The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-16 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

VIENNA, MARCH s.—According to authentic
letters from the Russian head-quarters, of Feb. 23,
<Atha news had been received there of the destruc-
tion of the Turkish flotilla before Nicopolis. For
the performance of this brilliant exploit General
Malinofsky had sent 200 volunteers, of the sth divi-
sion of infantry, under the command of Major Ste-
phanoff. The Turkish crews of the flotilla were
surprised and put to the sword. Of the 30 vessels
and gun-boats which composed the flotilla, 29 were
burnt. The artillery and provisions on board the
ships were destroyed.—Allgenzeine Zeitung, March 9. ,
BERLIN, MARCH B.—The Odessa Journal of the ,
21st of February contains the following news :-- '
"On the 13th of January, Major-General-Ku-
prianoff sent to General Roth two Tartar deserters
from Shumla, who had come to his out-posts. They
stated that the Grand Vizier had arrived at Shumla
on the 6th of January, and had collected about
30,000 men to attack Paravadi. In consequence of
this information, the troops were enjoined to be
doubly vigilant, and orders given to send out patrols
to learn the enemy's motions. In the evening
Major-General Rogoffsky sent word from Devno
that a corps of observation of 80 Cossacks, posted
near Koludjik, had been attacked by a much
superior force of Turkish cavalry. This news
bad been brought by a Cossack, who escaped. The
necessary steps having been taken, the 31st and
32d regiments of Yagers, with four cannon, were
sent to reinforce the post at Paravadi, and orders
given to some detachments of troops between Varna
and Kustendji to draw nearer to the former place.
General Roth then received a second report from
General Rogoffsky, who informed him that Lieute-
nant-Colonel Deriltroff, who had been sent to re-
inforce the troops at Koludjik, had met, about two
wersts from that place, some hundred Turkish horse-
men, who, however, immediately retired to Shumla.
The post of Koludjik was again occupied by our
troops. As the enemy had attacked it unawares
with 500 men, our patrols had probably fallen into
his hands. In this affair we had two Cossacks and
a subaltern officer killed; the commander of the
post and 32 Cossacks are missing, and we have not
the slightest information of their fate."
ODESSA, FEB. 21.—Though the winter is not
quite over, the cold has abated. The ice in the
harbour is partly melted and partly dispersed by the
wind. On the 6th instant two vessels sailed for
Varna with supplies for the army ; unless the cold
should return, fifty vessels will put to sea in a few
days.—Prussian State Gazette, March 9.
VIENNA, MARCH 3.—The Austrian Observer has
A letter from Constantinople, of February 10, an-
nouncing the removal of the Grand Vizier from his
office; but as this was not accompanied with any
mark of disgrace, and lie has even retained his three
borse.tails, it is presumed that he will soon have
another appointment, probably a command in Asia.
The embarkation of the Sultan on board the
steam-boat has caused great surprise, as none of his
predecessors, for this century past, have gone so far
from the capital. As the vessel is said to have pro-
visions only for six days, it is supposed the Sultan
will be back on Friday next (the 13th) to go to the
mosque.
The Porte has received reports from Redschid
Pacha, stating that, by the measures he had taken
to stop the progress of the insurgents under Deme-
trius Ypsilanti, their detached corps had been de-
kated in several actions by Mahmoud Pacha and
Pacha of Negropont, driven oat of Livadia,
Petra, an z.l other places, and pursued to a consi-
derable distance. The Porte has also received news
from Shumla, that the troops under Halil and
Ibrahim Pacha have surprised the village of
Tschamarlu, near Bazardjik. No particulars, how-
ever, has e yet been received.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 13.—1 n the budget for the
year 1830 it is announced, that the excise on the
grinding of flour shall not be levied after the Ist
January, 1830.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

ABSTRACT.

The number of persons committed for trial to the va-
rious gaols of Engiccd and Wales, during the seven years
ending 1828-86,530 tt;:tles and 16,758 females, total
103,288 were committed. 1.: 1822, 10,369 males and
1,872 females were committed. in 1823, 10,342 males
and 1,921 females. In 1824, 11,475 maks and 2,223
females. In 1825, 11,889 males and 2,548 females. In
1826, 13,672 males and 2,692 females. in 1827,
15,151 males and 2,770 females; and in 1828, 13,832
males and 2,732 females. Also, in 1822, 8,209 persons
were convicted. In 1823, 8,204 persons. In 1824,
92.05. In 1825, 9,966. In 1826, 11,107. In 1827,
12,564. ; and in 1828, 11,753.
Total ntnOber of convictions in the seven years, 71,106.
Of these, 7,980 received sentence of death, 1,139 were
sentekced to transpon:.?tion for life, 1,386 for fourteen years,
11,776 for seven years, .2,.?60 to two years' and eighteen
months' imprisonment, 8,368 f-om mix to twelve months'
imprisonment, 36,269 from one to ,;:x months imprison-
ment. In the year 1822, 97 persons wes'T executed ; in
1823, 54 ; in 1824, 49 ; in 1825, 50 ; in 1026, 57 ;
in 1827, 70; and in 1828, 79—total number of execu-
tions, 456. Of these, 93 were for murder, 101 for
burglary and housebreaking, '72 for highway-robbery, 37
for horse-stealing, 31 for attempts to murder, 27 for rape,
lice., 23 for forgery, 12 for coining ; the remainder fur
other offences. The number of executions for offeuges
committed in the city of London and county of Middlesex
was 125.

THE FORCE OF IMAGINATION.--A
Lucchese peasant, out shooting sparrows, saw his dog
attacked by a strange and very ferocious mastiff. He
tried to separate the animals, and received a bite from his
own dog, which instantly ran off through the fields. The
wound was healed in a few days, but the dog was not
to be found ; and the peasant, after some time, began to
feel symptoms of nervous agitation. He conceived that
the dog, from his disappearing, was road, and within a
day or two after this idea had struck him he began to feel
symptoms of hydrophobia. They grew hourly 1110/.2 vio-
lent ; he raved, and had all the evidences of the most vio•
lent distemper. As he was lying, with the door open, to
l in the last air that he was to breathe, he heard his dog
ba .k. The animal ran up to the bed side, licked his hand,
and frolicked about the room. It was clear that he, at
least, was in perfect health. The peasant's mind was re-
lieved at the instant ; he got up with renewed strength,
dressed himself, plunged his head in a basin of water,
and thus refreshed walked into the room to his astonished
family. The statement is made in a memoir by Professor
Barbantini ; and it is not improbable that many attacks of
a disease so strongly dependent on the imagination might
be equally cured by ascertaining the state of the animal by
which the bite was given.— Weekly Review.

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1829.

The Anti-Catholics are, we perceive, making
every where the most desperate efforts to stir up the
spirit of the nation against the proposed measures of
concession. In London, the Ultra Papers are at
work with a fire and energy that want nothing
but a better cause to recommend them, and through-

out the country, in the villages and the towns
and the cities, incendiary placards are posted up,
appealing in appropriate language to the lowest
and vulgarest prejudices of the most ignorant portion
of the commonalty. In one town, city rather, that
we could mention, wood-cuts have been appended
to these placards, representing the POPE seated on
the Archiepiscopal throne of Canterbury, and the
chief Dignitaries of the Church of England doing
homage before him, with the sole exception of one,
who being more contumacious than the rest, is sur-
rounded by Inquisitors in the back-ground. We
might safely leave these arts to find their own level,
and trust to the intelligence and good feeling of the
people for their ready acquiescence in a measure, the
due consideration of which the KING, as head of
the Protestant Church, has solemnly recommended
from the Throne, and the
.adoption of which the
wisest and best men in both Houses of Parliament,
have una voce pronounced indispensable to the
security of the Constitution—we might safely, we
repeat, leave all these unworthy arts to themselves,
were it not that they serve to set forth, in its true
light, the nature of the ascendancy faction, and
enable the people rightly to appreciate, first, the
character of the men who can condescend, however
indirectly, to sanction such manoeuvres, secondly,
the merits of the cause which can only hope for suc-
cess by adopting them. In this respect, and in this
only, they are worthy of exposure ; comment, argu-
ment, there needs none; it is quite sufficient to state
the facts, in order to show their absurdity.

German Papers of the 9th inst. have been re-
ceived this morning. Their contents refer princi-
pally to the detention and release of the Austrian
vessels laden with corn, and some barbarous pro-
ceedings of the Greeks in the province of Pedia,
where a great number of Turks were brutally mas-
sacred :

AUGSBURGH, MARCH S.

The Greek Bee and the Courrier de Smyrne have
published several articles relative to the capture of the Aus-
trian ships laden with corn, by the Greek cruisers, and
the seizure of the Greek brig of war, the Cambrian, by
Admiral Dandolo, and his demand of the restoration of the
Austrian vessels and their cargoes, or their value. A very
long official letter from Count Capo d'lstria states, that
such alarming accounts were sent to the Government from
various parts of Greece of the dangers of an impending
famine, that it became the duty of the Government to take
every practicable step to avert so great a calamity. As it
was well known that the Porte had hired several ships to
bring corn from Asia Minor, Alexandria, and Salonichi, to
Constantinople, it was resolved to send some ships of war to
intercept them, in the full conviction that the corn belonged
to the Porte. It appears, that by a long article in the Courrier
de Smyrne, that the dispute was at length arranged, after
some animated conferences, by the intervention of the
Russian Admiral Count Heyden, who, at the request of
the President, went to Egina on purpose. As soon as the
matter was settled the Austrian Admiral addressed the fol-
lowing letter to M. Groping, Austrian Consul at Athens,
nor at Egina
Egina Roads, on board the Bellona, Jan. 12.
" After proceeri;ng to Egina, to require the restoration
of the cargoes of corn under the flag of his Imperial Ma-
jesty, as well as under the flags of Tuscany and Naples,
which had been captured by the Greek ships without pre-
vious notice, I had full opportunity to convince myself
that the object of the authorities by whose order these
cargoes had been seized, was not by any means to throw
any impediment in the way of the commerce of the Euro-
-1 pes.." powers. I have great pleasure in declaring, for the sake
of truth, 4nel for the interests of the merchants in general,
that the Greets anth.orities, by their ready attention to any
demands, have giren the most satisfactory prouf that the
seizure of the cargoes in question was ordered only in con-
sequence of most urgent necessity, a.nd the danger of fa-
mine. You will therefore give all possible publicity to
this declaration, in'order to make the merchants easy with
respect to stircumstances which, unless explained, must
excite their apprehArtsions.
Accept, &c. C. DANDOLO,
Commander of the Squadron of his imperial Majesty.
SMYRNA, JrAi:. 2q.

\ire Igarn that a firman is in circulation in Asia Minor,
which orders all the Pachas, Governors, and Agas, to take
care that all the waste lands r.ii:ll be sown to supply the
farmers with seed, corn, and oxen, at die ei:peoce of the
Government, 4pd to facilitate their labour by all the mean
in the power of the lc.-.11 authorities. Such a measure de-
serves the greatest praise; it ir.ows the line of conduct
which the Ottoman Government is 4e,gicrilAg to follom,
and how sensible it is of the necessity of giving special pro.
section to agriculture.
Letters from Ca.nett, of the 7th JeA,, reeeiYett here ye,.