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London, England, 1829-12-18 00:00:00

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We call the attention of our Readers to an article from
the Allgemeine Zeitsng, on the present situation of
Turkey. It is an article evidently 'coming from
very intelligent and well-informed sources, and
merits the consideration of our British Statesmen. We
shall have occasion soon to revert to this subject ; for
looking at the question of Greek independence as settled,
it becomes our interest to consider, if there be not those
elementary qualities in Turkey which, if properly deve-
loped and assisted, might still, in a short time, create a
civilised community, and constitute a sufficiently powerful
Empire, to aid in restoring' the lost balance of Power in
Europe.

The last letters from Mexico, written by persons here.-
tofore very hostile to GI; ERRERO'S Government, after
describing the general exultation at the victory of Tam-
pico, admit, in terms of great praise, that the con-
duct of General GUERRERO during the time he
exercised the Supreme Government, was entitled to the
highest commendation—that SANTA ANNA had also
shown the greatest moderation and conciliatory spirit to-
wards the Ecossais party —we trust henceforth the
term Ecossais and YorAino, will no longer divide the
friends of their country—and that the moat bene-
ficial reforms were under the consideration of the
Government, and would be carried into prompt
execution ; so that the State might derive more
solid advantage than that of military glory from the na-
tional exertion displayed on the late occasion. This is
the way indeed to use victory—and is a result, our rea-
ders may recollect, we had, during the struggle, anti-
cipated.

In the cursory remarks we yesterday made on the
struggle pending in France, we took occasion to notice the
temperate manner in which all the points at issue, between
the Court and the people, are treated by the liberal press.
Although we were prepared for the opinion of an evening
paper which pretends that " in the present attitude of
parties among our neighbours, indications, not of the
approach of those wholesome constitutional struggles for
which we have an hereditary reverence, but of fierce,
exasperated, and dangerous collision"—still we main-
tain the correctness of our own conclusion ; and,
considering the various and irritating causes of com-
plaint on the part of the nation, it is really matter of
surprise that so much moderation should prevail. We
have only to refer to the very interesting article from the
Constitutionnel, inserted in our paper yesterday, (and it
is as strong as the general commentaries of the liberal
papers) as a model of temperate discussion. Nothing,
indeed, can afford a stronger proof that the writers on that
side are convinced of the justice of their cause ; nor would
any other course either become them, or be so likely to at-
tain the great objects at stake. But how widely differ-
rent is the system purused by the Court Party ! There
we see nothing but vituperation and scurrillity—the sure
and never-failing auxiliaries of injustice and folly. Here
it may not be irrevelant to point at the class of persons
who enter the lists as political writers in the French
capital and provinces. This point is neither suffi-
ciently known or appreciated on our side of the
channel ;—while it forms a most singular contrast to
the way in which the press of every other country
of Europe is conducted. Supposing the whole number
of papers published in France to be thirty, we venture
to assert that three-fourths of them advocate liberal prin-
ciples, without any support except what they derive from
the number of their readers ;—whereas the whole of
the ultra royalist prints are kept up, either by large
pecuniary aid from the Court, or from the priesthood
and jesuits. But the most important fact remains to
be stated. While the writers in the Gazette de France,
Drapeau Blanc, and the journals of their colour, are con-
ducted by some priests and a few of the emigrant nobles,
—who are the contributors to the Constitutionnel, Cour-
,
rier Francais, Dthats, Journal du Commerce, Le
Temps, (we wish this excellent Paper had chosen
any other title) and the other Journals on the same
side ? We are enabled, from personal knowledge, to
assert, that they consist of men most distinguished
throughout France, for rank, talent, and celebrity. To
prove our assertion, we have only to repeat the names of
Da PRA DT, ETIENNZ, CONSTANT, KBRATRE, GUI-
SOT, JAY, CH ATEA ÜBRIANT, LA FAYETTE, and a host
of others holding the 'highest rank in the community ;
sot to mention the crowd of young writers who form
s distinct class in France, infinitely superior to the
arpirants for literary fame in the rest of Europe, sok sus
eight easily prove by citing the works they We,
produced, in almost every branch of literature sal
science. When such are the daily contributors to the
present liberal Journals, is it to be wondered at, that
their columns display such superiority of talent, or that

they exercise so powerful an influence on the nation ?
Certainly not ;—and it is only necessary to reflect on
the fact of there being such a mass of splendid intellect
employed in the Press, to feel satisfied as to the ine-
vitable result of the pending struggle. Convinced as we
are, that the diasentions which have arisen between the
Court and the Nation, will lead, at no distant day, to
consequences of the highest importance—not merely in
France, but every surrounding country—we lament
the ignorance which prevails among ourselves with
regard to the real state of the question, or of these
master-spirits who are wielding the mighty engine of the
Press among our neighbours. What else but ignorance
could justify the levity and indifference with which many
of our contemporaries regard passing events? It was
yesterday said that the discussions in France could only
be interesting from their results ;—to-day the most influ-
ential Journal of this capital cannot find a word for com-
ment in the Paris Papers of Tuesday ! And yet, we do
not hesitate to say that they are among the moat import-
ant and interesting which have reached our shores
for some weeks ; since they are filled with articles
in which all the leading grievances are set forth
in the most interesting lights ; accompanied with
reflections which deserve the serious attention of all
those who feel any interest in the future destinies of
Europe. For our own parts, we are watching the re-
sult of the struggle with intense anxiety, convinced,
that—whenever it arrives—the consequences will be
deeply felt by the whole European Family.

The Dutch Mail this day has brought us from the
Hague, a partial aceount of the proceedings of the Se-
cond Chamber of the States-General. There is one
sentiment in this report, which is of considerable value,
if acted upon :—" No redress of grievances, no money"
—say tl* people :
THE HAGUE, Dtc. 13.

In consequence of the sudden setting in of the frost, several
ships which were in lading at Amsterdam, cannot leave that port
by the usual way. It has therefore been proposed to let them
pass through the North Holland Channel.
GItONINGEN, Dec. 10.

We hear that several of the principal i habitants of this pro-
since, as well in the city as in various parts of the country, have
bolted to send addresses to his Majesty, petitioning him not to
give his consent to the demands of a general unlimited freedom of
public instruction ; and have also resolved that copies of the address
shall be sent to the States-General.

IL, DEC. 14.

HAMBURG, Der- 11.

In earn, generally spanking, there has, during the present week,
been very little doing. Foe wheat there were no purchasers, cc.
cept our own coosumers, and they only bought such as they were
immediately In want of. During the last Ire days of November
cargoes of corn passed through the sound ; 1 was bound fo;
Logsdon, s fee Dutch Ports, and the remainder for Danish and
Norwegian Ports.

RI: Dollars.
120 to 130
plan .. 108 115
Anbak White
Ditto Red ll6 122
Daohh
Petenborgis and Riga .. 100 115
Rye—Dantsle
Rye—Upland . 64 69
llariey—Magdeburg
Auk&lt
Oats—lllecklenburgh
Malt—Ponteranium 52 54
Peas—Upland Yellow. 7O 85
Rapeseed—Holstein l5O 160

Funds have rhea considerably. and large transactions have been
foxed, in almost every specks of security.
" -

At a Cabinet Council held in London, a certain great capitalist
is said to have been requested to give his opinion as to the capability
of the Porte to discharge the debt due to Russia, lately recognised.
The Angelo Danish Roods, it is believed in London, will next
year be placed on the Cours Aithesstigue, published in Paris.
Th. wind, which for some time past was easterly has, during
the course of the day, been westerly; hopes of a thaw are in
consequence entertained.

End of December•

73# , ..
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Anglo-Danish Loan, 5 per Ot.
-- Russian ..
Hamburgh Ditto ..
Polish Bonds
Austrian Bank Shares
Austrian Metalliqucs ..
New Austrian Four per Cents.
ODESSA, N0v.21.

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134$

105
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During the last three days no casualty has taken place, under
that part of the city not under sanitary inspection. In two houses
of the Moldavanka, which were placed under inspection on the
9th inst. and in which Guiton Morvous' system of fumigation
was adopted, in consequence of their having held communication
with suspected persons, nine individuals (Jews) were nevertheless
taken M on the 19th. Three of them died yesterday, and the
remainder have been taken to the temporary quarantine establish-
ment. _ _

The English frigate Blonde, which arrived here on the 17th from
Constantinople, sailed again the same day. A short time previously
to her departure from Constantinople, the English Ambassador had
given a brilliant entertainment on board the frigate. The principal
Turkish functionaries were present, among whom were the Seras-
kier Pacha, Bahl Pacha, and the Capitan Paella. Supper was served
at ten in the evening ; and after the distinguished guests bad each
danced a Polonaise, they offered their arms to their fair partners,
led them to the table, sat down by them, and eat and drank with
the same freedom as the rest of the company. The whole pre-
sented a spectacle such as had never been seen before. The com-
pany did not break up tiff four in the morning.—Journal d' Odessa.
—llawthirgis Reporter, Dec. 11.

ssmumms os LONDON.
1341.uusaa, Dm. 11.-15 14. Two Months, 12 12k.
Lungs, Dc. 7.—Three Months, 6 18i.
Baum, Dc. B.—Two months, 841 620.

If the contemplated reduction of the interest of any of
the public funds were the result of some recent unforeseen
and unavoidable National calamity,—or appeared to us
the last and the unwilling resort of a prudent and actually
economising Ministry, to relieve the Country from the
pressure of that enormous—that overwhelming load of
taxation, which has for so many years cramped her ener-
gies and bowed down her spirit ;—we should then, indeed,
not only submit with patience to an expedient dictated by
such a necessity, and recommended by such a principle,
but we should also recognise in that act, the salutary ex-
cercise of a wise and justifiable policy. But when, at the
end of fourteen years of peace, we find the exigencies of
the State as imminent as ever ;—when the expenditure
of the public treasure, instead of being regulated by any
restraining influence of justice, of prudence, or of
economy, is distinguished only by an unchecked prodi-
gality ; —when our revenues are exhausted, not in the
reduction of an overwhelming debt, but in the gratifica-
tion of whims and fancies, and caprices ;—when thou-
sands upon thousands are lavished, not in providing for
the wants and the necessities of an impoverished and half-
starving population, but in the erection of huge piles of
buildings commenced without any definite plan, and hur-
ried to their completion without any regard to their
exorbitant expense ; when the pension list, instead
of being curtailed, seems only to extend its li-
mits ; and the long boasted system of retrench-
ment, confines its operations to the extinction
of some insignificant clerkships : when these facts
force themselves upon us in every considera-
tion of the question—then do we feel it impossible to re-
gard the projected reduction of the four per cents. in any
other light than as an unjustifiable breach of contract
with the national creditor. We admit that "the Govern-
ment has no right to gratify its fine feelings at the ex-
pense of the tax-payers ;"—but at whose expense, we
should like to know, have the extravagances, to which
we have just alluded, been indulged in ?—At whose ex-
pense is the payment of the annuity so inconsiderately
granted, and so unmeritoriously continued, to PRINCE
LEOPOLD, made good to this very hour? At whose ex-
pense does that high-minded personage accumulate yearly
hoards upon boards, that he may transport his wealth
from the country which made him what •he is, to ag-
grandize the miserable territory from which he derived
nothing but that empty title which was his passport to
honours which be could never have anticipated, and to
wealth which must have exceeded his most expanded
motions of earthly treasure ? At whose expense has His
Serene Highness enjoyed, for upwards of twelve years, an
income more than double the income of any of the
junior branches of the Royal Family of England?—And
yet, when the people who have thrown their all into the
public stock, are to have their very means of existence
diminished, in order that " National faith may be kept,"
with a selfish and ungrateful foreigner, and that HIV
SERENE HIGHNESS the PRINCE LEOPOLD of SANE
COROURO may receive every penny of his splendid re-
nal, of SIXTT-THREE THOUSAND POUNDS PER AN-
HUM, we are told, by that very press which the people
dimnselves fostered into strength, that " the Government
ins no right to gratify its fine feeling% at the expellee of
Tex-payers."