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the privileges of the nation it would lead us too far to even attempt a suc- 

 cinct analysis of all their acts suffice it to say that every thing is borrowed 

 from the laws and customs of Germany, with a laudable disregard to the 

 habits, prejudices, and institutions of the Greeks themselves. The Palikari 

 have refused to enlist in the regular army collision has taken place between 

 them and the Bavarian troops, and the former have in consequence migrated 

 into Albania and taken service with the Turks. King Otho's reign will, we 

 venture to predict, be a short one, and his successor, Nicholas Paulovitch, 

 by the grace of England and France. 



Like the Belgian question, the struggle between the Sultan and Mahomet 

 Ali, is provisionally settled. Constantinople has been the arena of diplo- 

 matic intrigue, which will in some measure explain the vacillating conduct 

 of the Sultan, between the French and Russian party. Admiral Roussin 

 displayed great energy, and strove to make Mahmoud preserve the analogy 

 that existed between himself and the last king of Poland, Stanislas Poniat- 

 touski. The grand Signior, it is said, was so struck with the resemblance, 

 that he became as anxious for the departure of his Russian allies, as he had 

 been for their stay. Ibrahim Pacha has commenced his retreat, and as soon 

 as the last Egyptian soldier shall have passed the Taurus, the Russians would 

 on their side evacuate the Ottoman capital. But, like the Russians their 

 prototypes the Romans of old, never conclude a peace without securing to 

 themselves pretexts for proximate intervention. In this instance they have 

 acted with their usual cunning. By the first article of the treaty between 

 Nicholas and the Sultan, it is stipulated, that three months after the return 

 of the Russian auxiliary force, the Grand Signior shall proceed to pay the 

 expences of the Russian armed intervention; and, by a secret article it is fur- 

 ther stipulated, that until the definitive conclusion of those arrangements, 

 no foreign vessel of war is to be allowed to enter the Dardanelles. The exhausted 

 finances of the Sultan will not allow him to fulfill the conditions of the 

 treaty, and Russia will thus acquire a plausible pretext for seizing another 

 slice of the Ottoman empire. It is rumoured in the political circles at Paris, 

 that General Sebastiani, at a recent council of ministers, urged the immediate 

 sending to the Bosphorus of a strong fleet, and an army of twelve thousand 

 men, and it is asserted that Louis Philippe was not averse to the project. Se- 

 bastiani has a more searching and prophetic eye than his colleague, Mons. de 

 Broglie. 



From the more distant parts of the world we are without news of import- 

 ance. In Brazil, there have been some serious provincial disturbances, aris- 

 ing from the rapacious and insubordinate spirit, of that regular organized 

 banditti, the army. This force should have been disbanded long ago, they 

 are far more terrible to their own countrymen in peace, than they would be 

 to an enemy in war as a military force they are contemptible. 



In the United States, the president has had his nose pulled ; but such an 

 event, which in Europe would be regarded as high treason, is looked upon as 

 a mere nothing by brother Jonathan. 



