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782 r. and the teutton. AN ADMIKIR OF rat: ' is thanked for his letter, but we than be glad to hear that he ha" misconceived our mean. tug, and put a construction upon our words which they do hut appear to hear when tak..n in u.olitiv , tiou with tho context. I imposeible to soknoviledge the mass of letters ws Their insertion is drieyed, owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted, it iv ircliti.utly from rewvous gime mode• pendent of the merits of the communication. We cannot auJertake to return communications of which we do 1101 avail on: selves. mtnnhl.•atiniiv should always be legibly written, and on one aide of the paper only. If lung it Increases the dieoulty of &hadn't( apace for them. Whatever iv intended for insertion must he snth'•uticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily fur publics• ton, but as a guarantee of his good faith. shall have our he►t rt• vI Ip"gø+ LONDON,SATURDAY,DECEMBI:II I 7,1P33. POSTSCRIPT. ItUSsiA AND TLILIiLY. The tidings of military operations last received are, as usual, e'ontradi story to a most perplexing degree. For example: the Patric states positively that Akalsich has been taken by the Turks. A des. patch from Vienna, dated Thursday last, affirms, on the contrary, that the Russian 6encral AndronikotT had totally defeated the Turks in a battle at Akalsieh, and left .1,1100 of their sailers dead upon the field. lit tit. Peterslinrg intelligeueo is said t s bare been received of victories gained by Prince Orbeliti, alto eneoinitered 1144,1 NN) Turks near Alexandropak and drove them bark, after a sharp encounter; and by general Baummer, who charged i,INNI Turks with the bayonet, completuly routed them, and took a cannon, two standards, and a quantity of ammuni tion, at some place unnamed. By wit) of counter poise to the statements, the AnNtrian Lloyd, the Oat Dentache Fast, and other authorities, relate a ol' 'lurkish hticeesse:. The first mentioned journal reports that Alexandropal, the site of Prince thrlailin's alleged victory. had been besieged and taken by an Ottoman force. It i. stated, also, that a t the capture of the fort of Sala, near ShelLatil, by the 'lurks the Russians lost 400 killed ; that in the newed attack tin Shefitatil, on the 17th Wt., the RuNtoiam were repubtotk with heavy loss; anal that Sehamyl anti Selim Paella, (Terming in eoneert, were gradually approaching each other, and taking the fortresses on their lines of march. Prince Worenzulf was surrounded at Tiflis, and his retreat cut off. 7 The following bulletin, containing a litts , ..ian official account of the victory at Sloop), was posted on the Bourse at Odessa on the bth inst.:— " The Russian fleet, tinder the c ommend of Ad m i r al Netihimolf, has wet in the black See a Turkish and Heoptian feet, composed of eighteen ships—two-deckers, frigates, corvettes, together with two steamers of 400-horse power, and two others of flat-horse power. After a lung engagement, the following Turkish ships have been de stroyed or captured :- - One of 61 guns .. No name given. HO .Vezratni .11miet Ali. Vnzim lessins. MI " Steamers -2 of 20 gnus each. 2 transports. 1 British transport. " The engsgroinent took place near sinope : 4,000 'l'urks have been &Mud, slot 'ntty taken prisoners. Osman Huhn. %1t was wounded, inis sko Levu taken lois( er. " Several officers, both Engli,h and Freud', welt; on board thu Turkish fuel." Of the vessels named in this bulletin there is but one, the Fessi 211alimoutl, which can be identified with any of the ships enutuerntel in the official lists of the Turkish fleet recently published. SEvEnAi. po: sons who %yore voluieto.l in .'than Of having excited the population of lireece to iv a r against Turkey hale Is:on nrested by order a the tireek Govillitnent. M. nr. 1..\ COtrn, late .thibit , sador at Constantinople. has arrived at Paris. Ntunik Nicht% was to lea‘e for London tlik day. AnvicEs front the south-western coast of Anteriva Mate that an insurrection had taken place in the north of Peru, and that the Peruvian territory lia.l Le. n invaded also by the Peruvian arn)y. headed by General Mitt. The Permian President has resolved t t take the field againsttl 10 li lens. The position of the Lieverutueut was THE PRESS. INDIA.—The express despatches brought by the overlan i mail reached Louiluu last evening. Thu accounts froni Bunnell come down to the 2t/th of October, and represent the country to be in a state of anarchy and confusion from the daring atrocities perpetrated by the Dacoits. Captain l.atter had, how ever, marched his troops against them, and inflicted severe punishment, desperately wounding the noto rious chief Noah Toon, who was conveyed on a litter to Ave; so that it was hoped the flagrant offences of this daring band would be at least suspended for a time. Captain Smith was not less active in the neighbourhood of Sanwa!), where he succeeded in capturing another of the leaders, named Noting Koung Oyee, whom he ordered for immediate execu tion. With the exception of Burmal), India never enjoyed i , .•' tranquillity than at present. Major Herbert Edwardes, C.D., had succeeded the late Cul. Mackeson as Commissioner at Pesliawur. Major- General Godwin died at Simlalt ou the 26th October, after a very short illness, while ou a visit to his Ex cellency the Commander-in-Chief, Sir W. Gomm. Sir Theophilus Metcalfe, the Commissioner at Delhi, died on the :td lilt., and Lieut.-Col. Gordon, Adjutant- General of the Madras army, died of cholera, brought on by overtaxing his energies. This epidemic hail also broken out at Bombay, where 275 persons had fallen victims. The financial condition of India ap pear; to be most prosperous. The news from China is of Oct. 27, which brings no later intelligence from Shanghae. Hostilities were still going on at Amoy and other places, but, from the confused accounts furnished to the several local papers, it is impossible to know upon which side the advantage lies. WEST Ivies.—Jamaica paper. to the 27th ult. have arrived by the mail steamer Plato. The House of Assembly was in session, and had passed the Import Duty Bill, with some important reductions of the tariff. A great struggle took place relative to the duration clause of the bill, which the retrench ment party wished to limit to the 31st tf December, Irs:43 ; but after several divisions it was carried, by a majority of one. to extend its duration to the 30th of December, 1851. The return made by the Receiver timersl showed a deficiency of 200,0001. up to the January quarter, which would have to be added to the debt of the country, as it never could be dis charged by ordinary taxation. Tim loss of revenue fluting the period from the Ist of May to the 10th of October, from the want of an import duty bill, had been ascertained to amount to nearly 120,0001. AT TatNtokb there was some fever, and the troops had been removed in consequence. .411 the other islands were healthy. Tag lutc.t intelligence from New Zealand gives us the result of the election for superintendent of the Canterbury province, under the new constituent act of Sir John Pakington. Mr. Fitzgerald was elected by a majority of upwards of 40 votes above the second candidate. There were three candidates, the other two being Colonel Campbell and Mr. Tancred. Mr. Fitzgerald was for some time the editor of the Lyt telton Times, and to those who arc acquainted with that gentleman, and his early identification with the colony, his election reflects great credit upon his con stituents. Mn. M‘DowAti., the sculptor, bas been selected to execute the statue which the people of Belfast are about lo erect to the memory of the late Lord Belfast. Tut GOVERNMENT AND UNIVERSITY REFoRM.—A letter was received on Wednesday by the Vice-Chan cellor of Oxford from Lord Derby, the Chancellor of the University, communicating the startling intelli gence that the subject of University Reform is to be made a tiovernment measure in the approaching session of Parliament, and will form one of the topics in the Royal speech. This much-debated question is, therefore, now taken out of the hands of the University, and will be submitted to the wisdom of Parliament. The information communicated in Lord Derby's letter was, it is stated, received directly front the late Homo Secretary, Lord Palmerston. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tyndall, Der.l3. BAN KRUPTS.--Janaa Ittrnannsoa. Jona SASDERS WICKS, and Ilasna Sutra, Upper Quectim-buildinga, Bra/100n, up holsterer4—Jacon Connor, New Finehlev-rowd. St. Johtis-wood, 1111 hroker--Cnntartaa DIWKE, Garlick-hill, drysalter—sAut;Et. awarr. Houndselitch. Birmingham and Sheilield warehouse. wait —WILLIAII 11(11.4E, Manchester, cotton manufacturer. suOTC SEW.' ESTRATIONS.—W. Gamma. Dundee. Incr. chant I). WALKIN.,sIIAW, Mnsielburgli, ironmonger —W. Taonat , N, lato of Glasgow, merchant—T. Rolm, Paisley, mann- Stet neer-4 I. C. PATI - .Rnom, (ilikegoW, con fee tioner—'r. PRIN t• late of Sprollflull. COLLINU, lihaagurl , iron- Friday, Dreember 16. NK nu riS--CLAt DIVA Aunrt RiVENI:II, )1I t'hauge, milliner and flower nierchant—TitomAs ItrainUve, F,..e%, woollen draper and clothier—DANlEL mou e s, Man. cheater. aharebroker--DANIEL EDWAXINI sod WILLIAM C.1111 , 1c11-1k , %111, builders, SATURDAY, SALE OF THE PIGOTT LIBRARY. As event of much intenst to bibliophilists will take place next week, when the extensive library collected by the late Mr. Smyth Pigott, of Brockley hull, Somerset, will be sold by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, at th.iir rooms in Wellington -street. This collection is voluminous enough to extend over six days of sale ; and contains a multitude of works, rare, curious, and valuable in no common degree. Mr. Pigott was a keen hunter after literary oddities; and his library is richly stored with books possessing various claims to be called odd—id their subjects, their antiquity, their style, and their authorship. To many items in the catalogue we find appended the note ro dear to the hearts of all book buyers of the old school—that wily ten, or mayhap five, copies of tile work in question were ever printed. Books on alchemy, sorcery, and divination fill a large and curious space in the library. In this class are con tained " Three Books of Occult Philosophy, by Come lius Agrippa" (1651); " A Fourth Bouk of Geoman cy;" " Magical Eletnents of I'. de Albano, Arhate of Magick, Englishe•l by Robert Turner" (10n5) ; " Revelation of the Secret Spirit, or the Concealed Secrets of Alchemy" (1627); " The Golden Calf which the Wend Adores and Desires (1070); "The Tomb of Semiramis hermetically Sealed:" Aubrey's Miscellanies, or Dreams, Day Fatality and Magid," Sc. &c. From the miscellaneous class of " curious Woke we can make room but for a few specimens, culled almost at random from the catalogue. For example, there is a copy of the 44 Golden Ass " o f Apitleius, with French translation and plates from the Paris edition of 1702 ; Buttes' " Dyetes Dry Dinner, consisting of Fight several Courses" (1590) ; Tom Coryat's " Crudities " with his "Crambo or Colewort twice Sodden " (1811); the "'Torment ing Tophet, or a Terrible Description of Hell," by If. Greenwood (1614); Sir John Harington's " New Discourse on a Stale Subject," called " The Metamor phosis of Ajax," with MS. dedication and notes in the autograph of the author, who was, moreover, forbid the Court by Queen Elizabeth's order for writing this book ; Head's " Proteus itedivivus, or the Art of Wheedling," and the "Art of Thriving, or Plain Path way to Preferment ;" Toland's suppressed work, en. titled " Adeisidrettion," and a translation of Voltaire's " Pucelle " into Paiglisa verse, of which we are told that it was " made by a lady of noble family, and rigorously suppressed at :he demand (.1 his lord ship's chaplain, the Ikv. Mr. Boyd, who declared he would not retain his position if it was uucomplied with. It is said only ten copies were preserved from the flames." Books of Facetite and Tales of Love and Gallantry form a special class of no inconsiderable magnitude, selected chiefly from the literature of the eighteenth century. Besides the department of curiosities, there ere many works intrinsically valuable, some of which are also exceedingly tare. Several of the most costly and gorgeously illustrated works on natural history, on architecture, heraldry, ac., appear in the catalogue. Among the latter is a fine and unique copy of Anderson's " Genealogical History of the House of Yvery." The collection of "'Tracts," especially those upon historical subjects, is rich and 'anions; while upon the topography and local history of his own county, and its chief cities— Somersetshire, Bristol, and Bath—Mr. Pigott pos aessed a mass of works, printed and MS., probably unequalled in extent, and of almost incalculable value to the antiquary and histonographer. Mr. Pigott, as might be guessed from his known tastes, was an extensive purchaser at the Strawberry-hill sale, where he obtained, among other curiosities, the marvellous speculum and magic crystal used by the astrologer, Dr. Dee, which is now again otiered to the virtuosi, and will form an item in the sixth day's sale on Saturday next. WE regret to learn that his Excellency the Ilanoverian Minister is again s uffe r i ng fr o m indls• pusition. Mitchel, the Irish exile, had arrived at New York An enthusiastic demonstration was made on his landing. Jr is a curious fact that while the English residents in France hare raised fully 12.000 f. for the Bellot fund, a French committee in Paris hare only been able to collect 000 f. fur the same purpose among their countrymen. THE STEM!: AND WAGES Mori:NENI. has pre sented no new features lately. Last week, ending on the 12th, was called a " little week " among the ope• ratites, and yet there wag 2.4. - 4)1. placed in the hand' of the committee to maintain the l+trikers. Ihts would enable them to increase their paymentil from Is. to ss. per head, but, in anticipation of Christmas, it has been deemed expedient to adhere to the former stun. From the reports of the delegates, it appeared that the tlind reserved for Christmas week already amounted, in the aggregate, to I,4wW. i J