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GERMAN PAPERS.

♦IENNA. AUIHIST 14.
According to letters from Constantioople of OW
25111 July, the Porte continues to receive satisfac-
tory accoonts of the progress of its arms in the two
principalities ; and, according to them, the insur-
rterion may he considered as termilated. On the
other baud, it appears that serious disturbances
have taken piece in Candia.
The Turkish fleet left the Dardanelles on
the 13th July; it has since been in the neighbour-
hood of Chio., and is stated to have steered toward*
San►o., the inhabitants of which, in conjunction
with those of Skolunuova, hove taken arms and
raised the standard of insurrection.

No change seem, to have taken place in the stnte
of things in the Morea. The tranquillity of the
capital has not lately been disturbed, and the or.
ders issu•d on that suhject are rigorously enforced.
Great activity prevails in the arsenals, the ship-
yards end the cannon founderies. &acrel gun-
b,.ats are stationed to the Channel. The merchant
limiest, who has bees to,mtioned in several journals,
has been taken from the prisons of the Porte, and
sent into chile to Asia.
At Smyrna tranquillity is also restored. The
Biuram, which had beets looked to with general
had passed over without the smallest disorder.
Among the Diplomatic Body the greatest acti-
vity is observed. There are almost daily confer-
etici s with the Ambassadors and the Reis Effendi.
Since the striiv..l of a packet-host from Odessa on
the 17th of July, there are equally frequent meet-
inya the Russian legation' and the Divan. It
was generally expected that the result would be
tirade known eery shortly.
The plague %W. spreading at Rhodes ; there had

been several rises at Smyrna, and the contagion
had appeared in some ;hips. This capital has re-
mained free from the contagion, as far rts its great
exicitt will admit of ascertaining the fret ; hut
symptoms or it had appeared some Isnoes distent
on'the road to Smyrna.
The Sult.th's Finnan for the maintenance of the
isiehlie peace is no
" 1a easserpievee of the insurrection whirl► has broken
lest asitionethe Greek*, it was necemary, according to the
Taws of sovereignty, to arrest and punish those Rajahs who
had taken part In the inniereetion. On this occasion the
*bole 511inisclintin population look op area, sad placed
itself in the situation of an army encamped opposite the
enemy.

" The care which every Government owe* to its subjects
requires, however; 111,1 the IlAjahs who are recognised as
innocent and honest, of whatever class they may be, shall be
on all OffatiOTlS protected. Andas the Sublime Porte is at
peace with all the European Powers, it is ti y thst the
subjects and merchants of those Powers actually at Comtsn-
lourple, as well as the persons belonging to the respecli‘e
Entbarwies, enjoy protection and security. according to the.
existing Treaties.

" Besidre, as the arrest and punishment of those Rajahs,
who, whether directly or inilsreetly, have publicly taken a
part in the insurrection, is the right of the Sublime Porte, it
la the express Dud supreme will of his Sublimity, that no
private luau shall presume to molest any innocent Rajah,
and that the most appropriate means shall be adopted to
afford to the subject,, merchants, and travellers, of friendly
Pourers, that peace and security whir h they have enjoyed.
" In- coniwevience the ueresary tenders have been repeat.
telly kneed by the Suhtiine Porte to all officers of
polite, ■nd all oibers chareta with the maintenance of
good order, not to lose sight for a moment of the above
principle., and most chattily to provide that no individual
of the lower d of the people commit any act which
might disturb the so much to be desired tranquillity of the
inhabitants of this capital, aid especially that no muskets
or pistols be bred withost cause, nod in general that tumult
and disorder be aveided."—f Austrian OAsente►, A wrist la.)
FROM Tilt ELBE, AUGUST 11.

By the agreement respecting the navigation of the Elbe,
lately concluded at Dresden, that river is declared free, from
the Melnick, wheel. it becomes navigable, to its mont►.
The "nippers of each of the States on the bank. may
navigate at pleasure frem that point to the sea, taking
freight and hark freight; no staple (Magdeburg, Dresden.
Pima) will impede his pessage along the whole stream of
the Elbe—(llitherto mine hot Prussian and Hamborgh
vessels navigated the Lower Elbe, on account of the staple
right of Magdeburg).—No privilege of any shipper's com-
pany of any city or corporation will be enforced tiniest
the free shippers; every merchant may go with his own
vessel and own crew from one place to another. The thirty
live cnstom-boirses which have hitherto impeded the navi-
gation, both on the right and left, are reduced to fourteen on
the whole stream, whirl, flows through the dominions of
eight States, viz —ln Bohemia, Anesig and Niedergurod ;
in the kingdom of Saxony, Selandau and &rents; at
Muhtberg, the custom-house ors entering the Prospiao terri
tory ; at Coowig, ffo:lse, and Dessau, in the three Priiiii-
paliiiev of Annolt—(there is good reason to Lope, that the
three Princes of Anbolt will establish one joint custom-
house io lien of these three); at Wittenberg, the custom-
house, on leaving the Prussian territory; those in Mecklen-
burg are, Schuakenberg, Domitz, Bleakeele, and Roitzen.
burg; sod, lastly, the Danish custom-house at tonenburg.
The Julies wbieh have hitherto been so detrinseatal to trade
and navigation enema only reduced, but fixed on an iovariable
Principle, arid are never to be augmented without the consent
of all the parties. Prodnets of internal industry and the chief
necessaries of life (corn, wood, building materials, and
fruit) air liable to very low duties. The former innumerable
examination■ of the cargoes', and all the vexations and
bribery of the upper and lower Officers of the Customs, are
limited to the revision and verification of one Stole. All the
arbitrary proceedings uf officers in taking the duties sod ex-
amining the cargoes are banished from the Elhe by judicious
regulations. Many excellent measures for maintaining a
suitable river police have been adopted to protect the honest
shipper, and watch over the dishonest. Nu kinds of erec-
tion on the stream or banks injurious to the navigation are
allowed, and wherever there is now any obstacle in the
channel of the Elbe (especially in the Saxon part of the
Upper Elbe.), it is to be instantly removed when the Co..
reation is carried into effect, and thereby the original and
thief object of' all river tolls be more strictly attended to.—
(Franybel Papers. August 18 )

THE BRITISH PRESS.

• LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, Auaurr

Concurring accounts from Constantinople and
other places assure us that the question of peace or
war between Russia and the Porte toill rested at
the departure of the latest advice, on the accept.
aoce or refusal by the Porte of the ultimatum
offered by the Court of Petershurgh. It it oho
said that a day or two would decide this important
point, upon which opinions were divided even in
Constantinople. The substance of this presom. d
whintatunt has been already presented to our reader..
Some of the terms speak the air of • conqutrp,
dictating to a vanquished enemy, and certainly
imply a belief on the part of Russia that the
Turkish csmpire is utterly incapable of self-dercoee.
Doubts, therefore, may very reasonably be enter-
tai..ed respecting the acquiescence of the Divan.
The evacuation of Moldavia and Wallachia, sod
the free navigation of the Dardanelles, are seven:
conditions, owl might justify the belief that Russia
had previously resolved upon war, from a convic-
tion that Turkey could not in honour accept of
such an altetuative, even to purchase the blessings
of peace.
It is generally reported that Lord STRANGFORD
possesses greet influence with the Divan, and front
the consideration enjoyed by the Noble Lord, it
is further believed that Great Britain has avcsvot
. her detertnitiatiou not to concur ni the titv.s v: