It is gratifying to learn that the revenue for the
quarter is ex- pected to show'an increase. approaching to half a million, princi- pally in the Excise department. The revenue of the whole year will considerably exceed the expectations of the most sanguine. The news from Bulgaria consists chiefly of floating rumours re- specting the movements and disasters of the Russians, which, as they are evidently of small trustworthiness, need not be recapi- tulated.
An imperial rescript from the Emperor Nicholas graciouSly re- fuses General Wittgenstein a short leave of absence that he hail solicited, to visit his estate; because it is absolutely necessary that the General should be at his post at this season, to superintend the reorganization of the troops—an office in which no person can take his place. This is at once a plain admission of past losses, and a pledge of future efforts to retrieve them.
On the ground, too, that the plague has shown itself in the Principalities, the time for holding quarantine has been extended from sixteen days to thirty ; and it is enforced with such rigour. that some divisions of the army which were to recross the Pruth, have been compelled to remain in Moldavia and Wallachia. Some hold this to be merely a feint to suppress the diffusion of disagree- able intelligence.
After all that has been said of the Russian retreat from Bul- garia, it is pretty well settled that there is still a formidable corps on the right bank of the Danube.
The Turks have begun to manifest a resolution to make a bolder defence in Asia than they have hitherto made ; having, it seems, no desire like the Russians to go into winter-quarters.
The report is renewed that Lord Heytesbury's mission to the Emperor of Russia had failed, and that his Lordship was coming home.
