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London, England, 1828-01-03 00:00:00

VIENNA, Doc. 22.

Mercantile letters from Trieste, of the 17th, say tha:
a report had been revived there from Corfu, that the
Greek squadron under Lord Cochrane had entered the
harbour of Navarin, and taken possession of the citadel.
The same letters say, that Patras had capitulated, and
that the Turkish garrisons had been permitted to de-
part; that Ibrahim Pacha had drawn all his troops
together, bad even left Tripolizza, and was marching
towards the isthmus; that Admiral de Rigny, after
receiving a letter from Count Guilleminot, had
lett the port of Smyrna, and sailed towards
the Dardanelles, and that several French ships were
some to Scio to prevent Colonel Fabvier from taking
the citadel, but that they came too late, as the Greek
flag was already hoisted on the walls of the fortress, the
'Turkish garrison of which had been put to the sword
before they appeared off Scio. All these reports are
greatly in need of confirmation, as they are directly
contrary to the letters from Trieste, received three days
ago, and partly also to the lask *mints from Con-
stantinople.

WARSAW, Dse. 10,
The day before yesterday our whole garrison was
assembled in the plain of Lajenka, and was reviewed
by the Grand Duke Constantine, who expressed the
greatest satisfaction at the precision with which the
troops executed the various evolutions. After the
review, a division of infantry and some artillery marched
from Lajanka to Lublin, to replace the troops that were
gone from that place to Chelnk We hope, however, if
there should be war, a pertneifitir Polish army will
take the field. It is generally -.st4otted here, that his
Majesty the Emperor will soon leave St. Petersburgh,
and go to the army. The persons whoare to accompany
his Majesty are even named : they are Gent. Diebitsch,
Woronzow, Benkendorf (1) and Neidhart. The prices
of corn are rising here, because quantities are sent
to Danzig and Thorn, and warehoused for mer-
chants' accounts till next spring. Horses,too,' pre
in demand, on account of the prospect. of an
approaching war ; and even the Government Makes
purchases. The settlement of the accounts with oar
neighbouring States, respecting the reciprocal indemni-
ties for claims arising from the wars in 1812 and 1813,
is said to be nearly terminated. Ail the persons em-
ployed in this business are expetted at Warsaw.—
dfgerneine Zeitung, Dec. 27. fl

, .1 : •
While lingering on, the threshold of a new year, 41
may not be unseasonable or wholly useless to take a
cursory retrospect of that just closed ; the more so since
that year is, in our judgment, one of 'no common cha.
rims—nos so much on account of the magnitude or
actual importance of the abstract events to which it has
given birth, but because those twelve months have un-
closed the infant bads which the last twelve years have
produced into existence—buds which the most careless
observer may discern pregnant with, matters of first-
rate import. The year past has' we say, disclosed the
colour of their embryo contents: in short, it has given
a new tincture to existing things; it has opened the
career of a new and unknown series of mighty events,
while it has ushered in the dawn of a political day, the
tendency and effects of which time alone can disclose.
le its minor and more donsenic features, the year
has not bern deficits: in harlot or is moment. It mai

also be aborted by the way that almost every occur;
Tenet, likelint all materially to influence the palitieal
Or moral state of general affairs, has taken place *hill
the borndary of these doritinions.
The emotion created by the lamented decease of a'
beloved Pawns had hardly subsided, when the political
death to England of her PRIME MINISTER diverted her
people from their generous sympathy ; and launched
them, as by a sudden shock, on the stormy billows of
a severely agitated sea of civil politics.
With the noble and venerable Peer, the still more
ancient and antiquated system, of which he was, as it
seemed, destined the last leader, fell is rise no more ;
the one cut down by the hand of withering malady, the
other sunk eclipsed by the orient beams of a new, radiant
and enlightened era; more congenial to the popular
sentiment engendered, and now blazing swiftly into
meridian splendour, by the gigantic revolutions effected
among men, by the mighty march of intellectual mind,
and the rapid progress and genial influence of Arts and
polished Science.
The stream of light and time bail now become too
strong to be checked by the obstacles opposed to its
course by the daily decaying barriers of old and unen-
lightened manners, the prejudice of age, or the bigotry
of darker days. No, they yielded, having faithfully
served their due allotted period; and the new and libe-
ral policy of England commenced its youthful and
vigorous career under the guidance and direction of
that It master mind," whose glowing radiance and
splendid posers perspicuously fitted him as the best
.
existing pilot for the new bark. How soon he fell, we
aced not now relate. The Noble Peer who has sue.
ended to the helm, possessed of no ordinary degree of
sterling sense, and embued above all with liberal senti-
ments, fosters unbroken the course—that momentous
course of policy, boldly originated by Gloacra CANNING.
The active part which England has taken in the
causeof Grecian liberty, entailing of itself in all human
probability events of unsurmised importance—the joy.
hal renovation of comparative freedom in thought and
action on the opposite shores—the immediate interpo-
sition of the British arms, between the crushing power of
bigoted oppression and the struggling efforts of nascent
freedom in PORTUGAL, together with the unsettled and
troubled aspect .of more domestic affairs,—all tend to
sttengthen our preliminary position, that we STAND OH
THE VERGE OP A CRISIS THE DARKNESS OP WHICH NO
EYE CAN PENETRATE, and that we are about to experience
a serves of events no less. gigantic in their natures than
inyderious in character.