The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-06 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

.t.'RENCH PAPERS.
(From the Journal des Debats.)
PARIS, SEPT. 2.--" Truth is brought to tight with
so much difficulty, thro4gh trie obscurities and the
coutradictions, with which tl.:e accounts from the
t'est hated liti3en replete since the opening of the cam-
paign, that it is almost impossible for us, who are
placed at so great a distance from the theatre of
events, to judge respecting them with certainty.
" The military operations have at least places and
dates; and with this double assistance, we interpret
their results. Whether the details come to us from
Petersburgh, from Berlin, from Vienna, or from
Constantinople, we are not less acquainted with the
facts that a part of the Turkish provinces are in-
vaded,—that some of their strong places are in the
power of the Russians,--that their right wing is ex-
tended even to the frontiers of Servia,—that Abasia
is occupied, and that Erzeroum is upon the point
of closing or opening to the army of Georgia
the Asiatic road to Constantinople. Upon these
principal facts, at least-, we are certified. But
do we wish tO form an 'estimate with more or
less certainty of the elements of the resistance of
the Turks behind the ramparts of their moun-
tains ? Do we wish to take into the calcula-
tion their fanaticism, at first slumbering, and after•
wards awakened with energy ? Here the sources of
our news begin to re-act upon the consequences
which we are to draw from them. In Poland the
Turka are represented to us as indifferent in the
actual crisis ; in Austria, they describe them to us
as rushing to arms at the voice of the Sultan. The
material force of the armies augments and diminishes,
according as we learn the number of them through
Berlin or through Vienna; and the Balkan itself is
sometimes stripped of cannons, sometimes crowned
with an immense artillery; to-day, the seat of a
famished army,—to-morrow, a camp which abounds
in resources and provisions.
" If the military events present themselves to us
but with data so imperfect, how much more difficult
does it become to separate the local political combi-
nations from the mystery, often interested, which
envelopes them ? At head-quarters, where there are
as many ambassadors as there are great powers in
Europe, there is, without doubt, something more
done than drawing up bulletins; and from Constan-
tinople, we know that there is not there even to the
Sultan, who has just chosen his contractors among
the Plenipotentiaries of Ackerman, and who gives to
his Commander-in-Chief, a Minister for Foreign
Affairs as Lieutenant.

" Under such circumstances, the voyage of the
Emperor Nicholas to Odessa, at the very moment
when the most decisive action of the campaign
seemed to be at hand, and the invitation which has
!seen addressed to the principal diplomatists at the
camp of Shumla to follow his Majesty, have naturally
given rise to the idea of a negotiation which two
great European • Powers urge with all their desires
and exertions ; but before fixing, perhaps, the basis
upon which this negotiation is to be opened, and
certainly, at least during the time necessary to direct
it, if, as it is everywhere announced, no effective ar-
mistice has suspended the operations of the imperial
army against Shumla and Varna, events will have
proceeded to a catastrophe, and there will be no
further need of diplomatists to ascertain whether
'Constantinople is, or is not, saved this year. Be-
sides, is not this the first question to be resolved ?
Will not its solution put an end to the necessity of
remarks, and counter remarks, upon the European
equilibrium ?
• " We confess that the. conferences of Odessa,
while the war continues, do.not appear to us suscep-
tible of producing any serious result. They will
continue just so long that Europe will know without
them what the fate of Turkey will be. In October
all will be changed. Either the Russians will be
beneath. the walls of Coustantinople, or they will
have renounced the intention of going there.
" In the first event, •we may have a congress, in
which the-Sultan alone will not be represented ; in
the -second,- we shall also have one ; and certainly
more weighty circumstances will never have brought
together the organs of the *principal nations of
Europe.

Neither in the one nor in the other, will Greece,
at leat, present herself as a supplicant. Her affairs
are settled, and seven years of glory give her a title
to repose. She has entered into the number of
states, and that one which protects her now with
its bayonets and its vessels, will also know how to
aid her with its councils and to cover her, in peace
as well as in war, with its glorious and tutelar pro-
tection."

(From the Gazette de France, dated Sept. 4.)

VIENNA, AUG. 24.—The news which stated that
the Infanta, Donna Maria de Gloria of Brazil, was
to come and finish her education at Vienna, is con-
firmed by the arrival of a Neopolitan vessel at Genoa,
which announces the speedy arrival of that Princess.
It is said that several persons attached to the. Bra-
zilian Legation at Vienna will shortly go to Genoa
to receive her.

AVG. 25.—We have' letters from Odessa, dated
the 14th. They state, that the Emperor intended
to remain there till the 19th, and then return to
the army. Lord Heytesbury, who arrived on the
10th, Prince Philip, of Hesse Romberg, and all the
other Ministers who had arrived on the 12th, had
had the honour of being presented to his Imperial
Majesty.
It is affirmed at Odessa that provisions are scarce
at Constantinople, and that a re-action on the part
of the people was apprehended. The Sultan seemed
however, more resolved than ever to defend himself
to the last extremity.
A report has been spread on our Exchange, of
the taking of Varna by the Russians. The Stocks
had declined in consequence of this news.*—Angs-
burgh Gazette.
PARIS, SEPT. 3.—A letter from Constantinople,
published in the Augsburgh Gazette, adds to the
details already known respecting the departure of the
Grand Vizier, that the pacific party aemanded that
the mediation of England should be secured, which
appeared to it the more easy, as Lord Heytesbury
had letters of credit for 300,000 piastres on an
Amsterdam Banker at Pera.

(From the Mcssaper des Chambres, Sept. 3.)
PARIS, SEPT, 2.—Letters from Constantinople
of the Bth of August, speak of the departure of the
Grand Vizier as being very near at hand. Bulletins
favourable to the Turkish army continue to be pub-
lished in that capital.
FRENCH FeNDS.---PARis, titer. S.—Five per Cents.
108 r. 75e. 70c. 75c. 70c. 95c.; Three per Cents. 73f.
50c. toc. 50c. 55c. ; Bank Actions, 1863 f.
According to the Austrian Observer the following
were theyrices:— •

AUG. 22.—Metalliques, 93. 15-16. ; Bank Shales,
10711.

ACG. 23.—Metalliques, 91. 0. ; Bank Shares, 1071.1.

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Some advance, we understand, has taken place
in the price of iron, Sheffield Courant.

Besides the capitalists who hold stock or land,
or house's, there is a large class at the present time who
hold nothing, but keep their money in hank-notes, under
a
the fear of some crisis, locked up and unproductive. It is
supposed that the fund deposited under this apprehension
in the Bank of Englan,ads,
sianveheichunTeorgyoenaersaagomaterial waigal et
mated at 5,000,000/, i
crease, and falls little short of 8,000,0001. Such was the
impression made among this class by the panic of 18-25,
that even now, after an interval of three years, they acquire
very little more confidence in private credit than they had
at that time. This is one cause of the apparent abundance
of money in London, which is apt to lead many into error,
for people of inferior credit find as much difficulty in get-
ting assistance as ever, while those, on the other hand, who
move in the first mercantile and banking circles, borrow'almost on their own terms, at any rate of interest they
choose to offer. In the country generally, where credit
has recovered still more slowly from the recent shock, ac-
commodation by loan is with much difficulty obtained,
though this arises in part from the situation of the country
banks,
which are contracting their operations against the
period when the small notes are to be withdrawn from cir-
culation,.-. Time,

LONDON.
SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1828.

The French Papers contain some additional
particulars of the situation of affairs at Constan-
tinople. If we are to believe them the SULTAN
is resolved to take up a new position with respect
to the grand struggle likely to decide the fate
of Constantinople. He now sees clearly the
probability that Varna will fall, and that the
Russians will proceed along the coast. In order
to arrest their irogress to Adrianople he intends
to meet them at the Little Balkan, and has ac-
cordingly ordered sixteen batteries from the
arsenal, and several regiments to be sent forward,
to form a body of reserve, to watch the enemy,
should- they endeavour to pass the mountains
between Varna and Bourgas. In the Stanches,
or Little Balkan, will be placed the lines des-
tined to defend the water sources which supply
the capital. On the Hellespont side they have
resolved on putting Gallipoli on a war footing ;
and two Pachas, sent to the Dardanelles, are
charged with the defence of the castles.

Thus it will be seen that the Turks are now
becoming sensibly alive to the dangerous predica-
ment in which they are placed by the obstinacy
of the SULTAN, aided by the perverseness of the
DvA N. But notwithstanding all their prepa-
rations, they willfind, unless the Russians relent,
that they will be of little use.

Letters have been received this morning from
Madeira, by the Comet, ORNISTON, which vessel
sailed from thence on the 9th ult. At this pe-
riod every thing was tranquil, the utmost exer-
tions had been used to put the Island in a com-
plete state of defence ; for this purpose they had
launched three gun-boats and armed them hea-
vily, the batteries were in an effective state and
well prepared; the force in the Island amounted
to nearly 3,000 men, who seemed fully deter-
mined to support the interests of Don PEDRO.
Two vessels of war, which had sailed from Lis-
bon in July, had appeared off the Island, and
some communication had taken place between
the English Consul, Mr. VEITCH, the Captain
of his Majesty's ship Medina, and the Portu-
guese Commander, the result of which was an
understanding that the blockade, as far as related
to English shipping going to or from Madeira,
was to be considered as inoperative,- amid they
had the greatest confidence in their ability to
meet any attack that might be made by the ex-
pedition from Lisbon.

At a period like the present, when party feel-

ing has attained such an alarming height, and the
apple of discord has been cast by bigotry among
suffering millions,—it must be a source of real
gratification to find that the line of demarcation
between the Protestant and Catholic, is not yet
so thoroughly defined as the misrepresentations
of some Irish Papers—(wc say some—because
the majority is on the right side)—may lead our
readers to suppose. Of this fact we have suffi-
cient evidence in the following spirited address to
the inhabitants of Tralee—which coming from a
Protestant, and a member of a leading family in
the county of Kerry—must afford sincere pleasure
to all who take a lively interest in the welfare of
Ireland. We are satisfied that no impartial reader

'can peruse this appeal to the enlightened mem-
bers of the Community without applauding its
motive and approving its spirit. The language
is that of a true patriot—unswayed by self-inte-
rest—free from all personal vituperation and
ungentlemanly abuse,.—relying for its strength
on the justice of the cause alone,—and powerful

in the absence of every aid, save truth. It were'
to be wished that all such appeals were couched
in similar terms—and that every man who raises
his voice in opposition to injustice may stand
aloof from personality and virulent invective.
Where the cause we support is manifestly just,
can such feeble aids conduce to its stability,
or add weight to a single argument in its
favour ? Will they not rather undermine the
foundation of its strength, and overthrow the
mighty fabric at the moment it should stand
proudly forth—an emblem of dignity and truth,
to an admiring world ? We do not here di-
rectly allude to that public expression of opinion
so frequently directed by one party against
the members of the other as a body,—
which though in itself sufficiently reprehen-
sible, when carried to excess,—still falls far
short of the subject of our present animad-
versions—namely—that unhappy system of pri-
vate slander and public attack on the character
of individuals, merely because they happen to be
members of an adverse party,—such a system we
hold to be as despicable as it is disgraceful to the
age we live in—and we sincerely regret to find
that the passions of the contending factious in
Ireland too frequently hurry them into an exhi-
bition of these disgusting personalities. Again
and again we earnestly recommend all true friends
of their country—be they Protestant or Catho-
lic—to abstain from such irritating language, and
rather to follow the example of the talented young
gentleman, whose manly address we now give—
looking to the justice of their claims alone for
ultimate triumph—while they hold in fitting
abhorrenez, all party rancour and bigotted
animosity.

(From th• Core Mercantile Chronicle.)