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London, England, 1829-05-23 00:00:00

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43ATURDAY'EVENING, MAY 1829.

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A difference of a, very amusing and charac-
teri,stie nature has just sprumg.up between the
House'd Lords and the Corporation of London.
eliatter, professing to want money for the
eofiliAttiOn of London-bridge and it's appen-
flagea, rent to•borrow it of Government, who in
turn being somewhat sceptical, we presume, on the
subject of the Corporation's poverty, made reply
that before they granted the required loan, they
must be favoured with an insight into the state
of the petitioners finances. This the latter have
warmly resented as an unwarrantable stretch of
and the former have as warmly re-
with a- civil but, sarcastic courtesy
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,4ceedingly high-toned and characteristic.
In 'this- state the question now remains.
8116 iiidice lis est, both parties at
?resent declining to concede an iota of their
'teePective prerogatives. If common sense be
Perrai!ted to deciele the dispute, it cannot, we
conceive, but be' decided in favour of the
• se of Lords. The law that regulates
similar transactions between man and man,
86Uld apply with equal force to public bodies.
Ile Corporation have come forward voluntarily
- petitioners to Parliament, they have made
lk ease of <Estrus, and have, founded on
`that, 'ease their claim to assistance ; and surely,
Putting the matter on a proper footing of busi-
tliss, have a right to prove their case before they
Clau t-IPect relief. In the House of Lords last
.I,,zlight Earl GREY put this question in its fitting
• 'jght• " Unquestionably," said his Lordship,
it wLI('
wo have been wrong to move for the
"Pr:llluction of accounts by the city of London,
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.eey had not been suitors to Parliament.
t/Ift when they came before the House, asking
for
'ttt Act of Parliament to enable them, for 21
Yeats, to collect a Tax on Coals—a Tax on
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io the first necessaries of life—(Hear)—
. lder that they might do that, which they
°lig.ht to effect out of their own funds, if they
ev..
• Sifficient—when they founded this appeal
()`' so allegation that their funds were insufficient,
ZelY it was right that they should satisfy the
°use that they were not able to proceed without
assistance before their Lordships allowed them
to
impose such a tax on a part of the subjects of
the realm:,

Allgemeine Zeitung hints that the
gpsn'tian Auxiliary Corps for the SULTAN, the
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Of which has for some time past been
tively going
forward at Cairo, will soon com-
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1414° thousand infantry and one thousand
1441rY• The same Paper states that the Austrian
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-1440) Count D INDOLO, has convoyed
ve ;Austrian vessels, laden with Egyptian
upti: from Smyrna to • Adramiti, where it is
t}1440, sent by land to Constantinople, and
"ce to the army at the Balkan.
rankfort Paper observes that fresh troops

are continually arriving from the south of Russia
in the principalities ; among them are 6,000 or
7,000 Don Cossacks, to complete the regiments
in the field. The following are extracts :

. ALSIA.NDRIAi APRIL i 1 Stiil feared that the
Russians' will blockade our harbour. The auxiliary corps
for the Sultan, the formation of which has been going on
for some months past at Cairo with great activity, will,
it is said, very soon commence its march-through Syria,
and consist of 12,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry, or, as
others affirm, of 20,000 men in all. Mahmond Bey, for;
merly the Pacha's Kiaja Bey, has the chief command.
After the festival of the Bairam, and the departure of this
corps, the Pacha and his son will come to Alexandria.
An English gun-brig will sail to-morrow fm St. Jean
d'Acre, to demand satisfaction of Abdal Pacha fir the
insult offered to another English ship. But considering
the violent character of this man an amicable arrange-
ment cannot well be expected. The Austrian Admiral,
Count Dandolo, has convoyed seven Austrian vessels,
laden with Egyptian corn, from Smyrna to Adramiti,
where it is unloaded, sent by land to Constantinople, and
thence to the army at the Balkan.
VIENNA, MAY 11.—Metalliques, 97k; Bank Shares,
1094.

FRONTIERS Or WALLACHIA, APRIL 24.—The head-
quarters which, according to previous determination, were
to go to Krajova, for which purpose 2,300 horses were to
be held in readiness in that mad, have been very unexpect-
edly transferred to Gailacz. Ihe most probable among the
various reports respecting this sudden alteration is, that
since the arrival of the Grand Vizier at Shumla the Turks
are making preparations to begin offensive operations in
Bulgaria, which makes it necessary to take vigorous mea-
sures is oppose them. It is also affiimed that the Presi-
dent, Count Zoltuschin, will go to Tuldscha with part of
the chancery of the Divan.
The attention of General Diebitsch seems to be espe-
cially directed to Silktria ; but as the arrival of the heavy
artillery from Jassy is delayed by the badness of the roads,
it is generally believed that he will first invest the fortress
with a very large corps (it is said 60,000 men). We hear
little from Gliiurgevo; the corps at Odai, under the
command of Major-General Petruschew, consists of four
regiments of Infantry, two of Chyseurs, four squadrons
of Hussars, one regiment of Hulans, and two regiments
of Cossacks. Fresh troops are continually arriving from
the south of Russia in the principalities : among them
are 6,000 or 7,000 Don Cossacks, to complete the regi-
ments in the field. At Bucharest a great cellar is being
made, which is intended as a magazine of brandy for the
army. On the 17th inst. the English Consul at Bucha-
rest took upon himself the care of forwarding the packet
of letters to the Austrian states, the irregular sending of
which has hitherto given rise to numerous complaints.—
The first number of a new Journal, called the Wai-
lachian Courier, has lately been published here, but it
contains only extracts from other journals. Proposals
have again been issued for a new levy of volunteers, to
form a corps of cavalry ; each soldier, horsiver, is to pro-
vide his arms and his horse, for which he is to receive a
certain compensation. It is reported that some cases of
plague have lately been observed at Bucharest ; and orders
have been given, that persons who buried any of their
effects last year, during the plague, shall not be allowed
to dig them up again without the knowledge of the police,
as such effects often contain infectious matter, by which
the contagion m iy be revived.
FRANKFORT, MAY 15..—Exchange on London, 149-a.
FROM THE LOWER RHINE, MAY 6.—The Belgiccloth-
manufacturers had at the Frankfort fair, and now have at
Leipsic, a hard stuggle in competition with the English.
They pretend indeed that the favour which the English
cloths now enjoy in Germany, is more a caprice of faction,
and will not be lasting, because their cloths are far supe-
riot to the English iu real goodness. Nevertheless, it is ,a
fact, that the great cloth manufactory at Verviers, (the
house of Biolay) has purchased the secret of the English
manufacture for a large sum (100,000 francs it is said)
which it would hardly have done, had it not found it worth
while to imitate the process of the English, in order to
produce an article which may be able to bear the com-
parison.

The contents of the French Papers are not
particularly striking. A report prevailed at
Odessa that Erzeroum had been taken by the
Russians, but there is strong reason to doubt
the circumstance. There is no news from the
theatre of war.

Demerara Papers, of the Bth of April, have
been received at the North and South American
Coffee-house, being twelve days later than the
last accounts, but their contents are unusually
dull.