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Saturday to Monday's Posts. LONDON, JULY 19. NO intelligence of an authentic character has yet reached from Rtissia^r Turkey. An article from Odessa, in the Gazette de France of Thurs- day, states that the Russian plan of campaign proceeds upon the principle of avoiding, as much as possible, the usual mode by which in former wars operations were carried on against Turkey. Formerly the Rus- sians used to advance from the Danube to the strong position of Schoumla, which always checked their ad- vance, and prevented them from crossing the Bilkan mountains Tfatey were obliged to adopt this plan of operations^ because they had not, as at present, the command of the Black Sea, and consequently could not he Sure of receiving supplies of men, ammunition, or provisions from the fleet. On the contrary, the RUSSUQ army will now pursue the line of coasi by which Schoumla and the passes of the Balkan moun- tains will be avoided. Their progress, however, appears to toe unexpectedly slow; and it is fully anticipated that the Turks will exert themselves to the utmost to make a desperate resistance.—One of the French jour- nals states, that the Sultan has intimated his desire to accept the mediation of France and England, but this statement wants confirmation. Accounts from Corfu, of 14th ult. state that several vessels of war bad arrived there to reinforce the respec- tive squadrons of the Allied Powers. It is said that Ibrahim Pacha had sent a deputy to the Lord High Commissioner, with proposals for the evacuation of the Morea, and it was supposed that they would be accepted. The Greeks are said to have taken the Island of Poros, bu< to have failed in an attack upon Anato- lico, in which Capt. Hastings was wounded, and soon afterwards died of a. locked-jaw. It appears pretty certain that it is the inteniion of the Russians considerably to increase their naval force in the Mediterranean. Three sail of the line and three heaty frigates, according to the German papers, left Croostadt on the 27th ult.; and three others of the line and two additional frigates were to sail in the course at the present month. The Duke of Clarence returned unexpectedly on Thursday evening from Portmiotith, whence he was summoned by express when on the point of proceeding for Torbay, and he has since had; several conferences with the Duke of Wellington. It is hence supposed that the sudden return of his Royal Highness has relation to our own force in the same seas, and conjecture is alive on the subject.. Lisbon Gaaettes- reached town this morning to the ilth inst. They'contain advices from Oporto, but not of a later date than has for some days been in posses- sion. A meeting of British merchants, convened by theConsui General, had taken place in the capital, at which it was determined they should remain there. FromiOperto; advices were forwarding to Lisbon ex- pressive of at the entrance of the Royal troops into that plase. The Constitutional force is represented as disbanding, and the superior officers are endeavouring to effect their escape into Spain. The military are «on*ing..over in numbers to take the oath of allegiance to DonMiguely wha has appointed seven persons each from the three estates, to draw up a Manifesto, ad- dressed to the European Powers, in which he under- takes to prove his legitimate right to the throne of Portugal. In the mean time, it is mentioned, he intends tp acknowledge the domestic as well as foreign debt; and has issued a document which may be considered as a partiat amnesty to his opponents. Accouois from Rio Janeiro to 21st May, received yestwday, state, that the Emperor continued in a state of thrgre&ttist r&ge'respecting the proceedings of Don Miguel in Portugal; but what his intentions were had not generally transpired. An expedition for Lisbon was confidently spoken of, and it was said the Emperor had determined on visiting Europe. Arc event ha* recently occurred at Neuil-sous-Pas- savant, Saumur, which has excited the indignation of all France. The rector of the parish, Jean Urbam Esnault, a. priest, sixty-six years old. has been proved longito have entertained a criminal intercourse with his female servant, and many children were the fruits of their crime, who, as they successively saw the light, were murdered by their inhuman parents. A young girl who had, unfortunately for herself, discovered the intimacy 4>f the priest and his servant, died suddenly sometimesince, under circumstances which leave no doubt but that she fell a victim to Esnault's fears. He has escaped; but the proofs were sufficient to procure bis condemnation. to death in his absence. The report that six regiments of the line have been ordered to Ireland is positively contradicted. TheChancfcHor of the Exchequer last night moved the ustfal sessional addresses; and the House of Com- mons will on Tuesday adjourn over to Friday, on which or th6 following day it is expected Parliament will be prorogued. Viscount Grattville arrived in town yesterday from Paris. His successor, Lord Stuart de Iiothsay, left London on Wednesday. Mr. Wyattville is to be Knighted on 12th August. Mr. 'Valentine Blakie, of Menlough Castle, has ad. dressed the Galway electors, soliciting their votes at the election arising «ut of the advancement of their representative, Mr. James Daly, to the Peerage. He says <hat he will hot, if elected, take the usual test oaths, and offers himself as the instrument whereby the important question as to the necessity of taking those oaths shall be decided. The Eist India Company's ship George Canning, pi f 99 0 426 tofis;;frtjtn'Calcuttd., was lost in &, gale of wind on the 6th of March last off Port Louis, Mauritius, and we regret to add, that Capt, James Clark W. Glover, se- cond mate; the surgeon; J.Tavlor, valet; W. Hooper, carpenter.; W. Grendal, the Captain's servant; M. Woods and M.: Berthand, passengers an infant son of one of the passengers; and six seamen, were drowned. The remainder of the crew and passengers saved them- selves on a raft; the whole of the cargo is lost. The BiH for amending the Acts relative to the reduc- tion oflheNational Debt, repeals the 4th of. the present King, by which 5,000,0001. were to be issued annually, for that purpose; enacts that, in future, the sum ap- plied shall, with the interest of the stock held by Com- missioners on the 5th inst. amount to 3,000,0001.; and 500,0001. having been paid on the 7th inst. under the former Act, shall be taken as part of the payment due on the 5th inst. under this new Act; and that, con- sequently, only 250,0001. shall be issued, between the 5th of July and 10th of October to complete the sum of 750,0001. (one-fourth of 3,000,0001.) The Commis- sioners are emp^ered to purchase Exchequer Bills, which are to be delivered to the paymasters of Ex- chequer Bills V> be cancelled. A ludicrous example of "Opposition'' occurred at Lincoln last week.—A person, wishing to go to Boston, went for that purpose to the lock, from which place the steam-pickets start. As soon as he had hailed one of them tor a passage, he was accosted by the "Oppo- sition" with "Go with us, we'll let you down for a shil- ling"—the others offered to let him go for sixpence.— Esnault, a. priest, sixty-six years old, has been proved longito have entertained a criminal intercourse with his female servant, and many children were the fruits of their crime, who, as they successively saw the light, were murdered by their inhuman parents. A young girl who had, unfortunately for herself, discovered the intimacy 4>f the priest and his servant, died suddenly sometimesince, under circumstances which leave no doubt but that she fell a victim to Esnault's fears. He has escaped; but the proofs were sufficient to procure his condemnation1 to death in his absence. The report that six regiments of the line have been ordered to Ireland is positively contradicted. TheChancfcHor of the Exchequer last night moved the ustfal sessional addresses; and the House of Com- mons will on Tuesday adjourn over to Friday, on which or th6 following day it is expected Parliament will be prorogued. Viscount GranviUfe arrived in town yesterday from Paris. His successor, Lord Stuart de Iiothsay, left London on Wednesday. Mr. Wyattville is to be Knighted on 12th August. Mr. 'yalebtinfe Blakie, of Menlough Castle, has ad- dressed the Galway electors, soliciting their votes at the election arising «ut of the advancement of their representative, Mr. James Daly, to the Peerage. He says <hat he will hot, if elected, take the usual test oaths, and offers himself as the instrument whereby the important question as to the necessity of taking those oaths shall be decided. The Eist India Cbmpany's ship George Canning, pi 426 tofis;;frtjtn'Calcuttd., was lost in &, gale of wind on the 6th of March last off Port Louis, Mauritius, and we regret to add, that Capt, James Clark W. Glover, se- cond mate; the surgeon; J.Tavlor, valet; W. Hooper, carpenter.; W. Grendal, the Captain's servant; M. Woods and M.: Berthand, passengers an infant son of one of the passengers; and six seamen, were drowned. The remainder of the crew and passengers saved them- selves on a raft; the whole of the cargo is lost. The BiH for amending the Acts relative to the reduc- tion oflheNational Debt, repeals the 4th of. the present King, by which 5,000,0001. were to be issued annually, for that purpose; enacts that, in future, the sum ap- plied shall, with the interest of the stock held by Com- missioners on the 5th inst. amount to 3,000,0001.; and 500,0001. having been paid on the 7th inst. under the former Act, shall be taken as part of the payment due on the 5th inst. under this new Act; and that, con- sequently, only 250,0001. shall be issued, between the 5th of July and 10th of October to complete the sum of 750,0001. (one-fourth of 3,000,0001.) The Commis- sioners are emp^ered to purchase Exchequer Bills, which are to be delivered to the paymasters of Ex- chequer Bills V> be cancelled. A ludicrous example of "Opposition'' occurred at Lincoln last week.—A person, wishing to go to Boston, went for that purpose to the lock, from which place the steam-packets Start. As soon as he had hailed one of them tor a passage, he was accosted by the "Oppo- sition" with "Go with us, we'll let you down for a shil- ling"—the others offered to let him go for sixpence.— "Opposition. Never you mind, then, you shall go with us for threepence.—The Generous Mastiffs,'1 deter- mining-not be outdone, would let him go for nothing; .but here they were again foiled, for the "Little Curs" (shouted.ouv" Go wi' us, go wi' us, you shall go for naught, and have your dinner and a quart of ale in the bargain." Boston Gazette. The Lord Chancellor yesterday granted the prayer of the petition, to discontinue the allowance of 15001. a year to Mary Ann Hanson, formerly called Lady Portsmouth. In the course of an action, Fisher v. Clement, tried in the Court of King's Bench, Tuesday, Sir James Scarlett intimated that he was not the author of the letter bear- ing his name, and recently published under the head "Singular Correspondence." Sir James stated, the only time he ever corresponded with a newspaper was on the occasion of a report of his death some years ago. The fate of the Game Bill is rather curious. The measure originated in the Lords, being from thence sent down to the Commons, and was there rejected on account of a money clause. A Bill, exactly similar, was then prepared, and passed in the Commons, but, on its second reading in the House of Lords, on Tues- day night, it was rejected. The Earl of Seiton has declared his intention of sel- ling his surplus game, and giving the produce to the benefit of the roads, or the poor, in each respective parish. The amount of Mr.O'CorinelPs expenses at the Clare election is estimated at from 10,0001. to 12,0001. for the week. Mr. Fitzgerald only averaged 1,0001. a-day. The 12,0001. expected to be raised in London for Mr. O'Connell's election, has dwindled into the paltry sum of 3001. The Subletting Act is gradually reducing the 40s. y m freeholders in Ireland, and throwing the land into the hands of large farmers. Some of the principal inhabitants of St. Paul's Covent Garden, had an interview on Thursday of the Secretary of State, for the purpose of laying before him the Idle display of Sir R. Birnie's authority in forcibly expelling Mr. Corder and his solicitor frow Bow-street. Mr. Peel assured them such an occurrence would not again take place. We perceive by the Preston Pilot, that the inha- bitants of Preston have it in contemplation to appeal to the Court of King's Bench against the decision of the county magistrates raising the assessment of that township to the county-rate from 32,0001. to 63,0001. The trial of Brinklett and Thomas and George Hunt, for the attack on Lord Mount Sandford, at Windsor, which caused his death, came on before Mr. Baron Vaughan, at Abingdon Assizes, on Wednesday. The trial lasted seven hours, when a verdict was returned against the prisonsrs of manslaughter. The prosecutors j recommended the Hunts to the merciful consideration of the Court, which adjudged them to two years' impri- sonment to hard labour, and Brinklett was sentenced to i be transported for life. At Winchester Assizes, yesterday, George White, a respectable baker, at Southampton, was found guilty of p ) the manslaughter of Thomas Macdonald.- This is the case mentioned by us at the time it took place, in June. White suspecting that the deceased was too intimate with his wife, gave out that he was going from home, and should return till late. In the mean time he se- creted himself in a room at the back of his parlour, and was soon a witness of his own dishonour. He rushed from his hiding-place, followed his treacherous friend, and stabbed him in the neck with a knife, which he had seized on the instant-the carotid artery was cut, and a few minutes terminated the career of the adul- terer. Under all the circumstances, the Court sen- tenced him to a fine of Is. which he immediately paid and was discharged. Mr. Gregory, the new Shy lock at the Haymarket Theatre, <va.s a banker at Brighton, until the late panic. The County Fire Office have paid the 5001. fine in- flicted upon Mr. Barber Beaumont, for a libel upon Lord Wallace; An ingenious plan for increasing the power of the voice has been carried into execution at Attercliffe Church, Sheffield, by erecting a concave sounding- board, to act as a reflector behind the reading-desk and pulpit, with the speaker's voice near the focus of the concave. The effect of this reflector increases the powerofthe voice five times beyond its ordinary volume. A curious scene took place at Marlborough-street Office, on Monday; three boys were charged, on the in- formation of a watchman, with stealing a snuff-box from the pocket of Earl Ferrers, as he was walking along Berkeley-square; his Lordship said he would not pro- secute; Mr. Roe said he must be bound over to pro- secute, and if his Lordship did not consent to this, he (the Magistrate) would commit him to the Tower! A long altercation followed, but it was at length agreed that the Earl should ask Lord Tenterden whether he was bound to prosecute; but the Earl said, that what- ever might be the consequence, he would not prosecute. Over a. booth in a country fair was the following in- scription, calculated, we presume, to ensure the com- party's being select:—" Excellent music for dancferh.— N. B. Nobody admitted withoutshoes or stockfngs 1" The celebrated Dr. Paley was so ardent a follower of Izaak Walton, that, on being asked by the then/Bishop of Durham when one of his most important works would be finished, he repled, with great quaintness and simplicity, "My Lord,! shall work steadily at it when the fly-fishing season is over." The sugar refiners of London have induced the go- vernment to bring in a bill to admit for refining in, and exportation from, this country, the slave-made sugars of all slave-trading nations. Portugal, Spain, and France, as well as Brazil, are equally encouraged by this bill to bring to England the sugars of theircolpnies. z r The subjects of these states carry on the slave-trade; and they carry it on, as has been affirmed by the Duke of Wellington, to an extent unknown in former times, and-under circumstances far more revolting than we remember to have heard1 ascribed to British traders. Yet| if is this trade which it is intended to encourage and' promdte by the bill now pending in Parliament, and against which not one syllable of complaint has been uttered by any member of the Anti-Slavery Society. It is as gtaringlyabountyin favour of the traffic in slaves as ever was sanctioned by law; and it is a legal sanction of the worst species of that traffic, bur, in despite of this, the philanthropist is dumb, and the foreign dealer in the blood and bones of the African race5 receives a licence to follow his profession from the disciples and admirers of William WilberforcC !—New Times.—[We know nothing whatever of the bill in ques- tion, but we are persuaded that if it is to have the imputed effect, it will never receive the sanction of the Duke of Wellington's government.]

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