The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-28 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers, Dec. 28

[MORNING POST.]
By the Orpheus, Captain Finlay, from Bom-
bay, we have received accounts from that Presi-
dency to the 29th of August. They are of a
gratifying nature, as the official dispatches from
Sir A. Campbell, published in an Extraordinary
Gazette in India, and given in another part of
our Paper, will show. The Burmese in the
neighbourhood of Rangoon have at last felt the
superiority of our anus. After having been easily
repulsed in a general attack upon the British po-
sitions, they had been assaulted in their turn, and
had lost in one single day ten stockades, upwards
of 800 of their best troops left dead on the field
of battle, thirty-eight pieces of artillery, forty
swivels, and many muskets. Their confidence
was changed into alarm, and the difficulty of re-
placing the weapons of war, of which they had
suffered themselves to be deprived, and which,
rver► at the first, were very scarce In their army,
had rendered them incapable of undertaking, for
some time, any offensive operations.

We received last night, by Express, French
papers to the 26th instant. The proceedings of
the Chambers had been confined to the election
of five candidates for the Presidency of the De-
puties, and the appointment of Bureaux or Com-
crilttees to prepare the • address in the Peers.
Messrs. Ravez, de la Rigaudie, de Montmorency,
de Lungueve, and de Bailly, were the five
candidates for the former, out of whom the
King wits to select the one of whom he most
approved. The general opinion was that the
Royal choice would fall, as in the preceding
reign, on M. Ravez. In the Peers the ap-
pointment of the Bureaux had elicited a display
of party spirit, the result of which indicated
that Viscount Chauteaubriand stood at the
head of a minority of between 60 and 70,
hich might perhaps have been still larger,
had there been a full attendance of Mem-
bers.o--These papers contain intelligence from
11th .11ti.t111., which states that the
Trieste to the t
Egyptian fleet which had taken refuge under the
batteries of the island of Candia, had been at-
tacked on the 12th of November, by two Greek
divisions, and completely defeated. Twenty
transports, full of troops, had fallen into the hands
-of the conquerors. All apprehensions of an at-
tempt on the Morea had been removed by this
victory, and it was even doubtful whether Ibrahim
'Fuchs would be able to maintain himself in Can.
dial of which he had till then imagined he had
obtained secure possession. We are glad to see
by an official document, that the lonian Govern-
ment has ordered the Greek blockade of several
Turkish ports to be 66 most rigorously respect-

[an min r Ess.]
Last night we received the Paris Papers of
Friday and Saturday. The Chambers are pro.
eceding to constitute themselves for the Session.
They have appointed the usual Committees, and
'the Deputies, sitting at present under the Presi-
dency of M. Chilhaud de la Rigaudie, the most
;aged member of the Chamber, have elected the
fire candidates from whom the King will select
the President for the Session ; or, should a
proposition made by M. de Feligonde he adopt-
ed, until the next general election, in Eng-
land. The candidates named are I. Raivez, M.
Chilhaud de hi Rigaudie, the Prince de Mont-
morency, M. de Longueve, and the Nlarquis
do Bailly. The first will, it is expected, be of
course again chosen. Two candidates for the
'Vice-Presidency have obtained the requisite ma-
' jerky ; viz. M. de Vaublanc and M. de Latour.
The election of the other two was deferred till
Monday. Some confusion arose d tiring the ballot,
from discovering; on one occasion, that 252 balls
had been put into them appropriated to receive
the suffrages, when only 248 voters were present.
The return was annulled, and the Chamber pro-
ceeded afresh to another ballot. The news from
Greece, in these Papers, states, that the Greek
Government, notwithstanding its struggle with the
Turks, does riot neglect the education of the
people. A COIIIIII4OOII of five of the most en-
lightened Members of the Legislature has been
appointed to superintend the progress of public
instruction. • Elementary schools have been esta-
blished in all the principal places, and a University
is about to•be founded at Missolonghi, towards
which Varvaki has given a sum equal to about
40,0001. A philantropic society Iles been esta-
blished at Napoli, which this generous patriot
has endowed with an:annual revenue of a thou-
sand piastres. We are glad to find that the best
feeling- has existed between the Greeks and the
English since the revocation of the proclamation
of the former againstneutrals.

[me Timm')
The CakuEta Government Gazette of the 25th
4f July, contains the narratives of a series of
military operations at and in advance of Rangoon,
all of which ended in a manner the most success.
fat to the British arms. On the Rt of July,
time Burmese were the assailants. They attacked
the right of Sir A. Campbell's position,. and
penetrated at one time between our picquets,
but were shortly afterwards repelled and put to
flight with little trouble or loos. On the Bth
the British troops assumed the offensive, making
an.. attack by water under Sir A, Campbell,
Who carried three stockades after, a slight re-
' stsiance, and destroyed considerable numbers of
the, enemy. On the same dapa land attack took.
Owe 'under Brigadier General 1114Creugh, who
bad under him a force of above 1,9-00 Europeans,
stnd•3oo Native infantry. The object of this
enterprise was to turn, and if possible surround,
theenemy ; but,though it appears that,the Oen-
, duct both of officers and meu was distinguished
by skill• and courage, tthti though, sever) strong,
stockades were stormed with very trilling loss, the,
resulterif the day a red escrtbed te he only the Mein
and dispersion of the enemy, of
,a how hear WOO
were left dead on the field. Ihe body of their
army, estimated at 14,000 men, escaped into the