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London, England, 1827-04-10 00:00:00

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BUCHAREST, DlA‘cta 17.
For this week past we have seen couriers pass through,
from Constantinople, going in all directions. The last
left that capital on the 9th, but as he brought no pri-
vate letters, we have learnt no news.
PARIS, Aran 7.
Count Portalis is appointed Reporter of the COM-
mince which is to examine the law on the press.
, The Augsburg Gazette says—,4 The officers and
subalterns who are in Greece were in good health, ac-
cording to letters from Egina, on the 11th of Februar.y...
After the unfottunate attempt to deliver the Acropolis,
they returned to Egina. Two of them bad been wounded,
but Were recovering. The Acropolis still held out, and
the hope of relieving it WAS' oarsmen up."
LIES OF Tall DAT.
lon oirassanant.
The Portuguese Royalists bailie obtained. from. the
Spanish Cabinet permission toseturn into their country,
in small detachments of 15 or 20 men. The,e detach-
ments would afterwards form a junction at various
points previ Jusly agreed upon.
coNsurtimoirxii..
In consequence of the operations of the first quarter
of 1827, a great number of superior Officers of all arras
bare just been dismisses!.
• The Courier of the Nether:a:ids contains the follow!.
iag article; "The last accounts fiorn Batavia are of the
10th of December : though favourable to our cause,
they are far from announcing the end of the troables
'that desolate our possessions. We see with pain that
the rebels still cover almost all the districts, and that.
when they are driien from 00 part, they appear again
its great numbera• in another. It will not be by some
trifling skirmishing, by some partial attacks, that the
ievolt will be suppressed. What notion of importance
has taken place during six years and more that our
troops have beets fighting in that country? What do
the tlatavian journals, whose bulletins a, ern to be com-
posed according to the prescribed form, regularly tell
us? Have they not announced a hundred times what
they announce now, that tranquillity prevails in such
or such a district—that the enemy have been attacked
in such another, thatllley did not bear the sight of our
troops, that they took flight, and that having dispersed,
it was impossible to overtake them. And Depo Negoro.
whom the last accounts stated to be wouaded, how does
it happen that, according to the latest news, he is again
on the theatre of war, contriving new plans of attack?
The Batavian Journals will doubtless inform us in one
of their lien numbers." •
TRW VII JOURNAL DRA Dames.
A law was passed last year for the sale of the old
buildings of the Abbey of Belle Chasse. The sale
commenced a few days ago. A lot estimated to be
worth only 3,500 francs was knocked down for 6,000.
Some time after, however, to the astonishment of the
bidders, the Prefect announced that he had just received
a letter from the Minister of War, with a list of the
minimums prices under which no lot could be sold. The
lm which had beeo knocked down for 6,000 francs was
found to be estimated by the Minister at 17,000 francs.
IWhat motive could the Minister have for this conduct?
A very obvious one—the pleasing and obeying that
occult power which, not yet daring to act openly, gains
its ends by obscure and tortuous means. The buildings
of Belle Chasse belonged to a convent.: The law which
ordered their sale is of course a sacrilegious law. The
responsible executors of the law must find a way to elude
it. Estimate then the buildings at six times their real
value, and the failure of the sale will not be your fault.
This way of settling the business may do very well for
the lots which are not sold ; but with regard to those
knocked down, we do not think there can be any doubt
of the validity of the purchase. There are Courts at
pates for the protection of property, as there were at
g rim to defend the mill of Sans Souci against a great
icing. Will the congregation prove more powerful in
parts than Frederick in the capital of his kingdom?