TURKEY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 6, Issue 279, 30 January 1862, Page 3

TURKEY.

Letters received at Trieste from Ragusa deny the rumours of a defeat of the Turkish army by the insurgeuto. Vukalovich, chief of the insurgents, has put a price of 1000 sequins on the head of Qmer Pacha. Great exultation prevails among the iusurgents. Tlie necessary funds for.' carrying on military operations are being sent to the insurgents from different quarters. The insurgents have occupied the town and custom-house of Zarina, near Ragusa. The Arnauts have fled to Ragusa. The insurrection in the Herzegovina is still extending. A meeting of the foreign representatives has been held at the residence of Sir Henry Bulwer, for the purpose of considering the question of • Montenegro. Ho decision was come to. The Grand Vizier was present at the meeting. The Sultan has made a two days’ visit to Ismidt, and has laid down the keels of some new ships.. There has been a severe storm in the Black Sea, attended with loss of life and shipping. r lhe news from Syria that Daoud Pacha had become a French tool, causes great discontent. " According to M. Lesseps the Suez Canal is proceeding with great activity, notwithstanding the [obstacles and difficulties thrown in its way. "Within eight months, he declares, he will be able to float a boat on the bjended waters of the bed and Mediterranean Seas from end to end, and in six years the canal will have depth enough for large steamers, and even for the Great Eastern itself. What ground, there may be for these i bright anticipations it is itillicult to say.

Other tejidfts aSsCrt (juite the contrary - , and that the pieCe of tlie carial now barily

made is already filling up.