The city and its territory are governed by • pasha. There are lame well aired barrack, near the shore inclosed by an iron palisade. A British military hospital was established heroin 1855. On the castle hill are some remains of ancient Smyrna, consisting of fragments of ancient column, which are used in the construction of graves in the large Turkish cemetery; portions of the old walls built into the walls of the castle, which stands on tha site of the acropolis on the summit of Mount Plague; some relics of a temple within the inclosere of the castle; the stadium, in which St. Polycarp suffered martyrdom, and which le formed in the side of the bill ; and numerous columns, busts', cornices, and other architectural fragments, built into the walls of the Turkish town. Within the castle incloeure are the ruins of a mosque, which is said to have been the primitive church of Smyrna. At some distance to the south of the city runs the Melee, which is connected with the memory of Homer, and which is crossed by an aqueduct The mosques of Smyrna are open to Christians; from the ceiling of the principal mosques are suspended by braes chains it vast number of lamps, ostrich eggs, and horsetails. The caravan bridge
over the Melee, over which, especially in the fruit season, strings of camel, are constantly parsing, is a point of great attraction with both Turks and Christians, and many coffee-houses are built along the banks of the immortal river. The neighbourhood of Smyrna is beautiful and fertile, but unsafe, owing to the prevalence of brigandage. Strollers are frequently carried off to tho hills and detained till they are ransomed by their friends. About 5 miles cant of the city, on the road to Sardis, at a place called Nimfi, is a gigantic human figure sculpt fired in relief, on a panel cut into the flat surface of the rock. This meet= to be the memorial of Sosostris, described by Ilcrodotus (ii. 106). A journal is published in Smyrna in the French language.
Steamers and sailing-vessels ply to Constantinople, Marseille, Malta, and the chief ports of the Mediterranean.