Star. — London, England, 1829-10-14 00:00:00

THE TREATY IN CONTINUATION FROM THE PRECEDING PAGE. ARTICLE XII. Immediately after the signature of the present Treaty of Peace, orders shall be given to the Commanders of the respective troops, as well by land as by sea, to cease hostilities. Those committed Ater the signature of the present Treaty shall be considered as not having Wren place, and shall occasion no change in the stipulations which it contains. In the same manner, any thing which in that interval shall have been conquered by the troops of either one or the other of the High Contracting Powers, shall be restored with out the least delay. ARTICLE XIII. Th; High Contracting Powers, while re-establishing between themselves the relations of sincere amity, grant general pardon, and A full and entire amnesty to all those of their subjects, of whatever condition they may be, who, during the course of the war happily terminated this day, shall have taken part in military operations, or manifested, either by their conduct or by their opinions,their attach ment to one or the other of the two Contracting Powers. In conse quence, not one of these individuals shall be molested or prosecuted, either in his person or his goods, on account of his past conduct,. and every one of them,recovering the property which he possessed before, shaU enjoy it peaceably under the protection of the laws, or shall he at liberty to dispose of it within the space of eighteen months, to transport himself, with his family, his good., his furniture, Ste. into any country which he may please to choose, without expe riencing any vexations or impediments whatever. There shall be granted besides to the respective subjects of the two Powers established in the territories restored to the Sublime Porte, or ceded to the Imperial Court of Russia, the same term of eighteen months, to commence from the exchange of the ratifica tion of the present Treaty of Peace, to dispose, if they think pro per, of their property acquired either before or since the war, and to retire with their capital, their goods, furniture, &c. from the states of one of the Contracting Powers into those of the other, and reciprocally. ARTICLE XIV. AU prisoners of war, of whatever nation, condition, or sex, they may be, which are in the two Empires, must immediately, after the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty of Peace, be set free, and restored without the least ransom or payment ; with the exception of the Christians who, of their own free will, have embraced the Mahomedan religion in the states of the Sublime Porte, or the Mahomedans who, also of their own free will, have embraced the Christian religion in the territories of the I'sussian Empire. The same conduct shall be adopted towards the Ruse i sub jects, who, after the signature of the present Treaty of Is :e, in any manner whatever have fallen into captivity, and be f. ._:id iu the States of the Sublime Porte. The Imperial Court of Russia promises on its part to act n the same way towards the subjects of the Sublime Porte. No re payment shall be required for the sums which have been applied by the two High Contracting Parties to the support of prismers. 347.1 ch of them shall provide the prisoners with all that may be necessary for their journey as far as the frontiers, where they shall he exchanged by Commissaries appointed on both sides. ARTICLR RV. All the Treaties, Conventions, and Stipulations, settled and con cluded at different periods between the Imperial Court of Russia nd the Ottoman Porte, with the exception of those which have been annulled by the present Treaty are confirmed in all their force find effect, and the two High Contracting Parties engage to o:nerve them religiously and inviolably. ARTICLE XVI. The present Treaty of Peace shall be ratified by the two High Contracting Courts, and the exchange of the ratifications between the respective Plenipotentiaries shall take place within the space of six weeks, or earlier, if possible. In faith of which (signed) Count ALEXIS ORLIFF, Count J. PAH LEN. In virtue, &c. (Signed) DIEBITSCH ZABALANSKY. THE EVENING STAR. 474 ‘4 , am. ' 1. "% r •!:: . 4 41 re iv • $ _ le•fi e LONIMN. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14. PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK. Bark S:uce ex. div. 412113 India rinds 82 3 per Cent. Bed.. az div. 881 / 1 South Sea Stock 5 per Ct. ( s ons. 891 1 1 Old Annuities, es. div. 881 per Cent. 1818. es. div. 7981 1 .81000Excheq. Bill., (2d.) 70 2 3 t per Cent. Red.es.div. 981 I £5OO Ditto 70 2 4 per Ct. 1031 1 I £lOO and £2OO Ditto 70 2 4 pi- Ct 189.5,es div. 1041 # i Commercial, ',mg Ann. es.diss. 191 5-16th. 1 Bank for Acct. I n.lia Stock I Consols for Acct. 891 1 FOIiF,IG N F'INIA. TWO O'CLOCK. Brasil Bonds, 5 pr Ct. 63/ * Pettis. lkis. 6 p C.lllll Ditto Acct. 63; Port. Bd.. 5 p. Ct. 411 Buenos Ayres Kt,. 6p C. 241 4 Pruu. Bonds, 5p Ct 1011 Colons. &Is. 6 per Ct. Russ. 11d5,1822,S pC.10.2 1011 Do. Bonds, 1824, 171 1 1 Spanish Bd.. 5 per Ct. 8 Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. I Fr.ltentes.3p C. 1071 f. Ds. lids. 1825, 18 Ezcbange 25165 e n:. vrisH AND FOREIGN Sit .1 RES, TWO Wel I 'Cho PAID. M. IMAM Br 3 silinn, Imperial 35 20 74 75 Do. National 25 7* 12 11; Colombian (iss. at XS pm.) 100 35 41 54* Real del Monte 400 400 70 UhittrA Alex, Om at £1 pm.) 40 291 15 141 General Steam Navigation 100 13 5 THE TREATY. The " Treaty of Peace"—as it is called—between Russia and Turkey, will be found in our first page. At tentively examined, it appears to be little more than the arrangement of certain bases, upon which a definitive treaty may, or may not, be founded : it speaks in several articles of an " annexed separate act," in virtue of which uasiderahle cessions and " restitutions" are to be made, and it has no signatures except those of the Russian conquerors. Why are the names of the Turkish Pleni potentiaries not appended? In our opinion, it smacks very much of the generalship of Count DIEBITSCII ZABALKANSKY, who has not been so cognominated without a motive : at any rate, it is a mere string of ,unratified propositions, which may be accepted, or ro iected—or modified —as the case shall turn out. In the mean time, we shall begin with remarking that the supplementary annexations—which in this Treaty are the object of such frequent allusion—are known to contain stipulations, which it is impossible for the Porte to fulfil. The indemnities insisted upon by Russia, and which the SULTAN in his extremity has engaged to liquidate at fixed inst-Iments —his empire remaining under occupation CA these are paid—impart to the treaty in which the fallen MAIIMOU D has acquiesced, the character of a covenant of occupation. Nor can there be the slightest doubt that this is the real, and—by both Sovereigns—understooa character of the treaty. There is a secret compact—who can question it ?—between the vanquished and the victor: dictated by the bestriding power, and eagerly accepted by the other from impulses of self-preservation. Hence forth, the lion is going out to hunt in company with the ass, and fine spoil and sport is before them : but Ego primum tollo is inscribed on the banner of the lion. Where, we will ask, is Turkey to turn, to enable herself to discharge the enormous ransom, which—in the annexed papers alluded tc—she has agreed to pay ? From what El Dorado, hitherto unknown in the finance of nations, will she manage to extract eleven millions, five hundred thousand golden ducats? Yet, if she do not contrive this, she has covenanted to remain under occupation : and under occupation in spite of Europe—henceforward she must remain. Verte omnes tete in fades, et contrahe quiequid Sive animo, sive arte vales ; opta ardua pennis Astra Kept elausumve cavi to eondere terrl— Haud tamen dfugies ! But to speak now of the Treaty before us, and dis card—for the sake of argument—all consideration of the supplementary conditions. We protest that we see no security for Turkey in this document, even supposing that Russia were sincere in the tone of moderation which appears to pervade some of its articles. The immense and exclusive commercial advantages which are secured to Russia by the seventh article, and the dominion there ceded to her over the Canal of Con stantinople and the Straits of the Dardanelles, are equi valent—in her hands—to the sovereignty of both oceans. W I may thus be said—by our supineness—to have lost the Levant to our commerce ; for the vessels of Russia, pouring through those hitherto closed gates into the Mediterranean, will compete formidably with our traffic in regions where it is little prepared for such competi tion : add to this, that the new Greek States—with CAPODISTRIAS at their head—will give her a natural preference, and increase the rivalry against English trade in those waters. The power to grant, or refuse a passage through the Dardanelles, was imprescriptible and inherent in the Turk : it constituted, in fact, the great political justi ,fication of that title of " Ou n OLD ALLY,"with which for many years England consented to dignify a barbarian throne. There was no other excuse for our suffering so long the Ottoman in Europe, except that through his intermediacy, we were enabled to debar Russia from competing with us in the Mediterranean markets. That inherence, therefore, and that imprescriptibility of right in the Sublime Porte, it was the policy of this country to sec maintained at any price—even at that of a war the most obstinate and expensive—since on the power of opening or closing those Straits, her very mercan tile independence, almost her existence, in the Levant, rested. To say th - at the Dardanelles are left in the power of the Turks, and that they are to be free only to nations who are at peace with him—not at peace with Russia— is absurd : the Turk himself is under the subjection of NICHOLAS, and must close, or open those gates, to such nations as it alone suits the interests and pleasure of Russia to encourage. The question of the freedom of the Dardanelles was never a question between the Porte and NicnoLAs, but between the Autocrat and England: and we have suffered ourselves, or rather the Govern ment has, whose duty it was to have kept watch over such vital interests, to be half-intimidated, half bamboozled, out of one of the grandest, as well as oldest and most unquestioned, of our mercantile prerogatives ; one of the strongest bulwarks, and—till Russia ravished it, an inexhaustible source to us—of national power and prosperity. The language of the Times this morning, on the sub ject of the article concerning the Dardanelles, proves either that ho does not understand its importance, or is pandering—ut suus est mos—to Ministers. This morning a Messenger arrived at the Foreign Office, in Downing-street, with dispatches for the Earl Of ABERDEEN from his Excellency Lord HEYTESBURY, our Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburgh. The Countess of Liverpool has just arrived from Ter ceira with despatches for his Excellency the Marquis of PALMELLA, from Count VILLA Ft.on. She left the Island on the 19th ult. The Patriot Army and Nir gallant leader, were in high spirits, and still exulting in their late victory. An abundant harvest, and the most perfect tranquillity, added not a little to the general satisfaction. The remnant of the Miguelite squadron had been seen hovering at a distance, but it totally disappeared before the Captain lost sight of land. We shall be enabled to furnish additional details to-morrow, The Supplements to the Augsburg Gazette, of the 6th and 17th inst. received this day, contain, under the title of the Oriental Question, a long and eloquent article dated from the Rhine, 26th Sept. directed against the policy of England, ever since the commencement of the Greek revolution; with the view of shoving that it was imprudent and narrow-minded in its conception, and in jurious in its results ; that it has led to the ruin of the Turkish Empire, by deluding MA it mou ft with vain hopes ; and has opened the eyes of the whole continent of Europe to the real designs, as well as the weakness, of England. The following is the conclusion of the article we now speak of : _ _ _ " Events have rent the veil behind which British policy had hitherto concealed from the Continent is our paramount interest. Nobody eau any longer be deceived—every body is sensible that the victories of Russia have acquired freedom for commerce, a long wished for security to the independence of the Conti nent ; and that, on the other hand, all the obstacles that Eng land might throw in the way of the complete onecees of the enterprise of the Emperor Nicholas, eau be calculated only to serve British commercial monopoly and British supremacy.— Europe is now compelled to recognise a Dew state of things that is disagreeable to them ; but at length evidence Is not to be re slated. The Turkish empire is not only shaken to its foundation— all the bends that held it together are dissolved—lts supports have fallen—its power Is dashed to pieces ;—and the nation which represented its mountains, the fanaticism of its inhabitants, the pride and energy of its sovereign, as the most certain means of de fence, bas proved to be a complete illusion. No earthly power can banish this fact from the chain of causes which must have a decisive influence in giving a new face to the world. Paovi- DIO/C1 has given to the Russians, by the most glorious victory, the power to decide the fate of countries in which Nature has lavished her choicest gifts—which history has consecrated by immortal deeds, which have been too long the prey of Barbarians, who dean. Wed the garden of the earth, degraded the spirit of nations in slavery, and who found the guarantee of their existence is the fa mily dWinctions of the Christian States. The English may flatter themselves with the possibility of a peace which shall again allow to Barbarism the right of existing is the ancient domain of civiliza tion, and obscure the lustre of the victories of the Russians ; it is not to be conceived that the Prince on the throne of the Czars, distinguished by firmness of character, talents, and humanity, and in the prime of life, should be Insensible of the task incum bent on him, sod refuse the glory of becoming the author of prosperity and happiness in countries, which are the theatre of the deeds of Alexander and Aristides, Pompey and Cesar. The vic tories of the Greeks over the barbarians of Xerxes have immor talized them; et a new—and as regards the fate of the civilized world—a more important victory over the barbarians of hiahmoud, give the fairest wreath of immortality to the young Emperor, the first years of whose reign are distinguished by one of the most de cisive events in the history of the world. Who ventures to hope that the Emperor will tear the wreath, in order to please the Eng lish? where PROVIDUOI has spoken, the Cabinets cannot restore the old system, which has fallen into ruins. Their wisdom consists in reconciling themselves with what exists, and in directing it to the advantage of justice, morality, knowledge, and humanity. Never was a fairer opportunity given them to show their wisdom. No answering of views and of will, no rotten hopes of what is already fallen, but rewind= and creative energy @kW can erect a durable edifice on the cleared ground, and secure the: peace of the world. A lame peace would as little check the desti nation of Russia, as former Treaties of Peace were still to hinder the invasion of all Europe by the French armies. Only the dis advantage of the old relations can be still preserved, if means should be found to deprive the Russians of the last harvest of victory ; all the advantages of future harvests would thereby be secured to them as their exclusive gain." CITY. Twscvs o'CLocz. At length the labour of the mountain has brought forth the mouse, and the long-expected Treaty of Peace between the Russians and Turks has appeared before the public, and of much the same tenor as previously re ceived ; which is rather an unfortunate event for the settling-day of to-morrow in Consols, as the Bears ex pected the Treaty would contain some stipulations unfa vourable to this country. Indeed the Treaty is of a more favourable description than was expected ; and proves that the Emperor of Russia has fulfilled his promise in the Manifesto published at the commencement of the war. He did not aim at aggrandizement. This Treaty of Peace has not had the least effect on the funds this morning. Consols which left off yester day at 891 for the Account, and 891 buyers for No vember, opened at the same price with nothing doing as yet. The settling day beiffg so near at hand, the spe culators are afraid to extend their accounts, therefore no business of importance is expected to take place until Friday. This is settling day in the Foreign Market, but up to the present hour we do not hear of any failures ; and the only business doing is making up their accounts. The prices at present may be quoted as per yesterday. CITY, HALF-PAST ONE. Up to the present hour a great dullness prevails in the Consol Market, and Consols have continued the whole of the morning at 891 i for the present account, and 89j for November : no business doing of any consequence. We cannot as yet ascertain whether it will turn out a Bull or Bear account, which cannot be known until four o'clock this afternoon, when the puts and calls will be decided. The Sinking Fund does not appear so good as the last quarter, when it was at £2,600,000. By the report of the Corn Exchange this morning, it appears that it was in a stagnated state, and very little doing, and at Monday's prices. The settling of the accounts in the Foreign Market, to the present time, is going off well. Brazil, Greek, and Danish Stocks, are the only accounts of consequence to settle. A Morning Contemporary has made a wonderful dis covery, that the Turks are to pay the Russians four or five millions sterling : this we published ten days ago. GOOD NEws.—By the account of the Liverpool mar kets, it appears that extensive sales in cotton have taken place during the week. Not less than 20,880 bags of the above article have been sold ; of which 1,500 were American, 500 Brazil, and 600 Egyptian. The price has improved i per lb. Accounts from Havre of the Bth Oct. state that the sales there in cotton were 8,700 bales, and the prices were maintained. Two English ships, laden with corn, have entered the above port from London, where they left 14 other ships loading with grain, for Havre and Rouen. The accounts from Paris mention that the Portuguese emigrants, who have taken refuge in various towns of Bretagne, in France, have received notice that they are going to be quartered throughout France ; as the French Government do not think proper that more than six officers and twelve soldiers should remain in one town. Lord COCHRAN E is arrived at Havre on board the packet boat Southampton. By accounts from New York of the same date as our last advices, it appears that the American Cabinet are still arguing the question of the expediency of purchasing Texas from the republic of Mexico; and the following observations are alluded to in the American Papers on the subject :—" The Mexican Government is at this time in a state of unexampled embarrassment; and this circumstance has caused the breaking up of the navy, the diminution of her army, and has disseminated a spirit of distrust, dissatisfaction, and dissention among the ci tizens generally. The exposed situation of Texas requires two garrisons, attended with considerable expense, and the weak condition of the Mexican Government, and de fenceless situation, would render it an easy conquest to a foreign foe, which would be much more humiliating than a voluntary cession. For these reasons wa believe its obtainment practicable." MONTREAL, SEPT. 7.—Count Ney, son of the ill fated and illustrious Marshal Ney, left this city for Quebec on Monday last, in the steam-boat Chambly, after a short stay of a few days.—His Excellency Sir Hilgrove Turner and family arrived here on Saturday evening from Quebec, in the steam-boat St. Lawrence, and proceeded yesterday to the United States, on their return to Bermuda. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. CHANGE& The Duke of Bedford, from a tour, to Mansfield-stmt. Port land-place; the Duchess of Bedford, from th e Highlands of Scot • land, to Devonshire ; the Duke of Dorset, from a tour, to Drayton House, Dorchester; the Marchioness Dowager of Northampton and the Hon. Mr. Dickins, for the Steyne, at Brighton ; Earl O'Neill, for Shane's Castle, near Dublin, from Cheltenham; the Earl of Rockfort, for his seat in Suffolk; Lord and Lady Rolle, from Bicton Hall, Exeter, to &evenstone Park, near Torrington, in Devonshire ; Lord and Lady Arundel and family, in Brook street, front the Continent; Lord M. Hill, front Arlingtoe- street. oo a tour • Colonel Brandon, for the Duke of Gloucester's seat, Bagshot Park ; Mr. and Ledy Mary Ross, front a tour, on a visit to Messrs. General Ross, in Hertfordshtre ; the Hon. Glandes Leigh for Brighton; Major and Mrs. Jennings, for Brighton. from Rochester; Mr. I. Round, M.P. for Brighton ; Captain Frederick Gordon for Brighton ; Mr. Elliot Fuller for A.lt - down House, Sussex • the Honourable General Dalrymple for Wickham Lodge, Windsor ; Major and Mrs. Holmes, from Manchester, to Cheltenham ; Captain Spencer for Paris ; Sir George Henry Rose, from the Isle of Wight, for Cuffnells, in Hampshire ; Mr. Stirling, on a visit to Sir Waiter Stirling, Ban. at his seat, Shoreham, in Kent, from Hertford-street ; Captain Jephson , in Waterloo-place. from the lonian Islands; Mr. and Mrs. Theobald, from Tunbridge Wells, for Nel son's-crescent. Ramsgate; Major Barlow, for Hounslow; Mr. John Griffiths for Christchurch ; Captain rayton, in St. James's. place, from Lisbon ; Mr. and Mrs. Marsden for Aldenham Park, in Hertfordshire; Captain Darby, R. N. in Pall-mall, trom the Me diterranean; Captain and Mrs. Crosby, in Wimpole-street. from Norfolk ; Mr. and Mrs. Rose and family, at Ellis's Hotel, S. James's-street, from Scotland ; Mr. and Mrs. Knight, at the Lon. don Hotel. Albemarle-street. from their seat near Leamington, Warwickshire; the Rev. William Gooch, at Crawley's Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle -street, from Surrey; J. Hinge, Esq. and the Misses Hinge, at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street. from Brightok • Ca p tain and Mrs. Huntley, at ditto, from Leamington, Warwickshire; Major Cartwright. at ditto, from Northampton ; Lieut.-General Sir Warren Peacock, at ditto, from the Continent ; Thomas Sydney. Esq. at the St. James's Hotel, Jernsyn-street. from Florence; Mr. and Mrs. &des, front the London Hotel, for Leamington, Warwickshire ; Mr. and Mr.. Pace. from ditto, on a tour; Major Fletcher, from the British Hotel, for Brighton; J. Hartison, Esq. from ditto, for his seat in Suffolk ; Mrs. Calvert, at Feuffier's Hotel, St. James's-street, from a tour • Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Stevens, at ditto from Paris; the Hon. Charles Stewart, from ditto, for the North • Lady D'Ameland and Miss D'Este, at Mivart's 7- Lower Brook-street and Davies Streets, from - Hotel, .eamington ; Captain and Mrs. Barham, at ditto, front Sussex ; the Rev. J. Johnstone, at ditto, from Kent ; the Baron Ga. blens, at ditto, from Munich; Colonel D'Este, from ditto, for Ramsgate ; Captain Dixon, from ditto, fur Brighton ; J. Bramston, Esq. and the Misses Grove, at the Burlington Ho tel, from Basingstoke; S. Douglas, Esq. at ditto, from Chiches ter ; H. Fitzgerald, Esq. at ditto, from the Continent; Georg Robert Heneage, Esq. from ditto, for his seat in Lincoln , shire; Charles Fox, Esq. from ditto, for Dublin; General Gos seUn, from ditto; John Taylor, Esq. at Symmons's Hotel, St • James's-straot, from his seat, Strancham Court, Worcestershire': Su Laurence Vaughan Palk, Batt. M.P. from ditto, for his seat in Devonshire; J. Halsey, Eq. Mrs. Halsey, and W. Timson. Esq. at Marshal Tbompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; Le Cote de Batthyamry at ditto; the Rev. Arthur Champagne and J. Bury, Esq. at ditto; Mrs. William Brown, jun. at ditto; Captain Elton from ditto; W. P. T. Wickham, Esq. from ditto. Count MUNSTER bad an audience of the KING, on Sunday, at the Royal Lodge, in Windsor Park. The Duke de LAVAL MONTMORENCY, Ambassador from his most Christian MAJESTY to this Court, arrived in town on Monday night, from Paris, as mentioned in the STAR of yesterday. His Excellency, accompanied by Monsieur ROTH, Charge d'Affaires, went yesterday afternoon at five o'clock, to the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, for the purpose of being intro duced to the Earl of ABERDEEN. His Excellency afterwards returned to the residence of the Embassy in Portland-place. Mr. WASHINGTON IRVING, Secretary of Legation to the Embassy of the United States, has arrived in town from America. The Duke of WELLINGTON left town yesterday morn ing for Weimer Castle: previous to his departure the Earl of ABERDEEN had a long conference with his Grace at the Treasury. The Noble Duke will, it is expected, hold a Wardmote at Dover, on Thursday. Mr. H ER It I E 3 has left town for his seat, at Seven Oaks, Kent. _ Earl BATHURST, after attending the King's Court on Monday, atWindsor, left the Castle for his seat at Ciren cester, Gloucestershire. The Countess of DYSART entertained the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE, the Bishops of LONDON and WINCHESTER, Sir F. BURDETT, and a distinguished party, to dinner on Monday, at her seat, Ham-house, Richmond, Surrey. Lord COLCHESTER (late the Honourable Captain ABBOT), eldest son of the late Speaker of the House of Commons, is appointed to the command of the Volage frigate, fitting out for foreign service at Portsmouth. It is expected that the Hon. PII I LIP ABBOT, third son of the late Lord COLCH ESTER, will shortly lead to the hymeneal altar the Hon. Miss TALBOT, a lady of great beauty and highly accomplished. The marriage of the wealthy D. BAILLIE, Esq. with the amiable daughter of Lady STEW A RT, is fixed to take place within a fortnight. It is understood that the Giraffe is to be dissected at Windsor, as the structure of these interesting animals is peculiarly curious. The skin will be also stuffed, and the external symmetry and beauty of the animal still preserved. Mr. COBBETT has announced that, having withdrawn from the Radical Reform Association, he intends to de liver a course of speeches upon subjects connected with Reform, in a room where he can have the whole time to himself, and where the Reporters can take down his speeches! The accounts obtained yesterday from Calcutta, men tion that proceedings had been adopted for the purpose of colonizing the ceded and conquered provinces in the East Indies. At a public meeting held at Futteghur, at which P. REID, Esq. presided, a long string of resolu tions had been adopted, for the purpose of raising a fund, in order to devise means for affording employment to the rising generation in India. Great advantages were ex pected to result from carrying the plan into effect ; and as soon as funds and lands had been obtained, farmers, labourers, &c. were to be invited to join in the plan, and would have facilities afforded them of commencing the cultivation of the land. The resolutions referred to are very minute in their details, and state distinctly that the land purchased by the subscriptions to be solicited from natives as well as Europeans, would be held as a sacred trust for promoting the best interests of the East India community. At Calcutta an opinion was entertained that great good would result from the undertaking. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.—Yesterday afternoon the Commissioners of the Victualling Board were engaged in taking contracts for sugar, rum, &c. The quantity of rum advertised to be contracted for was 100,000 gallons, which, in addition to the contracts taken within the last month, makes a total of 250,000 gallons required far ti►e use of the navy, or 50,000 gallons more thin was con tracted for last autumn. There were several tenders sent in for the rum. The contract prices of this article, as well as of sugar, have not yet publicly transpired ; but we are given to understand that the vum and sugar are to be delivered into his Majesty's stores at prices within a mere fraction of those at which the last contracts were taken. The last contract for rum was at ls. 9id. per gallon, and for sugar 57e. 6d. per cwt. One house has taken both 1 the contracts for rum and sugar to-day. Contracts fol lowed for butter, cheese, &c. 8J