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gbe iiress: TUKB OF Per Annnm .. Half• Yearly .. Quarterly .. ron .. £1 6 0 .. 1119 .. 0 0 Paresble in advatwe. Subscribers are requested to send their (fitters through their News Agent; if threvt to the other, aecompanied by r Remit. Wire. Money ilr.lern to bsi made payable to Mr. Abram) Its, IU4 ktrrnd, imeidon. TO ADVERTISERS. The abolition nf the holy MI Advertisements ♦nables ma to inset at the prier og Three Shilling,. the .4flrertimementr fur which burr hitla rlo charged I•'rre ; and .1•Icer• tigers generally will reveler the full besofit of the change in the late. TO CORRESPONDENTS. 1 . 1.,:kii 10, I • pper itook• 1 141, %• o .. l .•%e i tott e nu , Nhuve address im from the Ite,t itotlittrity ttt. ii.i‘e Kt 11411.1. It 14 111111101111ible t4l strktiott ledge the Immo of Ititt•rw We reCeiVe• Thrit• lu,wrttnu is tolll.llllClltyl4l, 11Willte Io it 1411 .4 11 111111 when omitted. it 11/ frequently fi-.. 111 rtlisons . 1 111te inde pendent of tit. merit?, of the • iratom. Wt. cannot iteoloiiike to return c.. Hinitu itesill..llB of writich wp do not avail ottrttelvec ninniniesei ~,, Awn:vs he legibly In ittcti, awl ml one slits of the paper only. If lung It inerriesi•s ills (Mull) , of finding space firr them. Whatever is intended fi.r insereinn must l.r authenticated hr the nous% and address '.l Ilse writer, not. necessartlir 101* puldies- Uwe. but ms ante'. of ilk 1;4144 41)t i-rtggi• LONDON, SATURDAY, oCTOBER I:►, 1853. POSTSCRIPT. TURKEY AND RUSSIA,. Tim manifesto of the Porte declaring war was communicated on the 9th instant, by the Turkish Comm antler- in Chief, Omer Paella, t o Prince I lofts chakott, commanding; the Russian clime in Wallachia and Moldavia, accompanied, however, by an Ultima lion, that, in order to allow the Primo time to consult his tlovernment, Ito active hostilities would Ise row mewed before the termination o f fift een days. A proelamation, allilressed to the Turkish nation, is to follow the manifesto, justifying the proeee4lings of the• Porte. The Euxiiie is Mit cif iseti, except to vessels under the Russian tlag. The Turkish Heel im to be statitaied nt. Ilattshik. The last lithielN rnim 1%11011111'4 st ate that the Aletrorolitan was to Ripe his blessing to the flags and to the tniop , on the :Ird last., and that, on the Mli or the 7th an attack would prohably he made on the left bank of the Danube. l'askewitseli is said to he nominated emiiiiiander iu chief or the lir my on the frontier. l'he tzar hits issued an ukase permitting the im vitiation into fluty Finnish town of all materials for the equipment of vessels ditty free. This privilege is to remain in force f o r the years. roen emissaries of NI avzini have been arrested at Innspritek. They betrayed ilient,elvem by their con duct. When a Rentlat me demanded their passport , . one of them drew out a pistol from his, p.. e ket. Them were found upon them English passports. proelintiatilm , , and letter:, which 1•01.1111VIllige persons in Southern T 31,11. They als,, had .toymmi A tiftli emissary eseaped. Nr.w l'Arrns or the '!Nth have been reeehol, but the only news they contain is the grutif)ing in telligence that mortality front yellow fever has ohm SSI 1441 , 141 in New iniclins. Till: Meta steamer lin: ani‘ed nt Soittlinuipton with the West India moil. She briic,f. 19 141/. in gold and silver. The :4 ellow re% cr hu l e on.ister s o.l alratod at .181,116141, lout trade was ‘or .%11 par ties wen• anxious for the nrrn al of the new go \ in the hove that lat•iitte , o4 wealll he itaprove4l, nlld the colony placed 'Ton a MOM kraetnry alining affairs were proveisling satisfachnily. mink the agricultural prospeets of themend islands were looking midi as usitl. St. Thomas': wn: vi s ited hy an earthoptake on tin. 19th ult. Tortola was tilet. Sixty-one of the iinglenders in the late riots wen' in custody. I.titor CommEnttAt. Seiti:ims are on foot 11410'CM 011101 ant only Nowitsfy been funned for the export thither of manufactured gissls. but there is talk of establishing an Austra lian company on a large scale. at the head of whieli will bo several of the largest Copenhagen mer chants. THE PRESS. THE Itt:SSIAN STATEMENT OF EASTERN QUESTION. Snowy% 40F THE Waitammi fiaa.—The vital question with every great nation of the large continents is the INkfi• session of the embouchures of its rivers. A people which occupies lands in the interior of a continent is irresistibly pushed towards the shores of the Ilet:4111. If the thientel question Is; viewed from this point, the so-vatted aggrate disemepts charted upon the English and French. and especially the Russians, appear to he hut the naturally onlained growing of All individual towards manful matinity. This natural development of nations, however, proceeils along the course of rivers, and finds its term at their em bouchures in the aea. Beyond this, a desire for aggrandise ment is einecupiseetice, and to -Moves plethora and obesity. all signs of an altering and tottering organism. Thus it was, fia many venom ies, o n e of the vital optesti•ons with the Germans to displace successively, or by the sudden Airco of &nisi, their Shivian neighbours from their primeval seats, for the make of reaching, north and south, the shores of the ocean. May we never forget that the original name of I.eipzie is Lipowiza, the town of 1' •-trees ; that Pots dam means Pad dolanni. ander the oak; Stargand, Story gored, the old town ; Pottienutia, the dwellings of thus' por moi•zsni, the Kea-dwellers, .Lee.! Hence, therefore, Germany ham solved the vital question of nations at the expense of the Slaves. And the same Germany utters now a cry of indignation, that Russia is doing the same with those bar barian 111141111141e1N who are encamped, as it were, at the mouths of' Russian ways of eonimimication. For centuries past, nix., ever since the Russian Govern ' meld hiss acquired a einiseionsness of its great vocation. it has sillier eonahnMd or negotiated for extensi• In—l st ward, la. East, aitli t bins, on account of tin. tants aieltures of the Annan% 'Nil, Westerly, with the Schweliritter, Swedes and Poles, for the thus of the Duna, Karma, and Neva. :11.41, 144411111e11y, with the Tartars, Turks, Tehentisses, the t:la vile ti t i, and gather Asiatic predatory leash's, on He enllllt of the southern etnboni•hines of Russian rivers. Itli. It was only the month of the Itwine, and thus the com mand oldie Ice Sea, which was obtained. as it were, naturally, by the discovery of the tilissage round the North Cape. But the seas which Russia thus obtained are not p n i• perly the high twists, hut, mostly, meiliterraiteans. In the north, winter, during eight lengthy penults. a friinble • gaoler, obstniels every communication ; in the west the Seaniliitavians guard the Sllll4l, the gates of the Baltic in the south the Turk kl.eps the Ilcllosnud las the Noi• maps culled the llelb•spont I, the door of the Black Set. I duly the MIME, the artery of %sitilie Russia, leads to an open sea ; but its !Maids wits 1 . 011114'11y relinquished, by ne.,...,ligence, to the Chinese. 11114 1111114 t, for the benefit o f 1444111 l ' ), h, 11!/(1/// IIaWN ferIIII theta. 0111 northern rival, the winter, both arms awl ' l o l ' lll,4l 'Y fire of uo avail. Ihit the other gates are gusoleil by men. and these do not imiltastimil either their geogra phical or political position, if they intend hi behave frivolity towards Russia. Because the gatekeeper must. for his own interest, stand well with the landlord, else both will fare ill. The Turks, however, do not seem to lerstanil this ; and, blinded by a u•lble pride and the recollei•t• of the deeds of their fin•efathers, they mistake their present position, which is now merely one of ttolenit: alter all, lacking vitality. Russia st grow, mit sl it has real•beil its natumorilaitivil size and magnitiple. This gooirth is end merely arbitrary. Wit deeply resting upon an innermost propelling nature foree. Russia must possess the keys of bee house, whether the gatekeepias be called kite,N, sultans. Nfiiil4 of the sun, or cousins of the moon. Iti shirt, they have Gibe general. governors. adherents •if the Russian empire: it hi their own inti•rest which demands it. • • • • The growth of Russia does nut go landward, lint seawa rd, Russia has other things to do than to quarrel with its old schoolmaster, the civilisation of tiermany. Russia, ill coin! 11111 l with every intelligent peorie, wishes f o r hey sea and land routes. and for a neighbourly understanding with the Continent, ev.eeitilly with I h•rneasty.—.lll9.• Z. ibmg. W►: learn from Sheernesa that the Howe, 110. gun tA) Ism taken carefully to pieces, for the re_ conversion of her timbers. The Ito►re is A new ship —that is, she has only been once at SVA, tts flag ship to Sir Charles Napier, when lie c ommanded an ex . perimental squadron. She was then found to be a cerm tine man.of war. Site is, we believe. nEslelled after the t 'fi/etionia, which, until she was tinkered by Sir Robert Seppings, was probably the finest ship in time solid. Why, we ask, is the Howe to be broken I.ir we unileistand this to be the meaning of re converting her timbem. The Mire, we suppose, cost 100,000/. building: a large sum for the Admiralty to throw sway for some whim—Shipping Gazette. Adder•. from Athens Mate that on the 31Ith aft, ano th er earthquake sas felt in that city and in Thebes. SATURDAY, JUNIUS. TO THE EDITOR (F " THE ERESs." Sir,—The revived controversy respecting the author of Junius has acquired a livelier interest and attracted public attention more forcibly from the criticisms of the PRESS. Suffer me, then, to invite your regard to one very important consideration which has hitherto escaped the notice or been universally overlooked by all who have speculated on the subject. I allude to the rancorous feeling of hatred entertained by that celebrated writer towards George the Third ! Such feeling appears to have been far too intensely, far too deeply rooted and unquenchable, to have owed its origin to any other source than that which springs front the wound of personal suffering or the mortification of personal vanity! If, then. among the variety of distinguished cha racters who have been mentioned as the probable author of those celebrated letters I name one who had some imagined cause for cherishing the bitter feeling alluded to, I furnish an additional motive for entertaining the conjecture which would fix the authorship on him. Allow me to remind you of a very striking incident in Woodfall's edition relating to Lord George Caven dish, who is described as having inquired of an acquaintance if he had seen the Junius of that day ? adding, "it is far more pointedly severe than any of his previous invectives." Later, in that same day, a statement appeared from the publisher announcing that some unforeseen occurrence had prevented the insertion of his correspondent's communication. This, which seemed irresistibly to fix the responsi• bility on Lord George, was afterwards explained on the supposition that he might have read the manuscript at the office of the Public Advertiser. In the continuation of Hume's " history of England," the writer, after studiously weighing the evidence, inclines to acquit Lord George Cavendish of the charge which the court-martial established. An application to George 111. to have the case re considered was cong-oi‘—"ouslv, though reluctantly, . ; refused! Hine ilhv lacrynne May - not such re - - fusal, if it really affected the author of the letters, account in some degree for the venomous sarcasm which sweltered in the writer's bosom? .1s to Lord Temple's pretensions, yon, sir, have convincingly Ilesinlyed them! And with regard to Sir Philip Francis, there is nothing in any of his literary etliwts which has any resemblance to the balanced periods and elaborately-polished diction of J nnins._ _ The unknown satirist distinctly declares that he is the ►ole 414 , positary of his secret, and that it shall perish with him ! We can, therefore, have nothing hut coMeeture to guide us; and, as far as that can assist, the claims, as represented in the Quarterly Review, appear decidedly in favour of Th o mas Lord Lytlelton. May Ibe permitted to Rad that I have some family reasons f►r thinking many of them well founded ? With regard to Sir P. Francis, there was, some time since, an anecdote current, which is perhaps so far forgotten that you may pardon my rehearsing it. A prominent character in the literary circle of Holland-house was on one occasion expressly dele gated to apply to the suspected author for informa tion on the subject. Francis, guessing fr►m some previous hints the object of the querist, when ad. dressed, with much prefatory solemnity, for permi*. sion to put an itnportant inquiry, sternly drew himself np, and at once replied, •" At your peril " ! Such continent is certainly in the tone of a loan who thinks himself imrertinently " inquired of," and who feels at once embarrassed and affronted by the tpiestionist. 'cleat (Isla aIII IR ! With every ap►logy 1. , r the intrusion of the pre ceding ti marks, I am, sir, with distinguished respect, Your very obedient servant, VivAtru. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Thooky, October 11. IIANKRUPTS.—SANI - Et, COOPER, Iterlilil IR end thightim, builder.-31..sEs I)tcAvr:it, Ilirh•street, Southwark, and Hem.. inue. straw.honitet ineker.—CHARLES sr.A. RI I. Winchester, lil.Akm•Ot n, cisiematt-street, New North-mud. I , lo l glim, mot elsewhere. Istker.--91AY EM MANMEIELD MIRO i‘m stt.uoti, Manchester, leather ,eller.—.% N N Bee tat Ile n'. .4. LiVerpOld busier. ~cl'OT('H sEquESTItATIONS.—R. I NnLAi,Glasgow. ttre lioluwinsti.—.l. PATERSON. Altos. prem.—W. LAwsox. Linlith gow, hotel•keeper.---J. H. W. A NOEREON, Glasgow, manufacturing eheinist.—P. Kilentinviek, stater.—P. 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