The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-03 00:00:00

TIT I4n UN, LONbOSt, tffigSDAY, OCTOBVR

went feAbla and Opposition presumptuous." When
sEe thatthough this atitte of altdifsisttut made bet-
ti!t for the. Goveriithent, litic Worse, and yet still the
Government is eiteerfiilly disii6so to regard itself as
being in a " triumphant" position, we mtist
ledge that the philosophy of this Administration is
Beyond conipari& But, ds hinted at the beginning,
iii priHnOftipti Aditillilstration
is admirable, on the itypothe that the Multi dlty of
A Minister is to stay in, so is the conduct of the Ada
ministration disgraceful and ignominious to the last
degree if that be not his principal and paramount duty.
If disappointment and defeat be just reasons for lower-
ing the tone of Ministerial arrogance, and preparing
to a'lvocate in a non-official station those principles of
policy which officially the Minister has been unable
to carry into effect, then the triumphant tone affect-3d
by Ministai at present is at once ridiculous and offen-
sive.—Moriting Post.

A RUSSIAN TRAVELLING IN

RUSSIA

M. Anatole de Demidoff has written a highly amusing
letter from Odessa, and this letter has been printed in the
Journal des Debals. We shall be well pleased to see fur-
ther communications from this able young traveller. M.
Demidoff appears to have had some hardships to endure
before arriving at Odessa. " More than once," he says,
"we despaired of ever reaching the land of promise. Our
hardships being now passed, many agreeable recollections
remain, but I would scarcely advise any one who intends
to visit Odessa to choose the Danube steam-boats as his
mode of conveyance. They arc attended with annoyances
which the beautiful scenery of the river scarcely atones for.
I can, from my own experience, advise those who conic
after me rather to travel through Poland and Brody, if
they intend to visit the south of Russia. When one is in
Vienna, however, the temptation is certainly very great.
Who does not wish to accompany the Danube through all
her windings ? And then we are reminded how beautiful
it must be to be conveyed 300 leagues down the river
by the combined force of the current and steam. The
Nador carries you to Pesth, the Franz I. to Drenkova, the
Argo to the end of the journey. No wonder that, with
such a prospect before them, people embark without farther
reflection. Many disappointments await the bold and
credulous, but one hope at least is fulfilled : the lover of
the picturesque is abundantly gratified. On this point the
Danube most religiously observes all her promises. She
never ceases to occupy our attention and to excite our
wonder ; now with her glorious watery mirror flowing tran-
quilly between her widely severed shores, anon rushing
with her mutinous waves through the time-honoured bar-
riers of the Carpathian and Balkan mountains." Our
traveller continued en the Danube till he reached Giurgewo.
Thence he proceeded overland through Wallachia to Buc-
harest. He speaks in high terms of the administration of
the liospodar Alexander Ghika. The journey from
Bucharest to Jassy, through inundated lands, was attended
with greater difficulties than the trip with the steamer
down the Danube. At Skulani,.on the Pruth, Demidoff
and his companions had to perform a quarantine of fourteen
days. From Odessa, whence his letter is dated, he was on
the point of proceeding to Yalta, on the southern coast of
Crimea. There it was his intention to search for strata of
coal. After having set his men to work, Demidoff pro-
posed to visit Wosnesensk, where the cavalry manoeuvres
are at present performing in the presence of the Emperor.
" More wonders," he says, " than Russia has ever seen as-
sembled under the most brilliant reigns will here excite the
astonishment of the spectator. The Emperor Nicholas su-
perintends in these plains of our military colonies a most
colossal review of cavalry, one unequalled even in the annals
of warfare. Three hundred and sixty squadrons, compris-
ing 60,000 horse, have been concentrated on this point.
Moreover, detachments hare been selected from every regi-
ment of the military colonies, forming the nucleus of a body
of 300,000 infantry. These veterans, all of whom have
served at least 20 years, are divided into 28 battalions, of
800 men each. To these must be added 168 pieces of
ordnance, the horse artillery, and 24 squadrons of 1.50
men each, composed of the sons of the colonists, youths of
sixteen years old, all of them already organised upon a
military footing. Such, as nearly as possible, is the assem-
bled force which, during fourteen days, is to manoeuvre on
the plains of Wosnesensk under the eyes of the Emperor.
Last November, when this review was determined on,
Wosnesensk was an unimportant village, scarcely noticed in
the wide Steppe ; at present New Russia counts another
in the list of her cities. Within a few months Wosnesensk
has been transformed into a place worthy of being an im-
perial residence. A palace for the Emperor and his illus-
trious family, two hundred houses for the imperial suite, a
ballroom, eighty metres in length and thirty in breadth,
four dining rooms, proportioned to the number of the guests
expected ; a garden, adorned with 60,000 trees—this, all
this, has arisen as if by enchantment. Nor are these build-
ings merely temporary erections of wood, but of beautiful
and durable stone ; the plantations are blooming and ver-
dant, thanks to the indefatigable care and persevering la-
bour of the colonists. Imagine to yourself in front of this
newly raised city, a range of tents five leagues in extent,
and you will admit, I think, that the spectacle must be one
of no ordinary splendour. This glorious military pageant
has been arranged by General Count Witt. The honour
of presiding over it was due to the veteran, the noble godson
of the Empress Catherine—to the chief of the military co-
lonies. This indefatigable man is still full of activity in
the performance of his official duties. In his tours of in-
spection he yearly travels more than 21,000 wersts."

TEMPETIANCE.—If an estimate of the habits of
our provincial population were formed from reading alone
the country papers, a conclusion extremely favourable to
, the self-denying principles of the " thaw-bacons" would be
arrived at. " Temperance Societies" appear everywhere,
and " Teetotalism" is exalted to the third:Heaven—where,
by-the-bye, we opine it generally resides ; for when we
chance to go into the country we never see any appearance
whatever either of Teetotalism or Temperance. We are
disposed, therefore, sometimes to think that it lives and
flourishes chiefly in the columns of our provincial contem-
poraries. Certainly the public-houses, both on the road and
off' the road, are to the full as,numerous as ever they were.
We hope, however, that Temperance, the mother of so
many virtues, is really progressing, and that drunkenness is
on the decline in the country as well as in town. But so
long as the governors of a country prefer the proceeds of
the Revenue to the interests of morality, so long will every
lover of his species be grieved and disgusted by daily and
hourly witnessing vice and misery, the attendant of intem-
perance, pervading a great portion of the population. Let
the condition of the people be raised ; place within their
reach the natural and proper objects of human desire, and
they will not brutalize themselves by constantly resorting
to the poisonous stimulants of the distillery.
VOLUNTARY CHURCHES.—On Wednesday morn-
ing,
at. 8 o'clock, about 400 gentlemen, friends to the exten-
sion of Voluntary Church Principles, sat down to a public
breakfast in the Assembly Rooms, Ingram-street, the Rev.
A. MaOshall of jKirkihtillneeid the 'chair, supported by the
Rev. Dr. Brown of Edinburgh, the Rev. Mr. Campbell
of Irvine, the Rev. Mr. Morrison of Bathgate, the Rev.
Mr. King of Glasgow, the Rev. Dr. Peddie of Edinburgh,
the Rev. Dr. Ritchie, the Rer. Mr. Hogg of Haddington,
the Rev. Mr. M'Coll, and a number of other distinguished
clergymen. The meeting, in consequence of the present
sitting of the United Secession Synod in this city, was at-
tended by a considerable number of ministers and elder's be-
longing to that body.—Scots Times.
On Tuesday two Russian lads, named Itosembert
and Sjoblon, sailors on board a Russian vessel, now in the
Hull docks, were brought before the Mayor and town
Magistrates, charged with passing counterfeit coins to some
extent to several tradesmen of the town. The young men
gave the following account of the transaction, which was
confirmed by the statement of the Captain and others :
A man came on board the vessel on Saturday, and inquired
if there were any clothes for sale, on which several of the
crew sold things to him. The fellow apparently gave a
liberal price for the things, but on examination it was found
that the whole of the money in which he paid them con-
sisted of counterfeit coin, which the prisoners, who were
amongst the sellers, had ignorantly passed. The Magis-
trates, conceiving the explanation given cempletely exone-
rated the lads, discharged them, and gave orders to the
police to make strict search after the man who had com-
mitted the fraud.—Hull Packet.

As Mr. A. J. W. Pill, the son of a Naval Officer,
was out shooting, near Penzance, on Saturday last, in en-
deavouring to draw the boughs of a blackthorn towards him
with the but end of his fowling-piece, he lifted the hammer
over the percussion-cap sufficiently high to cause it to ex-
plode, and lodged the charge of shot in his groin, which
killed him on the spot. An inquest was held on the body,
and a verdict of " Accidental death" returned. The de-
ceased was an only Briton.

SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening,
a singular accident took place, near to the Three Arrows
public-house, as the people were returning to Middleton
from Heaton Park races. Near the above public-house, the
shafts of a gig broke, and the horse ran away with them.
One of the shafts ran into the horse's belly, and killed it
on the spot. The owner was riding it at the time, and is
also seriously injured.—Manchester C;"'uardian.
On Tuesday morning, last, a consici.erable number of
."fitness the first
persons assembled in Castle-hill Chapel, to
celebration of marriage in a Dissenting Mebling
House,
under the new Act, and we must confess that eve.:y part of
the service was conducted with that marked pro,nriet.y,
which must have impressed the audience with the selem‘lll
and interest of the occasion.—Northampton Chronicle, ,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

An old man naated Reading, who has been for many
years a potstealer, and another titan and a woman, were
or'do;ht before the Lord Mayor, charged With having stolen
a pewter pot aild a taint.
Reading had been just diel+arged from prison for steal-
ing property from publicans, and lia! been in the habit of
Wearing 11 greatcoat, which was so constructed a§ to be a
complete feeeptacie for pewter of the largest size. Ile had
been obser4ed by a lad, in company with the other man, at
the Isar of a public-house, ordering a half pint of beer and
manoeuvring when the bar-gitl t.►urned her back. The boy
goon afterwards felt a pot in the old fellow's coat pocket,
and informed the girl, who told him to follow the thief.
Reading walked call-illy out of the house, and turned down
a lane to the door of a house, whieh he tried to open, but,
not being able to gain admittance, he took the pot out of his
pocket, and flung it in at the first floor window.
Pomplet, a very active Aker, having been informed of
what had occurred, contrived to take the old fellow into
custody in the morning while he was in bed, and found the
pot in the room, and a pint pot belonging to Mr. Gurney,
of Old-street-road, up the chitnney. The house, which was
a miserable one, belonged to the woman,
Mr. Gurney identified the pint pot, which was quite new.
The LORD MAYOR—What do they do with these pots ?
Mr. Gurney—They get so much a pound for the pewter,
and they turn a good deal of it into halfcrowns and
shillings, which they eventually pay back to us for liquor
and good change.—(A laugh.)
The Loa► MAYOR—Do you mean to say that they
pass them off in base coin to you ? Mr, Gurney—Yes. A
pint 'will make a great many half-crown pieces, and some of
the thieves hare boasted that if they .robbed us they paid
us back in coin from our own property,—(Laughter.)
Reading said that ho bad been unfortunately mistaken
for another person two or three times, and suffered for the
vices of others. He knew nothing at all of the pewter
about which he had been accused.
It was stated that the old fellow was so bad that his son
wished to get rid of him altogether. In fact, thieving was
his favourite labour from. his youth, and he toiled in the vo-
cation as persevering and intensely as the most industrious
mechanic worked for the honest support of a family.
The LORD MAYou—lf he was a young man we could
contrive to send him out of the country altogether.
Reading—lt is not worth your while. I gets older every
day, and I can't expect to do much more. I aint worth
your notice at all, my Lord, and I hope you'll let me off.
There's plenty of young fellows as does the thing better
nor me; why don't you grab them ?—(A laugh.)
The LOAD MAYOR—I will send you to 13ridewell for two
months. You are the worst old fellow I have ever had be-
fore me. Reading—Well, its better to go there than to a
workhouse, howsomdever.
Committed for two months. The other two prisoners
were discharged.