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AFFAIRS IN TURKEY.
In the Morning Heral'd of [?] 19th,
we find an interesting account of the state
of affairs in Turkey, from a correspondent
who writes nom [?] under
date as iJIHJwt :-2
Co.xarAjJtlKOPf.i, Jti.v 10.
The Turkish miflislera wid the (liirluni.i*
lie body in general have bcifrt thrown into
a 6tnte Gi'elcitcmeut by the apptriranco of
a French pamphlet, which' purjinses to
expose Bothe oi' llie doings ot Safvetty
I'acUa, the Ministr of Finance, since he
has been in office.
• It is bol.lly asserted ill 'riaipn'mpJiK-t
ihal Safvetly IVha has piodled" by Hi
high position and his commanding J!|
-lluciK-e, to organise r evs'em of tvholesnk 1
plunder, for the private benefit of himself
and his partners, one of whom is quaintly
named " the little financier," whose mono.
poVic? and colossal operations detailed, ure
universally known to be those of the
bankorj Mr. ~.
It is s'atetl, in unJisguised terms, that
Safvetty Pacha purposely discredited the
government, in order, with, ihe specie of
the Treasury, through Mr ,to buy i p
bank notes at a discount if five to eigiit
per cent., the said notes being immediately
paid into the Treasury at par; It is ilkij
bs roundly nssercd, that inouey was made
so scarce, in ihe paying offices, that the
public crcdiiotSi to save hemselvea from
immediate ruin, were obliged to go to Mr
, who discounted their elaicisat from
I 12 to 30 per cent, allowance wj h thepublic
cash, and then paid in the liquidated.notes
for their full amoun-i. I- is fur her alleged
that Mr was also con Tactof general
for everything wanted by the government,
1 go' high prices for low merchandise, and
got millions of piasters by every operation.
Who could compe'e wi h the firm when,
if the pamphlet is to be credi-.ed, it couM
get certificates for double the quanti'y of
goods delivered; and was regularly paid
cash, though nobody else could got a para
without submitting to the discount above
, mentioned ? An instance of the operation*
of the firm is quoted; which m highly
ahiusing. The Pacha of Egypt sent an
immense jujiply of merchan able rice to
Constantinople, for the purpose of selling
it io tlj?govcrn^ien'. On its arrival, the
quali'y was pro'iounecd to be inferior hf
the Minister of Finance, who took this
opportunity of showing his zc.il for the
health and strength of he Sultan's soldiers.
The rice retnaiued unsaleable, unlil Ml>
hururt AH lost pa'icnee, and ordered it to
be got rid of at the best price obtainable.
Mr M-— bought it at 66 paias, anJ he
immediately weighed it off to t::e govern
ment at 92 paras, the quality being now
found to be capital ! The system is repre
sented as one of public pillage. Some if
the ministers who saw this, and raised their
voices, were removed fr jm office, to be re
placed by creatures of Safvetty' Pacha.
Others died suddenly, just when they be
came too dangerous, and in the meantime
Ike firm was rolling iv riches; Not cor.tent
with this, however, v cry of anticipated fa.
mine was raised. The government wan
alarmed, laid in at famine prices an immens)
•lock of wheat and grain. wb,ich wag cup.
plied by the firm, A prohibition to export
eacli articles was then established to favout
the operation; tbe firm at the recommend,
ations of tbe Minister of Finance, bought i;i
the provinces at low prices with the publis
monies, realised .n a short period £200,003
by their speculation, and would have triads
a better thing of it had they not been
stopped by tbe energetic representations of
Sir Stratford Ca-ning and others of high'
rank. ' - •
But, according to the pamphlet, Salvetty
Pacha did not stop here. It was he who
broke up tbe civilization introduced by
Reschid Pacha in order to keep him out—
he who had tbe Armenian renegade decapi
tated io his haste to get removed from office
Nafez Pacha —he who had the Greek of
1 Bilidjik put to death to put down tbe Bej-i
likgi Efendi, a friend of reform—he who £0
i excited the fanaticism of the Mussulman
population to further his own selfish ends ;
so that it was one time touch and go wbe>
the; we should not Lavs a general massacre
of Christian! throughout tbe Ottoman
empire.
We have reporle in l.iwn, which are
highly important if true. They are to tho
effect that a trereendous battle has lately
taken place be ween the Russians and ihe
Circassians, under Sbamil Be*, wlticb
ended by the former being completely
bca'en and dispersed, with a loss which i'a
estimated so high that I am positively afraid
to mention tbe. number, lest I should' be ac
cused of palpable exaggeration: If the
accounts I have heard ..re at all correct, the
Russian array must be nearly annihilated.
Notwitbstanding the Sultan made liberal
speeches to the Christian primutee at Mity
lene, which did him honour, by last letters
from tbeuce some Turkish nrtillerymerl.
witbom any provocation, late by nigbti
broke into a Greek village, and amused tbem>
selves by attacking tbe population, bnd put
them to the sword. Eleven persons were
wounded, of whom two are since dead. The
culprits were seized, and are Bow in prison
in the citadel of'that island, awaiting order*
from the government at to their late. It
looks as if this were a part Of the plot aU
luded to in the pamphlet:mentioned, but
I hava no data to. confirm «uch a suppo*
sition.
Reports have just reached us that tho
town of Ixroidt has been tota'ly destroyed
by a fire, which broke out two or three
days ago. The foctories are a distance
from tha town, and cannot have. .been
touched.
Boron Rothschild, to whom the Empe
ror of Austria !•«; recently granted the
privilege to hold land in Moravia; Ifas,
with n \ienr to ennble polytechnic studies
to be prosecuted in tbe proposed Moravian
Uniiersity, given 40,000f1. (£100) to-tho
Chancellor, Count Inzaghy, as an cidow.
raent for that purpose. To the Poor-houso
at Brunn, with a view to provide therein
tor >he maintenance of dooayed Burghers
(a design chcr.thed many yean by the
.Burgomaster) Baron Rothtehild ias pre.
sented 60.00 M. (£6oo),— rtiw of J«coh,
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