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watched and well defended it must be an equal

difficult and dangerous operation to transport an
army safely across it. It must be confessed, liovr-

ever, that in all the wars that have occurred between
Russia and Turkey, this great river has not been
vigilantly defended ; and it has never accordingly
proved any serious barrier to the progress of the

aders. But other more formidable ()Wades mus

be encountered in advancing into the country ; abou

fifty miles beyond the Danube, and nearly paralle

to its course, lie the formidable barrier of the Hemus
or Balkan mountains, which rise to a great eleva-
tion, and are full of deep ravines and narrow defiles,
and all those localities which render defence so easy,
and enable a few men to arrest the progress of an
army. The direct road is from Rudschuk, on the
Danube, to Constantinople; and it passes through
various towns rudely fortified, after the Turkish
fashion, among others through Shumla, where the
different roads from the Danube all meet. Beyond
this place, which is about 30 miles from Rudschuk,
the Russians have never been able to advance. It is
the extreme limit of their conquests. At this forti-

fled town the Turks had always an entrenched camp,
which the Russians attacked in 1775, but were re-
pulsed; which they again attacked in 1810, and
were again repulsed, after a bloody conflict, and
.finally driven back to the Danube.

Over the almost inaccessible mountain chain of
the Hemus there are five passes, two by the direct
road from Shumla to Constantinople, and three
farther to the west, which all lead to Adrianople.

Those mountains are impassable during the winter,
from obvious causes; the roads, if roads they can
be called at any time, being blocked up with
snow, spring is the only season of the year in
which these bleak and desolate regions pre-
sent any appearance of vegetation ; in summer
they are scorched by the sun into a degree of
aridity, which readers them a complete desert, while
the cold damps and dews of night are adverse not

merely to comfort, but to health. These mountains
must be passed by the Russians in their progress to
Constantinople ; and when we consider their height
and ruggedness, the narrowness and inaccessible
character of the passes, winding amid ravines and
precipices, commanded on every side by the adjacent
ground, we may easily conceive through what a
series of difficult and dangerous operations an invad-
ing army must be pushed, before it can cross this
great natural barrier; what fatigues and privations
must be encountered; how many formidable positions
must be carried ; and by what a great sacrifice of
men even success must be purchased. The Turks,
we learn from the late instructive work of Mr. Walsh,
depend on those natural defences for their security
egainst a Russian invasion ; and we have no doubt
they ,will be maintainvd with bravery and perse-
verance. The Turkish troops are not deficient
in courage ; they frequently display prodigies of
Naalk lier, a aml
aided by these strong holds, they wiL
make
powerful defence. The Russians, by the
o
alli:(11111o1 tf all these obstaclesdiscipline,uers'
and science, may stir-
; but, if they succeed, it
will certainly be a military ..achievement of the
highest class, and will add greatly to their warlike
renown. There will then be no further obstacle to
their progress; and the passage of the ileums moun-
tains may, therefore, be considered as deciding the
fate of Constantinople.

Letters from Geneva announce the arrival
there of Lady Buant.Tr on her way from Italy. Iler
Ladyship's health is sa much improved that her physician,
Dr. 3lacKtt•lNoN, has expressed the most sangtsive hopes
respecting her early return to England.

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Gazette de France, dated Sunday.)
" Pit Tits, JUNE 14.—Letters from Florence say, that
after the arrival of a communication from St. Petersburg"),
the Russian Legation had sent; on the 3d, one of its secre-
taries to Ancona, with very important despatches for Ad.
miral Count Heyden, and a sabre of great value sent by
his Majesty the Emperor Nicholas, as a present to Ad-
miral Codrington, in commemoration of the battle of
Na-
vain.

.--....
" A journal affirms that the French Government has
given orders for the evacuation of Cadiz, and of the Seu
d'Urgel.
" The King and Queen ;If Spain left fiatupelunaion the
3tl of June to go to St. Sebastian. The whole of a
triumphal arch broke down just as their Majesties' car-
riage was passing. Several persons were very severely
wounded.
" A journal of the Netherlands quotes a letter, accord-
ing to which a marriage was to take lilac, between the
Princess Mariaurt, daughter of his Majesty the King of
the Netherlands, and Prince Gustavus, son of the ex. King
of Sweden."
FRE:mu Forms, JcssE 11.—Five per Cents., 104 f.
; Three per Cents., (ex dividend), '701: 30c. ;
Think Stock, 1,915 f. ; Neapolitan Rentes, 75f. 10c. ;
Royal Spanish ' Loan, 73f. ; llitytian Loan, 675.--
clAge on London—one month (money), 25f. 25c. ;
three months 23f. the.