The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-26 00:00:00

TURKEY.

According to news from Constantinople of :the
18th, the fetes in honour of Marshal Pelissier were
exceedingly brilliant. The evacuation of Turkey
by the allied troops, which is rapidly taking place
from day to day, contradict& the rumour of an
occupation by 20,000 men of the French, and 10,000
of the English army. European commerce is -full
of activity-• -and the Turkish Government is about
-to impose Zduty on the produCtions of the country,
and establish a new rate upon merchandise
ported.
T me-thirds of the town of Thessalonica had been
destroyed by fire.
The Russians have occupied the Isle of Serpents,
of
,which Turkey claims the possession by virtue of
the treaty of peace. The Russians have refused to
. admit 'the English Commissioners into ICars,.de-
claring that they would not surrender the fortress
until after the complete evacuation of Turkey by
the allies.

A letter from Belgrade of the 16th, in the
Augsburg Gazette, says :—"Almttalion of Turkish
troops, about 800`strong, arrived here yesterday,
and after a short stay it is to be carried to Schumla
by the steamboats. These troop, which come
from Bosnia, confirm to a certain extent the ru-
mour that a priest named Hulas had attempted to
get up an insurrection-try movement in the Her-
zegowina, but that it was suppressed."

The Berlin, Gazette contains a letter from St.
Petersburg,. which says:—" The programme drawn
up by the Councillor Guelenoff for the ceremonies
of the coronation hal just been approved of by the '
Emperor Alexander. French, German, and Rus-
sian plays will be performed at Moscow, and there
will be also en Italian opera. A French company
obtained au authorisation to open a- large bazaar
far the sale of objects of art and luxury.
A-letter from Vienna, 21st;i in the Frankfort
Gazette, :says :—" Baron de 11qtbrier, the Austrian
ambassador in France, has just left for Venice and
a tour in Italy. Prince de Hehenloh4, tvho Las
conceived a project of forming a company with
shares for carrying on a trade in corn between
Hungary and Germany, has entered into relations
with the founders of the new Austrian Credit
Mobilier Company for that purpose."

Baron Nothomb, the Belgian ambassador at the
Court of Berlin, has been for some days so indis-
posed as to be 'unable to prodeedl6 Brnssels for the
ntes.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNIx

The-Vnited States mail steamer Hermann, from
Now York for Bremen, with the German, French,
and English mails, touched off Cowes this morn-
ing, with about 150' passengers, 100,000dols. in
specie, and dates from New York to the 12th inst.
The 'mail steamer Afiica, from Uverpool, ar-
rived at New York on-the.ll,th inst.
Yu the. Senate the bill for admitting -Kansas into
the Union as a "slitve--holding State was causing
great •excitement., . • • •
-The• most intense iexcitetnent prevailed in the
pause during the discussion 'oh a report to expel
'Brookes, which almost amounted to, a. ppgilistic
.encounter.
Intelligence from Kansas "is interesting. The
Territorial Legislature assembled on the 4th inst.,
and, when about proceeding to business, Colonel
Sunnier, accompanied by 200 dragoons, marched
into the -Representative Chamber, and, after an
.explanatory speech, ordered the members to dis-
perse, which they did. He then proceeded to the
• ,Senate• Chamber,. where a similar proceeding Wei:
.place, with a like result.
A Convention of free States men, embracing
800 delegates, all armed, met at Topeka on the 2d
inst., and passed resolutions calling on their friends
in Congress to withhold supplies or government aid
until Kansas was admitted into the Union under
the Topeka Constitution.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
ilerati says that a great deal of Lad feeling was
felt towards Fremont-for the Presidency by a large
. number of proniineht Republicans, and that a
rtunour prevailed in that city that several northern
-States' would supersede-his nomination by calling
a new convention for the- purpose of bringing for
Ward some other well-known
, A fearful tornado_ had visited Frankfort county,
and had committed immense damage.
• Intelligence from Rio do Janeiro,. to ale 4th
inst., reports the entire disappearance of all disease.
Coffee was coming in slowly, but.a more abundant
supply was looked for from the interior shortly.
Some British vesselS had been chartered for :the

United States.
•
Ilavannah dates to the 6.11 inst. state that yellow
fever cont.inuel o prevail. The siilar market was.

active

The New York money-market was without any
change worthy of note. The supplycontinued easy,
and the demand soniewlnit inzreased. There was
little doing in exchange, and the stock-market was
dull. Tho 'sales of cotton on the 11th inst. em-
braced 1,500 bales, at full prices. Wheat was
rather easier. Sugars-were firm, and in good de-
mand. Freights were light and rather unsettled
for grain to Liverpool.
The steamer Le.lx non, from Havre, arrived at
New York on the 12th inst.
The Hermann, on the 24th, in lat. 49.21, long.
11'59, passed the American clipper-ship Superior,
standing to the eastward ; and exchanged colours
with the American ship Fidelia, standing to south-
ward and westward.

Mel NEW K.-C.B.'s.—Sir William Denison, the
veinor General et New South Wales, and Rear-Admiral
Charles Eliot, Governor of Trinidad, have just been
al canoed to the dignity of Knights Commanders of . the
'BVII^. "The' forrnor gentleman 14 a son of tho late J.
Denison, Esq., many years M.P. for Nottinghamshire,
and, consiquealy, brother of Archdeacon Denison, the
late Bishop of Salisbuiy, and John Evelyn, Denison,.
41. P. for Mahon. Ile was born in 1504, and.
served for some 3ears in the noyal E! gineers. He
married a daughter of Admiral Sir Phipps Hamby,
K.C.8.,. Uncle to the Earl of Derby. Ile held the post
of Lieutenant Goveinor of Tasmania, or, as it was then
called, Van Diemen's Land, from 1846 to 1854, when
lie was advanced to his present position. Bearadiniral
Elliot is well known for his able services in China, where
he acted as her Moje,:ty's Plenipotentiary during the
early part of the late-war in- those regions, and- took
part in the gallant operations of her 111:,je,,ty's steamer
Nemesis, then under the coMmand of Captain W. IL
Halt, on the Chinese coast.