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ADVANTAGIS OWING is, Inc New Musistoir.—The Ministerial
Journals do nut deny the resignation of .the Duke de Mortemart.
our Ambassador in Russia. That diplomatist was likely to feel him-
self in a situation which he could notist•vereye. If we are correctly
informed, he had commenced. in the name of the late Ministry, nego-
elation w hich were almost ter ntinated,and which the accession of the
present Ministry has entirely subverted. The Cabinet, which was
dismissed on the ath of Aug. was determined to recdhGen.Guiliemi-
net from Con.tantinople,and seeing the repeated refusal. of the Porte
to recognise the independence ofGreece as constituted bythr protoco
of the 16th Nov. and on the sole consiitiou by us or an armed oh-
s.rvation, promised to interfere in the future arrangements
to restore u. to a part ut the pus-canon. winch the two inva.ion.
have caused us to lose. But M. l'ulimiec and M. de la Bourdon-
naye have changed all that. Is sic nut itt fact much heticr that we
should have Landau less, and the English law of priningenitute
Inure? Are nut the electioneering roc ten boroughs of • nine im-
portance to our strength and prosperitis than a few deparpmnts on
the Rhine? This is another lesson a morality which On: great
Duke of Weltingtonihis wished to give VO. The first tlfne hr &-
privet' us of our museums ; Low he wishes to drag trom.th- temple
of our laws those istltituttons *lnch are propmed by the Nlttii sic h,
and dear to France:
During :lir 14-1 tem days a multitude ulk F.nglish eosin; trit!. hate

arrived In Parts, who proclaim every where that the Duke of Wel-
lington is a stranger to the appointment of Madman de la Hour.
doonaye, Boorman% and their companioos, and that be is even
much displeased at them. They allow, however, that be desired
the promotion of M. de Fatigue. That is sulkiest then. With
what does the Doke of Wellington interfere?
WHemL LLD' Ai ALLIANCE WITH Emirs, ?—is the alliance
with England so precious a thing that a State ought to sacrifice
every thing to obtain it? Ask Don Pedro, who will. Patens.
owe to the friendship of my Lord Duke the disinheritance
of his daughter, Donna Maria. Ask Mahmoud, who is losing
the best part of his &ates in comma= of his dependence
on the promises of the British Cabinet. It was evident that
the Russians would not stop until' they had reached the banks
of the Bosphorus. Her wish to obtain that was the pivot
on which all their politics for the last century have turned.
That fact being admitted, at least among enlightened men, how
can we reconcile it with the repeated declarations of the Cabinet
of St. Petersburgh, that the intention to acquire was far from it;
and that though constrained to exact just satisfaction for well-
founded complaints, it did not wish to extend is frontiers, what-
ever might be the success of its arms?
This language is explained. Russia could hold it although it
entertained such contrary intentions, without any one having a
right to tax her with bad faith. In order to accuse her of dupli-
city, it should have been shown, that in the course of hostilities
propositions of accommodation bad been formally nude to her.
Then, if she did not stop her troops, she might have been re-
proached with her ambition, her thirst of conquest, het desire of
universal dominion.
Has any attempt been made to arrest the course of this army,
during two campaigns? Far from It. Mohammed has constantly
treated with contempt the advice of Messrs. Guilleminot and Gor-
don. Scarcely at the moment when he had one foot in the skiff
which was to bear him into Asia did he consent to his Commis-
sioners going to Gen. Diebitsch.
And still it is quite certain that secret instructions have not
awakened the powers which were publicly given by his Cabi-
net, at the instance of two conciliatory Ministers? This suspicion
is changed into certainty when we examine the nature of the de-
mands which the Turkish Commissioner. are ordered to make
from the Russian General.
The first, we are informed, is the restoration of the Ottoman
Empire to Its former extent. What would it expect if a certain
degree of success had kept the Russians on the frontiers of the two
Empires and a rising of the tine believers rendered an invasion of
the Russian Empire practicable ?
Who, then, can inspire Mahmoud, in the state of discomfiture
in which his half-invaded States now lie, to make such resistance
and such pretensions, which savour, in fact, of madness? It does
rot require us to go far to perceive that it is England who holds
out hopes of assistance and diversion.
We have shown above that the intention of the Russians not to
lay down their arms until they reached the banks of the Bospho-
rus, had been manifested before they began hostilities,whatever may
be their declarations elsewhere to remove this opinion. Does any
one doubt that Mahmoud and his Court, and his Divan, taught by
a long succession of reverses, and the continued progress of their
adversaries, would not form an idea of preventing certain ruin by
negeciatlons, if a secret motive had not prevented this concession?
The motive is palpable : Mahmoud and his advisers have expected
the co-operation of England, which made them hope for the as-
sistance of France and Austria.
From the Courrier Francais of Monday.
PARIS, Sue. 14. .
The German Journals say to-day that the courier who took to
the Emperor Nicholas the keys of Adrianople, has stated that Gen.
Diebitsch was preparing to march to Constantinople ; however, the
Gazette states, with some appearance of probability, that he already
occupies the Dardanelles. Several military men have thoight the
plan likely to be of seising on Gallipoli and the Mouth of the
Strait, before the attack of the Capital. Thus General Diebitsch
would have the means of protecting the entrance of the Russian
fleet, and preventing that of other nations, and particularly that of
Admiral frialcolm's squadron, if he should manifest any hostile
intention. In fine, sooner or later, the Russians would be able to
take Constantinople, even if the revolution, the issue of which
they appeared to await, should not be accomplished in the interval.
We see that their projects are progressively put into execution
with a skill and foresight which is calculated to insure their success
in spite of all the arts of diplomacy.
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per Cents, elf. itof. 95c. Bank Actions, 1842 f. 50c.
Foaszox Fenns.—Neapolitan Reuses, Cert. Fal. 86f. 50c. Royal
Spanish Loan, 734. Interminable Spanish Annuities, 49j 48f.
khytian Loan, 3401.

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We have received at a late hour the French Papers by
this day's mail. They contain no news from the
theatre of war. The Messager des Chambres, of date
the 15th, has this passage:—" A report has been
spread that the office of Minister of Police was about
to be re-established; and that the Baron DE VITROLLES
was to fill it. The consternation was general. It is at

this moment affirmed that LABOURDONNAYE and
BOUR MON T are to quit the Cabinet." Other very
serious divisions which had manifested themselves in the
Council of Ministers, as well as throughout the country,
had given rise to a multitude of alarming and conflicting
reports.
Five per Cents. 107 f. sc. Three per Cents-111f. 10c.

By the attract of a letter from St. Petersburgh, dated
29th August, it appears that the change of Ministry in
France had not been favourably received in Russia;
and that the French Ambassador there—MonT Ell A ILT-

bad rekigned in consequence.
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Accounts received from Spain, tilt Paris, state that
negociations between France and Spain are extremely
active: they are said to relate to the GUEBHAILD loan,
and it is asserted that the interest of this loan is to be
paid in future in Madrid, initep.d of in Paris, as here-
tofore.

Public Meetings, to consider the best means for ob-
taining a Reform in Parliament, are again becoming the
order of the day, and—we doubt not—will increase
rapidly throughout the kingdom.. The principles of
Universal Suffrage, Annual Parliaznents, and Election

by Ballot are numbering. daily proselytes, who find
that moderation in political opinions only begets con-
tempt, and that it hi necessary to lay the axe
to the root of the toe of corruption. Of this last
we unhesitatingly avow oursilives; convinced
that the tins for half-Oseasures is gone by, and that a

firm and unanimous banding of the people—something on
the principle of the great league which has just been ef-
fected in Brittany—can alone lead to the so-long-desired
results. We shall, probably, at no distant period, submit
our own views and plan of a general combination to the
public judgment : in the meantime, a mere hint taken
from the Breton league—or even from the Catholic As-
sociation—might be improved into immense advantages
by intelligent and energetic spirits.
It will be recollected by those, who follow with atten-
tion the march of our political inculcations, that this is
not the first time that we have hinted at an organised
popular confederation, as being likely to spring up out of
the multiplex and intolerable miseries which now waste,
and weigh down the kingdom. Arguing from cause to
effect, such union is indeed the inevitable and spontane-
ous consequence of continued excessive taxation, and a

pertinacious refusal of reforms. Even if the condition
of the lower classes were much less desperate than it is,
and the fiscal pressure not heavier than the community
could sustain, the actual jeopardy in which the Con-
stitution has been placed by the accession of the
Noble Duke to the government—and its perpetual
liability to infraction, by men whose governing prin-
ciple is the sword rather than the statute—make
it imperative upon the people to combine together, and
save from Oligarcho-military destruction the venerable
ancestral fabric. Under the administration of the Noble
Duke, and his gallant companions in arms, there Is no
chance for the uncompulsory introduction of that purity
into the House of Commons, which,would render it once
more the efficient and independent organ of the national
opinion : and the chance is not much greater—at least,
for any exertions which a once popular party may have
the virtue or the courage to make—for the uncompulsory
right-about-face of the scarlet occupants, from the ex-
pugnated posts of power.
It is our opinion, nevertheless, that there are some
great moral compulsions at work, which the Noble and
Gallant Premier will find it as difficult to withstand, as
he would the physical confederation of the country. In
the mean time,we cannot too strenuously recommend the
calling of large county meetings, to adopt popular resolu-
tions, and frame petitions for Parliamentary Reform.
This—we say it deliberately—is the only substantive and
certain remedy, for all the mischiefs which have unhinged
society : any proposal, stopping short of downright,
thorough, and radical reform, is to compromise for pal-
liation, and forego the cure. We must not, however, be
misconceived on the subjects of Universal Suffrage, An-
nual Parliaments, and Vote by Ballot : we advocate a
reform as pure and radical as the theorists who contend for
these ; but we deny that those, who make them sine-
guti-nons in their advocacy, can be either true lovers or
perfect comprehenders of our invaluable Constitution.
We have been led into the foregoing remarks, by
a perusal of the resolutions passed on Monday last,
at a meeting of Radical Reformers at the town of
Oldham, in Lancashire. These resolutions—which will

be found in another part of our Paper—are many of them
admirable ; but the three points, on which we have been
last observing, would at any time prevent us

from co-operating with the Oldham Reformers.
That part of the ninth resolution, however, which pro-
poses to the Legislature the adoption of some system of
equitable adjustment, by which the nation may disen-
cumber itself from the terrible pressure of the Debt, we
cordially approve.

We invite attention to a Letter signed JONATHAN
WINTERBOTHAM, which will be found in our next page.
It exposes in an ample and perspicuous manner the mis-
takes, or misrepresentations, contained in an article
headed " Free Trade," which has already appeared in
several of the journals, and was copied into our's of yes-
terday from the Globe. There is no subject, in our opi-
nion, so imperfectly understood, and on which political
writers have lately affected such a fluency, as this very
question of Free Trade. Our correspondent—whom we
know to understand these matters better than most men,
either in or out of Parliament—is inclined to be over-

caustic, and censorious with too little discrimination,
towards the champions of the free system : but in the
present instance, he has ably elucidated a fallacy of ar-
gument in regard to the operations of the import laws on
one particular branch of our manufactures—we mean the
silk trade—and we have no hesitation to pin our faith
upon his exposure. We have thought it necessary to say
so much, because—although we have inserted our cor-

respondent's letter verbatim, and more than that, feel
greatly obliged to him for his luminous commercial criti-
cism—we are far from believing with him that " gross
misrepresentation, arrogance, and presumption, mark in-
variably the dogmas" of all those who advocate the sys-
tem of free trade. The difficulty, in international com-
merce, is to find the balance of reciprocal advantages,
and adjust it equally : but that balance, it appears to us,
is more capable of such adjustment on the basis of unre-
stricted intercourse, than it can be on principles of prohi-
bition and exclusion.

When General DIEBITSZ-II entered Adrianople, with-
out firing a shot, he was instantly put into possession of
54 cannon, 20 standards, 5 horse tails, with the camp,
arms, and ammunition of 10,000 regular troops, who
instantly laid down their arms. The following are the
particulars :

BERLIN, Sm. 10.

In addition to the account of the occupation of Adrianople by
the Russian army, which we received from Vienna, we have,
through another channel, the following additions) particulars rela-
tive to that important event :
.4 A dispatch from General Count Diebitach, dated Bad Sad,
at Adrianople, flat, brings the news of the entrance of the vk-
torloas Raul= troops into that city at nine o'clock In the morning
of the day before. The garrison of Adrianople, consisting of 10,000
regular troops, laid down their arms on the approach of the Rus-
sians, though all the way were open for its retreat, sad left to the
conquerors fifty-four cannon, twenty standards. five bone tails,
their camp, and their arms and ammunitions; and the men ob-
tained permission to go to their own homes to employ themselves
in agriculture. The numerous population of the city, Mahometans
as well as Christine, came with entire tooßdence to mat the
Russian army."

From St. Petersburgh, of date the 2d September, we
have the following Imperial Manifesto, just then pub-
lished. The preface to it sets forth, that " the war
which we are carrying on against the Ottoman Porte, to
rescue the repeatedly violated rights of our empire, is,
by the blessing of the ALMIGHTY, everywhere crowned
with the most brilliant success ; but in consequence of
the obstinacy with which the enemy rejects all the pro-
posals for peace made to him at the commencement of
hostilities, and several times since, we are not able to
see where it will end. Considering it, therefore, to be
absolutely necessary to make good the losses sustained
by our army in the field, as well as the ordinary diminu-
tion in the other troops of the empire, we hereby ordain :

" 1. There shall be a levy of 3 recruits from every SOO souls,
throughout the whole empire, with the exception of Georgia and
Bessarabia.

" 2. The supply 'lithe half contingent of recruits for the 924 k►y,
in the Governments of Cherson, Ekaterinoslaw, Pulawa, Kiew
Podolia, and the Ukraine, shall be deferred to future times, for the
reasons declared in out Ukase of 2d Sept. 11122 ; and on account of
the supply of drivers for the train for the army in the field, during
the present year.
" Given in the Island of Idagin, Aug. 10, (22) in the year
1329, and the 4th of our reign.
(Sped)

" NICHOLAS."

To this manifesto are appended the usual regulations for the
manner in which the levy is to be effected. It is to be begun
on 13th Nov. this year; and must be wholly complete.' in two
months. The Senate is to take measures that all recruits. doe
from former levies, shall be furnished. The recruits are not to be
under 18 or above 35 years ; and must not be under t 6 arshum 3
wes gawks in height.

ODESSA, Avo. 26.

The Emperor has addressed a reseript to Count Woronsow,
Governor of New Russia, to the effect that Count Diebitscit, be-
ing so far from the frontiers of the empire, that any measure or.
tiered by him to prevent the propagation of the plague cannot be
executed in due time, or with sufficient vigour, his Majesty has
been pleased to place all the quarantine establishments upon the
Driester, Prutb, and Danube, under the immediate orders of
Count Woronxow, with unlimited authority to act according to the
existing regulations, without waiting for instructions respecting
his measures, on which be is to make his report to the Emperor,
and to the Minister of the Interior. After some further directions,
it is ordered : " All persons who transgress against the quarantine
regulations, shall not be tried by the criminal courts, but according
to the penal code of the great army, partly on account of the enor-
mity of the crime, partly to serve as an example." In consequence
of this order, two persons have already been tried and shot : one
was an inhabitant of the village of Kujalnik, who concealed the
death of a girl who died in his house; the other a Polish Jew,
who had secretly left the town, and got through the sanitary cordon.
The Privy Counsellor, Count Patin, sailed on the gid for
Bourps. The Adjutant-General, Count Orloff, who arrived here
the day before yesterday, from st. Petersbergb, BIM sailed yester-
day for Bourgas. Eighty vessels, hired by the Crown, are now
lying in the harbour of Bourgas, whither they have conveyed pro-
visions for the army from various Russian ports.

WARSAW. Ssrr. 7.

Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Helen of Russia
arrived here the day before yesterday, and set out to-day for Sal.
czyn.--Aussion Mats Cassette, Sgrt.ll.

The preceding manifesto breathes any thing, we think,
but peace : and the following intelligence from Odessa,
to the 27th ultimo, confirms the belief that, far from
Count DIEBITSCII having the slightest intention of de-
parting from the territory of the Turk, he means to revel
for the winter in Adrianople or in the capital;—while
P A SKEWITSCII does the same in the rich city of Trebi-
sonde. The following notices are, in every way, deeply
interesting :

ODESSA, Aua. 47.

General Paskewitsch, from whom we have news to the begin
Ding of this month, is said to have advanced against Trehisoode
and Tocat, and to have invested the former place. Numerous
ships, laden with provisions and forage, daily sail from this port to
Varna, Bourgas, and Sleben. Some persons infer from this,
that, should peace be brought about, strong garrisons will be left
in those places. Our squadrons in the Black Sea also receive con-
siderable reinforcements ; and, if we may believe the report in
circulation, they will be distributed after the conclusion of peace,
in some Turkish ports, till the Porte shall have fulfilled the condi-
tions of peace.

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