The Sun.
London, England, 1822-06-13 00:00:00

for thousands would oblige a Minister and give'
eclat to " the powers that be ; " when votes of
enormous sums, and to foreigners, would assist
in increasing a Minister's influence in European
politics and despotic rule, this same body was
lavish in its donations—then all was charity—a
duty we owed our fellow-creatures, a proper
appropriation of the abundance Heaven had
blessed us with ;—but now, prudence is held out
in reconciling the denial of a gift to a starving
multitude, who hold by birth, or who rather
ought to hold, every thing in common with us
—the same rights, the same privileges, the same
laws.

NEW TrmEs.l
After a long debate, Mi. Western's motion
was negatived this morning by a majority of 194
to 30 ; and Mr. Huskisson's amendment carried.
It may be remembered that, during the discus-
sions which preceded the resumption of cash
payments, we uniformly contended that that
measure was premature. The best informed
persons thought with us, when the measure was
first proposed ; but popular clamour was the
other way : and few are the Statesmen who have
the virtue or the courage to resist popular clamour.
Well, what will be done now ? Cobbett says,
Mr. Peel's Bill must be repealed ; and a consi-
derable number of persons of weight turn round
and cry for the repeal—because they think it
will be popular! Really, if we are to be blown
about in this weathercock way, we had better
have a Republic at once. The standard of our
currency (according to the unintelligible jargon
of our political economists) has been changed
once, to the great derangement of all our pe-
cuniary concerns ; and now we are called
upon to change it back again, without the
slightest regard to the additional confusion that
such a measure must produce. " The parti-
cular evils that have resulted from the return
to cash payments, says an evening paper, " were
fully anticipated by the Legislature and the
country, when that great measure was agitated."
We should like to see the proof of this broad as-
sertion. Our opinion is, that if the evils that
have resulted from it, or one half of them, had
been foreseen, that very ill-judged measure would
not have been adopted ; but that is no reason
whatever why we should rush blindfold upon an
opposite train of evils. IVe raised our feeble
voice ineffectually against the passing of Mr.
Peel's Bill ; but now that it has done all the
mischief that it can do, we raise the same voice
against its repeal.

[THE TIMES.]
We have received by express certain docu
ments from Paris, contained in the official part o
the Moniteur of Monday last. These are the
address of the Chamber of Peers to the King on
the opening of the Session, and his Majesty's re-
ply. We should not have thus particularly re-
marked the arrival of ordinary State Papers, but
the last of them is rendered interesting by the
confirmation which it affords of a fact already
announced here, and of the greatest importance
to Europe. The King, in his reply to the Address
of the Peers, states, " that it is with the " most
46 sincere pleasure that he informs the Chamber,
" that he has received news since the opening of
" the Session which announce that peace will
44 not be disturbed in the East; and that he feels
44 a lively satisfaction in imparting the know-
" ledge of this fact." Thus, then, terminate for
the present, we presume, all the speculations
that were founded on a war between Russia and
Turkey. To speak with certainty, or the
affectation of certainty, of the issue of dis-
cussions carried on with such a Government
as that of the Sublime Porte, would have
been rash ; but the public will recollect that,
during every stage of this very protracted dis-
cussion, we have never ceased from expressing
our opinion that matters would terminate peace-
ably : others who have spoken with more con-
fidence will now appear to have been more
in error. Above all, the French politicians of
the Buonapartist school, with whom " might
was right," have been wbfully in the wrong.—
They could not conceive that the Emperor
Alexander, who appeared to have the power
of overthrowing the Turkish Empire, would
want the will ! With respect to his Imperial
Majesty, we now adhere with more confidence
than before to our opinion of his conduct. Ile
may occultly be the most ambitious man alive,
but he has as yet given no indication of any rea-
diness to sacrifice the sense of justice to the hope
of personal aggrandizement : and we think it
unfair reasoning to infer at once from the simple
possession of a great empire, the disposition to
make it larger by injust►ce and oppression.
Whenever his Majesty does outstep the bounds
of moderation, we hope we shall be the first to
otice and reprehend his conduct.

SHOCKING CIRCUMSTANCE.—Yesterday after
noo❑ an Inquest was held by T. STIRLING, Esq.
Coroner for Middlesex, at the George Inn, Isle
worth, on the body of Richard Neale, whose
death was occasioned under the following unfortu-
nate circumstance :—The deceased was walking
with his brother, Thomas Neale, and another per-
son, on Monday night, over Isleworth Bridge,
carrying a basket, and the brother observed to
him that he looked like a pedlar carrying a basket,
and he would throw it away rather than carry
such luggage. The deceased replied, " By G—
it shall go then," and threw the basket over the
bridge into the canal. As the basket was float-
ing down the water, the deceased recollected
that it contained a shawl of his wife's, and imme-
diately ran round the bridge and leaped into the
river to get it out. He swam for some time:
and then attempted to gain the hank, but in-
stantly sunk to rise no more alive. his brother
leapt into the water to rescue the deceased, but
before he reached the spot where his brother dis-
appeared,he also sunk. The bodies were taken out
of the water immediately, and the brother of the
deceased was, after a great deal of exertion,
restored to a state of sensibility, but the de-
ceased was quite dead. The medical gentlemen
have some doubts whether the brother of the
deceased will recover from the effects of his im-
mersion. The parties were intoxicated at the time
the occurrence took place. Verdict—" Acciden-
tally Drowned, being intoxicated at the time."