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Elie Stittffit WOO.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
Tide livealayb MONDAY. October 2, wW be performed the
Tragedy of
ROMEO AND JULIET.
ftemee, Mr. Boutlorell Mercurio, Mr. Hooper. Juliet. Mn. W. West.
After which.
ABON HASSAN.
TIM Caliph, Mr. Bedford; Abon Hassan. If,. Nara; Zabouc, Me.
Harley. Zellers, Mimi draddon.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

this initial. 1110NUAY,Ociotter 2, will be performed the Timjedy of

JULIUS CLVSAN.

Julies Caesar, Mr. Egerton; Mare Antony, Mr. C. Kemble , Brutus,
Mr. I'owaJ ; Cassius, Mr.Warda ; Cases, Mr. Fawcett. Calpurnia, Mrs.
Yining; lumps, Mrs. lauds.
After which the Comedy of
cermiLzs THE SECOND; or, THE MERRY MONARCH.
Cis/ Charlie. the Second, Mr. C. Kemble , Lord Rochester. Mr. Junes;
Captain Cupp, Mr. Favw.mt. Mary, Ills. M. Glover.

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.
This ireeles, MONDAY. October 2. will be presented the new
iluslcal Farce of
BEFORE Iittb:AKIAST. - -

Tit ammeters by bferT. Mathews, Bartley, W. Bennett, J. Bland, and

W. Chapman and Mill. Sudan.
After which.
JONATHAN IN ENGLAND.

loosittaaW.Doublkini:hir:Alothew.. Natriarkepur, Ifs.W.Chopman,
Agamemnon. Mr. Slornan.
To cunelude with the Romance of
PRESUMPTION, or, THE FATE OF FRANKENSTEIN.
Yrankenrteln, Mr. Raker; ( - ), Mr. T. P. Cooke.

The BRlTl,BPatesctnmenced publiehias cm Saturday
morning at five o'clock.

LONDON, MONDAY, ()Lions 2, 1826.

We have received the French Morning and Evening Pa-
pers of Friday and Saturday. The following are extracts :
[From the &vile of Saturday.]

The news from Constantinople, which we have this momeut re-
ceived, it up to the 7th of September. The fire lasted thirty-six
hours. The losses it has occasioned are immense. The Tschartchis
and the Bexagins, as well as all the Khans, are burnt. Such a tire
has not bean witnessed at Constantinople since the year 1780. The
(.:and Seignor has appropriated as old palace for those women who
:•ave lost their asylum, and he has given orders that the mantes
(checks on the Exchequer) shall be paid in full.

The standard of Mehemet, which it was intended to have re-
turned to the Mosque sto the 31st of August, just before the lire
brake out, was left exposed to the view of the Turks, and it was
rot till the 2d of September that it was taken back, and the camp
which was stationed in she Court of the Seraglio was raised. There
is nothing to show that the lire was the result of a conspiracy ; no
arras have taken place. The abolition of the corps of Janissaries
seem to some persons a sufficient guarantee against the appearance
of-any new disorders.
Illicit is said of what happened to the Sultan a short time before
the fire. The Sultan Blahmoud, in returning with pomp to Eski
Simi in the midst of his chosen guard, remarked an indicid'.u•it in
the crowd with a thick black beard, wearing a green turban, and,
having say remarkable features, gave orders for him to be arrested.
The o4liktar, uncertain as to the person. was going to seize another
individual, but his Highness cricd out—" It is not that person, but
this," awl be accompanied these words with a very animated ex-
pression, in recognising a Bektachi, according to some; according to
others a man who pronounced some words in a low voice, hut with
a•.: expression which betrayed his hatred against the Sultan. It
is pretended that the individual who was arrested by order of his
Highness is a fool, and that in truth his detention was unjust.
Whether his folly be real Or feigned, he certainly merits the ap-
pellation that has been given to him. The sale of gunpowder is
expressly prohibited, and the Sultan is purchasing all the area he
Lar. hind. Orders are given to all persons to send their anus to tilos,.
who har: been appointed to receive them. We are assured that
the real cause of the disgrace and exile of lstambol EtTendissi was
that that Magistrate would not renounce a claim of 7,000 aspic,
(r.3i piastres) a day, which he enjoyed, and which was upon the
great book of the Janissaries.
. _ _

I ntelltgenee has been received at Constantinople that the troops
of Fabvier, the band of Vacho, that of the Athenian Captain,
1.-ccha, and some hundreds of Albanians under the orders of
Karaiskaki, who assembled at Sslamine, under the latter Chief,
landed, to the number of 4,000 men. at Llends en the Itith. and
snatched towards Athens. On the 17th they encountered the Turks ;
a7:d after a battle which lasted some hours, the Greeks were de-
/sated, end tied, leaving behind them two cannons and three flags.
I: is said that thedthithcllines who s ete in the battle intended to
-scar to their own country. •

From the of Friday. I

StrT.

The Princess Regent is still at Cintra. A bulletin of her health
published every morning. That of to-day annources that the
health of her Royal Highness is so far established as to permit her
t: resume transacting business. Iler Royal Highness issued a
t::,-re or the 6th of this month, creating a Commiss:on charged to
e Aninim the state of the prisons, which are generally infected,
dark, and depsiv slut air. The l'ommission will be composed of
Si re members at Lisbon, and of rive at Porto. It will report on
i.r %Oils, and propose such ameliorations as shall be necessary.
The Minister of War has addressed a circular to the Chiefs of
V.e army, recommending them carefully to inspect the military
hssmtals.

The Princos Regea has given orders to all the provincial Go.
,vor. to hasten as much as pos.ible the trials of the individual*
have been arrested as having been guilty of rebellion.

The police has posted up public naeces, prohibiting all rioting in
t' c streets. and especially during the night, under the penalty of
berg arrested by the military patrols, and prosecuted according to
the laws.

The Director Ger e-al of Police has by a circular required the
JuJgoi of Fora to r, port to bun 'baker the cad, to the Consti-
tut:oz halt been Liken in all the places within their circuit.
31.110111 D, St:PT. 18.

The Ring and Royal Family will leave St. lidefonsa on the
Ess Catholic Majesty has experienced an attack of the gout, in
cu r. Se ,* UM= of which the races at Segovia and Chartreuse de
rt.la had not been able to take place.

A Lieutenant-nautili, who had been arrested at Madrid, sus-
p cted of bring connected with (laud fehidof the deserters from
(111-renz,r), in consequence of a letter wntten to hint, the terms of
'loch were ambigaoas, has just been set at liberty, he having
proved his innocence•

(Fr= the J 011117141 des Mbar or Friday. I

The names of the new Nuncios to the different Courts are just
aeweenced.

It is said that the Pope, seeing how reluctant person* are volun-
tarily to enrol themselves. intends to re-establish the Civil Guard
one arrests have lately taken place, but their crimes is not known.
31aunin. SEPT. 18.

M. de flonst, it is said, has to-day made strcrul farewell visits.
Scone persons say that this diplomati,t, not having succeeded in his
special mission, will return to Portugal ; white othrts say that he
will so to Park to succeed M. de Mello Breyner. who, It is said,
would return to Lisbon in the course of next month.
_ _ _

Ibe letters we have received from the frontiers of Portugal do

not speak of any new desertion ; but it is stated, that the troops
which have already deserted :oto that kingdom are expected to
make a sudden incursicn into Spat:jab Estremadura, in order to en-
courage and strengthen the constitutional party in the other pro-
vinces of the kingdom.
This report is. in some degree, confirmed by the circumstance
that the Cour !loyal of (aze►ea has requested permission of the
Governmem is remove to Talavera, which is not far from Madrid.
LE'com the Journal des Debdis of Thursday. i
PARty, SEPT. 27.

The movement of the great eastern States of Europe become
daily moreanimated. Diplomatists do not dare any further to dis-
simulate the approach of a crisis—a crisis which can easily become
universal. The nests from (Mews sod Bucharest do not announce
the result of the fire at Constantinople, but it is beyond • doubt
that that calamity was the effect of discontent, and that it concealed
a proj, et of revolt. We regard the Bastandgi, whom it was wished
to enrol by force into the new militia, as the authors of the fire,
which broke forth at the very moment a hen the Sultan was about
to go solemnly forth at the head of his new soldiers.
All tl:e palaces of the great men of the empire have become a
prey to the flames. The ancient body of engine-men (pomplers)
having experienced similar disgrace with the Janissaries, and being
animated by the same spirit of resentment, did not take the least
steps to preserve the palaces of their enemies. The populace of
Constantinople had so little to lose, that to them a fire is merely a
matter of show. But the most important news (if it be confirmed)
is, that the new militia itself fought among themselves; that the
whole of the interior of the Seraglio wag in dreadful disorder, and
that the life of Sultan 31ahniarA was even toenaced.

It is certain that much inquietude exist at Vienna, and that the
metallivws have experienced a further depression, they having been
as low as fib, though they have since got up a little. Some mercan.
tile letters speak of the passage of the Pruth, and ether serious mat-
ters, though there is no assurance of the authenticity of these
things.
It is not probable that the Russian army would make a move-
ment before the 7th of October, and then only for the purpose of
occupying Wallachia and Moldavia. The correspondents from
Vienna, and some Journals of Paris, ought to be less precipitate
in the marches they have attributed to the army. All these prema-
ture reports only serve to lessen public opinion in the estimation of
chase who are already too much inclined to treat it with contempt.
Among the various reports which have reached us from Vienna
there is but one which deserves serious attention. It is that which
announces a family Congress, to be composed of the different
branches of the imperial House, including those of Tuscany and
Slodena. The ostensible object of this Congress is to regaling'
some affairs of succession to the immense private dumb" of the
family, and as M. de 3lectern:eh is Chancellor of the family, it is
quite natural that he should be present at the Congress. Those
who are aware of the wish of the High German Aristocracy of the
hereditary estates, to preserve the person and the system of M. de
Metternich, at all events, nevertheless suspect a much more im-
portant object in contemplation ; and that it relates to measures of
much more consequence than merely the succession to private pro-
perty. Another circumstance which may be considered to have Its
influence in producing inquietude in the Court of Austria is, that the
diet of Hungary persists in its wish to continue its sittings for
some time longer, whilst the Court is employing every secret means
to induce it to separate, which it could not do without abandoning
the very grievous complaints which it has expressed regarding the
violation of the Constitution. The Ministerial party in Hungary hte
at length observed the possible danger which may one day result from
the nearness of a colossal Power, that not long ago, in defending
with an apparent generosity the Dissenters of Poland, while op-
pressed by the Republic of France in violation of treaties, had sue.
ceeded in obtaining the sutmiseion of nearly all the territory of
Poland. There are also the Dissenters of Hungary ; besides which,
the members of the Greek Church are very numerous there, and
nearly half the Hungarian nobility belong to these two evangelic
communions. Their complaints are become very earnest. They
are wrong in all their constitutional rights. 'The Emperor has
always answered, that as for himself lie is personally a friend to
the liberty of religious worship ; but that he is only a Constitutional
3latiareli in Hungary. Ti•e High Cathi2i:t Clergy of Hungary,
a Ito are wholly devoted to the Court, have been advised by M. de
:'iletternich to cajole- the Proust:lots, and especially to discontinue
die pecuniary- exactions made upon then,. Whilst Austria thus
continues, on all sides, to be more or less uneasy. Russia seems to
have no more to fear, neither from the Turks or Persians, nor from
secret societies. However, the great care that is taken to exclude
the Graidl Duke Coidoantine from all participation in the sucers•
sion or the Ilegt.ncy, has txposed it to inconvenience of leaving
it liable to sus; icions of combinations to oppose the es:ablished
order of things, although these suspicions appear to us wholly des-
titute of foundation.

On several occasions we have noticed the effects of pub-
lic charities, and we seize with pleasure an opportunity of
again directing the attention of our readers to this very im-
portant subject, which has been discussed in a very able
manner in the Christian Itcnirnihrancer for October. In
fact, we consider the subject as one in which the most vital
interest of the country is essentially compromised, and we
concur fully and completely in every point advanced by the
writer alluded to. There cannot be the slightest doubt of
the pernicious tendency of almost all institutions of this na-
ture in promoting idleness ; and the slicer in question has
shown, in the most convincing manner, that their pernicious
efficts are not confined to the mere objects of the charity.
" The only effect of general charities," says the article in
question, " is to enable the labourers in favoured districts
to beat down the others to penury and disease without bet-
tering themselves." The argument by which this is proved
may be stated in brief as follows :--A labourer, who is in
the habit of applying to charity for defraying expenses
which can be foreseen and are provided for by others,
would be able to support a family for less than others to
whom it is impossible that charity should extend. When
wages are in their natural state, (that is, when they are just
enough to support a family without charity,) such a la-
bourer will have every encouragement to marry. This will
augment population beyond its due bounds, which in-
creases competition among labourers, and diminishes the
wages of labour below their natural state, reducing them
to that state which is barely sufficient to enable a family to
be supported with the assistance of charity. In that case
all labourers who do not subsist partly on charity will ne-
cessarily be reduced to a state of distress. Nothing can be
snore evident than this; and we have only to add, that even
in many cases, such as those of disease and accident, a la-
bourer might easily make a provision. Even in the hos-
pitals, it is to be feared that a large proportion of the in-
mates ought not to be there. We refer our readers, with
pleasure, to the article in the Christian Remembrancer.

We arc obliged to recur oftener than we should other-
wise do to the subject of manufacturing distress, in conse-
quence of observing the arguments, which we have already
frequently refuted, restated again and again in the provin-
cial Journals, and sometimes inconsistently brought for-
ward by London prints which in general advocate
principles of an entirely different tendency. This conti-
nual repetition of the same thing, without paying any
attention to the arguments on the opposite side of the
question, may answer the purposes of parties, but
is little calculated to promote the cause of truth. It
is stated, as a convincing argument of the insufficiency
of the mere:fact of over-production to account for our dis-
tress, that France and America now manufacture annually
Stio,ooo bales of cotton more than they did ten years ago.
lt is said that on this account we have irretrievably lost
the manufacturing monopoly which we formerly enjoyed:
but we would ask these gentlen;en when we enjoyed
this manufacturing and commercial monopoly? Only
during the war. Those persons who, at the termination of
the European contest, took such pleasure in predicting the
destruction of our manufactures as soon as foreign ships
should be enabled, by the cessation of hostilities, to navi-
gate the seas on equal terms with our own, cannot now
surely turn round and tell us that our monopoly only
ceased two years ago. We have not yet forgot how these
journalists themselves told us, at the end of the war, that