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are said to amount to forty thousand men, and
Petro Mavromichalis was approaching with a
powerful reinforcement. The whole Peloponesus
was in arms, and nothing was wanting but a
Chief in whom all parties could place equal con-
fidence. In the various actions which he had
sustained, Ibrahim Pacha was computed to have
lost 3,000 men. Ile had also been wounded in
the right hand. Three hundred mules laden with
provisions, and dispatched from Navarino for his
service, had fallen into the hands of Colocotroni.
All the communications of the Egyptians were in-
tercepted, and their immediate submission was
confidently expected. The Isthmus of Corinth
was strongly fortified, and great numbers of
Greek troops were collected at that place, and
were preparing to march to reinforce Gourras,
whose army was acting against the Turks in the
direction of Salona. It was known at Maratho-
nisi that the Captain Pacha had landed 3000 A►l-
banians at Navarino, but no alarm was felt, as it
was thought impossible that so small a force
should venture into the heart of the Morea,
or should ever reach Ibrahim if it made the
attempt. Indeed, a letter from Trieste says,
that the Garrison of Navarino having learn-
ed the embarrassed situation of the Egyp-
tian Commander and taken flight and sailed
to seek refuge at Patras.—The Journal des De-
bats, after giving these accounts, adds, " we
blush to read in this letter that two vessels be-
' longing to the Royal Navy of France L'ilma-
aranthe and Le Courier, acted as intermedia-
ries between Ibraham and Mehemet Ali. Can
it be possible that the French Ministry should
' suffer the White Flag to be degraded to such
a point ;"

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The French Papers which arrived last night
bring no fresh political intelligence. They are
almost entirely filled with dissertations concern-
ing the admission of Hayti to the rank of an In-
dependent State. We are glad to read in the
illoniteur an express contradiction, given from au-
thority, to the mischievous construction put upon
the King's Ordinance by the Drapcau. Blanc
and other Royalist Papers, supposed to speak
the sentiments of the Ministry. The Moniteur,
in emphatic terms, asserts " the sincerity and the
plentitude of the concession made by the ordinance
of the 17th of April." We regret that the form of
the ordinance should have been so equivocal as
have rendered this declaration necessary. 1t is
remarkable, that the French Government has
not thought proper to publish any details of the
reception of the ordinance by the Haytian au-
thorities. The dispatches of M. de Mackau,
the envoy, have been received, and yet, no
particulars are made • known. Respecting an
event of so much importance to the commer-
cial world, nothing is officially stated beyond
the result communicated by the telegraph. Mon-
(lay being the day of the assumption of the Virgin,
was a close holiday on the Exchange. We have
consequently no quotations of the Rentes.—By
the correspondence from Madrid, we learn that
the Government of King Ferdinand has lately,
given orders to the Prelates of Spain to issue pas-
toral letters to the clergy of their respective
dioceses, urging them to use their influence to
promote peace, oblivion, and concord. Among
the number of those who have obeyed the Royal
order is the Grand Prior of the military order of
Alcantara, a Prelate of distinguished rank in the
church. His pastoral letter is of a peculiar
and important character. He tells the clergy
roundly that they are themselves the cause of all
the disorders that afflict the country. His words
are these :—" It is indeed most extraordinary
that the ministers of the Most High, who in Spain
are the only guides of a simple and unenlighten-
ed people, should, instead of leading them by
the lights of the Gospel, resplendant with charity,
hold out to them the torch of discord." The
Ultras, however, persist in their endeavours to
carry their projects into execution. They have
so earnestly pre- ed upon the King, by means of
M. Calomarde, their organ in the Cabinet, the
propriety and necessity of re-establishing the 16-
quisition, that the subject has been formally re-
ferred to one of the departments of the Council
of Castile. This reference is considered by the
Apostolic party as the certait prelude of success.

[MORNING CHRONICLEd
We can state on the most unquestioned autho.
rity, that an arrangement has been concluded
with Lord Cochrane, by which a large sum of
money is to be immediately placed at the dis-
posal of his Lordship, to be expended by him in
whatever way he thinks most advisable for the
successful prosecution of operations against the
Turks. • His Lordship leaves town to-day for
Scotland, whence he will return immediately
to proceed forthwith for Greece. He will
take with him steam-vessels and all sorts
of materiel necessary for the particular sort
of warfare he contemplates carrying on. Every
one knows, that in mechanical contrivances
of all sorts, his Lordship' is as eminent, as
he•is in the profession of which he is so distin-
guished an ornament. The very name of Coch-
rane is alone a tower of strength to the cause.
He will soon be surrounded by all that is gallant
and adventurous in every arm of service of which
he means to avail himself. He has the bead to plan,
the nerve that is never shaken, the eye to seize the
occasion, and the hand to strike. Confidence in a
leader, the belief in his invincibility, often makes
him invincible—and hence the objection to a Ge-
neral that he had been unfortunate, was not so
devoid of reason as it may, at first sight, seem.
The hope also of something besides n:1-!re renown
to be gained under a leader, to whom no part of
Turkey will be inaccessible, and against whom
no Turkish town will be a place of security,
will enter for something into the consideration of
adventurers. We look upon the crisis of Turkey
as now at hand. That that stupid and besotted
people, on whom all experience is thrown away,
will he able to make any effectual apposition
to his Lordship, we cannot for a moment con-
ceive. Their capital is at his mercy, and if
the rich despots of Asia Minor escape; they
will owe their safety to their gold. The Turks
have left themselves no means of carrying on
war ; they have made deserts of the country they