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VI • but I NUM refer this point .to the MOM competent deehion of others. "The Greeks, it bale been equaled on authority which I am not disposed to dispute, owed much more to the study of living than of dead bodies. Tel ; but have we who go about unused, and among whom the artist has na pay geld for the liberty of drawing from a single naked limn —lnv, we such opportunies of studying Nature in Its /dug Now mints as the Greeks had ? Give as the manners, the alkmas;din education of Antient Greece—her gymnasia, and palmetto, and the constant familiarity of the artist's eye with the unswathed strength and symmetry of the human form in every variety of age, sums. lure, and excereise; and the question about the poesible rodeo. tiveness of an artist's observation of Nature, will be put on a sae. terially different footing. Then, allowing that the Greeks in sta. tuary owed more tothe-liting than the des& body, can it beproved that they owed nothing at all to anatomy? On the contrary, their sculpture begins to lichen Si* the time when it is most certain that they must have possessed some knowledge of anatomy, and the date of that knowledge, I suspect, goes back even to the times of balm !Once. It can be proved that there was dissection among the Greeks anterior to the date of Hippocrates. Of that physician's anatomical knowledge, Dr. Hunter says that it is sometimes ode teUigibir ; but that may not be the belt of Hippocrates ; and Dr. Hunter owns that the- Greeks very well understood Osteology.... He says " that they bad easefully considered the human body 3s its organisation and functions, and that they had made up very noble and comprehensive ideas of the subject in general." Notice,, that these are the words of a great anatomist, comparing modem with ancient science. lam perfectly aware of the superstitions and even laws of the Greeks having been hostile to dissection ; and that anatomy for the purpose of medical study was too imperfectly studied among them : but I cannot help suspecting, that if the veR of historic mystery were to be lifted up,tre should find that they practised secret dissection more frequently than is generally sup. posed. That they did dissect is unquestionable; that they could' have often done so secretly, and that they had strong temptations to the practice, bas every appearance of probability. How else could they have acquired those noble and comprehensive ideas of the human economy in general, which the learned Hunter ascribes to them? Religious horror and popular prejudice may impede, but cannot extinguish the study of anatomy—no, not even if it should be more dangerous for a purveyor for the surgeons to violate a grave than to murder a human being ; and as this oral prodsely the case only a twelvemonth ago in Edinburgh, we may pause before we conclude " a priori" on the extreme infrequency et Athenian dissection. • •. It is evident on the whole: that the Greeks; knew something Off anatomy, and if Dr. Hunter be right in thinking that something mot insignificant in a physiological light, it must have been quite ad& ciesit for all sculptural purposes. It is, therefore, unfair to tell us, because the Greeks were worse anatomists and better sculptors than the moderns, that anatomy has little or nothing to do with sculp ture. That it has nothing to do with it is not indeed assumed by the Edinburgh Reviewer ; but in his estimate It is of so little im portance, that lie is wroth with Reiman for saying so much about it, and he taxes him with substituting attention to science for the ob servation of Nature in his advice to youthful students. Now, Mr. Manna proposes no such substitution. On the contrary, be exalts the importance of the study of Nature, when he speaks to this effect :—" Try to know of Nature u much as you can—be not contented with observing her outward surface, bu t carry your views into her internal organization." The study of Nature surely ceases not upon her surfacer—and if internal scrutiny facilitates outward observation, how can advice to the former study be called a recommendation to us to be slight observers of Nature? I tberefore think that Therrien is more really an advocate for natural observation than his Edinburgh critic. That skill in the internal structure of things should make us inattentive to their exterior ap 'panne, is surely an useless apprehension. Let the opinion of artists themselves, and, what is more than that opinion, let their practice be appealed to on the subject. Sir. T. Lawrence is not accused, at least, of anatomical pedantry ; but he is a deep anato mist. Of living names, it is, however, a delicate matter to speak, though I should fearlessly, if it were necessary, leave the test of the question to modern names. But without presumptuously offering to guage the individual rank and priorities in so illustrious a body of men as our nide, artists, I appeal to departed genius. If this addiction to science be so servile a feeling, as the Edinburgh Reviewer represents, whys at the head of the " strewn peens" of hard scientific students, do we And Michael Angelo and Leonardo de Vinci ? Parmegiano follows them, a name identified with elegance and beauty. These were the masters of form; but Titian, Ruben.. and Tintoretto, the three greatest of colourists, and who ought to have been leas anxious about form, were inquisitive and laborious anatomists.— Going back to the revivers of sculpture, we find DonateUo pain fully sedulous in studying deeper than the surface of Nature ; and equally inquisitive was John di Bologna, the scholar of Mi chael Angelo. A friend of mine has drawings of his in his posses sion, which show him to have been a profound anatosnist. Cor regio, we shaU possibly be told, was guessed not to be so deep in the science, and yet he was a great man. Yes; but how has this fact been guessed at ? Why. by his ackowledged defect—his want of truth in drawing : so that the exception, instead of weakening, establishes the rule. Let the student of art therefore believe, that those who exhort him to the mere surface observation of Nature, arc themselves but superficial observers. That Flaxman,ia all his discourse about the usefulness of science to art, meant not to palm either anatomical or any other species of arquir•d knowledge upon the student in lieu of original inspiration, is evident from his own words. " AU rules," be says, " all critical discourses can but awaken the intelligence and stimulate the will for a beginning of that which is to be done. They may be compared to the scaffolding for raising a magnificent palace ; it is neither the building, nor the decoration, nor the workman's indispensable help in erecting the walls which enclose the apat tments, and which may afterwards be enriched with the most splendid ornaments. Every sculptor and painter feels a conviction that a considerable portion of science is requisite for the production of liberal art, but he will be equally convinced. that whatever is produced from rules and principles only. added to the most exquisite manual-labour, is no more than a mechanical work. Sentiment is the life and soul of fine art, without which it is all a dead letter. It gives a sterling value, an irresistible charm, to the rudest imagery or most unpractised scrawl. By this quality a firm alliance is formed with the affectiees in all works of an; with an earnest watchfulmess for their preservation, we are made to perceive and feel the meet terrific subjects, following she course of sentiment through the current and maaesof sentiment and passion, 10 the most delicate and tender des and sympathies." I have possibly done injustice, though little inteodine it, to this . works by dwelling so moth on the allowance to be made for the _ difference of scope which an artist's genius enjoys in a didactic and .in a practical capacity, and I have now left myself too little roam for ouch extracts as would filestrate the author's power muds bet ter than my remarks It seems sows* to move* pure and sound principles of art ; and if the Edinburgh Reviewer perceives dog . monism in Flazman's tooe of lecturing, I can only ay that his ear , is more sensitive to that quality, and more experienced brdetecting it. than I can pretend to be. 'lave a sueptcloo, too, that the ge nerality of good jodges willdiscover quite as muchmste lathe Pro • gessoes old tradirloisary gamins at * tly rea Edidbargb Reviewer's dimovegica. tot the godlike forms of sculpture are but stuck-up gods. and goddesses, and that an can leap at ea. vast • from it" cradle to ks Fut. 8P !fast a leap rensiads me of . • the 1 004 010 , who bleb, tumbled from the gallery of Debbie theptce into the pit, abilited asklds feu, and being asked by a by. saw*, `:.When the. Devil ..did•yep come from?" macerated— . % Vibes' the County Levy.". .43timiser at reformed oo sock so-' •1111weig..• Fro, its inbluef a ita settle:dom. gime were mom than ~4 a ,o+ 4 yeses,. nd Its .gmitive,beanty endured eateretmottedes.— e s. x . 2 • 1 4.• stiotatbefesps f iviatif ciparbelt befpnaaildies, pro, I I\ dosed works which were afterwards pined in Rome by Augustus among the wonders et Sculpture. The art then was surely be yond its cradle, and Pliny nacelle= artists long after Fruiters and the Alexandrian age, who wined that sculpture was not yet in het main. That its most perfect state in Greece lasted little more a century, Is no proof that its career was short ; any more than the sun, being but a few hours in the highest are of his bovi ne, proves the shortness of a summer's day. Them= is justified in saying that art felon& and Wm is short.. The didactic chapters of this work are very distinct, sad I should suppose would trove to the student exceedingly peels! : but it is the historic part which makes It chicly entertaining to the jinni reader. In speaking of Egyptian siolpture, be remarkably sim plifies a multifarious subject, and reduces into a short view the •übstance of modem discoveries. In the history of Italian art we might have expected hiM to be interesting, from the nature of the subject; but he meets us by surprise u an agreeable teacher in the history of old English Sculpture. From the statuary forms in our venerable cathedrals, the common-plate observer would be apt to turn away, for fear of compromising the dignity of his taste by no. tieing their existence. Not so Flamm ;—bls pure and penetrating love of the beautiful detects the expression of interesting sent eent. even where it dawns through the must primitive ineflciency of execution; and we follow him among those old statute' as we 1 should listen to &r Walter Scott pointing out to us traits of beauty in the earliest ballads of our poetry, amidst its shapeless diction and uneouthest metres. I must cease, however. to Interpose between Fialllllo and his readers. When they meet, the latter will forgive my tediousness. for my good intentions le bringing them together. T. C. FRENCH PAPERS. From the Messager des Chambres of Wednesday. FRANKFORT. Dec. 23. It is no longer doubtful that Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg has obtained the suffrages of the three Powers, parties to the Treaty of London, to have the sovereignty of Greece. Prince Leopold, the King, the King his fathersinslaw, and the English Cabinet, appear to desire that he should have the title of King, but France and Russia have not given their assent to this, having already expressed on several occasions, their opinion that the royal title and dignity had been lavished with too much ease to certain Powers of the fourth order. The honours of Royalty have become, u it were. vulgar in Germany, so that the Doke of Oldenburgh, of the Royal I House of Holstein, has not yet thought fit to make use of the Grand Ducal title, which Includes that of Royal Highness, and which were given to him by the Congress at Vienna. PARIS, Dm. SO. The lietaiteur of this day contains two Ordinances--ont dated the 2d, which regulates the application of the sum of 37,866,500 francs for the special credit, granted by the law of the 2d August, 1229, for the department of ecclesiastical affairs and public in struction, during the year 1830, the other, dated the 6th Dec. re gulating the application of the soul of 1,116,000 francs, granted by the same law,. for the ordinary especial of the department of fo reign affairs, during the year 1830. NAPLES. Die. 14. The extraordinary expenses caused by the journey of his Majesty have rendered an augmentation of taxes necessary, and caused ge ueral discontent. The severity of the winter, and the high price of wheat add maize, give reason to apprehend serious troubles. It is to calm the popular effervescence, which becomes more and more manifest, e►pecially in the Abrussos and the Terra de La voro, that our Ministers have invited Admiral Heiden to come and pass the winter, with all his Sett, in our port. The hotel which the Russian Admiral is to occupy is already Suing up, and the necessary preparations are making to accommodate the Russian ships In the poet. It is said that his Sicilian Majesty has desired another remittance of one million of ducats. It seems that the million sent before-hand to Spain will scarcely suffice to pay the expense of the fetes. FRENCH FUNDS, DEC. 50. Five per Cents. 108 f. 20e. 40c. 30e. floc. Three per Cents. 831 10e. 65c. 70c. We. BSe. 90c. Bank Stock, 1,8871 50c Recce► de Naples, 9lf. 60c. ltente Perpetually d'Espagne, 71. Royal Spanish Loan, 806 Rente Perpetuele d'Espagne 5961 806116. EzcmAmes os Loewe—One month, 25/. 80e. Three months, 2SE 45c.—Caurs .derheistigue, Dec. nt. NEW YORK PAPERS. NRW YORK, Dec. 1. u The first seuion of the 21st Congress commences at Washing ton on Monday next. The President's message will probably be delivered at 12 o'clock en Tuesday. Arrangements have been made by the several daily papers of this city to receive It ►y express in 20 hours after it is submitted. Like all other documents of this kind, it will be looked for with eager interest, and many eyes will be curious to learn what it says concerning the Tariff—the India's, and the Texas—besides various other topics which come almost of course into the annual review of our foreign and domestic relations. " The approaching Congreu will differ In one respect from the last,—it will show a majority in favour of the Administration, so large, that on questions of mere party politics opposition will be hopeless. But questions of this sort are not very numerous, and cannot be made so. The majority will understand that en them devolves the responsibility of the Sadao; and that to spend the people's time on subjects of no public interest, will be to defeat their own objects, (if any they have), of party aggrandisement. Besides, they will not be long upon the Boor, before questions will be broached which have nothing to do with party lines, and where administration and and-administration feelings wiU be lost in local sectional, or other interests, which put all party calculations at defiance. We fear not party so much as sectional divisions. The Indian question will have something of this aspect, and the Texas project still more. It will be well if the latter do not become another Missouri question. But we unit that the good sense and patriotism of our representatives will so guide the skip of state as to keep clear of breakers, and that a beneficent Plums:ma will defend her from storms." VERA CRUZ PAPERS. From El Censor, dated Vera Cruz, Oct. 7. We learn from Ferrol that the repairs of the Hero (74) are com pleted. and that she will be immediately armed and equipped, the Diana corvette, and Jason and Guadiana brigs, being to sail irons Fermi to Santander, to fetch the great guns intended for the Herci; and as soon as these arrive she will immediately proceed to the Hi. vans"withost Wing a moment of time. Let the Hero come, and let her bring hither heroes similar to 'bone that arrived in ae Soberano at Tampico; aye, and even better men, for they will have to imitate the elantpk which Barradas set them on the memorable 11th of Sept. at Tamaulipas. We no longer fight with bows and arrows; nor is there any One here that would take them for children of the sun destined to bathe monarchs of Mexico; nor do we attach any consequence to the men that are to come ftom the East, to whom we are equal as men, and superior in valour and knowledge. If this does not se:. tisfy.them, well, they may return once more, and bring with them the Regency; they shall have a magnificent escort from the cease to Muslin, and be, store/ow lades with heavy ornaments; and hen they arrive in the capit al, they will be exalted on their posts in the square of Miacalco in a manner worthy of them, and in the presence of the troops and of an immense crowd, who will artist in taking held of Melees. the Regents.. The misfortune is that neither Vine (the Governor of Cuba) nor Medias, nor Gevex, are men likely to trust themselves on the water, when they find that then is a chance of a wet jacket; and what happened to Harradas will show them that if they dare, they will only not get a sousing, hot that they will be choked. • Frost El Corm de la F ederacio. MEXICO, Sass 17. . Yesterday the President of the &piddle, oceompanied by divers Generals, visited the quartets and barracks of the troops in pr• risen in this capital. His Escellency bit the sweet sobbed= of carrying consolation and joy even is the glociesiest pieces, the. asylum of wretchedness. He not only bereaved and advised the troops, congratulating them on the emcees of Tamaulipas, arid the trial of the Republican arms over the enemy, but bad also th e pleasure of liberating several unfortunate men, whom further ins- Irlsonment was not called for, 'entimbil had emceed for their I , daldts. May. Heaves preserve t he illustrious Guerrero! Sen. *ll.—We have Mies to think that the PreAlaitiosons to . sail the Chambers together, and lay down the esststearry powers vested in him, . I • NSW ORLRANS, awe} IS. By Ale sebeeeer ieeepbbie, wide* asrbrill AM men** treat As Ns sessek erbieb be MR es the M. w bees dors seessel filipaskh, sq.dhise wtl penal hem that ro e seaskilirse MM ses. owe se leer. . • Aseasetibase bees realest this Isms Oaiii tbas a Meat Mdse, sr 1111111,110 S WOW tar Jdebles.. ' • - From El Sol. MEXICO, Sen. 94. We have stated that General Oars. bad add to cooperate, with the condinedens of General Santa Anse in ecisive Mail on Haman ; bid we were ill-informed when we threw out theme imputation!. which ere ondiaerved by that Commander. The Coarenesder4o•Chlet WWI orders to General Garza to act conjunales with hiss aided the ideuty. These orders were sots an the 1916 out Oa of Ae and reached his hands on the 119 d. He could net obey them, are, in the battle of the 21e. Saes as..— Saisday, 'hellish, his Excellency the President and the Antheekles proceeded to the Sanctuary ef our Lady the nest Mfg 'Virgin of Geadelsops, before whose divine image the Plret ggegletrate of the RegeMic wUI, in the name AA the Meat. cen)=. return thanks far the protection she vonchsaled to us. contains a surface of 116,000 leagues, and a prank° el 7,000,9110. or Tian COil. Balboa In bood •••• • ••••• •• ••• ••• • Dollen 4,11413 7 II Dudes eolleded to September.. •• . ASSN. I 105,846 6 4 VERA CRUZ, Sept. 50. Oa the 27th of September the Conducts from Mexico, Poolda. and Jdapa, arrived safely, under the etionnand of C. Manias Ri ven, Money for Government accoont... 12,000 Ditto for Merchants 611,562 1 Sixtreisht bare of silver .... 74.516 _697.1130 3 From Me Mansajero Federal. JALAPA, Sept. t 7. The patriotic Colonel C. Jose Antonio Mop arrived hen with the standards taken from the enemy at Tamaulipas, according to the capkulatiou with our victorious army, and proceeded with the umo to Mexico. THE EVENING STAR. -- --; ~ .7 ) -* OM IL, . ' - - 42. , f . ( ':: ' •:-..., - T )1( _ 9; 4 . .1 1 : 1 •2 . t . , . 3 f, 7- .. rye,' • 4 7 OAT LONDON. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2. PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK. Bank:Stoek 2161 India &oek: shut 3 per Cent. Red. 94f 4 f India Bonds 72 1 5 per Ct. Cons. shut Old Annuities 5j per Ct. 181$, 41000 Rzch.Bills (2d) 77 9 5i per Cr. Red. 1004 £5OO Ditto 77 9 4 per Cent. shut 100 and 4200 Ditto 77 9 4 per Ct. 1926, 1051 i Advertised, Long Ann. 194 India for Acct. 227 Do. 30 Years, 19j Cons. for Aec. 93, FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Brasil Bds, 5 pr Ct. 74 5f 4 Do. B. 1825, Sly Ct. 501 I Do. Ace. 744 54 Do. Ace, 50j 50 * 30f Wen... Ayres lids. 6 p Ct. 29 Max. Bds. 5 per Ct. Colom. Bds. 6 per Ct. Do B. 1825,6 p Ct. Do. Bds. 1924. 24 _ Ditto Acct. 27 Ditto 100. Ilsie - Sp. Bds. S per Ct. 101 I Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. Do. Ace.lo4 f BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLioCt. 411 A kg ram. PIM SNARL Brasilia . Imp. .es pm.) 33 so 94 \lraicau 100 33 23 24 ` rolombian (is& at €5 pat.) 55 57i 13k Real del Home 400 400 74 Mined Mex, ($lll. at Al pm.) 40 191 151 General Steam Navigation 100 13 The report of Prince LEOPOLD having been proposed as the future Sovereign of Greece, has been so often re- peated that it seems no longer doubtful. It has furnished the Journal des Dibats the ground-work of a violent attack on the POLIGNAC Ministry, in which that of England is treated with as little ceremony. In the event of the Cabinet of Saint Petersburgh approving the choice, and its being ultimately confirmed by the people of Greece, (for they will of course be consulted) we trust the Prince will prove himself worthy of a nomination, which might well flatter the self-love and excite the en thusiasm of the most distinguished men in Europe. Without stopping to enquire whether a more appro priate selection might not have been made, we think the fears of the French Editor, with regard to the influence which England would acquire by the accession of the Prince, quite unfounded.— A Morning Contemporary in noticing the article of the DAats, takes it for granted that the fifty thou and a year would be continued. We repeat our own conviction, that there is no probability of this being the case. It is scarcely necessary to say, that a pension from any Foreign State, would be quite inadmissible, and vitiate the whole transaction. Two modes present themselves, by which the Prince might be enabled to assume the reins of government with be coming dignity and strength. The first is through a loan guaranteed by the great Powers, and the next—a sub sidy, to be repaid when the finances of the New State are properly organized. Without the adoption of one of these two expedients, no ruler can hope to establish his autho rity in Greece. Two other questions arise out of the rumoured nomi nation. Who is likely to become the partner of the new throne, and will the Greeks require their Sovereigns to become converts to their own faith ? These will doubtless become objects of curious speculation. We have frequently called the attention of Ministers to the subject of Greece, and lamented that the en lightened and benevolent policy of Mr. Cs xtw was not followed up. We trust the Noble Duke has, at length, recognised the importance of the Greek question as regards British interests. It is no trifling consolation to those who have devoted their best energies in aid of the Greek cause to reflect, that there was no exaggeration in their stating, long since, that Greece was destined to be come an important member of the European family ; se that suggestions which were then treated as chimerical us now carrying into full effect. We cannot conclude them' cursory remarks without reminding the people of Greece, that one of the first statues ereetedin the Acropolis ought to be that of GROGGN CANNING. We annex n oopyOrZlnteresting speech which Mr. Moons, the Minister from the United States, deli vered in the absence of the Ltsszeron, on presenting his credentials. It is a moetimporbutt document, ss it manifests the policy which the present gwrernment of the United States proposes to observe with regard to any reforms which the Spanish American States may find ft necessary to make in their political Institution This con duct does the greatest honour both* American preside*. end motion. The Fiat*, non-intervostios In the form of Clovernment, as in the asks of Amiga mations, must be respected se sacred rad lavish* in 4ateriea, if that pert of bald, desires to avoid the wile which a cinerary systole hie mimed la Europe. Unfortunate Spain, Naples, Piedmont, and Portugal, are melancholy examples of this truth. It is very natural that the Government of the United States should feel a predilection for those institutions which have raised its enlightened country to the highest degree of prosperity and distinction. But that government and people cannot refrain from acknowledging that the state of society, the peculiar circumstances under which the inhabitants of the Spanish American States were placed and finally, the experience of twenty years, con firm the maxim of SoLoN when he said to the Athenians, " I have not given you the but laws, but those for which you are best suited." The generous tribute of justice, to the merit and integrity of General BoLtv AR, must also be considered as an eulogium, alike honourable to all parties, while it &ROMs a proud answer to the calumnies circulated in North America, againht that benefactor of his country. IMr. President—Permit me, on this occasion, to as sure you and the members of the Council of Govern meat, that I enter upon the performance of the duties of the station assigned me by the Government of tha United States with an unfeigned distrust of my capacity to discharge them satisfactorily, which distrust is much enhanced by the fact of my succeeding the dietitian tsLtl gentleman (General Harrison) who has just ad you. But I beg you, Mr. President, and the h setteeble members of the Council, to receive my assu mes, that while acting in the capacity of MinisterPleni , fr ade : a ttary for the United States near the Republic of Co.I shall not suffer any opportunity to escaFe me of seeteining and perpetnuing the friendly and cordial relations which should subsist between the two Republics, and of maintaining unimpaired the harmony of incercourse which must be eminently desirable to both countries. " The people of the United States have contem plated with anxious solicitude the sanguinary and pro tracted conflict in which the Republic of Colombia had been engaged. They have seen her emerge from that conflict, and from all the horrors and desolations of a civil war, triumphant and independent, and prepared to assume her station ultimately among the nations of the earth ; and they fervently hope that her glorious efforts may he crowned with all the blessings o f civil liberty. Assured, from their own experience, that all nations are capable of self government, they have en tertained sanguine hopes that the Republics of South America still present to the world additional exemplifica tions of this great and interesting truth : and in the lofty• character, and tried integrity, and ardent patriotism of the distinguished Chief now presiding over the destinies of Colombia, they trust will be found a g uarantee for the fulfilment of their expectations. But whi le communicating the hopes and the wishes of the people of the United Statee, it is my duty to declare, as instructed by Cie illustrious and venerable patriot recently called by them to perform the duties of Chief Magistrate, that, though sincerely de sirous that the people of Colombia, in organizing their go vernment, may be influenced by the example that may be found in their own system of organic law, yet that they will most sedulously abstain from any interferenc), either direct or indirect, with the internal policy and concerns of this Government. That which they ask of all nations, they most willingly accord to all—the undisturbed enjoy ment of their own opinions, and their own political institutions. " Be pleased, Mr. President, to receive again my as surances, that whilst acting in the capacity of Minister from the United States at this capital, nothing shall be omitted on my part, compatible with the duties apper taining to the station which I occupy, calculated to pre serve and perpetuate a friendly intercourse between the republic which I have the honour to represent, and the republic of Colombia. " The Turks are passing their time merrily with toe English and French magnates in Constantinople. The Allgemeine Zeitung, in an article from that capital dated 27th November, gives us the particulars of a grand ball and supper, in celebration of the Saint's Day of the KING of France, at which the Moslem guests were nu merous. This affair seems to have been conducted with a greater regard to etiquette than Sir RODENT Goa- DON'S fête on board the Blonde. We are further in formed that the SULTAN is preparing to repay those civilities, by giving a grand entertainment to the European Ministers in the ball-room of the Divan : CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27. On the end inst. Count Gailleminot celebrated the Saint's day of the King of France, by a grand ball and supper, in the hotel of the Legation, which was splendidly illuminated. The entertainment was in reery respect brilliant, and the difference between this and the celebrated fete on board the Blonde was so remarkable, that It must not be passed over in silence. The Turkish great men, ministers, and guests, were net mired with the European ladies as on board the frigate; they kept in a room by themselves, and there convened with the Ambassadors and Moisten. Sometimes one or another went alone into the the &swift-moos to see the dancing ; their attendants were wholly separated from them : a room was set apart for smoking. No Mussulatan took part iu the ball,:eseept Awn' Bey, aid.de.csamp to the Sultan, who danced a cotillioo to European shoes. When supper was served up, the Tarkish Gran dees and Minhten were conducted by the European Ambassadors to the table (for 70 persons) prepared for them, and .0 placed that an European 1111wister was seated among three or four Terka,and an interpreter. The Ladles took their seats altogether, in the center of the table. No Turk was asked to drink wine; when a toast was proposed to the health of the Sovereigns, on which nosy one arose. Sherbet was presented to them ; but some pictured Chatepesge. The Makonestan guests were the Silihdar, Bekir Aga, Calnewheld Basal, a Colonel of the Sultan's Guard, his two Aid sle-Camps, Awnl and Ahmed Bey, two of the Sultan's Chamber- Was. the &riskier's Drwkt Naslri, the Captain Pacha, Naas Puha, the Kopyrbaschl General of Artillery, the Reis Effendi, with his private secretary, the Moklubdsch, secretary of the Grand Fiske, the thief of hh once, and the Teichnifaldiebl Effendi, or Chid Muter of the Ceremonies. The ;entreatment will now seen take piece, which the Salm is propane' to glee to the European Ministers, in the greed ballanat of the Divan, in the Arsenal. According to an appearam, the nukes himself will be present to witness she Monism and European customs, anj then to determine bow far the permission and introduction of them is ceaspadble .with the Mahomstan law; for many leregularliks that took phew en board the Mende mist be highly displeasing to the albedo; Meeme of the Caliph& It cannot be denied that if the steps Mee to promote civilisation are to be useful, it cannot be sesesed el the expose of morality and of their religions sentiments, which enneaell matinee among every people not wholly degeserand, The mania of dame aid temperance, set by the lissopewm, meld eastioebtedly hove a favourable Minot* on the sleds of the adman; whereas the chances of temptation, and the trawls& also of a law cennemed by long and strict observance, mat lean mempente !minims he morality. • MAN* was ellanated on the SOth : by the Ruske traps, um moo* able own of the giving up of Ghiorgove. It is said