The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-18 00:00:00

YENING EDITION.

TIIE GREEK MOTHER AND HER

DAUGHTER.

DISTURBANCE AT PERA.
(From the Leipsic Allgemeine Gazelle.)
CONTANTINOPLE, JULY :22.—Within this week past
the whole of the Greek Reyes have been plunged into
dreadful, indeed indeseetbable, distress, and every heart
has Iseeil deeply moved. Early in the morning of July
13, a Greek iihrmen with her daughter, a beautiful
child only eight years old, went to fetch water from the
wells of Bulanca, a village near the Seven Towers.
While conversing with a female friend her attention was
withdrawn from her daughter, and when about to re-
turn home, she found that her child had disappeared.
A Turkish woman, feeling for the distracted mother,
told her that another female Turk had carried off her
gild, and that they were in Scutari. The mother in-
staitly passed over in • boat, and proceeded to the
house which had been described to her, and there she
found her child clothed in the Turkish costume, with
her nails stained red. The mother claimed her child,
mad insisted upon taking it with her ; but the Turkish
lady asserted that the girl was her own child, and,
with a bleeding heart, the poor Greek mother was
obliged to depart. Following the advice of her friends,
she repaired to Raouf Pasha, the Grand Vizier, and
solicited his assistance. He replied, in rather a surly
manner, that she should have it, and that she must
come to him again on Thursday, the 16th, when her
ehiiel would be there.
On the appointed day, the Greek woman, accom-
panied by the priest, the judge, and several inhabitants
of her village, repaired to the Porte, where she found
the Grand Vizier, surrounded by officers and ser-
vants. Meanwhile Raouf Pasha had sent a Kavass-
Basehi to Scutari to bring the child, who, however,
had been previously worked upon by presents to per-
suade her to deny her mother. The Kavass-Baschi
on the way back applied the like inducements, but when
brought before the Vizier the force of nature prevailed.
On seeing her parent the infant ran to her, crying,
" Mother, mother, save me." The mother burst into
tears, and held her child fast in a convulsive embrace.
Raouf Pasha, reddening with rage, seized the infant by
the hair of the head, while the attendants beat the
mother severely with their fists. Having torn the child
fnom the mother's arils, the Pasha gave it to another
Baschi, who immediately disappeared with it.
The priest and the other Greeks who were present
could not restrain their indignation, and exclaimed,
" How I you, the first Minister of the State, who should
set an example to others, do you dare to use the subjects
of your Sovereign in this manner! Is this the fulfilment of
the hopes which the people were lately taught to place in
yilla ? Are you making good the benevolent promises
the Sultan's Hatti Scheriff, by which equal rights and
equal protection with your own people were guaranteed
to us? Do the precepts of your heretical religion per-
mit this injustice to be done ?" On hearing the con-
eluding reproach all the Kavasses and attendants at-
t. !eked the priest and the Greek villagers, bastinadoed
them in the most cruel manner, and sent them off to
prison. The priest, however, availed himself of the con-
fusion to slip out of the way, and succeeded in making
his escape. The poor woman, dreadfully ill-treated and
abused, was thrown in a state of insensibility into the
street. As the priest euld nowhere be found, the
Greek Patriarch was summoned, and it was notified to
him that he must answer on his life for the appearance
of the offending ecclesiastic within eight days.
Thus, up to the present time. the affair remains ; what
has become of the child nobody knows. Every one is
curious to learn what course the rigid and just young
Sultan will adopt with respect to this transaction, as the
complaint was presented to him personally on his last
visit to the Mosque. Every one, too, endeavours to
account for the extraordinary and revolting conduct of
the Grand Vizier, who was lately President of the
High Court of Justice, and which is the more re-
markable at the time when a new code declaring
Turks and Reyes equal before the law has just been
pu'elished. Now, as, for many years past, both here
and in the pro‘ihces, many handsome Greek and Ar-
menian girls, of from six to ten, have been stolen from
their erieving parents, and as this virgin robbery is be-
lieved to be a new branch of industry, a speculation,
having for its object to get the children reared in
secret by mercenary wretches until they are of age to
be sold for the harems of the rich, the general opinion

is, that Raouf Pasha had cast his eyes on this fine
chili and gives a commission for stealing her. In con-
sequence of the suppression of the pirate system of
Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, no booty of this
L.ind can any longer be had in the Mediterranean, and
as Greece, Georgia, and Citeassia eve withdrawn from
-die dominion of the Porte, it is found very difficult to

.procure a sufficient number of white slaves for the
harem. It appears, therefore, that chid-stealing has
been resorted to as the means of supplying the want so
zenaillly felt. This much, however, is certain, that be-
the downfall of Khoarew Pasha and the Russian
influence, the tireeks would havo been safe from any
such arbitrary proceedings as those to which they are
now exposed. The fermentation among the already
discontented Greeks is greatly augmented by this
• husiness. •

HALF-PAST 6 O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING.

:11v letter of this day's date is sent to the Post-office,
trirt, I cannot recall it. I must therefore write a post-
cript on another sheet to tell you, that all th? wart -
'ti,,iiscs and shops of the Greeks (those who are subjects
~of King Oiiio) are closed by order of the Government,
and that it is notified to them that they must return
to G-eccJ within c'ght eays, or become KlyilF.
e is now nothing but confusion—women crying, men
-;orsning. Tne puhce has put seals on all the ware-
liooses and workshops. The unfortunate Greeks arc now
w Ilich,ring in groups through the streets. It is a sad
thing to see so much distress, so many eyes moistened
Kith tears. Amidst general excitement, nobody knows
to what cause so extraordinary a reaction is to be attri-
'wited—whether King Otho's rejection of the eommer- •
cosi treaty, or to the manifestation of sympathy by the
Gre,lc population in favour of the deposed Grand
linosrew Pasha, and Russia. God help these
oi4rtunate beings, and preserve them from yet more
horrible scenes of cruel'y ! I tr:lnble to find my fore-
bodings sooner realised than I expected.

A FINE• 'COUNTRY FOR LOAFERS.—AC-
enrding to Mr. Humboldt, there is a tree in the South
Sea Islands which produces ready-made shirts. The na-
tivt:s cut off pieces of the tree about two feet long, from
which they draw off the red and fibrous hark in the same
rumr}, r that boys draw off the bark of chesilut to make
v.h•stles. Each man selects a tree near his own diameter
so that the shirt may be a good fit. When the bark is off,
they cut a bole in each side to admit the arms. These
shirts de nut require any washing, starching, or ironing,
and a more convenient article for loafers could not be ima-
gined. The same country produces bread fruit; so that
g-entleman may get his board and clothes gratis ; and
what will meet the views of some Philadelphia gentleman
of leisure), he may sleep out all night without any inter-
ruption from the watcistran. Who will put in to establish
a grind Loafers' Colonization Society, to facilitate the
transportation of those gentlemen to the South Sea Is-
land? The idea of shirts and luncheons gratis will be a
powerful inducement for them to emigrate.—Phil. Led.
TEACHING THE PEOPLE ! !-We have a
Church which teaches practiee and the rule of three by
exercises on the number of murders commanded by the
'priesthood of a barbarous tribe; and stops all other educa-
tion that it can. We have a Church whiah shuts men up
In prison for refusing to pay what, if the case was of de-
manding Peter's pence from itself, it would declare to be
the height of persecution and wrong ; and is obliged to
have a special Act of Parliament to take the victims out
of its claws before the general resurrection. We have a
Church whose yesterday's operation was to present peti-
tions against the law which allows prisoners to be de-
leaded by coansel ; because the Church's idea is that pi i-
soners siould be condemned without. We have a Church
ind Bench that combine together to bear harmless the
violators of girls who cannot say their catzchisms, and
admit to evidence such as avow the credence in " old
Bogie." We have an Aristocracy that first makes it un-
lawful for industry to keep itself, and then cuts off the
provision for the poor. Surely we arc taught ! Surely
>4:: aro guided I—Col. P. Thompson.
DEATH BY DROWNING.-Between two and
three o'clock on Thursday afternoon, a boy, about seven or
eight years of age, named Carr, while bathing in that
branch of the Tay which runs on the east side of the
Scanners Island, disappeared under the water, and did not
come up again. His brother gave the alarm, and in a
few minutes a great number of people assembled. From
the bridge the body was distinctly seen in the bottom of
the river. Mr. Boyle, superintendent of police, ran
towards the spat, threw off part of his clothing and
dived
five or six times, but the strength of the current as oft en
carried him past the object of his aim. A salmon cobie
;as at length dragged te the place, and the body taken
into it, after having been :from a quarter of an hour to
twenty minutes under the water. All attempts to restore
animation failed..—Tainburgh Courant.

DIABOLICAL ACT:--A most diabolical at-
tempt was on Saturday evening made by some miscreants,
to peril the lives of the passengers by the late train on the
S'4isley railway, a large stone having been laid acrossram,
it the rails between Johnstone and Howood.
~c;ttially the engineer perceived the obstruction in time to
:stop the train, so that no accident occurred ; but had it
'eon overlooked, a fearful loss of life might have en-
turd. The size of the stone proves it to have been
placed by two or more persons, and the time chosen for
this detestable act was just after the passing of the po-
lice officer, anal before the train came up.—Edinburgh
Courant.
Wilson, the vocalist, had his benefit at the
Adelphi theatre, Edinburgh, last Saturday night, after an
engagement of twelve *tits ; but as the house has been
crammed every night Murray has re-engaged him.
LONGSHA IV LODGE, NEAR SHEFFIELD.—The
Duke
of Rutland commenced the grouse shooting season
on Tuesday last, when upwards of 100 head of game was
bagged. The visitants already arrived are the Marquis of
Granby, Lord and Lady Lichfield and Lady Anne Anson,
tros4,Lfickrattearri Laioirctd_.John Manners and Sir Richard Sta-
ll-Mem- and Siramtveandtesa of Jersey and Lady Sarah
Peel, are expected early in the
ensuing weeke:::l4lB Grace's
dTdoors abound in partridges,
A lettei:;:-addressejasport is expected.
byalifCharles Wood, Esq.,
pl. P., to thst,electOciltaniey,saxefending his conduct
with refenn4to Loi•tt Irish Registration Bill,
•)1.3 been publiehed by that gentleman.