The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-13 00:00:00

TURKEY.

We have received the Constantinople journals
and letters to the 30th, brought by the Sinai. At
that date nothing positive had been decided ou re-
lative to the change of Ministry, that event not
having taken place for two days after. The Ist
was fixed upon for the Sultan to receive the Order
of the Garter, but his Majesty had not agreed to
the usual details of the ceremonial. Accord'ng to
the established rule, the Sultan should lay aside
his sabre and his decorations to receive the Eng-
lish insignia, but that he refused to do, and it
was at last decided that the same ceremonial
should be observed as when ho received the
Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour. All
the diplomatic corps had been invited to the
ceremony, which was to take place with great eclat.
The affair of the Principalities had come regularly
on the Lapis. In consequence of the Porte having
addressed to the different embassies the draft of
the firman for the convocation of the divans, a
conference was held on the subject. The meeting
took place at the country house of Foad Pacha at
Canlidja, on the Bosphorus. There were present
Aali Pacha, Foad Pacha, M. Thouvenel, Lord
Stratford de Redcliffe, M. Rodrigo Doria, M.
de Prokesch, and M. de Boutenieff, representing
the Powers which, with the Porte, signed the
treaty of Paris. The sitting was long, and,
it. is said, very animated, but nothing had
transpired relative to the result of the confer-
ence. Great coolness was said to prevail be-
tween M. Thouvenel and M. do Prokesch, in con-
sequence of the prolonged occupation of the princi-
palities, the affair of Captain Magnan, &e. The
last accounts from the principalities are not satis-
factory. A change was spoken of for the caimacan
of Moldavia, M. Balch having compromised him-
self by a misplaced zeal. The ca.imacan of Walla
chia also had shown great indecision, by which he
had lost the confidence of the country. The latter
is, it is said, to be replaced by Prince Ghika of
Samos. Mr. Horsley and Mr. Robinson, two
English engineers who had come to Constantinople
to undertake the organisation of the line of electric
telegraph between the Mediterranean and the Per-
sian guff, had both died within a week at Pera.
M. Mussali, their secretary, had returned to
England.

BOLGRAD AND THE BE.SSARABIAN

FRONTIER.

The Monitenr de la Flotte contains the following
details relative to Bolgrad, lately and at present
the subject of so much discussion :
"The origin of Bolgrad is of very old date. It was
built in 1470 by Draken], Prince of Wallachia, who con-
quered Bessarabia, and afterwards ceded it to Mahomet
11. It was for several years the place of residence of
the governor of the province ; hut about 1550 it was
abandoned, and has since gradually gone to ruin. By the
treaty of Bucharest, signed in 1812, between the Porte
and Russia, the latter came into possession of Bessarabia,
the frontiers of which were carried hack to the Froth.
Bessarabia at that period comprised five districts—Ben-
der, the Boudjak, Akermann, Jinja, and Ismail. Bolgrad
was dependent on the district of Kilia, but was con-
sidered of such little importance that its name is not
mentioned in any of the treaties of that period. Its
name has only once appeared in history since the 16th
century, and for a fact which historians appeared to he
ignorant of. After the battle of Pultawa, Charles 111.
having retired on that part of the Ottoman territory,
Bolgrad was fixed on as his place of residence, Ile did
not, however, go there, and it was not at Bender, as is
generally believed, that he took up his retreat, but at
Warnitz, a town situated at a short distance from Bol-
grad. The population of Bolgrad is only about from 300
to 400 persons. Although placed at the bottom of a
not very deep lake, and of which the navigation is dila
cult, it is considered as one of the ports of the Danube.
It carries on a steady trade in wheat, barley, rye, and
cattle. Formerly this trade was effected by water
but now, in consequence of the difficulty of the
navigation, it is carried on by land to the other ports of
the Danube. In very productive years the inhabitants
do not take the trouble to reap all their corn, but turn

their oattle into the fields to feed on it, and whole droves
of buffaloes may at times be seen in noble fields of
corr, e so luxuri. us a growth as to have the appearance
of the sugar cane grounds in the Antilles. The only
public monument which now exists at Boigrad is a hand•
some mosque, built in the time of Bajazet, and whicl
has been converted into a Greek church."