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London, England, 1829-08-28 00:00:00

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LUGUST 28.
AT TWO O'CLOCK.

FRIDAY,
PRICE OF STOCKS
Bank Stock 2154 16 India Bonds 59 62 1
3 per Cent. Iced. 894 I South Sea Stock 984
3 per Ct. Cons. 884 84 Old Annuities
55 per Cent. 1818, 984 9 New Ditto
Si per Cent. Bed. 994 9 /11000 Excheq. Bills, 62 360 3 2
4 per Ct. New, 1031 23 i5OO Ditto 60 83
4 per Cent iBBB, 108* 6 #lOO and £2OO Ditto 62 64
Long Ann. 20 1-16 20 " Bank for Acct.
India Stock, 224 • Consols for Acct. 891 I I f
FOIL R'Gv FILL4IIB. TWO OCIALL K
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Do. Acct. 59 I Do. Acct. 694
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SIMILES, TWO O'CI.oCK.
SHAI.Z. um.
Braziltar. Imperial 33 20 73
Ditto National 25 7k 101
Guardian Fire Ass. 100 20 291
Protector Fire 20 2 .81 ss.
Provincial Bank of Ireland 100 25 21
The arrivals from France—though we are still without
official intelligence from the seat of war—corroborate all
the presages, which we have rather pronounced than
hazarded, concerning the issue of the Turkish conflict.
The Courier of last night—followed, but not in its entire
extent of assertion, by the Times of this morning—contra-
venes the all but certain.picture of Russian triumph and
devastation, which we have received from so many cor-
responding sources ; and of which, our knowledge that
no moral alternative exists, still confirms us in the full
belief. In the Journal des Debats there is an article on
this subject, as remarkable for its expanded and correct
views, as it is for its severity against the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON. It is well worthy of the Noble Duke's perusal;
but if his ingenuity can furnish him with any arguments to
evade its condemnation, it is greater than we conceive.—
A mischief has been inflicted on this country, during the
Administration of the present men, which half a century
of wisdom and energy will not be sufficient effectually to
counteract. It is reported that the King of PRUSSIA is on
his road to Paris, to consult there with other Crowned
Heads concerning the redintegration of Europe.

By an Order from the Horse-Guards, dated the 20th
August, we perceive that Major BUTTS, of the Royal
Artillery, has been dismissed the service for offences
not cognizable by martial law. If these proceed-
ings are to be permitted—for this case of Major
BUTTS is not the first which has come within our
knowledge—they will soon strengthen into a precedent
very inconvenient for the KING'S army. It is only
since the death of the Duke of YORK, that charges
similar to those which were preferred against Major
BUTTS have been for an instant entertained : and no
man drew with a corrector judgment the line of de-
marcation between civil and military infraction, than
that illustrious Commander-in-Chief. All attempti
to produce interference in that quarter with an
Officer's private personal responsibilities, recoiled with
vexation and disappointment on the heads of those who
made them. Many were the letters which the Duke of
YORK received, and the interviews with which he was
pestered, to the prejudice of the gallant and brave indi-
viduals whose interests were confided to him : but he
dismissed them all as impertinent and intrusive applica-
tions. He knew too well the necessity to keep martial
law within martial limits, ever to permit the embarrass-
ments of military men to be subjected to penal severities,
or the notoriety and exposure of Courts of Inquiry. He
left the civil law to compel the fulfilment of civil en-
gagements. To intermeddle with the debts of Officers
he considered not merely alien from his province,
hut pernicious in a high degree to that federative
principle which held gentlemen together in the service,

and established—so to speak—along a line of graduated
c,nductors, an honourable and reposing confidence be-
tween HIMSELF and the obscurest Ensign. The cue of
Major BUTTS is one more instance of that new system
of grievances and oppression, which has been growing up

at the Horse-Guards since the economy of his MAJESTY'S
army ceased to be administered by that lamented Prince.
Sir HENRY HARDINGE is not keeping his word with the
San CE ; for he pledged himselfin the House of Commons,
that the authorities administering the army disavowed the
principle, upon which the Court Martial at Limerick has

just non• passed sentence of destitution against Major
BUTTS. This is neither a wise nor an encouraging
policy—passing over that it is unconstitutional—on the
putt of Ministers ; standing, too, as this country does, on
the brink of foreign rupture, and consequent unavoidable
augmentation of its military force. We recommend the
Noble General in command to stop the mischief before it
spreads, and apply that remedy with a good grace, which
else will be extorted from him by Parliamentary de-
cision. There exists at this moment, within our pri-
vate cognisance, a case even of more flagrant
oppression than that on which we are now com-
menting, and which implicates high personages at the
Horse-guards. As we learn, however, that they are
beginning to repent of their extremities, and that even Mes-
sieurs Cox and G R E es woon are ashamed to be known as
agents. in the transaction, we shall forbear for the pre-
sent. The Court-martial—as if with an instinctive sense
of its own injustice, and a recollection of the long ser-

vices of the gallant Defendant—has recommended
Major Burrs, with unusual earnestness, "to his
MAJESTY'S merciful consideration." Hypocritical im-
pertinence !

The Algemeine Zeitung to the '22d August is this day

received ; and confirms the triumphant progress of the

Russians,—proving by the plainest geographical data the
advantageous position of the northern forces. " A few
more such anitwers," says the writer, " and there will be
nothing to diiieuss." The following are extracts :
ODRSSA, Avon S.
According to accounts from Verna, of lith (50th July), the
sickness which prevailed la that place in the month of June had

greatly abated in violence. The authorities art nOw engaged in
=fiho tows. A great quantity of effects belonging to the
a are belbg sent thither from Ibis place for that purpose.
We bate observed before that we replied by facts and geogra-
phical data. to articles in foreign Journals relating to the operations
of our armies. Now we have a crowd of facts to support

our observations. While foreign Journals are taking an pos-
sible pains to throw doubts on the defeat of the Grand
Vizier on the 11th June, and its consequences, and
bewilder themselves in dissertations, to prove that the Turkish
army was again concentrated at Shumla, and that the operations
of the Russians were checked, by the impossibility of taking this
key of the Balkan, for the various names of which mountain they
ransack history, in order to give It a formidable appearance, the
Russian troops have answered their erudite investigations, by
passing this famous chain of mountains, without troubling their
beads about the unconquerable key. The intrenchments on the
Kamtchik. the artillery that defended them, the fortresses of Ales-
sembria, Achioli, Aidos, and 13eurgas are in our possession. We
shall see what the military geographers will now be able to
invent, as well with respect to these events as to the unfortunate
position of the Grand Vizier, who is posted at Skalds, while our
army, with a fleet in the line harbour of Boorgas, effected its junc-
tion in his rear, almost on the road from Shumla to Constantinople.
More than sixty transports, with provisions and ammunition of all
kinds for the supply of the army, are at this moment on the point
of putting to sea. These are facts—these are geographical data—
these are the answer to such diatribes. A few more such answers,
and then there will be nothing to discuss.
Vieux*, Auo. 17.—bletalliques, 99 S-I6 ; Bank Shares. 1,133.
CANEA, Jut.: 11.
The tranquillity which prevails at this moment is a decisive proof
of the general lassitude. The Greek Government makes continual
efforts to keep up irritation, war. and massacres, but the native &-
potation is remiss in seconding its views. The 100,000 cartridges
sent from Carabusa last month have been expended in fetus dejae,
though the orders of the President expressly directed that they
should be employed in taking some military position from Mus-
tapba Puha. &thumbs Pacha now makes use of the leisure which
the Greeks Dow leave him to establish a very active pollee, and
to prepare the way for the complete return of order. He
shows equal justice and rigour. No crime remains unpunished,
and the Greeks come with confidence to ask his protection or to
make complaint to him.
The Lionise French schooner arrived at Soda on the Ist in the
evening, with M. Ant. Forcetti, the French Consul at this place.
Mustapha Packs sent the next morning an officer of his household
to compliment him, and a guard of honour of 100 horsemen to
escort him to the town. As soon as the Consul appeared in the
maritime quarter, the French colours were hoisted on the flag-
staff of the Considatesand immediately saluted by therms of the for-
tress. M. Capogrouo, the English Consul,had already repaired to his
boat some days before, but as he landed very early from his vessel,
which was at auchor in the port of Cann, and had not a flag-staff
to hoist his colours, his installation took place without the cere-
monies usual on such au occasion. But his Excellency, Mustapha
Paella, sent an officer to inform him that, as soon as be should
have got his Bag-staff, and hoist the colours of his Britannic Ma-
jesty, he should have great pleasure in paying it the same honours
as had been shown to the French deg.—From She Cuurrier de
Sasyrne.—Jrronkfort
WAR IN THE EAST.

EXTRACT FROM THE CONSTITUTIONNEL,
RECEIVED THIS DAY.

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Statistical Notes upon the Affair of Kirk-Kilissa.
The information of a battle having taken place at Kirk-Kilissa
has not reached us as yet, but by uncertain channels. A short
time since such intelligence, even if it were inserted in
the Coedit de Berlin, and accompanied by minute details,
would have met with general disbelief. But now the public
mind has made such progress, or rather the credit of Messrs.
Metternich and Wellington has sunk so low, that the mere
assertion of a victory gained by the Russians is so confidently
received, that the consequence the most decisive which can result
from the occupation of Constantinople is admitted without hesita-
tion. It will not be useless to promote this tendency of the public
mind, by explanations calculated to dissipate the doubts which
arise from the want of sufficient details respecting the affair of
Kirk-Kilian, and front the delay of fresh information.
We have been accustomed to conuder Adrianople the second
capital of the Ottoman empire, and a species of advanced post of
the residence of the Sultan, as the point where the last efforts of
the hostile parties would be made. The latitude of Adrianople IS
42 deg. North, that of Constantioople is 41 deg. North. Between
these two cities the distance is about 30 leagues, in consequence of
the windings of the road.
There are two great lines of communication between the two
cities, one by the direct route, which rats from the N.N. W. to
B.S. W. and the other by a road almost in a straight line to Ro-
dosto, a town situate upon the sea of Marmaru, from which the
road proceeds along the coast by Porte Grande to Constantinople.
Kirk-ICilisu, otherwise called the Forty Churches, lies under
the same meridian as Adrianople, at one day's march to the
East. This town, which leads in a straighter line to Constan-
tinople, is nearer to it by some leagues than Adrianople. The
road from Kitk-Kilissa to Constantinople is very bad ; it is
scarcely passable in many places for carriages. In several
places, this road follows the windings of the Balkan, which ter-
minates with a gradual descent in the forest of Belgrade, at
about four leagues from the capital. If the Russians had fol-
lowed the plan which they were supposed to have adopted, and
had crossed the Balkan by the line which leads front Sophia to
PhilippopoUs, at the same time that they crossed it, in the direc-
tioa which they have really taken, their right and left columns
would have united under the walls of Adrianople, and then
would the destluies of the Ottoman Empire have been de.
dded. In one of the preceding numbers of this Journal, we
nude known the motives which induced Gen. Diebitsch to pro-
ceed by the passes which he had before him after the battle Of
Prayed', and to neglect the advantages of a diversion by way of
IPhilipopolls. Kirk-Kilissa was upon the line he bad chomen--he
moved forward upon it. As soon as his movement was known to
the Turkish General., they hastened, without doubt, to the point
where the danger was most imminent,and endeavoured,by a march
on the flanks of the Russians, to collect their troops at Adrianople,
for the purpose of covering the capital.
If the victory of Kirk- Edina has been such as the accounts from
Munich and Vienna state, a single detachment sent after the batte to
Adrianople would have been sufficient to take possession of it, for it
would have found this second metropolis without troops. The
runaways, who might have gone in that direction, would have
facilitated the entry of the Russians to the town, for, under such
circumstances, the inhabitants dread them more than the coo-
querors themselves.
The possession of Adrianople was of great importance to General
Diebitsch, after his success at Kirk-Kilissa, in consequence of the
two roads to Constantinople. By the direct road, the artillery of
the Russians would have followed the movements of the main
body which marches upon the capital front the field of battle. By
the road of Rodosto this General would have proceeded to take
possession of that town and port, and would have detached a body
of men to the Dardanelles by the western shore, passing by Gal-
lipoli, where a garrison would have been left.
In addition to these advantages, Adrianople offers a positibo
which may be made the centre of all future operations. The re-
inforcements expected front Bessarabia may be marched thither,
and front thence be employed in a manner essentially advantageous :
they may sown Gen. Geismar, who is marching front Buchova
on Sophia, and they may occupy the Gulf of Enos to the West of
the Dardanelles, into which fall the mouths of the Maritsa, by
which the Turks supply all their positions on the Memos.

CI Taos Lyn °Twat.
This being pay-day for the differences of the Account in Consols,
two failures have already taken place this morning. One of minor
importance has been declared in the House ; but the other, whose
differences are from five to six thousand pounds, has not as yet
been exposed ; and some fears are entertained that others will he
announced in the course of the day. Consols, which left off yester-
day at 89i a for October Account, opened at 89J h, and for money,
89 to h. l'be business doing at present is not if magnitude.
In the Foreign Market there is scarcely a bargain done to the
present time—prices are nominal.
CITY, HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
The Congo' Market has receded since the early part of the
morning, when Comas were 891 h for the Account • at present
they are 89h to h, and foe Money Mt} h. This decline must be
swing to the state of the Account, as we have no further politial
information up to the present hour. Three defaulters have been
declared in the House ;—two of them of some consequence, the
third's deficiency is only fee tCBOO.
me private letters by the &press from Pads brings the French
3 per Cents. after 'Change hours at Sit. 70c.
By the letters from Amsterdam, by the stemet, see learn that
the Funds had improved; the Metalltgoes were per Cent. higher.
In the Foreign Market very little badness transacting.

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