Star.
London, England, 1828-10-06 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

S..

MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1828.

• PRICK OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock Shut India Bonds 89 .
5 per Cent. Red. Shot South Sea Stock
3 per Ct. Cons. 861 4 j Old Annuities
se per Cent. Shut 11000 Exckei. Bills 75 6 4 5
31 per Cent. Red. Shut 1500 Ditto 75 6
4 per Ct. New,loll j 1108 and 1200 Ditto 75 6
4 per Cent. 1826, Shut Bank for Acct. 212
Long Ann. Shut India for Acct. 240
India Stock Consols fur Acct. 861 7 4
FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO 011.0(..K.
Brazilian Bds. 5 pet. DoAect 381 *
Do Acct. 621 j Poring. Bd.. SpC.
Buenos Ayrts lids. 6p C. Do Acct. 561 54 64
Do Acct. 46 Pruss. Bonds, 5 p Ct 1001
Colombian lids, 8 per Ct. Ru55.8d5.1822,5 pCt. 934 S*
Do.Bonds,l 824, 204 Do. Ace. 931
Do. Acct. 21 Spanish. Bds 5 p Ct.ll I
Diniett lids. 3 pet. 624 * Uo.Acct.lll 12
Greek a 15.1825,5 p Ct. 164 Fr. Rentes, 3 p Ct. 74f
81e5.8d5,1825,6p Ct. 38j Exchange, 25f 30c
• BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARKS, TWO O'CLOCK.
/HAIM PAID.
100 95
000 380
35 20
23 5
IVO 10
100 13

Anglo Mexican
Bolanos
!Brazilian

25
43
79
10i
21

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Ditto National
Gundian Fire Ass.
Genoa' Steam N.svigation

It is currently reported that a fleet of fleessil of t'ie
line are ordered to be get. ready for sea immediately,
and that their destination is the Nteditereanean. There
are already th!ee or four line of battle ships, and a pro.
poi tionate number of frigates and smaller vessels in that
sea, which altogether swill form a very respectable
squadron. Our readers will perceive. bya reference to
our Port news, that the Windsor Castle and Spattiate
are getting ready with the utmost dispatch.

• It has been for some little time the vaunt of certain of
the French Journals, that France is beginning to station
herself in the ii,fluential prise with regard to the alf-irs of
Po: coal, which Great Britain by her indecisive and ambi-
guous policy towards that country has in effect abando el!.
We trust that the honours paid here to the young Queen
mill satisfy Eorc:pe how far from the truth is the as-
sumption that the British Government has been back-
ing out of that honourable career which has shed so
much glory on Mr. CANNING'S memory. We at this
usoment recognise the title of the legitimate Sovereign,
and maintain our alliance with her, as much as we could
have been done if Mr. CANNING had been alive. • But
to presume that that great Statesman would have cm•
broiled us in hostilities to assist the Sovereign of Po:tu-
gal in subduing intornal factious, is inconsistent with
his own express declarations. The coniinned refusal of
the European Powers to hold communication with Mt-
clam, or admit any particle of his authority—the dis-
tress to which the Usurper must infallibly be driven for
want of money--1-and the odium that is heaping itself
upon his tyrannical treatment of thousands of the Por-
tuguese people—will in the end co-operate to bring him
to terms. The immediate interference, therefore, of
Great Britain, we repeat, is in no way to be anticipated
by those who have watched the consistent path she hrs
up to the present moment pursued.
Those who condemn our Government for the alleged
neglect of our Ally at the time wherr her political free-
dom is in the most imminent danger, assign to us not-
withstanding an anxious desire to preserve our connec-
tion with Portugal, on account of our commercial ince-
r rests, and attribute to this less worthy Motive, our
.*expedition of -December 1826. Now the fact utiques-
'tionably is, that the advantage of our Treaty with Por-
tugal is wholly on her side, we being the nation that
••consumes, within a trifle, the whole of her wines, which
no other people in Europe can be prevailed upon to
drink. It surely cannot be supposed that the resources
of Great Britain are in such a state as to make it of
' any importance to her to keep up a forced market for
a million and a half's worth of her manufacturec, for
the sake of the wine that she would necessarily have at
all' events, or it would rerain in the cellars of Oporto.
Portugal cannot trade with France, or any other coun-
try whose natural productions are the same as hrr own;
Groat Britain can sell her clothing and hardware to any
country in the world that has the products of her soil
• to give us au equivalent.

We have recei►ed the Paris .Papers of the 4th inst.
and Brussels Casettes of the same date have also come
to hand. Tne Prassean Slates Gazette of the 28t'i ult.

!sings down the news from &humla to the 11th. and
from Varna to ,the 14th Sept. HUSSBIN PACHA. it
appears. attacked, on the Stlt, the centre and right wing
of the Russian pt ition at Schitmla,with great vigour:
The Turks threw iben)seleas into the trenches three
times, and were tbtee'times repulsed with loss. The
account states that 600 were taken prisoners and many
killed, with a loss to the Russians of only live men killed,
*lid twenty wounded ! An equally brave attempt upon
another wing of the Russians was made .t the same
time; but this olio is stated tohave tailed.

The operations before Varna would teem to have been
of A moredecided character. Tne Itussians,on the night
of the 11th September, ook a Turkish redoubt—two
hundred Turks were killed in the works, and thirty pri-
soners whim ; the Russian lots was one officer killed and
two wounded, and Viirty privates killed and wounded.
The south bank of the L•ke D wino was occupied by the
Russians on the sante day. On the 13th the Tut ks made
a serious sally, but subtaii.ed a heavy lots; the Russians
say that in this successful action some of our brave men
were killed. MAjo, General Pattowsav was wounded.
From the proves, of the Russian works, we can
hardly suppose that Vali.' will hold out much longer.
The batteries of heavy artillery are erected within thirty
t.tites, of the fortress, and the works erected by the Turks
to cover the breach hate been taken by the point of the
bayonet. Already two bastions have bean obliged to
suspend their fire..' If 'the forint% do not soon sutra).
der. the Russians will Do doubt try to take it by MUD'