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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1829.

The French Papers of Wednesday, received
this morning by express, contain very important
Hews, if credit could be reasonably given to them,
but we doubt much whether the SULTAN, in
his present state of humiliation, can offer any
eTectual resistance to the Russians. If it 1 e
true that he had not ratified the Treaty on the
19th of September, it must have been in conse-
quence of the remonstrance of the Ambassadors
of England and France, for the terms of the
Treaty are such that these Ambassadors could
never give them their official sanction.

It is said that the Pachas in the West had
coalesced for the purpose of resisting the demands
of Russia, but we fear that there is little to hope
from their efforts now. They should have
exerted themselves when they had a good op-
portunity, but it is never too late to make an
effort of despair. If the population were to rise
with a religious fervor, there would yet be some
chance. The following are extracts :

(From the Message). des Chambres of Wedneday.)
SECOND EDITION.

PARIS, OCT. 14.
The Augsburg Gazelle of the 10th contains the
following article :

FROM THE BANKS OF TUE ISAR, OCT: 8.
According to the report of a French courier, sent
from Constantinople to Paris, and who passed
through Munich in great haste yesterday, the Sul-
tan had not yet ratified (on the 19th September)
the treaty concluded 011 the 14th.

If this news is well founded, we must suppose
that Niahmoud still entertains some hopes, in conse-
quence of the resistance made by some of his Pachas,
who have not their hands tied as he has, and are not
afraid of conspirators. Perhaps he has had news of
the march of the 35,000 Albanians, who, according
to letters from Bucharest, are endeavouring to ad-
vance to Adrianople by way of Sophia. In this
case it might happen that the Turks lost for ever
the advantages of the moderate terms of the treaty
of Adrianople.
We are still without any official communications
respecting the conditions of peace, which gives some
weight to the report spread by the above-men-
tioned courier, of the non-ratification of the treaty
by the Sultan, and this news may very likely be
confirmed. We are the more impatient to learn
the real terms of peace, because we can hardly con.
ceive how so complex an affair, in which so many
interests are concerned, could be settled in a few
daps, especially when the question was to lead to a
durable peace.

PARIS, OCT. 13.
CONTINUATION OF HOSTILITIES IN TURKEY.

Letters from Constantinople of the 20th of Sept.,
and from Corfu of the 24th, which have been re-
ceived at Marseilles,by way of Ancona and Leghorn,
announce that the whole western part of Rumelia,
and all Bosnia and Albania, are in insurrection against
the Sultan and the Russian array. The chiefs of
the districts have raised the whole Maliomedan popu-
lation of these countries in a mass, and led them to
Sophia and Comanova, where the Pacha of Bosnia
and Albania are posted with an army of 50,000 men.
The most violent fanaticism inspires them ; they con-
sider themselves as destined to revenge the sacred
cause betrayed by the Sultan and his Council. They
are resolved to march to Constantinople, and the
pillage of that wealthy city is the lure held out to them.
OH the other hand the English Government is
making very menacing preparations for war at Corfu,
where nearly 15,000 men are at this moment as-
sembled. The Turks pretend that they shall re-
°Ave from the lonian Islands all the ammunition they
shall require, and that the English will land, if ne-
' cessary, in Albania and Epirus.
PARIS, OCT. 14.—Five per Cents. 107 f 50c. 45c. ;
Four and a half per Cents, 103 f. 25e. ; Three per Cents.,
82f. 82f. se. 82f. 82f. sc. 81f. 95c.; Bank Stock,
1855 f. ; Rentes de Naples, 88f. 55e. 60c.; Royal
Spanish Loan, 764 in; Rente Perp. d'Ep.
Exchange on London, one month, 25f. 65e. ; three months,
25f. 45c.—Cours Authentiqus.
FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, OCT. 13.—Five per Cents.
107 f. 45c. ; Three per Cents. 81f. 85c.

St. Petersburgh Journals to the 26th of Sep-
tember have been received this morning. They
contain lists of numerous promotions and re-
wards for services in the present campaign in
Turkey. It will be seen that while the EMPEROR
conciliates the good-will of the army, he is not
forgetful of increasing his navy. Another 74
has been launched at St. Petersburgh

ST. PETERSBURGH, SEPT. 25.

On Tuesday last the Brienne, a new ship of the
line of 74 guns, was launched at the Admiralty
dock-yard, at Okhta, in the presence of his Majesty
the Emperor. The command of the vessel, which
was built by Colonel Stoki, of the Engineers, is
given to Captain Kordukoff.

Parliament was yesterday prorogued to Thurs-
day, the 10th December.

New York Papers to the 19th September
have been received, but they contain no news.

Calcutta Papers have been received to the 15th

May, but their contents are unimportant.

The Allgenzeine Zeitung of the 10th October
contains the following article in favour of Russian
moderation, but in which the writer misses his
object by the excessive servility of his homage.
If ever there was a peace concluded upon terms
containing within themselves the seeds of future
war, it is the peace of Adrianople :

FRANKFORT, OCT. 6.

We -received the first news of the signing of peace
at Adrianople by the Prussian State Gazette; but
notwithstanding the high credit which that esteemed
Paper enjoys here, the fact was doubted, because
the article had no fficial character, and no mention

was made of so important an event in the mercantile
letters from Vienna, received at the same time. It
has, however, been since so fully confirmed by ac-
counts from various quarters, that the most obsti
nate scepticism must yield. Our merchants are now
discussing the reported conditions of the treaty. The
general result, indeed, is admiration of the magna-
nimity of the conqueror ; but perhaps the eminent
political wisdom to which the conditions bear testi-
mony, may not be every where equally appreciated,
especially as they form a striking contrast to those
conditions which we all remember in the time of
Napoleon, an epoch which the events of the late
campaign call to mind. At that t;me every peace
contained within itself the seeds of a new war, be-
canse it irritated the vanquished, partly by losses
and preliminaries, whereas the peace which the Em-
peror Nicholas has granted to the Porte, aims merely
at securing the complete attainment of the original
object of the war, and its conditions consequently
afford the most entire securities for its duration, so
far as this is in the reach of human foresight.

The KING OF NAPLES has, during has
absence, confided to his Son the government of
the kingdom.

Dutch Papers of the 10th have been received,
but their contents possess no interest.

We direct attention to an article from the
Tunes, under the usual head, upon the terms of
the treaty of peace. We are glad that our re-
spected contemporary is at length alive to a due
sense of Russian moderation.

It is said, in letters from Cracow, in Poland,
of the 29th of September, that the Emperor
NICHOLAS will open the Diet in person. In
the interior of Russia great exertions are still
made in completing the skeleton regiments of the
active army, and repairing the losses in the
materiel. Great activity also prevailed in the
different depots, and every thing betokened
that the war was not terminated—but only sus-
pended.

The following sensible communication from our
Paris Correspondent will be read with interest :

" The hostile feelings towards England, which
are daily fomented by what is called the Liberal
Press of this country, have obviously their origin in
a spirit of invidious jealousy, unworthy of a great and
enlightened people ; and still more unworthy of that
Ultra liberality of sentiment which they so loudly
profess. In spite of the latent dislike which is too
surely felt fur every thing English, it is not a little
amusing to see the most violent of this party some-
times driven to an open advocacy, or an acknow-
ledged imitation, of English institutions and English
improvements, in which it is not to be denied that
this country is far behind us. The excessive rains
for which this season has been so remarkable in
every quarter of Europe, have forced the subject of
road-making on public attention, and, in this re-
spect there is certainly a lamentable deficiency in
the roads of France, as compared with those of Eng-
laud. So much is this felt at the present moment,
that the road fi'om the great sea-port-of Havre to the
capital has become almost impassable ; and when a
French causeway has once been broken up into ruts,
I need not say that the only possible mode of re-
storing it to usefulness is by taking it up and form-
ing it anew. One of the great advantages of the
improved system of road-making in England is, that
any local or superficial defect may be readily sup-
plied without a day's interruption to the use of the
road as a public thoroughfare. But the great and
insuperable obstacle to any general improvenient in
French road-making is that, like every thing else
which can be made the subject of monopoly and ag-
grandizement, the charge of the public roads is en-
trusted to a Royal Commission, who, like institu-
tions of a similar nature, are absolutely stationary
amidst the general progress of improvement. In
England we have still to complain of the existence
of several great public nuisances in the form of mo-
nopolies; but they are few and harmless compared
with those of France. Not only is road-making a
monopoly, but posting, tobacco-making, pawn-
broking, gambling, and a thousand other employ-
ments equally inconsistent with sound principle and
sound morality. The maintenance of this system is
encouraged and supported in France, not merely by
the stability which a great public institution must
every where acquire from its inherent weight, and
its numerous ramifications ; but there is in the
French character a decided passion for the great and
the magnificent, which cannot be overcome by the
sober conviction that commercial dealings are most
prosperous when left to their own unfettered course,
and that, as in the case of road-making, the appoint-
ment of a general Commission, under the superin-
tendance of a Board of the ablest Engineers, for the
general controul of the whole roads of the kingdom,
is not nearly so efficient or so available in practice as
the subdivision of the country into county or dis-
trict trusts, as in England.
" The same love for the magnificent has lately
produced a proposal for the formation of docks in'
the plain of Ivry, at the junction of the Seine and
the Marne, in imitation of those at London and
Liverpool, and other great English towns. There
is a strong desire in this country to make Paris a
great commercial town, and to rival our own metro-
polis in trade as much as it undoubtedly precedes it
in gaiety and fashion. It is with this view that the
canals of the Ourck, St. Denis, and St. Martin,
have been formed, at an expense to the city of many
millions of francs; but hitherto they have not even
been able to support themselves. The splendid
building they have erected for an Exchange is an-
other indication of the same feeling, rather than
from any real want for the accommodation it affords,
as was lately evinced by the offer of the merchants
of Paris to return to the old Exchange, for the pur-
pose of accommodating the Chamber of Deputies
during the period necessary for re-building the Hall
in the Palais Bourbon, in which they have hitherto
'held their sittings.
" At an early period of the last summer I hap-
pened to be present at a great public entertainment,
which was given at St. Vallery, near the embouchure
of the Somme, in Picardy, on the occasion of the
opening of the great canal, which is intended to
form one of the principal branches of communication
between Paris and the sea. Like every thing else
of this kind which is undertaken in France, a scale
had been adopted not by any means in proportion to
the extent of the traffic for which it was to be the
channel of communication, but rather in proportion
to what was seemly or becoming as a great national
undertaking. It is upwards of fifty years since this
canal was commenced, and, as may be supposed,
it was during the active reign of Napoleon
that it received its greatest stimulus ; but
Napoleon, like the nation over whom he ruled,
had a decided taste for the magnifique, arid in this,
as in many other instances, it was certainly substi-
tuted for what was simply useful. The sea lock of
the great basin at St. Vallery is beautifully exe-
cuted in granite, equal to that of which Waterloo
Bridge is composed ; but to provide for the antici-
pated concourse of shipping at the entrance of the
canal, there are no less than three flood-gates, any
one of which would undoubtedly have been suffi-
cient for the passage of all the vessels which are
ever likely to ask for admission.

" it is at Paris, too, that a society has been formed
for connecting the Rhine with the Danube by means
of a canal, an idea which is said to have been first
conceived by the genius of Charlemagne. The course
of the Danube is, it seems, to be enlarged and freed

from the obstacles with which it is encumbered,
fromlUlm to Stublingen. The navigation is then
to be prolonged by a canal, which is to traverse the
Black Forest in the direction of the Kintzig, which
is to be made navigable to the place where it falls
into the Rhine, near Khel. The only acknow-
ledged difficulty is in the Black Forest, where a
tunnel of great extent will be necessary. If this
undertaking could really be accomplished, it would
no doubt be attended with immense advantages to
the general commerce of Europe. By means of the
rivers and canals of Holland, a traveller might em-
bark at the Tower of London and proceed to Con-
stantinople, without once setting his foot on shore.
It is difficult to conceive the extent of the advan-
tages which would thus be created, by the general
diffusion of knowledge and the progressive extinc-
tion of national prejudices, but in a commercial
point of view the results would be more immediate
and more sensibly felt. The dangerous navigation
of the Mediterranean would be wholly avoided in
proceeding to the shores of the Bosphorus and of
Asia Minor, countries which were formerly the
richest in the world, and which, in the opinion of
the projectors of this canal, are soon again to be-
come so. They seem already to see the steam-
boats from the Thames circulating freely around the
shores of the Euxine, and in the sanguine flight of
enthusiasm they call upon the Russian Government
to dig a canal between the Black Sea aad the Cas-
pian, so as to enable the commerce of Europe to
arrive by water at the foot of the Himalays The
whole idea and conception of this canal partakes of
course, in a remarkable degree, of the besetting sin
of Parisian projects; but if it could be carried into
execution, and maintained after being executed, its
extensive usefulness could not easily be denied. By
way of anticipating any sweeping general objection
to the scheme, the projectors exclaim, that he who
would have said in 1740, before the conquests of
Lord Clive in Bengal, that England would one day
have a hundred millions of subjects in India, and
possess ten thousand miles of its shores, would
have been treated as a visionary. The prosperity
of North America, its great public works, the in-
creasing number of its merchant vessels, and its
progressive population, incessantly pushing itself by
successive tides into the middle of the desert, are
all considered as grounds on which this new project
can be supported, in opposition to the ridicule and
the charge of Utopianism with which it is likely to
be assailed."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, OCT. 15.—Wind N.W.—The Clio, Hop-
per, for Sierra Leone, has put back with loss of
anchor and cable, and windlass damaged. The
Thomas, King, has proceeded, and the Isabella, the
latter reported to have anchor and cable. Arrived
from London, the Jane Young, Cleland, for
Honduras.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 14.—Wind N.N.E.—Sailed
the Lady Holland, Bell, for Madras and Calcutta;
Duke of Norfolk, Manning, fur St. Kitts; John
Wilkinson, and Elizabeth, Phillips, for Jamaica ;
and his Majesty's ship Algerine, for South America.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 14.---Wind N..—Sailed the
Seppings, Louder, for Ceylon ; and John, Munro,
for Berbice.

FALMOUTH, OCT. 14.—Wind N.N.W. to N.—
There is a packet off Port working in, supposed the
Marquis of Queensbury, frem the Mediterranean.
DOVER, OCT. 15.—Arrived the Aslaby, Cres-
ton, from Oporto.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 14.--Arrived the Algonquin,
West, from Philadelphia.
. _

SCILLY, OCT. 13.—Off Port, the Octavia, At-
kins, from Cuba.
BEAUMARIS, OCT. 14.—Arrived the Nundi, Haw-
kins, from Bengal.
BELFAST, OCT. 13.—Arrived the Vesta, Mickle,
from Quebec.

WATERFORD, OCT. 13.—Arrived the George the
Fourth, May, from Quebec.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, Twiarz •'CLocr.

Although the express from Paris received this
morning brings alarming accounts of the continua-
tion of hostilities between the Russians and Turks,
several Pachas having united their forces, to the
number of 50,000 wen, in the rear of the grand
Russian army, with an intention to force their way
to Constantinople, Consols have not been the least
affected, and opened this morning at the same price
-they left off at yesterday, 89f 90 for money, and
90i f for November.
Nothing doing in the Foreign market as yet.
This is paying and receiving day in Consols; we
do not hear of any failures.

ENGLISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock, 212 13 31 per Cent. 981 1
India Stock, 222 223 New 4 per Cent., 1031 1
3 per Cent. Cum. 89 90 4 per Cent. 1826 104 i if
Ditt• Reduced, 89i India Bonds, 61 63
Do., for Account, Exchequer Bills, 70 72
Consols for Account November 26, 904.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Greek, 201 21
Mexican, 18 1
Pernviau,
Portuguese, 474 I
Prussian,
Russian, 101/ 21
Spanish, sra
TITO O'CLOCK.

Brazilian, 631 I
Buenos Ayres, 23 25
Chilian, 19 20
Colombian, 18 I
Danish, 714
French, 5 per Cent. 107 8
Ditto, 3 per Cent. 81i

The paying and receiving the various accounts
are going off well, and the Consol market continues
withlittle fluctuation to the present time. Consols
were, in the early part of the morning, at 901 for the
Account, and at present they are 90 to and 89/
90 for money.
The story in the German Papers of the Pachas
marching to Constantinople does not gain the least
credit, and is treated as a stock-jobbing concern at
Vienna, to depress the Metalliques, which were, on
the 6th, received by express, at 102; Bank Shares,
1,220. . _ .

It is asserted that a reconciliation is on the tapis
between Don Pedro and his brother Don Miguel.
The letters from Paris state that large purchases
are making there in the Rentes by a great capitalist.
In the Foreign Market Brazil and Greek Stock
have improved. Little doing in the other Foreign
Securities.

THREE O'CLOCK
Consols for account, 89! i ; Ditto for Nov. 90.

TRIAL OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Having observed it stated in the Times of this
day, that the boiler of the " Novelty" had burst, and that in
consequence Messrs. 13raith waite and Ericson bad withdrawn
their Engine from the competition, I take the liberty of
requesting your contradiction of the statement, by the in-
sertion of the following extract from a private communi-

cation :
" We started this morning to complete the task assigned
to us under the new ordeal, and bad accomplished two of
our own trips in good time, when we found our cement
and canvas joints, which were only made up this morning,
yielding to the high temperature, and letting the steam
escape at all points. We therefore thought proper to stop
the Engine. And, now, taking into consideration, that
at least eight days would be required to allow the cement
to harden sufficiently, we thought we could not properly
request the Judges to suspend the conclusion of the pro•
ceedings any longer. We accordbagly stated, we were wil-
ling to leave the merits of the Engine to be judged of by
the performances it had already exhibited. Thus, not-
withstanding, we do not intend leaving the Rail• way until
we have accomplished all that was required of us.,,
I remain your obedient servant,
FREDERICK BRAITHWAITE.
13, Mary-street, Regent's Park, Oct. 16.

An order has been received from London' for
all the Portuguese non-commissioned officers and soldiers
quartered in this town to hold themselves in readiness to
embark fur Terceira. A similar order has, we under-
stand, bean issued to the Portuguese troops in Fra Ott•
Plyrn9elth Journal.