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THE EV ~NIN LONDON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1828.. STAR. STOCK EXCHANGK, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Consul market opened heavy this morning, and Consols were done at 87j. soon after went down to 861 / for the Account. This decline is attributed to the sad state of the weather. Consols are at present at 117 to 1. with little doing. CITY, HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. The letters from Constantinople of the 12th July, are of a very warlike description. Since the Porte received the news of the surrender of Bnilow on the 111th, they are very active in their mili tary preparations; all the Inhabitants of the capital are arming, and a great number of horses have been put into requisition. The GUANO Vales is preparing for his departure, but this will not take place before the lines of the Balkan and the entrenched Camp at Schumla are carried or turned; troops are constantly being sent to &Auntie. Great fear is entertained of the serious investment of Varna, and considerable corps Of Infantry and Cavalry have been sent to reinforce that garrison. Order and tranquillity still prevails at Constantinople. An Austrian vessel, which arrived at Trieste 20th July. brings accounts that thirty ships of war are blockading Navarin. At Modes he saw a Russian frigate cannonading that fortress, On the Bth July there was a terrible thunder storm at Moscow,. which bas done damage to the amount of two hundred thousand roubles. From Odessa, dated July 19, they write of the arrival there of the Imperial yacht, with accounts that the Russian squadron. under Admiral Gains, was to sail from Anaps for the East of the Black Sea, with the Paige& of Prince liencamorr, which was at the siege of Anapa. Accounts from Lisbon state, that Don Minn continues its terrible vengeance : numerous secret executions have taken slue in the capitaL Consols have been fluctuating, during the morning, between 814 and 871 for the Account. Up to the present time they may h • quoted at 861, alternately buyers and seam PRICE OF STOCKS AT POUR O'CLOCK. Bask Stock 214 India Bonds 114 15 3 per Cent. Red. 671 j i South Sea Stock 3 per Ct. Cons. 87/ 61 1 Old Annuities se per Cent. New Ditto 31 per Cent. Red. 961 6 41000 Hubei. Bilis 7! 3 4 per Ct. New,lol 1 .4500 Ditto 72 3 4 per Cent. 1826. 105 4100 and 4200 Ditto 73 1 Long Ann. 90 1-16 Bank for Acct. India Stock 2421 j Consols for Acct. 87/ 6/ 71 111 FORKIriN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Steslllanlide. S pa. 621 / j Do. Acct. 381 1 Berlins Ayres kids. Op C. Portug.l3ds.spC. 541 31 Do Acct. 431 Pruss. Bonds,lB224pCt.l oo l Greek 80nd5,182.5, 5 p Ct. 18 Russ. 8d5.1822. 5 per Ct. 95 41 5 8dt5 182 . 5 1 6 P Ct. Spanish Bds Sp Ct. 101 BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARKS, TWO O'CLOCK. nem 35 100 rais. SO 47* 48 5* Brazilian Marine Alliance At a late hour this forenoon we received the Prussia,. State Casette of the 91 instant. It contains an account of the movements of the Russian Army to the 22d inst. at which time it occupied the heights before Schumla . There bad previously been some smart fight ing,especially on the 20th, when the Turks were obliged to abandon the eminences, and retreat to the entrenchments. The communication between Varna and Schumla is also cur off by the Russian army BERLIN, Atreus: 9. NEWS PROM TM6 TRRATIR OF WAR. On the 16th July the Emperor's bead-quarters were at Thelma, and the van-guards bad proceeded towards Jesibasar. NcarVerne. General Comm SvelteUs bad a sharp engagement with the jarri ng, which made a sally, and repulsed it with coosiderable lom— at the 17th July, attar a very fatiguing march through bad roads, broken -up by the unfavourable weather, the Imperial Head /garters arrived at Jaskepe. General 13enkendotif was sent with a detachment towards Pra, vadi, is order to drive the enemy from that place, and to make himself master of the communication between Schmitt and Varna. The Empire( has issued an order of the day, strictly en jiiag tho troops to behave with humanity to the enemy, because tits men were extremely indignant at the Turks having, according to their mules, cut of the beads of the Russians who were slain. Oa the 19th of July the Head-quarters moved to Turk Arnett lar. in a fertile roastry ; and on the 19th they moved to eminences of Jenfteely, opposite the enemy's out-posts.whose teats were seen media Walks Si Schmala. On the taltk the army marched towards Sekund& The enemy, mutat* et eight or ten thousand men, cavalry and artillery, vi.' seemly defended the eminences, bat were driven back into the entrenchments before &hands, and the army immediately bi vouacked on the eminences opposite that place. Otte loss is inconsi derable ; but the death of Colonel Read, the Emperor's Aid-de. camp. is muck regretted. On the 21st part of our army occupied. Witham mistaace, the heights near to Schumla. Getters, %chubs has defeated a body of Turks who swam over the 'Aloes to get is the rear of our corps before Varna. The siege of Maria was to begin on the 21* Joll.—Praissica Skate Gamete, AVM 9. An Extraordinary Express arrived this morning, with the Paris Papers of Tuesday. They announce that the fortress of Kars, one of the most important posts in Asiatic Turkey, was taken by storm by the Russians on the 15th ult. after a severe and sanguinary conflict, in which the Turks are said to have lost 2,000 men killed and wounded. The Russians state their own loss in killed and wounded at only 464. Five thousand Turks laid down their arms. and 1;250 were taken in the previous action, in which they made a most determined resistance. A great quantity of cannon, arms, ammu nition, provisions. &c. also fell into the hands of the Russians. The following are the particulars: /ROM TUB UUSAOZIL Dig miasma's, AUGUST 13. PARIS, Alums: 1!. We have just received, by express, the following news from the Russian army: ODESSA. JOLT 23. An Aid-de-camp of General Paskewitsch brought, the day before yesterday, the following news The Imperial colotns are flying on the walls of the important fortress of Kars, which was taken by storm on the 11th July, at eight o'clock in the morning. Upon an eminence which commands the town on the south. wig side was an entrenched camp, which it was abso• luteirsecessary to get possession of in order to carry on the siege. Om ; troops attacked the Turks with impetuosity with the bayonet, and dislodged them from that formidable position, notwithstanding their soperiority in numbers, zed the vigorous resistance they marie„. In the / omit we passed three ramparts, by which we made ourselves IMAM of the suburbs, and the lover part of the gar rison had time to e*cape into the citadel. Terrified by our success, the enemy, to the number of 5,000 men, tau down their arms, besides 1,250 who were made prisoners during the attack ; among the pri soners are Mehemet Jamin, Pacha of Two Tails, Com mander of the Cavalry, Vali Aga, and many other Officers. The attack continued three hours. The ground oc cupied by the camp as well as the suburbs. were covered with the Turkish slain. The loss of the enemy in killed and wounded is 2,000; 3,000 cevalty, who were in the fortress, escaped into the mountains ; the garrison amounted to 11,000 men. We had one Officer and 33 privates killed, one Captain, 13 Officert, and '216 pr ivates wounded. We found in the fortress 151 pieces of cannon,' 33 standards, and a considerable quantity of ammuni tion, arms, magazines of corn, &c. Kars is one of the principal fortresses of Asia; three ranges of thick walls, flanked by towers, which are con structed in the form of bastions, surround the town and part of the suburbs; the whole is protected by a citadel, situated on the summit el a mountain named Karaday ; 151 pieces of cannon command the plain in every direc tion; a rocky soil, which rendered the works of the be siegers difficult, added to the obstacles which we had to conquer. nasal Foxes.—Pau', Asa. 12.—Five per Cents. 1071. 60c. 107 f. 45c. Three per Cents. 721. 8.5 c. 72f. 75c. Bank Stock, 1.870. Renter de Naples. 76f. 50c. 76f. 50c. Renter de'Espagne, 61. Royal Spanish Loan. 721. Haytian Ditto, 625. Beckange on Lao dott, One Meath, 151.2 k. Three Months, lbf. ISc.—Cours 411- tkeniim 4fossist 12. Accounts from Lisbon by the French mail, state that the Madeira expedition is going to be augmented to 3,000 men, who are to be escorted by two sail of the line, three frigates, and nine brigs; but this expedition re• quires at least three millions, and the treasury is empty. German and Brussels Papery to a late dare have been received this morning; part of the intelligence in the extracts which we subjoin have been anticipated through other channels: SMYRNA, hum 4. An English frigate has brought to Vourla the joyful news that the European Admirals and Count Capd d'lstria have had an inter view with Ibrahim Packs, and have made a formal Convention with him to supply his army with provisions from Zante, on his engaging to evacuate the Moses. An English brig was sent to .:lexandria to procure the vessels necessary for the conveyance of the troops. Till the time that the evacution shall actually be ef fected, the blockade of Navarin, Candia, and Alexandria is merely for the purpose of observation, as an armistice in fact exists. We latter ourselves here that the Ambassadors will soon land at Vourla. GENEVA. AuousT 1. We are informed here that Jacob Rizo, the well known author oC the history of modern Greece and of modern Greek Literature, has been sent on an extraordinary mission to the islands of the Archipelago, where he will exercise thelonctioss of a Governor, or Prefect. HAMBURGH, Jun' 28. Our Journals have published the Commercial Convention which the Hanseatic cities, in conjunction and each separately, have con cluded with North Atnerica,and which is extretrely important to all Germany, because it concerns the most important branch of its com merce, next to that with England, as its principal ports, and from the main rivers the Elbe and Weser. At the same time the decla ration of the Duke of Wellingten in the Upper House respecting the policy of England, has inspired here entire confidence that the peace of the ocean will continue, that the freedom of the Elbe and the Weser will be employed only for commercial, and net for military objects; and that in general our trade will continue in its regular course. The fluctuations in the prices of stocks and of many kinds of goods, have been ended here as it were at a single blow. Only the Turkish war, remote as ills, appears to have some inloence en the prices of corn. They are slowly rising, though the most abundant harvest already occupies all hands, and suffers but little from the continuance of wet (but very warm) weather. It is understood to be already Settled who is to be present on our part at the conferences to be opened on the 15th of next month at Cassel, respecting the commercial convention between the States which are interposed between the different ports of• the Prussian dominions. At Maidens the new chapter has been formally opened by Bishop Von Ledebtihr, of Pederborm and it will shortly proceed to the election of a Bishop. The Government has secured to itself the appointment of one Cannon. VIIPSA, Aim M—ldetalliques, 93 3-16tb.—Sauk Shares, 1015. Agawam &sung, Augug 7. FRANKFORT. Ammer i. WITRACT OF A 'OVATE LIATIZA 71031 lINITSPA, DASD mix 3. To judge by the perfect tranquility that reigns here, one would think that the war bad not yet begun. The Turks do not at all consider this as a national war ; they say that they have ►een op pressed with taxes to form regular troops, and that it is pow the business of the latter to defend the country. The standard of the Prophet is not yet displayed, and it is difficult I. foresee what meet this event would have on the people• Count Capo D'huia is not beloved in Greece, but as be new receives more money, the Greeks willry dick court to bim. _ _ FROM THE DANUBE, JULY 27. The large transfers of Turkish property to Ausuia by means of Bills of Exchange, &c. continue. All the open country up to the foot of the Balkan, is either accompanied by troops or entirely tie. populated of Greek inhabitants. In Batters Delgada intestine war has broken out between the Greeks and the Turks, in which the Catholics take no part. At Sophia the Turks had formed a corps of volunteers of 800 young men, chiefly rich Greeks. The latter, however, deceived the vigilance ads. Turkish troops joined with them, and all went over to the Itassians.—.Frortlrfort Pape►s, August I. VIENNA, Awn: 3. 'The Austrian Oisaver gives io.day news from Gorki to the 14th July. They announce the arrival Is that port df the French ship et the line La Conguerant. with Admiral de Rigor ; of the Asia, Admiral Codrington, and of several other English men of war, which came last from Zante. According to these letters, Count Cars Width, on board of the Russian ship of the line the Azeff, had sailed on the 10th from Zante for Dragonsestre, in order to have an intertiew with Gene ral Church. He willafterwards go to Cerro, where Hr. Stratford Canning and M. de Ribeaupieree are shortly expected. The Oar* Goodie confirms the intention of Ibrahim Puha to evacuate the Mores. A cutter of the Greek Government coming from Perm, has i breugfit to Count Guillentinot dispatches from his Government, and probably else from M. J. de St. Denis, the French Consul at Poros. He had entered the pert under Greek colours; but as no armed vessel, either Turkish or Greek, is allowed to anchor in the port, it was obliged to go out spin till it obtained permission to anchor in the road eear,the quarantine establishment. This vessel sailed again no the 14th in the 'eosin, aid steered a southerly course.) News bad Wen received at Corfu, that the garrison of Caron, chiefly composed of Albanians, who mutinied against lbrahim le April about their arrears of pay, and afterwards submitted again after refusing the proposals of the allied squadrons to deliver up the fortress to the Greeks. bad finally left torment to Albania through the Pclope:mews. A letter from Zante, of 10th July says, that the Asa and a Russian brig, and afterwards the Werspite, with Count Capo ti' Istria on board, arrived there in dm night of the eth. M. Sandrini, the Riad= Consul, went alongside these vessel.; and 1 en his return it was reported at Zante, that Ibrahim wonid *va cate the Morn in twenty days at the farthest. On the 9th, at ten in the musing, Admirals Codrington and Von Heyden bad a conference, and were afterwards joined by Count Capo d'lstria, whom they received with the greatest die. 1 tinction on his landing, and bad a conference of three hours, at which were Sir E. Parker, commanding the Warspite, the Captain of the Azad*, and Sir E. Codrington's Secretary. The same day Admiral Codrington sent the Racer with dis. patches, it is supposed to Corfu, to Admiral de Rigny. AU thew ships of war sailed again by the 13th. BRUSSELS, Augurs It. His Majesty has granted to Bruges and Ostend permission to a general Encrepot, like that at Amsterdam.—Bres.ropers,Asg. 15. From the Guernsey Paper of tbe 12th August, re ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house: " The brig Three Sisters araived here this morning from the Brazils, brought letters from Rio to the 14:h Jane. We learn from them, that a very serious affray took place on the 12th June between the foreign Regi ments and the Black troops, in which upwards of fifty of the former were killed." EXTRACT OF A LETTER. 5: I am sorry to announce the continuation of the dis graceful war between the Emperor and the Republic. An internal affair has taken place, which I think will induce the Emperor to come to some terms; what I allude to is, a dispute which took place between the foreign Regiments and the Black soldiers the day before yesterday. It appears that the Germans and Irish finding themselves ill-treated, and their frequent complaints not looked into, agreed on a revolt, and last Wednesday several of them appeared in the Campo with arms, and fired on every one who attempted to pass. I afterwards learned that not more than forty muskets were found amongst them. All the infantry, cavalry, artillery, and guard of honour were called out, to quell the disturb. ance, in which they finally succeeded, and after slaying their artillery on them, accompanied by two or three rounds of musketry. the Germans and Irish finding themselves too weak, retreated into their barracks,where they afterwards surrendered, on a promise that they should be permitted to leave the service. From fifty to silty foreigners were killed ; the loss on the Brazilian side is not known ; those stationed at the barracks of St. Christavor rose the following day, but were soon quelled by the liberal promises of the Emperor. It is reported he headed the cavalry himself. Their behaviour was certainly like madmen; and they committed great de predations in every street towards the Campo. It may be well said, that no foreigner's life is secure after dark, for the slaves bear mortal enmity towards us, considering us in the same light as the Irish." The private letters from Rio Janeiro, received this morning, state, that the marines of the English and French ships' of war there were landed, with thirty rounds of ball, when they drew up before the barracks of the revolters, who immediately thought proper to surrender. They have been sent on board of the hulks, and the different forts. Order was again restored.— When the accounts left near one hundred persons were killed in the streets. Exchange-291 30. ♦MERICA AND THE BRAZILS: The late additional aggressions on the part of the Brazils in burning an American veuel, has created but one opinion among all classes. Several frigates, says the New York Enquirer. will be in readiness to proceed to Rio, and the destruction of the Brazilian squadron will probably be a cheap lesson in future. Commodore 1 1 BIDDLE will probably have the command, and all the Post Captains will have ships. Intelligence was yesterday received at the Foreign Office, that theGnvernment of Don MIGUIL had issued orders fir the blockade of Madeira, and a communica tion to that effect was immediately transmitted to the Chairman at Lloyd's. It becomes a question, therefore, with our Government, whether or not the blockade will be recognised? The confession of Corder, so far as it goes, must be satisfactory to every one who has a just appreciation of our admirable system of jurisprudence. In solitude and in the secrecy of his own heart, he sacrificed his victim months rolled on, sad in an unhallowed grave, corruption was fast obliterating all legal evidence of his guilt; but forensic ingenuity, anatomical science, and the skilful array of collateral facts, fixed the deed upon hits with such a weight of circumstance, that no man could have hesitated to pronounce the verdict which was given by the Jury. Bat it is a fearful tiling to redects that what seemed to be conclusive and irrefragable evidence, touching the mode of her death,was altogether false. In saying this, we *warns., as we may safely do, that the confession of the murderer was true; for there was no motive to make it at all, except to declare the truth $ and in the awful and solemn situation in which he was when he made it, truth alone could naburthen his oppressed soul. -See, then, what follows: The death of MARIA MARTIN was occasioned by a pistol ball, and she expired instantaneously, without a struggle or a groan. No sharp instrument of any kind was in the possession of Corder ; none was used ; none, indeed, was wanted. Yet the evidence of the medical men who were examined went to prove, that wounds, and mortal ones too, were inflicted ; the supposed in strument with which they were inflicted was applied to them, and found to correspond; and the Judge, in commenting upon the evidence in his charge to the Jury, earnestly pressed upon their attention these pre• sumed facts, to invalidate the defence of Corder, justly observing, that if it were indeed a case of suicide, it was a most singular one—for it seldom happened that when a person shot himself, he also inflicted severe stabs, upon different parts of his body. These can be no doubt that the Jury, in considering' their verdict, gave full weight to all these circumstances, when, by that verdict, they negatived the prisoner's de fence. There can be no doubt they believed the several • wounds, so circumstantially described by the surgeons, to have been inflicted by Corder; and that if they hesi tated for a monsent.-il they love an invara, Coring. which they balanced in thtir minds the probabilities of the defence, the recollection of these fade, as they were entitled to consider them, set at rest every doubt.-- Happily, the confession of the criminal justifies the conclusion to which they came, thou ;h it acinihi. lates some of the strongest grounds upon which, is all likelihood, they formed it. But suppose, and there is nothing extravagant in the supposition, that the deed had been one of suicide instead of murder —suppose Corder's statement to have been true—he would still have perished on the scaffold as a murderer,-and wbe would have questioned the justice of his fate ?—No one- In what we have said, we neither wish nor intend to . cast the slightest imputation any where. Sure we me ' that had we sat in the jury box, or an the bench, wit should have decided with the one, and commented with, the other. Human judgment can work only with human means: and the most acute analysis of the evil deuce as it was presented to the Court, could not have turned aside its full current from the prisoner. Bu t it awakens *rim considerations upon the inherent texture of testimony exclusively circumstantial._. We remember a case which occurred two or three , years ago—perhaps hardly so much—where these considerations were still more strongly excited; foe a man was then convicted of the murder of a Cler gyman (we forget the names of the parties), and before his execution made a full confe.sion, when it turned out that scarcely any one of the circumstance. upon which the verdict was given was correctly do. tailed: yet the whole chain of evidence appeared per. fed and conclusive as to the prisoner's guilt. Another memorable cue is recorded by Chief Justice HAL; where the result was indeed tragical; for there a person was arraigned, found guilty, and executed, for the sop. posed murder of a man, who appeared< some years afterwards, having returned from the East Indies, whi ther he bad gone without communicating his intention to any one. There was, of course, sufficient pre- sumptive evidence to satisfy the Court and the Jury, though the unfortunate individual solemnly protested his innocence, and died with that protestation on his lips. It is a humane maxim of British law, that it were better ninety-nine guilty should escape, than one inno cent person suffer; and hence the scrupulous ansieey with which our Judges impress on the minds of Jades, the duty of giving a prisoner the benefit of ever dente that may exist as to the fact of the crime with which he sands charged. On no occasions ought this feeling to predominate more forcibly, than when they are called upon to convict or acquit entirely, or mainly, from cir cumstantial evidence. RESIGNATION or THZ LORD HIGH ADMIRAL. The Doke of CLAWING' has resigned the Office of LORD HIGH ADUISAL. Various motives are assigned, by rumour, for this step on the pan of his Rom. Humana ; but beyond the fact of the resignation, nothing is certainly known on the subject. The Conde de VILLA FLoa's house, in Lisbon, haS been sold by public sale, by order of the Goveenesent. It was NM for 1,90 UL A letter from Sheerness states that his Majesty's ship Gloucester Is ordered for sea with all medians. LINK YEOMANIIII—These corps consist altogether of 19,853 men. WALLACE, the performer, sailed a few days dace from liverpool, bound for New York. The French Government has appointed a special mission to the Pacha of EGYPT to demand the surfer der of those miserable bondsmen. the Greeks, already transported from the Morea to Egypt, and dispersed is slavery over that country. This mission will set cot from Paris in a kw days. It will be accompanied te Alexandria by a force sufficient to secure respect to its claims, and be followed with transports to convey back to their native land such df those Christian victims of infidel violence as have survived their horrible sentence of thraldom. After an insurrection among the Neapolitan galley. slaves, one of them had been condemned to death. Oa approaching the place of execution, he said that he was thirsty, and demanded a glass of water; it was brought to him ; after sipping at it, he looked up at the Pries who attended to console him, and with a pitiful air complained. " Father, it is not iced." " Son," replied the comforting Priest, "behold the angels who are pre paring you ices made of every sort of fruit." A Spaniard, in an interesting work recently pub lished, has shown that the value of the coal dug up every year in Great Britain, even at the mouth of the mines, is such greater than all the gold and silver which is yearly obtained in the New World ; and, more over, that the coal is the occasion of the employment of so great a number of persons, that the annual VA: 6 = of their labour surpasses that of the valuable mead found in America each year. The following is 'lle mode by which he proves this:—Every year, on the average, 18,000,000 tons of coal are dug up, the goo ral cost of whist: at the mouth of the mine, be calor late: at 12f. .50c. per ton, which gives in the whole 225,000,000 francs. The yearly produce of al die works in America for gold and silver, including the contraband trade, was, at the commencement el the nineteenth century, when they had all reached the highest point of prosperity and their produce was greatest, sr cording to Humboldt, in his Essay on new 217.500,000 francs ; which gives a difference d 7400,000 francs in layout of the coal. The ton of coil when carried coastwise, generally costs the consi 40 francs ; when carried Inland, it on the average cal 20 francs to the consumer. But taking on 25 fro° as the mean cost of each ton of coals, we sh all have for the 18,000,000 tons, the sum of 450,000,000 francs.-- Deducting from this the value of the coal at the moral of the mine, we shall have 225,000,000 francs for ti e value of the human labour employed in the coal trade, Theexpense of conveying silver from Potosi to Boos Ayres, a distance of 500 leagues, is abouttwo per cot" for gold somewhat mime. Now, taking this as the average cost on all the precious metals to the Pcg° where they are to be shipped, we shall have some wlli less than 5,000,000 f. for the whole. This may, withal ' hesitation, be taken, when we compare tie value of thr coal of Great Britain with the value or the Americo gold and silver. From the whole, therefore, it appeal' that the value of the coal, and the wages of labor , profits, Btc. on it, amount to the sum of 450,000004 and that the value of the gold and silver , together will: L cost of carriage, amounts to 222,500,000 f. This do', that there is an overplus in favour of the English cosl trade to the =IOWA of 227,800,000 f.