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an act of gross injustice to his Lordship, were we to '
hesitate an instant in asserting that it is as dull and
vapid as even his translation from Faust. For point
and argument, it substitutes the tawdriest and most
puerile metaphors; such as a schoolboy might be
ashamed Of, Lora Lot nrrON was never at any tittle
remarkable for his oratorical powers : but we know
not that he has ever made so ridiculous a diBplav as iti
this pitte of " nnel'i ;eitSonea eloquence," which tells
1 us nothing but that Sir ROBERT PEEL is a consum-
-1 mate Statesman, and that Lord MELBOURNE'S Ca-
binet is about as bad as it is possible for a British Ca-
binet to be.

ut-. ATTwoo:has given notice that he will this
eveninff, demand of her MAJESTY'S Ministers, in his
place in Parliament, whether or not it is their deter-
mination to allow Russia to conquer, or possibly ex-
terminate the Cirewittils ; and thus to get possession
of a country which would give her unlimited influence,
and ultimate dominion over Turkey and Persia, and
all the countries of the East ? What answer Mi-
nisters will return to this question, or whether they will
answer it at all, is more than we shall pretend to de-
termine but of its importance the following letter
from Constantinople, dated the 21st of June, extracted

from the columns of a Ministerial Morning Contem-
porary, must convey to the people of England the
strongest assurance. We cannot believe that Lord
PALMERSTON is ignorant of the Russian warlike

preparations, of which it purports to give the sub-
stance ; and to suppose that a British Minister could
be indifferent to them would be to suppose him a fool,
a madman, or a traitor to his country :

CONNTANTINOPLE, JUNE 21.—Accounts were received here
at the end of last week from Odessa and Taganrok, according
to which it appears that the Russians, outwearied at length by
the tedious and harassing nature of the warfare they have
been carrying on for the , last twenty-five years against
the Circassians, are now determined to make a last and
mighty effort to overwhelm and crush this brave but un-
fortunate people by moving upon them with such a force
as will render further resistance useless. For this purpose
they have assembled a body of troops, amounting to 62,000
men, in three divisions, which are simultaneously to enter
the country as follows :—The first division, consisting of
28,000 men, which is to be commanded by the Emperor in
person (the object of whose intended visit to his Caucasian
provinces is not, if seems, of quite so pacific a character as
was assigned to it by the Augsburg papers), will move from
the side of the Kouban. The second division, 14,000 strong, will
move from Sokoumkale on the coast ; and the third division,
20,000 strong, under command of General Rosen, will move
from the side of Georgia. The provisions and munition de
guerre for these troops are to be supplied by sea, and a great
number of transports have in consecjuence been taken up, both
at Odessa and Taganrok, for a period of four months, at 5,000
roubles a month. With such a powerful force as this in
movement against them, it must naturally seem that further
resistance on the part of the Circassians can but lead to a
useless shedding of blood, since their final destruction must
be inevitable, unless they arc assisted by other powers. The
Russians, will, however, find Circassia by no. means an easy
conquest. They will now have to carry a war into the very
heart of a country inhabited by a race of hardy warriors,
whose desperate valour bas already so often spread terror and
devastation among their ranks, and who, in their last struggles
for their liberty and religion, will dispute tlio ground with them
inch by inch, in a country by nature so mountainous and rocky,
and where the means and facilities of transport are conse-
quently so few, as will render the keeping of a large a body
of troops regularly supplied with provisions both a difficult
and dangerous operation, and where the instinctive hatred
of the peasantry to the, very name of Russians is such,
that the poorest among them would rather destroy every-
thing he possesses, than leave it to the chance of falling
into their hands. The Russian troops are, moreover, not yet
accustomed to intricate dangers, or the fatigues and hard-
ships of a mountain warfare ; their operations against the
Circassians have hitherto been confined to the plains of the
Kouban, or the neighbourhood of their fortresses on the coast
where abundant space existed for the deployment and evolu-
tions of regular troops, and where they could always be
powerfully supported by their artillery ; and even then, with
the advantage both of numbers and discipline, they were
most frequently obliged to retire before the fierce assaults of
the Circassians. if they so fared in the plains, what will it
not be among the narrow passes and over the craggy tops of
the mountains, where they cannot carry their artillery with
ttlptkaTipsig rusTiEjtvvicctziclics
,w)11 no longer avail them
tunity to irregular troops, who are all well actin:amen-Ims_
5.....a5k them to advantage, and to harass and
annoy their march without being tbuutaelves exposed. But
notwithstanding all these and many other difficulties, which
the Russians must have to encounter in this campaign, it
is to be feared that in the end they will be but too success-
ful. The greatest efforts of the Circassians unassisted will
not enable them to hold out much longer; their num-
bers have gradually thinned from the long continuance of
the war, many of their bravest chiefs have fallen, and many
have been made prisoners; they are much in want both of
arms and ammunition ; and from having so long looked for-
ward with anxiety for assistance, which was never to come,
they are now growing sick at heart at seeing their hopes dis-
appointed, and their spirits are fast sinking. Under these
circumstances, it is impossible that they should long be able
to make head against a power so far exceeding their own,
both in numbers and physical strength. Superior force
must at length prevail ; and, though never subdued, they
will be obliged to submit to the will of the conquerors, and
the once independent Circassia will become a province
of the vast Northern Empire. Circassia, added to the Rus-
sian dominions, she will now possess the whole country
between the Black and Caspian Seas, and nothing now re-
mains to impede her further advancement either into
Turkey or Persia. Mingrelia, Immeritea, and Georgia are
already hers, and Armenia must soon become so, and her
gigantic arms outstretched will then include within their grasp
nearly the whole of the now diminished Ottoman Empire.
With the conquest of Armenia our trade with Persia, by that
route, must instantly cease ; Trebizond, instead of becoming
the entrepot of our commerce with that country, will be con•
vested into a harbour for Russian men-of-war, and all the ports
of the Black Sea will then be shut against us. The conquest
of Persia will next follow ; our Indian territorities will be
threatened; and the Euphrates, the navigation of which we
have been taking so much pains to accomplish, will be a ready
means at hand for transporting troops to be used against
us. This, however, has been sufficiently often pointed out by
much abler writers to render it unnecessary for me to en-
ter further upon it. The eyes of England must now be
opened to the truth ; she must see the risks she is incurring.
Let her now look to it when next she talks of the balance of
power. One half of the assistance she had rendered to Spain
would have enabled the Circassians to hold the Russians in
check, and hare averted those fatal results ; but it is now too
late, England has acknowledged Russia's right to the country,
the act is her own, and she must submit to the consequences.
The Exchange this afternoon has again risen to 115, and
is expected to go still higher. The state of trade here shows
no signs of amendment ; but freights having risen enormously
in the last few days, owing to the number of ships taken up
by the Russian Government in the Black Sea, and a great
number of ships that had been lying here for some time wait-
ing for freight have now gone to Odessa as transports. The
Empress and all the Imperial family will, it is said, come
with the Emperor as far as Odessa, to share in his Circassian
triumphs.

LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents., 1101. arc.
Three per Cents. 791. 35c.
Bank Actions, 2,400 f.
Roman Five per Cents., 101%.
Belgian Loan, 103.
Belgian Bank, 1,4201.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 265.
:vanish Actives, 21%.
Spanish Passives 51/1.
New Differes,

The Paris Papers of -Wednesday contain no political
news of importance. The Chamber of Accusation of
Paris has decided that the author, editor, and printer
of a work recently publishel, entitled, " De la Vielle
Europe, Des Rois et des Peuples de Notre Epoque,"
shall be jointly and severally prosecuted for libel at the
next Assizes. The author, General DONNADII3I.I,
employed M. ALLARDIN, one of those men of letters
that are to be found in dozens in every corner of Paris,
to lick into shape the half-formed offspring of his re-
flections upon the past and present state of King-be-
stridden Europe. The publisher of the Quotidienne
will be tried at the same time, for having insetted some
extracts from M. DONNADIECS work in that Journal.
When these extracts appeared in the Quotidienne
some two or three weeks ago, the whole impression of
the Paper was seized at the Post-office by order of the
Prefect of Police.

On Tuesday the Chamber of Peers, after a long
discussion, formally passed the Sugar Bill. A division
being called for there appeared 80 votes for the mea-
sure, and 38 against if. By the provisions of this Bill
a duty of fifteen francs per hundred killogrammes is
imposed on all beet-root sugar manufactured in France
after the Ist of January, 1838. Some of the Peers
contended that it would be better to equalize the
duties between the home and the Colonial sugar
growers by lowering the rate of duty on Colonial sugar,
instead of imposing a tax on the beet-root extract; but
to this Ministers answered that the beat-root growers
would prefer the payment of a low rate of duty to the
making of any concessions in favour of tie colonists.
The Minister of Finance went still further. He con-
tended that high taxes tended to develope the industry of
a country—that their reduction diminished rather than
increased consumption—and that in fact a love of
taxation and a love of country were synonymous in the
opinion of every distinguished Minister.
The Minister of Finance has authorized the con-

THE SUN, LOW UON, FRIDAY, JIM A 14i Is 3/.

FRENCH FUNDS —PAM., JuLY7I2.
Five per Cents.. 110 f. Bic. 213 c. 15c.
Four per Cents., 00f. 20c. 30c.
three per Cents., 791. 15c. 20c. 15c.
Bank Actions, 2,4 Of.
la•tnles. 97c 60c.
Spanish Actives, 3/oi.
Spanish Passives, 5%.
Spanish Differes, 7%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 103.
Brussels Society, 1,552 f. 50c.
Belgian Bank, 1020 f.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 26%.

BICIIANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25c. 47 4c. ; money, 25f. 45r.
Three months, paper, 25f. 27y4c. ; money, 25t. 25c.
—Court Authentiaue.

veyance of bunion by. the Government steamers to iill
parts of the Levant except Ler2hotn Mid Naplos:
On the morning of the 10th inst., 300 of the ttil,l
nets of Auzin, near Valenciennes, refused to work
unless they obtained an advante of wives; They ex-
tinguished all the fires, Atid etit the ropes of the en=
nines. The National Citiards w•efe called otiti and
and after some wotinds mere giicn and iccei'Ved, ofdet
was partially fesidied j tint dS ihe ivtige.g 6 f the Miners
were not raised, a recurrence of such distidttja►iOls 4.i'ag

anticipated by the authorities.
The Sardinici Government has. prohibited all Spa-
nish vessels to enter the polls of ttiOt hifigtitirti; it
has also officially signified to the Spanish Consul.
General at Genoa, that his functions are at an end.
This is the first step towards Sardinia's recognition of
the sovereignty of Don CAltLos. It must always be
remembered that the King of SARDINIA is merely the
agent of Austria, Russia, anti Rome.
The following correspondence of the Constitutionnel
from the frontier of Spain contains the latest news from
the theatre of war in that country
PAMPELt'NA, JULY 5, A.M.—General Espartero has re-
sumed his march, ilia tAnguard) commanded by Brigadier-
General Alcala, entered the valley of Mena, !ti Castile, yes-
terday. The Marquis of La Ribicra, with his squadron,
joined the army of the North at tiara. The General-in-
Chief is now, therefore, at the head of 11,000 men, including
2,000 excellent cavalry. At Torlosa he will join the 9,000
men of Baron de Meer.
The reports from Oraa received to-day arc satisfactory.
That General occupies Teruel, Mitsui' and Li,„srulsa. Borso,
with the Belgian legion, after baring driven bach the bands
of Cabrera, joined the General on the 2d. The Pretender is at
Cantavieja,and his advanced posts at Mosqueruela. Ile dares not
advance. His troops are demoralised, and in want of every-
thing. He will soon be surrounded by an army of 40,000
men if be does not resolve either to advance or retreat.
The march of Baron de Meer to Taregara, was pre-
vented by the General-in-Chief, as I told you In my last let-
ter but one ; it was a precaution that the Pretender might not
be able to return the way he came, and it was good, for he will
now be obliged to engage in a battle in a more open position,
where the Queen's cavalry will be able to act. If this plan
has been previously arranged with Espartero, we must excuse
his slowness and his hesitation. Buerens left Saragossa on
the 3d, and is marching to join Oraa. In all probability there
will be a general action before the 10th. Iriarte is at Puente
la Reyna ; he has placed three battalions and 100 cavalry to
intercept the communication between the garrison of Estella
and the Carlists, who occupy Lecumberry.—Constitutionnel,
July 12.
Colonel Chesney has arrived at Marseilles in the Dante
steam-boat, and is :to perform twenty days' quarantine. He
comes from India, and crossed the Great Desert from the Per-
, sian Gulf to Damascus on dromedaries in seventeen days. He
is in good health.
Tranquillity has been re-established in Hernani.
Most of the ringleaders in the late insurrection have
fled. General Count MIRASOL has reached Bayonne,
and declares that he will not again enter Spain. Ge.
neral HENDON died of his wounds on the 6th at Her-
nani. The Pretender continues inactive at Cantavieja.
Colonel CHESNEY, Commander of the Steam to
India expedition by way of the Euphrates, has arrived
at Marseilles. He crossed the great Arabian desert in
seventeen days. The Gallant Colonel is in good health,
and is at present detained performing quarantine.
The Emperor of RUSSIA has issued an imperial
ukase, commanding all Poles professing the Catholic
religion to quit Odessa under penalty of banishment to
Siberia. His Imperial Majesty, as Head of the
Greek Church, intends in future to limit his favours
to such of his subjects as belong to that communion.
The Catholics will be everywhere treated with rigour,
but especially in Poland, which is about to be colonized
with Greek Missionaries and their families. This re-
solution on the part of the CZAR will not be very
agreeable to the Protestant continental Powers, who
all prefer the doctrines of Rome to those of the Greek
Church.

Madrid Journals to the sth instant inclusive have
reached us this morning. They bring reports of the
discovery of a plot for the assassination of the QUEEN
REGENT on the 2d, in consequence of which several
arrests took place on the 3d and 4th instant. A ball
of lead was said to have been thrown at the QUEEN,
which broke the window of her carriage, but fortu-
nately without touching her. A motion of Senors
NUNEZ, LEAL, and CA RA SCO, impeaching the con-
duct of the Cabinet, %%as discussed in the Cortes on
the 4th, but the Chamber had not come to a decision
when the courier left the capital.
Don CARLOS'S entrance into Cantavieja was gene-
rally known in Madrid on the 3d. There was no
alarm, the populace appearing to trouble their heads
very little about the matter. The Government had
dispatched orders to Gene•als ESPA RTERO, DE
MEER, ORA A, and BuErtiois to send detachm'ents
from their respective forces to cover the capital. There
was, however, none of that energy manifested which
the dangers that threatened Spain might be expected
to call forth.

Extracts from the Brussels and German Papers re-
ceived to-day will be found in another part of The Sun.
They advise us of the pregnancy of the Queen of
GREECE, among a variety of other matters not more
important to Europe. Letters from Odessa of the
15th ult., announce that preparations on a scale of
unequalled magnitude are making for the Russian Grand
Review at Vosnesensk. Seventeen batteries of Horse
Artillery were then in readiness. The most pressing invi-
tations have been addressed to the SULTAN by the EM-
PEROR to be present. There is to be a sham battle, in
which the divisions engaged will all be commanded by
foreign Princes, with the exception of one to be led on
by the EMPEROR in person. The manoeuvres will
commence in August. The general impression ap-
pears to be, that after the review the troops will be all
poured into Circassia ; the review itself being only a
pretext for congregating them without suspicion, at a
point so convenient for warlike operations in good
earnest.

MUNIFICENT DONATION.—A benevolent lady,
a few days ago, on receiving the last Periodical Report of the
Animals' Friend Society, immediately testified her approbation
by a gift of one hundred pounds.
BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF A HORSE.—The
Hon. Secretary of the Animals' Friend Society, last week,
charged Henry Town, before Mr. Wedgwood, with having
continually worked a horse in drawing heavy loads of bricks
from Nine Elms, Vauxhall, to Norwood, the poor animal's
skin being completely worn off in various places from the
pressure of the harness or whip, and was bleeding when the
offender was detected. He was fined Bs. costs, and ordered
to pay 11. if he should be found to use the horse before it was
well. At Bristol also, among several cases brought by the
Society, was one against John Hill for great cruelty to a monster
calf with part of two heads. He absconded. The animal
had four nostrils, two tongues, two windpipes, and two sets
of teeth.

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An Englishman, residing at Frankfort, lately made
a bet of 150 ducats with a rich Jew that he would sit on horse-
back for eight successive days and nights without once alight-
ing. He gained his wager, as well as several others, which
he made while on horseback, with the bystanders. The Jew,
who himself was present to watch his adversary, was more
fatigued than the other.
The following is a comparative statement of the
number of vessels which entered the port of Liverpool in the
years ending 24th June, 1836 and 1837 :
Year. No. of Vessels. Tonnage.
1837
1836
110.'1 t. I