Star.
London, England, 1825-09-22 00:00:00

CONSTAN lINOPLE.

The following is stated in a recent letter to be the
prices of provisions in the above capital ; which would
seem to point it out as a tempting part of the world for
persons of small income to live in. But when we set off
against this, the probable scarcity of money, and the
actual absence, as we know, of all security or protection
for liberty or property, we are not inclined to suspect
that even this astonishing cheapness of all the neces-
saries of life will induce many persons to emigrate to
Turkey, or to exchange the dearness and safety of their
own country for the cheapness and insecurity, of the do-
minions of the Sublime Porte.
Beef . . lid. per lb.
Mutton . . lid. per lb.
Bu:ter . . Sid. per lb.
Cheese . . lid. per lb.
Eggs . . 2d. per dozen.
Good Bread . . 2d. per lb.
Otdinary ditto . . id. per lb.
Tea . . Ss per lb.
Sugar . . sid. per lb.
Loaf ditto . . ad. per lb.
Fowls . . Is. Id. per couple.
Ducks . . Is. 2d. per couple.
Geese . . Is. ad. to 3s. ad. each.
Turkeys . . Is. to 3s. each.
Wine . . lid. per bottle.
Good ditto . . 3d. per bottle.
Rackee, or Brandy . Ilid. per bottle.
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Olive Oil . . Is. 6d. per gallon.
Wheat . . 295. 9d. per. qr.
Barley . . 9s. 6d. per qr.
Rice . . lid. per lb.
Our Correspondent adds :---ig Taxes Ivo have none ;
a house pays on its being built from 50 to 1,500 piastres
to the Mermeroglu, or inspector of Buildings, and to
the Bostanghi Bashi, 25 to 1,000 piastres (four piastres
equal to El sterling)."
This, too, appears very delightful and tempting upon
1 paper ; but we rather think it only proves that those
who consider an absence of taxation as the best proof of
national prosperity are grievously mistaken. On the
contrary, it is quite obvious that, at this time, the highest
taxed country in the world is the most desirable one in
almost every respect.

Mr. JOSHUA WALKER, the banker, retires from the'
contest at East Retford.
Lord DUNCANNON has addressed the county of Kil-
kenny in favour of his brother, Mr. PONSONIUt, now
absent. In Mayo the respective parties are working
with energy, but the great contest will be for Waterford.
A new candidate starts for the county of Monaghan,
in the person of J. SLIMILY, Esq. a large proprietor,
but who, until within these few years, had never visited
his great possessions in this country.—Dublin pap.
SLEEPING ON BRlCK.xitus.—Sunday morning, Wm.
Hall, of Lower-street, Islington, &labourer in Messrs.
Want and Richardson's brickselds, carried his brother's
breakfast to him in the field, and while there saw a bird.
catcher trying to light his pipe at the side of the kiln,
but being unable so to do, Wilson went up the ladder
to the top of the kiln to get a light for him ; on reaching
the top, and looking round, he discovered a tnan,.of the
name of Gardner, an excavator, in the employ of Mr.
Henderson, of the King's-road, St. Pancras, lying on his
back.. He called his brother, who went up the ladder
to him, and they both went to the man and found that,
he was quite dead. The kiln was burning under the
place where the man was lying, and no doubt be had,
been suffocated by the sulphureout eflinvium arising
from the kiln whilst asleep. The body was taken to
the Church to a‘% ait the Coronet's Inquest, which was
held on Tuesday evening last, and a verdict to that
effect was returned.

Duaus.—Thursday night, abut half-past eleven
o'clock, an attempt was made- by the convicts confined
on board the hulk at Kingstown, to surprise theguards,
seze the ship, and effect theirescape—an attempt which,
we regret to say, was very near proving successful.
The ringleaders of the mutiny succeeded in dislodging
the bulk heads, by which the prison is separated trona
the hospital, and had actually succeeded in gaining the
latter place, when the terrors of a boy, confined there
by illness, gave the alarm.. The guards were instantly
on the alert, and the mutineers were finally subdued;
not, however, until it became necessary to fire upon
them, when one man, Earned Walsh, a Dublin convict,
Was shot dead : and another, it is s:rid, in attempting to
escape over tl,e ses.Lel's tide, *as drowned.