The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-28 00:00:00

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KE QItIMEA ..f.ur. 6.
We have been in daily expecs`atiOn 'of the Aript-driCh of
the enemy., Seoute hadf'beLught in-esuid
vanced guayd,(ef,.s,o9 men) of a large army was withjai
three hours' march of this place, Every other woils
was laid aside, aid the ensires force 'wale -slant :to: trench;
work. Yenikale and -0(r Paafrti are
istrongly fortified, I
,and around Keitch, from selAboara to i:;ea,bca4A;
fesse from 12 t.) feet deefiairldwi feet broad has been
' dug, and a ra,Mpatt from seven ,ts 12 feet Iskh erect,ft.,l
Guns have been
,placed so,as to cenilea,nd every
approach, and there are now' aburidiricer.of asernunitien
and provisione enough to keep us fromitarvOg or seve-
ral weeks to come. Better than all still, our troops are
beginning -to "Show up" to greater add greater advarr!
tare daily. They are newly rigged out in their
.qnglieili
uniform and long boots ; they are kept hard at worts,
are well fed and well paid—are sober, subrnisSive, and.
extremely well behaved. They treat their offigers
every respect ;. in fact, it is daily bectossing more marked,
and few would believe that they are the same peop!&
who were but a short :time since band over to 'Put
rule. Of course among sa large a body t:)ere must be
many black sheep. But crime is the exceptie 4, not the
rule ; and we now hear northing of those horki,ltle
ajiro
cities which made one's blood run cold to read of during
the " sacking of Kertela." That the Turks are a bigoted:*
fanatic, ruthless race no, one can deny and It Si
tremendous experiment, placing :a . handful, of En-
ropeaus over them to displace their old OfilOefF; and
locating the force at a place far trims ail of any' sort
In case of an outbreak, there to upset their old customs.
held by them in veneration, and introduce those of
the more civilised part of the' world. Bat such have
been the tact.and judgment shown and the delicacy with
which the curb was tightened and then slackened that
now their ways are daily approaching more to our ways,
and a feeling of attachment betesesn the Men and their
officers, many of whom are able to pouorse kith them,
is daily Jaessaqiing more_appsiient, Too efiteph praifiCas: Li
not be bestowed upon the chief vrlio has bronght ab6Siti ,
this state of organisation ; a more judicious selection
could not possibly have been made. NotwithAssnding
the immense amount of office work he has to do—,and
wb'ei th
aasl ltoow
ctohrartesitpotsdcownistihdetrhaebleh
owmheenaulttheol lri
tyiooso,
ythoaut
others at Sebastopol, still more in the Sea of Mariana, 1
General Smith at Shumla, and with the Polish Legion
—still, I say, with all this, be is ev,rywhere seeing and
judging for kimeelf. He is held in high estimation by
the French, but an unfortunate and most disagreeable
ill feeling exists on the part of the regular troops of her
Majesty towards the irregulars of the Contingent ; and
the officers have actually not had the civility to call on
the general, nor do the officers in any way associate.
From the colonel downwards it is the same ; and, if
report be true, he has actually declined to obey his
orders, or done so with a bad grace. This division of
authority and responsibility must necessarily paralyse
combined action, and when the enemy does come we
shall feel it. General Vivian is charged with tacitly
" sanctioning the pulling down the few remaining houses
in Kutch." The general order, which I enclose, issued
immediately on his arrival here, is the best refutation of
of that calumny.

There is no reckless expenditure here, and the effici-
ency of the force warrants us in hoping that we may be
of some service in this great war when the season opens,
if the opportunity only be placed in our power. lam
myself proud of the force good luck has happened to
attach me to, and, like all others serving so good a
master, I am very desirous to render my part of it as
efficient as possible. Talk of Indian' officers versus
Queen's—why, there is at present almost an equal divi-
sion of both. But among ourselves we know no distinc-
tion—perfect unanimity exists ; all are actuated by one
purpose—a desire for the welfare of the public service,
and au eager wish to please a chief who, to use the
words of your able correspondent at Sebastopol, " draws
the reins gently, but firmly, and corrects the evils which
tend to mar the efficiency of the force in the field"—who
is ever ready to temper justice with mercy, and who
knows no friend but he who shows himself most zealous
for the public godd.
The following is an extract from General Orders, dated
the 23d October, 1855:
"No. 4. The Lieut.-General desires that an imme-
diate stop be put to the destruction of property of any
description in the ports of Kertoh and Yenikale held by
the British and Turkish troops, and calls upon the re-
spective commanders strictly to carry out this order."

CONSTANNNOPLE, JAN. 14.
The more the particulars of the rapture between the
British mission at Teheran and the Court of Persia be-

come known, the more the opinion is gaining ground
that Mr. Murray's retreat was precipita' e. This sac,
up to a certain point, to be attributed to the circum-
stances under which he assumed his pqst. His predeces-
sors had succeeded, by their meddling and vexatious
policy, in alienating most completely the sentiments of
the Persians, and had left him in the difficult dilemma
either to espouse their quarrels, cr else to break entirely
pitk_tbetraditions of the, mission and begin altogether
new line of policy. Without a previous knowledge of
the country, or any one to advise him, it was difficult,
if not impossible, to adopt the latter alternative, espe-
cially as he was surrounded by those who had not only
taken an active part in the past policy, but had essen-
tially contributed to form it.

The first reason put forward by the Persian Govern-
ment against the appointment of Mirze. Hashim was
that he had not been regularly dismissed from the office
which be had held before, and that, consequently, he
be!onged still to the Shah's Court, and, as a Persian
employe, was incapab'e of acting as an English agent.
Having taken up this ground, the Persians endeavoured
all along to 'give to the affair a domestic &saracter, and
to maintain that the appointment was an interference
with the internal affairs of the Persian Court, to which
the man belonged both by his position and his marriage.
The arrest of the lady is a proof of this. Not being
able to Ouch the husband, who had taken refuge at the
British mission, his wife was carried off by the family.
It was not the Persian Government, but her brother,
who took her away. In Oriental countries a woman by
marrying does not entirely cease to be a member of her
family ; the latter is still supposed to watch over her.
This is much more the case when a Princess marries.
Then it is rather the husband who becomes a member of
the wife's family. So as to the right which the brother
had according to Oriental custom to carry off Mirza
Hashies wife there can be no doubt, and it is only the
time chosen for the execution of this intention and the
manner in which it was done which are open to objection.
It shows the animus of the Persian Court that, having
ignored the lady's escapades before, it chose just the
moment when the quarrel about the appointment of her
' husband was pending to allow, or very likely to prompt,
her brother to use his family right. Besides, the lady
was carried off from her tent, which was pitched near
I the house of the Embassy, which added to the grievance.
Another proof which the Persian Court gave of its
intention to look at the matter as an interference in in-
ternal affairs was that the Shah himself, who never
openly interferes in anything connected with Govern-
ment, wrote two autograph letters to Mr. Murray on
thesubject. They were written when Mr. Murray claimed
the restoration of the lady to her husband, and it is an
expression in one of these letters which precipitated the
crisis. Mr. Murray, or rather, his interpreters—that is
the people who were the original prompters of the whole
quarrel, i:7 reacillnunding Mirza Hashim—thought they
perceived in this phrilf+ lin allusion to personal motives
in the wish of Mr. Murray to get the lady back. From
that moment the correspondence bees= more violent
than ever, and the rupture took place.
The following is the rereian official statement, pub-
lished in the Teheran Gazette:--,
"The Persian Government, in consequence of the
driltiety produced among the people by the interruption
of the friendly relations between the Court of Teheran
and the 13ritigb Mission, declares, for the tranquil:isation
of all abroad and at home, that this circumstance, which
was caused by the strong and dangerous pretensions put
forward by Mr. Murray, the British Minister, will not
at all diminish the friendly relations between Persia and
England, or affect in any way the neutrality of the Per-
sian Court. The neutrality of the latter will remain
firm and unchanged AS hitherto, and the remaining
Ministers of the Allied rowers will be the witnesses
that this circumstance has hti:luP effect on the neutra-
lity of the Persian Court."
From this declaration it is clear that there need be
no apprehension of any complication on account of t:.7.181
untimely event ; yet the sooner this absurd affair is ar-
ranged the better it will be for all parties ; Constantie
nople would be, perhaps, the most convenient place to
do this.

I wrote to you about establishing a well•organised
police in Pera, of which the necessity makes itself every
moment more and more felt. I hear the English, French,
and Sardinian military authorities are quite agreed
about the measures to be taken ; but they find in their
way the same stumblingblock which the poor Turkish
police long since gave up the idea of surmounting—
namely, the privileges of the Ambassadors, Ministers,
and Charges d'Affaires of a score of great and small
Powers. There would be naturally no difficulty in
making an arrangement with the two great Embassies,
but it would be a flagrant violation of international law
to interfere with the jurisdiction of some Charges
d'Affaires, who would be thus deprived of the only little
authority which they are ever called upon to exercise.
So the matter rest 3 with the diplomatic corps.
On Wednesday last a kind of preliminary conference
took place at the house of the Grand Vizier, Aali Pacha,
about the fourth point—namely, the position and rights
of the Christians in Turkey. The Turkish Government
is said to have taken a very liberal view of the subject,
which gives hopes that this important matter will lead
to a satiAactory result,
Preparations are likewise made for the conferences
about the Danubian Principalities. They will probably
begin in 10 days or a fortnight. As the seven years for
which Prince Stirbey was elected will expire next May,
it is important that matters should be settled before
that period arrives.
Several letters from Rustehuk and Giurgevo speak
of a collision between the Austrian and Turkish soldiers
garrisoning the latter town, in which two of the former
were killed. Both garrisons were called to arms, as the
quarrel threatened to assume a serious character, In