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VIENNA, JULY 5.

independence of the country, both should be sacrificed
without the slightest hesitation. But we will ask—has
any such collision occurred ? Has the slightest disre-
gard been shown by Ministers to the national honour,
or the character of Great Britain among European
Powers? We say decidedly—No. We hardly under-
stand what Lord HOLLAND means by saying," we have
lost Portugal ;"—Portugal was no Colony of ours, but our late
interference in her favour against foreign aggression was in pur-
suance of Treaties, and not to preserve any interest of our own.--
The speeches of Lord Anapaest and the Duke of Wuxi/toms,
were distinct and straight-forward avowals of the policy of Great
Britain. The object of the Greek Treaty, as his Grace observed,
was and is peace—that was the object in July last—it was the object
when his Grace and his colleagues came into office in January—and
to restore peace was their endeavour at the present moment. The se-
palate war between Russia and Turkey has interfered considerably
with those endeavours, and thus prevented an arrangement be-
tween the Greeks and Turks on a pacific basis. With regard
to Portugal, the principle laid down by his Grace, that we had no
right to interfere in the internal concerns of other countries,
la one distinctly maintained by the late Mr. Caesium, and one
which indeed does not admit of discussion. It seems Govern-
ment are now waiting to see what line of conduct will be adopted
by Don Pena% and his measures will probably guide those of
Great Britain. England has already refused to guarantee a Con.
stitution to Portugal; and much as she may regret the failure of
the attempt to establish civil and religious liberty in the domi-
nions -of her Ally, she cannot justifiably lend her strength to
rebuild the edifice which bas been laid prostrate by those for
whose nee it bad been erected.

The reduction of the Sinking Fund by the Act now
passing through the House, is more considerable than
people have supposed. It has been said to be 2,000,0001.
whereas the reduction is in fact nearly three millions.
The following is the state of the case :—By the former
Act the sum of fire millions was annually issued out of

the Consolidated Fund to the Commissioners for the
redemption of the National Debt, and the interest of the
Stock purchased with that sum, amounting now to
upwards of 800,0001. per annum, being also paid to
those Commissioner; the total Sum to be applied to
them in the present year would have been upwards of
5.800,0001. By the present. Act, however, such sum
only is to be issued out of the Consolidated Fund, as,
together with the interest of Stock now standing in the
names of the Commissioners, will amount to 3,000,0001.
This latter sum is charged with the payment of Life
Annuities, to the amount of about 600,0001. and conse-
quently the annual sum actually to be laid out in the
purchase of funded or unfunded securities will be about
2,400,0001.
While on this subject, we would suggest to the
CnanstLost of the Elms:gum whether, as all idea
is abandoned of allowing the Sinking Fund to accumu-
late at compound interest, it would not be more simple,
and more rational, that the Stock purchased by the
Commissioners should be immediately cancelled, in the
same manner as the Exchequer Bills which they
may purchase are directed to be by the Act now
before the House, instead of its being allowed to
remain in the names of the Commissioners, and the
form kept up of paying over to them the amount of the
dividends thereon, which must be absolutely useless, as
a fixed sum is no longer to be paid out of the Consoli-
dated Fund, but such sum only as will make up the
difference between the amount of the dividends on
stock redeemed and the sum of 3,000,0001.

It appears to us also, that according to the principles
laid down by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—
namely, that the Sinking Fund should not be main.
tabled by borrowing, the sum to be appropriated for the
redemption of debt in the present half-year should have
been considerably less than that which is fixed by the
pending Act. If the surplus Revenue of the year
will be only 3,000,0001. as estimated by the CHAN•
CELLOS of the EXCHEQUER, the total sum to be laid out
in the redemption of debt in the present year ought
to have been no more ; and as the Commissioners,

between the sth January and the sth July, laid out
nearly 2,900,0001 the sum to be so laid out between
stll July and sth January next ought sot to exceed the
difference between that sum and 3,000,0001. the estimated
surplbs of the year. As it now stands, we shall find at
the end of the year that we have appropriated 4,300,0001.
or 4,400,0001. to the purchase of Stock •r Eschequer
Bills, while our surplus Revenue (including the payment
from the Bank of England of 1,600,0000 even if it
realises the expectations of the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER, has been only 3,000,0001.

We have received by express the Gaulle de France,
dated Tuesday, July 15, with the Moniteur and other
Paris Papers of the 14th s

FROM IRE GAZETTE DE PRANCE.
BUCHAREST, Jima 21.

The garfison of Brailow is allowed to retire without
arms, but with all its baggage, to Silistria, whither it is
to go through Wallachia. The Turks in that place
may remain without any fear of being molested in their
property or their religion.
A corps of 20,000 men is marching along the right
bank of the river towards Silistria, in order to besiege
that place.

A letter from Odessa of the 23d of Jane says, that
the day before an Austrian :pip had arrived there with
a cargo of sugar and coffee, is- six days from Constan-
tinople. The Captain stated that other 'vessels would
follow. As the Porte promises seven piastres per kilo
for wheat, instead of five, which it used to give, two
Austrian vessels laden with torn, which had taken re.
loge here, will sail this evening for Constantinople.
ANCONA, Jams 29.

Colonel Gordon, who left Greecesome time ago, has
arrived here from London, on his return to enter into
the service.

We expect Mr. Stratford Canning, on his way to
Corfu, where Admiral; Codrington and de Rigny mow
are, is order to concert with the Lord High Commis-
sioser and Count Guilleminot, the measures to be
*Joined under present circumstances. It is said that
the Rassian squadron will separate from the others, and
that a squadron will, perhaps, be sent to the Darda-

nelles to protect the French and English sttjects, or to
Alexandria, to execute the Treaty of the 6s of July...

PARIS, JOLT 14.
The Monitear contains an official tepOrt lb the King,
by the Keeper of the Seals, on the admirastration of
criminal justice in France in the year 1827.
The minor Paris Papers contain no news of any im-
portance.
Parma Fouls.—Pmits, Jett 14.-AoFive per Cents lost. 60c.
Three per Cents. 72f. 4k. Bank Stock, I.BBof. Neapolitan
Rams, 76f. Ik. Rentes d'Espagne, 7i. Spanish Lan, 74 j.—
Haytiau ditto, 6301. Exchange on London—one mouth, 115 f. 2k.
three month., 251.1$e.—Ceurs diakentif me, July 14.

By the Flanders mail we have received this morning
Hamburgh and Dutch Papers, from which we .have
made the following extracts :

CORFU, Jugs 3.

Several men of war have arrived here, to reinforce the respective
squadrons of the Allied Powers. '
Ibrahim Pacha, in order to procure provisions, of which he was
much in ueed, sent some detachment. to make excutsions to Elie,
which, however, had no favourable result.
Within these- few days, some vessels laden with corn arrived at
Zante, having been destined for Motion, which port they could not
enter, an account of the strict blockade. Three of them were an
loading the corn, when orders came to load it again, and to proceed
to Modon, which they did, and entered that port.
In the evening of the Ist, a Turkish brig arrived here, having on'
board a Deputy from Ibrahim Pacha. This vessel was escorted
by a French brig; the Envoy is a relation of Ibrahim, and his first
General. It is said that he has brought to our Lord High Corn-
Widow proposals for the evacuation of the Mores. As several
sargetes it corn coming from Alexandria have been allowed to en-
ter Medan, it is presumed that the proposals are satisfactory.
The above brig sailed again to-day for the Mona, with dis-
patches from the Lord High Commissioner for Ibrahim Pacha.--
Gem* ek ifilese, .fitly 2.

VIENNA, JILT 5.

The Aufrian Obansier contains the following news from Corfu,
dated Juno 14.

Yesterday afternoon the French ship of the line La Conquerant,
Captain Maurice, arrived here with Admiral de Rigny. It Aced
the usual salute as it came to an anchor, which was answered by
the forts and the ships in the harbour: The Lord High Commis-
sioner, Count Gni&anima, and Major General Woodford, went to
the quarantine, to pay their compliments to Admiral de Rigny, who
had landed them, and wit► whom they had a long conference, but as
the ship came from Smyrna and Egina, all the usual sanitary rege.
latices were observed. It is said that Admiral de Rigny will wait
here for the arrival of Admiral Codrington. We expect also Mr.
3. Canning (who was to leave London on 23d May). and M. de
Ribeauplerre."
The sante munber of the Coln Gazette contains an extract of a
letter from the Camp before Anatolico, relating the attack made
on Anatolia by the Greeks, on the 13d May, in which they not
only failed, but sustained an irreparable loss in Captain Hastings,
who died of the wounds he received there. It appears front this
account that the Greeks took the island of Poro on the 13th, and
that Anatolie° would probably have soon shared the same fate, bad
not Captain Range, who commanded the troops that besieged it our
the land side, left ►is post, which gave the Turks at Missolongbl
an opportunity of t►rowing previsions for ten days into Ana.
tolico. During this time it was bombarded by the Greeks,
and on the 16th Vett arrived from Arta, with one thousand men,
and attacked the Greeks by night, but was repulsed with the loss
of one hundred and fifty men and many Officers, whereas the
Greeks did not lose a man. However, another Greek Captain,
Staico, having left his position, Yeti was able to send fifty mules
laden with provisions into Anatolie°. On the tad the Greeks
made an attack, by means of several small vessels, from the sea side,
and every thing promised them success, when a boat laden with
ammunition was unfortunately blown up. Some confusion ensued,
and Captain Hastings, leaving Mr steam vessel, in a boat, to en.
towage the Greeks and restore order, was wounded in the left
wrist and obliged to retire. To this was added the death of Captain
Andrea, a Hydriot, who commanded under Captain Hastings, so
that the Greeks were obliged to give up the enterprise, having six
killed and twenty-three wounded. Among the former was the
Count de Broglio, who commanded the Philhelienes. Captain
Hastings, who could not immediately receive proper surgical assis-
tance, was brought on the Ist of June to the Lazzaretto, where bet-
ter advice was to be bad, but in little more than half an hour after
his arrival, he was seized with locked jaw and soon after expired,
universally lamented by all who knew him.
VIENNA, Jute S.

Metalliques,92 9-1 11. Bank Skarn, 1064-441 g. Zeit. July 10.

BRUSSELS, JOLT 15.

CaptainPaulsen,who has reterned to Flensburgh from the Green-
land fishery, states that the Neerlandais. Captain J. Junin, which
sailed from Harlingen for the whale fishery, bad taken 3,000 seals
at the beginning of May. The fishery, however, was very bad, s
that up to the 10th of June not a single whale bad been taken by
any of the vessels. On that day there was a violent storm, but
Captain Paulsen did wot learn that any of the ships had suffered.—
Brous& Papers, hily 11.

The Duchess of KZET gave a grand dinner to the
Duke of CAMIIIUDIII and a select party of the Nobility and Gentry,
yesterday, at her apartments in the King's Palace at Kensington.
Prince GEORGE Of CUMBIRLAND left the King's
Palace, St. James's, on a visit to the Kura, at the Royal Lodge,
Windsor Park, yesterday afternoon, attended by CoL Tooatann
and the Rev. Mr. Jam

The Duke of CAMBRIDGI arrived in town about five
o'clock yesterday afternoon, from the Royal Lodge inWindsorPark.
It was the Duke of CUMBERLAND, and not the Duke
of Gmicerrita, as we stated by mistake yesterday, who dined with
4e Earl of Animus on Tuesday.
Lord STUART DR ROTHIAT left town about half-past;
sae o'clock yesterday afternoon fur Paris, to enter en his official,
.duties, as Ambassador to the Court of France.
Viscount BiREEIfoRD, the Earl of ABRRDEZR, and'
Mr. A !monism:, visited the Duke of Wettuicrint yesterday at the
Treasury.
• The Bavarian Minister transacted' business with the
Karl of Anemone yesterday, at the office of the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs.
Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD and Mr. Crewcut transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign Dice, Downing-street.
A Deputation from Liverpool, headed by Mr. Hus-
aissos,u one Mike Members for that town, bad a conference with
the Cuaucation of the ESCHEW'S yesterday, at the Treasury.
Mr. Secretary Pan. entertained the Cabinet Ministers
to dinner yesterday, at his residence in Privy Gardens.
The Earl of Cftsalunisr.t.o gave a grand dinner yes
terday, at ChestirSeld House, and had afterwards a very Suraerous
evening party.
The Countess of ANTRIM entettained a distinguished
patty to dinner yesterday, at her horse in Cavendish-square.
Lord Was. Pour.wer gave a grand entertainment on
Tuesday, at his house in Cursonotreet, May-fair, to the Doke
of Soma:.
Parliament will rise before the expiration of the
present month. The House of Commons is expected to adjourn on
Monday or Tuesday next, for a few days, to give the Lords time
to pass the Bills before them ; and the Prorogation will take place
either the latter end of next, or the beginning of the Mewing week.
Yesterday evening three young Gentlemen, having
engaged a boat for the purpose of rowing up the River, had pre-
ceeded a little above Battersea Bridge, when nee of them, in at-
tempting to remove the rudder at the stern of the boat, accidentally
fell overboard and immediately stink, unflortusately to rise no
more. Timely asslitance was afforded from the there, but, from
the circumstances attending the accident, was of De avail. After a
short interval the drags were brought, and memeded, after some
time, in raising the body ; bat, from the depth of the water at
which the accident occurred, nearly half an hear dapped before
even this could be performed, and then, but for b Meads to have
the dreadful afflictioa of seeing him a corpse.