In the latest edition of last week's Spectator it was
mentioned, that a new treaty had been concluded between Russia and Turkey, upon telly's apparently very favourable to Turkey. Russia was to evacuate part of Wallachia and Moldavia immediately, and the remainder very soon. In other respects, the treaty of Adrianople was modified, and the amount of the debt to Russia diminished. The Turkish frontier on the side of Persia is also to be extended. This sounds very well; but as yet, though some of our Govern- ment journals, which have " the run of the Foreign Office," have been trumpeting the treaty in the course of the week, almost as boastfully as if Lord Pssmsasrors himself had made it, they have not told us what equivalent Russia is to have for her con- cessions. In the meanwhile, vs e learn from the Constantinople correspondent of the Times, that the Russian engineers at the Dardanelles are busy at work, and that after having very materi- ally improved the existing fortifications, they are erecting fresh. batteries on the coast of the gulph of Saros. Alas ! for the " in- tegrity " of Turkey !
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