New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-08

the Porte TO claim payment from the Sultan. In
the mean time he proceeds on W new eAua'a
gances in the way of new buildings, and has just
purchased all Of the houses on the bosPnorus IRON
The heautiful new mosk Of Orts kieny up u the
palace of Mebemet Ali Pasba, including the foe
stone house Of wealthy baker named Allah
Vs,d; Oel,u for the purpose OF erecting several
more pssces for bis daughters. whom he designs 10
marry off in the course oil lew years. lod are
aware that, BY the custom OF the Ottoman Govern-
ment, none OF the Sultans Ns'ers or Ms Drothers,
baye ever been permitted TO enjoy the existence Of
their male offspring. These all killed and il IL
only the females who ore allowed Ia live. This
State policy dates back to the reign OF some OF the
earlier Ottoman SultaDs and is designed To- prevent
any extra preenders Ia the throne whenever II be-
c,,pes vacant. The sisters Of tue present Sultan,
older than himself each know tina; their sons were
allowed to die and this against the promise Of their
father sultan MahmOud. The wife of the late
Hail Pasha has drawn from her father a solemn
promise that her child, whether male or female,
should be allowed to live, and it did live "A boy
for some days, when the memorable custom OF the
Government prevailed over the claims of hum tnity,
and it was Killed by the attendant eunuchs, OF
course by order of the Sultan. The mother never
recovered from the shock which her maternal feel
ings received on this occasion; a deep-seated mel
aDchOly came over her. and she died not long after
il died cursDg it was said, her own father for his
cruelty. AhIuet Fethi Pasha, and Menemet Ali
Pssbs have each three daughters by their Sutanas,
but no sons, these having followed the fate OF many
others Of the royal blood. Redshid PasLas sou Ali
Cello Pasha is married 10 the Sultan's eldest da,gh
ter; she bore him one child, it said, daughter,
ard it is believed to have died natural death.
Those daughters for whom he is about tO erect
palaces Notwithstanding that there are now several
wholly uDOccJpied, and he has not cent Win
which to build new ones, will not be allowed to
bear male children, or at least they Will not be
m. L. tha maut
be compelled TO change is horrible practice of
putting sn end 10 their existence in the view of
limiting the number Of the imperial family and OF
the pretenders 10 the throne.
Should not Europe, and indeed all civilized Gov
ernments call upon the Porte to abolish forever so
horrible and detestable practice At the present
moment England and France are breaking of their
diplomatic relations with Naples because OF the
political prisoners confined by King Bomba, and to
induce him TO institute salutary reforms 10 his Gov
erpInent Surely the cause OF humanity ls as much
outraged in Turkey as in Naples, and yet thousands
indeed some hundreds of thousands would be
nearer the trutl-of brave men have laid down
their lives at the command Of the Queea of En-
gland and the Emperor of France to support the
En- pire of Turkey, with all its corruption and
cruelties and its drunken and debauched sultan,
without one single reform having been made by the
Government of the latter. The sultan was induced
TO declare his intention to effect long series of
reforms in an imperial edct (the HAITI Hamayoun)
in behalf of his non Mussulman subjects, but not
one of these has been put into execution, except
that which allows the Porte to compel its Christian
subjects to pay it an enormous SUN in lieu OF per-
forming military duty. Here no one puts tie least
faith ia the promises OF the Porte much less IN
those of the Sultan, and every person here is fully
convinced that those few powers which feel an IN
terest in the existence of the Ottoman Empire,
must use the same means which England and
II ooaipef KinU Romha IN
pei the infant-kllDg Sultan the drunken debauchee
to renounce forever his cruel practices and institute
reforms consistent with the civilization of the age
in which we live
In a previous letter i mentioned that the trade in
Crcassian slaves is now being carried on with new
aid unusual vigOr. The slavery OF Nushmlsm
and that of Christianity differ widely in their char
acter: the former is for seven years and not hered
tary while the latter descends from father to son.
or from the mother to her offspring without re-
gard to the condition of the father, who
NAV have been freeman. Again Mussunan
slavery knows 10 difference between the children
of the free woman and those of the slave, provided
their father be free man; and if the father he
the owner Of the mother, her children are cOnsid-
cred entirely legitimate, and inherit an equal Por-
ton of their fathers property with those children
born to him by free woman With all TINS,
slavery does exist here, and is carried on with The
pc, feet knowledge of the British ambassador and
the hOHuIul lS tiCiV h"t' phOic'oiNb
room for active to suppress it, as there Is
to compel King Bomba to hberate his political
captiyes
News from TrebizOnd of the 9th October state
that the Nafb (Emin EfcLdi) Of the Circas-
slams who lately came to COnstantinOpe with a
deputation to demand of the Sultan and the Allies
the independence of his country, arrived at SOojah
on the Circassian coast, in the British steamer
Kangaroo where be was warmly welcomed BY his
countrymen. The presence of the Naib is neces-
sary i'll Circassis, for u corps darmee vi Russians
% 600 in number has assembled at Sagri on the
river Isbba where he will sit in concert with
Sefa Pasha.
1t is stated, to-day, in the Journal De CoHstan-
tnopls that several boats of the Circassians which
navigate the coasts of Abasia, have been seized
upon by the Russians, and Admiral Lyons has
sent two gun-boats to their succor, and these the
Russians have fired upon. 1t is believed that the
c. nsiderabe naval armament which England has al
ready collected and is still collecting in the Black
Sea, contrary to the stipulations of the Treaty OF
Paris is connected with her views in favor Of Cir
cassia, whose independence Of Russia would
create barrier and an ally between Russia and
India.
News from Persia Sbow that the Afghans have
gained considerable victory over the Persian troops
which have been besiegDg Herat. The English
naval expedition is supposed to be now IN the
Persian Gulf, and that it will seize upon and hold
here after Bender, Bushire and Muammerah, in
connection with the Eulhratcs Railroad. which
she has in contemplation.