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LONDON.
TIJE'SDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, lint

It is reported in the City that Lord HEYTFS-
BURY will shortly return from Odessa. We
presume that he has not found NICHOLAS in a
proper mood to entertain his moderate pro-
positions.

As far as positive information goes, we have

nothing new from the East.

The accounts 01

Turkish preparation are varied in appearance,
but remain the same in substance. The SULTAN

is bent on great doings, if we may judge from
the eternal notifications of his setting out for the
army with the standard of MAHOMET displayed
before him, which it is expected will draw one-
third of Constantinople to partake of his mili-

taly glories. The number estimated is 300,000.
Suppose we grant that number, (which is in fact
a gross exaggeration) of what value is a multi-
tudinous army of incoherent materials, fresh from

the mechanical labours of a great city, but to af-
ford a greater field for slaughter, when opposed to
the well-ordered assault of disciplined warriors ?
Really we think the cause of the SULTAN des-
perate if he builds his hopes of defence upon
the fanatical population of Constantinople,
or the undisciplined hordes of Asia. In for-
mer times these might be of avail when the
armies of Russia were of a similar character, but
now that they have attained to discipline of the
strictest school,. with a poetical experience—
worth a thousand theoretical improvements--
how can the blind valour of the Turks hope to
resist their onset ? If the SULTA N cannot repel
the Russians at Varna and Shumla, can he ex-
pect to be on even terms with them in the plains
of Adrianople or under the walls of Constanti-

nople ? But he is not safe iu the Capital if we

may credit the various rumours that the lower
orders are by no means partial to the war.
Indeed it may be chiefly owing to the sulky de-
monstration of popular feeling in Constantinople
that the SULTAN has hitherto delayed his depar-
ture. If he leave the strong hold of his power to
a population predisposed to disaffection, and that
his army is defeated in a pitched battle, the
game is up with him. Not so if he remain to
overawe the seditious by his presence, and invi-
gorate the faithful by his'own example.

The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 2d inst. con

tains an article from Constantinople of the 11th
August, but which conveys no news. The
PORTE maintained the greatest secrecy respect-

ig all things of an unfavourable character :

CONSTANTINt)PLE, AUG. 11.

Soon after the departure of the Grand Vizier• to the
army had been resolved upon, his Caimacan, or substitute
in the capital, was appointed. The choice of the Sultan
fell on Ahrnid Chelussi Effendi, formerly Kiaja Bey,
Minister of the Interior, who was on the 7th of this month
invested with the sable pelisse in his new character. The
Grand Vizier will now set out in a few days, some thousand
men have already gore before him to the camp at Daud
Pacha, many more have taken the road to Adrianople,
but it is difficult to state with precision the amount
of those troops, because the number of volunteers and
of the contingents daily arriving from Asia, among
which there is a great portion of well equipped and well
mounted cavalry, continually increases, so that the inscrip
tions in the muster rolls at the Palace of Chosrew Pacha
have been stopped after 80,000 men had been enrolled.
The convoys of ammunition and artillery continue without
interruption. With respect to time operations in Asia,
though the fall of Anapa and Kars is known, the Porte
observes the strictest silence respecting those events, and
seems to direct its -whole attention to the operations on the
other• side of Mount Balkan.

The Swift steam-boat, purchased by the Porte of an
Englishman of the name of Kellie, arrived here on the sth
from the Dardanelles, and towed into the harbour the cor-
vette built at illitylene, which being attacked by the Hellas
Greek frigate near Cape Raba, ran aground, but was after-
wards got off.

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Haniburgh Papers state that the REIs EV'.
FENDI lately said to a European Dragoman,
4, The SULTAN will take the field at the head
of his people, and the issue of the contest in
Gon's hands," thereby intimating that war
would be prosecuted to the last extremity. The
sole reason for deferring the departure of the
Grand Vizier from
.Dand Paella to Adrianople,
is said to be tiLit the SULTAN'S astrologers de-
clared the first days of the month Sefer to be

unlucky. The SULTAN'S resolution was ap-
proved by the great men of the empire ; but, as
it seems, not by the lower classes.

Frankfort Papers of the 2d inst. have been re-
ceived, but their contents possess little interest :

ALEXANDRIA, JULY 8.
A house here has just honk 15,000 bales of cotton of
the new crop, at twelve Spanish piastres per cwt. It is

supposed to be on commission for some Swiss houses.
Mehemet Ali, it is said, promises to make no more consign-
nients on his own account, and to sell on the spot the
various articles of the produce of Egypt which have
hitherto been subject to a monopoly. This would be a
great improvement in the commerce of this country.
A numerous convoy, under the protection of the Austrian
schooner La Fenice, is to sail to-morrow.

SYRA, JULY 23.

M. Rizzo, extraordinary Commissioner on the Cyclades,
Las thought fit to call in the armed force in the election of
the Demogerontes, which took place on the 3d inst. at
Naussa,_ in the isle of Poros. M. Malatesta and another
having been elected by the people who were assembled in
the church for the purpose, the Commissioner declared
that such were not the instructions of the President. The
Electors persisted in their choice, and M. Rizzo heingeffended
by an observation of M. Malate.sta, " That the Fanariot in-
fluence ought to yield to that of the law," (M. Rizzo was
sue of the Greeks of the Fatter of Constantinople) ordered
the soldiers to arrest him, but the population rose and
the soldiers were obliged to seek refuge in the house of
Capt. Bogano Achici, a rich man, possessing great in-
fluence, who succeeded in allaying the fermentation and
restoring order.

(From the Courier de Smyrna, Aug. 3.)
Besides the above, the Courier de Smyrne contains in
the number of 19th July a letter from Miceni, reflecting
on the conduct of the President, whom it reports as
governing according to his own pleasure, and delaying the
establishment of a legal order of things. Nis pecuniary
difficulties are stated to be such, that without the assistance
afforded him by Russia and France he could not go on at
all. The heavy imposts and taxes are much complained of,
and still more the manner in which they are levied.

It is said by accounts from the Borders of the
Danube, dated the 25th of August, that a por-
tion of the Russians blockading Shumla had
fallen back, in order to facilitate the junction of
the reinfkcements coming from the Danube.

According to reports from Bucharest, the
troops at Shumla, under HussElN PACFIA, are
estimated at 100,000. This must be a great
exaggeration, unless, indeed, the inhabitants are
included.

Letters from Alexandria, dated the Ist of
August, state that the PaCha of EGYPT mis-
trusts the French who are-in his service, and has
taken the English into his favour. A Company,

it was said, was going to be formed, which would
put Great Britain in possession of all the com-
merce of the Red Sea and the Nile, by the in-

Toduction of steam navigation.

We have in another column given an extract
'rotn Colonel EvANs's spirited work upon The
Designs of Russia, which fully proves, if Eng-
land is disposed to go to war, that resources are
not wanting. Indeed we have all along main-
tained that our National Debt is no imme-
diate bar to our going to war when a neces-
sity arises. Our debt is great, but greater still is
the capability of the country. Her resources
increase with the danger—and her enterprise is
quite unparalleled in the history of ancient
or modern States. Though the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON might find it a difficult matter to rouse
the energy of the people, because of the want of
confidence manifested in his foreign policy, we
have no doubt that England would find it un
easy matter to raise hundreds of millions
for warlike purposes, should occasion demand it.
Every successive war, though it has increased her
debt, has also more than doubled her revenue,
as will be seen by reference to Colonel EVANS'S
chapter on Finance.
The following extract from his book gives a
forcible picture of the Emperor NicHoLAs, which
seems to accord with his character, as hitherto
developed :
On the accession of Nicholas, an opinion, pretty
nearly in the following words, was expressed by one of
the highest functionaries of the Empire, whose name, were
it right to be mentioned, would carry with it even in this
country, a degree of authority. ' Russia has now an
Emperor whose character is marked by much stronger
traits, and who is of a fur higher ambition than dis-
tinguished his late brother; but those qualities will not
suddenly reveal themselves. They will be gradually dis-
closed by his public conduct.' The truth or inaccuracy
of this opinion will soon, from the greatness of the pending
events, be resolved."

The feeling of the Russian Government, with
respect to British commerce, may be gathered
from the following:—
" Of late years the Russian Government has had the
audacity to issue the most rigorous prohibitions*, in effect
against 'our trade, for the protection of its infant manufac-
tures. Accordingly our exports thither have diminished
altogether in variety ; and in value remain almost sta-
tionary, while her exports to this and other countries have
increased by rapid strides ; thus leaving a great balance in
her favour. As a British market, therefore, compared
with our present immense foreign commerce, Russia is a
very inconsiderable and unimportant one, and what we ob-
tain from thence we can produce with equal facility and
convenience from Norway, Sweden, America, &c. But,
on the other hand, every particle of their external trade
lies completely at our mercy ;—a stroke of the pen in the
King's Council at Windsor or Downing-street, at once
puts an end to it, and deprives them of every kind df sale
or market for their surplus produce, which would be the
more felt, as it has been of late so greatly and lucratively
augmented.