TURKEY.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 238, 31 January 1860, Page 3

TURKEY.

An Imperial Hatt, issued on the 15th of October, speaks in sorrowful and severe terms of the loss of confidence throughout the empire arising from financial confusion. The sultan orders a general " reorganisation," of the administration of the country, with a vievy to. remedy; the evil. • ■ , -..._»■„.

Four chiefs of the late conspiracy have been condemned to death, namely, Hussein Pacha, a mufti, a colonel; and an hidividual who was to have filled the "Sultan. These condemnations provoked a fermentation among the populace, ami dirccc threats of- revenge reached the palace of the Sultan. The executions have been delayed. ; The Montenegrins have begun again to commit great atrocities against the Turks.

The nine hours strike movement in ,the metropolis now appears to be at an end. An intimation has been published that the Conference of the Building Trades have JarefuHy cconsidered their position, and have determined to withdraw the strike at Messrs. Trollope's, in order that they may the more effectually oppose the declaration and secure the support of the trades of the United Kingdom. That is to say the battle for the future, a 9 far as the workmen is concerned, will turn entirely upon,the. document question, and we shall hear no more about the reduction of the hours of labour. Hen* they are going to make a most determined stand if the masters, seeing that the nine hour's struggle is over, do: not resolve-to abandon that.declaration-which had its .origin in its existence. Were the declaration given up, there would simply be a return to the status quo. .In connection with this; resolution of the operatives, we may mention that they have taken legal advice as to the lawfulness of the rules.; and byelaiws of their societies. Mr. Edwin .James and Mr. Gorden Allan have given their opinion that, upon the whole, there is no illegality in their laws.— Home News

The ceremony.of proroguing the imperial Parliar merit took place in {he Hosse of Lords.on the 27th of October, The House presented a most dreary„■ and desolate appearance* quite1 in keeping with the time of year..... The seats and other portions^of the House were covered with baize and cloth, and no attempt of any kind was; .made to impart digtiify to the duty which her Majesty's Commissioners were authorised to discharge. The Commons wore duly, summoned to. the bar hy the Lord Chancellory and Mr.%ey,.the cleik, and'one or two otlver officials obeyed'tlie commarid. Parliament wii3 then prorogued till Dec. 15. As the significant words "then and. there to meet forthe* despatch of divers,urgent and important affairs'" were not adcled^thc ineeting.qf farliiunent on the day named will again be of a purely ■ formal character. Two orjWe ladief id the stde-gallems were the only spectators, of the ewemony.— H<me .iC^-'j^wwiiißp.-W^i..., .-,■..-.■■-■' :, ■. '..■■.'■

IRELAND. :;• i We stated in our last that the Roman Catholic prelates were to hold a "great conI ference at Dublin on the '19th of October. I The subjects' under discussion * were" the Irish colleges in Paris and I)r, CullenV j Catholic University. The conference came |to an end on October 21. The 'Nation* ! thus referred to the general result of the deliberations, which were private :— The subjects considered by the prelates , »vere chiefly those treated of in their recent , synodical pastoral, together with speciai matters in reference to the College of Maynooth. to tho Irish College in Paris, and to the Catholic University. ' We are able to^ ; announce to our readers that the Chief Secretary has Intimated tcv'^the ■prelates that he has been unable'to -Jeffly to their resd- ; lutions of August last, q,;ving to the diffiiculty of assembling a (jaiainet Council to t consider them; that he will proceed, forth,f r with, to London, to submit their demands :to .his colleagues, and that, -on obtaining i their answer, he will lose no time ininform;ing, the bishops of the result. The prelates* , have decided on immediate action being jtak&n, which vvill prove? to the Government Ijand to the public their unshaken determi- ■ nation to carry 7into.effect, so far as in them jlies, the entire scheme of education sketched jout in their pastoral. These measures" will j,paralyse the. action of the' national system, |,and precipitate its final overthrow.

I Dr. Dixon, the Roman Catholic Primate ,of all Ireland, has issued a pastoral letter; .which has reference to the cause of the Pope, and,is therefore to b& regarded as a political document. The pastoral affirms that a great act of spoliation is contemplated in the way of depriving the Pope of his temporal dominions, and that calumnies of all sorts are heaped upon his government by enemies which are becoming every day more powerful. Among the bitterest of .these enemies, we are informed, may be numbered some of the leading statesmen of our own country, who now seek to be revenged for the restoration of a Roman, Catholic hierarchy in England.. At present, by way of remedy for such a condition of things, the primate only asks for the prayers of<the,faithful in Ireland, but he hints that it may hereafter be necessary to send subscriptions to the Holy Father to enable him to support those soldiers that will "defend his rights against rebel hordes."

A meeting of the Roman Catholic clergy of the archdiocese of Dublin was held on November 3 in the cathedral in Marl-borough-street, under the presidency of Archbishop Cullen, for the purpose of adopting an address to his Holiness thesi Pope, ''expressive of their sympathy at the persecutions he is at present subjected to." After a discourse by the archbishop, resolutions were proposed and carried— firstly, deploring the late violent and sacrilegious, invasion of the territories of the churchand repudiating as false the charges made against the .paternal government of the Pope; secondly, declaring the temporal government of the Holy See to be necessary for the freedom of the Church and

the independence of the Sovereign Pontiff; and thirdly, calling upon all Roman Catholics to unite in defence of the prerogatives of their supreme pastor. A great agitation is going forward in Ireland, having for its object the enrolment of an Irish Contingent to aid the Pope in his struggle with his subjects. The ultramontane papers are full of this project, and call upon the people not only to raise a levy of 20,000 men, but to pay a tribute of £10,000 a year to the PbjDe for the same purpose. They suggest also large subscriptions from Other countries, fixing the amount, in each case, and making a total of ii 100,000 a

year. . A subscription list has been opened in Dublin, for the purpose of presenting a tesrtimqnial to Captain M fClintook, R.N., to whom and his enterprising fellow-voyagers it is proposed to give a public banquet. A short time ago the inhabitants of iSundalk presented their fellow-townsman, Captain M*Clintock, with a massive silver salvet and and a silver claret jug in testimony of their admiration of his recent -ser-. vices in the Arctic regions. Mr, John Mitchell, who is now in Paris, has been writing a series v of letters, in a Dublin paper .called the Irishman, in which his object.is to suggest to the Irish peasantry that France will soon be at war with England in the Mediterranean, and that

the opportunity will then have arrived for inducing the Emperor Napoleon to invade Irelandi: Mt. Mitchell earnestly counsels the;'!,n^tipnalists"v of Ireland "to be preparecl.V; He expects ere long to see Gibralterj' as the key of the Mediterranean, and San Juan, as the key of the Columbian Archipelago, wrested from " the sSvjncJle.r and usurer of!nations," England:; then lie adds, ori behalf of his brother,,'." Celts"— t

" happy if we can but prepare ourselves, to rise to our own feet and stand erect upon our own soil when the. felonious gripe is loosened from our throats." . As a proof of the beneficial'- character of the "revival" in the Northy a Belfast journal states that thenumberof public-houses in the district of Ballymena, which has of late years been steadily increasing, presents a marked decrease foy the present year. It adds that in other adjoining districts publichouses are being closed for want of customers. ' .

The Nmry Telegraph attributes a marked decrease jn drunkenness in Newry and elsewhere to the revival movement.. The following testimony .to the effects ol the revival on horse-racing we extract from the columns of the Belfast News Letter: — The Maze races (October meeting) have been held as usual at the Maze. Although the day was fine and there was a "well filed card.", the course wag all but abandoned—soo, we are told, were allthat mustered on the occasion, wh^re.foriAerlf il va* m ttu\w»ai thing to see

! 10,000 or 15,000 persons, with the usual supply of tumblers, conjurers, andthimbleri'ggers. Its glory has departed from it; and nothing went on right—hot even did the arrangements made ;for the horses to i start Reserve the usual commendation; and

says a contemporary in most expressive language, " although a general inquiry was,made for a ; man- who had seen a similar race before, he -was • not forthcoming." Whatever may.be said in iavor of horse-

racing; and improving the breed of horses it is generally admitted that the racecourse is demoralising in the extreme to many who attend it. Betting, cursing, swearing, stealing, gambling, and drinking •certainly abound there: and those who usually attended at the Msze seem to have found it out and stayed away. In the midst of a district where the "revival" flourished, and is still doing so,, we can ascribe the desertion of the race-course to no i other cause than the impression religion has made upon men's minds \ '■• and we are glad •to see that the character of those who did 'attend was not as bad as on former occajsibns. "Not a single case of Drunkenness ■was to be seen," says an anti-revival contemporary. A large number of friends, both at .home 'and in .Australia, will regret to learn that Thomas Welsh, Esq., of the Irish bar, late | her Majesty's Attorney-General for Van iDiemen's Land, died recently in Dublin, iafter a protracted illness that had for some [time deprived him of those powers of intellect which will be long remembered by a large circle.' ~ . The Freeman's Journal announces that the Holy Father has placed in the hands of the Right Rev. Dr. Goold, who lately visited the Eternal City, a gold irmdal from his Holiness; to bi6 presented to the late prime minister of Victoria, John O'Shannessy, of Tipperary, as a token ,oi the personal: regard of the Holy Father, and in recognition of his distinguished services to the .Catholic Church in Australia. • The affairs of John Sadleir and the two banks with which his name has been identified have just come before1 the Landed Estates Court, in the case of "Bermister and others. 31 It is a proceeding to obtain the decision of the Court as to whether Mr. Thomas Joseph Eyre, or the London and County Bank, was entitled to the amount realised' by the sale of certain estates, the property of the late John Sadleir. It may be recollected that some time since the right to the same funds was contested by the Official manager of the Tipperary Bank on the one hand, and the London and County Bank oh the other. The question-was decided in favor of the latter and the Ruling of Judge Longfield, was affirmed on appeal. Mr. Eyre then came in to claim the fund, and the question of right as between him and the London and County Bank was now brought, before the .court fbjr its,"decision^,.,,rTheu,case^--was bpened on: the 31st October, and did not end till November 7. The result of the decision was that Mr. Eyre's objection was overruled with costs. . . The Roman Catholic hierachy are devoting themselves with- extraordinary assiduity of the production of pastorals."•.Dr. Cullen is about to put forth another of these compositons. The subject is the "Newman Seminary." There is a rumour that Dr. Cullen, indignant, at the non-succes of his pet university, has sent Di\ Newman adrift. Whether this be true or not, it is I remavkabta. that the name of■ the .".disI tinguished convert " is now never mentioned in connection with it. The corporation of Sligo has unanimously adopted the following resolution in reply to a demand from the Waterford corporation for its support of the movement in favor of the gentlemen who ran away from their assigned districts in the convict settlement, to which they were transported in 1848:—-"A communication, from the . town clerk of Waterford having been laid {before the council, requesting it to join the corporation of Waterford in calling for an amnesty to political offenders, and believing, that the persons referred to are condemned traitors—Mitchell, Meagher, and others—Resolved, ' That this • loyal corporation of Sligo, considers that these misguided persons have done nothing since their removal from the country to deserve the clemency of the free Government which they endeavoured to subvert, and, therefore, this council refuses to make any application Government respecting them.'" ; The extensive flour mills belonging to Mr. Robert Culbertson, of Ballisodore, within four miles of Sligo, were completely destroyed a, few days ago by fire. Four men were killed, and 10 very badly wounded. The Wicklow Mining Company held their half-yearly meeting on November 11, and it may perhaps he classed, among the most extraordinary ever held in Ireland. Not only was a dividend at the rate of 80 per cent, declared, free of income-tax, but, in consequence of the accumulation of funds, caused by more rapid sales, this Was, as stated by the chairman, the third dividend paid within the year; so that, in fact, more than the^whple amount of the capital has been distributed during one year in dividends. After payment of the dividends, a sum of £1369 was added to the surplus fund.