The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-04 00:00:00

211 E AFFAIRS OF TURKEY.

Constantinople letters and journals to the 25th
ult. have reached us. The following is a summary
of general intelligence :—On Saturday last, Sir
Henry Bulwer presented his Lilliputian steam
yacht, the Cinderella, to his Highness Youssouf-
eddin Effendi, the Sultan's son. The little vessel
had been beautifully fitted up, and fresh painted
from taffrail to figure-head. Shortly after she came
to a mooring under the windows of the palace, his
juvenile Highness took personal possession, and
seemed delighted with his property, rummeging
cabin, engine-room, and forecastle with the liveliest
curiosity and satisfaction. His Majesty the Sultan
looked on from one of the windows, and at the close
of the little owner's inspection sent out a handsome
bacl shees4 to the late crew of the vessel. The
Union-jack had been previously hauled down
and the crescent-and-star hoisted in its stead
Seventeen new regiments of police are to be forth-
with embodied. Of these the six which are
destined for service in Roumelia are now nearly
complete, and officers have already been named to
their command. Selim Bey and the Council of
Police are actively engaged in the organization of
a similar force for the Anatolian provinces. On
Friday last the aide-de-camp of the Seraskier, who
recently took considerable supplies of money to
Omei,Pasha, returned from Mostar,with important
despatches for the Ministry of War. Since we last
reported the progress of the Tartar and Circassian
immigration, the arrival of these new subjects of the
Porte has continued at an undiminished ratio—at
the rate, in fact, of fifty to one of the Bulgarians
who are emigrating to Bessarabia. About 10,000
a week have been arriving at the various ports of
the Black Sea, whilst those who came on hither have
numbered about 6,000. Yesterday a strong detach-
ment of Sehamyl's tribe arrived from Daghestan,
and ansther Dageestanee tribe—the Koumouks—
are said to be on their way, almost to a man. The
Beelence tribe has also reached Samsoun, leaving
hardly one of its number behind. The Grand
Vizier has issued peremptory orders to the tax-
farming saraffs who are in arrear for last year's
revenue to pay in the amount of their obligations
to the Treasury without further delay. The total
thus duo on last year's receipts amounts to
120,000,000 p. in metallic, a sum of sufficient im-
portance at the present juncture to call for real
pressure on the defaulters. His Highness might
usefully put the screw with similar force on the
other saraffs who for a much longer period have
been debtors to the Government to the tune of
3,000,000 liras. Mercy to such gentry is cruelty
to the hundreds of civil employes whose pay is now
seven months in arrear. The Imaum of Sana
(Arabia Felix), hitherto virtually independent, has
accepted the sovereignty of the Porte, and ordered
the Friday's prayer to be for the future offered up
in the name of the Sultan. The Porte has accepted
the submission, and granted the Imaum a pension
of 10,000 p. a month."

RIFLE MATCII.—SCOTLAND AGAINST FRAN CE.—
The riflemen of France having conveyed a hint, through the
secretary of their Tir National, that they would like to try
their skill against the riflemen of Scotland, Mr. Edward
Ross, the ex-champion of Wimbledon, has at once come for-
ward and has challenged the best shot in France to a match
at various distances. We hope that the prompt challenge
of our young champion will be accepted. If so, the match
will excite very great interest in both countriea.—Edin-
burgh, Courant.

THE RETURN OF THE COURT FROM BALMORAL,—
It is expected that the Queen and suite will arrive in Edin-
burgh, on their return from Balmoral, on the evening of
Tuesday, the 221 inst., and that on the following day his
Royal Highness the Prince Consort will lay the foundation
stones of the new General Post-office and the new Industrial
Museum buildings. The Court will leave Holyrood Palace
for England early on Thursday morning. We understand
that the Lord Provost's committee have the subject of the
ceremonial to be observed on the 22d inst. under their con-
sideration; and we presume that in a matter in which
the public are so generally interested this committee
will be enlarged so as to include representatives from
the other public bodies who, it is expected, will join in
such procession as shall bo deemed most suited to the
occasion. Of course it is well understood that as the
Prince Consort, and not the 'Duke of Athole, is to lay the
foundation stones, the Masonic body as such, cannot be ex-
pected to attend in their official costume. But it cannot be
doubted that, as on the occasion of his Royal Highness
inaugurating the National Gallery structure in 1850, the
leading citizens as well as prominent persons from the
neighbouring towns will gladly avail themselves of the op-
portunity of celebrating the commencement of two build-
ings like the new Industrial Museum and the New General
Post-office—the one important as the head of the depart-
ment for Scotland, and the other intended to have special
bearing on the resources of the country, and beneficial effect
on the industrial youth of Scotland. Of the actual details
of the ceremonial nothing can be even indicated at present ;
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