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now well known. To the nations the policy
of the English Government must have had
but one aspect, that of seeing liberty crushed
with complacency, whether by domestic or by
foreign troops. The result is, that America is
more feared by Russia and Austria than England
herself.

But what is the pecuniary loss involved in all
this ? Why, first, that we have been obliged to
increase our military and naval establishments
quite as much as if we had acted decisively in
1848. Our timidity emboldened other Powers to
courses which required on our part an armed
peace. Then we have lost the almost boundless
trade, free trade, be it remembered, which was
opened to us with Hungary, and which, as Kos-
SIITH demonstrated at Manchester, must have
amounted to many millions a year. This is clear
and certain loss. Italy would most certainly
have been on a much better commercial footing
with us, in proportion to its liberty ; but what
we have lost there is not so clear. Then comes
the crisis of this year. Already the interference
with trade has cost us millions. Our trade with
Turkey itself, worth nearly three times our trade
with Russia, and rapidly increasing, while that
with the latter is steadily decreasing, is seriously
affected by the unsettled state of things. Some
300 ships laden with corn are imprisoned in the
Danube by the intentional neglect of Russia ;
and the possibility of war, coupled with the
detention of supplies, much more than any
serious prospects for harvest, have made them-
selves one in the price of the
quart
ern Russia, in the face of our
diplomatists,
felt
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is
every
seizing
on Turkish provinces, suck-
ing their life-blood, and that of Turkey itself also,
establishing itself in the best military positions
for seizing on the Empire it is convulsing and in-
sulting—we, we here in England, are feeling it in
demands upon our national Exchequer, in obstruc-
tion and injury to a most thriving portion of our
commerce, and even in the price of food itself.
Adding the loss of European trade consequent
upon our suffering Hungary, and in part Italy, to
be placed under the exclusive tariff of Austria—
to the sacrifices direct and indirect consequent
on Lord ABERDEEN'S not uniting at once with
Louis NAPOLEON to forbid the onward movement
of Russia—we believe we should not be at all
above the mark in setting down ten millions as
the lowest sum sacrificed during the present year,
directly and indirectly, by this country, through
the counsels of a RUSSELL and an ABERDEEN over-
powering or obstructing those of a PALMERSTON.
The moral of the whole is, that economy is by
no means always on the side of an inglorious
peace, nor safety on the side of the strong desert-
ing the weak in their hour of need. If a stalwart
Peace Society man choose to be robbed and beaten
unresistingly himself, we may respect his sincerity
in acting out his illusions ; but if he could
see his wife or his child, or a feebler neighbour
maltreated without intervention, our respect
is lost in indignation that any theory can eradi-
cate from his breast the most necessary and noble
instincts of our race. But the worst consequence
of all is, that the man is a virtual patron of thieves
and robbers. In like manner, amongst States, we
regard with contempt or anger the powerful ones
which merely, or hardly, protest, while another
strong State is tearing to pieces a weaker one ;
but their selfishness and treachery is sure in the
long run to recoil upon themselves. All the mis-
chiefs of jeopardy or uncertainty will harass
them for a time, while the battle will have to be
fought at last. To us, Russia appears to have
pursued one scarcely veiled course of defiance of
the rights of natiors, and of insult to all parties
to Turkish treaties, from beginning to end.
Spoliation is her palpable object, perhaps her pre-
sent intention. Ii would have been easier to
have thwarted that intention at the banks of the
Pruth than on those of the Danube, in the passes
of the Balkan, or, it may be, at the walls of Con-
stantinople. Russia has stolen from England, not
from France, the benefit of the old adage—" For-
tune favours the bold."

The King of Hanover, as well as the Queen, have
taken the measles. The two young Princesses are also
suffering from the same complaint, but the Crown Prince
is recovered.
DETERMINED CASE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. —On
Tuesday, a gentleman endeavoured to destroy himself
by drowning in the Regent's Canal, Regent's-park,
nearly opposite Bentinck-terrace, St. John's-wood, and
failing in the attempt, got on shore and endeavoured to
do it more successfully by cutting his throat in two
places. A bargeman passing by observed the unfortu-
nate man, and gave an immediate alarm. Medical aid
was sought immediately by the police, calling in Mr.
Allen, surgeon, of 3, Portland-terrace, who promptly
attended to the poor man, dressed his wounds, and had
him conveyed to the parochial workhouse in a cab,
where he accompanied him, and then handed him over
to the charge of the medical officers in the establish-
ment. He was reported late in the evening to be going
on favourably.
SERIOUS FIRES, AND NARROW ESCAPE OF SIX
PERSONS.—This morning, about 20 minutes before one
o'clock, the premises belonging to Mr. Dickeson, whole-
sale bonnet dealer and milliner, situate at 41, Newing-
ton-causeway, were discovered to be on fire. One of
the neighbours, it appears, in passing the house, found
smoke issuing through the shop shutter apertures, and
which induced him to give intelligence of what he had
seen to police-constable 265 M, who on gaining the
front of the establishment at once saw sufficient to con-
vince him that the lower part of the place was on fire.
The first thing he, therefore, attempted to do was to
arouse the inmates, consisting of six or seven persons.
After some considerable trouble the officer succeeded
in making the whole of the inmates sensible of their
impending danger, and without delay they made an
attempted to descend by means of the stairs ; but the
smoke and heat from the fire (which had obtained pos-
session of the lower part of the place) was so great that
none of the persons living there were enabled to escape
by the regular means, Some of them managed to get
upon the roof, and remain there until Smart arrived
with the Royal Society's escapes, down which he con-
veyed one of the affrighted persons. The engines of the
London Brigade, parish, and West of England office,
were soon on the spot, and as quickly in operation,
throwing some immense columns of water upon the de-
vouring element, but it was not until nearly two o'clock
that the fire was entirely extinguished. The total loss,
it is believed, will have to be borne by the British Empire
Mutual Office. A short time before the above fire hap-
pened, another broke out in the neighbourhood of the
Albany-road, Camberwell.
CITY OF LONDON MUNICIPAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.
—Last night the first public meeting of this association
was held in Farringdon-hall, Snow-hill, for the purpose
of nominating a general committee of management and
ward committees of improvement, the appointment of
officers, and the adoption of requisite measures for the
effective organisation of the body. The chair was taken
by Mr. J. Wightman, and Mr. Acland gave the meeting
a brief history of the movement for corporate reform,
and complained that when the Legislature undertook to
deal with the question it had excluded the city of Lon-
don from the provisions of the bill by which it had re-
formed the municipal bodies. He did not charge the
corporation of the city of London with corruption, but
with incompetency, as there were not at its council any
men of real influence. There were two classes of citizens
the privileged and the unprivileged, the first of whom
should not exist, as a system of privilege was inconsistent
with the spirit of the age. The present association, which
sought for such reform, now numbered 764 of the most
important citizens. There was a great necessityfor such an
institution, for no fewer than 4,032 persons were at
present under summons to take out their freedom, many
of whom were already freemen, and generally known to
be such, although the corporation itself knew not who
were freemen and who were not. Another evil of the
mischievous results of the incompetency of the corpora-
tion was, that the local taxes in the City doubled those
in the county of Middlesex. There was now a commis-
sion about to sit upon the state of the corporation, and
he looked forward to its report for the reformation of
many, if not of all, the abuses. Several other gentle.
men subsequently addressed the meeting, denouncing
the corporation, complaining of its tyranny in forcing
the traders of the City to take out their freedom, and
claiming for all rated citizens a share in local self-go-
vernment. A committee of management was then ap-
pointed, the officers of the association nominated, and
several rules agreed to for the effective working of the
institution, the collecting of evidence to place before the
commission, and the defence of those prosecuted by
the corporation. The proceedings then terminated with
a vote of thanks to the chairman.

CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES.—The gentlemen
amateurs desirous of possessing the honorary distinction
of champion of the Thames contended yesterday. There
were four competitors, Mr. James Paine, Mr. Ripping-
hall, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Nottidge, and all had taken
considerable pains to get themselves into a befitting
condition to contend for the enviable distinction. The
distance was from Putney to Kew-bridge, and the gen-
tlemen all got to theirstations a full hour or more before
high water. A very beautiful start was made by the
whole party, who were scull and scull for a few paces,
when Messrs. Paine and Rippinghall soon began to
show in front, and it was not long before Mr. Paine had
acquired a good lead, which he maintained, ultimately
winning easily. A very beautiful race occurred between
Messrs. Nottidge and Smith, in which the former rowed
very prettily ahead, find maintained his lead, although
it was strongly menaced at Barnes-bridge by the very
plucky puffin.. of Smith, who afterwards fell more astern.
Mr. James Painee is a leading member of the Argonauts
Club, and is a very capital oarsman as well as smiler.

MONEY MARKET

AND
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK, THIS DAY.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 7,000 bales, of which 2,000 American
were taken for export. There was no change in
prices, but the market had a downward tendency.
The sales comprised 6,000 American, 150 Pernam
and Maranham at 61d. to 7d., 100 Egyptian at
6/d. to Bd., and 600 Surat 31d. to 44d. per lb.
Railway shares were dull at lower prices.
The six week's average price of wheat is 495. 4d.
per quarter. Last week's sales were 87,469 quarters.
Accounts from New York state that a loan of
$300,000 has been negotiated by the city of Rich-
mond, Virginia, at a premium of one-and-a-half to
two-and-a-half per cent. A fair business was doing
in foreign dry goods, and at profitable prices, the
autumn demand having commenced. Woollen
fabrics were in request. The following is a report
upon this subject:—
" The business transacted in dry goods, during the
past week, has been tolerably large and profitable ; the
fall demand having set in, though this was not so active
as was anticipated, owing, without doubt, more to the
attractions of the Crystal Palace, and the eagerness of
country dealers to visit and inspect it before entering
into negotiations for whatever supplies they may need,
than to any discrepancy between the calculations of
manufacturers and importers and the real wants of the
republic. That there is no remarkable difference in this
respect we are generally assured subsequent experience
will demonstrate. It is now too early in the season for
a vigorous inquiry to prevail. Previous years may have
witnessed an animated traffic at this time, but such re-
sulted from the force of circumstances under which the
trade of the country laboured. Of these, the imperfect
and tardy means of transportation within the limits of
the Union were the most cogent. Formerly, merchants
from the interior could not avoid coming hither and pur-
chasing heavy stocks in advance of each successive sea-
son, because of the long time it then took to convey
goods any considerable distance inward. Hence the
spring and autumn trade usually the most animated,
opened very early and lively. Now the reverse is the
case. Great and increasing facilities of intercourse be-
tween the various markets of the country, whether these
be a distributing or consuming class, are afforded by
railways, steamboats, and canals, and thus is obviated
the once imperious necessity which used to compel
buyers from the cities and towns of the West and South
to visit this metropolis, and secure, before hand suffi.
ciently ample supplies to last for three or four months.
Such parties are now never in a hurry to reach New
York before each season's business is fairly commenced,
and on coming here they do not buy as much at one
time as they may require during a whole spring or fall
campaign. It is to this change in the course of trade
that the prevalent comparative quiet in the branch of
commerce being noticed is ascribed."
Letters from Cuba state that the merchants
there wbo traffic in slaves were profiting by the
absence of the English fleet at the North American
fisheries. The stock of sugar at Havannha on the
Bth ult was 240,000 boxes, and the crop was very
promising.
At Porto Rico, the heavy rains towards the end
of June impeded the sugar cultivation. The quality
of the sugar manufactured had proved inferior.
Prices were high. Many ships had left in ballast,
and others were preparing to do the same.
The English Funds have been steady at yester-
day's decline, with very little doing. Consols have
been 97* to for transfer, and 97* to for account.
The New 3 per Cents. have been 10011 to I, and
the 3 per Cents. 974. Bank Stock is heavy at
227*. East India Stock brings 256 to 258. Ex-
chequer Bills are at 3s. discount, and India Bonds
at 255. premium. The foreign news is still too
indefinite to induce purchases, but the fine weather
is encouraging, and the reports about the crops are
much more favourable. Consols were at one time
buyers this morning at 97g.
The Foreign Stock Market has been dull, and
with scarcely any speculation. Spanish 5 per
Cents. bring 464, and Portuguese 4 per Cents.
42/ to 428. Peruvian 4i per Cents. have receded
to 821 1. Equador Stock is at 5. Mexican have
been flat at 251 to 26. Russian 41 per Cents. are
1001 to 101. Dutch 4 per. Cents. have been
marked 97 to 1. Brazilian old 5 per Cents. have
been quoted 102.
The Gold Mine Shares have been all very flat,
and sellers predominate.
The Shares of the Joint-Stock Banks have been
lower.

The Land Companies Shares are depressed and
merely nominal.
The market for Railway Shares is heavy, but
Caledonian, Great Northern, and South Western
have been rather firmer than the other English
lines. The French Shares have been at about the
previous rates.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under

1853. 1852.
Great Western £24,318 £19,732
North Western 56,882 51,824

South Western

17,764 15,486

Brighton 20,027 17,765
Midland 26,283 23,896
South Eastern 20,681 19,013

Caledonian..

10,923

8.842

Great Northern

16,383 12,508

Lancashire and Yorkshire 20,305 18,497
York and North Midland, Newcastle

and Berwick, and Leeds Northern 29,084 25,695

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Business done.
Bank Stock
9 Annuitir- -97 h

3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726
New 31 per Cent. Annuities lOOB i i i
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 , s- 15-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 5B
India Stock 256 8 6i
India Bonds, £lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO 25
Consols for Account 11th August 9n i
Exchequer Bills, id.
£l000
£5OO 3 d
Small 1 p 3 d
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Danish Bonds, 5 per Cent lO6l
Equador Bonds
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent. B2 1
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto 4i per Cent.
Ditto Small
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 46i
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent.
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

.HALF•PAST TWO.

Consols 97
Ditto August Account 97

SHERIFFS' COURT-(THIS DAY).

(Before Mr. W. Burchell.)
HALL V. HELME.
This was an action to recover the amount of a bill of
exchange.
Defendant pleaded several special pleas, amongst
which one was that there had not been any consideration
the bill, and that it had been obtained by fraud.
An application was made on behalf of the defendant
for the case to be adjourned in consequence of his at.
torney being engaged in the Rolls Court.
The Under-sheriff said thathe could not take the case
out of the usual court unless the plaintiff consented.
Plaintiff's counsel could not agree, and as the clerk to
defendant's attorney said he was aware of the facts of the
case, he could not proceed.
Evidence was then given proving the handwriting,
and a verdict was given for the amount claimed.

WHITE V. ROBINSON.
The plaintiff in this case is an accountant, and sought
to recover the sum of 6/. for preparing a balance-sheet,
on which defendant passed his examination and obtained
his certificate from the Court of Bankruptcy.
Mr. Keightley appeared as attorney for the plaintiff,
and called his (Mr. K's.) clerk, who proved the retainer,
and the plaintiff himself, who swore distinctly that he
had never been paid, defendant having made generally
excuses as to inability. Defendant, however, on the
contrary, distinctly contradicted this evidence.
The jury retired for a short time, and then gave a ver-
dict for the amount claimed.

The letters from St. Petersburgh reach to the 27th ult.,
and are remarkably pacific in their tone, the Turkish
question being treated as if it were virtually settled.
There had been a fair amount of general business, which
would have been still greater but for the, want of ship-
ping. A further rise had taken place in freight, the
rates for which were now double those that prevailed at
the same period of last year. The market for public
securities was firm, and the rate of exchange was again
slightly higher, the quotation being 38d. to 9-16.
VIENNA.—The mercantile advices from Vienna state
that the rate of exchange had become less unfavourable,
owing to large draughts by M. Rothschild on Frankfort
and London, which were thought to be connected with
a loan in silver understood to be in negotiation. This
circumstance has, therefore, been one of those which
have aggravated the recent demands for specie. At the
same time, however, it was considered to show great
confidence that the Turkish question will be adjusted.
Money was temporarily in great demand owing to the
operations in question, but there was extreme depression
in all departments of trade and a general falling off in
the quantities of goods for consumption.
HOBART TowN.--Elobart Town papers have been re-
ceived to the 3d of April. The rates for labour continued
to be maintained, and a meeting of the Government
clerks had taken place to bring under consideration the
pecuniary disadvantages of their position. Business was
generally active. Wool was firm at prices ranging from
10d. to ls. 4d. per lb., and oil from 451. to 671. per ton.
Victoria gold was selling at 31. 17s. 3d. per ounce, and
Fingal gold at 3/. 12s.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.

There is not much on the Eastern question in
the Paris journals. The Constitutionnel alludes to
it only incidentally in refuting something that the
Union had said relative to the affair of the Holy
Places. The Pays begins an article by observing
that although honour and some political considera-
tions render it right for France to concur in an en-
deavour to maintain the integrity of the Ottoman
empire, her material interests lie in another part of
the world ; and then the Pays quotes from some
official documents to show the importance of
giving greatness and durability to the colony of
Algeria. The Union remarks on the extraordi-
nary fact of four propositions from different sources
having been submitted to the Emperor of Rus-
sia, and thihks that the affair would have had
a better chance of reaching a pacific solution if
the mode of proceeding had been_more direct
and simple. The Siecle persists in calling for energy
and decision on the part of France and England,
and repeats the expression of its opinion that if a
bold front had been opposed to the Emperor of
Russia in the first instance, he would, ere this,
have been brought to reason. The Assemblee Na-
tionale has a long article on the war against the
Birmans, in which it indulges in insinuations
against the English, even to the extent of stating
that they do not hesitate to take assassins into their
pay in order to get rid of their enemies. It is sur-
prising with what tenacity the party of which the
Assemblee Nationale is the organ persists in its
calumnies on the English nation. The Debats has
another article calling for the abolition of the slid-
ing scale as regards-the corn trade.
On Tuesday the Emperor gave a private audience
to the Marquis de Viluma, who delivered his letters
of credence as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the Queen of Spain and of the
Duke of Parma. Count de Hatzfeldt, the Prus-
sian minister, and M. Firmin Rogier, the Belgian
minister, also had audiences of his Majesty, the
former to deliver the reply of his Sovereign to the
letters of recal of Baron Burignot de Varennes,
and the latter to deliver the reply of the King of
the Belgians to the letters of recal of M. His de
Butenval.

The Emperor, on the proposition of the Minister
of War, has appointed M. de Guiroye, military in-
tendant of the section of reserve, to the functions
of mayor of Algiers, and has promoted M. Lechene,
ex-mayor of Algiers, to the rank of officer in the
Legion of Honour.
We read in the Moniteur

" The Minister of Marine has just received from the
French Consul-General in England interesting details as
to the movement of French navigation in the port of
London, during the second quarter of 1853. In that
period there entered 98 French vessels, measuring toge-
ther 6,119 tons, and having 548 men, being an increase
on the corresponding quarter of 1852, of 14 vessels, and
1,014 tons ; 5 vessels have participated in the benefit of
the new navigation law, and have imported into Eng-
land, from France, either American or French produce
(wine and brandy). Some vessels have been char-
tered by English houses for the conveyance of pas-
sengers, and our Consul-General on this subject
expresses an opinion that, under existing circum-
stances, such of our ships as are fit for that service
might get engagements in England on very advantageous
conditions. Our flag has already made itself known on
this subject, and one of the first ship-owners in London,
who has chartered two vessels of Bordeaux (the Pondi-
cherry and the Jessore), has spoken in the highest terms
as to the excellent condition of these vessels. The Don
Juan, of the same port, has also recently obtained at
Bristol the approbation of competent men. Our cap-
tains of merchant vessels, who, before the new naviga-
tion law had no opportunity of visiting England, have
been perfectly well appreciated since they have been
put in relation with the shipowners and merchants on
the other side the Strait."

At the Bourse yesterday, the market for public
securities has experienced a reaction, amounting to
a panic, and Rentes have fallen considerably. At
the close of business, the following were the quo-
tations with a downward tendency :—For cash—
Three per Cents., 77f. 60c. ; Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. 102 f. 90c. For the account : Three per
Cents., 77f. 75c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
102 f. 80c. ; Bank Stock, 2,820 f. Amidst the
fluctuations that have taken place in shares lately,
the shares of the Bank of Credit Foncier have con-
tinued, and were yesterday, steady at 740 f. Credit
Mobilier shares have declined 17f., closing at 810 f.
50c. The market for Railway shares has fared no
better than that for Public Securities. The fall in
the principal lines is heavy, amounting to in the
Northerns, 16f. ; Paris and Orleans, 16f. ; Paris
and Strasbourg, 21f. ; and Paris and Lyons, 161.
The closing prices are :—Northerns, 856 f. 25c. ;
Paris and Orleans, 1,151 f. 50c. ; Paris and Stras-
bourg, 9121. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 918 f.

TURKEY AND RUSSIA.

Dispatches from Constantinople to the 23d ult.
state that the project which ]eft that city for
Vienna on the 19th stipulates the extension to all
Christian confessions of article 7 of the treaty of
Kainardschi, and contains some restrictions on the
requirements of Russia.
War is looked upon as inevitable. General Sir
Charles Campbell, who visited, on mission, the
several Turkish armies, has returned to Constanti-
nople, and partakes of the same opinion. Hostile
manifestations are on the increase, and the arma-
ments continue to be actively pursued.
The Minister of War and the Grand Vizier are
preparing to leave Constantinople for the Camp at
Shumla. They are expected to be replaced pro-
visionally by Riza Pacha.
Menekli Pacha has been appointed Commander
of the 12,000 men of the Egyptian auxiliary force.
The Berlin Zeist, in a semi-official communica-
tion, indicates among the worst difficulties of the
Oriental question, that nothing has been stipulated
concerning the probable claim of Russia on the
head of the costs of occupation. The Prussian
paper sees a danger of the difficulty being longer
prolonged than desirable by the general interests
of Europe, and more especially of Turkey, whose
resources are already exhausted by the extraordi-
nary efforts she has been compelled to make.
A despatch from Odessa, of the 17ch, announces
the arrival of the Grand Duke Constantine in that
port on his way to Sebastapol, to inspect the fleet
of which he is nominated Grand Admiral. He is
accompanied by a numerous staff.
The Patrie announces that the Hospodars of
Moldavia and Wallachia have been summoned to
Constantinople, in consequence of their refusal to
pay the ordinary tribute to the Porte, and that the
consuls of England and France in the provinces
have received orders to lower their flags. _

A Constantinople letter, in the Independance of
Brussels, states that the French and English con-
suls at Jassy removed the official emblems of their
consulates on the day when Prince Ghika, in obe-
dience to the orders of Russia, broke off relations
with the Porte. _ _

Letters from Jassy and Bucharest to the 14th
and 19th of July, give details respecting the
Russian forces, who are fortifying themselves in a
formidable manner in the principalities. Every
day there were arrivals of artillery intended for the
works of defence established in the strongest points
of the country. The Russians are forming three
entrenched camps, which are intended to protect all
their lines, and which are to he rendered impreg-

The Union says :—" A letter from Paris, pub-
lished in the Nouvelliste, a Ministerial journal of
Rouen, states that the Russian ukase ordering a
considerable levy of men in all the Empire, is pre-
ceded by some observations published in the jour-
nals of St. Petersburg, the text of which has not
reached the French papers. The Nouvelliste cites
this latter phrase :—'Russia fears nothing; in spite
of calumnies she will continue her path in the in-
terest and for the greater glory of the orthodox
faith ; she will, in short, dissipate all her enemies
like dust.' The Ministerial journal of Rouen
takes care to remark that this manifesto being dated
the 20th July, was published after the arrival of
the propositions of arrangement of England and
France. To be exact, however, it must be said that
the phrase cited by the Nouvelliste does not appear
in the Russian ukase, but in an article of the
Abeille of St. Petersburg—where, as is known, all
thejournals are subject to censorship."
A letter from Malta, of 21st ult., says The
Leonidas steamer has left for Constantinople, with
120 chests, containing a large amount of specie.
A letter from Vienna says :—" We learn from.
Constantinople that on the 16th there was a con-
ference held on board the flag-ship of Admiral
Dundas between two admirals and an o ft-leer of the
Turkish navy, on the subject of finding a better
anchorage for the fleets than that at Fesika. If
this conference has produced any result, [there will
be probably a movement among the vessels, but
quite unconnected with politics."
The Wanderer of Vienna states that the Turkish
Government has prohibited the. export of provi-
sions from Roumelia, as a scarcity begins to be felt.
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tat Tckatsch. It. says :—" Prince
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is positively stated that only 6,000 men will re-
main in Moldavia ; the other troops will take u
their cantonmentsin Wallachia."