The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-08 00:00:00

TURKEY.

A letter from Constantinople, in the .Moniteur
de l' Armee, says :
"The Sultan has again ordered several reforms
in the army, and the question of the uniform is
particularly the object of his attention. Abdul
Aziz has had laid before him a complete album of
the uniform of the French troops, and particularly
of the Zouaves, Turcos, and Spahis. This dress,
which was first borrowed from the Turks, appears
to have been so much improved by the French,
tlat it will, in its turn, become the model for the
reform in the costume of the Ottoman army.
The Sultan leads a very active life. He
rises every morning at daybreak, and at a very
early hour leaves his palace and goes to inspect the
different public administrations, particularly the
marine, to which he devotes special attention. He
has ordered the keels of two new line-of-battle ships
to be laid down, and is about to be present at the
exercises of the naval school established at the
Island of Khulki, in order to satisfy himself from
personal observation of the progress made by the
pupils. The Sultan is endowed with great energy,
and very frequently does not return to his palace
until a late hour in the evening, after passing a
whole day in the heat occupied in the most fatiguing
inspections. He is always accompanied by his three
nephews. The Sultan has none of the ordinary
habits of the Turks. He does not smoke, and that
custom is already beginning to get somewhat out of
fashion at Constantinople. His sobriety is exem-
plary, and he never tastes spirituous liquors."

THE UNITED STATES' BLOCKADING SQUADRON.
—HARTLEPOOL, Aug. 7.—From information just received
it appears that the vessel Perthshire, belonging to Mr. Wm.
Gray, of this place, arrived off Pensacola on the 13th of
May. She was then boarded by Lieut. Brown, of the
United States' squadron, who informed the captain that the
port was blockaded, and wrote an endorsement to this effect
on the register. It was stated at the same time that Mobile
was nut blockaded. Tho captain, on obtaining the informa-
tion, ran his ship into that port. She arrived en the 14th
of May-10 days before the blockade was commenced there.
Not being affected by it, she loaded a cargo of cotton and
proceeded to sea on the 31st of May—ten days before the
time permitted to neutral vessels to sail. After leaving
Mobile, however, she was boarded on the 9th of June by an
officer of the United States' steamer Massachussets, who.
acting as if the ship had entered a port while under block-
ade, took possession of the ship and the papers of the cap-
tain, hauled down the British and hoisted the American
flag. It was not till the 12th of the month that the vessel,
coming up with the blockading squadron, was released by
the commanding officer, after having been detained for 12
days and turned very far out of her course, without any
reason which could justify interference.

THE LATE TRAGEDY IN NEWTON-STREET, HOL-
BORN.—The man Cogan, who stands charged with the
crime of the murder of his wife on Friday morning last, at
their lodgings, 4, Newton-street, Holborn, and of after-
wards attempting suicide by cutting his own throat, was, up
to last evening, progressing very favourably under the care
of Mr. Fortescue, the House Surgeon of King's College
Hospital, where he still remains in custody of the police.
He has been frequently visited by Mr. Superintendent
Durkin, and Mr. Inspector Mackenzie, but all allusion to
the crime of which he is assumed to have been guilty is
strictly prohibited by them; and no conversations are
allowed to take place between those in attendance on him.
The wretched man has so far recovered as to be able to
speak, and asked after his father and other relatives who
have been allowed to see him ; he has also, in a vacant
manner, asked of those in attendance on him where his wife
was, and on being told they did not know, he stated he
" wondered his wife did not come to see him ;" beyond
those expressions nothing has transpired from him relating
to the occurrence. Although the alleged murderer is pro-
gressing favourably, it will be three weeks or a month
before he will be in a fit state to bo taken before the magis-
trate at Bow-street.

THE RECENT MURDER IN THE KING'S COUNTY.—
It will be recollected, as reported in a recent number, that
William Conroy, alias Connolly, who is strongly suspected
of having been concerned in the murder of Constable Lawler
of the Blue Ball station, and who had fled from his house
on the day the body of Lawler was found, but who had
subsequently surrendered himself, and been since detained
in custody, was, at the conclusion of the Tullamore Petty
Sessions, on Saturday last, brought up from the gaol before
the following magistrates—Dawson French, John O'Brien,
Alexander Andrews, T. A. Pierce, T. W. Trench, and
Joseph H. Kogers, R.M., Esqs. The accused underwent
examination in a private room with closed doors, no per-
sons being present except the magistrates and some of the
local authorities. At the conclusion of the inquiry, Conroy
was again recommitted for further examination for eight
days,--#Sainiders' News.