The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-09 00:00:00

FRENCH FUNDS.

April 5, Five per Cents. 87 f. 15 c. 10 c. 15 c. 87 f. 86 f. 90 c.
80 c. 70 c. 80 c. 75 c. 65 c. 60 c.
55 c. 60 c. 55 c. 50 c.
.April 6, Five per Cents. 86 f. 70 c. 15 c. 80 c.
Last price, 86 f. 75 c.

ATJGSBURGI, MARCH 28.—At Constantinople
nothing is talked of but the great armaments which
are making in all parts of the empire. The
standards of the Crescent were never before
surrounded with so many sons of the Prophet in
arms. The march of troops towards the Danube
is accelerated as much as possible, and the ap-
proaches to the capital are fortifying with great
activity. The Russian armies, on their side, have
been making new movements in Bessarabia, in
the direction of the same river.

MA.RCII 30.-IVe have received news from
Constantinople, announcing that M. de Latour
Maubourg, the French Ambassador, has received
a verbal promise of the satisfaction which he had
demanded with much dignity and energy, for the
insults offered to the French consular agents by
the Turkish Commanders-in-Chief in Syria and
Cyprus, as well as for the excesses and cruelties
committed towards Christians of the countries of
the west, who are under the protection of
France ; but his Excellency demands a promise
in writing. French subjects are, however, treated
with much respect, as well at Constantinople as
in the other parts of Turkey. There is even
reason to hope that the losses .which the French
merchants have sustained for some years past in
the Levant will be made good.
NUREMBURG, MARCH 31.—(Extract from a
private correspondence.)—lt is asserted that the
Court of Vienna will notify to the great Powers,
that in consequence of the little success of the
negociations which it had carried on at Constan-
tinople, it has ceased to be mediator in the dif-
ferences between Russia and Turkey, reserving
to itself the right of taking such measures as
circumstances may require.—Letters from Con-
stantinople say that the Grand Vizier will im-
mediately go to Adrianople, there to act as Gene-
ralissimo of the Ottoman Armies.—A report
(which needs confirmation) was in circulation
yesterday, that some warm skirmishes had already
taken place on the Pruth, between the Russian
and Ottoman corps. More certain information
is impatiently expected.—We learn from Warsaw,
that a considerable corps of Polish cavalry is to
march to Lithuania, and that the Commander-in-
Chief of these troops will have his head-quarters at
Wilna.-7-A report is current, that the Russian
agent at Teheran has succeeded in concluding an
offensive and defensive alliance with Persia ; and
it is even affirmed that a secret article of the
treaty assures to the Schell the possession of Ar-
menia, as soon as the Turks shall be expelled
from it. If this important news is confirmed, it is
supposed that the English resident, who has em-
ployed all his efforts to counteract the negocia-
tions of the Russian agent, will quit Teheran,
where his presence would henceforward be of no
advantage to the interest of his Government.
ST. PETERSBURGH, MARCH 13.—1 n Poland, the
prices of grain have risen considerably, in conse-
quence of the large purchases lately made for
the armies, which is a great relief to the farmers,
who have suffered severely by the low pi-ices.—
lt is said that several young Poles, of the 'first
families, have offered themselves as volunteers,
in case of war with the Turks.—A report is cur-
rent that our fleet is. to he fitted out imme-
diately.
Accounts from the frontiers of Bessarabia say,
" On the whole left bank of the Danube a com-
plete famine prevails, in consequence of the ex-
tortions of the provisional Ottoman authorities.
The Janissaries absolutely refuse to quit Con-
stantinople, where, in case of war (which they
ardently desire), they reckon on a general pil-
lage and massacre of the rich Greeks."—The
Porte has sent the strictest orders to all the

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Pachas in Europe to arm and exercise all the
young men in their Pachaliks. In proportion a?
they have acquired some knowledge in the use
of arms, they are to be sent to one of the two
armies of reserve, which these Pachas are ordered
to form. The number of Ottoman troops can-
toned in Moldavia and Walachia is estimated at
150,000 men, chiefly Asiatics. The Officers of
different European nations who have joined the
Greeks, have introduced among them European
tactics : the artillery, in particular, has been
considerably improved.
ODESSA, MARCH 12.—The Porte has suffered
nothing to transpire relative to the negotiation
at Teheran ; but the Armenians at Constanti-
nople have news that the Court of Persia refuses
to make peace, unless the terms which it ,bas
proposed are accepted • one of which is, the
cession of Armenia. If the Court of Tehentn
persists in this demand, peace.is not to be tliougitt
of. The Porte places -much reliance on the in-
fluence of the English Resident at Teheran, vitto
has again offered his mediation to adjust the dif-
ferences between the two Powers. But the,ifi-
fluence of this agent is in 4otne measure paralysed
by that of the agent of another great Power, who
counteracts the influence of the former, and is
more favourably listened to. It is, therefore,
expected that the Persians will resume hostile
operations in the spring. During the winter the
two armies have not changed their positions. .
MARCH 13.—The following order of the Mi-
litary Governor of the Chersonesus, Count de
Langeron, has just been published here :
" The Committee established by order of his
Imperial Majesty, at Odessa, for the organiza-
tion of a free port, in execution of the instruc-
tions prescribed in the report of his Excellency
the Minister of Finance, and confirmed by his
Imperial Majesty, on the Ist of June, 181,
makes known to all those carrying on trade
within the limits of the said free port, that, by
virtue of the 14th Article of the aforesaid Re-
port, they will be required, on or before the Ist
of-next March, to declare on oath, before the
Committee, what quantity of foreign merchan-
dize has been in their possession since the open-
ing of the free port ; and whether this mer-
chanclize is in warehouse, or under quarantine.
Those who fail in making this declaration within
the prescribed time will have their goods confis-
cated."

FRANKFORT, MARCH 5.--Many strangers are
already arrived for the approaching Easter Fair;
but we already anticipate that it ►vill not be
favourable. Manufactured goods of all kinds
seem to decline in price, and the extraordinary
depreciation of the value of grain obliges the
country people to confine their purchases to what
is indispensably necessary, which of course must
lessen the demand at the Fair. Wool is almost
the only article of agricultural produce which
maintains its price.
VIENNA, MARCH 26.—The Austrian Observer
of the 24th, 25th, and 26th March does not con-
tain any news whatever relative to the affairs of
Turkey, Greece, or Russia.
HAMBURGII, MARCH 2 9.—Accounts from St.
Petersburgh of the 15th March say, that the
American Company have received information of
the breaking out of a dreadful volcano, which
opened at the beginning of March last year, in
the Island or Unmak, one of the Aleutian Islands,
and on its first eruption, which was very violent,
covered Oonalaska, and even some more distant
islands, with sand, soot, and ashes.

Accounts have been received at Copenhagen
from Iceland. While the winter in the east of
Europe has been remarkably mild, it set in early
in Iceland with great rigour. Vast quantities
of snow fell, and the northern and eastern coasts
were wholly blocked up with floating ice. In
the night of the 20th December, the mountain
Oefields Jokel, to the south east of Ueda, which
has been at rest ever since 1612, began to emit
f►re, so that the ice with which it was covered
suddenly burst with a dreadful crash, the earth
trembled, and immense masses of snow rolled
from the summit of the mountain, a height of
5500 feet. Ever since a large column of fire has
been rising from the mountain, which threw out
vast quantities of ashes and stones, some of the
latter weighing from 50 to 80 pounds, being, cast
to the distance of a German mile (five Eng)+ish
miles.) The mountain continued to burn till the
Ist of February, and smoked till the 23d, but at
that time the ice had again collected round the
crater. The weather a was very unsettled and
stormy during the eruptions.

Cape Town Gazettes, to the 12th January,
supply the following intelligence :

" The last Mail from Bathurst has brought an account of
the successful entry of the coasting schooner, Elizabeth, Francis
Lisboa master, into the Kowie River on the 9th November.
" This vessel arrived off the Kowie's mouth on the previous
evening, anchored in the roadstead, and sailed in at high water
the following day without any difficulty. Thus is the important
point of the practicability of the navigation of Kowie finally
ascertained ; and the settlers, after all the difficulties and priva-
tions to which two seasons of unprecedented calamity and dis-
tress have exposed them, have now the prospect before them of all
the advantages to be derived from a water communication into
the heart of the locations. The bason formed by the Kowie is
capacious and perfectly safe. Vessels may discharge their'car-
goes on the River's bank from their decks. The village about
to be built on this desirable spot will be about nine miles from
Bathurst, and about 25 from Graym's Town. From Port
Elizabeth to Graham's Town, or Bathurst, the distance is not
less than 110 miles. Such an extent of land carriage ;night
have paralysed the hest exertions of the new, colonists.
" The Elizabeth schooner belongs to Lieut. Peder, R.N.
who has established a whale fishery at St. Helena Bay, on the
west coast, and she was chartered by that gentleman to the
Kowie."