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London, England, 1833-08-22 00:00:00

of the expedition of the rel-els to Algarve shall arrive. In
fact, I believe her Serene Highness has left Paris for the
purpose of going to some French sea-port during the bathing
season. I must not, however, neglect to assure your Excel-
lency, that the English Government strongly recommended
the Algarve expedition to the Marquis de Palmella, in order
to augment, by the possession of that kingdom, the ter-
ritory acknowledging the authority of Donna Maria, which
would facilitate her recognition as soon as Ergland re-
solved on that step. The Russian Minister told me the
day before yesterday that the English Government was at
this moment doing everything in its power to prevent
:the sucrecsful issur which we might expect from the
,departure of Marshal Bourmont, and it was necessary
to exert every effort to bring the business with the rebels
to a cot:elm:ion.
" The journals of to-day publish accounts of the pro-
gress of the rebel expedition in Algarve, and though these
accounts are exaggerated, it is impossible not to be sur-
prised that the rebel forces should he able to hold Oporto,
and at the same time to attack another point of the
kingdom—that they should pass off Li-bon with seven or
eight steam-boatv, i❑ the presence of an armed nation,
and in the face of a squadron ready in the Tagus of more
than double the enemy's strength
" Such are the observations which I have to-day heard
made by many of our friends, and I have not been able to
answer them.
God preserve your Excellency." Times.
The inhabitants of this metropolis are heavily
taxed in consequence of the Gas Companies having
almost a monopoly of the article which they supply,
and which is nearly as necessary an article of con-
sumption in these days as water itself. The charges
made to householders by the different Gas Com-
panies are unequal, and in some districts quite exor-
bitant. In a few places indeed, where there is com-
petition, a reduction of from 20 to 50 per cent. has
been allowed, but in no instance has such a reduc-
tion been made as the inhabitants of parishes
had a right to expect from the low price of coal and
iron, and every other material used in gas establish.
ments. But while the inhabitants of parishes feel
aggrieved by this state of things, they ought to be
informed that they have the remedy for the grievance
in their own hands. There is no doubt that gas
could be supplied at a cheaper rate than it now is
by parochial gas associations, nor would the cheap-
ness of the article be the only advantage derivable
from supplying it to parishes through the means of
such associations. The poor might be beneficially
employed in and about the works, under the imme-
diate direction of the parochial authorities, and
the profit arising therefrom might be applied
in diminution of the poor-rates, instead of being
swallowed up in the ocean of expenditure upon
the surface of which directors, proprietors, salaried
secretaries float pompously along in the gay and
gilded vessel of monopoly. That there are difficul-
ties to be overcome cannot be denied, as there is in
the creation of every new institution for purposes
of public utility. But every individual, rich and
poor, who is not connected with one of the existing
companies, has an interest in cheapening the supply
of so necessary an article as gas, and as, by a recent
invention, the nuisance arising from the smoke can
be obviated, we see no good reason why gas-works
should not be erected in every parish. In Man-
chester the experiment has been tried, and has suc-
ceeded so well under a board of manaaement that we
understand the gas-works now produce an income';
of 6,0001. per annum, exclusive of the public lights.
Surely it is not too much to suppose that equal
good management of the affairs of parochial gas as-
sociations in London would be productive of equally
good results, and secure to the respective parishes
considerable revenue. By a clause in the first
Gas Act, passed 50th George 111., cap. 163,
see. 32, it was provided that commissioners
or trustees might purchase the pipes, &c., be-
longing to the Gas light and Coke Company at a
reasonable price to be settled by arbitration, whit h
clause (the parishes not being attentive to ther
own interests in this matter) was repealed by
the 4th George IV., cap. 119, sec. 36, withou t
giving any equivalent power to parishes in lieu
thereof. Great exertions have recently been made
to prevent a re-enactment of that clause, and to
secure monopoly by not allowing parishes to intro-
duce any beneficial provision for themselves into
the Bill for lighting and watching the metropolis.
But the inhabitants of parishes have only to un-
derstand their own interests and act with union,
intelligence, and determination in vindication of
their rights to overpower all such sordid opposi-
tion, It would tend greatly, in another point of
view, to the public convenience that London were
lighted by parochial gas associations, as, in that case,
there would he but one set of main pipes in the
streets, whereas there are now two, and even three
sets in some places, which causal the frequent
breaking up the pavements of our thoroughfares, to
the great interruption of traffic, the inconvenience
of all who ride or walk the streets, and the annoy-
ance of the public at large.—Morning Herald.
The fate of Turkey is axed. The bond of her
destiny is sealed, and in the pocket of the Northern
Autocrat, who had long coveted the splendid prey,
The weakness of the Sultan has only been equalled
by the inertness and incapacity of the diplomatic
representatives of the interests of England and
France, whom the superior cleverness of the smooth
barbarian, Count Orloff, has completely foiled—
foiled in such a manner that they had not a suspi-
cion of the Russian intrigue until the object was
accomplished, and the imbecile Sultan, enamoured
of his doom, had, as it were, assigned his empire
over to the safe custody of the Czar. Among the
strange events of which Europe has become the
theatre since the first French revolution, there has
been nothing more extraordinary than to see the
head of the house of Romanoff become the pro-
tector of the throne of the descendant of the Atnu-
raths and the Solymans, while the Polish nation,
that first checked the prowess of the Ottoman chi-
valry, exists only in the recollection of its glory and
its wrongs. Our diplomacy was deaf to the cries
of Poland, when the manly expression of British
sympathy would have averted her fate, and scared
the spoiler from his prey. Now they, whose
lips were sealed, and hearts were frozen
while the warriors of Poland were struggling
alone with their giant antagonist,uffect a mock corns
miseration for the sufferings which they raised not
a little finger to prevent, and pretend to be indig-
nant at the crimes of which they were at least the
passive accomplices. In betraying Poland to Russia
we betrayed our own interest. We said so at the

time. Every day's experience confirms us in the
opinion that when the Polish people, whose national
independence we were bound by solemn treaty to
protect, were figthing for existence, that was the
time to stay the ambition of Russia; and if the
English Government had acted with good faith and
becoming spirit at that crisis, we should not now see

our influence beaten down in Turkey, our naval flag
insulted, and our "ancient ally" torn from our side

and dragged an abject captive at the chariot-wheels
of the Muscovite conqueror. Our intelligent corre-
spondent, whose communication from the capital of
the Turkish empire we inserted yesterday, does not
say what our embassy at Constantinople costs the
country, (that we must learn from another source,)
bat he shows how worthy of their hire our diploma-
tists in that quarter are, by the following exposé :
"Count Orloff, while he was apparently complying
with the wishesof France and England was preparing
a stroke which only became known the day after
his departure, which has since covered the Am-
bassadors of those countries with confusion, and has
filially placed Turkey in the hands of the bear. He
prevailed on the Sultan to sign a treaty offensive
and defensive by which Turkey is bound not to
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