The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-08 00:00:00

CSTANTINOPLE, MAY a—The Sultan, after leaving
Schunda, went to Silistria, where he mast have found
waiting to compliment him the Princes of Wallachia,
Moldavia, and Servia, each with a brilliant staff and suite.
The Austrian steamboat, Pannonia, had been placed at
his Ilighness's disposal, and the Imperial party would pro-
ceed by her on the Danube, certainly to Rustchuk, as far
as which he will be accompanied by the Princes of Moldoia
and Wallachia, and probably to Widin, whence he will
come by 'land to Adrianople. In the meantime, as is
usual at this period of the- year, a respectable fleet is col-
lecting in the Bosphorus, independently of three frigates,
one of which proceeds to Alexandria to take Dervish
Paella, lately appointed Governor of Mecca and Medina,
another to Smyrna to relieve a frigate in station there, and
the third, accompanied by a brig, to Salor:iea, to keep that
neighbourhood free from pirates.
Our advises from O.lessa are to the 11th inst. The ves-
sels-of-war mentioned in my last received on board the re-
mainder of the division destined, according to Russian ac-
counts, to complete the fortifications of Sevastopol, and re-
sailed on the CI They consisted of five ships cf the line,
two frigates, a brig, a cutter, and two steamers. We have
no fresh intelligence that I can learn from Cireassia. It is
reported that General Rosen is by this time in full e.-mipaign
against that dcvoted country at the bead of 20,000 men.
Ills army was stationed during • the winter in Georgia, the
head, quarters being at Tiflis.
This port, which only three years ago had no stc:tmers,
except two miserable old concerns, is about to be inun-
dated with them. We have no less than five lying
here at this moment, and the first of one succession to
Ll'Ne frcm France and' of another from Trieste are to
appear in the course of next week. Two English boats,
the Levant and the Essex, are likely to run in oppo-
sition to each other between Galata and the diplomatic
residences of Therapia and Buyukdere, coming down the
Bospl.orus every morning, and going up again every after-
noon. It is apprehended that the Turkish boatmen will
complain of this interference in their profitable occupation,
and it is,possible the Government will step forward to pre-
vent it ; but this remains to be seen. It is hoped not, be-
cause as the Franks are debaved from all country resi-
dences except those near the mouth of the Black Sea, it is
but fair that they should be allowed to choose a rapid, safe,
and regular conveyance.
Since writing what precedes, I hear that the Russians
have received news of the triumph of their arms in Cir.
casia. I can learn no particulars ; but coming through
shell a channel it is possible that a successful skirmish rally
have been magnified into a great victory.
The Exchange on London is up to 114. All the gold is
going out of the empire ; and we may soon be reduced to
the worthless beshliks, which are a disgrace to any &arthy,
civilised or uncivilised.

SOCrETY OF ARTS.—The last ordinary mczting
for tire. Session was held yesterday evening. R. H. Sully, Esq.,
in the Chair, in the room of 11. Hughes Hughes, Esq., M. P.,
the Vice-President fur the evening. A silver medal was bal-
lotted fur, and awarded to Mr. James Marsh, for en improvid
percussion tube, and composition for cannon, and particularly
in slips' guns. In the previous arrangements for this purpose
the c ,mposition often failed in producing fire, and in other
caus the explosion of the copper tubes is attended with danger,
to bv-standers. The first is obviated by mixing half i;s weight
with powdered glass, and the latter by substituting crow quills
for copper tubes. By order of the Admiralty trials had been
made on board his Majesty's ship Excellent, at Portsmouth,
and in upwards of 900 cases no trial had proved unsuccessful.
It had since been introduced in several ships in commission,
and the inventor had received a pecuniary reward from the
Government. This being a general meeting, several motions
were taken into consideration, and a resolution was passed
that an extraordinary general meeting should in future be con-
vened by the signature of twenty members, at which fifteen
should form a quorum. A motion, proposed by Mr. Flowers,
that power should be vested in the Committee of correspond-
ence and prom to give permission for copying the paintings
of the 'Society, was also agreed to. After the transaction of
ordinary bUsii.ess the mectitag adjourned.

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There was very little business doing yesterday either
in goods or yarns ; the market seemed indeed, in consequence
of the Great American failures, for the moment paralysed ;,
but, nottvithstandincr° this, the opinion seemed to be prevalcat,
that a weight had been taken off the market, and that we
should soon find prices more steady, and, and sales more easy
to be effected.—Manche,ter Guardian.

Yesterday afternoon a drove of bullocks were pro-
ceeding through Newport-street, on their way to Newport-
market, when one of the animals saw a dog attached to a
cat's-meat barrow near the curb stone, on which it rushed to-
wards it and tossed the dog and barrow with its contents into
the air. The howling of the dog was tremendous, and it fell
to the ground and its head was severely lacerated. The cir-
cumstance was so ludicrous that it caused considerable merri-
ment. The bullock ran off and rushed at several passengers,
who narrowly escaped, but eventually it secured and taken
to a slaughter-house by some butchers.
Yesterday the shopkeepers of the parish of St.
Giles were cautioned against carrying on business or keeping
their shops open after ten o'clock on _Sunday neat, as for
every offence committed on and after that day proceedings
would be commenced in the Crown-office. St. Pancras v. as
the first parish in which this mode of procedure was adopted.
Other parishes arc about to follow the same plan.
There are letters in town from General Evans, stat-
ing that as it is not his intention to renew his period of ser-
vice, which expires on the 10th instant, he w ill positively leave
Spain on or übout the 12th, in order to resume his Parlia-
mentary duties. It is reported that he is expected to-day to
arrive in London from Paris, where he has been staying for
a few days.
ENGLAND ; WITH SKETCHES OF SOCIETY IN
TILE METROPOLIS, BY THE Artiloß of TILEThis is
a most original work, frequently possessing intense
interest, and always, even in its mistakes, exceedingly amusing.
Mr. Cooper resided some time in London, and as he had been
heralded by his literary fame, invitations were showered in upoi,
him from the highest and most exclusive quarters. He dined
at Holland House, and at Lord Grey's, and with the choicest
parties assembled under the roof of Mr.-Rogers, the Poet. He
was present at some of the Duke of Devonshire's soirees, and
was, on other occasions, introduced to Mr. Godwin, Sir James
Mackintosh, Lord Brougham, Chaltrey, the sculptor, Lord
John Russell, Sir Walter Scott, Mr. Coleridge, Sir Thomas
Lswrenee, Mrs. Siddons, and other distinguished personages;
sod his book, accordingly, abounds in personal anecdote of a
rare kind. The author's views, as to the state of public opinion
among us, and as to our institutions, are worthy of considera-
tion, rh°'l
h Eventhrsy arethis,
hov.c,occasionally, coloured by a foreigner's
prejudice.
er,imparts a certain zest to thr
perusal, and will assist in giving universal circulation to the
bo9k..—Navaland Military Gazette.

Good briveocic, 'Late thy rage ! Use lenity, sweet chuck !"
While the hurricane lasted all we could do was to
hide ourselves from its feu y : we could not run the risk
of annihilation and of being " swept from the face-of
all created things ;" but now that the tornado has
abated a little (as we find by an erratum slily inserted
yesterday) and that our eccentric contemporary ap-
pears somewhat ashamed of the manner in which it
exposed itself while under the influence of uncon-
trollable passion, we may perhaps venture just to ad-
vert . to the cause of this absurd exhibition.
It seems that the Times has found out—to use
its own words—" an astounding fact ;" and this
fact it intends " to ring in the ears of the whole
Empire, -till it returns upon it in tweoty millions
of echoes." It is to be hoped, for the sake of variety,.
that some of these " twenty millions of echoes" will be'
of the Irish kind; but
.wliat -is this " astounding fact,"
which; we suppose,
sis to set the hair of the
.whole
nation on end ? We shall, perhaps, have' twenty
millions of hats starting from the heads of their
owners, as well as " twenty millions of echoes."
Think of that, reader, and tremble, as we needs must.
when we saw that the Times was in " rage so limit-
less:" But what, we ask again, is this " astounding
fact ?" It is, to be sure, a most wonderful discovery.
—worthy of our great mare's-nest-finding Contempo-
rary—and that is saving everything for it. It is a dis-
covery, however, which it did not make during the long
period that the Duke of Wellington was " parson,
clerk, and sexton too," in Downing-street ; but which
seems to have now coml) upon it, on a sudden, by a
sort of miraculous revelation. The " astounding fact"
is (and our reatkrs will be to the full as touch astounded
at the intelligence as the Times), that this kingdom
has " no Government whatever." Indeed ! Very
well, then, we cooclude, that a Government is
in a course of formation, •and, as the Times is so
much in the secret, that it has been called upon by
the King to give advice in the emergency. All the
cakes of the state, we suppose, are vacant, and his
Majesty cannot venture to fill any of them until he has
consulted the solemn sages of Printing-house-Anare.
This would be an " astounding fact," if you please,
though we do not happen to have heard of any such
matter ; and what is more, we do not expect to hear of
it. It is an "astounding fact" which the Time; haS
all to itself, and is very like some of the other " as-
tounding facts" which it not unfrequently promul-
gates. Our contemporary is so lost in wonderment at
its own discovery, that, together with its blind passion,
it is quite incapable of all reasoning. First, it asserts
that the kingdom has " no G)vernment whatever ;"
then, it proceeds, in the same aitiele, to call upon
the Government, the existence of which it deities,
to resign ; and lastly, it maintains that resignation
was not what it had required. This is not merely
floundering, it is fatuity ; and all in the midst
of a volley of words, vented in the ecstacy of
xrath, the meaning of which the Times o:wi-
nisly does . not itself comprehend, and which we
;hall not attempt to explain "we understand
fury in its words, but not the words," and that
Is all we can gather. The only clear point is, that
the Times is in a violent rage, and that its rage is
occasioned by the " astouuding fact" that the king-
dom has a Goverament ; i'ml, more ," astounding"
still, that do all the Times can, foam and tear, rant
and roar, as much end as long as it will, it cannot get
rid of that Government; but the nation will
,have it,
even in spite of the Times ! This is really all, ac-
cording to the showing of the Times, that is " as-
tounding" in the case, and what our infuriated Con-
tett porary subsequently advances only establishes,
more and more, the folly and absurdity of the po-
sition with which it had set out. How does the
Times proceed to show that this country has " no
Government whatever ?" It acknowledges that
there is a clear majority in the House of Com-
mons in favour of Ministers, and it does not at-
tempt to dispute that that majority represents
the mass of the people. It acknowledges that the
King is satisfe d with his present servants ; fur if he
were nut, why does he not dismiss them ? P acknow-
ledges, for the fact is undeniable even by the Times,
that chere is a large body of wealthy and independent
Peers in the House of Lords, who are the stanch sup-
porters of the present Government. Then who are it.
enemies ? The Times and the corruptionists ; these,
and these only. Of course, then, it must f 11, and it
ought to fall. No Government ought to stand in op-
position to corruption, and, above all, to the Times.
The Times .‘ dares" it to the trial ; and Lard Mel-
bourne, Lord John Russell, And their frieads can-
not certainly venture to risk an encounter with
the Times,—it is irresistible,—it is the great
Ogre, Blutiderbore, whose very " Fee, faw, feat,"
is to frighten the present Ministers from their
propriety, with no Jack the Giant-killer to come
to their rescue. Lord John can do nothing for
his brethren against
,the monster,
,which has sworn
to exterminate the whole race of Whigs, Reformers,
and Radicals ! Sauve qui p:ut must be the cry ;
" the Times is coming 1" will now be as terrible in
Downing-street as " The Talbot is coming !" used
once to_be in France. • Our Contemporary has been
quiet for a single da:a waiting, no doubt, to see
the effect of its threatenings ; and we advise Lord
Melbourne and the rest of the King's Ministers, and
the nation's Government, to avail themselves of the
opportunity, and quietly to take up their hats and
walk, lest they should farther provoke the extermi-
nating wrath of such a matchless adversary.—Morn-
ing Chronicle.

Slr Andrew Agwew last night moved in the House
of Commons the second reading of his Bill for con-
verting the Sabbath from a day of rest, relaxation, and
religious observances, into a day of persecution and
misery. The rational portion—by which we mean the
great body of the community—are already so deluged
with disgust at this monstrously absurd proposition,
that it ri unnecessary to make any appeal to them
against its outrageous infliction. It proposes such an
atrocious aggression on the innocent enjoyments which
so much contribute to the moral and physical well-
being of those whose daily necessities preclude them
from all intermediate states of existence between posi-
tive labour and positive repose, save on that day set
apart by a divine ordinance fur meditation and intellectual
refreshment, that it would be perfectly impossible to carry
it into effect against the general abhorrence which its
enactment would inevitably excite. But let us address
a few words to the Agnewites, indicative of their ab-
surdity and irreligiOus violation of their own tenets.
In the first place, they would impose an extra Sabbath-
(lay duty on the magistrates, police-officers, constables,
and those to whom the enforcement of their precious
law would be confided, by which it is but fair to infer
that the Agnewites either legislate on the supposition
that these functionaries have no souls to be saved, or
that it is necessary to sacrifice them to the good of the
rest of the community. Now, though sonic of our
metropolitan Magistrates occasionally exhibit an ex-
.raordinary dearth of reason and humanity, we protest
tgainst the inference that they have not souls like
other men, and therefore consider it most unfair to
attempt to throw on their shoulders, in addition to their
other transgressioos, the burden of violating the
Sabbath, in enforcing its more rigid observance upon
others. Sir Andrew ought to have some compassion
on the civil authorities, for, if his hypothesis be