The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-22 00:00:00

AFFAIRS •IN THE EAST.

The following are some items of Constantinople
intelligence extracted from the Levant Herald :

" A scheme of financial reforms has been drawn
up at the Porte, and will, it is said, be carried
into effect immediately after the Grand Vizier's
return.. In addition to the modifications already
effected, this contemplates a further reduction of
10 per cent, on all salaries of more than
2,500 p. a month. Beginning at the top of
the official ladder, the appointments of the Grand
Vizier, Capitan Pasha, and Sereskier are at once
to be cut down to 50,000 p.—this being in the case
of the first minister a positive reduction of 50 per
cent. on his salary. The highest of the other
members of the ministry :Inc: governors of pro-
' vinces are not to receive more than 35,000 p. a
month ; whilst his Majesty the Sultan voluntarily
resigns 7,000 purses a month of his civil list, besides
the greater portion of the revenues now derived
from the crown lands. It is estimated that the
whole of the saving to be thus effected will
amount to not less than 200,000,000 p. a year. In
addition to these sweeping retrenchments, the
system of pensions is to be overhauled, and the
rich crop of costly jobs which grow out of that
system got rid of. Strictly there has hitherto
been no legal regulation whatever in force on
this point. The sovereign will of the Sultan alone
created the right to receive a pension, and as custom
had made it usual to give these in a host of cases
where neither the services- nor the wants of the
recipient supplied justification for the gift, many
costly abuses had in this way become common. This
is nowto be altered. Barring in cases of excep-
tional merit or necessity, no pensions will henceforth
be given except under the conditions following :-
45 in our own and the Indian Civil Services, a per
tentage—in this case varying from 5 to 10 per cent.
of the salary—will be held back, and after 30 years'
service any employe who has so contributed to this
superannuation fund will be legally entitled to en-
tire on full pay. In addition to these salutary in-
novations, it is said that more than half of the vast
army of clerks—some 40,000 strong—will be dis-
banded, to the great saving of the treasury, and the
positive gain of the public service. His Majesty
the Sultan, we learn, has humanely ordered that
during the three coming months of winter a daily
ration of 300 drams of flour shall be given t 9 each of
the adult Tartar immigrants in the Dobrudia, and
that huts be erected for such of them as are now
under canvas before the snow sets in. Two Servian
commissioners, with the nzetsbata demanding the
imperial berat recognising and confirming the suc-
cession of Prince Michel as Voivode of Servia have
arrived at Constantinople. The Senator Voukotitch,
sent by the new Prince of Montenegro to St. Peters-
burg on a special mission, has returned to Cettigne.
According to our Belgrade correspondent, Prince
Gortschakoff, on handing to him the decoration of
St. Anne in brilliants, which the Czar had conferred
on the Senator, said that the Russian Government
was awaiting the report of its Consul at Ragusa, be-
fore arranging for the allowance to be granted to
the new Prince and conferring on him a decora-
tion.—Our correspondent at Pristina, writing
under date of 27th ult., states—" The Grand
Vizier left here on the 18th for Uscup, Monestir, and
Salonica. Before his departure we had a grand field
day of the troops. The force on the ground con-
sisted of 5 squadrons of the Ist regiment of the
cavalry of Roumelia, 2 squadrons of dragoons, 2
ditto lancers and 2 of Cossacks. 2 batteries of horse
and 2 of foot artillery, with 6 battalions of redifs.
The cavalry was under the command of the Beyler-
bey of Roamelia, Mehemet Sadick Pasha, the artil-
lery under that of Abdullah Pasha, and the infan-
try of Hussein Pasha; the whole force being under
the command-in-chief of his Excellency the Muchir,
Ismail Pasha. The Grand Vizier appeared much
pleased with the movements of the troops, and in
particular expressed his admiration of the appear-
ance of the Cossacks and dragoons. After the troops
had finished their exercises a month's pay was given
to them on account of the arrears due to them. The
Vizier on leaving the camp informed Ismail Pasha
that he would personally report to his Majesty the
Sultan and the Seraskier his appreciation of the
efficiency of the troops at the camp of Pristina.
—The Catholic Bishop of Presrin has been here
to visit the Grand Vizier; but, as he arrived at
the moment his Highness was leaving, he had
not an opportunity of seeing him. We were
rather surprised to hear of the arrival of this pre-
late, so well known as the chief of the Latin church
in Albania ; but he doubtless received orders from
the Internuncio to come here; in fact he has pub-
licly stated so himself. His position as the spiri•
tual chief of a number of rayahs of course obliged
him to show every respect to the chief of the Sul-
tan's Government ; but it sounds strange that he
could not do this without having to await orders
from a foreign Power. The question about the
Bosnians and other rayahs, who in secret hold the
catholic faith, but have publicly professed Islamism,
has been settled that they must contribute as here-
tofore their quota to the conscription. The Mon-
tenegrin emigrants have been presented to the
Grand Vizier while he was here; they made nume-
rous complaints against the local authorities; and
his highness assured them that those who desired
to return to their country could do so, and that they
would have the funds supplied to them for that pur-
pose."

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