New-York tribune., 1867-04-24
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
TURKEY.

a PROTEST AGAINST CABLE S.f-ws--coYPIIcAuoNs
BETwEEN TURKEY AND THE GREAT POWERS
NCsTAPHA FAzYL p sHA's LETTER TO THE SULTAN
MORE FIGHTsSG n cRETE-HOw The SULTAN
IMPROVES ms TIME.
s11n Our s,,4.isl CouespOulsuL
CossTASTISoPLE, May q, 1861
The news published in America by the Associated
frrss from the Atlantic Telegraph is that which con
trolls public opinion. Every one reads kilograms,
,gbile but few read letters. / wish TO enter my
1rotest against the from the East sent over this
telegraph After careful examination Of the files Of
American papers can assert and prove that nine
tenths Of the dispatches Interference to the East pub
shed in January and February were false, aud never
aad any foundation in fact Most of them had not even
the foundation of common report in Constantinople.
] presume other months would show similar result
# examined. Let me give examples; The SEMI
WEEKLY TRIBUNE of Feb. %. the latest received
here contains two telegaphic items from the East
First, that the Turkish Government is TO send an
armed vessel after the Panhellenion, and the Greek
Government is to send armed brig 20 protect her,
Second. that the Sultan has officially informed the
leading Powers that be has decided upon assembling
y Parliament.
Now the facts are that the Turkish Government
has had thirty vessels pursuit OF the Panhelenlon
for five months that Greece has not thought OF send
ing vessel to protect her and finally that up TO the
cation 10 the European Powers about a Parliament,
nor, far as is known ever dreamed OF such thing
Feb 10 says: Affairs in Gambia are unchanged"
which simply means that the news agent knows
nothing about them.
port for Gambia, to remove the women and children"
No snch thing had happened &C that date,
Feb l3 has three items: The Sultan has resolved
10 emancpate his Christian subjects, and has called
a Parliament Turkish families are flying from
Servia" " Six hundred volunteers have surrendered
IN Crete The first has not even foundation in ru-
NOR IN Constantinople although one on two obscure
newspapers have suggested mildly 70 the Porte that
u might be good plan. There are no Turkish fam-
lies in Seryia outside the forresses The last item
has partial foundation in fact.
Feb: says: THE people of SeTvia are flying TO
Erns, which IS very pretty poetical expression of
the telegraph; but il II that fighting was COM
mepclng IT ls not true To this day there has been
Feb. has three items: Twelve American war
vessels are expected at Constantinope." There is
Hot OF the (retan clergy against Mustapha Pasha.'
The Porte has determined TO appoint Christian
fioyeFnor for Crete.0 The facts are, no American
waTvessels have been expected here, nor could come
IL tney wished to. No Cretan clergy exist TO plot
against Mustapha Pasha except those who have been
hghtng him six months. The Porte has never deter
pnned to appoint Christian Governor for Crete. but
fras repeatedly refused TO do so.
Sol might 20 indefinitely with news Of the same
kind and OF equal value which has been made the
Gan newspapers.
Now, if the American press cannot secure more
trustworthy news than this they had better gave
'tVVAS 10 Sup ttleRfaphng Eastern news. IL rs
shame 10 publish week after week such lies and
absmdltes as these. expect TO see in every paper
srom America which open the news that the Sultan
las become Christian and expelled the Mussnlmans
from the Empire. or that Constantinople has been
twanuIowed up By an earthquake that nothing is
Sublime Porte. F''' - ''-'
We are living very fast now in COnstantinople, and
no one can predict whittier we are drifting wrote
you last week what was profound secret here until
ora STANLEY announced it ia Parliament four DAYS
IAtef, that the Emperor Napoleon had changed front
ana gone over to kussiathat he had sent orders 10
m mns 1ihbassador here TO advise the Porte to cede
trele to Greece. To-day La 1arquie the official
organ organ of the Porte declares that Lord Stanleys
Placement is false that such advice has been given
~ rance This IL true, but it is also true that
sthQOgh these orders of the Emperor have not been
ppuciaily communicated TO the Porte they have
oven oten received byth French ambassador have been
communicated to the other Embassies and the Porte
~ nas Deeh unoffically made acquainted with their
pulort France, Prussia, Russia, Italy, and Austria
1hoW working together, and il is not true, as far
- can learn. that England has advised the Porte 10
Iisst the demands OF the Great Powers as 10 Crete
@ Nfee Is only part of the Eastern question and
"ougnl II = not yet certain that the whole question
81 81 uvlding the Turkish Empire is to come up there
- ESsir0ng probability that Russia will succeed in
"hHhE u forward. The probabilities this week of