The Sun. — 1864-03-28 (London, England)

AFFAIRS OF TURKEY.  Constantinople journals and letters to the 18th have reached us. The subjoined items of intelli• germ are taken from the Levant Herald :  "The Sultan returned on Monday afternoon to DolmaBagtche from a shooting excursion at Ghiumlek.—We understand that the wife of the Viceroy of Egypt is shortly expected in Constantinople with her children and suite.— The Duke of Rutland, and his medical attendant, Dr. Kingsley, who have been staying in Constantinople for some weeks, has left by the steamer for Athens. The Duke is greatly improved in health.—On Sunday last a fire, which at one time threatened rather serious consequences, broke out at Stamboul, in the Mahmoud Pacha quarter. Five private houses and fifteen shops were destroyed, and, strange to say, the fire communicated itself to the top of the minaret of the Mahmoud Pacha mosque, which was much injured.—The Count Della Minerva, formerly charge d' afaires here for Italy, has been appointed Minister at Athens. Count Della Croce, first Secretary for Italy at Lisbon, has been appointed to the same position here in place of Count Patella, who, it is said, will proceed to the Hague.—We are informed that a Vizierial letter will shortly be forwarded to the Pacha of Egypt, for the purpose of reminding him that the six months' term fixed by the Porte to enable M. de Lesseps to arrange his plans, having expired without any measures of this kind being adopted, the Viceroy must at once suspend the works of the Suez Canal.—Executions are fortunately rare in Constantinople, but we had two of them yesterday morning. The Arab fisherman Kiritli Mustapha, who was condemned some time ago for the murder of a Zaptieh, at Kalatat Yeri, was hanged at the Bridge ; and at the same time the gardener Ibrahim suffered the last penalty of the law in a similar manner at Scutari for the assassination of the Turkish woman, Emirs.—A letter from Anapa informs us that the Governor, Zia Bey, is busily occupied providing localities for a body of 6,000 Circassian immigrants who have recently come to establish themselves there.—The recentfine weather has completely broken up the last remnants of ice on the Danube, and the navigation of that river is now quite free.—We learn from Salonica that the produce of the cotton crop will probably amount to 100,000 bales of 50 okes each. About two-thirds of this quantity has been already exported. The import trade in this city during the past year has been also very active. The customhouse receipts for the past year amount to 15 millions of piastres.—eve have intelligence from Trebisonde of painful interest. The unfortunate Circassians, driven from their native districts under circumstances which we have often narrated, and which are familiar to our readers, continue to swarm into into that city in great numbers. Towards the end of last month there were as many as 10,000 of these unhappy people clustered within the walls. Typhus fever and other diseases had carried away 3,000 of them since the 10th December, and the contagion had spread greatly amongst the ordinary inhabitants. The evil, however, having assumed serious proportions, the Government, on the requisition of the Board, have, we learn, despatched Dr. Barozzi to Trebisonde, with full powers to take every sanitary measure that he may deem necessary to arrest thisaffliction. Dr. Barozzi's talents and experience, and his energy of character, lead us to hope fir desirable results from his mission. we understand that he is about to camp the Circassians out in tents, to organise hospitals, introduce disinfectants, put the cemeteries in proper order, and adopt every possible hygienic means to relieve Trebisonde from the scourge which stalks abroad there.—Riza Effendi, the inspector of the province of Trebizonde, recently submitted to the Government a rep )rt representing that if certain works were executed to facilitate irrigation from the river which passes by Tzanik, a considerable quantity of land Would be rendered available for the cultivation of cotton, rice, and sugar. The Government, aeting upon this representation, has ordered the execution of the works indicated at the cost of the Treasury, and has forwarded to Riza Effendi a quantity of cotton seed for distribution amongst the agricultural population. An Trade has, moreover, been granted to Hogan Serkis, residing in Tzanik, giving permission to open a sugar factory in that locality,"