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necessary to pats the proposed law ; which was
cordingly carried by an immense majority--28
it, and only 13 against it.

M. Da LA BOURDONNATZ was then chosen a
President, and the Chamber adjourned.
As the leading Members of the regular Oppose
joined on this eccasion in supporting the iklinist,
Projects, no inference whatever can be drawn
the above comparison of numbers, of the tel
strength which is likely to be displayed in their
cure political Contests.

The promised Law of the Ministers, on the
and their first dispatch from the Foreign Office,
constitute at once the test of their political sy
and the trial of their official strbngth. Reports current
in the best informed political circles in Paris, say ,
decision in the latter case must be prompt and unbesi.
cuing, as Russia is said at last to have declared openly
her hostile intentions with respect to Turkey. All
the letters, commercial as well as political, from the
cities of the North of Europe—such as Berlin, Peters.
burgh, Riga, and Leipsic—speak of war betuem
ALEXANDER mid the Potte as no longer doubtful.
Private letters from Odess.a; dated the 2.1, stet,
that fresh massacres have taken places at Constar.
tinople ; but as the intelligence from the Turkish ca.
pital only comes down to the 25th ult. they are of
course silent as to the reported murder of the Sri..
TAN, which is said to have taken placb two days latet.
One of these letters asserts, that the SULTAN lad
declared that he would never agree to the conditions
of Russia; it is added, that the Ministers of England
and Austria had been insulted, and that pistols sere
even discharged into the house of the latter.

Accounts from Vienna, of the 12th in-% repeat the
report of the insurrection of the Janissaries and tile
murder of the SULTAN, or his favourite, NALFBEr.
FENDI ; and private letters from Semlin and Belgrade,
of the 6th inst. also mention it. As it is probable all
these reports have sprung from the same srairce, ere
must wait for later intelligence before we can give
it full belief; but a revolt of the Janissaries, and the
murder of a SULTAN, are not events of great rarity
in the history of the Ottoman Empire.
Private letters from Madrid speak of the fall of the
Ministers as certain, with the exception of the Minis-
ter of Finance, who was expected to retain his place.
The report that a depot of 40,000 or 50,000 stand
of arms had been discovered, appears to be without
foundation. By the latest accounts from the loin
Islands, we learn that, after the affray which mob
place between a detachment of English soldiers and
the inhabitants of Zante, in the attempt to plunder a
Turkish vessel which had been driven ashore in Cheri
Bay, both the naval and military force at the island
were much strengthened by order of Sir THOMAS
MAITLAND. He then proceeJed to punish the ring-
leaders in the affray, and afterwards to disarm the
whole of the islanders, whose custom it had previ-
ously been to wear arms of some description as a
part of their dress. This custom having existed
among them from very remote antiquity, the at-
tempt to disarm them became extremely odious, and
some of the villagers resisted ; and it was not till
troops kad been sent against them, with field-pieces,
that they could be induced to give them up.--
The surrender was effected in all instances without
bloodshed, and in the towns no opposition was made.
About the middle of last month, there had been
seized in Zante about 20,000 pieces of every Mad,
including guns, pistols, swords, and stilettoes, and
it was supposed that there remained about 10,000
more to collect. It was understood to be the inter
tion of Sir T. MAITLAND to disarm all the other
!slands, after having put the finishing hand to the
measure in Zante.

Hamburgh Papers to the 19th instant and Wes-
sels Papers to the 25th, were received this morning:

TRIESTE, DECEMBER S.

According to the latest accounts from Candia, the
Greek Insurgents had made considerable progress,
and kept the Pacha and the Turkish Authorities
blockaded in the City of Candia. They had seized
on the Fort of Karabasa, one of the most important
positions in the Island.
The Turks, who had hitherto received assistance
from a division of the Ottoman fleet stationed in the
neighbourhood, are in the most critical situation.
The Greeks, who are animated by despair, are fire
times as numerous as they, and daily receive reit•
forcements by sea.
BRUSSELS, DECEMBER 24.
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