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London, England, 1827-12-01 00:00:00

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Constantinople are reported to be of such a
nature, that if the anticipations founded on them
riYed yesterday from
should be realized, recourse must be had to•iur-
ther measures of coercion and intimidation to-
wards Turkey. It is rumoured that the Govern-
ment of the Grand Seignor has made indiscri-
minate seizures of the ships belonging to the sub-
jects of the Allied Powers in the port of Con-
stantinople : and his Highness, according to this
account, requires that any proposition from the
Allied Governments should be preceded by
compensation for the loss sustained by Turkey
in the battle of Nayarit]. In that case the natu-

ral consequenCe must be the immediate depar-
ture of Mr. Stratford Canning from the Turkish
capital ; and another sort of British Plenipoten-
tiaries would be speedily accredited in his room.
Let what will happen, we have reason to be-
lieve that his Majesty's Govermnent is well pre-
pared for every alternative rendered necessary by
the general interests of Europe, and by the
honour and:principles of Great Britain. The next
subject of attention is of a domestic nature : (we
do not mean the election of Mr. Davies Gilbert to
the chair of the Royal Society,—that interests
not the public generally.) The decline in the
price of the funds yesterday, of one and a half
per cent., is divided among several causes : first,
a dissension among the Bank Directors ; next, an
apprehension of the dire. resolves of the countsy
bankers, who meet in conclave dark on Monday,
then a fall in the course of exchange, requiring a
corresponding diminution of the paper in circu-•
lation, by the sale of Exchequer bills, which is
really only a barter of one species of paper for
another ; of paper that passes from hand to
hand, for paper that is retained in the bureau ;
and lastly, a general and undefined apprehension
that some perplexity may result from the deter-
mination of the councils in the East, or the issue
jf the French elections nearer home. The ope-
ration of all these causes,- none of which can be
asserted as a fact, has produced the fall above-
mentioned in the funds. The subject does not
as yet supply data for discussion.— Times.

Mr. Davies Gilbert was yesterday peaceably
elected the President of the. Royal Society, and
Captain Sabine, and Dr. Roget, Home SeLreta-
ries, in place of Messrs. Children and Herschel!,
who have resigned. Mr. Faraday was, it is said,
to have been proposed as a remplacant for one
of the latter, but appears to have declined the

honour, or refused the trouble. This Society,
through the bustle which has been created by
this election, would appear to. excite attention
in proportion as it has sunk in reputation. It is
to be hoped, however, that we may date from
the present as from a new era or epoch ; other-
wise, the sooner the extinguisher is Aapped
upon the smoke, after the flame has expired, the
better. Sir Humphrey's chemist) y might have
done well to manure beds for Sir Joseph's botany ;
but these are arts, not science. We hate and
despise public lecturers, too, by profession, to
the aged and adult (we except college tutors, of.
course); they, are always babblers and chatterers,
and they would be obliged to truckle to the
great, even if their taste did not lie that way.—
There was a notification put up in the ante-
room of the Society, that though the payment
of the anniversary dinner out of the funds of the
Society was an. ancient custom, yet 'as it had, in
some instances, given occasion to misrepresenta-
tion, the practice would in future be abolished,
—lbid.

Among the mighty personages to whom the
gentle,-Vittuotis, and venerable Bishop of Nor-,
wich has given offence, may be classed, as we are
credibly informed, that unassuming Prelate the
Bishop of Chester. This worthy, but somewhat
militant member of the church, as it seems,
thought it becoming to visit, not merely with
his disapproval, but with his actual and positive
interference, the innocent recreations which the
excellent old man who holds the See of Nor..

wich, more for the benefit of his poorer fellOw-
Christians than his own, occasionally resorts to,
in order to sooth and cheer the declining hours
of an existence, every stage of which has been
marked by the unostentatious exercise of all the
charities and duties which can render the min;:,_
ter of religion a pattern and blessing to bciety.
The Bishop of Norwich is, we conjecture, more
than double Bishop Blomfield.'s ace. His
Lordship has never, that we can hear, been harsh
or uncandid, or austere, or troublesome to others.
He has always been distinguished by meekness
in the bearing of his own faculties, and by a just
and generous solicitude for the comforts of the
destitute, and for the rights of the oppressed. In
every relation of life, public, private, professional,
political, and moral, this amiable and much-loved
divine is wholly without stain or suspicion. He
has, nevertheless, as we are assured, been guilty of
one single enormity—such at least it must ap-
pear in the archangelic eyes of Dr. Blomfield—
the aged Bishop has been seen to playa quiet
rubber of whist of an evening !! But, in the
tender providence of his superior nature, Bishop
Blomfield seems to fear that his venerable and
l;
n i
ts thatlis
ie as aged
brother may not be sufficiently weaned from
a world which he is, probably, not far from quit-
ting,
pressure rubber of whist are left to him, That the old
man,' therefore, may have no cessation from the
desolatingif
any u
he may enjoy as few pleasures as possible in this
in
nd
world, and therefore be thrown, by an unrelaxed
and unremitting necessity,
,into a ceaseless meal
tation on his death-bed, as the only passport to
relief, the junior Bish op—riot from any morose-
ness of temper—not from any vindictive • 't—
not from the rapacious of
motive shorteningi by
imbittering, the daysof prelate in possession -f•
a
a better see than that of Chester, il!fOrMS upcna
the senior—complains to the metropolitan, the
Archbishop of Canterbury, that the Bishop of
Norwich in an evening plays his rubber of whist
And the Archbishop, thus dragooned into a
species of petty meddling, quite foreign to his
Grace's own disposition, is compelled to com-
municate the unfriendly story to Dr. Bathurt,
We have already disclaimed the remotest idea or
imputing such a pious busybodiness to any bad
intention of Dr. Blomfield. We are sure it is
all rig.hteousness, much righteousness—over-
much righteousness, possibly ; but if his Lord-
ship, now that he has lost his hold over the
King's Government, seeks to establish a fresh
and strong position in the country, by founding.
a new and inexorable sect, of which he is him
self to be the chief, we are only sorry that lie
cannot effect his aim, without disturbing
the
peace and innocence of the beSt of Christian
Bishops.—lbid.

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