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upon the trade - “ Turk-~r I heard that 350,000L of British 1857
goods are now Ivi-~her- “rp t5_ P-rgian markets, full one Zr. 38.
half of the goods t' * ~~. fp: ? os year were fcr Persia.
The Persian trad- + 7 reine’ lly from
Bombay, or thr- present; these
currents are ch-- =v: that he has been
at Coustantinop!~ from sevonteen t~  -Lf--n years, and he
recollects when t= sel cleared out hence for England.
At present an s+. c+ "ig being made to impose transit duty
upon the Porsian ail}: coming through Constantinople. The
trade of France ic © =v =u 4 diminished ; query is the whole
demand for Turk vy rreater now than forty years ago?
Smyrna has di -lin-? Won) which formerly went to France
OW goos t- 7 -1d~- lin: nw exported from Turkey.”
Fee ~hor meme spfined to the house
during the d-- the 7 - * recompanied Mr. Longworth
 to visit - $19 "1 gentleman who hag
spent thirty-five wears Turley. Like almost all the
residents, he is favourable t : the Turks, and anxious to support
 them against the Russians ; his experiments in farming
the high lands for thy first time, tolerably successful. In
the course of conversation he said that last year the government
 sent a firman to Salonica, and intercepted the grain
crops which were ready for exportation, ordering them to be
delivered to its stores at ten piastres and thirty paras the
kilo (about a bushel) | he went to the Seraskier and coms
plained, and advised him of 44- im ~%e3 of such a step, upon
which he promised to incuire "he government then
sent its agents t »-; Jeven or twelve
piastres from the - had not been
withdrawn, sold - ~. . however, had
been sent to th- LiTUBS GS tari ms of the vicinity
of the capital, declaring that they could not produce their
grain ab less than fifieen pisstres the kilo. . .. It snowed ai