The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-08 00:00:00

OPERATIONS AGAINST SILISTRIA.

JULY 15 (27.)—The General of Infantry Roth informs
us, that on the 23d, 24. th, and 25th, the enemy had made
some sorties, which our troops had repelled with small loss
on our part. They had made arid fortified some works on the
heights, which touched the left flank of the corps occupied
in the blockade.

A King's messenger was sent off at a late hour
on Saturday night frem the Foreign-office with.despatehes
for Lord STUART DE Ilarnsav, our Ambassador at Paris.

LORD KAMES.—The late Lord KA NIES
used sometimes to let his wit get the better of his dignity
as a judge. Being on the Circuit at Perth, after a witness
on a capital trial had concluded his testimony, his Lord-
ship said,—" Sir, I have one question more to ask you,
and remember you are on your oath. You say you are front
&cello ?" " Yes, toy Lord."—" When do you return
thither ?" " To-morrow, ray Lord."—" Do you know
Com! GrLLlss ?"—"Yes, my Lard, I know himvery well."
" Then tell hint that I shall breakfast with him on Toes-
day morning."—Perth Courier.
HEREFORD MUSIC MEETING, SEPT. 4.
Yesterday evening the second evening Concert took place
at the Shire Hall, which was crowded to excess. The
performers were all in fine voice, and gave universal satis-
faction. The pieces that seemed to please the most, and
were honoured with encores, were Ca RADORI'S " Swiss
Boy," Miss PATON'S " Savourneen Deelish," BRAHAM.K
" Blue Bonnets," and DE BEG NIS' "Largo al factotum."
BRADFORD STUFF MARKET.—The best
account that can this week he given of the Bradford mar-
ket is contained in the following fact—the manufacturers
of coarse goods have, much to their credit, advanced their
weavers' wages six and a quarter per cent —Leede Mercury.
We are informed, that at the approaching
Chesterfield races, the ladies intend adding a subscription
purse to the handicap stakes.---NottinghantMercurv.
The distillery trade continues uncommonly
brisk. In former years the large distilleries around Glas-
gow were in the practice of suspending
operations
This year the demand has been
ago
Suring
the summer season.
great, that they have never ceased working, however sultry.
the weather. The common price of raw grain whisky '3 l
now 7, scithout credit. The demand for malt whiskfo;
the home trial ket is continuing in the same very satisfac-
tory state as has been evinced during the last twelve-
months. The utmost exertion is made to produce the
greatest quantity; and orders are much on the 'increase.
Malt whisky continues to vary in price, according to qua-
lity, from 6a. 9d. to 85. 6d. a gal'on.—Glogow Chronicle.
DEPRECIATION IN THE VALUE Of STANDS
IN THE LEEDS COLOURED CLOTH-HA ',L.—Some years
ago these stands, on which the Clothiers expose their goods
for sale, sold for as much as twenty guineas each, but last
Tuesday two of them were sold by publie auction for one
pound—being only ten shillings each ! Formerly a great
portion of the unfinislwd woollen cloth business of Leeds
Was transacted in the Cloth-halls, but now the manufac-
ture is chiefly carried on in large manufacturing establish-
ments ; and we very touch fear that the domestic clothiers
Will soon be known only in the local history of their res-
pective districts..—Let;ds Mercury.

Dysentery is at present very prevalent in Pais-
ley and neighbourhood, anti in many instances with fatal
effects. In Glasgow it also prevails to a great extent; and
though the effects are not so fatal as they were same
months ago, there are still several deaths weekly from that
disease,--Glasgow Chronicle,

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Gazette de France, Sept. 6.)

" CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. I L —We learn that Gen.
Paskewitsch is snaking considerable progress in Asia, and
that he has e'reh entered into negotiations with the chiefs
yf the ci• devant Janissaries. This news was not calculated
to improve the spirit of the capital, which was not very
favourable before. The Sultan has given orders to the
Paellas of Asia to send the whole amount of their con.
tingents to Armenia, instead of sending them to Europe, as
they were directed by preceding orders. Some Asiatic
troops which had already landed in Europe have been re-
embarked for Asia.

" The armaments are continued without ceasing. The
Sultan disposes them in such a manner as to keep the
capital in check, and to oppose the Ru,sians at the same
time. Ile will take a position at Banian Chiftlist, an ad,
vaneed post near the capital, which has been fortified with
great care,"and will communicate with an intrenched camp,
which will contain eltut 15,000 men, the works of which
the regular troops in the army are ordered to complete.
" The heat is oppressive, and many disorders have ap-
peared in the army. In consequence of this, all persons
coming from the army are to be subjected to quarantine,
on the road between Daud-Pacha and Constantinople.
This measure will render the communication still more
ilifficalt, and deprive es of the little news which we are
now able to receive.

" On the 9th several R.!,!sian men-of-war were descried
from the light-houses of the Bosphorus, which seem only
to wait for a favourable wind to enter with the current.
The whole Turkish fleet was immediately put in motion.
The gunners were commanded to the batteries, and re-
mained the whole night at their post. The ships have,
indeed, gone to a distance, but it seems that they are still to
be seen in the open sea.
" The Pacha of Btailow has been tried by a commis-
sion, and though helms been acquitted, he has been banished
to Asia."—Augsburgh Gazette.
WARSAW, Auo. 25.—The first army, under the com-
mand of Field-Marshal Count Sacken, has received consi-
derable reinforcements from the in terior. of Russia, which
have been united to the active army. This reserve may be
estimated at above 100,000 men. The whole Polish
army, of which the Grand Duke Constantine is Corn-.
mander-in-Chief, is ready to take the field, and consists of
90,000 men, not including the army of Finland, which
amounts to 36,000 or 40,000 men. No corps has yet
quitted its garrison.
The regiments which are in the camp at Zarekejeselo
amount to 24,000 effective MCA.

(From the Moniteur of Friday, Sept. 5.)
(ritivATE CORRESPONDENCE.)

Llsnorr, Auo. 20.—A small Portuguese man-of-war,
coming from the island of St. Michael, arrived in our port
the dly before yesterday, with despatches from the Go-
vernor of that island, who has orders to observe what
passes in the islands of Madeira and Terceira. He writes
that the preparations for defence made by the Constitu-
tionalists are so important, that it would he impossible for
the forces that Don Miguel sends against thoSe two islands
to attempt a landing with any hopes of success. This news
seems to have revived in sortie measure the spirits of Don
Pedro's partisans, who consider those two islands as a
point dappui for the efforts which the Emperor may make
to recover the crown of Portugal.
(From the Constitutionnel.)

PARIS, SEPT. s.—The Mediterranean consists of two
large lakes, the Black Sea, including the sea of Azoph,
and the Mediterranean, properly so called. The latter is
freely traversed by all nations; and is the former to be for-
ever a sort of maritime cut de sac, into which nobody can
penetrate without the permission of the Grand Turk?
Russia will undoubtedly make herself mistress of both the
Asiatic and European shores, and open it to the commerce
of all nations. It is so absurd to expect that it should re-
main a sort of a lake, on which fleets may exercise, with-
out ever coming out of it, that we cannot be surprised that
Russia should continually use her efforts to alter it. The
difficulty is, to place Constantinople in the hands of a
neutral Power, strong enough to make itself respected, and
European enough to offer the guarantee of a free passage
to all European nations. The establishment of another
Greek Empire seems to me impracticable. In its present
state, Greece cannot form a power independent of Russia
and Austria, and capable of resisting the Asiatic Moslems.
Moreover, the passage of the Dardanelles would no more
be free then than at present. Sooner or latter Russia will
have Constantinople, and when that is the case, the
passage will be guaranteed ; for she has so strong
an interest in this, that she will give bounties on
foreign trade to attract it to the Black Sea. All nations
do what they can to induce a conflux of foreign yes-
, sets in their own ports. Austria, if she wishes to be po-
pular in Europe, should take off Turkey all that she can ;
should extend her narrow sea board to Albania from the
Adriatic, and not trouble herself with Italy. Austria may
thus keep Russia in check; she and Germany can raise a
million of soldiers. If Europe were threatened, they would
be its advanced guard, and if it came to blows, France,
with her thirty-two millions of inhabitants, would support
them. In the midst of anarchy she conquered the whole
of Europe with a Constitutional Government which she
begins to comprehend as she enjoys its advantages. She
has nothing to fear. Henceforth, playing a noble part,
she will one day save that Europe which she formerly de-
sired to conquer.
. (From the Courier Francais.)

PARIS, SEPTEMBER 5.—A KING ACCORDING TO `ME
PRIESTS.—It seems that Don Miguel has been selected to
show the people of Europe the crimes and the yen-
geances hidden in the hearts of the apostolical party.
—He carries into execution, with terrific ingenuity,
the bloody theories of that faction. His career,
begun with a crime that is held in horror by all civilized
people, has justified the promises of such a debut. Four
years of hypocrisy, since his attempt at Bemposta, have
prepared his present triumphs. Familiar, in the season
of generosity and frankness, with the combinations of pro-
found wickedness—he has laughed at Monarchs—at his
brother—at his plighted faith—at his duties—till he could
laugh at Heaven itself, by an infamous parody on the
Evangelists, which favours a Bishop still more infamous.
Having mounted the Throne by crimes, what could be ex-
peCtod of hirm? Vengeance, executions, extraordinary
commissions, and the hangman the only minister of jus-
tice. He has surpassed all the anticipations of those who
thought they knew him well, and who predicted for Por-
tugal days of blood and terror. The prisons are crowded,
the exertions of the executioners are made in the silence of
night, and the Tagus carries in its wares the mutilated
bodies-of his victims. These vulgar joys of tyranny have
not long satisfied him and his mother. By only proceeding
against those who opposed his elevation, he acted in too nar-
row a circle. However skilful, the materials for accusation
must soon be exhausted, and the scaffold would want its food.
In looking on the past, and prosecuting those wlko remained
faithful to their Sovereign four years ago, a large field is
opened for immolations. Don Miguel, by this means, secures
himself an ample supply of heads to amuse his leisure, and
of confiscations to fill his coffers. Such a thought, when-
ever it occurred to him, must be instantly converted into
a decree, -and such a decree has been published. Those
who defended John IV. against his unnatural son, who
surrounded this Prince when besieged in his Palace at
Bemposta by the mutinous troops, echo assisted the diplo-
matic corps to defend the laws, are to pay with their heads
and their fortunes for their honourable devotedness. If
M. Hyde di Neuville and the other Ambassadors were
now at Lisbon, they would see the brave Portuguese who
gathered around them dragged along to execution ; per-
haps they might themselves net escape death, for to the
tiger all prey is alike. How could Don Miguel pardon
them for having saved his father from his fury, and pre-
vented him from committing parricide. " How much
vulgar blood must he not shed as a compensation for the
loss of the pleasure of shedding the blood of his father !
Governments look coldly on this saturnalia. But Don
Miguel is a monster—he observei the practices of the
Catholic religion. He revolted against his father, but he
submits to 'his confessor. He betrayed his brother, but
he has offered silver candlesticks to some Madonna cele-
brated in Austria. He broke his oath to his subjects, but
he was favourable to Bishops. tie swims in blood, but he
protects the Monks. Ile slays his subjects to confiscate
their property, but he endows monasteries and convents.
Hence he is the model King—the elected of the Sacristes
—the idol of all hallowed feasts. Te Deum has been
chaunted for his accession to the throne ; benedictions
have been bestowed on his crimes; and his reign realizes
the Utopia of the Priest party.
FRENCH Furins.—Pwars, SETT. s.—Five per Cents.
108 f. 60c. ; Three per Cents. 73f. 60c. ; Bank
Actions, 1860 f.

FOREIGN FUNDS.—tievolittin Bente', Falc. Cfr. 781.
90c. ; Spanisli ltentes, 711. ; nova! Spanish Loan, 751. ;
Spanish Perpetual Annuities, 454; tlaytian Loan, 82b1.