24 AUGUST 1861, Page 2

arksq. — Mehemet Kiprisli Pasha has been dismissed from his office as

Grand Vizier, and succeeded by Ali Pasha. According to the correspondent of the Times, he was dismissed because be refused to agree to the increase of military expenditure, but the Morning Pod affirms that he had been detected in peculation. He received a heavy bribe from a French Company, to which he sold a monopoly of working Turkish lighthouses at a profit of 30,0001. a year. He was also paid to accept caimas instead of cash from some American farmers of the revenue, and the imperial concession being ready for signature, the Sultan, contrary to the custom of his tiler, read it, and discovered the transaction. Both stories are .p • bably true,

the resistance of the Minister to a pet project merely the final aggravation.