Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-09-20
FOREIGN.
EROM EUROPE.

The Creek accounts which are the only ones Of
much interest 10 be involved IN great contusion
and we confess ourselves unable TO discover, however
much we desire it, that the Greeks were making sue
cessful headwav. On the water they always tri !
umphant but the land seems less prophous to them
Nothing very decisive, however, for either party has
recently occurred We observe with regret, not less
at the event than at the of it, that the heroine
lSobara, had persisted in inglorious feud Her
brother it is said had by his conduct to young girl
provoked her relatives, who were making ciamor |
around the house, when Bobaina made soytie upon
them, and was shot through the head by an unknown
hand.
The French Minister Villee, will certainly, it now
seems, succeed in his great measure of converting the
per cents, into and Il l-2 per cent stocks. This
operation, which has been before defeated and
which has been opposed by the utras of all sorts and
seCts, is very decisive of that Minister'S continued
ixeponderance.
Spain is disturbed as heretofore. The King besita-
ting between Cabinet Ministers; the one support
ed by the reasonable portion Of the nation tho other
representing the clergy and fanatics generally, is 10
compare great things with SMALL very much in the stu
alton of the long-eare animal in the fable between two
bundles of hay.
Owing 10 the unqualified repeal of the combination
laws last much rotous aud dangerous conduct has
been adopted in land by abourer of various crafts
TO induce their employers TO increase their wages In
some instances these umutuous assemblages have very
seriously injured the interest of the nasteIs-and in
recent at Sunderland, have been attended with a
melanchoyoss OLIVES, TO the deluded workDen. In the
licrs, coal carrying shps thought they entitled
20 pay and refused TO work unless their
terms we're granted. Their employers, without
King any discussion, quietly went to work and procur-
ed seamen from elsewhere; whereupon the anton men,
they call themselves, resolved prevent the new
corners from navigating the ships which they had been
accustomed to sail in, and accordingly, actually board
ed and forco!y detained outward bound vessel The
magistrates, accompanied BY small detachment of the
military intertered, and after Intellectually warning the
mob to disperse and undergoing from it much outrage
ordered the soldiers fire when were killed. and
many Others wounded. Peace Immediately restor.
cd and the vessels ready for permitted de-
part The great evil, independent of the loss of lives
Of such doing is, that leads 10 The pepetuaon of old
errors. Combination laws are, hold, unsound in
principle, and their late repeal in EoglaGd there
fore hailed as the abandonment of long rooted falacy
UnhaPpIy, those whom it to efect--tIc ia
bouring classes, by taking away the penalty before an
exed TO their combining 10 raise BY peaceful mans
or by a6stalnng from work, their wages, have shewn
That though they willing to exercise the priv ege of
saying 10 their employers what they will work.
they do not fee. disposed TO conCedc to the other parv
te privilege OF seeking elsewhere for wormen on their
ierms that s the labouers hnlI il all right that they
should be at liberty to refuse working without addition
al pay but do not think it right tat the master should
he at liberty to refuse employing them, to employ
oihersBut it is bad rule that will not work both
ways. Here we have no combination laws-yet there
IS no public Inconvenience resulting from il-lahour is
paid as it should be, according its actual Value
When hands plenty and jobs but few wages arc low;
when work abounds and woIkmen scarce, wages
are high and these matters always regulate themselves
much better than laws regulate them.
Under the Paris head of the 7th August it is stated
that lbrahirn Pacha, who had advanced TO Napo di
Romania, after passing ali the deGles without meeting
any resistance, had retired, after attacking the post of
the Mills, because he depended his fleet for supplies
and had not received any news of ii.
Accounts from Trieste OF the esd July state that the
Captain Pacha had at length arrived on the Of the
Morea--but much too late to second the operations
against NIssoongh since several accounts agree that
the siege is raised, and the Seraskier obliged to retreat
consequence o the events 3alona and the deser-
ton OF tue Albanian troops lbrahm Pacba is said to
he surrounded at TripoliZa by Coocoon with le 900
men, he is entirely cut off from the coast, and all his
communication with Modon intercepted.
LONDON, August 4.
The Paris papers bring news from Madrid according
% which tie King Of Spain perpleXed how de-
eide the opposite counses which he receives from his
Ministers Zea and Daasteros. He has formed tenn
porary of in granting licenses for the
importation of foreign produce. and the English spo-
Of as proftng largely by this arrangement.
CoaverSion 9fte French Debt-By the letters and
papers OF Saturday last received from Paris by express
appears that NJ. de Flele predicted has real
'zed the hrs part OF bis plan for the conversion of the
French debt the amount Of assents 10 The conversion
INTO the three per cents. being 20,69S2 69 francs dc
7ctte This result is tie more remarkable, inasmuCh
ii generally understood that mp to Thursday the
conversions extended TO little than half that
amount But the assistance rendered to the Minister
on the last ua? proved TO be very powerful indeed and
letter mentions that the house OF Rolfschid alone
Effected Tie conversion OF more than 600 600 francs
dsre:e. The Bank Of France, it is said did not con
vert, very singular Instance of opposition By such on
establishment and under such system to the Finance
Minister day After Friday last asscnts TO the
conversion into three per cents could be received but
the books to remain open, in conformity with the
law, ill the ga OF September next to allow tie con
version of ren!es into per cent. stock at par
When ;hat amount is ascertaned VI. de Vele will be
enabled to Judge how far the sinking fund viii be ade
quate 10 the reimbursement Of the uDlgudaed TentcS.
20 applied in the time to support the value
OF the new three per cent Stock at all events it pro
sumed that no loan will be attempted especially if the
amount OF nnconYeJed rentes remains very great be-
cause the period OF redemption has been left optional
with the French Minister and perhaps, for still bet
ter reason, because t would be difficult to negotiate
one without deprecatng tho value OF the whole French
debt.
Paris, August 1.-The Augsburgh Gazette under
tic date Of Trieste, July and 10, gives the following
intelligence
Letters from Corfu Of the 10th July announce that
Ibrahm Iacha had possessed bimse OF Tpolzza after
strong resistance the part Of the elder Colocotron
lie afterwards continued lis march upon Argos. Sc