The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-08 00:00:00

were bArrOwed on those occasismss the Ta)
have bpo too frequently imposed on by this me-
retrtcious display 'of perverted privileges. From
COnimon nails and Common Councils, a de-
prayed tone of politics has often vibrated
thrpaihout the whole kingdom, until at last
it fiercely reverberated upon the oldest and
most valuable paris of our Constitution.—
'Yet those proceedings, and their baneful con-
seqpences, are no more chargeable upon the
CoVoration of London) properly speaking, than
the factious rant of the Petition which Alderman
WOod last week presented. The whole have
been engendered by a few radical quidnuncs,
with so much of nothing to do 'for themselves,
that they do every thing for the Corporation
gratis, and who by their noxious officiousness
deter the majority of respectable Citizens from
participating in the municipal duties of the capi-
tal. Under the vulgar tyranny of such men, the
first civil and judicial situations of the City (if
the usurpation be not speedily subverted), in-
stead of being objects of ambition, will be ob-
jects of loathing to honourable minds ; for a
Merchant, or Lawyer of independence and prin-
ciple, 'will -hereafter shun the office of Lord
Mayor or Recorder, when he finds it only makes
I him an instrument for legalizing acts abhorrent
to himself and disgraceful to the City.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

If we were to judge from the Statement of the
increase of the Revenue this Quarter, as set forth
in The Courier on the sth, and repeated on Satur-
day, we should be led to the false conclusion that
there was an increase of upwards of 400,0001.
over and above that of the corresponding Quarter
in the last year. It is true The Courier of Satur-
day is very modest—No boast of this increase !
Why no boast, Mr. Courier, of such manifest
improvement and prosperity ? Is it because you
are afraid of our asking for a repeal of the duties
on Salt, Leather, or Windows, in consequence of
this increase ; or is it because you have not pub-
lished the statement fairly ; In alluding to this,
we do not mean to say that the account has
not been published by you, as you obtained it
from the Treasury, and it is most likely that
you were told by the 'Worthy Secretaries, that
it was a most prosperous quarter, and that your
modesty alone prevented you from making those
observations which such prosperity would war-
rant. Now if this surplus was actually what it
is stated to be, we should be the first to congra-
tulate the public, because we should hope that
Parliament would be inclined to lessen the bur-
thens ; but if we know that it is not really
what it is stated to be, we feel it a duty
to supply what is kept back by the Ho-
nourable Gentleman, viz., that above half a
million has been paid for duties on Tea, that
in the corresponding quarter of last year was
not included, but was placed to the July
quarter in that year ;—consequently had the like
course taken place this quarter, the Revenue
would have appeared what it really is, an hun-
dred thousand pounds less than it was in the
corresponding quarter of last year. So much for
Treasury candour! We hope this Department
will in future, when any such trifling occurrence
takes place (viz. that the surplus shall prove a
deficiency, when fairly compared), merely make
a little memorandum at the foot of the account,
in order to prevent plain Country Gentlemen
running into a mistake, and calling it an actual
surplus, when, in truth, it is a deficiency of re-
venue, compared with the corresponding quarter
of the preceding year.

[NEW TIMES.]
The alarm on 'Change of an immediate rupture
between Russia and Turkey produced a power-
ful effect on the Funds on Friday and Saturday
last. Navy Ffres left off on the latter of those
days at 1024, and Consols for the 11th instant at
78k. Notwithstanding this panic we retain the
impression which we intimated in our last, that
the War between those two Posvis is not so near
as is apprehended : or at all events that if hos-
tilities should break out they will not be such
as seriously to disturb the general Peace of
Europe.

EBRITISH PRESS.]
An article of intelligence from Vienna, dated
the 23d of March, states that Prince De Metter-
nich received on the preceding day a dispatch
from Constantinople, announcing this important
event ; and it further gives, or affects to give, the
precise terms of the Note communicated by the
Reis Effendi to Lord Strangford and the Count
De Lutzow. This Note thanks the Ambassa-
dors of the mediating Powers for their anxious
care to accommodate all differences between the
Sublime Porte and " the Czar of the Muscovites,"
but it considers as useless all further negocia-
tions upon the subject of the demands. con-
tained in the Russian Ultimatum. The Note exhi-
bits a long list of accusations against the Russians,
charging the Russian Consuls within the Turkish
States with having excited the Rajahs, or Chris-
tian subjects of the Porte, to rebellion, and the
Russian Government itself with having violated
the, Treaty of Bucharest, in giving protection and
shelter to the rebellious subjects of the Porte,
especially Alexander. Ypsilanti and MichaelSuzzo. From this detail " the Courts of Eng-
land and Austria are to judge whether it be
Russia or Turkey that seeks for war. The Porte
demands no satisfaction for those injuries, but
it will not suffer a foreign Power to interfere
in the domestic concerns of the Empire." The
note says, that if any Christian Church has
been illegally destroyed, it shall be rebuilt,
after tranquillity shall have been completely re-
stored ; but it intimates, that instead of yielding-
the Trans-Istriau Provinces, the Porte will re-
tain, the power of nominating Ilospodars, who
shall never again be selected from the Fanar ;
and it concludes by saying, that as the Porte is
not at war with Russia, there is no necessity of
sending Commissioners to the frontiers, to treat of
peace.

Mrs. Ey4Ns, of High-street, Brighton, went
to the shop of Mi. Diblock, linen-draper, of North-street, on
Thursday afternoon, to see her son, (who is an apprentice .of
Mr. p.) when, having complained of a sudden headache, she
al to the floor, and in a few minutes expired.