The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-15 00:00:00

M. Triebner has made the notable discovery that the
merit of conferring this boon upon Russia belongs al-
most exclusively to Lord Palmerston; Speaking of
what he loosely, designates "idle sources of that pros-
perity which of late years has called into existence the
commerce of the Black Sea," Lord Palmerston's co-
admirer says--

" I could no longer blind myself to the fact, that that
part of His Majesty's Councils over which your Lordship
has now for some time presided has mainly contributed to
this most important end.
" I dedicate, therefore, this translation to your Lordship,
inasmuch as you are in a great measure the creator of a
new line of our commercial policy by the pait this country
has taken in the establishment of at least one of those
treaties which have, in an indirect manner, opened this
vast commerce to the world."

So Lord Palmerston receives, for once, the lauda-
tions of a person whom we must in charity presume
to be at large ; and this for his Lordship's patriotic
zeal in having so successfully promoted the commercial
interests of Russia ! Whether such a tribute partake
more of the sly or the sincere, it is, of course, impossi-
ble for us to say ; and still less can we determine how
far the caprices of our diplomatic Cupid may or may
not dispose him to accept the homage of such a
worshipper. All we know about the matter is, that if
the repute which belongs to the arch deity for his
wooings and woundings be not atrociously slandered in
this affair of the Black Sea, then the documentary evi-
dence illustrative of his questionable favours bestowed
upon Russia at the expense of his British allegiance is
a record of shame that could not be dedicated to any
person with so much propriety as to himself. The
whole book of De Hagemeister is, as we have said, a
proof of that immense advance of Russian commercial
prosperity, the credit of which is duly awarded to
Lord Palmerston. We learn from it, however, that
his Lordship's prodigal liberality in favour of the Ex-
chequer and markets of Nicholas is by no means re-
ciprocated, either by the reporter or by his principals.
A return of kind offices on behalf of British com-
merce is what they do not seem to dream of. Beyond
the limits of Russian revenue and Russian advantage,
their cautious and calculatina, souls do not appear to
range : nor, as a contrast to thec disinterested, compre-
hensive, and generous policy of our foreign treatyfier,
can we refrain from closing our remarks with the
following characteristic quotation from De Hagemeister,
in reference to the transit trade with Teflis by way of
Odessa :

" The difficulties of conveyance which now enhance the
price of goods once removed by foreign capital, the mer-
chants of Russia will no longer be obliged to make advances
to purchasers, or to sell to them a long credit ; for these
will either have enriched themselves, or will readily find
credit elsewhere. Russian commodities that are now sold
at Teflis at 50 to 80 per cent. dearer than at Nishnei Nov.
gorod will admit of being sold at an advance of 10 to 15
per cent. upon the first cost. Vessels which hitherto have
made the route of Africa to obtain the produce of India
will enter the Black Sea, the passage
.to which has been
opened by Russia. Who can then calculate the advantages
which this increas2d prosperity will present to our provinces
of the south ?"—De Hagenteister's Report to the Russian
Government, p. 214.

There is here a direct and business-like eye to num-
ber one, which Lord Palmerston, on behalf of his own
country, would do well to turn his attention to. But,
alas ! we forget that Cupid is blind.—Times.

ST;VONI) EDITION

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

(THIS . EVENING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the chair shortly before 4 o'clock.
Mr. Crater presented papers from the Treasury.
Mr. OSWALD brought up the report in Langford's
Estate Bill, which was read a third time and passed.
NEW WRIT.

On the motion of the EARL of LINCOLN, a new
writ was issued for Warwick in the room of Sir Charles
Grcville,'who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
Lord DUDLEY STUART presented a petition from
a person named Holmes, of Arundel, complaining of the
manner in which the trustees of the Arundel estate had
acted to him. It appeared that the petitioner, who had been
Mayor of Arundel, and one of the trustees of the
Saving Bank had at the instance of all parties laid out part
of the surplus money of the estates in building a bridge,
which he had been ordered to repay.
Mr. LENNARD presented a petition from the Dis-
senters of Maldon, praying to be relieved from Church rates.
The LORD ADVOCATE presented a petition from
Leith, complaining of the Game Laws.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from a person of the
name of Bull, praying that some enactment might be made
by which property would be recovered by legal process at
less expense. Also a petition from a person named Tennent
for an alteration in the formation of Railway Committees.
On the motion of Mr. HARVEY the Lords, amend-
ments to the South London Cemetery Bill were agreed to,
after a low observations from Mr. With, Mr. Potter, and
Mr. Harvey.
GRAND JURIES (IRELAND) BILL.

Lord MORPETH said t 1 at, in order to avoid any diffi-
culty with respect to the Lords' amendments to the Grand
Juries (Ireland) Bill, he should move that the Bill, as it
had been sent down from the Lords, be laid aside, and that
leave be given to bring in a new Bill, omitting those clauses
which the Lords had either struck out or altered. The
Noble Lord then brought in. a Bill to consolidate and amend
the laws relating to Grand Juries in Ireland, which was
read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time
to-morrow.