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When the Emperor leaves the southern army he will go to Kis.
chenew, in Bessarabia, to inspect the army of General Sebanieff,
which is encamped in the frontier joining the Moldavian territory.
This corps is partly composed of light troops, among which are
numerous pulks of cossacks.
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FRAXETOITT, SEPT. 20.
We learn, by letters from Vienna, the important news that
a namber of Egyptian transports have arrived at Soda, and
landed a corps of troops, estimated at 4or 5,000 men. These
troops are at present encamped at *etre distance from the port.
They were escorted by only th ee or four vessels of Hussein Pacha's
fleet, which, some days after landing them, left Sudo to fetch more
troops from Alexandria. These vessels did not meet with any of
the enemy's ships on the passage. It is therefore certain that the
news of the sailing of a Greek squadron from Hydra to Spezzia, to
watch thb motions of the Egyptians, is without foundation, though
several Greek reports have announced the departure of the squadron.
The Capitan Pacha was at Soda to escort the new Egyptian
corps to Naveritio, when it is to land, in order to join Ibrahim
Pacha. But it was not known when the Turkish Admiral would
arrive, as he was engaged in watching Sulitury's squadron, on the
west coast of the Monte. Meantime, the Pacha of Candia had re-
quested the Egyptian Commander to join him with his troops to
assist him in quelling the Insurrection of the Sphackiotes, who had
made some progress, but the Egyptian refused- pretending that
he could not leave die vicinity of the coast ; that his deitination was
the Mores, and that he might every moment receive orders to em-
bark, so that it would be impossible for him to join in each nn ex-
pedition. It seems that the Pacha of Candia is in some embarrass-
ment, and that be has already lost many men in his combats with
the insurgents. The latter are endeavouring to compel him to shut
himself up in the fortresses.
Ibrahhn Pacha complains bitterly of Commodore Hamilton, who
has refused any explanation of his connection with the Greek Go-
vernment, and treats him as in enemy, for he has supplied tile
Greeks with some troops, ammunition, &e. His officers took part
in the attack which the Greekamade, and in consequence of which
Ibrahim was fdtced to ',tont to Tripolizza, where he remains
wholly on the defensive, haring latterly sustained very considerable
losses.
iledechid Pacha Is still at Caravauarn. but he has sent fresh rein-
forcements to the troops which he has left before alissolonghl.

We feel a duty which we owe to Government and to
the country to revert again and again to the inevitable
ruin that awaits the manufacturing interests from the com-
bination system. We consider the present as a period the
most afflictive, ifasot the most portentous that has disturbed
the nation's internal quiet since the period of the Revolu-
tion. The party make no secret of their design—they avow
their resolution to try the strength of the working clines
in an open contest with the copitoliA r; it is against this
class that passions the most d sperate, acting by in-
struments the most formidable, are directing all their
energy ; and no resource, whether of enticement or co-
ercion, is left untried to insure the execution of their
purpose. The influence of turtle is made to aid the
force of example, and their joint impulse will soon be irre-
sistible. In all States, and under all Governments, the in-
terests of liberty, property, and security, are held to be the
equal interests of all; but we have here an organized sys-
tem of power, possessing means unbounded, and pursuing,
with the full use of all those means, a distinct object, ut-
terly hostile to all those interests, and with which they
cannot co-exist.

On Monday last, at a meeting of the SHIPWRIGHTS.
PROVIDINT UNION, five Shipbuilders were regularly pro-
scribed. No workmen are at present suffered to take em-
ployment with either of the following houses :—Ftaren-
CR, SON, and FE•RNELL ; Messrs. PITCHERS ; KAINa
and EDGAR; Cuettso, Your.° and Co.; and Dowsox.
Witb respect to these five proprietors, the whole body
of workmen are put positively under interdict. They
are not permitted to work for them upon any appli-
cation, or on any terms. Four of the best of Messrs.
FLETCHER and Co.'s men expressed thetnselves extremely
willing to continue in their employ, being quite satisfied
with their wages; seven others likewise declared themselves
ready to join with the above; but two of the Committee-
men interposed, and bid them at their peril to remain in
the service of these proprietors; and so alarmed were these
men by this warning threat, and so much did they dread
the consequence of disregarding it, that they immediately
retracted their offer, and retired from thLir employ. This
proceeding will no doubt become a subject of legal prosecu-
tion. If the workmen, under the supposed strength and secu-
rity of their Union, are thus to brandish the weapons of re-
volutionary law, they will soon bring the property of the
country to that common standard of equality to which it is I
the great aim of their rodideratrd UNIONS to reduce it.
That aim is no longer ambiguous.

The shipbuilders, as we hare before remarked, are placed
all of them, with regard to unexecuted orders on hand, in
situations of greater or less difficulty. One house, in par-
ticular, which yielded to the workmen, were constrained to
submit, by an imperious necessity which it was not in their
choke to over-rule. The very high character of the indi-
viduals to whom we allude was a sufscient pledge to all
who knew them, that such was the fact.

The Times sp;:nt its foul abuse against them in vain,
and its base misrepresentation went for nothing. We are
well acquainted with the terms of the agreement entered
into with the workmen by Messrs. Wioaam and GRSZN,
and signed by them in the price-book; they were to the
following effect:—That in the event of any alteration in
the prices appearing necessary in the course of conducting
the business, the subject should be referred to the three
following gentlemen : Mr. Carter, Mr. Barham, and Mr.
Sheffield, who are all of them overseers employed by
owners to superintend the repairs of chips, and who were
fully competent to the adjustment of any differences that
might arise. In the event of the absence of either of these
persons his place was to be supplied by some other, to be
selected from the same employment. It was further ex-
pressly stipulated between Messrs. Wigram and Green and
their workmen, that should any alteration of prices take place
with other establishments, theirs should conform to it, that
the proceedings of others' yards should form a precedent by
which theirs should he regulated ; but that their procedure,
whatever it might be, should not be considered as at all
controling any other proprietors. No agreement, governed
as it was by circumstances, could accord better than the
above with the suggestions of expediency, or with the
rules of justice.
The shipbuilders of the port of London are at this mo-
ment refusing contracts. even the most advantageous; they
decline, from a sense of justice, to undertake orders which,
under the present system of revolt and confederacy amor•.g
their workmen, they cannot possibly pledge themselves to
execute. If there is no law which can rescue the master-
manufacturers of this country from the death-blow that is
levelled against them, then must a law be made to meet
the exigency of the times. The appeal to Government is
beyond measure urgent. The crisis is unparalleled in the
annits of our history; it is not of a kind to be tampered
wide, for if the passions of the great bulk of the people
clip become emancipated from all moral control, the
holder of property has no security left; the confederates
will then make short work of it—." Come let us till him,
that the iahcritartee may be ours."

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