The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-26 00:00:00

LETTER OF ICING OTHO OF GREECE TO THE

SULTAN.

May it please your Majesty,—A vexatious incident
threatens to compromise the good understanding be-
tween the two Crowns which Providence has conned
to us. This good understanding may be reinforced for
the present, and assured for the future, by a frank and
honest explanation. Why should I hesitate to give it
spontaneously ?
Your Msjesty will, I ant firmly convinced, under-
stand the sentiments of perfect confidence and pro-
found esteem which counsel me to take a step the object
of which is too high to be made the object of false
interpretations.
In claiming for a royal guarantee the respect which
was due to it, I conscientiously feel that I fulfilled a duty
which, for the interest of the sovereign dignity, I should
see confided to the hands of your Majesty with en-
tire security. Moved by this sentiment, I addressed a
reproach to the repre,entative of a prince for whom I
profess a sincere affection. I was not induced to do so
by the fact which seems to have been the only motive of
my words.
For some time the attitude and conduct of M. Mus-
surus, the subject of different representations on the
part of my Government to that of your Majesty, gave
me great uneasiness with respect to the maintenance of
the friendly and neighbourly reLtiers so precious to me,
and so important to the two countries whose interests
are common on so many points, and by so many rights.
In testifying the dissatisfaction which made me feel,
not so much a refusal as the proceedings which ac-
companied it, I especially expressed a feeling of solici-
tude, often shared I doubt not by your Majesty, who
labours with a noble ardour for the pacific progress of
the people confided to your Government.
Triiis the true and complete explanation of my
words ; they were only tt___T 'la ev.god to hlm who forgot
the high object of his commission. This explanation
I have thought it honest to give complete. Your Ma-

jesty will consider the resolutions that will be counselled
by your wisdom.
As for myself, I feel that this explanation, freely
given, is as conformable to my duties as it is to the
feelings of my heart. Thus, I entertain a firm hope—
I think I may say, a certainty—that your Majesty will
find therein a proof that, like your Majesty, I place my
real honour on the ground commanded by the Almighty,
and that my most ardent desire is to maintain harmony
between two crowns, between two nations, whose glory
and prosperity, far from being rival, have everything to
obtain from a mutual assistance.

Upon which I pray God that he may keep you, most
high, most excellent, and most potent Emperor, our well-
beloved neighbour and ally, under his holy and condign
protection.—Your ♦ery dear and perfect friend,
Athens, the Ist (13th) February, 1847. OTHO.

The Sultan's reply, is as follows:
I have received the letter which your Majesty ad-
dressed to me under date of the Ist of February. lam
much obliged for the sentiments of friendship which
your Majesty therein manifests towards me, and for the
desire which you express for the constant maintenance
of the happy relations established between the two Go-
vernments; and I hasten to assure you that my heart
also partakes of those sentiments and that desire.
As to the deplorable incident to which reference is
made in that letter, it has seemed to me more suitable to
the dignity of the two crowns, and more conformable to
the matters which must consolidate our mutual friend-
ship, to confide the solution of this question to my
Sublime Porte and to the Ministers of your Majesty. In
consequence the necessary orders have been given to
that effect. Your Majesty will, doubtless, see in the
choice of this form of procedure a proof of my considera-
tion and my sincere friendship, as well as of the desire
which I have to banish everything that may tend to
endanger the existence of that friendship.
I pray God to keep your Majesty always under his
holy protection.
The 13th Rebi-ul-evril, 1263 (Ist March, 1847.)

AGRICULTURAL MATTERS IN

:SCOTLAND.
Never perhaps in the memory of man has there been
a more favourable seed-time, or a greater extent of land
sown in the same number of days, as within the last
fortnight. Around Edinburgh many farmers have
finished sowing both oats and barley, and with a con-
tinuance of a few days of weather similar to that we
have recently enjoyed, the seed time of 1847 will be
completed in the Lothians. A large breadth of beans
has been sown as a substitute for potatoes, but there are
few farmers not determined to make another trial of
the latter, though the extent that will be planted will
be very limited. There does not appear to be much
difficulty in procuring seed, but the price asked is exor-
bitant-201. a ton has been demanded, though we have
not heard of any sales at that figure. Sound looking
seed from England and the north of Scotland fir.ds ready
buyers at 121. 10s. and 131. 10s. per ton. The opening
of the North British Railway has proved a great boon
to cow-keepers ; but for the large quantity of Swedish
turnips brought by this means of transit from East
Lothian, fox' both for cows and horses would have been
much higher in Edinburgh than it is, and it is indeed
very high. Around the city the fields are nearly cleared
of turnips, and there does not appear to be many stored
up ; and as a consequence of this scarcity of keep, which
we believe is general, our cattle market has been particu-
larly crowded these two market days—many of the ex-
posers being country butchers compelled to sell, their
turnips being exhausted. We have bad some
there
slight
showers during the week, but we understand erehhast
been rather a heavy fall of ruin to the westward.—
Scotsman.

JOSEPH ADY AGAIN.—The unenviable notoriety
attained by Hr. Joseph My, of London, by his attempts to
practise upon the credulity of parties residentin the country,
renders it almost a matter of supererogation to caution our
readers aganst his manceuvres. We may state, however,
that several parties in the Potteries have recently been
honoured with circulars (not pre-paid) from Mr. My. With
the new year Joseph seems to have adopted a slightly im-
proved plan. His missives no longer bear the appearance of
a schoolboy's scrawl—they are lithographed, and look more
business-like. This week a neighbour received a "circular"
in the usual style. " Something to your advantage (about
100/. and upwards)" will be disclosed "on receipt of 20
shillings by post-office order." The subscriber," Joseph Ady,
accountant," states truly that he is personally known to
each of the Aldermen of London ;" and then unblushingly
adds:—" Should you find any difficulty in getting the
money, the Right Hon. Sir Peter Laurie, Deputy Lord
Mayor, will frank you from all expenses except postages,
which you must pay both ways." Joseph's intended
victim in the Potteries happened to be au artist
by profession and a humorist in disposition. His
ready pencil soon depicted on paper the figure
of a well-fed hound, leisurely holding between its paw a
piece of coin, at such a distance that a chained cur finds it
impossible to reach. From the mouth of the "jolly dog"
issued the words, " Don't you wish you may get it, J e
Above the "sorry dog" was legibly written „Joe Aody?,,
In this speaking carricature Mr. Ady's correspondent care-
fully folded a farthing, and then sealed the encloasuyyrooeuu
Itrahbanottle of claret,
vfoelrloeiwgnin.g. letter:—lic"kDyeoaurr sliipr,s—oEvenrclaonseedx
and send the name of your father and mother iu
Below was sketched the
rinanetsxhote-.
filgaumre, dofeara warirelch.oedurcakmllianlPs.'w' in from a lofty gallows,
and by the sida appeared this ominousgng warning, "Joseph
Ady, take heed lest, this prove your sad end."—Staffordshire
MeiurY,
The once celebrated and well-kn own singer, Mari-
anne Sessi, died recently at Vienna, in her Nth year.