmuch as it was e. ntrary to their law to
allow an infidel building to be raised higher than Mussulman
houses. At this decision the Russian Consul, as proteetor of
the GreeTC, interceded with the Pachaos ho after much dis-
cussion decided that the whole edifice should he razed to the
ground. NVliiie the people were demoli,hing the building,
however, a second order came from the Pacha. that only the
upper story of the school should be thrown down. This ap-
pears to have been owing to another application from the Rus-.
Sian Consul.

EGYPT.
ALEXARDRIA, APRIL 27.—The political a7pect of affairs
has undergone no change since the departure of the Great
Liverpool. Ihe four Consuls-General are still at Constantino-
ple, which they expected to leave about the end of the
month, with full powers to settle the questions which re-
mained open.
The plague is speading and creating great alarm among
the Europeans and Levantine, and the merchant-vessels in
port have, by the advice of their Consuls, hoisted the yellow
flag, and adopted some quarantine precautions. One Aus-
trian and two English sailors have died, and another Aus-
trian similarly attacked has tecorered. A young Dane, named
Smidt,- who superint: nded the passage of travellers on the
Nile, has died in the Lazar'tto on the 25th ult., and the oldest
Maltese merchant in Alexandria wag 13incr ill of the disease
at the date of our advices. The French' steamer sailed en the 27th without passengers. The general mortality, has,
however, not increased. On the 26th ultimo the
deaths were eight; persons attacked, and removed to the
hospital, 9; other deaths 15. The general mortality at Cairo
was 120 pt r day, but the deaths from plague there are few in
comparison with those from fever, small-pox, cholera, &e.
None of the passengers of the Liverpool had reac.ited Suez in
time to sail for India. The Phoenix steamer has arrived front
Bey rout and Caiffa (after landing Sappers and Miners for the
repairs of Acre) to take in coals, and to return to the coast of
Syria. Specie had been landed at Beyrout by a French man-
of- war, for the service of the Christian convents of Lebanon .
and two Iriests of the Propaganda, who had arrived in Alex-
andria with a large sum of money on the 14th ult., sailed again
on the 18th for Beyrout on a similar mission to the Maronitea
in the mountait.s.
Ibrahim Pacha is still at Cairo, making extensive changes
in the administration of the .affa.rs of Egypt, displacing Arabs
in office, and replacing them 'with Turks. The immediate
effect has been a great depreciation in the value of the teskeres,
or paper securities, of the Egyptian Government.