TURKEY.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XV, Issue XV, 7 January 1857, Page 4

TURKEY.

Twenty-six English engineers and land surveyors have just arrived in Turkey. They are to proceed immediately to Syria, to continue the surveys for the railway in the valley of the Euphrates.

M. de Boutenieff, the Russian ambassador, had asked the Porte for permission for ten Russian vessels coming from the Baltic lo pass through the Bosphorus.

Trieste, Saturday, Sept. 13. — The Russians are fortifying the . entrance of the Bug and the bank below Nicholaieff.

The English fleet has returned, the Isle of Serpents is evacuated, and the Gladiator has left.

The Sultan has bestowed the sword of the Medjidi on Admiral Sir Houston Stewart.

Constantinople, Sept. 8. — In consequeuc? of the representations of M. de Boutenieff, and of the other ambassadors, the Porte has abandoned its project of an expedition against Montenegro. This affair will be settled by the conferences at Paris.

The Times' Constantinople correspondent writes, on the Bth, that " the Commission for the Regulation of the Danubian Principalities is complete. Unusual importance has throughout been given by Turkish politicians to this question, particularly with respect to the union of the Principalities. France and Russia are for the union, and Turkey aud Austria agaiust it ; but England is mistress of the situation between the two contending parties, from not having hitherto pledged herself to any course." The same writer says that when the direction of the coal mines of Heraclea was given over by the English to the Turks, the latter thought it a good opportunity of getting rid of more foreigners, so gave up the mines, which in a few months will be filled with water, and destroyed.