The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-22 00:00:00

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sin for trading with the Circassians without the commission
of such an outrage as would justify Great Britain in declaring
war against the EMPEROII. Presuming this view of the
question to be approved of by Parliament, we beg to
direct particular attention to the following extract from an
article in the same Number, entitled, " Further Observa-
tions an the Pretensions of Russia :"
" At such :4 moment it may not be uninteresting to con-
sider what are the present disposable forces of Russia.
" Until the middle of April, her fleet at Cronstadt will re-
main ice-botted, at the mercy of a few Congreve rockets,
which would change the aspect of the Baltic, re-establishing,
the freedom of commerce with Poland, and securing the in-
dependence and national dignity of Sweden, Denmark, and
Prussia, from the continual insults offered by Russia to all
and each of those porters.
'6 to the Euxine, several of the Russian ports will be still
closed for another month. _

" Russia dare not yet enter the Bosphorus. A single
English line-of-battle ship at the mouth of that channel
would, in conjunction with the forts, secure the Sultan's ca-
pital against attack, and ensure the safe arrival of a British
squadron at Constantinople, if his Highness should desire it.
A small force at Alexandria guarantees the allegiance of Me.-
hemet Ali to his sovereign.
" The immediate frustration for ever of Russia's avowed
designs would necessarily produce an entire financial and ad-
ministrative change from the Vistula to the Pacific. The
abandonment of Russia's military system, like the overthrow
of the Strelitz, or the Janissaries, would necessarily be fol-
lowed by civil reforms, or by the restitution of those muni-
cipal rights which almost every Russian town looks forward
to with hope, and which the most ancient of them for ages
enjoyed as a fundamental principle of Sclavonic institutions.
" It is impossible to calculate the advantages which will
accrue to England, by seizing the favourable incident offered
to her by the affair of the Vixen, to maintain the maritime
and commercial rights of all mankind, whilst vindicating her
own. By depriving Russia of those means of aggression,
which no one in his senses can imagine were ever destined for
anv other end than to be ultimately employed against our-
selves, we secure the peace of the world for generations yet
to come. We secure to Russia herself a futurity of peace,
an emancipation from the anti-social system which represses
the energy of her docile and intellectual population. Her
magnificent rivers, her fertile soil, her immense resources,
would form a field for European and for Russian enterprise,
incalculably vast.
" Let us for an instant imagine 'the Russian empire libe-
rated from the intolerable thraldom by which her population
is oppressed, and compare what might be her commerce
under an enlightened administration, and under equal laws
with that which the United States enjoy. At present, her
Tariff imposes a duty of ten per cent. on the exportation of
raw produce, in addition to the duty fixed previous to the
year 1818, and the object of this duty is stated to be the
improvement of internal navigation.' If we turn to the United
States, we find that, with a population of thirteen millions,
that country annually imports to the value of nearly four times
the •amount, is our annual customer for less than a million
and a half, and yet more than one quarter of the volume of
the European rivers flows through Russian territory into the
Black Sea alone.

" The intense anxiety with which the public mind awaits
the expression of Parliamentary opinion, on the late atrocious
outrage, is universal.
" Indications, such as have never yet been manifested by
the different parties in the State, give reason to believe that
the Imperial Cabinet has for once miscalculated the character
of a British House of Commons, and that, fully alive to the
importance of the subject, they will support the Government
to any extent in vindication of the dignity of the Crown, our
national interests, and the honour of our flag."

CHANCERY COURT.---(THIS DAY.)

VIVIAN V. lIUMPHRIRS.
The Lord Chancellor gave judgment this morning in this
case, which was an appeal from the decision of the Master of
the Rolls, directing a new trial. The case was argued soroo
few days since, and the question (which related to land ill
Cornwall) was, whether there had been such a dealing with
the property demised as amounted to a forfeiture, and gave the
lord a right to re-enter and make a new grant. His. Lordship
agreed with the Master of the Rolls in thinking that Oie
Learned Judge, in his summing up, had not put the case stf-
ficiently clear tothe jury, and, therefore, there ought to be,lt
new trial.