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

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINO PLE, APRIL 28.
The Circassian deputation, which arrived some
time ago, bearing an address to the Sultan, the
Emperor of the French, and. the Queen of Eng-
land, presented on 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 HIS IMPP.RIAL MAJESTY TEE SULTAN, &C.

"Prayers addressed to God for the Life and Prosperity

of the Sultau.

"Although you are at all times our Padishah, our
light, the source of our prosperity and our refuge, yet
the invasion of the cursed Ru,sian has thrown us under
his tyrannical dominion, and has caused us great evils.
Ntverthele.s, 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, not cor-
rupted by his gold, although we have had much to suffer
irim his tyri.nny. 'We have never ceased to oppose to
his forues our lives, our goods, and oar children, and,
by the aid of God, we have been fighting up to this day,
as everybody knows.

• Thanks to God, the light of the Imperial Sun, for
which we wished so much, has at last spread its rsys
over all Mussulmans, and especially over the Circassians.
May Gad 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.

"Au old proverb says, One must al ways 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 Mehmed Boy, 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
cans) 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
Auapa an employe charged with a mission in Circassia,
and provided wish your imperial firinan. Your sove-
reignty was established in Circassia, and we rejoiced,
and our childrea sang hymns to demand from 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 hay
fought with his two alies agains'; the Russian, your
undersigned servants have also fought, as far as it
was iu their power, under the orders of Sefer
Pasha ; but as rumours of peace have arrived, and
that there is no question of Circassia, this petition,
drawn up by the d,flerent Circassian tribes, declaring
th it we will never separate from our Pad stab,
has been entrusted to 350 C rca,ssian deputies, cl osm
a nong those t. ibes, 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 your
feet, to order that we may be placed for ever unde the
majestic shade of your Imperial Throne."

DEPUTATION TO THE HO WE SECRE-
TARY ON STREET CAB FUNERALS.

Yesterday, a deputation from the vestry of St
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. Win. Field, church.
warden, and Mr. Nicholay, churchwarden elect of
Marylebone ; Mr. Guy, Mr. Jacob Bell, Mr.
D'lffanger, jun., and Mr. Russell, 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 metropolitan cemeteries,
and to the praciica of conveying patients Navin; small-
pox or typhus fever to the hospitals, aiid contended that
the increase of those diseases in the higher locuiities was
attributable to that cause. Of 24,731 deaths of children
under five years registered by the registrar-zelieral to
have taken place during twelve months, 8.567 died of
zymotic diseases, 143 of small pox, and 478 of typhus.
He offered some suggestions for remedying the evil, the
principal points being, that the prpiietors or drivers of
caha who use them for children s funerals should be
tined 101. in each case ; that fever and small pox hos-
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
question, and persons might also get into a railway
carriage which had brought a person with fever 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.

STEAM BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND AFRICA.--Direct
/4 t earn 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 mails to be sent from-
Liverpool.