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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1826.

The French Opposition Papers abound in dire prognos-
tications respecting the fate of Turkey, in consequence of
the measures taken with respect to the Janissaries. We
i,ave been accustomed all along to consider the success of
tie Greeks, and the downfall of Turkey, as two very dif-
ferent questions, and we do not wish for the one more ar-
dently than we deprecate the possibility of the other. We
base hoped even that the separation of Greece will he be-
net cial to Turkey, in the same way as it is said that the
loes of a limb frequently tends to increase the vigour of
the body. If the alarm produced by the continued re-
verses of the undisciplined troops should render the Turks
more favourable to European improvements, we should
consider the effect more than an adequate compensation for
the loss of Greece.

The Eloile of the 16th contains some intelligence from
G:eece, which we have inserted elsewhere. It also fur-
itbLes the following paragraph :

'From the Etuile, dated Sunday, July 16.1

PARIS. JULY I.

Prince Aletternich WAS to set out from Vienna the day before
yesterday, to go to his seat at Johannisberg. It is well known that
.os Highness is expected on .the banks of the Rhine at the end of
ills month. Count De Bernstorlf, the Prussian Minister of State,
is to be there about the same time.
Telmer' heahh continues to improve, though but slowly„, but
sutEcient to give every day greater hopes.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, JULY 15.—Five per Cents. 99f.
40c. ; Three per Cents. 65f. 85c. ; Hank stock 2.00411. ; Rentes de
Naples 72f. bOr.; Royal Hpmist, Ivan 41;f. ; 1 !alum ditto 090 f.
Exchange on London. One Mouth, 25f. CUc. ; Three Months 25f.
• *ie.—Cows Amtbco.'iver, July 15.

'We have received accounts from Jamaica to the Ist
Jur.e, through Bahitnore and Liverpool. Their contents
ate subjoined:-
- JAMAICA. Jogs. 21.
The Medulota Post is in, with intelligence that Pattills wrived
21st May at ('•rthsgena from Bogota, with invtructions to the lo-
tenslaritt to curry into effect the contemplat.d invasion of Cuba, so
that preparations are already commenced to that er.d. The last di.
ri.;oa oh the auxiliary troops which went to Peru, returned to Car.
wagons, the garrison of which plate is now composed o: 3,59 d.
MAY 27.

lout Spanish frigates, cruising tinder the orders of Commodore I
Laborde, TIOOII down into Cow Bay un Wednesday afternoon, and
were disctrnible from Ligutint% on Thursday morning. They
atreeictrds proceeded to se*, and have been since cruising to wind-
..rd or the cast end. They have atiptated again in the offing to-
day, and will probably cruise of and on until they are rejoined by
the Commodore, whose vessel, the Guerrero, will, we understand,
undergo some repairs at our Doek.yard. 1.. the mean time mu.
tual civilities are pate.i,e., between our Naval old 31ilitary Com-
manders-in.C4ief and the Commodore.
Intelligence has been received by the Commodore Owen, that the
Colombian schooner of war Atrevida was despatched on the Lim
Inst. from t:arthagena to Chagres, with an °Weer on board, ser.t
express so General Bolivar, to request his immediate return to
Colombia, in consequence of the disaffection of General Paez, who
bad declared Caracas and all the provinces to the eastward of it
independent. The orders were to land the officer at Chagres
altdespattli, and he was to proceed to Peru to the President of
Columbia.
The British Envoy left Earthagena on the 16th for the seat of
Oovernment ; but on his arrival at Baranquills he received infor-
mation that the natives in the interior were in a state of inserrectk
• Ile, hawever, remained there, and sent despatches to
o r the British Government, and they have 1..." (newt
shod by the Commodore Owen.

UP this

144 gave yesterday the extremely important decree re-
gulating the commerce of Hayti. It appears from the in-
fJrtnation, which will be noticed under the head of Hayti

this day, that the measures of the Government have led
to the most disastrous consequences. We can only now
refer to the article to which we have just alluded.

The intelligence which we continue to receive from
Mexico confirms the accounts which we have repeatedly
given of the intentions of France and Spain with regard to
the South American States. It is now distinctly stated that
agents have been sent to the different Republics of South
America, to treat with them about the recognition of their
independence, on condition of their paying a certain sum,
which would be employed by Spain to discharge the accu-
mulated loans with which she is at present burdened. We
would call the attention of our readers to the extract from
an American Paper, which we have Riven under the head
of Mexico. The Resolutions referred to in that article
were published in the British Press yesterday.

We observe that branch banks" of the Batik of England
are about to be established at Lancaster, Gloucester, Ste.,
and that attempts arc making in the North of England to
establish institutions similar to the Scotch Banks. It ie ob-
vious that the withdrawing of Country hank-notes from
circulation must leave a vacancy in the currency, which it
will be necessary to supply; and it is equally obvious, if
the Rank of England succeed in supplying that vacancy,
that it will gain the whole amount of notes issued in con-
sequence, because these notes being issued to answer the
ordinary-business of commerce, cannot return to it with-
out leaving a deficiency, which it will then become neces-
sary to supply. The Branch Banks will of course supply
the want of the Country Banks, by advancing money on
securities; and this will necessarily keep a great r.inantity
of their larger notes in constant circulation. If, then, the
Bank of England is to obtain in this way a clear and per-
manent profit, equal to the whole circulation of the Coun-
try Banks, it would be unjust to look for assistance to the
manufacturing districts from any quarter but from the
Bank of England ; and we think that advances might be
made by them, either to parishes to facilitate a new arrange-
ment as to poor rates, by assigning lands to be cultivated
by the poor for their own maintenance, or to enable pri-
vate speculators to open such new channels for useful
labour, as may tend in any way to increase the quantity of
necessaries in the country.

The inclination to riot displayed by a-me of the popula-
tion in the manufacturing districts, can never be too much
deplored. While we admit the propriety of remonstrance,
and evert of resistance, in casts where rulers are obstinately
deaf to the calamities in which the people have been in-
volved, we cannot see any shadow of reason for such mea-
sures at the present moment. If the people were to ask
the instigators of these disturbances what object they pro-
pose to themselves from them, we are satisfied that these
persons would find very considerable difficulty in giving a
rational answer. Their hostility to power-looms is even,
in the opinion of the sober part of the operatives, by no
means founded in sound views of the subject; and were
they to succeed in destroying all the power-looms in the
country, they could scarcely hope by that to secure any
immediate relief. As to the ultimate relief which they
might expect, it requires very little ingenuity to demon-
strate that such means as these would be productive
of none. The instigators of riots can have no object but ,
anarchy, which would evidently be worse than the dis-
tress under which we at present labour. It is better for
the people to he strong in power rather than in use. It is
the duty of every Government to restrain the bursts of
popular discontent, even when that discontent is well
grounded, and when the feelings of the people are in a
peat measure participated by the Government itself. If
the people are once satisfied that those who alone can have
the power of remedying their grievances have as much in-
clination to see them remedied as' thq themselves can
possibly have; if they observe them anxious for nothing
but to discover the safest and most eligible means of alle-
viating their distress; if they perceive them labouring
night and day, exerting all the abilities of the Statesman
and all the inclination of the Philanthropist to remove the
evils which they so justly complain of,—it is not surely
for the people to obstruct their exertions, by call-
ing their attention from the paramount object, to
the more pressing though more confined one of
preserving the lives and properties of their fellow-citizens.
The people ought to remember that the law does not per-
mit them even to execute justice upon a criminal. If they
attempted to do so, the armed force would be bound to
protect that criminal, and it would rescue that very indivi-
dual from the fury of the snob, whom it would be its
duty, perhaps, in ten minutes afttr, to see executed in the
way appointed by law. The population- of the manu-
facturing districtsought therefore to remember. that actual
violence on their part will prevent Government from doing
what is evidently its wish to do. io order toromove the cir-
cumstances of which they complain. They mum sec from
the public prints, whose opinions on this subject are the
same, though with some slight shades of difillrence, that
all agree in deprecating violence, and all admit the extreme
anxiety of Ministers to meet the crisis in the manner in
whiehit ought to be met—by going to the root of the evil,
and destroying it effectually and for ever.

CITY, MONDAY EVENING.

Little has been done in the way of business in the
Funds to-day, beyond the necessary preparation for the
settlement to-morrow. Consols for the Account opened
at 7H, varied to 781 during the day, and closed at 7SI for
the Account to-morrow, as well as for August. The failure
in the payment of the Dividend on the Colombian Bonds
has not tended to depress their price, for they bear a quo-
tation this day of 264, while Mexican, in consequence of
the favourable reports from that country, have advanced to
4t ; and Grecian also show a trifling advance, to 12}.
The Account to-morrow will be, as was anticipated, a
Beer one, and it is expected large quantities of Stock
will be delivered by the Hebraisis. The present period
displays the peculiar novelty of a complete glut of nicney
in the. Market, and the Funds in a falling state. Not
more than one per cent. interest could be obtained in the
Market to-day on Stock security.
The letters from Manchester and its neighbourhood, re-
ceived this morning, are of a very gloomy nature, and oc-
casion an intense anxiety as to the possibility of alluding
relief to such an extended state of distress.
Advice. from Madrid describe the total inaction of
trade in that city, the falling off in consumption of all
articles of colonial produce, and .he deplorable state of
every class of individuals, in consequence of the absence of
any thing like money. From Vittoria, they describe the
wheat in that part of Spain to. he beyond precedent abun-
dant ; and it is apprehended, that should it be favourably
lionatel, it will be cheaper this year than leas ever recol-
lected in that country.

It is said that one of the first objects of Lord Cochrane's
I visit to Greece will be to induce some of the islanders, who
are still wealthy, to contribute towards the payment of the
dividends upon the Greek Loan.

THE BRITISH PRESS•

PARTIES.
The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury has issued cards of In-
vitation for another assembly, on Thursday nest, at her house in
Arlingtop-street.
The Marquis of Worcester entertained the Countess St. An.
tonic) and a large party at dinner, on Sunday, at his house in
Park-street.
Lady Reyleigh entertained a large party of fashionable*, yester-
day evening, at her house in Grosvenor-square.
Lord fivrytlyr entertained the Earl and Countess of Clare and
a distinguished party It dinner, yesterday, at his house in
Piccadilly.

MOV BM E NTS. •
The Duke and Duchess of Richmond have left their seat, Good-
wood, Sussex, for Brighton. 1
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have left Hatfield,
for their seat, near Liverpool.
The Earl and Countess Cowper returned to town, yesterday,'
from the Earl of Essex's seat, Casitiolittry Park.
Lord and Lady Grantley arrived yesterday, at the St. George's
Hotel, Albemarle-street, from their sent in :itirrey. Departures :
Sir Compton and Lady I)omville and family, for their seat, Santry
Hall, ()Win.
Lord Al.horp has arrived at his seat, Wiseton Hall, Yorkshire,
from Northamptonshire.
Lady Julia Howard arrived, yesterday. at her house in Park-
street, Grosvenor-square, from her sent in Herts.
Lady IVarburton has left town for Ramsgate.
The lion. Gen. Cqweles Home left town, pester:lnv, for Scotland.
The llonouroble Charles, lady Catharine, and Miss Cavendish,
bare left town, for I;etilantmg.
'he lion. Mr. and 31ra. George Lamb lift town, yesterday, for
Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Sir J. v. and Miss Milbank have left Iloltres's Hotel, Parlia-
ment-street, for theis seat in Yorkshire.
Ralph Simi!". E,q. tat town yesterday, for ‘Varwickshire.
W. G. Leeson, Esq. left Miller's Hovel, Jetarryn-street, yester-
day. for Ireland.
Charles Morton, Esq left the Waterloo Hotel, dennyn-street,
yesterday, for Bed e Hall. Yorkshire.
Win. Markham, ki,,q. left town yesterday, for his sew, Becker

Ilall. York hire.
Mrs. and Miss Consingham left the London Hotel, Albemarle.
street, yesterday. for Hastings.
Departures from Thomas's Hotel, Betlieley.‘quare t—Mr. and
Mrs. George Wyndham' for Siilmnuth ; R. H. Made, Esq. tor
Paris ; J. Lumley, Esq. for Brighton.

CHELTENHAM, JULY 17.

The Dnke of Gloucester is punctual in his daily attend-
ance at the Montpelier Pump-room. After taking the mine-
ral water at this spa, his Royal Highness in the most con-
descending manner mixes in the promenade from nine
until ten o'clock. The walks in the morning are now lite-
rally crowded with company.
Our races, which are fixed for Wednesday next, have
caused a great influx of visitors. For the Gloucestershire
Stakes of 25 sovereigns each, there are sixty-nine sub-
scribers. Lord Palmerstein's horse Lugborough, from lately
having won the Somersetshire stakes at Bath. is certainly
die first favonrite; but Mr. West's horse Shakspeare, and
other horses, are all named as likely to have an quid chance
in the race.
Colonel Berkeley, at an expense to himself (as report
says) of seven hundred pounds, in scenery, dresses, and
decorations, which arc truly splendid and characteristic,
and which wer:: painted and made for this occasion,
ap-
peared with his brother, Mr. Augustus Berkeley, on our
stage on Thursday and Saturday iiigks, as amateurs, in the
new Romance of the linigPs (1 the Cross. The house was
unite full on both nights. We understand it is the inten-
tion of these gentlemen to perform again next month.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Bute, the Earl and
Countess of Stradbroke, the Earl and Countess of Cavan,
Sir John Packington and Lord Dormer. are amongst the
number of our must recent and distinguished arrivals.

_ . ..
The Duke of York, we are happy to say, is so much re-
covered that it is II3W only *necessary for Dr. Nl'firegor,
Physii;ian in Ordinary, to attend him daily. On Saturday
Sir Henry lialford and Dr. Warren attended the Royal
Duke, and had a consultation with Dr. M'Gregor, when
tkey had the pltaaure of flatting their Royal Patient in the
most promising state towards perfect recovery ; ao much en
that Sir Henry Halford felt no difficulty in taking his de-
parture from London for a short time. On Sunday his
Royal Highness rode out on horseback. Yesterday the
Royal Duke received Sir Herbert Taylor, to transact mili-
tary business.

'rhe Princess Augtetra was much better yererday. The
Duke of Sussex and the Princess Sophia /slatilda visited
the Princess on Sunday. The Duchess of Gloucester vi-
sited her Royal Highness yesterday.
Mr. Secretary Canning arrived in town yesterday morn-
ing, from Coombe Wood, the seat of the Etel of Liverpool.
The Foreign Office was in a considerable bustle on Sa-
turday, in starting off three of the King's Messengers on
foreign journeys, by order of Mr. Secretary Canning. In
addition to the two Messengers whose departure for abroad
we noticed yesterday, Mr. Kraus was also sent off about
nine o'clock on Saturday night. The three Messengers
were the bearers of despatches to the British Ambassadors
at St. Petcrsburgh, Vienna. and Madrid—the Duke of De-
vonshire, the Right Hun. Henry WeUesley, and the Right
Hon. Frederick Lamb.
Tbe Representative of this morning contains the fol-
lowing paragraph, asserting that the Duke of Devonshire
arrived from Russia some days since, and is now in this
country
" It to only known among the Duke of Devonshire's immedisfe
friends that his Orrice arrived from Russia some days since, and
la now in town, although he. has not yet appeared in puhlic. His
Grace is in excellent health,,and. we understand, means admost
immediately to return to St. Petcrsturgh, to be present at the
Coronation of the Emperor Nicholas, which ceremony is to take
place towards the latter end of September next. Ills Grace's return
is polity in consequence of the postponement of the Coronation of
the Emperor, has been dels yell by the death of the lamented
Empress Elizabeth."
—We can positively contradict this statement, which has
no foundation whatever.—.tun.
The Earl of ll.sborough is no more. He died in Italy
some time previous to the lute general election. IF so, Lord
Duncannon was a Member of the house of Lords at the
very time he stood a Candidate here for a seat in the House
of Commons. The lion. Pierce Butler is, in that event,
of course the sitting Member.---Kilkenny Independent
The actual Lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, it seems, is
not yet known ; but, we understand, the arrangement is in
progress, and likely to be completed in a few days. The
parties to whom the management will he assigned are per-
sons of great activity and experience in the profession, and
there is very little doubt but the theatre will be opou at
the usual period, with a powerful company in the various
'departments of tragedy, comedy, opera, farce, and panto-
mime.
Ta LM A.—Last night (Thursday), at the rising of the
curtain, the audienee who came to witness the last appear-
ance this season of Mademoiselle Duchenois, in the cha-
racter of Mary Stuart, would not suffer the tragedy to
commence without receiving some account of 111. Telma.
Saint Aulaire came forward and read a bulletin, signed by
eh-physicians in attendance upon M. Telma. (an the first
words being pronounced, announcing an amelioratien in
the state of our celebrated tragedian, the loudest plaudits
burst forth, and were prolonged for a considerable time.
" The evening was very painful until midnight. A crisis
which afford, d room for hope was then pronounced in a
more decided manner, and at twelve o'clock this day the
patient was much better." Telma has admitted several
friends, has conversed with them, and is in full possession
of his intellects.—Jourool des Debuts.
Toe Desalt OF u en.—A song, bearing this title,
which bids fair to rival in popularity even the most esteemed
and highly estimated musical compositions of the present
day, has just made its appearance. The words, which are
beautifully poetical, and excellently adapted to the melan-
choly subject of the deceased composer, are by J. R.
PlanclM, Esq. The song is composed by Mr. Brehm, in
which he has most happily introduced a great portion of
those beautiful airs in Der Freischutz with which the pub-
lic have long since been familiar. The commencement of
this song is the entire composition of Mr. Braham, and
even when compared to the beauties of NVebet's transcend-
ant genius, judges have pronounced it to be in the fittest
keeping, thus reflecting the highest credit on the scientific
abilities of this eminent vocalist, and adding another laurel
to the fame which he has already so justly acquired by his
former efforts.

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