The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-18 00:00:00

HUSSEIN PACHA.

Hussein Pacha, the Commander-in-Chief of
the Turkish Army of the Danube, is a native
of Erzerum, and entered early in life into an
prta of Janissaries. At the revolution of 1826
he had been already advanced to the high rank
of an Aga of Janissaries. He had the supreme
command of the Arsenal of Tophana. The
Asiatic troops, who were called in by Sultan
Mahmond, when he secretly entertained the de-
sire of freeing himself from the rebellious Ortasi
were encamped at Scutari. Topschis Bostan-
dischis were transferred to Constantinople ; the
barracks of .the Janissaries were surrounded,
and the shooting of them commenced, The
Sultan unfurled the Standard of the Prophet, in
order to call the whole population to arms against
this military ticipocracy, various reports were
put into circulation, which the populace adopted
easily, amongst other things, that the Janissaries
detained vessels laden with corn, destined for
the support of the people, to appropriate them
to themselves ; a scared), or diminution in the
supply of provisions, from the moment when
the massacre of the mutineers had commenced,
excited all classes of men in the Imperial
city. When Hussein saw their cause to be lost,
and ail tlie Corporation of Trades, who were ge-
nerally the support of the soldiers, to be involved
in murderous scenes, and the llama's (porters) as
well ors the capji (engine men), and others to
be discouraged, he Entered into 4 secret nego-
tiation with the Monarch. He had the 44.,
arsenal at his disposal, which he might have set
on fire. He was promised the rank of a Pacha
of Two Tails, if he would surrender the arsenal
to the Topschis, and paralyse the efforts of the
Ortas, This matter was very cleverly managed.
Hussein's company was overpowered, part of them
were decapitated and thrown into the Bosphorus ;
another part was transported to the coast of Asia.
So little transpired of the secret intrigues of
Hussein, that tho ash-Tchiauch, or Grand
Provost, seeing the Aga quite inactive, actually
lodged an accusation against him. But the fate
of Haman overtook him, and the punishment
which he had proposed against the Aga ( Hussein)
was awarded against his accuser, and Hussein
was invested with thefur pelisse of a Pacha. He
conducted the organisation of the new troops.
He called in officers from Ibrahim% army that
were conversant with European tactics, and
brought forward those Mussulinans who had
acted a part in the reform planned by Selim. The
Sultan appreciated the firm and severe character
of his new Paella, and appointed him Com-
mander-in-Chief of his armies on the Danube.

ANOTJIER htpnompTu !—On Monclay even-
ing last, a lady arrived at the Stag and pheasant Inn, Lei-
cester, by the Druce coach, on her way to London, when
having complained of being ill on the road, she was shortly
after her arrival delivered of a fine boy ! The present
landlord, 'Mr. W. HESTER, has lived in the house only
seven months, and it is remarkable that this is the second
time that a similar accident has happened. —Drakards
Stamford News,

LONDON.
SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 18211.

We have as yet no official news from the
theatre of war, but the accounts from other
quarters, like gathering clouds before the burst-
ing of a storm, seem to give fearful anticipation
of the approaching crisis in the affairs of the
Russian armies beyond the Danube. The silence,

too, of the Russian Authorities themselves go
Far to authenticate the dismal forebodings of their

busy commentators. An article from Bucharest,

of the 26th September, gives the following ac-

count of the movements of the Rilssian army

before Shinnla, and its retreat :—" The Rus-

sians, in order to cover the coie which were

retiring, continued to occupy some intrench-
meuts, but after having bravely defended them,
they evacuated them, probably on learning that

the Grand Vizier was marching by the road from
Adrianople to the relief of Varna. HUSSEIN
BEY had followed the remains of the army from
Shumla, on the road to Bazardjik, and detached
another corps on the road to Silistria and Hir-
soya, in order to take advantage of the late events
before the first of these places, and threatened
the communications of the Russians on the
Danube." Notwithstanding all this, the Rus-
sian head-quarters were still at Bazardjik on the
19th ; but the difficulties in saving the materiel
of the army, in the midst of the general distress,
were said to be immense.

The. Journal du Commerce, of Tuesday last,
gives a still more gloomy picture of their distress
and forlorn condition, in a communication from
Frankfort, of the 9th inst., and which we gave
yesterday in a Second Edition. It is as follows:
" Intelligence from all quarters agrees as to the
fact, that the campaign against the Porte has taken
a turn which is very unfavourable to the Russians.
In the place of the Berlin Gazette, which for several
days has maintained a suspicious silence on the af-
fairs of the East, private letters from that citadel
speak of a general breaking up of the second army,
under General Wittgenstein. The cavalry must
have suffered exceedingly, and the want of forage has
dismo►tnted whole regiments. Water was so scarce
as to be sold at the price of two rubles a bottle. If
any reliance is to be placed on the rumour; which
have been circulated to-day on our Exchange, the
Russians have raised the siege of Varna, and have
commenced their retreat towards the Danube. The
fact of the Turks having given much annoyance to
the army before Silistria, and of General Roth hav-
ing been dismissed from the command, is confirmed.
We are waiting with great impatience for the next
numbers of the Austrian Observer, which will enable
us to judge of the dee of confidence which all this
news may deserve."

The above may be true, but we are not in-
clined to give it implicit belief. The Russians
must have for some time foreseen the turn which
affairs were taking or likely to take, and they
surely could not be so improvident as to neglect
the means for the preservation, if not the salva-
tion of their army, at a period which threatened
their general destruction. A short time will,
however, clear
up the mystery, even should the
Russians continue to maintain a silence which
only serves to warrant the exaggerations of their
officious friends. Viewing the affair in the most
enemies, and the plausible inventions of their
charitable light, it must be confessed that after
all their unnecessary boasts at the beginning of
the campaign, they have made a sad business
of it.

Letters have been received from Vienna of the
7th, and from Frankfort of the 12th inst.; they
bring no further ailvices from the seat of war in
the East, but observe great rejoicings were

taking place at t te disasters of the Russian Army
At the above date the Metalliques, at the former
place, were 93i y, and the latter, 93i.

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German and Dutch Papers have been received
to late dates, but their contents add little to our
previous stock of information. The Berlin
Gazette gives some trifling accounts from the
army of General PASKEWITSCH, prior to the
capture of Akhalzik :

BERLIN, OCT. 10.—Our State Gazette, after
some days' silence, has again some news from the
theatre of war, but only from that part of it which
is in Asia. There, too, nothing of importance
seems to have occurred. The accounts given relate
merely to some particulars of the battle which pre-
ceded the taking of Akhalzik ; the vicinity of the
three fortresses last taken to the line of the Russian
frontiers, as they are much farther from Erzerum
than the fortress of Kars, which was taken so much
earlier, proves with what prudence General Paske-
witsch proceeds in his operations. The wisdom of
this precaution is apparent, from other reports given
by our State Gazette, according to which small
corps of Turkish troops had, i:e the beginning of
August, made incursions into the Russian territory,
in which they had penetrated into Georgia, as far
as to the river Kur, on which Tiflis, the capital, is
situated.

TUE HAGUE, OCT. 12.----By a Resolution of the
9th of this month, his Majesty has appointed Ge-
neral Van der Bosch, who has returned from the
\Veit Indies, to succeed his Excellency Viscount
Don Bus de Ghissignies, as Governor-General of
India.

AMSTERDAM, OCT. 14.—Exchange on London,
11 92k. Two months, 11 871.—Datrh Papers,
Oct. 15.

WARSAW, SEPT. 26.—Several Journals have re-
ported, that part of the Polish army had received
orders to join the army on the Danube, and that this
had been done merely to gratify the Polish army,
which MS eager to engage the Turks. We believe
there is as little reason to say that uny notion has
been entertained of sending the Polish army out of
the kingdom, as that any corps of that army hus
given occasion to have its wishes talked of. Our
army is so often assembled that nobody here thinks
any thing about it. Only the Journals take such
opportunities to infer from them some important
measure, the discovery of which gives them impor-
tance. It is said that our Government is negotiating
a Concordat with the Pope, and that it is nearly
concluded.—/111genteine Zeitung, Oct. 10.

Letters from Leipsic of the beginning of this
month, state, that although the Fair has just
commenced, the wholesale merchants have already
done considerable business with merchants from
the Danube, for articles of necessity for the Rus-
sian armies.

It would appear by the following communiea-

tion from Dublin that the work of persecution
will not be allowed to sleep even after the storm
of agitation has passed away. Mr. LAW LESS
has been arrested by Government for sedition.
Our Dublin Correspondent says-7
" LAWLESS is arrested for jolp ding a seditious
mob at Ballibay. He was unpopular with the Ca-
tholics for his imprudence—this will reinstate him.
The bail required is small, 2001. I believe. He will
obtain it, and probably attend the Association to-day."

The order for a general mourning seems to be
apprehended by the manufacturing portion of
the public as pregnant with great privations, from

its long continuance. Six weeks they consider,
and with good reason, we think, too long. The
people of Coventry received the news with con-
sternation—and are about to petition his MA-
JESTY to limit the duration of mourning to four
weeks—a request.which, we have no doubt, will be
complied with. As an expression of public grief,
we are of opinion that a.firtnight would be equally
effective as six weeks—and, we think, that in all
matters of this kind, the general interests should
not be lost sight of in paying a token of national
respect to the memory of members of the Royal
Family. We are certain that the beneficent feel-
ings of his most Gracious MAJESTY would not
wish to force his subjects to appear to pay their
homage of sympathy for a period which must
inevitably conduce to their own disadvantage.
In saying this we wish to be understood only as
referring to general mourning, which should be
limited in its duration to meet the exigencies of
trade. Court mourning is a different thing, and
might be observed during the usual period.
The following is from the Coventry Herald
of yesterday upon this subject
" Yesterday our city was thrown into consterna-

tion, by the announcement of a general mourning
for the death of the Dowager Queen of %Virtem-
berg, sister of the King. At this season the stocks
of goods for the supply of the winter trade are fully
prepared, and in consequence of the fineness of the
weather the demand was protracted, and therefore
the quantity of winter ribbons in the manufacturer?
hand are, if any thing, rather larger than ordinary.
Under these circumstances, the deplorable nature of
the effect upon the trade must be manifest; and we
consider the most prompt, energetic, and united
exertions of all persons interested in the ribbon ma-

nufacture, wilt be necessary, to attempt an allevia-
tion of the evil that has fallen upon us. The plan
we propose is, to petition the Government to cur-
tail the period of mourning to four weeks, which
will terminate in the middle of November. The
petition should be prepared instantly. The weavers
from the country could sign it on Saturday and
Monday, and on Tuesday it should be presented.
Every one who can sign it, ought to sign ; all the
people of our neighbourhood should affix their sig.
natures; for there are none but what are deeply in-
terested in the measure. We would urge the people,
as they value their own welfare, to be active on this
occasion. There must be every disposition on the
part of the Ministry, to prevent any unnecessary
privations to all classes of his, Majesty's subjects;
and we indulge the hope, that if a forcible represen-
tation were made of the injury, which is inevitable,
and must accrue, to the silk trade, from a six weeks'
mourning, that the shorter period would be adopted.
The more prompt we are, the more we shall con-
vince the Government that our alarms are well
founded, and that we do not petition from a slight
and frivolous cause, but from a deep sense of the