The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-25 00:00:00

RUSSIAN MOVEMENTS.

The National publishes an interesting letter dated
Bucharest, the 00th ult. The numerous forces accu-
mulated by Russia in Bessarabia caused a great agita-
tion throughout Moldavia and Wallachia, where
nobody doubted but the Russians would shortly in-
vade those provinces. " The people," says the
writer, " tremble at the idea of the occupation of their
territory by the Russian army. They remember the
cruelties committed in their country from 189.8 to 1834
by the savage hordes who imported there the plague
and cholera, levied as a war subsidy 180,000,000 f. on
its inhabitants, massacred in Moldavia whole villages,
peopled with Catholics ; and finally excited the abhor-
rence of all classes of the population, whom they ruined,
ill-treated, and humiliated." The writer contends that
the Czar is le,s interested in becoming master of Con-
stantinople than inflicting a mortal flow en the Mob.
dave-Wallachian nation, whose rising in arms would me-
nace his preponderancy. " Never," he says, " did a
finer opportunity offer to assert our independence.
We never had before so many allies and means of
success. Let us shake off' the yoke of the procon-
suls of Russia and proclaim our rights as a sovereign
independent state, insured to us by our treaties with.
Turkey. •To-day 11Iehemet Ali stands in need of
allies in European Turkey ; we may rely on his aiding
our movement, and supporting it with his money and
influence." The correspondent of the National then.
tells his countrymen that England and France have
guaranteed the integrity of the Ottomon empire, and
that the moment a Russian soldier sets his foot on the
territory war would be declared, and Odessa burnt by
the combined fleets ; that Austria had stationed 60,000
men elong the frontier to second their resistance, and
that with the aid of Servia and Bulgaria they could
oppose an army of 300,000 combatants to the invaders.
In conclusion he appeals to the Molvado-Wallachians
to raise the standard agaiest their oppressors ; to expel
the princes imposed upon them by Russia ; to found a
national Government for both principalities ; to notify
to the Russian Consuls that they are foreigners, and
have no right to meddle in the affairs of the country ;
and, finally, to proclaim as their prince an honest, in-
telFgent, and patriotic man. " The moment for
acting," he declares, " has arrived. Let us stand
up against our tyrants, and victory will crown our
arms."

Private letters from the frontiers state that
General Moreno was shot, not in the town of Vera, but
outside, near the frontiers, where the soldiers, not knowing
him, merely wanted to rob his person and baggage, when
he remonstrated and told them his name and rank, think-
ing this would protect him ; but quite the contrary—those
that would have been satisfied with his money now took his

life too. From a secretary of Elk's they got 20,000
dollars in cash and other valuables—and a good deal from
Padre Cirillo, whom they advised to go back to Havannah
and collect the revenues of his archbishopric.
Maroto is ill at Bilboa, where he assured his
friends that if it had not been for Espartero's impatience to
effect the surrender at Bergara when it took place, but give
him a day or two Imre, he, Maroto,
_would have brought
the greatest part of the Alavese and Navarrese battalions to
the same point. He also acknowledged himself to have
been principally in great danger at the Pretender's last re.
view of his troops on the 28:11 of August, near Elorrio, for
had Don Carlos their possessed the least firmness and pre-
S2OCC of mind, Maruto must have been shot. He knew well
the Pretender's iniheeility and irresolution, but was much
alarmed lest ore of his confidents should do the thing for
him, and did net feel safe till he saw the whole group gallop
off the gruund.

LE.CIBURG (GALICIA). SEPT. 10.—Austria
is continuing her armaments among the eastern and south-
eastern frontiers. Independently of the corps of 30,000
men stationed between Gloczow and Tschernowitz, along
the Russian and Moldavian frontiers, another corps, com-
posed of 20 battalions of infantry and 32 squadrons of ca-
valry, with nine batteries of artillery, have lately entered
Galicia, from ;Moravia, and were advancing, by forced
marches, by the high road to Tschcrnowitz, towards Buko-
wins. The Galician authorities, too, have of late shown
themselves extremely kind tow-IRAs the Polish Refugees,
and have granted succours of money to the Russian pea-
sants, who, to avoid the Conscription, sought rvfage„ in
Galicia.

INTERNATIONAL COURTESY.—IL trill be re-
collected that the United States exploring squadron,
whilst at Cape Horn, met with very boisterous weather,
and some of the vessels suffered damage. The store ship
Relief, it is understood, lost all her anchors at that time.
She arrived at Valparaiso in April last, and was of course
obliged to lay off and on, having lost all her anchors. Her
Britannic Majesty's corvette Fly was Is ing in the harbour
at the time, and the condition of the Relief was inferred
from her movements. The Commander immediately des-
patched his boats, with an anchor and cable, for the Re-
lief, which were bent on, and the store ship came to an-
chor. The Relief was at Callao en the 16th of May,
and she then had the anchor and cable of the English cor-
vette. Such expressions of international courtesy always
merit a distingunthcd notice.— Washington Globe.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN FRANCE.—One hun-
dred and ninety• five towns are provided with public libra-
ties, containing altogether 2,500,000 volumes. At Paris
there are five great public libraries, containing 1,378,000
volumes.

CORN CROP IN THE `VEST.—The Louisville
Journal of the 24th instant says :—" We conversed yester-
day with a very intelligent gentleman who has recently tra-
velled through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, and who has
conversed with persons from every part of those States. In
Illinois and Missouri the corn crops are remarkably abun-
dant In the state of Indiana they are in general poor—in
soa e pits the produce is almost nothing. It appears that
the drought has injured the Baden corn much more than
the commo on account of its being planted so much
thicker. The drought has extended into Ohio, and in some
places there, it is said, there will be no more than halt a
crop."—New York Paper.
A SPRINKLING OF LYNCH LAW IN OHIO.—
Some of the inhabitants of Batavia, Geauga county, took
it into their heads, about two weeks since, to rid themselves
of the Perfectionist priest, a Mr. Mead (a new sect, we
should think), who had lately been bailed out of prison;
and also of a Mr. Foot, a brother-in-law of Mr. Thomp-
son, said to be the paramour of Mead. To accomplish
this object, in a manner which should be effectual, it is
said the Perfectionists were first divested of their wearing
apparel, then daubed all over with tar, and, by way of
ornament, then covered with feathers. In this situation
they were rode on a rail about fire miles, to Burton, where
they were placed upon their own footing, %Alit' their faces
set to the south, and ordered to make tracks out of the
country.—Cincinnati Republican.
DEATH OF HENRY SINGLETON, iS
with great regret that we announce the death of this
veteran, able, and universally respected artist, which took
place on Sunday, the 15th instant, at the house of his
friend, Mr. Simpson, at Kensington Gore. Mr. Single-
ton was 73 )ears of age, and had been for some time, we
imagine, the oldest living exhibitor at the Royal Academy,
compositions were
tit,
th morefacility,
and at other institutiens connected with the fine arts.
His works, therefore, have been too frequently before the
public to render it necessary for us to say more of them
than that, if they did not reach the highest point of merit,
en.lly Pleasing
and In man's composi
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they
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composed wi
It was but lately that we noticed, n the Lztcrary Gazette,
the completion, by Mr. Singleton, of an extensive series of
cabinet pictures, illustrative of Shakspeare ; an effort
which, at his time of life, was exceedingly creditable to his
powers, and to his love of his profession. Sir Joshua
Re) nolds, speakin,c; of Luca Giordano, expresses surprise
that, considering his numerous disqualifications, he had not
made himself a great name in at t." The same may be
said of Mr. Singleton. The cause probably was, that,
having many years ago formed a certain style, and esta-
blished certain principles of design, light, and shade, and •
colouring, he thenceforward painted entirely from his own
conceptions and recollections, without any further reference
to those sources of excellence which the intense and never-
ending study of nature can alone supply. Although his
Toile lay in works of imagination, Mr. Singleton occa-
sionall painted portraits ; his gioup of the Royal Academi-
cians, sitting in the Council-chamber of Somerset-house,
under the presidency of Mr. West, attracted much atten-
tion at the time it was produced, and ought to have secured
his admission into the Royal Academy. It has been en-
graved by Mr. Beatland. We are happy to say that Mr.
Singleton was in easy circumstances, the result of .
s
industrious and moderate habits. The unaffected simpli-
city of his manners, and the kindness of his disposition,
had endeared him to a large circle of friends, by whom he
will be sincerely lamented,—Literary Gazette.
DOG CA RTS.—The Commissioners have in good
time placarded the following notice : --After. the firs.t duy
of January next (1840), every person,. who, within the
M -tropolitan Police District, shall use any dog for. the
purpose of drawing, or helping to draw any cart. carriage,
truck. or barrow, shall he liable to a penalty not more
than forty shillings for the first offence, and not more than
five pounds for the second, or any following offence "
HIGH Tinats.-011 Monday and Sunday the
banks of the river Thlmca were overflowed by the tides,
their
which rose several feet beyond usual height. Great
damage, in consequence, took pities, more particularly
about Shadwell, Rotherhithe, Bankside, and Battersea.

EVENING EDITION,

THE LATE LADY FLORA
HASTINGS.

The Morning Post, of the 14th inst., devoted
half of its columns to a lengthened correspondence
between the Marquis of Hastings, Lords Mel-
bourne, Tavistock, Portman, &c., in relation to the
singularly unhappy fate of his ever-to-be-lamented
sister. This correspondence includes various letters
which have already appeared before the public, and
whose republication is manifestly intended to serve
and further party purposes of the basest descrip-
tion. The peculiarly afflicting position of the near
and dear relatives of Lady Flora, almost forbids the
idea of expecting from them the exercise of calm
and sound discretion ; and whilst we regret that the
Noble Marquis did not act on the advice of his
Grace of Wellington, and whilst we deplore that
he has not done more honour to his father's memory
than to be a recreant from his statesman-like views
in joining the Tory ranks, we feel too much respect
for the lacerated feelings of a brother,,honourably
and deservedly confiding in the virtue of his sister,
not to perceive in the poignancy of his grief an
extenuation for all the violence of indignation which
he has manifested. Far different are our feelings
towards those prostitute defamers, who, for the
filthy wages of corruption—for the vilest purposes
of the vilest faction, seek to convert a most lamenta-
ble and unhappy error of opinion, which appear-
ances rendered wholly unavoidable, into an occasion
of party discord and warfare, to be eagerly embraced
to brand with dishonour the character of the Court,
and through the Court presumptuously and insi-
diously impugn the motives of our amiable and
virtuous Sovereign. We know well the loyalty
of Tories out of place. We know how they
talk of the noble spirited Queen of these realms.
With these Tories out of place, she is a mere
child, of whom itis difficult to speak with any degree
of temper ; whilst all their anxious looks of lingering
love centre in Hanover. We recollect that, in
place, when excess of sensual voluptuousness had
rendered George the Fourth infinitely a greater
child, in point of intellect, these same Tories could
not find terms of incense sufficiently expressive of
their adoration of their most religious and gracious
King. Tory adulation was shed on the hoary
head of indolence and of sensual indulgence.. Tory
vituperation is reserved for a maiden Queen. The
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child of licentiousness and premature dotage is

worshipped—is deified ; the generous independence
of youth is vilified ; and all this entirely indepen-
dent of any other cause in nature than the difference
expressed in the expressive little particles of in and
out. Times are happily changed, and with the
loss of place, loyalty to the Sovereign ceases to be a
Tory virtue. Knowing, however, that the unhappy
fate of Lady Flora Hastings is to be resuscitated
for party purposes, and how busily meddling are
the agents and emissaries of Tory strife through-
out the kingdom, it becomes every honest journalist
to assist in disabusing the public mind from those
delusions with which the hireling Tory journalis.:s
seek to envelope it. Who is there but that bit-
terly laments the unhappy fate of the innocent, ate
virtuous, the talented, the amiable, Lady Flora Ha; t-
tings ? Is there a monster in human shape so dye-
prayed as to be insensible to the wretchedness of a
fate so deplorable ? Yes' the odious exception is
to be found in that base prostitute pander to :an
abandoned faction, who, with the malice of a
fiend, joined to more than Jewish rapacity for h is
dirty wages, regardless of the forgiveness of it e
dead, seeks to revive unjust clamour against e
living. All loyalty—all truth, is to be intmolato d
to vengeance of faction. We lament those ap.-
pearances which gave rise to such sad realities. B ixt
the ladies of the Court could not shut their
eyes to them, and, with the exception of
nut revealing their suspicions to the Queet I's
illustrious mother, we cannot imagine hi iw
such palpable, undeniable appearances cot gld
have led to different conduct or to different
results. Had such appearances only existed in it to
imagination of her accusers, then, and then onl vy
could those accusers be justly visited with indignai it
censure. T. suppose that the ladies of the Cour, t,
and a medical man of the highest character and .rO,l -
potation, would gratuitously asperse an innoct.m.
young lady, of exalted birth and irreproachaialet
character, without the most remote conceivable Eli:-

vantage, is to form a still more diabolical esti -
mute of human nature, than we, with all our ex -
perienee of Tory infamy, ale inclined to arrive a; L.
Were not such appearances clearly established—
directly admitted, and their cause, at the death o
the lamented victim, precisely ascertained ?
then, a medical man of undoubted skill, and,

up to that period,o of unimpeachable inte-
grity and humanity, could form an unfavourable
opinion from appearances, surely we must acquit
the ladies of the Court of anything in the shape of
malice, in the truly painful and delicate position ii 3
which they were placed. We no more doubt the:
' sincere regret of the ladies of the Court, and the feel •
ingly expressed sorrow of her Majesty, than we do,
the unquestionable innocency of the amiable victim
to so sad an error of fallible human judgment. It.
was an error which no human ingenuity, trusting to
the generally received testimony of " seeing is be-
lieving," could have avoided ; and for which the
exalted ladies so malignantly defamed were no more
A
accountable, than for the cause of it. We cannot, in-
deed, imagine any means short of those truly painful
ones adopted by Lady Flora, which could have
averted the consequences of such a dilemma ; for
let ua suppose, that Lady Flora in the conscious-
ness of virtuous innocency had retired into the bosom
of her family, can we imagine that the indignant
feelings of a brother, at the bare idea of such sus-
picions having been for a moment entertained, could.
have remained passive until death had demonstrated_
( the fallacy of such suspicions ? Lady Flora thought,
and thought rightly, that her injured honour re-
quired instant reparation ; and let us indulge the.
I hope, that the unfeigned sorrow of those who had_
) been so unhappily led into unavoidable error, af-
forded some balm to her wounded spirit ; and that
the pains taken by her Majesty to vindicate her in-
nocence were not wholly devoid of a soothing influ-
ence, on a fate so singularly unhappy, and so preg-
' nant in enjoining caution in the exercise of the fal-
lible judgments of humanity.—North Devon
Journal.