Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-08-13

Every province which Russia gains will add to the difficulty
Of excluding her from the rest for not only will her own
confidence be increased but there will be added the ma
tur desire Of her new subjects TO recover unity which
survived through greatness and degradation for hiteen
centuries
We have other writers in England who think we ought
to substitute Greek Empire for what is called decrepit
Turkey The phrase Greek Empire sounds well in print
but beyond this we do not think much about IT, II Il
easy paper pull down Empire and set UP ano
tier We DO believe half that is said about the de-
cepitude Of Turkey How false have been all the state
respecting the weakness and the wretched cond
ton Of the Turksharmy the recent statements OF DIS
tinguished Prussan officer will sufficiently prove The
Turkish navy ridculed as it has been by sose of the
English journals represented by good authorities to be
of considerable force and highly respectable and well
managed The position of the christian populations IN
Turkey is far toerabe than that of half the popu-
ations Of christian Europe The foreign policy of the
Sultan and his advisers during years has stood
forth model of all that is LIBERAL generous and ra-
onal Turkey is not weak, either in present means or
future she is stronger than she when it
required the interference of England France and Rus
sa to deprive her Of even little Greece We sincerely
hope that the advocates for Greek Empire do not take
modern Greece under Ohio of Bavaria as type and
a model of the coming Empire. We find the following
statement respecting the population of European Turkey
which is said amount to about fifteen millions and
half:
OF these eleven hundred thousand Turks large
proportion mere peasants amiabe and tracabe as the
Fellahsof Egypt There million and half Of Al
banians. The remainder consist Of Bulgarians Serbs
Nlyrians Roumones, Wallachs, few Armenians Tar
tars, Franks and jews and upwards of seven millions Of
Greeks Between this Greek element and the Scavonic
tons Of both have been detached from the great patriotic
party to play the game of French Austrian or Rus
sian agent The Sclavonans have occasionally made use
of Russian power shield against the exactng tyran-
ny of the Turks but in the three christian prnc
paities, which virtually ruled by emssares the new
bondage is by means irretrievably fixed"
The steamer Caradoc has just arrived with dispatches
from Lord SrRarroED at Constaatinope These despatch
confirm what have already stated respecting Res
Child PAcHAs note to Russia This note as well as the
protest of the Porte against the invasion Of the princpa
ties has been framed under the advice and with the assist
ance Of the Ambassadors of England, France, Austria
and Prussia The Porte makes every concession short of
sacrificing national honor and independence. The aEte
diats evacuation Of the principalities is preliminary
condition Of the Turkish note.
Late returns as 70 the condition Of that aourshng and
eminenty useful institution, the English General Post
Office show that it is rapidly increasing in business The
whole humber Of paid letters in 1889 1590I572
OF frankei letters 6,58S,O24
Total. ............. s. 40, SOC
The total number Of letters which passed
through the post Office last year ....319 sol 499
The gross Of the Office last year g. 1926
The nett revenue $685. Az
There were 4,047, 925 money orders issued last year
and 4o42859 orders paid The orders issued we're for
60 43s 27 and those paid amounted to t23, TO The
money order Office cost e70Gs9. The commission re-
ceiyed eS2,33
The money market is firm and well supplied Consois
maintain their ground, but DO not advance
The weather is watched with feversh anxiety. There
remarkably heavy rain last night for two three
hours, which must have done immense injury, and still
continues rain. The porentous Turkey ques
ton is thrown entirely into the back ground
The Government has length taken up the subject of
supplying London with pure water Lord PALMERsToy the
Home Secretary Who ahoug doubt has his heart
the Danube, is officially obliged have his hands in the
muddy Thames told the company at the Lord Mayors
entertainment last Saturday that three generations
ago the metropolitan river famed for its translucent
purity il little better than liquid mud lie IN
vited the metropolitan members to aid the Ministry in
restoring better state Of things
Among other novelties projected in London is "sub-
terranean railway, which is from the lower end
of Eigware road to Kings Cross. The capital raised
is be $780, 000 and responsible contractor has under
taken its construction for considerably below that
amount The length Of this road will be less than
and half miles The line is to be in full operation in
less than twelve months.
There is at this time unusual demand for telegraph
wire, and several tons are produced daily. Msssrs.
Morewooj Rogers, Of Birmingham, preparing
very large order for the East India Company The
company has order from the Botanical Gardens of sgd
ney for ten tons of galvanized labels for flowers The
Birmingham houses have received almost unlimited orders
for general hardware goods from Australia.
NJ THEODORE TEFFEREAU has laid paper before the AGA
deny Of Sciences Paris in which he asserts that he has
produced gold by artificial lie believes that there
very few simple substances in nature, and considers
that the forty metals assumed to be such in
reality compound ones probably Of radical with
some unknown body hitherto not studied but which Of
itself alone modes the properties Of this radical and
thus presents apparently with forty bodies while in
reality there IS but one" He asserts he has discovered
this body by which the radical is converted into gold
There is nothing the Theatres, and nothing par
ticularly noticeable in Literature The scientific world
is all agog with what is called electric gas being the
conversion Of water by simple magnetoelectric pro-
cess Of decomposition, into nonexposive Illuminating
gas Il Is TO supersede the Of coal gas for light
ing, heating and cooking and Of coal fuel for ocomo-
tives and steamboats, by the present discovery says
the prospectus Of the company forming, water
be converted into ~ About