The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-02 00:00:00

faeturets afford, and -barely sufficient, when the • SPIRIT OP Thift PUBLI4I IOTIOALIAT.3.
capital employed and the average returns of your
trade are considered. This being reduced 10 per At length light is thrown upon the progressive
cent., by the reduction of 15 per cent, to the some- or approaching settlement of Greece. The sub-
ties, will, if persevered in, hr.m• the whole of the i ject is important, and we solicit attention to it.
new trade into the hands of the wholesale houses,
The French Journal des Debats of the 28th
which, we fear, is the latent intention ; and to effect
'
ult, states, and with acrimonious aversion, that
this they insultingly threaten to force you to become
the agents of your own fall. the choice is falling or has fallen upon the
" Sign the resolutions, and seal your destruction: Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg for the future
—once allow the wholesale trade to deduct 15 per sovereign of the new-constructed realm. The
cent., and every means will be resorted to by them, dissatisfaction with such a choice is the more
,quaranteed as it will be by you (for it has hither to surprising, because no French Prince or subject
been a secret and surreptitious practice) to advertise was ever thought of or mentioned ; and surely
!heir offers throughout the country. The odds are the Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg is as good
Tearfully against you; they will be making fortunes a name and title as the Prince of Baden, the
at nearly cent. per cent., while you are starving
on 10. Prince of Hesse-Hombourg, Prince John of
Saxony, or the youth whose lank locks and odd
" Yet still we would give these gentlemen a les- i .
son from tLe Fables of Old
./Esop. Let them re- visage we welt recollect, Prince Paul, of Wur-
verse the story of the Belly and its Members; then temherg. The Emperor of Russia, with a self-
con the moral, and consider if, when they have denial which does him honour considering his
lopped off the limbs, and deprived themselves of position, is said to have declined all interference
their services, whet is to become of the neglected in the election of the future Sovereign of Greece.
and helpless remain: ? But the French Journalist will have it that
"In conclusion, we must beg to observe that on with a partiality which would have disgraced his
the Committee are men of the highest respectability,
sense of justice, his Majesty consigned his inte-
and of strict integrity; hut we do consider with !re-
gret that they have with the best intentions lent rest to Prance and then that the Minister of
teat country,, bringing both the Russhsri Sove-
themselves to an insidious design without having
reign s powers and those of his own master to
duly reflected on the consequences."
[lt may be unnecessary to add, from the peculia- the negoeiation, frankly surrendered all to Eng-
rity of the case, that there are no signatures to this ; land, and acquiesced in our proposition that
circular defence of the Retail Booksellers.]—De-1 Prince Leopold should be the happy man. This
cember 31. is giving way dreadfully to national antipathies :
and thus it is that the Liberals of France, at the
expence of common reason and common sense,
will show their hatred of England ! But we should
think that there may be even more than national
antipathy here. Perhaps the mortified self-love of
some disappointed candidate may have been
allowed to infuse its rancour into the article.
The Emperor of Russia, however, having fore-
gone his right of voting, the choice rested with
France and England.; and they may have agreed
upon Prince Leopold. Him the French jour-
nalist calls the pensioner of the English Parlia-
ment. This we do not wonder at, for all sense
of the sacred nature of property has been so
destroyed in the heads of Frenchmen, by their
plundering revolution, that they think nothing
is a man's own which violence can wrest from
him. But the truth is, that Prince Leopold is
no more a pensioner of England, than ally man
is a pensioner of his father-in-law, who, by a
contract before marriage, is to have air irrevo-
cable life-interest in his wife's fortune in case
she die first. So large a settlement as 50,0001.
a year never ought to have been made upon the
Prince ; but, being made, it is his, and so
much the better for Greece, if he be the person
chosen to be her King. The next subject of
declamation with the French journalist is the
affair of the limits of Greece, which limits he
charges us with circumscribing, so as to leave
the new kingdom a less extent of territory than
it ought to possess. By a wondrous ineoesis-
tency, therefore, he first accuses us of procuring
the election of a Sovereign over whom we have
a decided influence, and then of curtailing as
much as possible that Sovereign's power to do us
any good ! Is this writer, however, aware that the
protocol of the 22d of March, assigning the
larger extent of territory, which he supposes us
to have compressed, says not one word about the
independence of Greece, but would leave its in-
habitants in the same situation as was contem-
plated by the treaty of the 9th of July preceding,
that is, under the sovereignty of the Pot te, and
subject to the constant heart-burnings or open
conflicts which must follow from tine exaction of
a tribute, and the enforcement of vassalage to
the feudal lord? And how does be know but
that the complete independence of whatever ter-
ritory shall be ultimately assigned to Greece, may
be the result of the late conference, and consti-
tute an article in the forthcoming arrangement ?
And should such prove to be the case, surely
the loss of a contested portion of frontier terri-
tory, containing subjects in a dangerous position
and of doubtful faith, is more than compensated
by the consolidated 'union of the rest in a state
of perfect independence. Without possessing,
therefore, any authentic intelligence of the elec-
tion of Prince Leopold to the throne of Greece,
we have still thought it necessary to give
our opinion upon those points which might
seem to oppose his elevation, or might sub-
sequently impair his character as an inde-
pendent sovereign. We have corrected the
partial errors, and reproved the unprovoked
wrath, of the French journalist; and we acknow.
ledge that we have been the more anxious to do
this, because we are inclined to think that some-
thing of the kind which he has stated has taken
place, both from the perusal of the French
papers generally, and especially from the ac-
counts in the ministerial organ, the Gazette de
France, which, we observe, are uncontradicted
in any quarter.—Titnes.
The Gazette de France of Wednesday last
has a most pathetic appeal to the Sovereigns of
Europe on the subject of the danger to which
they are exposed from the circulation of liberal
Journals. "If (says that loyal Journal) foreign
Governments conceived themselves secure from
the attacks of Liberalism, they would allow a free
circulation to the Journals of that party ;
Portugal, Piedmont, Austria, Poland, would
not proscribe them—Russia would not suppress
a great number of them. To be convinced of
the efficacy of these precautions, IV e have only
to observe the difference which exists between
the public spirit of the countries into which libe-
ral Journals penetrate, and that of the Staten into
which they 'are not admitted. Those nations
which do not expect every
day
;alit alliierhy4r:a!ree 8i:17:1'c:11:L-
-1d] effipe
raerni Paris
eC:obuurtr ev
s, ievree.
is not obt
rant of none of the events which take gee*,
and form a judgment on all of them with Cahn-
ness and decorum, because they judge without
foreign influence, and according to the real inte-
rests of their country • while to the n

HUNTING INTELLIGEt\CCE.

♦PPOINTMENTS FOR. THE ENSUING WEEK.

(In consequence of the frost,- the Appointments for several
Fox Hounds have not been made as usual. )
The Montgomeryshire Fox Hound., on Tuesday, at
i3rongwyn; and Friday, at Berriew Village—at
The Shropshire Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at the Fox,
Albrighton ; Wednesday, at Eaton Mascott ; Friday, at
Sundorn Castle; and Saturday, at Woodcote—at Half-
past Ten.
_ _

- Lord Anson's Hounds, on Monday, at Centers' Over ;
Wednesday, at Dunchurch Kennel ; Thursday, at Shuck-
burgh-hill ; and Saturday, at Bourton—at Eleven.

Mr. Meynell's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Stanesby ;
Thursday, at Chaddesden ; and Saturday, at Illieldeover—
at Half-past Ten.

The Soinersetehire Subscription Fox Hounds, on Tues-
day, at St. Audries ; and Friday, at Crowcombe Park-
gate—at Half-past Ten.

The Brookside Harriers, on Mond iy, at Newmarket-
Hill ; Wednesday, at Aeheombe, the alternate Wednesday
at the Kennel ; and Friday, at Telseombe Tye—at Half-
past Ten.

Mr. R. K. Sampson's Hounds, on Monday, at West.
dean ; Thursday, at Bourne ; and Saturday, at Mr. Ads's,
Duttles—at Ten.

The Brighton Harriers on Monday, at Patcham ; Wed-
nesday, at the Race Course; and Friday, at the Dyke—at
Half-past Ten.

Mr. Shawe's Hounds, on Monday, at Kingsbury Woods,
and Friday, at Mile Oak—at Half-past Ten.
Th• Kempstone Hounds, on Monday, at Mr. Abbott's,
Wicken Castle-acre; Wednesday, at Mr. Beck's, Mile-
ham ; and Friday, at West Lexbam—at Eleven.
Mr. H. Villebois's Harriers, on Tuesday, at the Kennel ;
Thursday, at Whittington-hill ; and Saturday, at Stoke
Ferry Windmill—at Eleven.

The Badsworth Fox Hounds, •n Tuesday, at Rings-
ton-bill; Thursday, at Urodswortb ; and Saturday, at
Notton Village—at Half-past Ten.

Mr. Dansiy's Hounds, on Tuesday, at King's Pion ;
and Friday, at Perrystone—at Ten.

The Worcestershire Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at Stone
Bow-turnpike; and Friday, at Bishop's Wood--at Half-
past Ten.

THE CHASE.

We are much gratified to bear that the old-established
pack of stag-hounds (known as the Derby hounds), which
have hunted Surrey and Kent for more than fifty years,
free of every expense to the public, are to be continued by
subscription ; and we sincerely hope and trust a liberal
public, particularly those who hare enjoyed so many good
days' sport with them, will assist as much ad is in their
power. It has been clearly proved that these hounds
have caused the sum of thirty thousand pounds to be spent
in the two counties. The hounds will begin hunting as
soon as the weather permits.—Sporting Magazine.