The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-09 00:00:00

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 28.
The Circassian deputation, which arrived sotto
time ago, bearing an a.ddtess to the Sultan, the
Emperor of the French, and the Queen of Eng-
land, presented au Thursday last their address to
the Kaimakan of the Grand Vizier, in three copies.
According to the Journal de Constantinople their
address is as follows :

"To NIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE SULTAN, &C.
"Prayers addresled to God for the Life and Prosperity

of the Sultan.

"Although you are at all times our Padishah, our
light, the source of our prosperity and our refuge, yet
Ilse invasion of the cursed Ru.7,sian has thrown us under
his tyrannical dominion, and has caused us great evils.
Nevertheles, in the same way as when the sun sets it
is certain that he will rise again, thus we have neither
been seduced by his persuasions and intrigues, nor cor-
rupted by his gold, although we have had much to suffer
lr his tyruany. We have never ceased to oppose to
his toroes our lives, our goods, and our children, and,
by the aid of God, we have been fighting up to this day,
as everybody knows.

Thaults to God, the light of the Imperial Sun, for
which we wished so much, has at last spread its r►ys
over all Mussulmans, and especially over the Circassians.
May God the Almighty, in consideration of our holy
Prophet, preserve your Imperial Majesty from all evils
of this world, and give you a complete victory over your
enemies.

"An old proverb says, One must always keep up old
customs.' According to those of our country, accord
ing t our imperishable laws, after having taken an oath
befo.e God, we set to work, 29 or 30 years ago, your
servant Zanzadi Mehtued Bay, having chosen from 12
Circassian tribes 12 delegates, provided with letters of
credence, he sent them to your Imperial Porte to de-
clare that the Padishah, our only light, and the only
cauei of our prosperity, being our only Sovereign Lord,
we w:1 never separate from him.

" Since that time, always faithful to the true religion
and to the State, we have waited, when we saw arrive at
Anapa an employe charged with a mission in Circas-iia,
and provided with your imperial firman. Your sove-
reignty was established in Circassia, and we rejoiced,
and our cbildrea sang hymns to demand frora Heaven
the prolongation of the life of our Padishah and his
triumph over his enemies, and we swore before the
Almighty that we would never up to the day of judg-
ment recognise any other master.
" When this war broke out where our Padishah has
fought with his two allies againe; the Russian, your
undersigned servants have also fought, as far as it
was in their power, under the orders of Sefer
Pasha ; but as rumours of peace have arrived, arid
that there is no question of Circassia, this petition,
drawn up by the d.fferent Circassian tribes, declaring
that we will never separate from our Padistah,
has been entrusted to 350 C rcassian deputies, et 113.1 n,
among those tribes, and according to the maxim that
everything returns to its source, we have turned toward
you, and we beg your Majesty, kissing the dust of yon r
feet, to order that we may be placed for ever undo tlt-;
majestic shade of your Imperial Throne."

DEPUTATION TO THE HOME SECRE-
TARY ON STREET OAB FUNERALS.

Yesterday, a deputation from the vestry of Sti
Marylebone, accompanied by Lord Ebrington, M.P.,
waited upon Sir G. Grey, at the Home-office, on the sub-
ject of street cab funerals, and the conveyance of pa-
tients in the public vehicles to the Fever and Small-pox
Hospitals.
The deputation consisted of Mr. Wm. Field, church-
warden, and Mr. Nicholay, churchwarden elect of
Marylehone ; Mr. Guy, Mr. Jacob Bell, Mr.
D'lffanger, jun., and Mr. Raesell, with Dr. Thomson,.
medical officer of health ; and Mr. Greenwell, vestry
clerk.
Mr. Guy referred to the daily increasing practice of
cab funerals of children to the metropelitan cemeteries,
and to the practice of conveying patients having small-
pox or typhus fever to the hospitals, aed contended that
the increase of those diseases in the higher locelitiee was
attributable to that cause. Of 24,731 deaths of children
under five years registered by the registrar-general to
have taken place during twelve months, 8,567 dieil of
zymotic diseases, 143 of small pox, and 478 of typhus.
He offered FOlllB suggestions for remedying the evil, the
principal points being, that the proptierors or drivers of
ells who use them for children's funerals should be
fined 101. in each case • that fever and small pox hoe-
pitals should be compelled to provide vehicles to send
for patients when applied to, and that some of the am-
bulance vehicles used in the Crimea should be placed
by the Government at the disposal of such hospitals.
Mr. Jacob Bell, Dr. Russell, Mr. Nicholay, and Dr.
Thomson confirmed Mr. Guy's view as to the danger
to the public from the practice. •
Sir G. GREY expressed his concurrence with the
deputation, and the importance of dealing with it in
a sanitary point of view; but said it was a difficult
fellation, and persons might also get into a railway
carriage which had brought a person with !ever from
a long distance and catch it. He would, however,
put himself into communication with the Commis-
sioners of Metropolitan Police, and maturely consider
the subject with a view to the application of some
remedy for the evil.
The deputation then retired,

STEANt BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND AFRICA.--Direct
steam communication is about to be established between
Liverpool and the West Coast of Africa, and the Liver'
pool African Association have petitioned Government to
allow a portion of the African maihi to be sent from
Liverpool. -