Star.
London, England, 1829-09-23 00:00:00

SILISTRIA. Aim. 25.

This place begins to recover from the miseries of a ruinous siege;
the population has been much reduced by disease, and the health of
the city is net so good as might be wished. The Russians, however.
do every thing possible to alleviate the distresses of the inhabitants ;
great sums are expended in repairing the fortifications,—on which
the inhabitants, both Christian and Mahometans, are employed,
and well paid. Our commercial intercourse with Bulgaria begins
to revive, and our Governor does his utmost to favour it.
RUSSIA. Aua. 45.

While the messengers of victory from our army beyond the Bal-
ks. rapidly follow each other. the exchange of couriers between
our Cabinet and foreign courts, especially Londothis equally active.
It is inferred from this that negotiations are going on. simultane-

°oily with the military operation., in order to obtain, in the shortest

time possible, the blessings of a glorious puce.
The French Minister, the Duke de Montemart, has returned
from ♦ttiborg, whence he has been for the benefit of sea.bathing ;
and, immediately on his return, had a long conference with Count
Neaselrode, and afterwards a private audience of the Emperor.
We now bear nothing of his recall, which was expected to follow
the change of the French Ministry. It is even said that he has
received new instructions, which tend to draw still closer the
friendship between Russia and France. It may be presumed,
therefore, that any differences between our Cabinet. and that of
England, are fully adjusted ; and that the great work of the pa.
cification of the East will be completed with the full concurrence
of all the European Powers.—Nuremberg Goactie.

A rumour is in town, on the authority of a person
professing to be in the confidence of the Prince DT Po-
-1.16 N AC, that this Minister—in reply to some observa-
tions of a great person, on the alarming successes of
Russia—stated, that in less than three weeks there would
be upwards of two hundred thousand Austrians at Bu-
charest !—Credat Judceus: there is one on the Ex-
change, who probably manufactured it.

An Evening Paper of last night, in a strain of la-
mentation, of which the impudence is quite on a par
with the querulousness, complains that some exclusive
Government intelligence—Goa save the mark!—which
it was enabled to announce by reason of its known
intimacy with Mr. BACKHOUSE, was pilfered from
its columns, to the great scandal of editorial con-
science and gentlemanly feeling—and converted into
a bold second edition of its own—by the Standard of
the 21st. Without discussing the principle of such ap-
propriations, we take leave to say that the remonstrance
of our contemporary is a piece of matchless and gratuit-
ous effrontery. The Standard did not " lie in wait for
the intelligence" of the complaining Journal, and—if he
did—he could have transprinted nothing from it, which
was not embodied equally in the columns of his other
contemporaries. This quackery on the part of the self-
styled " Government organ " cannot be too extensively
exposed, nor too decisively counteracted : otherwise the
ignorant portion of its readers, we mean innocent igno-
rants—and they constitute about nine, in every ten sub-
scribers—may be running away with a notion that it
really does command sources of official information, which
are hermetically sealed against other Evening News-
papers. Now this is not only notoriously the reverse