The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-28 00:00:00

EVENING

ARRIVAL OF 'TIE TURKISH
FRIGATE FEIZ A BAARL
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 27.—The Ottoman steamer-
of-war Ftdza Baari (Skimmer of the Sea), flag of his
Highness Vice-Admiral Moustafa Pecha, Captain Saii
Bay, arrived at Spithead on Friday night, and early on
Saturday morning, after saluting the Turitieh squadron
lying at Spithead, came up to Southampton. She is,the
baurer of a cargo of Turkish contributiens to the Great
Exhibition in Hyde-park. On anchoring she finale-
dotely exchanged salutes with the town battery, after
which the United States frigate St. Lawrence fired a sa-
lute, which was returned from the Feiza Baari.
The arrival of this steamer has excited considerable
interest, as the Feiza Baari is the first Turkish steam-
vessel that has ever visited England. She sailed from
Constantinople on the 6.11 inst. called at Gallipoli for
bread, and at Malta and Gibraltar for coals. Just prior
to reaching Malta a defect was discovered in one of the
cranks, and a stay of three days had to Ise made while
the dockyard engineers were fitting a strengthening
strap. The vessel el.() remained two days at Gibraltar,
so that the actual tient) trader steam from Constantinople
is only a lade above fourteen days.
The Feize Baari was built at the Turkish dockyard in
Constantinople. She is abut 1,600 tons burden, full
ship rigged, end is a favourable arid creditable specimen
1/4)f the proficiency in naval architecture to which the
Tu, ks have attained. Her fittings: generally and cabin
arrangements are very beautiful and commodious. The
engines of 450-horse power, on the douhc-cylinder and
direct acting principle, are from the factory of Messrs.
Meudalay, Sons, and Field, and propel the vessel at a
rate of from eight to ten knots an hour, according to
wind and weather. The armament is a very heavy one,
as the vessel is pierced for and mounts 44 guns, vjze-
-2 long 10-inch iron Paixhan guns upon traversing car-
riages upon the upper deck, and 42 long brass 32-
pounders on the man deck. On the present occasion, in
consequence of carrying cargo, she has on board only
eight of the 32-pounders and the two Paixhan guns.
The complement of men is about 320 The efficers,
sailors, end firemen are all Turks, but there are three
English engineers.
The Feize Baari has brought a large number of dis•
tinguished functionaries and officers of high rank in
the Turkish service as passengers. The following are
some of them,—viz., his Highness Gernaledin Pacha,
brother-in-law of the Sultan; his Excellency Constantine
Mussurus, the new Ambassador from the Sublime Porte
to the Court of St. James's, who is accompanied by his
two sons and suite, and by M. eeteeto Vogoridee, Coun-
cillor of the Legation; and Zsi Effendi, Secretary to the
Embassy; also Salib Effendi, Reouf Bay (son of Rifaat
Pacha), and Hisan Bey, members of the office of the
Amedji; Ismael Bey, Equerry of the Imperial House-
hold; Emir Bey and Nissip Bey, members of the Divan's
Correspondence-office; Ilasseim Veh bi Effendi, advo-
cate of the Tidjaret; ilassen Bey, member of the Coun-
cil of Nata; Rifest Effendi, Secretary of Accounts;
Lefli Effendi, member of the Correspondence-office of
the Minister of Commerce; Djevedet Effendi, Secretary
to the Minister of Commerce; together with several
other Turkish subjects who had received the permission
of the Porte to accompany the delegates and to make
the tour of Europe.
This morning Mr. H. D. Jourdain, the Ottoman Con-
sul at Southampton, went on board the F&za &sari, and
was received with a salute of seven guus—a similar
salute in his honour also being given by the American
frigets. Arrangements were then made for the disem-
barkation of the Turkish Ambassador, who, shortly
after one o'clock, accompanied by his suite, left the
ship under salutes of seventeen guns from the Feiza
Baari and the St. Lawrence. On lauding on the docks,
no salutes were fired by the town on account of the
Sabbath. His Excellency left at three o'clock for Lon-
don by a special train.
There are on board this steamer 207 packages for the
Great Exhibition. They are to be instantly sent on
shore, and will be forwarded to the palace of glass by
Mr. Jourdain, the consul, who is charged with that
task by M. Zolarab, the Turkish consul-general, London,
who is also the special commissioner of the Sultan to
the Royal Commissioners. The greater portion of these
goods will in all probability he sent off to London on
Monday evening and the remainder on Tuesday, so that
although from their late arrival they will not be fully
displayed in that portion of the building allotted to Tur-
key by the day appointed fur the opening, yet there is no
doubt that the most striking objects of interest will be
unpacked and temporarily arranged in time for her
Majesty's state visit on Thursday next. The goods con-
sist in great part of silk stuffs from the Government
factory, Turkish cloths, sword blades, fire-arms, em-
broidered stuffs, carpeting from Melemen and Koniab,
the whole being of great beauty and value. The num-
ber of specimens is said to be 4,870, and their value
rearly 100,0001. About 5,000 square feet of surface will
be required fur their display.
The Sultan has taken a great interest in the whole
details connected with the origin and progress of the
Great Industrial Exhibition in London, and has been
most anxious that the country of which he is the su-
preme ruler should be adequately represented. This
disposition is plainly proved by the determination to
dispatch to England on a special mission so large and
fine a vessel as the Feiza Baari. Previous to their ship-
ment an exhibition of these articles was held at the
Hotel of the Board of Commerce, in Constantinople.
The Sultan visited and minutely examined the majority
of the specimens. His Highness also paid a visit to the
steamer before her departure, and remained upwards of
four hours on board. His Excellency Sir Stratford
Canning, the British Ambassador, also gave a grand
banquet to most of the distinguished personages whose
names are mentioned above, prier to their emoarkation
for England.
After discharging his cargo, it is likely the Feiza
Baari will be sent round to Woolwich to have the neces-
sary repairs effected to her machinery, and will then, we
understand, return again to Southampton and make some
stay here.
Excepting the characteristic red Fez cap universally
worn on board, the dress, uniform, and appointments of
the officers and seamen do not present any features of
the ordinary Turkish costume, which appears to be
slowly disappearing in the military and naval services of
the Sultan. There are but few turbans to be seen on
board, and those we:understand are worn by the priest
and some few other rigid Mahometans. Several of the
officers speak the English and French languages fluently.
Every respect and attention will be paid to the com-
mander and officers of the Feize Baari by the munici-
pality. His iliighness Vice •Admiral Moustafa Pemba,
his Highness Gemaledim Pasha, and the officers of the
ship, have accepted an invitation to visit the Mayor of
Southampton (Mr. Richard Andrews) at his country
seat, near Winchester, on Tuesday next, and on Wed-
nesday the mayor and corporation will pay an official visit
to the frigate, on which occasion an address will be read,
and the whole of the officers invited to a grand banquet,
to be given at the Town-ball in their honour by the cor-
porate body of Southampton.
Personal civilities have been interchanged between
the commander and officers of the Turkish and Ameri-
can ships of war, and Captain Sands, of the St. Law-
rence, instantly offered to the Ottoman Vice-Admiral
every facility and attention that could in any way facili-
tate and promote the object of the visit of this fine ship
of war to England.

FATAL ACCIDENT TO.: 11 0— ; GRANVILLE
EGERTON. --We regret to state that
been received
of the untimely
death of this young officer have bee
received its town. Mr.
Egerton was a midshipman on board
Meander, 44, Captain the Hon. Henry li'er Majesty's ship
was at California, receiving treasure for conveyance to
eppel. The frigate
England. Mr. Egerton and a party of
officers went on a
shooting excursion, when Mr. Egerton's guni burst and killed
him on the spot. Intelligence of the
has been forwarded to the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere,
afflicting occurrence
who at the last accounts had sailed from
Malta for Sicily,
in his Lordship's yacht. Mr. Egerton was in his 17th year,
A WINDFALL FOR FEARGUS O'C
night (Friday) an inquest was held in
ixenden, on the
body of Mr. W. Haigh, who formerly resided
of late has lived at Mixenden, and was found
at Halifax, but
uund dead in his
wa
bed on Wednesday morning. The case s one of an ordi-
nary nature, aod only derives interest fromthe fact that the
deceased some time ago made a will constituting Feargus
O'Connor, Esq., his sole heir. The value of the property is
said to exceed 2,0001.—Halifax G uard jun.
MEETING OF EXHIBITORS.—A great deal of
dis-
satisfaction has been expressed by a lar:e body. at exhibitors
at the arrangement by which they themselves employingassistants, are to be excluded from the Exhibitionate lhe
completion of their fittings, unless by the purchase of tickets.
A meeting was held on Friday, and, by adjournment, on
Saturday evening, at which several influential gentlemen
were pressnt, and discussed in warm terms the alleged in-
justice done to the contributors. The mayor of Sheffield
occupied the chair on Saturday night. The speakers were
very unanimous, and the following resolution was agreed to
non. con.:—" That this meeting appoint a deputation to wait
upon the Royal Commissioners, and respectfully to urge upon
them the justica of admitting exhibitors on the first day of
May an t during the continuance of the exhibition: "l'he
Royal Commission will meet to-day, when it is hoped the
question will be amicably settled.
MARRIAGE OF MISS TALBOT.—It is understood
that the marriage of this young lady will take place in June,
and that it will be performed at the residence o' the Countess
,S,"ewburgh, in Wilton-crescent. Lord Edward Eitzalan
Howard, the betrothed husband, is 34 years of age, and pos-
sesses a good property in his own right. He is heir also to
the Glossop estates in Derbyshire, value 2,700!. per annum,
and now in the possession of his father, the Duke of Norfolk ;
it, is rather strange that the property in question, as well as
the large property held by his Grace in Sheffield, came into
possession of the Howard family by the marriage of a former
Duke with a scion of the noble house of Talbot, the holders
of the ancient earldom of Shrewsbury and Waterford. Lord
Edward Howard is a very strict adherent to the tenets of his
religion, as his brother (the Earl of Arundel and Surrey) is
well known to be. It is also well known that the Duke of
Norfolk himself is but nominally a member of the Roman
Catholic Church, and that when in attendance on the
Queen he seldom on Sabbath absents himself from worship
according to the Protestant religion.
THE GAUGE ACT.—We understand that the Rar

way Commsssioners, who threatened some time ago to compel
the Great Western Company to lay down the narrow in ad-
dition to the broad gauge on the part of the Oxford and
Rugby Railway between Banbury and Oxford—acting, as it
was stated at the time, on the advic 1 of the law otlicers of
the Crown— have signified their intention of not carrying out
their previously expressed purpose, thereby, for a time at
least, permitting one gauge only—the broad—to be laid
do An, notwithstanding the Act of Parliament, if our me-
rnory is not at fault, stipulated for the laying down of both
gauges. Without saying anything of the public in crest
that may be involved in this matter, or what Parliament
may say about it, we can only express our astonishment
that a public body like the Railway Commissioners should
so little know their own minds, or a proper course of action,
as to threaten proceedings one day, and the next day find
themselves compelled to retract their threat.—Herald.
HONESTY AND GENEROSITY —Oa Saturday two 51.
notes were restored to their rightful owner by a poor but
honest man, who keeps an apple-stall at Guildford. The
loss had been previously announced by the town-crier, but
as the number of the not s were not known the recovery of
them was consi 'ered hopeless. The old man's honesty was
rewarded by a present of two sovereigns.--a Vast accession to
his capital 4 this season a the year.

" Away ! the Corner' is deserted ;
Away to Chester's ancient walls!
A thousand screaming trains have started;
'Tis neck or nothing—Pleasure calls;
From every ingle of our islands,
From east and west, from north and south,
Frmn Walmer to Glengarry's highlands,
From Galway to the Bull and Mouth,
Away they go 1"