The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-06 00:00:00

[MORNING POST.]

The labours of Parliament are suspended, and
there is now both time and room to examine what
has been their nature. The Session opened under
dark and menacing aspects. The distress which
prevailed amongst the cultivators of the soil in
this country—the lawless outrages committed in
the sister Island—the agitated state of France—
and the general anxiety excited by the hostile de-
monstrations of Turkey and Russia, imposed on our
Legislature the double duty of providing reme-
dies to evils existing at home, and of guarding
against those which might arise abroad. _ In the
short period of two months, the main part of
this important task has been carried into exe-
cution. Measures of unbounded severity in
their nature, but of limited effect in their ap-
plication, were passed in the very first week
of the Session, and armed the new Govern-
ment of Ireland with powers, which the cha-
racter of its Chief promised should not be
abused, and of which the rapid tranquilli-
zation of that country proves that a tem-
perate use has been made. We may therefore
anticipate, from the general suppression of
outrage and insubordination in the most
disturbed Irish counties, that Parliament will
not be called upon, before it is prorogued, to
renew measures which are only justifiable on
grounds of absolute necessity and imminent
danger. The next step, after providing for the
pacification of Ireland, was to ascertain the causes
of the distress which afflicted the Agricultural
Interest in England, and to supply the most
effectual remedies. The inquiry was entrusted
to a Committee on the State of Agriculture, whose
active labours have already brought forth a Re-
port; which lays open all the intricacies of the

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question, and suggestV enactments likely to be
attended with salutary results.

[IT:MINING HERALD.]
The accounts respecting the issue of the ques-
tions pending between the Turks and Russian,
have been so wavering and contradictory, that but
little credit has lately been given even to the
most Confident rumours and asseverations on
the subject. There are, however, at present,
strong reasons to suppose that the negocia-
tions are at an end, and that hostilities may
be even somewhat advanced at the moment at
which we write. The intelligence which has been
received by commercial houses in London, and
the accounts in the Continental Journals, parti-
'cularly in those of Paris, are so circumstantial
and coincident, all relating nearly the same
thing, from various quarters, that there exists
the highest probability of war. The depression
of the. French Funds, which cannot otherwise be
accounted for, is an incident also of strong confir-
matiob. Various causes are assigned for the refusal
of the Turkish Government to accede to the pacific
policy recommended to it by the English and
Austrian Ministers at Constantinople—such as
the confidence inspired by the destruction of Ali
Pacha-7the dread of running in the teeth of the
Mussulman prejudice, which is clamorous for
war—and hatred to the Russians, which is most
rancorous. But the probability is, that the de-
mands of Russia were such at the moment, and
so likely to be followed by further invasions,
that the .Divan, considering the Porte must ulti-
mately make a stand somewhere, and at some
time, has chosen to do so at present.