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SALLUST, Tacirus, Scce.—HONXIL, VIRGIL, and Ho- sacs, will justly take precedence among the Poets. Ptrx. The size to be small Bvo. hot pressed, and neatly covered in cloth. Price 4s. 6d. each Volume, containing on the average 350 pages of handsome letter-press.; The publication to be regularly continued and delivered every month, with the Magazines and Reviews. It is expected that the Series will make about Form: blorruiy Vounees ; but any Author may be purchased sep ly. DRYOSTRIDICS and &Luny will be completed in Nos. I. and 11. GERMAN PAPERS. RECEIVED LAST NIGHT. SMYRNA, Nov. 1. Chance, blind Fate, is no longer a divinity : where should we be, if we were obliged to believe that an empire goes to ruin be cause fate has decreed its fall, without the possibility of finding a deliverance by human means? The treaty takes from the Turks land anti money; and, consequently, its material in- Ureats. In a moral point of view, the Turks are at this moment weakened, as must be the case with every conquered nation which certainly loses in its own esteem, and in that of other nations. However, there are in Turkey more than in any other country numerous means to find compensation for the vicissitudes of military fortune. The Porte has lost some territory; but in a state like the Ottoman empire, which possesses such immense territories under one sovereign, can a few square miles, nay, even sonic mi. litary possessions given up to the enemy, be of such great impor tance as to affect in any manner the vitality of the state? In the commotions which have shaken Europe during the last half cen tury, bow many of its states have been derived of whole pro vinces, without the smallest diminution of their real strength, which consists, not in the dead earth, but in the art of animating it, which is the secret of Power. The Porte must also pay money, and the sum is indeed large, when we think of the state of the finances. But Is there in Europe a single Ministry of a Well-regulated State. whose sleep is for a moment disturbed by the recollection that it needs the same number of millions as the Turkish Treasury renter's to pay the military contribution. Money, therefore, is not, as it was 50 or 40 years ago, impossible to be obtained by the Governments, but it comes in only when order and good management give it security. If the Porte will, by its interior organisation, by insuring respect to private pro perty, give security to public property, the millions of Europe will come to its aid. It is only thus those bonds of interest between Turkey and other nations, that truly universal con vention, can be formed which unites all nations for their cost.' mon preservation. Every thing, therefore, depends on the course that the Turkish Government shall take. Spain in pee. session of the mines of Americ a, remained p oor, in spite of the geld and slyer which ita galleons brought it. t would now be one of the richest countries in Europe, if it bad cultivated its soli, if it employed on canals and roads the hundredth part of the tees mires which it long considered as the sole source of prosperity.— Happy is the land whose soil give an ample reward for the labour bestowed on it ! In this particular, Turkey may be envied by other States. In every part of the countries governed by the Sultan the earth is prodigal of its gifts; the slightest exertion of the arm of the inhabitant obtains the richest produce, and the thousand European ships that come annually to contend for the advantage of taking them away, seem to indicate to the Porte that the fertility is far from pro. clueing what it might do. and that it awaits only the encouragement of a protecting government, to double the wealth of its subjects and its own. The blussultuan people deserve, indeed, all the regard, nay love, of those who govern it. Where shall we find men I • more unassuming, more plain in their mode of life, more moderate in their wishes, more compliant to the will of their sovereign ? We see, indeed, in other countries. under a despotic Government. bumble and resigned people, who remain passive whatever may happen to them, but they are almost everywhere serfs, who hardly venture to raise their bodies, which are bent to the ground. The Turks, on the cootrary, noble-ntindedb filled with a sense of their dignity, submissive without being debased, skew, in every situ stion of life, a haughty soul, open to great impressions, capable of great efforts, combining devotedness to the supreme head of the State with reverence for God. Iris generally believed in Europe that this people encamped, as has been so often reported, in the fine ▪ cos conquered by Mahomet 11. lived in a lawless state, with is arms always at band, and ready, like the Bedou in trib es, to WWI wherever plundet and booty m a y be ho p ed foe. If we look closer, we shaltend a very different scene. The Turk has become a cultivator of tile soil ; he bas become attached to the piece where be has his field , and his house ; be desires no better than to live here at his ease, withlue troubling himself with what is passing at a distance ; he goes to war when bit Prince su mmons him ; hot he is itrong only wffen be defends himself at the spot where he has his home. What retfiarcts may the Government Sod in this excellent Ovulation! Wlot strength will the empire possess, if each of these energetic men could look on the sovereign as the protector of the Interests of all. If the reformation is carried on with prudence and energy, it will not be rtluitite to destroy the whole of the 10461 edifice of the Turks. The old manners of the nation have many points which deserve to be respected. One strike most sim ple and important secrets of the art of government in these times, is to interfere v ithout raising impediments. Let the Porte con vince itself of this truth, and its reform conducted in this spirit, instead orator*, or changing the national character, will in , creme its adMitabty.tempered energy. dtlieisseine Salaam, Da.ii. • Ezowastoss ex Logoots.-.-Angsburg, 10th Dec. 10 4; Rapt ors, 9th Dec. 9 months, 1511 ; Berlin, 10th Dec. 6 291. THE EVENING S^AR. 1 - )1( 44 1 ,, • p * A, _ 04 0 5 - 11-'jj* LON DON. FRIDAY, Di • PRICE OF STOCKS Bank Stock 2161 1 1 5 per Cent. Red. 93/ 1 I 5 per Ct. Cans. abut 31 per Ct. 1619, 991 100 31 per Ct. Red. 991 1 4 per Cent. shut 4 per Ct. 1826. 1051 1 Long Ann.l9l Do. 30 Yews. 191 :CEMBER 18. AT TWO O'CIDCK. India Stock shut India Bonds 67 Old Annuities 411000 Eseh.Bill (ild) 73 4 ,E5OO Ditto 73 4 fBlOO and .C2OO Ditto 73 4 Advertised, Bank for Acct. Cons. for Jan. 941 , TWO O'CLOCK. Peruv. Bds. 6 p C 161 Port. Bds. s p. Ct. 57 Do. Ace. 534 5 7 6 Sp. Bds. 5 per C. 10i f Ditto Acct.lof FOREIGN FUN Brasil lids, 5 pr Ct. 671 * 1g Do. Aec. 6711 g 71 g Danish lids. sp. Ct. 74 Do. Ace. 74* Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. Do. B. 1895.5 peCt. 241 BRITISH AND FOREIGN 911 APES, TWO O'CLOCh 411Alig PAID. flUlt SWAIM Anglo Mexican (ha. at 45 pm) 100 100 591 Brasilia , Imp. (ha. 45 pm.) 35 , 20 79 Do. National 2S 10 17i 19 We call the attention of our Readers to an article from the Allgemeine Zeitsng, on the present situation of Turkey. It is an article evidently 'coming from very intelligent and well-informed sources, and merits the consideration of our British Statesmen. We shall have occasion soon to revert to this subject ; for looking at the question of Greek independence as settled, it becomes our interest to consider, if there be not those elementary qualities in Turkey which, if properly deve loped and assisted, might still, in a short time, create a civilised community, and constitute a sufficiently powerful Empire, to aid in restoring' the lost balance of Power in Europe. The last letters from Mexico, written by persons here . - tofore very hostile to GI; ERRERO'S Government, after describing the general exultation at the victory of Tam pico, admit, in terms of great praise, that the con duct of General GUERRERO during the time he exercised the Supreme Government, was entitled to the highest commendation—that SANTA ANNA had also shown the greatest moderation and conciliatory spirit to wards the Ecossais party —we trust henceforth the term Ecossais and YorAino, will no longer divide the friends of their country—and that the moat bene ficial reforms were under the consideration of the Government, and would be carried into prompt execution ; so that the State might derive more solid advantage than that of military glory from the na tional exertion displayed on the late occasion. This is the way indeed to use victory—and is a result, our rea ders may recollect, we had, during the struggle, anti cipated. In the cursory remarks we yesterday made on the struggle pending in France, we took occasion to notice the temperate manner in which all the points at issue, between the Court and the people, are treated by the liberal press. Although we were prepared for the opinion of an evening paper which pretends that " in the present attitude of parties among our neighbours, indications, not of the approach of those wholesome constitutional struggles for which we have an hereditary reverence, but of fierce, exasperated, and dangerous collision"—still we main tain the correctness of our own conclusion ; and, considering the various and irritating causes of com plaint on the part of the nation, it is really matter of surprise that so much moderation should prevail. We have only to refer to the very interesting article from the Constitutionnel, inserted in our paper yesterday, (and it is as strong as the general commentaries of the liberal papers) as a model of temperate discussion. Nothing, indeed, can afford a stronger proof that the writers on that side are convinced of the justice of their cause ; nor would any other course either become them, or be so likely to at tain the great objects at stake. But how widely differ rent is the system purused by the Court Party ! There we see nothing but vituperation and scurrillity—the sure and never-failing auxiliaries of injustice and folly. Here it may not be irrevelant to point at the class of persons who enter the lists as political writers in the French capital and provinces. This point is neither suffi ciently known or appreciated on our side of the channel ;—while it forms a most singular contrast to the way in which the press of every other country of Europe is conducted. Supposing the whole number of papers published in France to be thirty, we venture to assert that three-fourths of them advocate liberal prin ciples, without any support except what they derive from the number of their readers ;—whereas the whole of the ultra royalist prints are kept up, either by large pecuniary aid from the Court, or from the priesthood and jesuits. But the most important fact remains to be stated. While the writers in the Gazette de France, Drapeau Blanc, and the journals of their colour, are con ducted by some priests and a few of the emigrant nobles, —who are the contributors to the Constitutionnel, Cour , rier Francais, Dthats, Journal du Commerce, Le Temps, (we wish this excellent Paper had chosen any other title) and the other Journals on the same side ? We are enabled, from personal knowledge, to assert, that they consist of men most distinguished throughout France, for rank, talent, and celebrity. To prove our assertion, we have only to repeat the names of Da PRA DT, ETIENNZ, CONSTANT, KBRATRE, GUI SOT, J AY, CH ATEA ÜBRIANT, LA FAYETTE, and a host of others holding the 'highest rank in the community ; sot to mention the crowd of young writers who form s distinct class in France, infinitely superior to the arpirants for literary fame in the rest of Europe, sok sus eight easily prove by citing the works they We, produced, in almost every branch of literature sal science. When such are the daily contributors to the present liberal Journals, is it to be wondered at, that their columns display such superiority of talent, or that they exercise so powerful an influence on the nation ? Certainly not ;—and it is only necessary to reflect on the fact of there being such a mass of splendid intellect employed in the Press, to feel satisfied as to the ine vitable result of the pending struggle. Convinced as we are, that the diasentions which have arisen between the Court and the Nation, will lead, at no distant day, to consequences of the highest importance—not merely in France, but every surrounding country—we lament the ignorance which prevails among ourselves with regard to the real state of the question, or of these master-spirits who are wielding the mighty engine of the Press among our neighbours. What else but ignorance could justify the levity and indifference with which many of our contemporaries regard passing events? It was yesterday said that the discussions in France could only be interesting from their results ;—to-day the most influ ential Journal of this capital cannot find a word for com ment in the Paris Papers of Tuesday ! And yet, we do not hesitate to say that they are among the moat import ant and interesting which have reached our shores for some weeks ; since they are filled with articles in which all the leading grievances are set forth in the most interesting lights ; accompanied with reflections which deserve the serious attention of all those who feel any interest in the future destinies of Europe. For our own parts, we are watching the re sult of the struggle with intense anxiety, convinced, that—whenever it arrives—the consequences will be deeply felt by the whole European Family. The Dutch Mail this day has brought us from the Hague, a partial aceount of the proceedings of the Se cond Chamber of the States-General. There is one sentiment in this report, which is of considerable value, if acted upon :—" No redress of grievances, no money" —say tl* people : THE HAGUE, Dtc. 13. In consequence of the sudden setting in of the frost, several ships which were in lading at Amsterdam, cannot leave that port by the usual way. It has therefore been proposed to let them pass through the North Holland Channel. GItONINGEN, Dec. 10. We hear that several of the principal i habitants of this pro since, as well in the city as in various parts of the country, have bolted to send addresses to his Majesty, petitioning him not to give his consent to the demands of a general unlimited freedom of public instruction ; and have also resolved that copies of the address shall be sent to the States-General. IL, DEC. 14. HAMBURG, Der- 11. In earn, generally spanking, there has, during the present week, been very little doing. Foe wheat there were no purchasers, cc. cept our own coosumers, and they only bought such as they were immediately In want of. During the last Ire days of November cargoes of corn passed through the sound ; 1 was bound fo; Logsdon, s fee Dutch Ports, and the remainder for Danish and Norwegian Ports. RI: Dollars. 120 to 130 pl an .. 108 115 Anbak White Ditto Red ll6 122 Daohh Petenborgis and Riga .. 100 115 Rye—Dantsle Rye—Upland . 64 69 llariey—Magdeburg Auk&lt Oats—lllecklenburgh Malt—Ponteranium 52 54 Peas—Upland Yellow. 7O 85 Rapeseed—Holstein l5O 160 Funds have rhea considerably. and large transactions have been foxed, in almost every specks of security. " - At a Cabinet Council held in London, a certain great capitalist is said to have been requested to give his opinion as to the capability of the Porte to discharge the debt due to Russia, lately recognised. The Angelo Danish Roods, it is believed in London, will next year be placed on the Cours Aithesstigue, published in Paris. Th. wind, which for some time past was easterly has, during the course of the day, been westerly; hopes of a thaw are in consequence entertained. End of December• 73# , .. ••• .. 106 j Anglo-Danish Loan, 5 per Ot. -- Russian .. Hamburgh Ditto .. Polish Bonds Austrian Bank Shares Austrian Metalliqucs .. New Austrian Four per Cents. ODESSA, N0v.21. •• • • 100 ~, • • 1111 134$ 105 91 During the last three days no casualty has taken place, under that part of the city not under sanitary inspection. In two houses of the Moldavanka, which were placed under inspection on the 9th inst. and in which Guiton Morvous' system of fumigation was adopted, in consequence of their having held communication with suspected persons, nine individuals (Jews) were nevertheless taken M on the 19th. Three of them died yesterday, and the remainder have been taken to the temporary quarantine establish ment. _ _ The English frigate Blonde, which arrived here on the 17th from Constantinople, sailed again the same day. A short time previously to her departure from Constantinople, the English Ambassador had given a brilliant entertainment on board the frigate. The principal Turkish functionaries were present, among whom were the Seras kier Pacha, Bahl Pacha, and the Capitan Paella. Supper was served at ten in the evening ; and after the distinguished guests bad each danced a Polonaise, they offered their arms to their fair partners, led them to the table, sat down by them, and eat and drank with the same freedom as the rest of the company. The whole pre sented a spectacle such as had never been seen before. The com pany did not break up tiff four in the morning.—Journal d' Odessa. —llawthirgis Reporter, Dec. 11. ssmumms os LONDON. 1341.uusaa, Dm. 11.-15 14. Two Months, 12 12k. Lungs, Dc. 7.—Three Months, 6 18i. Baum, Dc. B.—Two months, 841 620. If the contemplated reduction of the interest of any of the public funds were the result of some recent unforeseen and unavoidable National calamity,—or appeared to us the last and the unwilling resort of a prudent and actually economising Ministry, to relieve the Country from the pressure of that enormous—that overwhelming load of taxation, which has for so many years cramped her ener gies and bowed down her spirit ;—we should then, indeed, not only submit with patience to an expedient dictated by such a necessity, and recommended by such a principle, but we should also recognise in that act, the salutary ex cercise of a wise and justifiable policy. But when, at the end of fourteen years of peace, we find the exigencies of the State as imminent as ever ;—when the expenditure of the public treasure, instead of being regulated by any restraining influence of justice, of prudence, or of economy, is distinguished only by an unchecked prodi gality ; —when our revenues are exhausted, not in the reduction of an overwhelming debt, but in the gratifica tion of whims and fancies, and caprices ;—when thou sands upon thousands are lavished, not in providing for the wants and the necessities of an impoverished and half starving population, but in the erection of huge piles of buildings commenced without any definite plan, and hur ried to their completion without any regard to their exorbitant expense ; when the pension list, instead of being curtailed, seems only to extend its li mits ; and the long boasted system of retrench ment, confines its operations to the extinction of some insignificant clerkships : when these facts force themselves upon us in every considera tion of the question—then do we feel it impossible to re gard the projected reduction of the four per cents. in any other light than as an unjustifiable breach of contract with the national creditor. We admit that "the Govern ment has no right to gratify its fine feelings at the ex pense of the tax-payers ;"—but at whose expense, we should like to know, have the extravagances, to which we have just alluded, been indulged in ?—At whose ex pense is the payment of the annuity so inconsiderately granted, and so unmeritoriously continued, to PRINCE LEOPOLD, made good to this very hour? At whose ex pense does that high-minded personage accumulate yearly hoards upon boards, that he may transport his wealth from the country which made him what •he is, to ag grandize the miserable territory from which he derived nothing but that empty title which was his passport to honours which be could never have anticipated, and to wealth which must have exceeded his most expanded motions of earthly treasure ? At whose expense has His Serene Highness enjoyed, for upwards of twelve years, an income more than double the income of any of the junior branches of the Royal Family of England?—And yet, when the people who have thrown their all into the public stock, are to have their very means of existence diminished, in order that " National faith may be kept," with a selfish and ungrateful foreigner, and that HIV SERENE HIGHNESS the PRINCE LEOPOLD of SANE COROURO may receive every penny of his splendid re nal, of SIXTT-THREE THOUSAND POUNDS PER AN HUM, we are told, by that very press which the people dimnselves fostered into strength, that " the Government ins no right to gratify its fine feeling% at the expellee of Tex-payers." TIIR HAGUE. SECOND CHAMBER. OF VIC STA! The order of the day was the discussion of the projects of law, relative to the annual and decennial budgets, commencing with the yearlBso. M. Sandelin, the first member who spoke, ob served, that it had been laid down by some as a principle—" No redress of grievances, no money." He was of opinion, that it was the duty of the Chamber to discuss the proposed measures on their own merits, and not to mix them up with a different goes tion ; he asked—" Are we then in such a desperate situation?— Are the grievances so great? Have they such a powerful influ ence on our social happiness, that it is necessary to have recourse to extraordinary measures? Is the just confidence in the Prince, whom Flummox' has placed on the throne of the Netherlands, so weakened, that the existence of some grievances, however real, should induce us to resort to those extreme measures which can be justified only in those decisive moments, when the salvation of the state requires from the States• General the expression of that powerful and mighty will, which is necessary to restore the equilibrium de stroyed by the Government, and to remedy grievances thereby produced? No, gentlemen ! happily fur us we are not ►educed to this melancholy situation." He then declared that he should give his vote, ac cording to the opinion he should form of the measures proposed, after paying due attention to the arguments of the enlightened members who would deliver their opinions. Some other members then declared their intention of rejecting the budget ; partly because they desired a redress of grievances, partly because they disapproved of the measure itself. Messrs. Van Dam Van Isselt, and Syptins, declared they would rather vote for the budget, though they might wish an alteration in some parts, rather than expose the country to the dreadful consequences of rejecting it. The debate was continued, but not concluded on Tuesday. AltatillDAM, Dee. 15.-12 20. Two Months, 12 15. Dutch Papers, Dec. 16. . The Hantburgh Mail this morning has brought us a variety of notices ; which, though interesting individually, do not possess any news of general import. The follow ing are extracts : STOCKHOLM, Nov. 27. The Session of the Diet is still protracted, and the Members themselves participate in the wish of the nation, that it may soon be closed. Yet it is duubtful whether the most important affairs can be terminated by the 20th Dec. the latest date fixed by the King for the duration of the Session. It is therefore believed that his Majesty will, at the request of the speakers, prolong it for some weeks; ►ut on the express condition that all the sums to be granted by the Diet shall commence on the Ist of January Though they are considerable, they will be covered by the recap of the Customs, and require no addition to the taxes. This is the more surprising, as 2,800,000 dollars have been voted for the traordinary expenses of the army and navy. FROM THE MAINE, Dec. 4. It is said that every thing relative to the early fortunes of Caspar Hauser have now been discovered, through an old midwife the neighbourhood of Nuremburg ; it is said that he is the son of a Bavarian °dicer, who was killed in the last war; that his untie took him under his care, after the death of his father; ;.nd when he was a year old, gave out that he was dead. This uncle hu taken possession of the whole property of the youth. amounting to above a million of florins. He is supposed to be the person who, about ail weeks ago, attempted to murder Hauser in Nurentburg. The young man is now perfectly recovered. FRANCFORT, Dec. 6. We bear that t►e ordinary sitdop of the Diet will be resumed in the course of this month; and that Baron Den Munch BeMng haosen, the President, may be shady expected from Vienna to open the Session. BERLIN, D. 8. Count Von Houquieu, the Minister of &ate, has been here foe some time ; and it is said not merely on private Waimea There is a report that three Profess= of this University will shortly go over to the CathOlic Church. It is intended shortly to give public notice that no foreigner is henceforth to be admitted to Mi any civil dice in the Prussian States, without his Majesty's especial permiseacm.—Heesissipt Car► respensient. Dn. 11. BERLIN. Doc. 7. The Treaty of Peace, as Inserted in the Petersburgh Joarna agrees pretty correctly with the copy already given in the German Journals—only that at the end of the 4th Ardele, among the terri tories in Asia to be ceded by the Porte, the city and Pachalik of lisjazid are mentioned.—Dremen Jsarnel, Ma Des. I