The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-29 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY l.—llabib Effendi, the Envoy from
Mehemet Ali, who came to bring a present to the Sultan on occa-
sion of the marriage of the Princess Salika, paid his farewell visits
on the 25th ult., and sailed on the 27th for Egypt on board the
Behera frigate. Mustapha Nagif Effendi Mehemet Ali, agent at
the Porte, went on board the same ship, with a special commission
to Alexandria from the Divan.
There have been unusual great meetings of the Divan lately, in
consequence of the arrival of the English Fleet on the Turkish
coast, and it having been resolved to require of the English Am-
bassador a categorical declaration respecting the object of it, a
none to this effect was delivered some days ago to the English
Legation.
Lord Ponsonby is said to have given an answer which is by no
means satisfactory, but very equivocal and evasive, and even in a
tone of reprimand which seems to have highly offended the Divan,
and considerably strengthened the apprehensions that are felt.
The Porte will hardly rest satisfied with this, and there must there-
fore, be a further declaration which will solve the enigma, unless
unexpected events should do so previously. No credit whatever is
however given to the notion that England acts in concert
with Mehemet Ali: The Hospodars are still here, and have
not yet received the investiture. The reason of the delay
is said to be, that the Sultan proposes to give them Divan Effendis
(a kind of ontrol), as was formerly done, to which the Hospodars
object, on which account the matter is referred to the Russian Ca-
binet, which is umpire in disputed cases of this nature : the answer
is expected from St. Petersburgh.
The Greek Ambassador, Zographos, has not only been unable to
obtain a formal audience, but it seems as if there was some caba
against him at the Porte, whether from dislike of his person, or of
his character as Greek envoy, or merely from natural aversion to
those who were formerly subjects, it is difficult to decide. All his
endeavours to obtain a free passage through the Dardanelles for
Greek merchantmen have failed, and they are consequently wholly
excluded from the trade of the Black Sea. Another in-
stance of the aversion of the Porte is the following. Some
Greeks of Laconia having accidentally said they were no
longer subjects of the Porte, but of the King of Greece, the
Turkish authorities were so angry, that in order to convince
those Greeks of the continuance of the Turkish power, they
ordered them to receive the bastinado. Zographos, as soon as he
heard of this, sent his chief dragoman to inquire into the truth of
the fact, and to remonstrate with the Porte. The only effect this
step had, was, that the dragoman was sent away with a rough an-
swer, and orders were given to bastinado the unfortunte Greeks a
second time. It is said that Zographos, in consequence of theso
affronts, has sent an ultimatum, to the effect that if his equitable
demands are not complied with in a certain time, he must ask for
his passports. He has received notice that the answer to his ulti-
matum will be given this week.
The plague has extended from Scio to Smyrna, where it prevails
to a considerable degree, chiefly in the Jewish and Armenian quar-
ters. It has likewise manifested itself among the Greek popula-
tion. Here, too, the cases of plague are becoming more numerous.
VIENNA, JULY 18.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 99; Four per
Cent. 90%; Bank Shares, I,249.—Allgemeine Zeitung, July 23.
MUNICH, JULY 15.—What has been stated in a journal re-
specting the farther raising of recruits for the Greek service, is
false, except that commissioners are to go to Saxony to obtain a
company of miners. The recruiting force, which will soon be
ended, is only to fill up the vacancies in the Volunteer corps in
Greece. Young men, of the class of artisans, are taken in pre-
ference. More caution is now observed in the choice of those that
offer, and no students are received as soldiers. It is said that in the
acts of insubordination of the Volunteers in Greece, the instigators
have been formerly students,who in general will not be content with
the uniform of privates.—Franlefort Papers, July 23.

CITY REGISTIIATION.—VVe understand the num-
ber of claims lodged with the town clerk on Monday night at
ten o'clock amounted to 1502. No objections to persons al-
ready registered have been lodged by any party. In conse-
quence of the number of claimants who have come forward,
the constituency of this city will now be greater than at any
former period. The names on the register, on the first regis-
tration, amounted to 6042; and on the second to 6512, which
is the actual number at present on the register; but from this
a deduction of 1500 must be made, that being the ascertained
number of persons dead or disqualified by removal at the last
and preceding term of Whitsunday. Before the present re-
gistration, therefore, instead of the apparent number of 6512,
the qualified voters on the register who might have come to
the poll were only about 5000, but by the addition of the 1502
new claimants, the available Parliamentary constituency will
now be increased to nearly 6500. —Kelso Mail.

TIIE IRON TRADE.--The reduction of bar iron
during the past quarter has been 15s. per ton, and at the meet-
ings last week an additional ss. decline in the price was still-
mitted to by the Staffordshire houses. The cause assigned
for this depression is more, we understand, from the great
competition with the makers than any very great slackness in
the demand ; although the trade is far from being in that
healthy state which this staple article should maintain. In pig
iron there was no alteration in price from the previous quar-
ter's quotation.— Cambrian.

THE FLOOD.--We noticed in last Saturday's
Mercury the alarming state of the rivers Don and Sheaf,
swelled as they were by the unusual quantity of rain that had
fallen a few hours previous to our going to press. We have
during the week heard of several instances in which great
damage was done to stationary property, and of others, in
which considerable loss was sustained in consequence of
buoyant articles being washed away ; of the latter a consider-
able variety passed under our bridges, comprising timber,
boats, hay, pigs, &c. It has been remarked by some persons
that the water of the Sheaf had not been so high since 1768,
when the flood carried away the houses on the north side of
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uieryt hospital, and drowned five of the pen-
people, however,
declare that the Don
has not risen so high within the last 70 years past. As was
to he expected, some persons were for referring the almost ,
sudden descent of so large a body of water to the bursting of
a cloud somewhere over the vale of the Don. There could,
however, be no occasion to call in the aid of such an hypo-
thesis to account for a great flood, when, as appeared by the
guage, upwards of three inches and a half of rain fell between
Friday noon and Saturday morning in the -neighbourhood of
Sheffield.--Sheffield Mercury.