The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-29 00:00:00

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 7.—M. Bogdannoff, a Russian
commissioner, left this place last week for Silistria, in order
to superintend the evacuation, which, according to the sti-
pulations of the convention, should take place this day, or
the 25th August, old style. The whole of the debt to
Russia having been liquidated, there can exist no pretext
for deferring it.

The Porte has received further advices from Essad Ef-
fendi, who had reached Erzeroum on his return to Constan-
tinople. Upon witnessing the formidable preparations of
Mohammed Schah, who was about to command in person
the expedition to Herat, and having been informed that our
Ambassador (Mr. Ellice) had protested against it, as tend-
ing to compromise the safety and tranquillity of our Indian
frontier, he conceived that he was only acting in the spirit
of his instructions, as envoy of the Porte, to hdraw
from a Court where so little respect was paid to British
interests, which it had been one of the chief objects of his
mission to countenance and support. His conduct has
been cordially approved of by the Sultan ; and this is
only one out of many instances I could cite in which
his Highness has shown a disposition to conciliate the
esteem and friendship of our Government. On a com-
plaint lodged by Lord Ponsonby against a monopoly
which Hussein Bey, the rapacious Governor of Smyrna,
was about to establish on figs, it was at once prohibited by
the Porte. I have already noticed the mission of Reschid
Bey, the most distinguished and accomplished of Turkish
diplomatists, to London ; in short everything indicates the
best possible dispositions on the side of the Porte, if our
Cabinet only take the right way of improving them. Let
them beware, above all things, of mistaken lenity. It is a
hundred to one that it will not be rightly appreciated, or
construed into weakness ; whereas the noble firmness dis-
played by Lord Ponsonby, in a matter not regarding our
interests, but the dignity of the nation, and the rights of
individuals, is in every way calculated to produce the
most favourable impressions with respect to British honour
and determination. In the meanwhile Achmet Pacha
is waiting, in no enviable state of mind, the arrival of
the English courier who is to decide his fate. He
has been already nominated Pacha of Broussa, so that
if the British Government insist on his, dismissal from the
palace and councils of the Sultan, there will already exist a
plausible pretext for his sequestration. The Reis Effendi
has been turned out ; Logethete,:his coadjutor, disgraced,
and the Greek Patriarch, a zealous labourer in the same
vineyard, threatened with a summary reward of his treasons.
The Sultan appears determined to listen to Russian dic-
tation and interference no longer, and to punish the in-
strument; by which she endeavours to coerce him.
Eight Pachas were last week elevated to the rank of
Mushin, or Councillor of State, and among them Tahir, the
Captain Pacha, and Moustapha, Pacha of Adrianople.
I undertand that a beautiful selection of the celebrated
marbles of this country is now making as a present from the
Sultan to his. Majesty William the Fourth.
An extensive fire, took place last night at Constantinople ;
the whole or the Stationers' ward, containing upwards of
50 houses, was wholly destroyed.

M. Stevenson, iu " The Twelve Moneths, Lond.,
1661, -1t0.," mentions the following superstition They
say, so manic dayes old the moon is on Michaelmas-day, so
many floods after.'•

Mr. Bentley of Rochester, a gentleman well known
throughout the neighbouring county of Kent, has addressed a
letter to a Maidstone paper, in which he says of the Tithe
Commutation law :--" That the tithe-payers in vain look for
any provision to reder the measure desirable to them. The
object of the law is to secure to the tithe owners, by a rent-
charge upon the land, the full value of the tithes upon an ave-
rage of the seven years preceding Christmas, 183. There
is nothing in the law to make it beneficial to the land-owners ;
but much to ren4r it pregnant with danger to their interests,
by saddling their states with a rent-charge, which pre:orbly,
at no very distant period, may in many instances absorb nearly
all the rent."

A postscript to Tait's Magazine says that " the
Reformers of Edinburgh are about to invite their distinguished
townsman, Lord Brougham, to a public dinner, upon the
happy occasion of his restoration to health. This (adds Tait)
appears a spontaneous movement, spreading among all classes
of Reformers in the northern metropolis."
The
ofNTeLerassdtalye:unoden askingr-Lv
nle, rang merrily
nearly thbee whole
what joyful event
was thus celebrated, we were informed that a young couple
had been married in the morning, under the following &cunt-
lls of
stances t--A party were keeping the wakes on the. previous
evening, and the subject of matrimony being introduced, a
young man said he should not mind being married in the morn-
ing if he could meet with a wife, and some one would advance
money to pay the fees. A married female who was present.
thinking the opportunity of making two persons happy for life
ought not to be lost, volunteered her assistance. A handsome
lass in the company was " nothing loth" to be a bride; and
the next morning, a license having been procured, the cere-
mony was duly performed in the parish *torch I—Stafford-
shire Advertiser.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

After giving the point mature consideration, we
are almost converted to tie opinion of a correspondent
who says that Baron Lyndhurst deserves our warmest
raise, and not censure. Unquestionably the Learned
ord has done the cause of reform some service. A
more effective agitator by far than Mr. O'Connell,
the ex-Chancellor has forced even moderate politicians,
who would prefer to hold, on in the even tenor of their
way, into the arena of a bold and stern agitation. By
fliagiog insult upon the people of Ireland, while he—
we speak of him as the leader of the Obstructives—
refused them justice, the Learned Baron has collected
into a focus all the previously scattered rays of liberal
opinion ; he has made the advocates of Reform zealous
agitators—he has united in a compact phalanx men
who, since the Catholic Relief Bill rent the bond of
former union, differed with each other upon almost all
public questions, and pursued different paths in poli-
tics—he has brought the Protestant and the Catho-
lic, the Unionist and the Repealer, the Whig and
the Radical, the peer and the peasant, once more
into close contact and active co-operation. The
Noble and Learned Agitator has done more; he
has aroused a spirit in Ireland that will scare
Toryism from the hustings. The " General Associa-
tion' is the work of his hands, the natural result of
his insolence and injustice ; and the " Justice Rent,"
as well as the exertions made :by that society to enlarge
the registered constituencies, will, whenever a general
election shall take place, reduce the Tory representa-
tives of Ireland to miserable paucity. We do not
wonder, therefore, at the ferocity,with which the cor-
ruptionist press assails that Association. Neither does
it surprise us to witness the soreness which has dic-
tated some taunts that have been recently thrown out
against the Marquis of Conyngham, Mr. George
Evans, and other liberal Peers and Commoners, who
have wisely and well acted upon the patriotic Sugges-
tion of the Association,. and taken effective measures
to increase the number of Irish liberal representatives
whenever the opportunity shall occur, at the cost of
their seats to several of the present Tory misrepresen-
tatives of that section of the empire. The faction
already begin to feel the ruinous effect of their
own malignity and turpitude. They see—in sad
perspective,—Dublin City, Carlow County and
town, Athlone, Kinsale, Drogheda, Belfast, Sligo,
and Donegal, represented by- thirteen Reformers,
instead of so many Corruptionists. They, also,
behold, in prospective, Longford, Cork county, and
the Queen's county returning—the second two Re•
formers instead of one—and the other two displacing a
Tory each, perhaps two, but one certainly, a change
which, on a division in the House of Commons on any
question as between Ministers and the faction, will
cause a positive gain of thirtg-two to the liberal side.
We should not be in the least surprised if of the thirty-
eight Tories who now represent Irish constituencies
twenty were struck off at the next general election ; for,
by proper arrangements and activity, Bandon and
i'ortarlington could, we are sure, be rescued out of the
hands of the Corruptionists. But that sixteen of the
Lyndhurstites—such is the nom-de-gun-re which, it
seems, the love's of abuses have chosen as their be-
fitting title—will be permitted to attend to their do-
mestic affairs in future, there can be no question. At-
tention to the registries,—funds to protect the honest
electors from the perils attendant upon open votins—
granting of leases by Liberal landlords to their te.
nantry,—energy, combination, co.opeiation—these
alone were wanting to lay Toryism prostrate;—to hunk
the back of the interested abettors of corruption in Ire-
latd ; and all there have been produced by the Geller,'
Association, proximablv,—by Lord Lyndhurst, re-
motely. It will at once by believed that we acquit the
Learned Baron of all manner of intention to effect so
much good for the cause of Reform ; and we are sure
his partisans will forgive 'inn for ail the mischief he
has unwittingly done to their anti-popular interests.
If time guilt of an act consisted in the intention of the
actor, Lord Lyndhurst would be at once entitled to a
full acquittal at the hands of his party. Fired with
revenge, maddened by the conviction that lie played a
losing game, when, abandonir, the lucrative certainty
of the Court of Exchequer, he again grasped at the
fleeting honours and momentary emoluments of the
"Woolsack—rendered giddy too, perhaps, by the ele-
vated position of leader of the lordly host of Corrup-
tionists—to which, however vain the man may be, he
never dared to aspire—the Learned Baron knew not
what he did, when, by the intemperance of his speech,
the violence of his advice, and the recklessness of his
conduct, he exasperated Ireland, and made Great Bri-
tain think ; ruined Toryism in that island, and pre-
pared the way for a reform of the House of Lords in
this. But is it in Great Britain alone that the question
of Peerage Reform has attracted public attention and
won adherents ? Are our Irish fellow-subjects so ab-
sorbed in the contemplation of their own wrongs—
are they so engrossed with the Tithe question,
which the factious Lords would not permit to be
amicably adjusted, and with the rottenness of the cor-
porations, which the same factious body have fac-
tiously preserved for a season—as to take no notice of
the mischievous constitution, the monstrous privileges,
the insufferable irresponsibility of the present House of
Peers ? By no means. They accurately comprehend
the cause of their own thraldom—of the injustice
under which they are now suffering—why Ireland is
not legislated for as an integral portion of :he British
Empire—why her population are insultingly called
aliens," and iniquitously treated as such—why the
peasantry are outlawed and hunted as rebels—their
property confiscated—their houses broken open—
their liberty taken away, and their persons condemned
to imprisonment, in order to the maintenance, in re-
volting splendour, of an ecclesiastical establishment in
its present ruinous magnitude, the bane of society,
the parent of strife and immorality—which breeds
constant and unseemly contention and vindictiveness
between the clergy of the Established Church and the
people—puts social harmony to flight, checks the march
of civilisation and improvement, and impedes the
progress of Protestantism—of that form of faith which
it is professedly intended to uphold and to propagate.
The cause of all this the Irish people are sensitively
alive to : they trace it easily and shortly to the irre-
sponsibility of the hereditary legislators—to the sel-
fishness of that body, and to the vice that is inherent
in, and inseparable from, irresponsible power. In
proof of the truth of our statement, need we do more
than point to the report, which we copy with great
pleasure into this day's Chronicle from the Irish
papers, of the proceedings at the public entertainment
given at Waterford to Mr. Villiers Stuart ? We
would recommend the Tories to study the admirable
speech delivered on the occasion by that en-
lightened, high-minded gentleman. Lord Lyndhurst
will there learn what is thought of him by one
of the first Commoners in the United King-
dom ; for such Mr. Villiers Stuart is, whether we
consider his splendid fortune—his immense terri-
torial possessions—his noble and ancient lineage—
his talents—his acquirements, and the high sta-
tion he occupies as Lord-Lieutenant of the county
of Waterford, of which nearly one-half of the fee has
descended to him through a long line of illustrious
ancestry. The opinions of such a man cannot be con-
temned ; and in this country they will have additional
weight when it is recollected that Mr. Stuart is One of
those who risked his well-earned popularity in resisting
the Repeal Agitation a few years ago. The insolence
of the Obstructive Leader, and the corrupt and fac-
tious conduct of the Tory Peers, !mist have, indeed,
sunk deep into the Irish heart, when Mr. Villiers
Stuart—who, though ever anxious for the welfare of
his country, has been ever moderate in the expression
of his feelings—was induced to denounce in scathing
language the injustice that has been done to Ireland in
the last Session of Parliament, and the authors of that
Blass of mischief. Nor was he the only speaker who
Floured his burning indignation upon the Obstructives.
Mr. Barron, one of the Representatives of the city in
which the festive meeting took place, was still less
measured in his reprobation of the hereditary mischief-
makers, and of their upstart leader. In fact, the feel-
ing in favour of Peerage Reform appears to have been
as prevalent in that great assemblage of rank, wealth,
and intelligence, as the determination to obtain " equal
justice" for Ireland. One voice, and only one, was
raised, not in defence of, the House of Lords—such a
thought entered no mans bead—but, it would seem,
against any chAnge in the present constitution of that

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