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London, England, 1828-10-11 00:00:00

THE BLOCKADE OF THE DARDANELLES.

Flom THE GAZETTE DE FRANC&
The blockade of the Dardanelles is decided upon.
The Ministers will not make us wait long for an sic-
thentic 'communication of the fact, and we shall soon
see the declaration published, which the Ambassadors
in Turkey have for some time prepared. Finally, we
s' dll know whether we are at war with the Porte, and
whether France and England will allow the passage of
two-seas to be interdicted by a Power which does not
possess one port in the Mediterranean into which its fleet
might carry prizes.
In the mean time, the Turks will see, in the recogni-
tion of the blockade, a sort of declaration of war, The
restriction limiting the blockade to ammunition and
provisions, will appear to them absurd; and it it be the
interest ot Rursia to crash them, Vie, cannot compre-
hend what interest France and England have in lending
their assistance to that 'object.
It is said, that with the exception of munitions of war
and provisions, commerce s ill be free, and that the Es-
pesos Nicholas wil peimit the subjects a neutral Powers
to pursue their trade, provided that their ships carry
nothing contraband of war—as if there could be any
other speculation with the famished capital of an empire
besieged on all' sides—as if under such circumstances, a
sale could be found for cloths, French silks, English
Cotton goods, colonial pi oduce, or objects of luxury.—
Not only is this impossible, but if tire blockade con-
tinue, and lead to the advantages which Russia expects
from it, the merchants who are engaged in commerce
with that part of the world will br ruined, and will never
receive a halfpenny of the millions which are due to
them from the bazaars and markets of Constantinople,
which are always indebted to the Franks for one year
of their own consumption, and of the places which they
supply.
This is the sure and certain consequence to Frans.
and Great Britain of the blockade of the Dardanelles,
and still fu'ther mischief.' may be expected if dile
Turks are driven to despair. The massacre of *lf
Franks, and the burning of their ht u-es and property,
would probably follow the extermination of the Greeks
in the capital. There the white flag, the safeguard of
the Christians in the Archipelago, would: protect AO
one, and Russia's acting Separately will in all probs..
bility be the cause of much alarm, it not of convul•
sion, in Europe.
But after all the blockade will not so easily decide the
fwe ot Constantinople as is generally supposed. The
season now commencing is not favourable to the keep.
ing of maritime billions, especially on the sick of the
Bosphorus, and the ril-ckaJe cannot be so strict that
coasting vessels will not br able often to elude it. The
Russians must blockade Enos, the gulls of Saws
and Adramit, and also the two mouths ot the Sea of
Marmora, beca',se a shAt land carriage would easily
convey from those pr;ii.ts, into that sea, such cargoes as
it might be desir able to introduce'; and the activity of
navigators will be increased in proportion as the /unlit
is great. It is not merely Odelid and Alexandria which
provision Constantinople. The neighbouring provinces
are not deserts. It is not.improbable that the Sultan
Mahmoutt will commence operations► by ordering all
useless mouths to leave the capital, and be will be
obeyed. He cannot b.• 1:1 want of munitions of war,
and fr..in the success which has attended his armies in
the north, he may confidently rely on the support of
ail Mussulinans.

It is not without a whimsical analopy to polemical
fuhninationa, that great gum are loaded with iron, pi4ols and anus.
Ws fire lead, rapidly, incessantly. (atiguiney, and ninety-nina
times out ut a hundred they say without aim
Sunday, the atilt instant, while the Rev. Sir F. L.
Licosa', Bait. was performing Divine Service in the
parish Church of Kilcoleman, Claremoi ris, in the coun y
of Mayo, a dreadful tempest, accompanied with fain
and lightning, came on. The beautiful spire of this la ely
ereved Church, which was only consecrated upon the
I.t of August last, attracted the electric fluid, and wa.
immediately rent tu atoms. Some of the at. nes fyll
upon the rod, which, co-operating with the lightning,
caused it to give way, but so fell upon the pews, th it
through the Dtvllts NIIeRCY only one female lo,t her
life. upon the occasion. The lift of another swum in is
despaired of. Two soldiers and two policemen have
been dangerously wounded, and many others have suf-
fered from bruises.—DuGlin Lvening Mail.

PRICE SEVENPENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

PROM THE MESSAGER DES CHAMIEEN OCT. 8.
PARIS. Oct. 7.
The questions of foreign policy appear to ns to inti-
mately contacted with the interests of nations, that we
do not approach them without a degree of secret sp.
prehension ; but what we cannot unders:and is the
eagerness of certain Finch journals to impel the Ear
li.ll Ca .inet to make war.
Every day they paint the disgrace of Old England.
and tile weakness of its Ministry ; it cannot, say they,
be raised trim this kind of debasement except by the
development and emphyment of its force.
It is not for us to jodge of Cabinet questions, but we
likthe French journals if it is very patriotic, very con-
fatm.kye t our interests, thus to provoke hostilities ma
be pin of Great Britain, and a suit of general conga.
erati .11? Will nut our maritime commerce, now so
Nourishing, and our memorise, mit., the produce of which
.s so valuable, have Any thing to suffer, even supposing
that wrooere sireiely neutral in a war in the Mediter-
ranean ? Now, why do our journals continually repre•
sent this war as necessary for the honour of Great Bri-
tain? Why driinunce a conduct which is ptudett, and
in every case which is favourabl. to us, as an act of
meanness in the English Cabinet? Is them any patriot-
ism in exposing, for mere personal questions, whit cm-
st lutes the. strength and the riches if France?
Let the English opposition attack a Cabinet from the
of which it dissents. This is its part; but in
France it is the cau'e of our own country whichwe
ought to have chiefly in view, and not forget it fur
quarrels %hie!' do not concern us.

FROM THR MONITIHIR, OCT. 8.
The offiei.4l part contains, a long report, addressed to
the King by M. de St. Cricq, on the commercial rela-
tions of France with other nations, or rather of the sys-
tem of laws in vigour in France for the protection of
Fiends manufactures and produce. The following is
the substance of this document—

61 The opinion of the country, unanimous with regard
to the rapid improvement which all the brooches of our
industry have experienced since 1814. appears t t be
divided on the question whether our system of duties
has seconded or impeded the progress of these im-
provements.
64 Some (persons says the reporter) disapprove r f oar
prohibitions and protecting duties, which they consider
las the only cause of the analogous restrictions to which
we are subjected by other States. Other persons are
alarmed at the chances of extensive sale which some
foreign goods aright preserve in the kingdom—some of
them on account of their superior quality, most of
them on account of their greater dryness. These per.
sons persevere in claiming an almost total exclusion of
every article to which there is any thing similar in the
produce of our soil and oar manufactures.
" A third class, who come near to the principles on
which our present commercial regulations are founded,
think an immutable theory, whatever it may be, can-
nut advantageously direct interests so variable and cis.
tinct from each other as their of the industry of a great
kingdom. They think that the natio:ral labour, whe-
ther applied to agriculture or to manufactures, ought
not tube without def.-lice against foreign rivalry—that
its surest market is at home; but that this market is
not sufficient, and that it needs some vent abroad ; they
think, therefore, that a tariff affording general protec-
tion is indispensable, but that it is requisite in some
cases to widen as much us possible the . basis of our
foreign and maritime commerce.
6' Sire—ln describing this latter doctrine I have de-
veloped that which, according to my own personal
conviction, is the most suited to the situation of the ag-
riculture, manufactures, and commerce of France, as
it has been made by the events of the last SO years.—
But to apply it with more advantage, I find it neces-
sary to invite a judgment on its object and its effects.
which may encourage me successively to lay the results
before the Chambers. Its examination is, besides, con-
nected with that of several special questions. the solu-
tion of which, ardently wished for by the agriculturists,
the manufacturers, or the merchants. is proper to form
a part of the labours of the next Session. Of this number
are—l. The regulations concerning the importation of
wool, and the bounty granted on the exportation of
woollen manufactures. 2. The appreciation ache pro-
fits and losses re,ulting from the sacrifices which our
tariffs impose upon us for the encouragement of our
producers of iron, to all those who make use of that
metal. S. The propriety of maintaicing, such as it now
exists, or of conning within narrower limits, the al-
most exclusive preference reserved for the sugars of our
colonies for the consumption of France, and even for its
sales in foreign countries, by the process of refining.
4. The utility of modifying our corn laws either in their
fundamental base,, or only in the manner of executing
them. L. The possibility of enlarging the faculty of
transit, by extending it to the articles woich are pro.
baited, or at least to some of them. A setions contro-
versy should also be terminated as soon as possible—l
Mean that which has existed for some years past be-
tween the capital and some other cities in the interior,
which desire the tee repot of colonial produce, as favour-
able to the general interests of commerce, at Cie same
time that it would be profitable to themselves; and the
seaports. n hick tee averse to such as retshlistiment, as
coati my to the same interests. and destructive of their
own prosperity is particular.
" Actuated by all these considerations, Sire, your
Majesty's Ministers have thought that it would be ad-
visable to form, under the Presidency of the Minister
of Commerce, a Commission consisting if Members if
the Chambers, which should be charged to examine,
with the assistance of all inquiries and verificatieus of
facts, especially of those which are connected with the
complaints of our wine commies. which are so lively,
molten repeated, and so worthy of attention, what is
the commercial system the most appropriate to the
I wants of France? and to prepare the solutirm of the
principal questions whick it shall be judged proper to
submit in the next Session to the sitliberation of the
Legisl.tive Chambers:*
Tile Rep'rt concludes by recommending sixteen per-
ions as Members of t:ie proposed Commission, in case
his Majesty should approve cf This! Members are,
st Baron I'asquier, Minister of State, Baron Portal, the Duke de
Fitxjamtr, Baron de &tante, Count d'Aigout, Count de Tournon, •
and Count de Kereariou, Petro of France; Gautier, Jacque, Le.
!there, De Berbi., Humana, Pardesaus, Downier de Murano.,
..rd Oberkampf, Members of the Chamber of Deputies; Boma ale
1 resale, Councillor of State; David, Administrator of Custom:, ;

Finns 41e et. Hllike, Director sal the Colonies in the Marine De-
partment; Delfandls, Chief of the Commercial Aram in the Fo-
reign Department.

" Paris, Oct. 5."

(Signed) “ ST. CRICQ,
(Approved) " CHARLES.
FR( M THE CONSTITUTIONNEL.
FRANKFORT, Ocv. 5. _

Yesterday evening a Cabinet courier, from Vienna,
passed through our city on his way to London. The
report presently spread that the courier was the bearer
of dispatches respecting the blockade of Varna. The
Russians, it was stated, had attempted two consecutive
sssaults without any advantageous result, the besieged
having repulsed them, with enormous loss. It is added,
that in consequence of these reverses the siege was
raised, and that the Russian army is in full retreat upon
Jenibazar. Hussein Bey leaving his encampments at
Schumla, has greatly harassed the rear of the retreat-
ing army.
Another report is current among our politicians,
which appears less authentic—namely, that a division
of the English fleet occurpies the straits of the Darda-
relies. This report has its origin in a mercantile letter
dated Trieste, whither the news had been carried by
vessels from the lonian Isles.
FIINCII FUNDS, Nam, OCT. B.—Five per Cents. 1051. 80c.—
Three per Cents. 74f. 10c.—Bank Stock, I,B2sl.—Neapolitan
Rents. 791. 25c.—F.xchange on London, one month, 251. 25c.
paper or money ; three months, 251. 15c. paper.—clisr, Attains.