Star.
London, England, 1828-03-03 00:00:00

TURKEY.

The following are extracts of letters from Constan•
tinople, %%Inch were received by the mail on Thursday.

CONSTANTINOPLE, 4Ax. 17.

There has been nothing doing in business, nor do I
see any chance of improvement for the present. The
sacrifices which the unfortunate exiles are obliged to
make in order to realize their property previous to
quitting the capital, have thrown a large quantity of
goods of various descriptions upon the mat ket at most
ruinous rates. It appears that the number of Armenians
who are to be banished to Angora will exceed 12,000,
no distinction of sex being made. Various are the con-
jectures formed as to the motive for exiling them, the
most plausible of which is, that it is intended to re-
people that fertile district, which, by constant emigra-
tion, has become almost a desert. No distinction of
sects is made, but the greater proportion is Catholic.
Some fancy that it arises out of the reports of the Ar-
menians in Persia having taken part with the Russians,
whilst others say it is but ►he beginning of a systrm
which is intended to make room for troops in the capital

The proscribed subjects of the three Powers ate rip
longer hurried off with the precipitancy of the first im-
pulse, perhaps half of them are on board ship, many of
the others, having commercial interevr, are not mo-
lested, but they cannot get their names withdrawn from
the list of proscriptions. For the last two days a list
has been making of all the Greeks, men, women, and
children, but for what purpose has not yet been ascer-
tained, the same measure having been resorted to before
without any apparent effect ; it is said, hnn ever, that
the unmarried men will not be allowed to teitiain.
JAN. 26.—Since the 17th things have continued in
the same state as regards trade and the esil s) stem,
etc. with the addition of new orders, to t e effect that
the whole of the Armenians inhabiting Kra and Galata
ate immediately to pas over to the other side. Report
adds that their houses are neither to be let nor sold ;
however, I am not prepared to say that such is the fact.
This measure will affect, perhaps, 20,000 individual-,
old and young, and add much to the J.sttess a;teady
existing, which mu.t be increased also by the escesive
bad weather now prevailing, exceeding, or at least
equalling. any thing we ever witnessed in this country.
There is a report that the French and Russian men of
tsar are going to impede the Turkish flotilla from pro-
ceeding to Scio from Myteline, where it had arrived.
Were this confirmed, it would, I fear, throw us into as
unpleasant a situation as ever we have been in.

A letter has been received in town from an officer
engaged in the expedition sent out to remove the settlers
trom Sierra Leone to the island of Fernande-Po. Up
to the 14th of November, they had escaped from sick•
nest. Commodore Owen had given the command of
the steam vessel to that enterprising officer Lieutenant
Vidal, first of the Eden. They arrived at Fernande-
Po on the 27th of October, and the landi was effected
without any opposition from the natives, who appear
perfectly harmless and good tempered. They seemed
to have no objection to the timber being cut down and
applied to building for the troops and settlers. The
women are represented as remarkably ugly, the only
covering they wear being a bunch of seaweed tied round
the middle. The, chiets are distinguished by similar
covering, formed out of the skins of monkies, and their
hair banging down, matted in plaits with clay and oil.