The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-21 00:00:00

TURKEY.

A letter, dated Constantinople, Sept. 9, says
another change has just taken place in the Sultan's
Ministry, and astonished every one here much
more than the fall of Redschid. Fethi-Achmet
Pasha, Grand Master of the Artillery, and brother-
in-law to the Sultan, has been superseded.
Under ordinary circumstances a change in the
comparatively subordinate direction of the Artillery
would attract but little notice ; but Fethi-Achmet
was not merely Grand Master of the Artillery, and
his disgrace is a matter of no little consequ-nce in
Constantinople politics. A favourite of the late
Sultan- Mahtnoud, who married him to one of his
daughters, he maintained his position and influence
with the present Sultan, and has played an impor-
tant part in all the political intrigues of Constanti-
nople for the last 30 years.
But justice will net allow me to say that this
influence was acquired by legitimate means and
used to promote the' interests of his master or his
country. Sensual and depraved in the extreme,
be has habitually pandered to the worst passions
of the Sultan, and encouraged him in the most
degrading vices. Night after night the Imperial
calque would ba seen quietly gliding down the
waters of the Bosphorus to land the Sultan at
the little kiosk of Tophan6, where Fethi-Achmet
was waiting to receive him. Here the two used to
spend their evenings, and what orgies have taken
place in that little kiosk I will not and cannot say.
When the Sultan was elated with wine, and
became expansive and confiding, he had nothing t)
refuse to li;s favourite. Fethi-Achmet would then,
in a moment when it suited his own selfish purposes,
thwart the intentions of all the ministers combined.
He has made and unmade more ministers than all
the other Pashas put together. He belongs to no
party and has no friends, though his dependents
are numerous. He did not require friends; he was
a party in himself. He governed the Sultan ; he
was therefore dreaded and flattered by every suc-
cessive ministry.
What circumstances have brought on this man's
disgrace I cannot say positively. He was dismissed
in the morning, and the night previous the Sultan
had spent at, Tophane drinking and making merry
as usual in his company. Can it be that the Sultan
has suddenly taken a temperance resolution, and so
sent away the favourite who led him on to drunktm-
ness ? Inshallah I as the Turks say ; but this is too
good to be credible.
Ike slireCtion of the Artillery has Wen-given to
1;141-ievilea Vasif Pasha, the Turkish commander at
Kars during the siege, who, at all events, is a general
who has seen some service.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, SEPT. 17.

Employes who are not connected. with the
Finance Department aver that Baron Bruck has
never even thought of emitting Reichsschatzscheine
(Tr easurpb,ills), but there is reason to believe they
are mistaken. If the information be correct, the
Minister of Finances proposes to make Trea-
sury-bills, bearing 4 per cent. intarest, to the
amount of -150,000,000 florins, and with them to
pay off the debt of the State to the Bank. The
object of the Minister of Finances is to place the
Bank in such a position that it may be able to re-
sume its cash payments on the Ist January, 1859,
and he is said to be of opinion that it might do
so with safety if bank notes to the amount of
150,000,000 florins were withdrawn from the cir-
culation. If Treasury-bills to the above-mentioned
amount should be paid over to the Bank, the State
domains, valued at 155,000,00011., will still he left
in its hands. as' security. It appeals that there is
more than one weighty objecti rn to the project .of
the Finance Department. 1. Au emission of State
notes would probably lead to a panic among the
foreign holders of Government stock. 2. If there
were again a floating or non-consolidated debt, the
Austrians themselves would lose confidet,ce in their
Government, and would greatlylraise the pi ices of
the precious metals by their frantic eagerness to
convert their paper money into silver or gold.
When the State domains were cedtd it was under-
stood that they were to be sold, but as not a rood of
land has yet been disposed oe the public is greatly
inclined to fancy that the Bank is in the position
of a child which has received a valuable coin as a
present ; the money belongs to the child, but it is
to be loAced at, not spent. It is to be foreseen,
that if the Bank should resume its cash payments
15 months hence, its . metallic reserve of 1
100,000,000 florins will very soon find' itS way ,
across the frontiers. •