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LONDON.
TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1828.

PASSAGE OF THE DANUBE.

we received this morning the Harnburgh
Reporter of Friday last, which states, on the au-
thority of an article clawil 13,?rlin, that the
Danube had been passed in three places ;

BERLIN, JUNE 18.—According to the latest account,
the Russians actually crossed the Danube on the 7th inst.
on three points. The Turks offered some resistance, but
when 1,000 Zaperoga Cossacks, on whom they bad prin-
cipally relied, went over with their lletman to the Russians,
they were completely routed after u abort contest. The
loss of the Russians amounted to 50 mein; twelve cannons
tk mot tar were taken from the Turks.
Iso.4gyi-BAI.LE, JUNE 20.--An additional rim., has
taken pla.:,2l4;icii our last, and much business, particularly
in Austrian etti,:et.-;, has been transicted at the lakes here
noted. An abundance of money, and the favourable ap-
pearance of the exchanges of Vienna, Lei Fie, and Berlin,
are generally looked upon as the causes of oar rise. To-
wards the close of tl:e day the sellers were, however, la a
uiajt4y.
End of June.
Augt4.•Danisls Loan, per cent
Anglo-Rus,iia,a Loan Sfq4
Hainburgh.liusaia4 Joan
Anglo.Pruisian Loan of 11315
Portuguese .F.
Austrian Bank Shares . 106. i
Austrian MetalliCd Ue2g,
Exchange upon London, at months— 13. f.N,
-----at sight l3. 10i.
JUNE 13.—Metalliques 92 7-10; Bank
~harts 1,077 7,6,

We presume that 0111 rgailgrS will follow the
example set by the Members of the House of
Commons, in coming to diametrically opposite
conclusions respecting the application of the
f.? 50,000/. which formed the subject of Mr.
M. A. TAYLOR'S motion last night. With the
highest respect, however, for the strict integrity
of the distinguishedindividuals concerned in that
;}'Air, as well far solme of those by whom their con-
duct vindicated, we are nevertheless forced to
join Mr. HEEW,tEs in " wishing it had been other-
No pitiful cwping at the sums requisite
for sweining the dignity of the Crown, should
ever deter Mipisters from openly deman4;tl2. that,
which wg tr,ustthe likinse of Commons will 'level-
be base enough to refuse, pr liven to trudge.

The French Papers give no additioPai news
fro w the seat of war. Braila had not surrgAr

dered, but w.as hourly expected to do so. The
Nisus French frig 49 has arrived at Toulon,
,
Jj3ving captured two Algeriafitates at Bona.
They wore probably sloops of war.
FRENCH FuNcs.,--Five per Cents. 105 r. ; Three per
Cents. 71f. 25c. ; Nap:4 Spgic, 75f. 55c. ; Royal Spanish
PRA, 73f. ; Haytian Loan, 6744 gxchange on London
eae month, 25f. 30c. ; three months, gtv G 20e.

The Dutch Papiere contain no news ; nor does
the Journal of St. PetershuTh to the 7th in-
gtosive, The Grand Duke of 840‘14 wgimAß
.died new 'Forgau of an apoplectic fit. He wa4
born Sept. 3, ‘7.0 commenced his reign
Sept, 3, 1774.

Our City Correspondent says,—" We cat;
state upon good authority, that a Tartar has ar-
rived at Corfu from Constantinople, with an in-
vitation from tbo PO/tTE for the English and
French Ambassadors immediately to proceed to
Constantinople to treat for peace ; but at present
this invitation was not accepted, owing to the
Russian Ambassador not being also invited ; but

there is no doubt, on the return of the Tartar,
an invitation will come for the Russian Ambas-
sador, when negociations will be entered into
immediately."

By the Emulous packet we have news from
Buenos Ayres to the 6th April, and from Rio

to the 27th. - The Brazilian Censorasserts that
the preliminaries offered by his IMPERIAL MA-
JESTY are aceepted, and Plenipotentiaries are
to meet in Monte Video, and that an armistice
is to commence from the day of their meeting.

The Prussian State Gazette, under the head
of Berlin, June 18, has the following article:—

FRONTIERS OF TIIRKEY.—The Seraskier is said to have
received orders to march with part of the troops assembled
at Adrianople, and to defend the passage of the Danube.
The Sultan himself intended to go to Adrianople. It is
said that there are only 2,000 men at Schumla.
The following is given as a listof the Sultan's troops:—
Massouris (or regular infantry)
Spahis (regular cavalry)
Topshi (Cannoneers, &c.)
Artillery in the fortresses on the Bosphorus and
the Dardanelles

1 otal organized in the European manner.. 80,000

Albanians

Bovuiake

20,000

10,000

Rimelints and Bulgarians
Asiatics

Total formed on the' old system, and as-
sembled by the Pachas 65,000
Deducting from these 145,000 men, the 55,000 required
for the gal risons of the capital and the castle, and for the
batteries of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, and 10,00
to keep the Greeks in check, there remain only 8,000 men
to oppose the Russian army on the Danube.
Among those are not included the troops of Redschid
and Ibrahim Pacha, of Ghalip Pacha, of Emerum, and the
soldiers of the five Pachaliks of Asia. Of the above
80,000 men, from 10,000 to 15,000 must be deducted for
the garrisons in the fortresses on the Danube. Halil
Pacha left Constantinople on the 23d, at the head of his
Massouris, after the public prayers, at which the Sultan
and his great officers attended.
The workmen in the arseual are constantly employed.
Some ships have been fitted out, others converted into fire
ships. The Turkish Government has also purchased a
steam beat, the first that has been seen in the Bosphorus,
for 5130,000 piastres (about 65,000 dollars Prussian cur •
Foley), which is to be employed in towing men of war.

It appears by the French Papers received this
morning, that an attempt was made on the life
of the King of FRANCE :

AN ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE KING

OF FRANCE.
(From the Courrier des Tribunaux.)

On the pith of this month, a man, übout 30 years of
age, in the habit of a mechanic, presented himself at the
Chateau of St. Cloud, and demanded to be introduced to
the King, but him request was refused : he went away, and
proceeded to a public-house, where he publicly exclaimed
against the King and the Royal Family ; upon which he
was im►nediately arrested, ansi upon his person were found
as pair of pistols, charged with ball, and in his pockets
more balls and powder.

The following extract was posted at LLOYD'S
this morning, from their Agent at Rio de Janeiro,
dated April 26 :

" Negociations with Buenos Ayres are still going o❑
through the mediation of Lord Poisonby and Mr. Gordon.
The William and Henry and Utopia, British brigs, have
been formally liberated with their cargoes.
" MONTE VIDEO, APRIL S.

" The accounts respecting peace are various, and the
last reports finm Buenos Ayres are rather doubtful as to the
issue. The return of his 'Majesty's ship Heron from Rio
is expected with the greatest anxiety.
" SANTIAGO DS CHILE, MARCH 2.

" It is reported that a privateer of 20 guns, under
Spanish colours, has attempted to cut vessels out of the
Port of Coquimbo."

Lord GODERICII observed sorne time last year,
:hat the besetting sin of the present times was the

itch for legislating. There is scarcely a Member o
Parliament without his law project, or a town or
village without its Legislators. Amongst the va-
rious improvements or absurdities to which this
state of things has given rise, nothing, we confess,
has so surprised us by its singularity, and the ex-
cess of its refinement, as certain clauses in the MAN-
CHESTER and SALFORD Improvement Bill. It ap-
pears that considerable excitement has for some
time past prevailed in MANCHESTER, regarding this
Act, to which, as originally proposed, a strong oppo-
sition was made, and successfully, by the town.—
It was considered an odious attempt at securing to
themselves an arbitrary monopoly of all power or
controul over the affairs and expenditure of the town
by a few Ultra-Whigs and Tories. Having succeeded
in most of the amendments desired, and forced the
original schemers to abandon the field, what must be
the surprise of so influential and respectable a body
as the Licensed Victuallers, to find that they have
been made a kind of peace-offering between the two
contending parties; and that disabilities affecting
several hundreds of their body have been served up
as a kind of hecatomb to those more ardent spirits in
the career of legislation, who outstrip the ordinary
speed of the march of intellect.
It appears that by the Act, a certain number of
Commissioners are to be appointed for the better
government of the town, who must be qualified ac-
cording as they are rated in the town's books to cer-
tain rates. Thus, a person eligible to be a Com-
missioner, must occupy premises rated at 281. a year;
and as these are generally valued at about two-thirds,
that rate will represent a rack-rent of 401. or 421.
The electors again of these Commissioners must be
rated at 161., which will answer to an actual rent
of 241. All this is founded on intelligible princi-
ples keriptish .; but as the fashion of the day tends to
the division and snbdivisidn of society into divers
and very many castes, some parties seem to:con-
sider Publicans like the Hindooo Parsers, as neces-
sarily of the vilest caste, It has been in conformity
resolved that no Licensed Victualler can be a Com-
missioner or an Elector, without paying double for
the privilege : that is, they must be rated as Elec-
t I!,t thirty-two pounds, and as Commissioners at
fifty-sire, 9swering to rents of fifty pounds and
eighty pounds, 9r therphonts, The effect of this
will be, we fear, to disfranchise the majority of then:
as Commissioners entirely, and tints a body of men,
pepessery condition of whose calling is the presenee
of real eap)4l from the commencement in their
nos, (a condition, by the syay, not absolutely re-
quired in any other trade that iTO know of), are ab-
solutely shut out from that proper share of controwl
over the expenditure, which belongs to them equally
?;:th all their fellow-townsmen ; nay more so, per-
haps, ittaingli as they are called on to contribute more
largely towards the Fey it nges of the town, than most
other classes therein. Even if rep disanalliftcation
did not operate upon one single memher pl,f the trade,
z4,-pitld protest against a principle so unjust and
partial. ipnch more so when it actually affects
the rights Of so large a hody, But these clauses of
exclusion assume a fresh and a much grpater im-
portance when viewed as the establishment Of a
principle. s;!bnown, as we think, to the Vglititution.
A principle which,.npe recognized, will go to draw
_a line of demarcation between the. iLicensed Vic-
tuallers of the whole enipjre and their fellow-0111-
! t7774i0n y which qualifies, as regards them, the fur-
Ow of civil gad Constitutional rights; and all this
without any irnYtatinn that we know of upon them,
or any accusation. In the case hefore tw, the Li-
ptanieti Victuallers are not disfranchised, becanse
they are incompetent to assist in the administration
of towp's business—the contrary, we belieye, can be
proved, if needful. Bot they are disfranchised be-
cause some refining theorists have fancied that an
undue influence Might be exercised our them by the

Local Magistracy, in the face of facts known to all
in that town, that such influence never had been so
exerted in any shape, and would fail if attempted.
It is not a little remarkable that legislation is now
acting upon the body of Licensed Victuallers as a two-
edged sword. Attempts are daily made, openly or
insidiously, to throw open a trade in which, on the
faith of existing laws, such immense capital has been
embarked—attempts involving the grossest tyranny
' and spoliation, and which, if successful, must end in
the utter ruin of every individual concerned in that
line of business ; whilst, at the same time, and with
an equal regard to justice and equity, the rights and
privileges dear to them as men and Englishmen are
in the act of being invaded or disposed of by a side-
wind. The fiscal and police regulations by which
they so largely aid the revenue, and contribute to
the good order of his MAJESTY'S subjects, do not,
it seems, bear sufficiently hard upon them ; the sur-
render of a part of their remaining rights as citizens
is demanded also, nor will it be difficult for those
who run to read what will nett be asked.

It is to be hoped, however, that the evil is not
without remedy. We sometime ago reported in
our columns the proceedings of a public meeting of
Licensed Victuallers ut MANCHESTER, who were form-
ing themselves into a Society. To them it belongs
to resist this attempt upon their rights, and, through
them, upon the rights of the whole body in the
three kingdoms. We are persuaded this will find
support from the trade at large, which is equally
interested, although MANCHESTER alone is imme-
diately affected. We are convinced they will find
friends in both Houses of Parliament. The MAN-
CHESTER Bill will be read a second time to-morrow,
in the Commons, and be committed. It will most
probably be read a third time, and passed this week,
the first Bill being thrown out of the Lords by con-
sent of parties, and this introduced in lieu. Should
no public spirited Member propose and obtain the
erasure of the invidious clauses, let the parties inte-
rested appeal to the Lords, where we have a strong
conviction the appeal will not be in vain.

By his MAJESTY'S brig Swallow, Papers
have been received from Halifax to the 27th
May, but they contain no news.

Papers have been received from New York to

the 2d instant. A great fire took place at
New York, which destroyed the Bowery Theatre,
and several houses.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, JUNE 23.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Mary,
Potton, from Zante ; Agnes, Wrench, from ditto; Amy,
Bloomfield, from Leghorn ; and Planet, Brown, from Gib-
raltar. Arrived front London the Julia, APArthur, fur St.
Kitt's ; Integrity, King, for St. Lucia; and Upton Castle,
Thacker, for Bombay.
PoaTsmotirrit, JUNE 23.—Wind N. to N.N.E.
Passed the Tlialeston, Stewart, from Rio Janeiro ; sad
Camden, Tate, front Grenada. Sailed the Lord Coch-,
rane transport, for Ceylon.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 22.—Wind W.N.W._Arrived the
Charlotte, Sinus, from Messina. Arrived off port the
Ealing Grove, Falconer, from Demerara; and Columbia,
Dillon, froin New York.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 22.—Wind N.N.W.—Arriveil the
Coburg, Stevenson, from Trieste ; Midas, Escntt, front
Galipoli ; Matilda, Cook, from St. Domingo, in 60 days ;
Swallow packet, front Bermuda, sailed the 15th May, and
from Halifax the 29th May ; also the Emulous packet,
Ctoke, from Buenos Ayres, sailed the 6th April, from
Monte Video the 9th, and from Rio Janeiro the 29th ; left
at Buenos Ayres the Chichester packet. 'Re Eclipse
packet arrived at Rio Janeiro on the 28th April.
BRISTOL, Jutiv. 23.—Arrived the Argo, from Leghorn ;
and Effort, from Malaga.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, Twiavz o' CLOCK.

Consols, which left off yesterday at 89k 4, opened at 894 ;
but soon after it was reported that Ministers had proposed
to the Finance Committee three millions of Sinking Fund,
which was opposed by a majority of one, that there should
be no Sinking Fund, but that the surplus revenue should go
to pay the Bank ; upon this information being known Con-
sols immediately receded to BSi, and the market appears
rather heavy at present.
In the Foreign market little doing.

Three per Cent. Consols, shut ; Ditto for July 22,
119 i ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 884 ; Four per Cent.,
1826, 1041 I ; Exchequer Rills, 64 5.
Fanxiax.—Brazilian, 65} 6 ; Buenos Ayres, 46 8 ;
Chaim], 26 8 ; Colombian, 24 -; Danish, 6141 ; Mexi-
can, 40 ; Peruvian, 25 6 ; Portuguese, 611 4 ; Russian,
92! 3 ; Spanish, 104
QUARTER PAST TWELVE.
The report still prevails that the Sinking Fund is going
to be done away with. Consuls, 138 i, buyers.
TIV 0 O'CLOCK.
Consols have been fluctuating during the morning, be-
tween 891 and 881 4 for the account, and at present may
be quoted at the latter price. No speculation of great
importance has taken place. The report of the Sinking
Fowl going to be done away is not quite correct, it is de-
termined by Government nothing shall be altered in it this
N ear.

THREE 0' CLOCK.
Consols for Account, 881- f.
FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols Danish 61
Do. for Ac. 89i • Greek, 1825
Brazilian Bonds 65 Mexican, 1825 39i
Buenos Ayres 45 Peruvian
Cbilian Do. 261 Russian 92i
Columbian, 1824 24 Spanish, 1821 101