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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 235, 7 October 1867, Page 3

The Sultan is much dissatisfied with the administration of the Turkish navy, and has expressed a wish to take back ■with him three English naval officers, in order to place such matters under their direction. Commodore Sir William Wiseman, Bart., lately in command of the New Zealand station, has already been selected, and appointed as head of the naval council, at a salary of £3000. The perils of a newspaper correspondent are described in the following narrative of events which happened to one of these adventurous gentlemen who followed the career of Maximilian. He says in the New York Herald: —The instructions which carried the present writer into the camp of the Imperial army were brief and to the point—Follow Max, and write regularly and fully.—Ed. N.Y.H.' To follow Max from Orizaba and Puebla when he had determined to continue the struggle was an easy task, and.had already beeQ accomplished before the telegram was received. To follow him from Puebla to the capital, and thence to Queretaro, was a more difficult matter, and, among- other inconveniences, involved the person undertaking it in the following little perplexities: — Eobbed to the skin 2, showed fight and did not get robbed 2, captured by Liberals 1, captured by Imperialists I, days under fire 72, struck by spent bullets 2, slightly ■wounded by shells 1, lived on horse, mule, and dog flesh for days 36, travelled on horseback, stage, and muleback, leagues 450. Arrived in Queretaro two days before the advent of Maximilian the Herald's representative incurred a strong risk of being promptly strung up as a Yankee spy. Three days previously he had seen Marquez manifest an earnest inclination to hang a couple of American travellers he had encountered on the march from Mexico to Queretaro, because they happened to possess passes from Escobedo and drafts on the capital —an inclination only restrained by the active intervention of the Emperor Maximilian. In Queretaro before the advent of the Imperial forces, Miramoh was omnipotent, and Miramon, more polished and educated than Marquez, was even more.virulent.aud dangerous in his hatred and dread of foreigners. The arrival of the Emperor alone relieved him <rf peril.