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[ From the Courrier Francais.]

The Duchess de Floridia, who married, with the left hand, the
late King of Nuples, died on the 26th April, in consequence of an
inflammatory cholic."

CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 11.

Many Councils have been held in the Seraglio. The Sultan
caused a firman to be published on the 9th of April, exhorting
the Mussuimana regularly to observe the duties of their religion,
now Hamadan has .begun. He went with great pomp to the
Mosque, which he has just erected, and which has received the
name of Mahmnud.

The introduction of the Nizam Gedid (European exercise) is
again talked of. Every body has seen the success which the
Egyptians have had by this means, but this innovation does not
extend to the nary. The Janissaries will also preserve their pri.
vileges.

Mehemet Ali Pacha has caused a picture of the situation of
Egypt to be presented to the Porte, which encourages little hope
that he will act with vigour in the course of the ensuing cam-
paign. The scarcity of bread occasioned yesterday some dis-
orders in various parts of the capital. We hope they will prove
but momentary, seeing how abundant corn is throughout all
Europe. It is only in Asia Minor that the last harvest has failed.
ODESSA, APRII. 22.

A Firman of the Porte has arrived at Jassy and Bucharest, which
enjoins the authorities to provision the fortresses situated on the
Danube for six months. The llmpodar Gyka has already given
the necessary orders. The giving up of the two principalities is
not so easy for the Porte as it may appear. Greece no longer con-
tributes, as is well known, to the exigencies of the State ; it even
causes the Sultan a great expense to carry on the war. The Porte
then finds itself obliged to lay the heavier hurthens on other pro.
winces, and especially on those which arc peopled by Christians.
It Is said that he had drawn from the two principalities, in the
course of three years, a sum exceeding 37 millions over and above
the ordinary taxes. The Ilospodars, to maintain themselves in
their situations, surpass even themselves in all sorts of exactions.
If the Porte evacuates the principalities, anti restores to them their
ancient privileges, those exactions must cease at once, and the
Turkish Government will then not know how to carry on the war.
The Austrian Observer or the 4th May states, that the Greek
National Assembly is to be held forthwith at Piada. It asserts
also, as in the account we formerly extracted from the Etude, that it
is the wish of the Greeks to obtain a monarchical form of govern-
ment. Vasso Braicowieh, after levying contributions in the Islands
of 'Lea, Syra, Perm, and Naxos, made • descent lately in Syra,
surprised and plundered Beirout, and put a part of the Turkish po-
pulation to the sword.

•
The remarks made in the late discussion in the Chamber
of Deputies are not the only proofs which have lately been
afforded of the attention paid by the French Government
to the improvement of agriculture on the other side of the
Channel. The King of FRANce has given orders to pur-
chase the estate of Gut° N 0 X, for about a million of francs,
and to add it to the crown lands. It is to be placed at the
disposal of a Society of Shareholders, who propose to cul-
tivate it by the best methods, and to receive in it 300
pupils, who are to be taught the theory and practice of

agriculture, gardening, farming, and the art of making the
most adVantageous use of the produce of industry in manu-
factures. The shares are I,YOO francs each, and the Society
is formed for forty years. The KING takes •toli shares,
and leaves the profits on them with the establishment,
to be applied to such purposes as may be deemed
advantageous to it, and also to diminish the fees re-
quired from the pupils. Another establishment has been
formed for the cultivation of the mulberry-tree and the
breeding of silk-worms. A farm in the domain of Ms-
genie, near Corbeil, has been purchased, to renew the ex-
periments which were successful in the departments of
Jura and Allier, by which it is proved that the silk-worm
may be successfully reared in the more northern depart-
ments. A third establishment has been formed for im-
proving their wool at Chaillot. A flock of English sheep
has been purchased, and in this company also the KING
has taken 250 shares of 1000 francs each. The DAU rift N
is, next to the KING, the principal shareholder in these
establishments.

The following is an extract of a letter from Madrid,
dated the Ist of May:—" The misery in the interior of this
country increases every day, and our wool, which forms
one of the principal sources of our riches, is in so little
demand, that the Council of the Mesta (for the improve-
ment of wool) has petitioned the KING to suppress the
taxes on the sheep, which, though inconsiderable, are
sufficient to disable the proprietors from keeping up their
flocks, in consequence of the surprising fall in the price of
wool."

A short time must elapse before we can obtain the parti-
cular detail of the successes which led to the termination,
so glorious to the British arms, of our long and desperate
war with the Burmese. Brigadier-General Sir W. COT-
TON, as senior officer of the detachment of the Madras
army serving under the command of Major-General Sir
ARCHIBALD CAMrnELL, was the officer upon whom it de-
volved to communicate to the Government of Madras the
terms of the peace concluded with the King of Ara. It is
to the Governor-General and Council of Bengal that Sir
ARCHIBALD will transmit his despatches, containing the
full particulars of his operations in the different attacks
upon the enemy ; and as the troops were under his own
immediate orders, the details cannot fail to add new lustre
to his fame.

The lamented death of Major-General Sir C. Tuanea,
late Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Sierra Leone
and its dependencies, appears, by the Gazette of last night,
to have been occasioned by his ardent zeal in the suppres-
sion of the infamous traffic in human flesh, carried on
merely because there is something of colouring matter in or
about the skin, which is supposed to make a distinction be-
tween the intellectual powers of a black man and a white.
No doubt, he-vever, the death of this valuable public officer
and excellent private gentleman, was hastened by the
noxious climate to which he was exposed. It appears,
from his last despatches, that he had undertaken an expe-
dition into the Sherbro' country, with the view of perfect-
ing the arrangements which he had commenced with the
native chiefs, for the abolition of the slave trade. The
force and quality of this expedition,—if, indeed, such it
may he called,—will be better judged of by a reference to
the despatch itself.
We will here just remark that he left only six regimental
officers and 500 men at Sierra Leone; and Capt. ROSE, his
Aid-dc-Camp, having died just before, he had but one
Lieutenant, one Staff-Surgeon, two Members of the
Council, fifty Europeans, and forty natives, to accompany
him on his expedition. Gentral TURNER, even with this
small force, was determined to proceed against those mis-
creants, who had formed to themselves a settlement, which
they had called Sierra Leone, no doubt with the view of
imposing, by that name, on the ignorant native chiefs of
the interior, and of inducing them to continue the detes-
table traffic, as cor.ceiving it sanctioned by the British
power in Africa. In his progress, however, to the scene of
action, he fortunately fell in with the Leven frigate, Cap-
tain OWEN, having under his command the Albatross
schooner, that officer being then employed in a survey of
the rivers on the coast. From Captain OWEN Sir C.
TURNER immediately received the most prompt assistance,
and in a short titne destroyed two receptacles of wretches,
whose utter worthlessness we will not trust ourselves to
describe, but shall content ourselves with laying before
our readers the exact terms in which the late humane and
gallant officer chose to speak of them in his last despatch.
" On my arrival in the Sherbro," says he, " I discovered
that the great slave dealers who hal retired from the Sher-
bro' and Sea Bar, on signing the Convention prohibiting
the exportation of slaves, had joined with those of the
Gallinat, and had come to the resolution of re-establishing
the slave trade Ly force, even in the districts where it had
been voluntarily given up by the native chiefs, and were
there assembled in force, up the Boom river, seizing our
people, and putting at defiance our power and our rights.
These slave-dealers are all mulattoes. deseenthintr of
Europeans, strangers to the soil, and, I griece to say, men
generally educated in England.' Their education gives them
great superiority, and their wealth potter."
Deeply as we are sure all true friends to humanity will
lament the loss of this excellent officer, it is a great conso-
lation to know that lie died in consequence of his exertions
to secure liberty and happiness to his fellow-men. We
cannot close this imperfect tribute to his memory better
than by giving another extract from his last despatch.
After detailing the destruction of the two strong holds of
the slave dealers, General TURNER proceeds thus :

" Not being able to learn that they had any other place
up the river, and as they were thus driven out of our ter-
ritories, defeated and disgraced, with the loss of their towns
and stores, I determined to proceed no further, and, after
carrying away the guns and stores, and destroying by fire
the town and neighbouring village, we embarked, and got
safely to the shipping in the Sherbro', on the 23d, after
destroying the two principal strong holds, with eight
smaller towns, where these wretches kept their victims
in chains until the ships were ready to receive them ;
and I sincerely trust that this lesson will teach the deluded
of the country not to put further faith in the vain boast-
ings of these wicked people, who, by administering to
the worst :passions of the ignorant and unfortunate in-
habitants, not only depopulate and turn into deserts the
most fertile plains which I have ever seen, but so blunt
their feelings and brutalize their natures, that for a few
bottles of rum and heads of tobacco, the parent is found,
without remorse, casting away his offspring. Each village
it engaged against the other, for the purpose of making
prisoners; and men, like beasts of prey, are ever on the
watch to seize their neighbours and their fellow-men.

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.

The few bargains that were reported in Consols this morning
were done at a declining price in t e early part of the day, 781;
and although they afterwards talliat, the nearest cpwtation being
still the appearance of the market was heavy.
The principal variation in foreign Securities was in Gre:k

Bonds, which declined to 13} 11, in corsequence of the intelligence
of the fall of Missolonghi. It was matter of surprise to many job-
bers that these Bonds were not more affected by this news, so die.
'strong, if not fatal, to the Greek cause; but the fact is, it had
been long anticipated, and the price ha.l consequently been before
depressed. South American Securities excited little interest,
Mexican 6 per Cents. remaining steady at 824 31; Colombian Bonds
at 424 3, and Peruvian ditto 32. Russian bonds were 74 6, and
Spanish 8, sellers.

Corn appears to be recovering from the depression temporarily
produced by the measures proposed by 31inisters. The continuance
of cold weather will more than outweigh the apprehended dime.
tionary power.