INSTALLATION OF THE "NEW SULTAN.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1682, 5 November 1861, Page 4

INSTALLATION OF THE "NEW SULTAN.

• Thb correspondent of the Times, writing I from Constantinople on the sth of July, • gives some description of the ceremony (whioh took plaoe on the previous day ol girding on the Mosque of Eyoub, .which , answers to the coronation of a new sovereign among ourselves. He says:~-The enthusiasm with which Sultan Abdul Aziz was first hailed has never ceased to inorease. No wonder, then, that Ihe route along which he had to pass was thronged with an eager and expectant crowd. Shortly after eleven in the morning the Sultan entered his state caique at the gate of the palace of Dplma Bagiohe. ; It is a long white boat of elegant form, having a canopy lined with red velvet in the stern. A double line of caiqued jis fill thirteen benches, and as these men rise to their feet at the com* mencement of eaoh stroke the twenty-six . oars take the water with a orash which tells not only of the power of the rowers but of the perfect time they keep. The men wear the Turkish fez, and are dressed in shirts of Barousa silk gauze, open in front nearly to the waist, round which is tipd tho only other article of clothing which they wear. As the men, thus uniformly and not inellegantly dressed, rise and bend to their work with the regularity of a piece of machinery, the caique glides through the water apace and with a steadiness really imposing. The procession is formed of a considerable number of these caiques of greater or less dimensions, and oi colors varying from white to the-natural brown of the wood of which they are built, slightly darkened by a coat of varnish. As it passes tbe line-of-battle ships and frigates in the harbour their yards are manned, and their crews send forth a cheer which however, is soon lost among the thunders of a royal salute. Throughout the whole length from the palace to the landing plaoe at Eyoub, the oourse is kept by two lines of men-of-war's boats, eaoh of whioh salutes the Sultan as he passes, the men standing with their oars in a perpendicular position. Thus, amid a swarm of caiques and smaller craft of every description, filled with mon, women, and children in every possible variety of costume, the Imperial oaique sweeps along. The People in the Streets,— Wherever the wall of a cemetry or the oourt-yard of a mosque abutted on the street platforms had been erected, and on these a line of Turkish wooden, five to six deep, were seated in their own peculiar way. The Sultan is supposed to objeot to the brilliant feridgis, or outer garments, which have been in vogue of late years, and the colors were consequently somewhat less varied than one has been accustomed to see them. Parasols were the enly things in which the ladies appeared to give scope to their taste for brilliant fauos 5 nor was the conceit a bad one, for, as his majesty passed, these were thrown over the shoulder and presented to his gaze nothing but ohaste linings of white silk and ivory handles. It was,* however in the matter of yashmaks that real judgment was shown by the Turkish ladies* The faces were most severely veiled precisely in those casesfwere tbere was least to attract a second look. The young and pretty had covered their dainty mouths with a gauze, light and airy enough for " Queen Mab " herself. Ladies of a certain age wore veils. through which it was just possible for the eye to penetrate, while the old women, and *above all, the negresses, guarded their charms with a savage virtue that left everything to the imagination, nothing to the view. Along the sides of the streets, a great variety of people were seated on the ground, with their backs to the wall.- Here a Turk, with his legs doubled under him, was quietly smoking his chibouque ; there a group of young yahoudie were intent upon the movements of a party of Europeans who had hired their house opposite, and" who were evidently suspected of a design to carry as much of it away for their money as they possibly could ; fur* ther on, a devout Mussulman, whose green turban told of a pilgrimage to the Holy Places, was engaged in his prayers, totally unconscious of the group to which he was in dangerous proximity. This consisted of a gipsy woman with two halfnaked urchins, in whose matted hair a minute & frightfully successful search was being made by the mother. Horribly the woman grinnod as each unit was added old to the sum of the slaughter. In this row, too, many an old jauissary was to be seen who having escaped a no less savage butchery, had subsequently returned to Constantinople and taken to some peaceful occupation ; and whose eye in spite of his own wrongs, and those of his order, lighted with something of the old pride as he gazed on the determined features and manly bearing of the son of the destroyer. In .front of these people on each side of the way was a double line of men ; here troops of the line, there marines or sailors. Between these two lines of men, whose duty it was to keep the ground, a crowd of people of every variety of countenances and costume sauntered sileptly but contentedly along. ; . Thb Ceremony. — Here comes Namik \ Pasoha; and, doubtless, his living ma- . jesty is not far behind. The new Seras- \ kier passes on under the gateway, whither , he is followed after a short interval by the Grand Vizier, who, however, repasses . at a*oauter the next minute. He has f soaroely disappeared when" a 1 number oi t the Seeikhs and leadingmembers of the i : Ulema, some oh horseback, some on foot, , pass up the street and enter the. mosque. The intellectual and distinguished heads

r of these meu, set off to the greatest advantage by their ample white turbans , bound round with pne broad piece of gold ' lace, were yet more noticeable than their ', splendid green robes richly ornamented ? with gold about the neck and shoulders. Some seven or eight led horses of the 1 Sultan next attract attention. Their trappings are very gorgeous, and the large I brilliants and emeralds glitteriug in their bridles and oruppera are muoh admired; A number of the ministers and pachas married to members of the Imperial family j follow. Then the green and white feathers of the halberdiers come in view, the troops present arms, e*very murmur among the orowd is hushed, and even the jackdaws seem <to hold their breath as Sultan Abdul Aziz rides slowly by, and, saluting the people with a steady gaze, riow to the right, now to the left, passes under the gateway and disappears, The village or suburb of Eyoub, situate on the opposite side ol the harbor to the oity of Stamboul, takes its name from Eyoub, or Job, one of tho last survivors among the personal friends and attendants of the Prophet; and who fell in the first siege bf Constantinople by the Saracens. Some 800 years after that event the resting plaoe of the deceased warrior was revealed in a dream to Mahomet IL, who there built a mausoleum and mosque in his honor. It is in this mausoleum that a new sword is girt with the sword of Otham, or one of the other leading ohampions of the crescent, for it appears that a choice of sabres is allowed him. . In the present instance, the Naib-Esohref, one of the leading members of the Ulema, officiated. This part of the ceremony aver, several sheep were sacrificed, after which the Sultan entered the mosque to pray. , «