The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-25 00:00:00

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1829.

The Journal of St. PetersburgTc at length
furnishes us with the detailed account of the
operations of General PASKEWITSCH in Asia—

operations not less important in their future re-
sults than those of DIEBITSCH in Europe.
"In the short space of fourteen days," says
General PASKEWITSCH in his official despatch
to the EMPEROR, " in fourteen days after leav•
ing the provinces conquered last year, your Ma-
jesty's brave troops have passed two lofty chains
of mountains still covered with snow—have de-

stroyed the Turkish army—taken two camps,

with the important fortress of Hassan Kale—a'

the enemy's parks of artillery, and his field
pieces ; and, having thus made it impossible

For him to think of defence, have oblige,

an to deliver up the centre of his power in the

East, a fortress and a citadel which might have

sustained a siege; lastly, they have taken pr;
soners the SERASKIER himself, Commander-in

Chief of the Army and Governor of all
Asiatic Turkey, and four of hisprincipal Paellas."
That is, the army have captured Erzeroum, and
destroyed or dispersed the powerful bands ar-
rayed by the PORTE for the defence of its
Asiatic frontiers. They have done more—by
paralyzing the force in Asia, they have
put it out of the power of the Turks
to draw any further resources from that quarter
that can at all relieve the distresses of the SUL-
' TAN in his most critical moment. But then
we are told that the SULTAN still holds out,
with a fatality or stubbornness blind to all
consequences. He even proposes leaving Con-
stantinople to the mercy of the victo-
rious Russians, and seeking an ignoble
refuge for himself in some obscure town in Asia.

this really be so, we begin to think that

the character of the SULTAN has been most
liberally overrated, and that he is but after
all a more successful barbarian than his brother
predecessors in the work of solitary strangula-
tion and carnage en 7nasse. He has obtained a

character for promptitude and firmness by his
cold-btOoded butchery of the Janissaries, whom
he first beguiled into confidential se-
curity, mad afterwards deliberately murdered by
wholesale, that he might the more ' securely
mould the multitude, not in the march of im-
provement, but to the implicit obedience of
his despotic will. On every side his
boasted preparations now fail him, and yet

he affects to hold out with a confidence in the
good offices of the Prophet, or the interposition
of the Great Powers,—which his admirers may
call magnanimity, but which more shrewd ob-
servers will term downright arrogance or blind
presumption.
_ _

From
r tne present appearances of the opera-
tions hi Europe, we shall not be surprised to
hear that the Russians are at this moment
before the walls of Constantinople—which
from the state of the fortifications on the
land side cannot hold out a week. In

proof of this opinion we have the evidence of
a very sensible and popular traveller (Mr.
MADDEN), who in his recent journal of his
residence in Turkey, has the following observa-
tions upon the state of the fortifications of Con-
stantinople on the land side :
" The walls on the land side, are in a wretched
state; the fosse is, in many places, quite filled up
with rubbish ; behind it three walls are placed
at short distances, the last of which is flanked
with towers. The wall 3 are in such a ruin-
balls would bring
ous state, that a very few

them to the ground. On the Adrianople side they
have tumbled altogether, and have been replaced
by a single wall of no strength. On this side,
Constantinople certainly could not stand a siege
of ten days. The water is supplied from with-
out the walls, and the construction of the city
is such, that a dozen bombs and rockets could
hardly fall within its wooden precincts without
producing a general conflagration."

No French Mail has been received this morn-
ing, the boisterous state of the weather having
prevented the departure of the packet-boat from
Calais at the usual time.

Halifax Papers to a late date state, that the
season had been very flattering to the agricultu-
rist, particularly in the vicinity of Frederick's-
town, and promised favourably to the surrounding
country generally.

Accounts from Naples to the 2d inst. state,
lat should peace take place in the East, wheat

was expected to fall very considerably in the
Neapolitan Market, as the crops had been super-
abundant all over that country.

The letters from Havannah mention, that great
trouble had been caused among the dry good
dealers of that city, several of the principal ones
having stopped payment, and many more failures
were expected. More than 212 millions of dollars
worth of paper had by this been brought into
disrepute, which promised to cause great impedi-
ments to commerce.

Papers from Vera Cruz to the middle of
June state, that the Mexican Government had
not made the best preparation in that place for
defence against the Spanish expedition. SANTA
ANA was said to have accepted the office of
Secretary of War, and was about to lea the
province of Veraburgh, for Mexico.

We regret to learn that our grand national
Theatre, Covent-garden, on whose classic boards
we have so often witnessed the splendid triumphs
of a SIDDONS, a KEMBLE, and in later days,
of an O'NEILL, a YOUNG, and a CHARLES
KEMBLE, is at length in a state of absolute
ruin. The Court of Chancery and the Star
system have been the death of it. The former
has marred the tempers, the latter the pockets of
its proprietors. Either of these two afflictions
is quite sufficient to ruin a theatrical establish-
ment, no matter how extensive or ably con-
ducted, but when the two are combined the
effect is paralysing—annihilating. A theatre
might as soon expect to flourish after
such calamities have honoured it with their

acquaintance, as a poor Irish peasant to get up
and walk home to his mud cabin, after a police-
man has shot him dead in the streets of Borris-
o'-Kane. Covent-garden--a crowd of early and
delightful associations come thronging on our
minds while we state the unwelcome fact—is at
length to be sold, not wholesale, to some one
public-spirited man of enterprise, but piece-meal
and in retail, so that the last hope of its redemptio❑
is shut out. We could reconcile ourselves to the
annihilation of the Ultra Tories, we could even
console ourselves for the loss of Mr. SADLER
and his speeches, manufactured, and to be ma-
nufactured ; but we cannot get over the wound
inflicted on our feelings and our sense of self-
gratification by the impending ruin of this mag-
nificent establishment.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE 0' CLocr,

Canton Papers to the 17th March have been re-
ceived at the North and South American Coffee-
house, by which it appears that the small pox was
raging in Canton, and had occasioned an unprece-
dented mortality amongst the natives, several thou-
sands had fallen victims; the crews of foreign ships
had also suffered to a considerable extent.
(From the Canton Price Current.)
Since our last publication very little interest has
attended the commerce. All the Indiamen have
taken their departure, and the American shipping is
daily disappearing. Some few sales have been made
in Cotton at a small advance. Patna and Benares
Opium have been on the decline.
New York Papers have also been received at the
above Coffee-house to the 2d of August. It ap-
pears that a thousand and ninety-eight emigrants
arrived at Quebec during the second week in July;
with the exception of 30 all were Irish.
Consols opened this morning at the same price
they left off yesterday, 88i for the Account, with
little speculation going forward at present. The
next Russian bulletin is anxiously looked for, which
in all probability will decide the fate of the Turkish
empire. Indeed it was reported on Saturday even-
ing at Paris, by accounts received from Vienna, that
terms of peace were offered to the Russians. The
Hamburg steamer still remains due.
The Foreign Market is without a feature to the
present time, and the prices are nominal.
Three per Cent. Consols, SSi ; Ditto, for Aug.,
88i 4 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 893. i; Three and a
half per Cent. 984 i; Four per Cent., 1024 ; Ditto
1826, 105- 4 ; India Stock, 2221 3 ; Bank Stock,
216 17 ; India Bonds, 58 60 ; Exchequer Bills, 70 71.
FOREIGN.-Brazilian, 581 4 ; Buenos Ayres, 20 21 ;
Chilian, 16 17 ; Colombian, 16 ; Danish, 691
French, Five per Cent., 109 ; Ditto, Three per Cent.
79} 801 ; Mexican, 18 ; Peruvian, 10 11 ; Portuguese,
44:1 5 ; Russian, 1014 4; Spanish, Si 4.

TWO O'CLOCK.

The French mail and Hamburg steamer have not
us yet arrived, which causes to the present hour a
great dearth of information ; and in the absence of
which, reports are in circulation that Prussia has
signed an offensive and defensive alliance with Rus-
sia; also that Constantinople is in possession of the
Russians; but these are mere reports, and no doubt
emanate from the Stock Exchange.
_ _ _

Report also states that the interest of Exchequer
Bills is going to be reduced. Owing to the above
being circulated, Consols, which were in the early
part of the morning at 884 for the Account, have
been done at 88a sellers ; and at present may be
quoted 88f-, buyers, and for October Account 88.1 i•
A sale of 100,0001. Consols has been effected for
the British Linen Company.
The Foreign Market remains without the least ir.
terest : nothing doing.
Consols for Account, 88-gi

THREE O'CLO CA:

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, AUG. 24.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the
St. Andrew, Gilmore, from Trinidad; Scourfiehl,
Keutly, from Jamaica; Argo, from Sierra Leone ;
and Corsair, Robinson, from Bahia. Arrived iron:
London, the New York packet, Crosbie, for Jamaica.
PoßTsmourit, AUG. 24.—Wind W.N.W.—Ar-
rived from Yarmouth, the Emily, Reed, for
Gibraltar.
DUBLIN, AUG. 20.—Arrived the Baltic Merchant,
Crow, and Enterprize, Duncan, from Quebec; Mars,

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hay, from Oporto; and Ark, King, from Cadiz.
MARGATE, AUG. 24.—Off Port, the Edward
i,ambe, Freeman, from Bombay, Ceylon, Cape of
Good Hope, and St. Helena.
NORTH SHIELDS, AUG. 23.—The Spring, Wil-
kinson, from Newport to Newcastle, took the Bar
soon after low water, but was floated, and towed
into the harbour to the ground, when she sunk.

LoWESTOFFE, AUG. 24.—Off Port, the Albion,
Sutherland, from St. Petersburgh. It has blown a
heavy gale from the west all night.

NORTH & SOUTH AMERICAN COFFEE-HOUSE.

Report of the Boston packet ship Dover, Barclay,
sailed from Boston the Ist of august :—Boston,
Mackay, from Liverpool the 21st of June, at Boston
the Ist of August ; the Thomas, Dickinson, from
Liverpool the 19th of June, at New York the 30th
of July. The New York, which sailed .in company
with the Thomas Dickinson, had not arrived at
New York by the last accounts.
The Dover spoke the following vessels the 4th of
Aug.:—The barque Armadillo, Robinson, from
Antwerp to New York, in lat. 41. 15. N. long. 61.
35. W. in 60 days, from Flushing, supplied her with
provisions : same day, in lat. 41. 15. long. 64. 10,
ship Emily, Cook, from Liverpool, at New York in
want of provisions ; 10th of Aug., in lat. 43. 10.
long. 53, the brig Stranger, White, from London for
St. Andrews ; 14th, in lat. 46. long. 39, the new
ship Erie, Frank, from New York for Havre, was in
company two days; same night, the ship Arethusa,
of Philadelphia, bound west ward ; 16th, in lat. 47.
30. long. 32. 30, the ship Java, from Liverpool to
Boston, 17 days out; 18th, in lat. 48. 30. long. 24.
' 30, passed the British barque Elizabeth, of New-
castle, homeward bound.

QUEBEC, JULY 20.—Arrived the barque Har-
riette, Foster, 30th May, from London ; barque Bo-
livar, Fenwick, Bth June, from Liverpool; barque
Shallett, Mason, 6:11 June, from Liverpool ; brig
Canada, Coxen, May 30, from London ; brig
Cheviot, Henney, June I, from ditto; barque Au-
rora, Dawkins, June 1, from Portsmouth; and the
ship Thomas Wallace, Chesney, May 29, from
London.
NEW YORK, AUG, I.—Arrived on the 29th the
brig Hazard, Trott, from Leghorn and Gibraltar.
30th.—The schooner Delaware, Lane, from Key
West, left the British ship Britannia, for Havannah,
in three days. The ship Thomas Dickinson, front
Liverpool.
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 31.—Arrived the 29th the
British barque Esk, Gray, from Newcastle; brig
Panama, Thomas, from Amsterdam.
31st.—The ship Telegraph, Collinson, from Li-
verpool.
BALTIMORE, JULY 30.—Arrived the 20th the
ship Ulysses, Myers, from Liverpool.
RICHMOND, JULY 27.—Arrived the ship Madi-
i son, from London.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY).

HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
Si'. JAMES'S.

Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £9. 15
New Meadow Hay 2 15 3 5
Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 10

Fine Upland Meadow and Itye.grass Hay 3 15 4 10
Clover Hay 3 10 5 5
Oat Straw £2 oto £2 '2 I Wheat Straw... '2 4 2 S
Supply limited, trade somewhatbrisk, and prices as last quoted.