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Hulanos

Our letters from Lisbon are all unanimous in affirming
the ratification of the treaty between FERDI:tAND and
Don MIGUEL: there does not exist a doubt about it.
Whether Ministers were in the secret of this transaction,
becomes now an object of serious apprehension and in-
quiry : for several of the stipulations are said to inter-
fere with existing treaties between Portugal and
Great Britain. Spanish troops may seize upon Por-
tugal, the moment any insurrection occurs in Lis-
bon—the Government there is without a penny—
and DE VILLA Fi.oa has given a tremendous blow to
its authority. Many adherents even of the actual sys-
tem are seeking to excuse themselves in public opinion,
and showing symptoms of vacillation and change.

There has been all along—since the memorable pas-
sage of the Balkan—a continuous and systematic under-
valuing, on the part of the Times, of the importance of
the Russian victories : and although it was evident,
from the first establishment of DIEBITSCII in the plains

of Rumelia—with a five days' communication between
Bourgas and Odessa open—that the subjugation of the
Turkish empire was as virtually consummated, as if the
Muscovite eagle were already planted on the towers of
Constantinople ; still it was held forth by the Times
either that the tide of these successes would be turned,
or that their consequences would be purely temporary,
and confined to Turkey. Even to-day he talks with
as much complacency and self-satisfaction about the
negocistions which Mr. GORDON has been directed to
patch up any how—in order to afford a hole for his
noble brother to creep out of—as if in reality the sus-
pension of hostilities conceded by the conqueror involved
any pledge of retirement from the conquered territory,
or peace upon equal terms with MAIIMOUD, or peace
with him at all—except as a Russian Governor and

satrap.
That a ten days' armistice may have been agreed to
by the PASSER OF THE BALKAN we do not think
improbable : as, during the lapse of those ten days,
he would be enabled, by means of the Black Sea com-
munications, to strengthen his already numerous army

with large reinforcements, and render impossibi.c-
-

even if -the Turks were as united by patriotism as

they are scattered by disaffection and terror—a phy-
sical resistance of so much as half an hour. There-

fore, we think that General DIEBITSCII may .have

consented to such an armistice. But to suppose that
he would qualify in any respect his commanding
attitude, as the Conqueror of Turkey—fraught, as he
knows that attitude to be, with such amazing politi-
cal consequences—or to suppose that he could relax

from it, if he felt the unnatural inclination, without
an express understanding and directions usque quo
from the EMPEROR; were to impute a want of
combination and foresight to that illustrious Comman-
der, which the talent and resources displayed by him
throughout this remarkable invasion would not for a
moment justify. Count DIEBITSCH is too well
aware of the importance of his position, and its
inestimable value to Russia, not to press forward
with all his energies to the mark of its consum-
mation. Would the Noble Duke, for instance—and
no one can judge better of military ardour, and
military responsibility than he—forego such a prize
as now solicits the onward march of General DIEBITSCH,
and retire from the triumph that awaited him, with am-
biguous advantages and uncompleted glory ? The sword
of conquest does not thus return into the scabbard.
That the cessation of hostilities, which is now
merely armistitial, should assume presently a more
guaranteed permanency, and conduce to the blood-
less—but not the less for that, blood-entailing—disputa-
tions of diplomacy, we are prepared to find. Indeed,
whether Constantinople be occupied or not. we do not
see how these discussions can be avoided ; since it is
as certain as that we now hold a pen between our fingers,
that the Russians will rtot relinquish the possession they
have obtained, for any expostulations that Messrs.
Go a now and Company may prefer. The Times cannot
be unaware of this ; and yete--in his dishonest resolu-
tion to palliate the miscalculating policy of Ministers to
the last—he talks hardily of a peace to be soon con-
cluded, and the termination of the Russian dif-
ferences with Turkey. But how these differences
are to be terminated, is a question from which our con-
temporary shrinks. He knows that Russia—coveting for
more than a century the empire which she has just in-
vaded—has at last fairly won it by right of conquest: and
he knows too, if his knowledge of the human heart be
not more limited than we can ascribe to him, that she will
not retire except by compulsion from such a prize. He
knows, moreover, that no protestations of force to be em-
ployed by the European powers—but only the actual
employment of it—can obtain even a moderation of this
portentous aggrandisement. Rivers of blood may be
shed—and we predict, will be—and yet the disastrous
,consequeiices of British Ministerial incapacity be unre-
paired. The Noble Duke is out of his place : the
" tented field," and not the Council-chamber, is the
theatre for his abilities. At the foot of the Balkan, he

might contest even the palm with DIEBITSCII-but in
the Cabinet he has been his country's unpardonable
enemy.

For yet another day the Continental papers are un-
interesting. We have just received the Austrian Ob-
server of the 18th of September, and the Allgemcine
Zeitung of the 23d. In the former there is a communi-
cation from Constantinople--of an old date—the 29th
August, in which we find a repetition of that farcical
and hacknied expression—" the PORTE has been eager
to prove its pacific sentiments !" Who doubts it? and
what would it avail him to prove any thing else? It
would appear, by the present communication, that
the regular troops assembled in camp and city, amount
to no more than thirty thousand men. We find
further, that while the SUBLIME PORTE " is eager
to prove his pacific sentiments" towards Russia, he
shows " his vigilance and firmness" by having every man
in his capital hanged " for their imprudence in speaking
their sentiments!" By an extract from the Courrier
de
Smyrne, republished in the Allgemeine Zeitung, it ap-
pears that temporary tranquillity prevails in the vicinity
of Grecian Canes. The following are extracts :

CONSTAN.TINOPLE, Ana 29.
Since the answer of the Russian Commander-in Chief, dated 24th
August, from Adrianople, has given us the certainty that he is
ready immediately to proceed, in concert with the Turkish Com-
missioner., to the signing of preliminaries of peace, the most pro-
found tranquillity prevails here; and the fears which had before
been excited to a very high degree, on the rapid advance of the
Russians, have given way to better hopes, and a more composed
feeling.
The vigilance and firmness which the Government bas displayed
in the most dangerous movements, and the energy with which it
bas always been able to keep the evil-minded in cheek,
gave ground to believe that it would not lose sight of the
adherents of the Janissaries, and the enemies of the new
order of things, whe bad latterly had the imprudence to
speak their sentiments more openly. In fact, some of them
have already been executed, and several coffee-houses, in
which they held their meetings, have been pulled down. In the
Jaffa, which was published on the execution of Hamed Aga, Com-
mander of the forts on the Bosphorus, be was accused of high
treason.
Numerous bodies of militia, returning from the field, arrive in
the vicinity of the capital, and are sent over to Asia, and to their
own homes. On the other band, the regular troops are lodged in
barracks, furnished with new arms, and employed at the numerous
posts in the city. The number of the regular troops assembled,
partly in camp at Ramis-Tchiflick, partly in the city, is stated
at 30,000 nen. With them the most distinguished leaders have
arrived here, vix. Ails& Pacha, Halil Pacba, Osman Pachs, and
Abdurrnsan Pacha.
On the other hand, the Porte has been eager to prove its pacific
sentiments, by setting at liberty several Russian merchants, who
have been long in confinement, as well as all the prisoners of war.
Part of the latter, with some officers, and the crew of the Raphael
frigate, have been already put on board several merchantmen,
ready to sail for the Black Sea, and will soon be followed by a
larger number. A few days ago two English ships, with Turkish
prisoners of war, arrived here from Odessa.--Justrian Observer,
SePt 18*

CANEA, .Tutx is.
From the Courrier de Smyrne.

For nearly three months the Greeks have ceased to come down
from their mountains, and the tranquillity of the plain has not
been since disturbed. According to the last accounts from the
cities of Candle and Rettimo, the same tranquillity prevailed there.
Both parties remained in their positions, and waited for the result
of events. _ _ .

The foreigners, who alone lead and direct the insurgents, gra-
dually withdraw, now that the oil harvest is drawing to a close.
Captain Hein is gone to Carabousa. The hostile posts have con-
cluded a kind of armistice ; armed Turks ate daily seen to go with
confidence to the Greeks, and armed Greeks to the Turks. M.
Capo Grosso the British Consul, has set up the English flag before his
house, which was saluted by the guns of the fort. The English
Commodore Staines returned the salute of the fort, gun for gun,
to show biustapha Paths how much he valued this mark of res•
pect. Last, week we saw on our coast the Austrian schooner
Sophia, the English brig of war Washington, (which same from
Alexandria, and touched at Suds and Canes), the English frigate
Isis, the French corvette Egle, (which brought dispatches fur Mus-
tapha Fiche and Suleiman Paths), and the Netherlands brig of
war Echo."—Atemense Zealots. Sept. 23.

The Hamburgh steamer arrived this day at one o'clock,
bringing the Hamburgh Reporter of the 25th inktant,
the contents of which partly relieved our anxious citizens.
The lateness of the hour at which we received the Mails
precludes the possibility of our making any lengthened
comment on the contents. They are not official.