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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1829.

Nothing is yet positively known as to the contents
of the docuMent received by the Russian Ambassa-
lador. Whether it be a manifesto—a declaration
of war, or an appeal,, our Government
urging the necessity of proceeding to extremities,
still remains a secret. Russia may have reasons
of her own for crossing the Pruth—if it were
only as a demonstration to frighten the Turks
into a more speedy . compliance with the Treaty of
the 6th July, or she may have good cause to avenge
her private wrongs, independent of the stipu-
lations of the Greek Treaty which cannot be sup-
posed to have a universal application to all the con-
tingencies that may arise—and it would, there-
fore, be ridiculous.. to take alarm at every
demonstration of hostilities which her armies,
always in motion may make on her own
frontiers. We shall not be surprised to hear that
the Russians have crossed the Pruth, but in the
absence of all authentic intelligence we at present
withhold our belief.

The French Papers of Monday, with the Gazette
dc France of Tuesday, contain the long-expected
Address of the Chamber of Deputies to the KING,
with his MAJESTY'S equivocal, if not insulting, reply.
The majority of the Chamber have declared the
system pursued by the late Administration as
deplorable, while the real benefits arising out of his
MAJESTY'S reign have been rendered illusory by the
misconduct of his Ministers. We think that his
MAJESTY has acted unadvisedly- in receiving the
Deputation from the Chamber so disrespectfully.
It can answer no good purpose, as CHARLES will
find if he persevere in a course so fraught with dis-
appointment to the great and most enlightened body
of the French nation.
We are happy to perceive that the Chamber
begins to see the true interests of the nation, by
advocating a liberal system of commerce. Their
appeal to his MAJESTY is in the true spirit of an
enlightened policy.
" Attentive to the progress of commerce and industry,
your Majesty desires to favour the development of them,
by the creation of a new Ministry. You wish to hear
more accurately of wants so closely unites to those of agri-
culture. Their tit* want is liberty. Every thing which
unnecessarily checks the freedom of our connections does to
commerce an injury, the reaction of which affects the
most distant interest."

We received late this afternoon, by Express, the
Gazette de France, dated yesterday. Private
letters say, that the Russians have marched to
take possession of the Principalities. The French
Funds closed on Monday at 69f. 60c.
ST. PZTEItSVIAGii, FEB. 23. —I-1 is Majesty has ex-
pressed great satisfaction to the Civil Governors of Viatla,
Auklewsky, Tabolak, and other towns, for their prompti-
tude in terminating the recruiting. The Grand Duke
Constantine has set off for Strellna, from thence to return to
Warsaw.
The Journal of Cadiz, of the 26th Feb. states, we
have received a letter from the Havannah, 15th January,
at that period, the proscribed Spaniards, from Mexico,
continued to arrive in crowds, the decree of expulsion
had heels extended to all the original inhabitants of the
metropolis, and we learn by the came conveyance that the
Spanish flag was flying in the province of Cumana. The
Colombian brig Pinchincha, of 22 guns, surrendered
to the authorities of Porto Rico. Admiral Laborde
was in the latter port, and received most satisfac-
tory news of the disposition of the Colombians in favour
of their legitimate King, Ferdinand. The crisis, adds the
letter, is imminent.
The prices on Tuesday were, Three per Cents. lief. 90c.
Five per Cents. •102 f.

The French Papers, received this morning, con-
tain advices from the frontiers of Poland, of the 23d
February, which state that the Poles arc exhibiting
the greatest ardonr for the opening of the campaign.
The great landholders offer to furnish men at
their own expence, and others will supply the army
with provisions at low prices.

Frankfort Papers of the 6th instant present a
gloomy picture of .the misery and distress existing in
Constantinople. Every body is on the move, and
it is said that between 30 and 40,000 Christians
have actually been exiled from the capital :

FRANKFORT,: MARC'S 5.
EITRA.CT 01 'A anTER. FROM cONSTANTINOPLE, DATED

era. 5.
" This capital still presents a gloomy picture of misery
and distress. At Vera every body is preparing to depart,
because it is feared that the troops which are expected from
Asia will take possession of the houses of the banished Ar-
menians, which .have not yet been. occupied.,toaTtnadhkeethtehir
re-
monstrances of the Catholic Armenian
ipribesutts
offer to attend the church of the Patriacces,
have been in_
according to the Roman
effectual, and a more rigorous order than tulife
tbperiercedint
does not even permit them to share t..e.
con-
gregation, but separates them from theirflock,a,staund frF orbids
d
them to go to Asia—so that these venerable
to go by land to Italy, in small separate detlachnsents
It
may be easily imagined to what risks these unfortunate.
n-
It is dieiduals are exposed in the provinces.
impos-
sible to form an idea of the misery to which the
Christian emigrants are reduced ; but
it may be said,
,
to the honour of the Turks, that many of them moved
with compassion, give to these unhappy persons every
mark of kindness and all possible assistance. These
acts of charity are exercised especially in Asia, where the
Christians of all nations fear to risk their own safety by
affording them succour, and where they receive none ex-
opt from the Mussulmen.
,‘ Nothing more is to be expected from the intervention
of the Foreign Ministers. France and Austria, according
to the existing treaties, are naturally the protectors of the
Catholics, but in the present zrisis the question respecting
Greece absorbs every other. In the situation of affairs at
present despair is imprinted on every countenance, and
our only consolation is the thought that, considering the
distress which prevails among the Turks themselves, this
state of things cannot be of long duration. The number
of Christians of all nations who have been exiled up to
this moment it estimated at between 30 and 40,000.
M. D'Ottenfels is preparing to return to Vienna. We
bear that DI. Hussar has had another conference with the

Reis Effendi, which has not led to any change in the mea-
sures of the Government. The tranquillity of the capital
has been hitherto preserved in a surprising manner, but
great fears are entertained for the arrival of the Asiatics,
who will be joined by the discontented of all classes. The
letters from the Provinces still arrive regularly.

The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 6th instant, Con-
tains the following :

TRIESTE, FEB. 2s.

We have no positive information respecting the engage-
ment which has taken place in the Island of Scio, between
the Greeks and a Turkish carps that came over from Asia ;
but it is supposed that the Greeks were defeated. In the
storms in which the brig comsnanded by Lord C'ochrane's
nephew was wrecked, the fire-ship of Canaris was obliged
to cut away its masts : the corvette and other vessels
sought refuge in Syra, A short time ago Miaulis came to
Syra with the Hellas frigate, and having procured provi-
sions, and six thousand dollars, sailed to Scio.

Count Capo d'lstria has been received at Egina with
extraordinary ceremony, and is engaged in restoring order
in all the branches of the Administration. The English
ship of the line in which he came is said to be placed at
his disposal.
It is said that Carabusa was taken by the English alone,
who had two frigates, two brigs, and two corvettes.
The Cambrian, Commodore Hamilton, was run on
the rocks and wsecked for want of knowledge of the coast.

A letter from Sy ra, of the 15th of Feb. says, " The
English landed 500 soldiers who took possession of the
island and put a garrison into:the fort. All the pirates ex-
cept one, were in the port. Two French brigantines,
bound from Smyrna to Salonichi, have been wrecked in
the gulf of Vol°, and a Swedish ship, with corn from
Odessa to Genoa, has met with the same fate, on the coast
of Negropont.
According to a notice of the Greek Government, the
plague has manifested itself in Negropont. 1,200 Turks
have made a sally from the fort of Scio, and done conside •
rable injury to the Greeks. 'We have no details here at
Svra respecting this affair, but it must have been of some
importance, as several harks have arrived here and at Egina
with persons who have left the island.

Ca!Ain John Ralik, the 19th November inclu-
sive have been received at the North and South
American Coffee-house. His Majesty's yacht
Herald sailed from Madras for Calcutta on the 19th
October, and on its arrival there Lord AsnwEßsT
and family will embark in her for England. It is
expected the Herald will not be detained in Bengal
river longer than a fortnight, as the Governor-Ge-
neral is ready to take his departure. By these
papers we are happy to notice the safe arrival of the
Hon. East India Company's ship Warren Hastings
at Madras, on the 30th October, for whose safety
considerable apprehensions have been entertained.—
Insurances have been done on her at 25 and 30
guineas per cent. She had on board fifty-three pas-
sengers, besides a detachment of troops, amounting
to nearly four hundred together.

Mr. WHITMORE'S Bill for regulating Salmel
Fisheries will be taken into consideration this even.

ing ; and we have, in another part of our Paper,
given the letter of a Correspondent, who is accu-
rately acquainted with the subject, but with whom
we cannot agree in his view that atake•nets are cal-
culated to destroy the breed of Salmon. The fact is,
a knowledge of this subject is principally confined to
interested parties, who can scarcely take an.unpre-
judiced view of the case; and it is in consequence of
exemption from this bias, and by reason of being
• somewhat familiar with the circumstances of the
Scots Fisheries, that we offer the few following ob-

serrations :----

The history of the case is very short. Salmon
fishing in Scotland is a Royalty, and must be con-
ferred on a subject by express charter from the
Crown, to enable any one's taking fish, even in a
river, of which the land on both sides is his exclu-
sive property. This privilege was granted to many
baronies and minor holdings, centuries ago, and every
engine then known for the destruction of Salmon is
specified with great minuteness. and with the
dent purpose or conferring the most unqualified
property in, and power of taking, those fish.
Amongst these engines were yairs, which, made of
wicker-work, extend into the tide-way in friths or
estuaries, and at certain seasons of the year do incal-

culable mischief by the destruction of fry, which is
often taken out of them in cart-loads to manure the
adjoining fields.
Some few years ago, the" march of intellect" sug-
gested the substitution of nets for the wickerwork
of the old yairs, and these stake nets were resisted
by the Upper Heritors on the plea of their being a
novum opus—interfering with their vested rights.
Volumes of pleadings before the Courts of Law have
left the question much where it was, some Judges
.thinking that stake nets are altogether illegal, and
others that they should be erected only in the (Ilium
mare, not in friths and estuaries. Then comes a
separate question, in the case of every river,
where does the frith end, and the sea commence ?
On the other hand, the Upper Heritors, who
have raised this outcry, come into Court with any
thing but clean hands. The law of Scotland esta-
blishes regulations for having cruives of a certain
width, and opening these formidable barriers once
a week. But practice has limited the right of inter-
ference to those who have a share of the fishing,

and such Upper Heritors as have an exclusive right
of fishing scourge the stream from morning to
night, and from night to morning, one net being
scarcely ashore when another is started; cruives
are constructed which will not allow a trout to pass;
and Sunday shines no Sabbath day to the persecuted
Salmon, though the law of the land positively en-
joins, that these cruives be kept open from Satur-
day night to Monday morning. Every species of
poaching is practised, and yet these men raise an
outcry against the stake nets proprietors, as if they
themselves confined their operations to the sporting
occupation of angling.
In short,' the Legislature have every right to in-
terfere, for as it was very well put a few
days ago, by Mr. Sergeant SPANKIE, the lower
proprietors have as much right to say that their
vested rights are interfered with, by the cruives
used in rivers, as the upper proprietors have to use
this mawkish and hitherto most profitable argument
against the erection of stake-nets. For will they
pretend to say that no improvements (in destruc-
tiveness) have taken place in river fishing since
the grant of these charters ; or if they have not
been stationary in all that period, why are the others
to be prevented from improving with the age, and
killing fish in maturity by means of stake-nets, far
greater numbers of which they formerly destroyed
as fry in the wickerwork yairs?
To administer equal justice between conflicting
interests, and to ensure to the community a perma-
nent supply of an almost indispensable luxury, it ap-
pears to us that the Legislature should confine their
attention to the enlargement of the meshes in all nets,
whether used in stake-nets or on rivers. For the
greater number of Salmon are taken when half-grown,
and at a season of the year, when London is empty,
and the weather is worst calculated for their keeping
well. It would be greatly to the advantage of all
parties if they were prevented from killing fish
under six pounds weight, especially after the month
of June, as the grilse or young Salmon become a
perfect drug, instead of being spared till the following

spring, when they would be incomparably more
valuable.

Stake nets should of course be under the strictest
regulations ;7as to their cleanliness, the size of the
meshes, and the length to which they can run into
the tide-way, always leaving one third at least of
the channel free for the passage of fish. Over them
also the water bailiffs should have a summary juris-
diction, with especial instructions to prevent the
killing of black fish, when spawning, by torch light, a
source of incalculable mischief. But if the size of
the meshes and of the cruives were so regulated
that no fish under 61b. weight could be killed, and
if the cruives were opened at least once a week, we are
satisfied that the community have no further interest in
the question, and that the proprietors of estates having
Salmon-fishings:attached to them, should be allowed
to kill them opposite to their own lands, under regu-
lations applicable alike to one party and to the other.

It is said in the City, that the State Paper which
Prince LiEvEN:has received from his Government is
not an actual Declaration of War, but a reply to
the Turkish Manifesto, which is considered by the
British Cabinet tantamount to hostile proceedings
on the part of the Russians. The last despatch
from the Court of St. Petersburgh is the third ap-
plication to our Government, urging in strenuous
terms that no longer delay should take place in pass-
ing the Pruth, as well as in a combined operation
on the part of England and France. On the other
hand, it is stated by the well informed, that the
Russian Armies cannot proceed on their march for
nearly a month to come, caused by the breaking up
of the: roads after the frost, which will render
it impossible for them to bring up their artillery,
which has always proved the most essential and de-
structive Weapon to the Ottomans, anti in the ma-
neenvring of which the Russians are so much supe-
rior. In this delay some hopes may still be enter-
tained that the PORTE, seeing the fate which inevit-
ably awaits a further perseverance iii refusing to
comply with the Treaty of the 6th July, will even-
tually accede to the same, or may be induced to
seek the mediation of some European Power. In
other quarters, it is said that the Russian State
Papers complain of the infraction of the Treaty of
Ackermann, and do not in the remotest degree
advert to that of the 6th of July.

We call the attention of the commercial world
to the Banking Case mentioned in our Law Report,
we are sure that the law wants some amendment in

this respect.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TivELYE •'G'Loca.

The English Stock Exchange has been this morning the
scene of the greatest agitation and excitement, from the now
almost certainty which exists that Russia, if not actually
having declared war against the Ottoman Porte, has issued
such a declaration that leaves not the smallest doubt of its
being her full intention to resort to arms ; indeed, after
reading the Turkish Manifesto, or Declaration, little hopes
could be entertained of preventing this measure, which was
too well calculated, from its personal invectives, to call for
no other than feelings of an angry nature. Consols opened
at 92 1, at the same moment some heavy sales were made
by a leading Broker at the lowest and intermediate prices,
and such was the confusion for a time that the actual state
of the market could scarcely be ascertained; after a short
period a few of the Bears who have operated extensively
came in to realise, and by this means supported the market
better than could have been expected, this produced a re-
action to 821 -11, at the highest price of which the Com-
missioners made their purchase ; it may perhaps be worthy
of remark, that the sales made appear to be principally by
Brokers acting for the public, and not those usually em-
ployed by speculators ; the supply of money stock is quite
equal to the demand, and the heavy stocks are drooping ;
at present the business doing is but trifling, but in the early
part of the day the bargains effected were to an immense
amount. India Bonds have not declined, being 88 90 pm. ;
and Exchequer Bills, 58 60 pm:
The Foreign Securities arc miserably depressod, not-
withstanding the efforts of the Hebrew and Bull party ;
and it appears they are considerable losers by the public
ridding themselves of foreign investments, from the
danger which attends deriving an income from this source
in a time of war ; this is more immediately applicable to
Russian Bonds, which have fallen to 854, but are now 851
86. The South American securities, being without the
pale of European politics, must be operated upon by other
circumstances. Brazilian Bonds are 611 4 ; Colombian,
234 24 ; Mexican Six per Cents, 321 ; Greek, 164 174.
Shares are not thought of in this bustle; Brazilian
Mines are 49 50 premium.
Three per Cent. Consols, 524; Ditto, for the
Account, 82 4 ; Four per Cent., 100 994 ; India Bonds,
SS 20 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 58 9 pm.
bl 2; Buenos Ayres, 34. 6;
Chilian, 24 5 ; Colombian, 251 4 ; Danish, SO 4 ;
Greek, 161- 171 ; Mexican, 6 per Cent., 32 ; Peru-
vian, 22 3 ; Russian, 85 1 ; Spanish, 10
lillNEs.—Anglo Mexican, 65 60 dis. ;-Brazilian, 49
b 0 pm. ; Colombian, 171 184 per share ; United Mexi-
can, 22 1 die. ; General Mining Association, 101 114
per share.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols appear heavy again, and have dropped to 824.
It is reported that several men-of-war are going to the
Mediterranean.

THREE 0' CL 0 CK.

A purchase having been made of 50,000/. Consols,
has caused them to reach 82i ; but it comes from
rather a suspicious quarter, and, to use a homely phrase,
is throwing a sprat to catch a herring, or, in other words,
to get cut.