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CONTRACTS FOR ELM TIMBER.

DEPARTMENT OF THE STOREKEEPER-GENERAL OF
IHE NAVY, SOMERSE I'-PLACE, Nov. 21, I&3S.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND,
do hereby give notice, that on THURSDAY, the 15th December next,
at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may
be willing to Contract for supplying
880 LOADS of ENGLISH ELM TIMBER,
And 12 ELM TREES, for PUMPS,
Felled between the middle of the present month, and the end of
-February next, and to be delivered at prices, (including all car-
rive and other expenses) between the Ist April, and the 31st De-
cember, 1837, in the following proportions, at his Majesty's Dock
Yards hereunder mentioned :

Woolwich. Chatham. Sheerness. Portsmouth. Plymouth.
Loads. Loads. Loads. Loads. Loads.

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70 100 90 500 120
And 12 Trees.
Tenders may be made for the supply of any one or more of the
Yards, or for the whole of them.

A Form of the Tender may be seen at the said Office.
No Tender will be received after One o'clock, en the day of
treaty, nor any noticed unless the party attends, or an Agent for
Lira, duly authorized in writing.
Every Tender must be delivered at the above Office, and be ac-
companied by a Letter addressed to the Secretary of the Admi-
ralty, at Somerset-place, and signed by two responsible persons, en-
Irmg to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of
1. per Load, for the due performance of the Contract.

nYDE-PARK AND RICHMOND RAIL-
WAY.

Notice is hereby given that application is intended to be made to
Parliament, in the next Session, for an Act for Making and Main-
taining a Railway, or Railways, with all necessary works and con-
veniences connected therewith, to commence at or near Hyde Park-
corner, in the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, in the county
of Middlesex, and to terminate at or near St. John's-place, Rich-
Mond, in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Richmond, in the
county of Surrey : also, a Branch Railway, from or out of such
Railway, commencing at or near the road leading to Gunnersbury,
in the parish of St. Mary Acton, in the county of Middlesex, and
terminating at or pear Messrs. Booth's Distillery, in the town of
Old Brentford, in the parish of St. Mary Ealing, and of St. Mary
Hanwell, or one of them, in the said county of Middlesex ; which
said Railway or Railways and Branch Railway, is or are intended
to pass from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships,
districts, and extra-parochial or other places following .--( That is to
say) St. George Hanover-square, St. Margaret Westminster, St.
Luke Chelsea, Knightsbridge,Brompton, Kensington Gore, St. Mary
Abbotts Kensington, Earl's-court, All Saints Fulham, St. Paul Ham-
stterstnith, St. Mary Acton,Gunnersbury, St. Nicholas Chiswick, St.
Alsry Ealing, St. Mary Hanwell, Old Brentford, and New Brentford,
or some of them, all in the county of Middlesex ; St. Mary Barnes,
Mortlake, St. Anne Kew, East Sheen, and St. Mary Magdalen
Richmond, or some of them, all in the county of Surrey. And it
is intended to apply for powers, in the said Act, to deviate in the
construction of the said intended Railway or Railways and Branch
Railway respectively, to any extent not exceeding one hundred
yards on either side of the line or lines laid out, or intended to be
laid out, on the plans thereof, to be deposited prior to the said in-
tended application, in pursuance of the Standing Orders of Parlia,
silent relating thereto : save and except where the property situate
Within such distance shall not be numbered on the said plans or men-
tioned in the books of reference to be deposited therewith, in com-
pliance with the said Standing Orders.
And it is further intended to apply for power, by the said Act, to
levy and raise tolls on all persons or carriages using the said Rail-
way or Railways and Branch Railway, or any part thereof.—Dated
this 14th day of November, 1836.
JNO. EVANS, Solicitor for the Bill,
53, Lincoln's Inn-fields.

MASDEU, a ROUSILLON RED WINE.
Vino Diffugiunt Mordaces Curie.
The Proprietors of the Gray's-inn Wine Establishment beg to
announce to their Friends and the Public, that after strict exami-
nation of this wine, of various vintages, and at all ages, from one
to twenty years old, they have determined upon adopting and
giving it their strongest recommendation, as well worthy (both in
quality and price) to take its stand among those in general con.
sumption in this country. They had indeed been long convinced
of the suitable qualities of many of the French Wines, compara-
tively unknown in England, for this purpose; but the heavy and
unequal taxation created by the Methuen treaty, in 1703, amount-
ing almost to a prohibition of their consumption, operated as a
cheek to anything like a general knowledge of their variety and
usefulness.
This prohibition, inimical alike to the interests and good feel-
ings of both England and France, continued until the year 1831,
when the English Government determined on the equalization of
the duties on the wines of France and Portugal, and in that year
the measure passed into a law. This obstacle removed, a new field
was at once opened for the employment of capital and exertion ; it
have a strong stimulus to the wine growers of France, and encou-
raged them to enter into competition with their hitherto more fa-
voured brethren of the Peninsula ; they having long felt confident
that, whenever they were placed 'on the same footing, the qualities
of their wines would fully justify them in making the attempt ; for,
as Dr. Henderson, in his work on wine, says, "the French terri-
tory furnishes some of the best specimens of wine in each class, and
Unquestionably excels every other region of the globe in the manu-
facture of red wiles in particular."
Similar feelings induced the proprietors of the Gray's-inn Wine
Establishment to turn their attention to this object ; and theei_
re-
sult of their inquiries convinced them that the best wines of Rus
1°I), but more particularly that from the estate of Masdeu, possessed
all the requisite qualities for British consumption. This is a red
wine having all the characteristics of Port as to fulness and vinous
properties, combined with that delicacy of flavour, high aroma, and
exquisite bouquet, which are the peculiar distinctions of the wines
of Prance.
Cyrus Redding's particular description of this wine, in thetecond
edition of his work on modern wines, pages 136-7, is too well known
to need quotation.
Still, notwithstanding their favourable opinion of this wine, the
Proprietors, naturally jealous of the established reputation of their
firm were unwilling to risk it by introducing an article which had
Uever yet endured the test of prtical and personal expeience as
to the effects the climate of England might produce on it,rand the
Most prompt measures were adopted to ascertain that fact.
In October, 1833, a few sample pipes arrived in this country,
4•Pt of which were purchased ; and when the first cargo came in
s eptember, 1834, per the Astrea, Captain Golder, from port
Vendree, ten pipes were immediately bottled with every attention
the experiment deserved, that its progress might be watched, its
nature ascertained, and its qualities hilly developed.
The result of this experiment (an experiment the proprietors
believe confined to their house alone) has been most favourable.
In the first year much improvement took place, but it had not
Yet arrived at that maturity which would warrant them in in-
troducing it to the public ; but another year's ordeal has pro-
duced_. an article equal to some of the most expensive wines of
the French market. It is in brilliant condition, with a firm crust;
may be moved without the slightest injury ; and the nobility and
public in general are respectfully invited to pass their judgment
on it at the vaults of their establishment.
The Proprietors, therefore,
having from their practical expe-
rience the fullest confidence in the intrinsici merits audh
im-
proving qualities of this wine, have arrangementslha Rwoitu s the
grow ens for a permanent supply of the best quality t on
produces; and, in order to distinguish it frontil
second growths and
other common red wines of the south of France, it has been deter-
mined to designate it by the title of Masdeu," this bing the
name of the principal estate upon which it is grown; in the same
Manner that the first growth clarets receive their denomination from
the vineyards of " Lafitte," "Latour," and " Chateau-Margeaux."
They are now landing a parcel of 50 pipes at the London Docks,
ex Los Deux Jules, Captain Gugnen, from port Vendres, part of
Which are being cleared home, and are warranted to be of equal
quality to those which have been in bottle upwards of two years,
and the same results may with confidence be anticipated.
The Proprietors in conclnsion regret the necessity of cautioning
the public and the country wine merchants against a common red
"gine shipped at the port of Cette, which has been in many instances
surreptitiously imposed upon the wine merchants, and through them,
tinknowingly, upon the public, as the genuine Masdeu, to which it
?"‘ no more affinity than the Port wine produced in Figueira has
the highest quality of the vineyards of the Alto Douro.
Cash prices as under. Country orders must contain remittances,
"Preferences in London.
Hampers Is. per dozen. Bottles 2s. per dozen.
Per Pipe, I Per Hogshead, I Per Quarter Cask, I Per Dozen,
£66, £33 10s. £l6 16s. 28s.
440 oldcrusted, per the Astrea, bottled Sept. 1834, 325. per dozen.
GEORGE HENEKEY and Company.

23, High Holborn.
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(From the Portfolio.)
Foreign-office, Sept. 6, 1826.
Your Excellency will have the goodness to draw up im-
mediately an official note to the Reis Effendi, to explain to
him the different points of the Greek proposals, and to de-
clare to him that his Majesty, out of friendship for the Su-
blime Porte, has charged you to invite the Divan to occupy
itself, without delay, and with a calm and serious attention,
with these proposals.

The arguments in your Excellency's preceding notes
have been so judiciously selected, that I conceive it to be
useless to point out to you more particularly those which
it would be expedient to make use of; in support of the new
step which you are instructed to make.
It is left to your Excellency's discretion to make the
proposal of an armistice simultaneously with this first over-
ture ; or to reserve it for the event of a favourable an-
swer to it.

The choice of the time for making this overture is equally
left to your discretion.
If the negociation of Akerman has terminated favoura-
bly, it would, doubtless, be necessary to wait the arrival at
Constantinople of M. de Ribeaupierre.
And if M. de Ribeaupierre, although arrived at his post,
although not furnished with instructions to co-operate with
your Excellency, it would probably be expedient to wait
until his instructions reach him.

But if circumstances should appear to require more
promptitude in the manner of proceeding, I again leave to
your Excellency's discretion to decide, requesting only that
in the event of M. de Ribeaupierre being at Constantino-
ple, this decision be taken in concert with him.
The answer that we have received from the Court of
France, to our first communication relative to the Proto-
col, leads us to hope that the French Ambassador at Con-
stantinople will be authorised to lend your Excellency his
assistance to pursue any negotiation with the Porte, which
should be based on the principles of this arrangement.
lam not yet enabled to make you acquainted positively
with the sentiments of the Courts of Vienna and of Ber-
lin. But one cannot doubt that these Courts would be
equally disposed to support our efforts to attain an object
which they have so long declared to have at heart.
It will depend in a great measure on' your Excellency,
after having conferred with the Ministers of the Allies, to
fix the time and the mode in which their assistance might
be most usefully employed.
In every case it is essential that the first step should be
made by your Excellency alone.
Ist. Because it is to your Excellency that the Greeks
have addressed themselves, to claim the direct mediation of
your Government.
2dly. Because a step taken in the character of a media-
tor between the two parties does not offer the objections so
often re-produced by the Porte against an intervention ar-
bitrarily imposed in its affairs.

And idly. Because, although the Protocol con-
tains conditions on which, in the unanimous opinion of
England and of Russia, an arrangement might be reasonably
concluded, it would, nevertheless, be very inconsiderate to
propose to the Turkish Government those conditions at
once ; since it is morally certain that, even if the Turks
ever consent to treat, the conditions proposed at first
(however just they may be) would not be those to which
it would finally adhere.
The difference which exists on this subject between the
Protocol and the proposals of the Greeks, is not, perhaps,
disadvantageous, inasmuch as it leaves a latitude to mo-
dify the propositions of the Greeks ; and that, by means
of this modification, without injury to the effect, or sacri-
ficing any essential object of the Protocol, arrive at the ar-
rangement which is therein recommended.

With regard to two out of three points in which this dif•
fcrence exists, it is at least doubtful (setting aside, for the
moment, the question of the British guarantee), that the
Greeks have justice on their side.
One cannot hope that the Turkish Government will ever
consent to withdraw the Mussulman proprietors from that
portion of Greece which is to be free, without obtaining
compensation for their properties.
According to the conference which your Excellency had
with some of the Greek Chiefs, on your way to Constanti-
nople (which conference, in fact, has been the basis of the
greater part of the stipulations, of the Protocol), we are led
to believe that the Greeks will willingly agree to this com-
pensation. _ _ _

If this compensation can be effected by an exchange of
Greek for Turkish possessions, it will, doubtless, be better.
But, in some manner or another, this affair must be ar-
ranged, for it is utterly impossible to suppose that the
Turks, not being conquered, should consent to abandon,
without conditions or compensation, the whole of their
properties in the districts of Greece which they must
evacuate.

'rho extent of these districts is the second question on
which the demands of the Greeks may be justly admitted,
as requiring to undergo some modification.
One cannot expect that the Turks, without being con-
quered, will abandon a whole territory, of the greater part
of which they have military possession, and where they ex-
exercise an absolute civil jurisdiction.
The Protocol refers to a more advanced period of the nego-
elation, the limits of the territory which must be the ob-
ject of the projected arrangement, and, consequently, all
the questions relative to the geographical limits and military
frontiers. There will he ample time to discuss these ques-
tions, when the state of possession, at the period of the ne-
gociation, shall be known.

But the real argument which we claim the right of using,
to induce the Turks to desist from so sanguinary a war, is
the very small hope of subduing the Greeks.
And how can this argument be applied to that part of
Greece which is under the absolute dominion of the Turksy

.....
The most effective menace, the ratio ultima by which
we hope to awaken the prudence of the Turks, or their ap-
prehensions, is the threat (in the event of an obstinate re-
fusal on their part) of seizing, the first opportunity to ac-
knowledge the independence of that part of Greece, which
should have been enabled of itself to throw off the Ottoman
yoke. But how could this threat be applied to the terri-
tory of Greece, which is entirely occupied by the Turks
And what hope of success could one entertain of a pro-
posal, which would offer to the Turkish Government the
alternative, not of a voluntary enfranchisement on the
part of the Sultan, or of a recognition, independent of his
consent, by the other Powers, of the liberated portion of
territory, but of a recognition by the other Powers of a
part of Greece, or of an enfranchisement by the Turks of
the whole ?

Those two propositions are not of equal weight ; and it
appears evident that in offering this alternative to the Porte,
one would remove all hope of a favourable choice.
A third point, in which there is a difference between the
Protocol (see Vol. IV. p. 546) and the proposals of the
Greeks,* is of a character which, whatever may be the deci-
sion, is calculated to have no influence on the issue of the
negotiation.
The Protocol establishes that which the proposals of the
Greeks do not admit ; that the Porte must, to a certain de-
gree, participate in the formation of the executive govern-
ment in Greece.
If I mistake not, your Excellency, in the above-mentioned
conference, was led to believe that, on this point also, there
would not be any strong opposition on the prat of the Greeks.
It would be useful to lead them back. to this mode of
thinking.
The real spirit of all this arrangement is, that the Porte
shall never interfere either with the power, or in the acts,
of the Greek Government, from the moment of its forma-
tion, and that its administration shall be perfectly free and
uncontrolled.
Theso points being once secured, it would not appear
utterly unreasonable that the Porte should in a certain de-
gree, participate in the formation of a Government which
shall be established with its consent and confirmed by its
approval.
From the manner in which this affair shall be conducted
under the superintendence and with ale concurrence of the
other powers, the Greeks need not apprehend any results
opposed to their interests or to their freedom.
There only remains the question of the guarantee of Eng-
gland, which the Greeks have declared to be a sine qua non
condition of any arrangement, and whi,:th we have declared
in the protocol to be that which we could not grant.
It is not surprising that the Greeks should have required
this guarantee in an act addressed only to the British Go-
• The proposals of the Greeks were--
First—To recognize the Suzerainte dt the Porte : and,
Secondly—To pay either a sum of money once for all, or an
annual tribute.
For these concessions they required
First--That the Turks should retain neither property nor
fortress in greece. _ _

Secondly—That the Porte should exercise no influence
whatever in the internal administration of Greece.

Thirdly—That all parts of Greece, whato ver might be their
then situation, should participate in the peat e.
The Greek Government
.thought that a a armistice ought
to be preliminary to negotiation, and requi3. ed the guarantee
of Great Britain as a sine qua non cooditatai of their agree-
ment to any terms with the Porte.

The answer for either party is, that the very nature of
our Government is opposed to the engagement of a guarantee.
In the whole series of our diplomatic obligations, few po-
sitive obligations are to be found. That with Portugal is
one of them. The consequence of that arrangement is (as
the experience of late years has sufficiently proved), to im-
pose upon us the duty of a continual intervention in the in-
ternal affairs of that country ; a duty foreign to our general
principles of policy ; but which it would be impossible for us
to decline, in the event of a false step on the part of the-
power with which we have contracted this engagement, in-
volving us involuntarily in an unforeseen war.
We wish to avoid multiplying such deviations from our
general principles of policy.
The Porte will at least see, in this reserved conduct, a
proof that we do not seek to erect ourselves into a perma-
nent tribunal of superintendence ; that what we now do,
with regard to Greece, is not suggested to us by a desire to'
usurp any influence or authority whatever, but really and
sincerely by our desire to put an end to a state of things,
which, if not speedily remedied, civilised Europe cannot
longer endure, but would find herself obliged to repress by
common agreement.

On the other hand, one may assuredly make the Greeks
understand that this guarantee of England which they soli-
cit might, in certain possible cases, become a source of in-
convenience to themselves. A guarantee must be impartial.
We could not make ourselves responsible towards the Greeks
for the religious observance, on the part of the Porte, of the
stipulations of the treaty, without equally rendering our-
selves responsible towards the Porte for the same fidelity to
their engagements on the part of the Greeks.
A war with the Porte must ever be for this country a
matter of very mature deliberation. But the prompt em-
ployment of our naval forces in the Mediterranean, for the
repression of the excesses which the Greeks of the islands or
Moreotes might commit, would never be either a difficult
or expensive object.

The Greeks' may have the best intentions to fulfil the
engagements which they might contract towards the Porte,
and to avoid any new rupture with it. But, in considering
the necessarily agitated state of Greece during a certain
period to come, before its government can have consolidated
itself, and can assume any real authority, it is, perhaps,
more than probable that if we were to place ourselves in a
position to be liable to be called upon as a matter of right
to repress aets of violence and infractions of treaty, the
Turks would be the first to claim our assistance as the
guaranteeing power, and our first efforts would be directed
against the Greeks.

The same reasoning would not apply to the other conti-
nental powers, whose forces are rather military than mari-
time, and which are rather in contact with Turkey than
with Greece.

Doubtless one cannot expect that the Porte or the
Greeks-should be contented with the guarantee of Russia
alone. But if one adds that of France and of Austria, it
appears to us that there would be as solid a security for the
religious execution of the treaty as the nature of this tran-
saction can admit.

I do not forsee, in the present state of this discussion,
that theie are any other points on which it would be neces-
sary to dilate.

Your Excellency will have the goodness to find some
means of making known to the Greek Government that
you are about to act in conformity with their request.
I do not transmit to them the information from hence,
lest it should transpire unseasonably, and thereby thwart the
course which your Excellency may think it right to pursue.
(Signed) G. CANNING.

,A new-fashioned omnibus is about to be started,
in which the company arc to sit back to back in a seat run-
ning- along the centre.

Both venison and turtle dealers look forward to a
serious decline in the price of those articles, in consequence
of the unwilling abstemiousness imposed by the late reduc-
tions upon the several Corporation Committees.

One clay last week a couple were proceeding towards
a church at Chichester, when the bridegroom having pre-
vailed on his intended to hand him over the ring and wed-
ding fees, under pretence of returning for something he had
forgot, he decamped with the money, as well as with a leg
of mutton, which had been provided for the wedding feast.

On Wednesday evening, the 2d instant, Mr. D.
Harrison, of Bath, delivered his Second Lecture on Mental
Calculation. After pointing out the great advantage of a
ready method of calculation to every person, whether in or
out of business, he proceeded to show practically the facility
with which this was to be effected by his system, and an-
swered with such rapidity and precision various difficult and
complicated questions, put by some of the company present,
as to elicit from all present the most hearty applause.—
Brisfol Mercury.

GENERAL MAROTO.—The General, whose apart-
ments were on the first floor,- was -guarded by two gens-
d'armes, stationed in his room. On the 17th, at seven is
the evening, he expressed a wish to go down stairs, and
lighted a candle. One of the gensd'armes followed him till
they came to a passage that led into the street ; when the
General blew out his candle and rushed out. The gens-
d'arme attempted to stop him, but found the door fast.
The tables were turned ; the gensd'arme was a prisoner
and the prisoner free. An alarm was of course given ; but
up to the evening of the 18th nithing had been heard of
the General.—Courrier d'lndre et Loire.

M. Boucherat, a vine-grower at Chateau-MeiHaut
(Cher), has found in that commune, near the wood of
Grammont, at a short distance from the Roman way, some
remains of ancient walls, and more !than 200 medals in
bronze and silver. Several of the largest arc bronze, viz.:
—Seven of Adrian ; three of Lucilia, the wife of CElius ; -
two of Faustina, the Mother ; three of Marcus Aurelius ;
one of the Commodus ; one of Crispina, his wife. •The
silver or plated pieces are of the third century ; from Pup-
piemes, who died in 238, to Claudius the Goth, in 270.—
French Paper.
Private letters have been received from Mr. David-
son, an African traveller, dated July 14, at Tekenceon,
Wednoon, from which. a few extracts are subjoined ;—" On
the fifth of June the great Cafila arrived being a month after
its time. It had been attacked ; thirteen persons killed,
much property destroyed, and many slaves set at liberty.
It brought. accounts of famine in the upper part of Soudan,
war in Bambara, and other fearful sounding tales. I would
listen to none ; but, alas! my people would, and no per-
suasions could get them to start ; all was stopped. I now
determined upon going to the tents of the Dummanies,
and trying what could be done with them, or the people
of Akka, but I regret to say with no better success. It
is decided that I had better remain here for two months,
as the war that has resulted from the attack on the Ca-
fila has has set all the tribes at variance. No day has
passed for the last fortnight without some engagement ;
the places are filed with wounded ; I have to attend them
all, and hope, at last, I shall make friends enough to carry
my point successfully.. Sheik Beyrook tells me that my
detention here will not -cause any delay in getting through
the country ; The only difference is, that I am stopping
here during the rainy season, in which no one can travel
in Soudan, instead of in the tents of the Dummanies. By-
the first of October, at latest, I hope to have actually
j started on my ourney."---tLiterary Gazette.
L)READFUL ACCIDENT AT DoWLAis. —On
Monday morning one of the boilers recently erected at the
new forge of the Dowlais Company's iron works burst-with
a terrific noise, throwing the whole neighbourhood into the
greatest alarm and confusion, and shattering the windows
in the immediate vicinity of the works. • Such was its ex-
plosive force, that the boiler, whisk is a cylinder, forty-two
feet in length, six feet in diameter, and weighing eighteen
tolls, was lifted from the place in which it was embedded
with mason work of the most solid description, turned com-
pletely round, and fell at a distance of ten yards, nearly at
right angles from its original position. A stack, Or chim-
ney, 120 feet high, was raised as if by the power of an
earthquake from its base, and is described as if poised for
a few seconds in the air before it fell with a tremendous
crash. One end of the boiler, weighing about four tons,
was torn from the main body, and was blown into the
House, occupied by J. J. Guest, Esq.,
of more than fifty yards. Another large
"angniaciaest least a quarter of a ton, was blown into
a 111:: lile":1clile011 OS' avefeidpg(ihOtin the other side of the turnpike road), in
which were seven persons, and though it fell into a room
where a man was asleep he providentially escaped without
injury. Large pieces of pipes, and other castings, fell in
all directions, and at distances varying from 50 to 100 yards
from the spot where the explosion took place. Melancholy
as is the loss of human life, yet, as compared with human
life in jeopardy, the injury was not great. The firemen,
John Howe, and two boys, John Jones (puddler), and
David Thomas (son of William Thomas, smith) were
killed, and several persons passing at the time Were
wounded—one woman, the wife of Daniel James, founder,
dangerously. All the windows of Mr. Guest's house in
front were broken. The damage cannot be estimated at
less than 1,0001. A Coroner's Inquest was held on the
bodies of the unfortunate sufferers on Tuesday-, and a ver-
dict of " Accidental Death" was returned. The cause of
the explosion is attributed, by those best competent to form
an opinion, to the rupture of a plate in the boiler imme-
diately over the fire-place, where, fuom the greater inten-
sity of the flame: the plates are liable to become thinner.—
Merthyr Guardian.