The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-19 00:00:00

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EXTRACTS PROIVI TIIE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,
March 19, 1822.

[SEW TIMES.]
We are assured on respectable authority, that
A letter was received yesterday in town by an
eminent mercantile house, from the 13ritish Con-
sul at Constantinople, dated the 11th of Fe-
bruary, stating that an answer to the modified
resolutions of the European Ambassadors for a
treaty of peace between Russia and Turkey, had
been received from the Court of St. Petersburg.
it is affirmed that the Emperor Alexander had
agreed to the terms of peace in question, and
that therefore the negociations may be considered
as amicably concluded. We are informed fur-
ther, that this pacific arrangement was so confi-
dently believed to have taken place, that new
activity had been given to commercial transac-
tions, and trade had become unusually brisk.

[THE TIIIES.]
A mail from Constantinople has arrived with
letters of the 11th of February. An energetic
remonstrance has been addressed to the Turkish 1
Government by the Austrian Ambassador, call-
ing on the Divan to accede to the just demands
of Russia, by withdrawing their troops from
Walachia and Moldavia, and by reinstating the
Hospodars in the government of those provinces.
Lord Strangford had adopted a similar course ;
and these representations are said to have made
the impression on the counsels of the Divan to
which they were entitled. Indeed, it is now as-
serted that the disposition of the Porte has long
been to preserve peace by making the requisite
concessions ; but that it has been kept secret for
the purpose of overawing the turbulence of the
Janissaries by the prospect of a Russian war, and
thus establishing the favourite project of the
Sultan, for creating an army disciplined after
the European manner, to which the Janis-
saries are so decidedly opposed, that the Sul-
tan, in the.event of a failure, would have just
reasons to fear their vengeance. An encampment
of troops, from ltomelia. and Anatolia, consist-
ing of 50,000 or 60,000 men, had been formed
round Constantinople, and further reinforce-
ments were expected,after which it was supposed
the whole would be stationed within the city.—
As a further indication that peace will be pre-
served, it is stated in letters from Odes.a, that
the regular communication between that place and
Constantinople by post has been restored.

Yesterday at half-past two o'ctock,Mr. Hase,
the Chief Cashier of the Bank, gave notice to the
members of the Stock,Exchange, in the names of
the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancel-
lor'of the Exchequer, that all those persons,
holders of 5 per cent. stock, who have dissented
from the plan for. the reduction of the interest,
may, on giving notice on or before the 30th inst.,
receive. the amount of their stock, at par, in
money, on the sth.of April,• with the quarter's
interest then due. Air. Hase also stated, that
those persons who have dissented, and who de-
cline receiving the amount on the sth of April,
will be paid off on the sth of July. , Those per-
sons who have the extended privilege of declar-
ing their dissent till the Ist of June, will like-
wise be paid off on the sth of July. It is under-
stood tliat the payments in anticipation will be
made by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund,
into whose names the stock so paid off will in the
first instance be transferred.—(ibid.)

[MORNING HERALD.
Tuesday's Paris Journals arrived yesterday in
due course. They add scarcely any thing to the
extracts which we gave yesterday by express. It
appears that the Government has undertaken the
difficult task" of purifying the book publication
trade in Paris. The books seized by the Police
a are, " Treatise on the Origin of the different
Forms of Religious Worship," with which we.
have no' acquaintance ; and the " Italian Tales"
of the Abbe Casti, a work disfigured by coarse-
ness and indecency, but which has, in some de-
gree, obtained the same indulgence with the Tales
of La Fontaine. • This is foolish on the part of
the French Government, for it will only stimu-
late. the sale of the .forbidden book ; and
even if . these two works could be suppress-
ed, which is impossible, -every body who
knows any thing of the disgraceful sale of
infinitely more scandalous books, underhand
in Paris, must knoW how triflinc, an im-
pession this-, would make upon the Augean-
stable of the Palais Royal. There is nothing
else worth notice, if we except the close of the
debate in the Chamber 'of Deputies. An im-
portant article of the Budget was about to be
carried by clamour, without the necessary docu-
ments. The majority were ready to overwhelm
their opponents. But the latter spoke with so
,much vehemence—one of them going up and ap-
pealing personally to the Minister of Finance—
that the Minister gave the word of command to
his majority to postpone the decision .to the fol-
lowing day. _

[BRITISH PRESS.]
,The probable results of the repeal of the an-
nual Malt Tax were made the subject of some
very interesting, dikussion last night in the
House of Commons. Our readers will remember
that on Friday night last Mr. Calvert, in answer
to 'a
question Jut by Sir 5. Yorke, informed
the House that the reduction of the tax would
have' no effect upon the price of malt liquor.—
He said that of the five-pence at, which porter
is now sold by the quart, something more than
three-halfpence go
_to the Government, some-
thing less, than three-balf pence go to the
retail dealer,
,and that from the two-peke re-
mainin...to the brewer it was impossible to make
any reduction. This statement was noticed
yesterday evening by 11(1r. Huskisson,' who very
• properly observed that the repeal of the duty
contemplated by the Ministers was meant to be-
nefit the public by a dithinution of price, and a
proportionate increase of consumption, and that
the Ministers would never consent to repeal the
tat, if it could' be supposed that the whole
amount were to find its, way to the pockets of