The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-07 00:00:00

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1829.

The French Papers of Wednesday contain no
news but what we have already had from the
German and Dutch Papers. The rapid com-
munication with the Continent by means of
steam-boats, wonderfully facilitates the transmis-
sion of important political news. Indeed so
much has this been experienced of late, that we
have not had the first intelligence of any battle
in the East of Europe from the French Papers,
but always through the medium of the Berlin or
Dutch. The reason is obvious. Before the ac-
counts can reach France they must pass through
Germany and Holland, and being despatched by

the steam-boats, the news reaches London, as
soon, or sooner, than Paris. This is of manifest
importance, not only in a political, but in a com-
mercial point of view. The application of steam
navigation will do more towards the civilization
of mankind by bringing them into more imme-
diate contact, than centuries wasted in political
treaties and ages of legislation. Men will be-
come wise or satisfied by the evidence of their
own eyes—and nations will throw off their pre-
judices, or abate their animosities, in proportion
as they perceive the absurdity of the one
or the folly of the other. It is the superior
knowledge and hypocrisy of the few which enable
them to enslave the ignorance of the mass. As
nations become enlightened:they become inde-
pendent, and learn to respect in others that virtue
which they appreciate among themselves.

FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, AUG. 4.—Five per Cents.,
109 f., 50c. 40c. 45c. 40e. ; Three per Cents., 81f. 45c.
40c. 50c. 60c. 55c. ; Bank Stock, 1,840 r. ; Naples Stock,
87f. 30e. 25c. 30c. 35c. 40c. 50c. ; Royal Spanish Loan,
1823, 74if. ; Spanish Rentes Perpetuelles, 491 f.
Exchange on London, one month, 25f. 55c. ; three months,
25f. 40c.—Cours Authentique.

We extract the following from the Austrian
Observer, of the 27th July, leaving our readers
to draw their own conclusions :

VIENNA, JULY 26.—Extract of a letter from Egina of
the 20th of June:—Mr. Achille de Rouen, French resi-
dent, accredited to the Government here, arrived this
morning on board La Victorieuse from Toulon, where he
embarked on the Ist. The Marquis of Vaburg, who has
acted for a time as resident, remains as Secretary to this
Mission, to which Mr. Mertrude (formerly in Patras) is
to be interpreter. Mr. Dawkins, the English !resident,
who went to Smyrna to wait on Mr. Gordon, and accom-
panied him to the Dardanelles, has just returned to this
place. The Albanian Chief Silihdar Poda has just been
appointed by the Porte Derven Aga, and also, as we hear,
Commander of a new expedition against the Greeks on the
Continent. Twenty of his companies, amounting to
about 3,000 men, have taken the place of the Turks hitherto
stationed at Zeitouni, who are gone to Macedonia, pro-
bably to reinforce the army of the Grand Vizier. These
new troops have not yet passed the Sperchius. In the defiles
of Mount Octa there are but few Greeks, and some appre-
hensions are therefore felt in Livadia of a new invasion by the
enemy. There are frequent skirmishes about Thebes, which
the Turks still hold. Grissiotti was vigorously attacked
in his intrenchments at Aniforeti by the Turks, to whose
assistance Omer Pacha of Negropont had detached a small
body of cavalry to the rear of the position of the Greeks.
The latter, however, defended themselves bravely, and
compelled the Turks to retreat, who are said to have lost
250 men on this occasion. Vasso (the Montinegrin) is
still in his entrenchments before Kastia, on the border of
the plain of Athens.* All these Greek corps are not
strong. Vasso may have 11 or 1,200 men ; Ypsilanti,
before Thebes, 12 or 1,500 ; and Grissiotti, '7OO men.
In the positions to the south of the Sperchius there may
be about 2,000 men. The cavalry and some corps of in-
fantry have hitherto been posted about Lepanto; the former
is said lately to have set out for the western provinces.
The troops are in want of every thing, and their pay is
several months in arrear ; they are therefore very discontented
and particularly so with Augustin Capo d'lstria, who was
sent by his brother, the President, as Commissioner to the
Provinces of the Greek Continent, and met with no very good
reception from the first, especially from Ypsilanti, who has
the chief command in Eastern Greece. The troops in
Western Greece are under the command of General Denzel
during the absence of General Church, who is gone to
Egina. Colonel Heidegger appears now resolved to leave
Greece. It is said that a French Colonel, named Maugen,
who came with a French expedition to the Morea, is to
have the command of the regular Greek troops. The
President is still at Napoli, and seems to_ wait for the