Star.
London, England, 1828-08-13 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE, Juts 1).

Since the receipt of the news of the fall of lirailow, the Cepkas
Pacha is gone to Varna to hinder a landing from being elfetti4l by
the. Russians, and to du the Drama for the defelwe of that harbour
On the whole the Torte continues to manifest a spirit of indifference

and outward security which astonishes all the Turks. Whether it
be that the reports in Circulation of disorders by which the Russian
army is mid to suffer in an estraordinary. degree, or the hopes of
assistance front some foreign Power are the cause, it is. not to be
denied that this fearless conduct of the Porte keeps the capital in a

*oiler temper. hieaminse entrenchments are thrown up in the
environs .f the capital, which indicate the intention to make a
wigwags defence, and the men raised by the general levy who are,
already arrived. are in hourly etpectation of orderi le match
against the enemy. A Annan published on the 3d of this month
.(of which we have already spoken) ordered that all Greeks who
, have's° families, shall quit the capital lit three days. For this pur-
pose the greater part of them have already been arrested and sent
to Mia. According to a report, which, however, meets with little
credit, the Porte, besides the letter of the Reis Effendi to the Duke
of Wellington. has taken another step towards an understanding
with Engbnd and France,and ordered Ibrahim Pacha to evacuate
the hlorea. (it is certain be has negotiated with the Admirals of
the Allied PoWers fot his departure, if transports and provisions
are procured for Jahn). Twenty More Austrian ships have lately
received-Armin, to go through the licisphonit is Odessa, so that
„as, may be said calk again free. From the theatre of war Ihri
learn that Hussein Plscbs caused dm Governors of Fsaahaeld host
Macchio to be beheaded immediately on their,airivil
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soLoolfik. •
Mr. Seturl44 Canning bM bareit. Wee them Ante days, waiting
for M 4 de .Rebeavpierre, wt.* sert.:d tardily. Enda shear Minis.
ten will gra immediately to As eons, when an English frigate it
ready to take them to Corfa•—•-iffgeaseiontiteng Aug Ca.
FRANKFOILT, AUGU•T 4.
air t.f the most etcent numbers of the Comity' de Soignee pm-
taios the following article :
'• The pan. of Suda and Canea have been blockaded for this
fortnight past by five English ship*, which however, do not In any
way ititertupt neutral vessels, If they have no ainMuhition rip board
Vessels from the lonian Islands are daily seen sailing in ail direct-
dons. and arriving from the Archipelago.

" Monspha Parka set out some time ago to reduce the Spbackim
once mote to obedience. Hadje Michali and the other Chiefs of
Spbackia had promised submission ; but Mustapba l'acha in vain
collected them in his camp, where the most honourable reception
had been prepared for them. He resolved, therefore, to go to
Sphackia, which he found entirely abandoned. The soldien disco.
vnred in a cavern about forty women and children, which they
brought away. Hence blustapha matched to Panic Castro, where
Some tlidUsand Greeks were assembled: he attacked and destroyed
them. Seven or eight hundred Greeks were killed : the remainder
of the population of Sphackia seems to have retired to Ouzo."

FRANKFORT, AUGUST 5.
An article from Florence, 20th July, in the Roman Journal
Notizie del Ciento, says that private letters from Smyrna mention
the entrance of the Russian army, under General Fasirewitcb, into
the city of Erzereuns, in Asiatic Turkey.—Frenk. Papers, Aug 6.

PROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT.
PARIS, Aua. 10.

The Chamber of Peers trk,t again yesterday, and the,
Orders of ilr• Day for Vie Repoli on the new arrange.'
ment of the Schools, against which the Jesuits have
complained so loudly and intrigued so deeply—and the
vote of the Chamber of Deputies En the Improvements
in the Place Louis XVI. and the Champs Elysees. The

latter is expected to be rejected. M. VtLuna has left
Paris; his influence in the Upper House is still very
strong, and there is mulch in his personal character that
attaches to him many friends. Astry is told of this
Minister just before he left office, that a person wrote
to him to say. that he had made a collection of anec
dotes, obtained from private sourcea relating to M.
VILLELe, which he intended to publish, alluding to one
or two as a specimen, unless M. Viu-see would pis:-
chase the collection for a hundred Louis d'or. The
reply of the Minister was, "Sifar from having any
objection to the publication of your anecdotes, it you
will give me a hundred Louis d'or, I will famish you
with double the number, of quite as private a nature,
and far more interesting.*
A work has just been published by M. Cot Tan
on the mode of reconciling the French Constitution
according to the Charter, with the monarchy. M.
COTTER alleges that the densocratical part of the Go-
veinment is making rapid strides to overthrow the mo-
narchical—that the increase of commerce, and the,
transfer of the elective franchise into the hands of a new
generation, who have no affectionate remembrances of
royalty, but rather a. hostility-to it—have biassed the
greater part of the COMMlEnitf against the royal prero-
gative, and that the effect of this bas been shown by the
result of the late elect one. He proposes the adoption
'of some measures to create a powerful aristocracy like
'that of England, which should interpose an effective,
barrier between the crown and the people. It is rails&
strange, at a time when theEnglisla are accusing their
aristocracy of being the root of all that is evil in their
Government, that very aristocracy should beheld up as
:a model to his own country, by a Frenchman of con-
siderable knowledge and talent.
The general report of the administraton of criminal
justice in France, during the )ear 1827, has Tuft been
made to the ICING by M. PJuraus, the Minister of
Justice. The document, including the &emit t• sub-
joined to it, is of great length ; but its drained apd
good ariange:nent entitle it to the highest praise. It is
well worthy the atter.ii..n nor only of our °an Secre•
tart' of State, bin of all who feel the importai ce • t
having full and accurate details of the stare and pro-
gress of crime in general. It appears horn this. Herrn
that the French Courts of Asarz:i have tried. in 1827,
6,017 accusations, of which 5,287 were defended, and
730 were tiled by cot tiniacy. The number of the at-
cubed was 6,929, and that of the accused who were
contu traciou,, or :liaised t t plead, 845. In 1826, the

numoer of accusationa de ended were 5,301, and that

of the accused 6,988. There have, consequently, been
last year 14 accusations, ,and 59 accused, less than in
1826 ; but the judgments by contumacy are 219 accu-
sations, and 242 accused more than in 1826. The pro- ,
portion of the accused to the population, which was in
1826 as 1 to 4,557, is last year a trifle leis, being as I
to 4,593. The proportions of crimes against the per-
son, compared to those against property, is precisely
the same as in 1826, via. out of every 100 offended,
28 were for offences against *the person, and 72 against
property. Out of the 6 929 individuals who defended
themselves, 2493 have been acquitted, and 4,235 found
guilty. The proportion of acquittals has rather es-
ceedtd that in 18'26, being this year 89 Oat of every 100.
It is not possible for me to go at length into the other
statements in the Bison ; I shall merely mention that
the amount • f crime seems to have varied very little,
in France within the last three years, the number of
persons fout.d guilty being, in 1825, 4,037; in 1826,1
4,548; and in 1827, 4,236. The total number of ex-
ecutions has been 75—a large amount appapently—
. but when I say, that the whole (except three for arson)
have been found guilty either of murder or assassination,
or attempts at those crimes, it must be confessed that
the most tender regard for human life has been shown.
Ten patricides are among them—a number, I beleve,
equal to those condemned of Ong horrible crime in
England.for the last ten years. The opinions as to the
injustice of the punishment of death in any case,'urged
by N. LUCAS in his Geneva Poise Essay, and ably sup-
ported by M. DUNICTIAUX.• of Brussels, seem to be
gaining groond in Paris. The result may probably be
the same as has taken place in Finland,- in the Dechy
pt Oldenbourg, in Hanover,
itsiin6tania many
atriboltihtieon S. ouwiscis
Cantons, and in Louisiana, v
tt e substitution or perpetual Imprisonment It is it till
events ssti .1 actor y to observe that death is• no. longer.
in c(fect, inflicted in' Frame fin' drentes again•t
perty.. Would it not be a pride to the. English (krigin-
g anent, if it could flake 4 billatA4l