The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-30 00:00:00

EASTERN IN/ ELI IGENCE.

We hare receivtd by the Levant Mail a mass of intelligene..
from Constantinople, Alexandria, Smyrna, and Malta, which
possesses more than usual interest.
The affairs of the East are still unsettled. Mehemet Ali
has refused to accept the conditions offered by the Prrte, and
the Porte has not yet thought proper to grant the desired
modifications. It would appear, therefore, that this state of
things oce,sions some anxiety at Alexandria, particularly as
Mehmet Ali is making military prepa-ations at Cairo, and
pursuing his system of armament with inure than usual ac-
tivity. . .

CONSTANTINOPLE, MAncit 3.—The state of parties in the
Ottoman ca., ital at the pre.,ent crisis is a subject of deep in-
terest, and offers mud' water for serious consideration. The
present Ministers are very far from being p pular, and the
ranks of the enemies of reform are daily recruited through the
restoration to favour of individuals who, though partisans of
the first reform, have long smarted under the lash of the se-
cond, We have seen Tah r Pacha called from his retreat, airs
now Halil Pacha is about to emerge from the obscurity to
which he was condemned by the council of Achem
Re chid Pacl:a is allowed by his countrymen to pissess emi-
nent ta'ents, and to have rendered important services to the
empire, but I believe a great majority would willingly tee Ida,
rep:aced by a more orthod,,x )Mister. Of the wher Minis-
t,rs of that party, Achmet Fethe Paella is generally disliked ;
for what reason I am not able to explain, unless it be for his
probity, and just, though it may be too stern, severity when
punishicent is due. The Sultan himself is popular among ali
elrm.

The merits of the reform are at the present moment keenly
attacked by all dames, who all find themselve, injured by it,
tither in their interest or their pride. To begin with the
Ulema, still a powerful and intluenti 1 body, they stigmatis,
the quarantine as an insult to the Deity, b...cause it lays th
axe at the root of their faveu ite doctrine, and averts by human:
means a calamity fer which no other remedy was formed:
deemed necessary than resignw ion and the inter ces,sien of then
prayers to the holy prophet. They revile-at the intrAuction o
sciences which are not to be found in the Koran, and whici.
are consequently beyond the sehere of their knowledge, and
sigh for those golden days when all Niussulman learning
centred in their body—when a verse of the Koran, washed oh
with water and drunk by the patient, was a panacea for all the
ills of a true believer—when the utmost ambition of a learned
Alussulenan was to gain the respected title of HaEz in learn
ing the Koran by heart. In snort, the Morrie are enemies tt
the progress of improvement and the " march cf intellect,'
which would deprive them of a large portion of their eansiJerae
tion, influence, and bakshish. 'lhr Pe uhas grumble at de=
prived of bakshish, and are indignant atbeing confined to a seurvj
pay, which, however, va-ies from 200 to 500 sterling per month.
he people have deck-leery gained in their social well being bt
the reforms; but then, rayas are raised to an equality will
Alussalmans, and they repine alter the good old time, when the
oaths of '2O honest Christians were as a feather in the scale
against the word of a illossulman vagabond, who received r
bakshish for lying. 'I he deploralle state of the finances, and
the tartly returns made by the Mohassul, have c mboldent d al,
these yelpers to give ,ongue, and they are now all in full crj
at the he els of the reform. Corruption is too deeply rooted ir,
Turkey to be easily eradicated—an inordinate appetite fur bak-
shish i, almost intuitive in every Turk
The foreign Ministers appear earnestly to desire the continu-
ance cf the present Adminis'neion, and support Res. hid Paths
with all their influence, which alone, perhaps, prevent, hi
immediate dismi-sal from &lite. None seem Ir): e hearty it.
the cause than the ill nisters of Russia ani of Pin sia, who re.
present on all occa-ions,.wiji suspicious eagernes., as the only
remedy for an exha.ested exchequer, the necessity of an imme-
diate and extensive rcduc• ion in the army and fleet. I have
already netieed thit Lord Ponsotiby dissented from the Otto-
man elinkter in the measure proposed by him relative to the
tribute of Egypt, and was in a minority at the conference o'
the 4th ult.., when that measure was carried in the face of his
Lordship's opposition. 'I his is the first decided schism which
h-as occurred among the Allit cl Ministers here, since the Con-
vention of July. 1 hare had the good fortune to procure a co-
pious abstract, in French, of his Lordship's addre s oa thatoe-
ca,ion, on the accuracy of which you may place entire confi-
dence, and of which I enclose to you the translation, withou,
further comment.

In Candia disorde:s have arisen from the same causes, and it
has been found nevessary to send two Eritish ships of the line
to repress them and rettere tranquillity. The fo•-eign Minis-
ters have counselled the immediate recall of th se robbers,
which wou'd eradicate the evil and allay the fermentation it
has occasioned among the muotainee s. Ibrahim Pacha
is at Gaza dangerously ilt, beyond the hopes of recovery. Hi•
comrlaint is drorsy, brought on by excessive drinking, for
which he has several times undergone the operation 0
tapping. He was in the habit of drinking enormous quan-
tities o: rum, and never rode out without having a bottle of
his favourite liquor attached to his saddle bow. The Ni'e
steamer is in waiting to crnvey him to Alexandria, but the
probatility is that he nrvcr reach that city alive. The
troops have crop cd the desert into Egypt, where they arrived
in a most dismal plight. sickness prevails to a considerably
degree among the British troops in Syria, and General Alit•
chell, who succeeded Sir Charles Smith in the command, ha-
fallen a victim to the climate.

Admiral Walker came up in the Cyclops, and returned next
day to Lampsaca, where his ship the tlahmoudieh is ling
The rest of the fleet, 24 sa 1 in all, are at Chesrce and 'recede,.
The ships are little more than bah ...ma-fled, and a great pro
portion of the crews arc oily half clothed, from which they
suffer reverely in a climate so much colder than that of Egypt.