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COMMODORE PoRTER.--It is with great pleasure we learn from letter received from this distinguished officer and able di- plomatist, hy gentleman of New York, that the report of his having suffered pa- ralys,s IS entirely without foundation, and that his health, which had been seriously af- fecsed, is improving. The Commodore is now residing at St. Stephens, a sillaget ce- lebrated forits piire air and water, and has received permission either to travel through any part ofthe East or visit this country, as may suit his inclinations. Ii Is not inpro- bable that he will prefer the latter, and that he will return in the course of the ensuing winter.

 This country is deeply indebted to Con- modore PORTER, not only for his distin- gulshed naval services, but for his success snl exerfons in procuring the ratification Of the treaty with the Sublime Porte, after il had been jeoparded by the supposed insult in sending a Ckarge des t9ayes instead of minister of the first grade to represent the United States; and for his interchangeable .ex- ertions in procuring and transmitting 10 this country important commercial information, specimens of annals, seeds, plants, Sc. for the benefit of his countrymen. He ne- yer seems 10 forget his country; but. as we learn from various notices in the different journals, is continually transmitting to his friends something curious. interesting, or or valuable. Though his salary as Charge is scarcely adequate to bis support at one of the most eypenslye courts in Europe, his kindness and hospitality to such of his countrymen as visit Gonstantinople, are spoken of with uniform qualification.

 Il Is rumored that tiiiatt d fffieiid in this coun- try is in possession of a series of highly interesting letters from he Commodore, describing the scenery, characters, and pre- sent existing manners of he different na- lions composing the miscellaneous popula- ton of Cehstantinople, and it's neighbor- hood, derived from actual personal obserVa- ton during a residence of several years.- 1 They describe things as they are, with ali the changes introduced by the policy of Sultan Mahmoud, and not as they are rep resented in works now obsolete, from the revolution now in progress, and which IS gradually changing the face of things.

 Such a work cannot fail to be highly valu- able us well as interesting, when we con slider the long and favorable opportunities enjoyed by the Commodore, as well as bis Icapacity for lively graphic description, We think these letters ought to be publish led, and cannot but hope the gentleman n possession of them will obtain the Com rnodore's permission for that purpose In coneluson, if IS our earnest wish that his health may be speedily restored, and that he will shortly favor his ssfriends, of whom few men have more or better, with visit.

 ". Y. Courier $ Enquirer.