3 OCTOBER 1829, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

No intelligence which can be relied on has reached town from the theatre of the war, or of negotiation, since our last number. The French Opposition journals persist, with most marvellous obstinacy if their in- formation be no better than ours, in asserting that no armistice had taken place (this 'we are inclined to suspect may be true), and that no negotiation had been or would be entered into until General DIEBITSCH had occupied Constantinople. We do not exactly see the necessity for such an occupation previous to the opening of negotiations ; nor, al. though the vanity of the invading general might be more gratified, do we think that more favourable conditions would be obtained in a treaty dated from the Seraglio, than from one dated from the Russian bi- tow. Negotiate where he will, General DIEBITSCH has but to an- nounce his pleasUre, and the Sultan must obey. His demands can only be limited, not by what Turkey chooses to a-rant, for she can re- fuse nothing, but by what he may deem it expedient to ask. Some of the journals sport rather strange opinions on this subject. They speak of the Emperor's moderation,—as if his private and personal feelings were only to be considered, and as if, in regard of those feel- ings, he were differently constituted from other men—that victory did not produce on him the same effects that it does on humanity in ge- neral. We have no doubt that NICHOLAS is a moderate man, and we have as little doubt that he will employ his advantages to the ut- most to secure his present bald over and his future views on Turkey. Precisely because he is a moderate man, we shall be dis- appointed in our calculations if he forego one jot of all that his career of victory entitles him to claim. We never knew a moderate man do so. Rash, headstrong, passionate personages, as often• throw away opportunities as improve them; and they are ever most apt to throw them away when unexpectedly placed in their hands. But such is not the practice of prudent, and sober, and regulated tempers. Russia will hold all the towns on the Danube, all the towns on the Black Sea, as guarantees for sums which Turkey will never be able to pay. She will tease that power into another war in the course of a year or two, and then seize a little more territory as an additional guarantee ; and thus will she proceed, as she has done with Persia, first making the aggression, then if its peaceful possession be for a moment disputed— if the honest man attempt to get his own again—committing a second to secure the first; and thus step by step advancing until the whole is in her hands, and she comes in contact with a fresh enemy, with whom the same policy is to be renewed-with the same success. On the subject of the peace, the Courier of last night gives a letter from Nuremberg, dated the 24th September : "Letters frem Vienna of the 20th instant, just come to hand, mention that aFrench courier, who left Constantinople on the 8th instant, had brought the news that General Diebitsch, with his army, was before the walls of the capital ; and also that the Russian fleet had forced its passage through the Dardanelles and destroyed the Turkish fleet, which had been quite inactive. The negotiations at the Russian head-quarters had been suddenly broken off, as Count Diebitsch wanted not only a very large sum as a compensation for the expenses of the war, but also the demolition of the Castles of the Darda- nelles; the occupation, during ten years, of all the fortresses taken, with the exception of Erzerum ; and the stay of the army at Adrianople during twelve months. The Turkish agents had declared that they were not able to give any answer to these proposals, and had set out on their return to Constanti- nople, where they had arrived on the 7th instant. The consequence of which has been, as above stated, the advance of Count Diebitsch to Constan- tinople, the passage of the Dardanelles, and the destruction of the Turkish fleet."

Our contemporary, it is proper to add, does not give much credit to this statement of facts; and we confess it seems rather made up from the wishes than the knowledge of the writer. The French papers report that Shumla had been taken by KRAS- sown'. This is a probable enough event.