alarmed at this determination consented.

Prince

Stourdza was admitted as fifth, as "junior" candidate, and was immediately selected by the Porte. This will explain the meaning of the Frankfort Journal, when it says that the evil lay in the elective principle; an election also, be it observed, which by the stipulations between the two powers is strangely confined to "cette seule fois-ci."

The Prince

The consequences are natural. attempted to pursue an independent line of policy, received no support, was menaced, circumvented, driven perhaps into errors, conspiracies fomented against him, represented, of course, as Russian, and, now his resistance is overcome, he has made

his peace.

To whatever side we turn our eyes what a labyrinth of iniquity-what a web of cunning and intrigue! Can the British Government really believe that all this trouble and expenditure is incurred merely to baffle its penetration, or to counteract its policy? It may be necessary to act on the mind of the British Government when sums of money are wanted to support the action of Russia, or when it is necessary to bring England (and this is the acme of her policy) into a real or appa

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rent concert with Russia, but it would be very erroneous to suppose that the multiplicity of means used against Turks, Persians, Servians, or Moldavians, has reference to any other combination than those contingent on the impossibility of her acting by force, and her succeeding by strength against the numerous bodies she has undertaken to disorganise. It is therefore by the combination of art, far more triumphant than her victorious arms, that these people are daily reduced lower and lower in the scale of political power. It is by dexterity rather than impulse that she introduces the two wedges which have prostrated so many crowns, so. many charters before her-discontent and insecurity. And all this while England is kept in perfect indifference as to what is going on-is firmly persuaded that these people are all wild savages, already at the mercy of Russia, and likely to prove a source of weakness if incorporated in her Empire!

In a former number we have said that the Provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia offer in their natural resources, and in their financial system, which, not yet being civilized, allows the free importation of all the produce and manufactures of the earth-a field for commercial enterprise,

which, if protected from foreign violence, will equal in importance the commerce of Great Britain with her mighty neighbour, France.

We now say, that these provinces have the means of forming in peace, and as it were commercially, a barrier against Russia, on the West of the Euxine, not less effectual, and perhaps more galling to her than on the East the mountain barrier of the Caucasus. How curiously shall we inquire into all these points when the period of prevention shall have passed away!

Extracts from the Treaty of St. Petersburgh, 29th Jan. 1834.

"ART. II-Par l'Instrument fait séparément à Adrinople, relativement aux Principautés de la Valachie et de la Moldavie, la Sublime Porte a pris l'engagement de reconnaître formellement les reglemens faits, pendant que les troupes Russes occupaient ces Provinces, par les principaux habitans*—sur leur administration intérieure; la Sublime Porte ne trouvant rien dans les articles de cette constitution, qui puisse affecter ses droits de Souveraineté, consent dés à present à reconnaître formellement la dite Constitution.

"Elle s'engage à publier à cet egard un Firman, accompagné d'un Hatti Sherif, deux mois aprés l'echange des ratifications et à donner une copie du même à la Mission Russe à Constantinople.+

Aprés la reconnaissance formelle de la Constitution, les Hospo

Read General Kesileff.

+ Not to any other Mission or to the Prince Hospodars, or to be formally announced to the rest of Europe.

dars de Vallachie et de Moldavie seront nommés, mais POUR CETTE SEULE FOIS-CI, et comme un cas tout particulier, de la manière qui a été convenue, il y a quelque tems; entre les deux puissances coutractantes, et ils commenceront à gouverner les deux provinces conformément à la Constitution, laquelle est une suite des stipulations dont il a été parté plus haut.

EVACUATION OF SILISTRIA.

THE Russians are at length to evacuate Silistria. So then all the projects imputed to that power finally turn out to be unjust and malignant. Russia at the same time remits a portion of the debt as security for which Silistria was said to be held. Here is a new demonstration of the liberality of the Emperor, a new guarantee for the duration of peace; and as further guarantees for the continuation of that European peace, Austria is disarming and the Dardanelles are fortifying.

Not many months back the evacuation of Silistria, and the remission of the debt, would have led the simple-minded of this country to discredit any evidence that could have been brought forward, with a view to substantiate the reality of those designs which now no one questions.

Whether Russia's calculations will ultimately prove true or not, as regards the actions of Great Britain, it is perfectly clear that she has been mistaken in her estimate of the opinions of Great Britain.