The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-10-17
AFFAIRS IN TURKEY.

D..
-
B AFFAIRS IN TURKEY
The march of economy has been steadily progressing
in Constantnope; but is usually the In such
FORMS the first sufferers those least able sustain the
loss of their incomes For instance large numbers Of
the aborng classes been dismissed and the number
of the Sultans bagemen has been reduced from 700 to
400. But Rza Pacha has not stopped there he swept
out plenty Of other unctonares Of the Imperial house
hold and those that remain have their salaries mostly
reduced by onehalf But this is comparatively easy
part Of the work to be performed In the settlement Of
accounts with the creditors lies the great difficulty Tho
cheating has been yetit must DO said Of
the Sultan and Caliph Of all the believers that he has
not kept faith The principle Of valuation adopted to-
wards Turkish subjects cannot well be adopted towards
foreign merchants and besides vigorously applied would
certainly infct injury persons who acted merely in
accordance with system which they did not create but
which they found ready made aud in active operation
large part Of the exorbtant prices charged by the
chants has certainly always gone in hard cash to
person in the palace as unavoidable bribe and how
is that to be accounted for at the valuaton It to be
feared in the interest Of the treasury not in that Of the
persons concerned that the veil Of oblivion will be cast
over the greater portion of what the accounts betay
the inquiry into the debts of the Sultan house pro-
ceeded, and startling developments made daily,
claims of which nobody had had idea being preferred
to an enormous amount Hsa Pacha, in consequence,
inclined to give up the game, md it had already
become doubtful what would be the final issue Of tho
struggle At least this much certain that Mehcmet
Ali Pacha the Sultans brotheri and his threo
sonsn law whom he has just deprived Of their seats
the imperial council had again found way to his heart
and that reconciliation had been effected This Is de-
scbed partly the result of the successful negotiation
of the loan in London Their pecunary difficulties made
the imperial family, it often happens, quarrel among
themselves and that they have managed to extri
cate themselves from the mire it is all sunshine among
them again. -n
The last official figures in reference to the finances Of
Turkey four years old In 1854 the Porte received
~ millions of taxes exclusive Of the tributes from Egypt
Tunis and Romaaia. That amount rather light
burden for population Of forty millions Of tax payers
living on such fertile soil; but the want Of safety and
Mohammedan slothulness to be taken into account
Out Of that the civil list of the Sultan absors about
million, half of what the army and the fleet
costs In 1854 the debt of Turkey floating and conso
dated amounted to about ten millions To that must
be- added the five millions borrowed in that year under
the guarantee Of France and England also the loan Of
twelve millions contracted in 1856 and that of six mill
lions which has just been concluded The debt Of Tur
key at present amounts to about 81 millions and her
is nearly equal to eourth Of her present debt
The proportion would not be unfayorable one in
European State but for Turkey who has to pay high
rate Of interest it is unmstakably heavy and danger
burden the budget Yet it is preferable to the
system hitherto pursued Of unknown liabilities Of the
Sultan and the State 1t is said that European COM
mission is to be appointed for the superior management
Of the financial affairs of the Empire The application
is made to Austria France and England that it shall be
composed by them, and the consent Of France, whose
ambassador is said to have early suggested the dca
Vienna journals state that the Turkish government
has announced officially in Bosnia and Herzegovina that
the levyng of the tthes shall henceforh be left to the
communes By this concession one Of the principal grey
unces of the Christians is removed
The accounts from Tebzond were, however of rather
disquietng character ouragcs having been COM
mted by the Turks there. We also hear Of conspira
cies against the Viceroy In various quarters The ami
mostly which exists in the minds Of the Mussulmans
against the Viceroy is caused by energetic
which he adopted to protect the Christians against the
fanatics whom the affair at Jeddah had excited. After
the committed by tho Turks at Gaza the bishop
and principal Christians, who principally designated
for the poinard Of the assassns took refuge at Jaa
The governor Of Palestine having received orders to act
with prompttudc in putting down any sanguinary out
RACES went with 200 horseen to Gaza where he caused
nine Mussuman priests and others to be arrested and
sent them off for trial to Jerusalem This act Of yigor
exasperated the Mussumars who threatened TO DO
venged the moment the troops left Seventy Christian
families, alarmed at these threats took refuge at Jafa
Unfortunately there not troops enough in Palestine to
maintain ORDER and the Porte must remedy that def
cheney If it wishes to keep the country
conspiracy at Teheran, in Persia against the Vzer
had failed, and the chief conspators were beheadcd
The Montenegro conflict considered rs ended, and
the commissioners had arrived at Constantnoplc The
latest from Gambia TO the effect that notwith-
standing the appointment of new governor in that,
island the Christians still subject to persecution The
law intercng to strangers the right to acquire estates
without renoncing their nationality had yet been pro-
mulgated, but it was considered as inevitable ~
Secretary Hartnett Of Utah. who went down to Fill
TO visit the State-house and to mako the necessary
for the next session Of the legislature could
not discover any trace OF the State.house no found
however, splendid printing Office and warehouse built
of red sandstone. Upon inquiry he told that this
fine building indeed the capitol, but it tempo
rary occupied the printing Office Of the Descrt News
The order for the great organ for St. Jcsephs new
church in Albany, which is the largest in the country
and built according to the scheme of Il j. Carmedy, esq.,
Bosten builders, Mcssrs simmons Wilcox. IL will be
about forty feet wide fifty feet high, and thirty -four feet
deep, and will contain pipes thirtytwo feet IN length
1t s TO be constructed the Increasing pressure sys
tenn which has been developed and practiced most