The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-22 00:00:00

[TIIE PUBLIC LEDGER. 3

The French and German Papers
,begin to ad-
mit, at last, that the affairs of Greece are involv-
ed in 'deep gloom. They now acknowledge that
things wear the most alarming aspect in the
,Merea, where Ibrahim Pacha appears to'pursue
his victorious career without intermission,
.not-
withstanding his comparative inferiority with re-
spect to the number of his troops. This intelli-
gc-ice, is the more disheartening, as the Greeks
have their chief strength in this province,
where, it was,generally believed
.they would be
able to maintain their independence, whatever
reverses it might sustain elsewhere. The Morea
has been hitherto considered as the great bul-
wark of the cause, on account of her strong
natural defences; but particularly in consequence
or the atdoUr and cordiality with which, it was
supposed, the inhabitants had taken up the con-
test. I3esides, it is the seat of Government, and
the chief nursery of the armies of Greece ; and
if she must resist a handful of barbarous. invad-
eri, we' fear there is no chance of effectual re-
sistance in any other 'quarter. In fact, with the
eiception Of MisSoronghi, and a very few towns
On thenorthern coast of the Gulph of Lepanto,
there is no struggle in any other part of Conti-
ientalGreeCe. Even Mossolonglii, it is con&
dentlY.ltated, has already offered" to capitulate,
and, sfiotild this intelligence be confirmed, the
contest would henceforth be confined to the Mo-
rea,, where, as we have sheVvi it, begins already
,to languish. Since the defection of Odysseus,
'the Greeks of Livadia seem to be wholly infiu.
,
heticed by his infamous example, and to have vir-
tua'lly,if not formally, submitted to the Porte.--
,From that period to the present moment we have
p9thearO'of a single convenient in that extensive
:province in favanr of 'the Greek cause ; and, from
'flits alitiiiiitik'ipathy; it ii"rizaolo be fea,red that
the enemy will be induced fa send-tirolher arwy

in that direction, in order to attack the Morea.—
In this case, nothing Jess than a miracle could
save that province from beini, overrun and sub-
jugated, and, if continental Greece were once to
bend the knee and the neck to her former task-
masters, insular Greece could not keep her head
erect much longer, particularly as her superiority
at sea is become problematical.

{MORNING CHRONICLE:I
Notwithstanding all that has passed- in the
Counties of Kent and Su'rrey, and notwithstand-
ing all that has taken place in Parliament, we
observe that Mr. Kenrick has been appointed,
according to the Gazette of Saturday last, to ac-
company Mr. Jonathan Raine on one of the Welch
Circuits. This, we believe, is the first instance
of a Lawyer acting as a Judge, whilst a charge
was standing against him on the Journals
of the House of Commo►►s, not only unrefuted or
even answered, but for the answering of which
the party accused had petitioned for time. Perhaps
Ministers may not on this occasion be so culpable
as has been supposed, for they have not the
power, unless supported by the Address of the
two Houses of Parliament to the Crown, abso-
lutely to prevent Mr. Kenrick from going this
Circuit, though we can imagine that a strong re-
presentation might have availed much. This, in-
deed, may have been made, and we have good
reason to think that it has ; but we know full
well that it is a very difficult matter to drag a
wrong-headed man into the right course.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Two Lancashire Magistrates, it would seem,
have fined a barber ss. for shaving his brother
on a Sunday, and the brother ls. for being so
shaved. The fine upon the barber was, we pre-1
sume, for what is termed " exercising his calling
on the Sabbath-day ;" but under what law the
latter fine was inflicted, we neither know nor can
imagne. The Justices, we must be permitted
to say, seem 'to shave quite as close as the bar-
ber ; and appear, as far at least as this case goes,'
to be equal adepts at their respective callings.
It is to be hoped their Worships had no roast
beef for dinner on the same Sunday ; indeed,
it would be quite as fit, we think, that
people, who, from their station in life, can
lay in a double allowance of the good things
of the world on a Saturday, should abstain
altogether from the sin of mastication on a Sun-
day ; for it surely must be quite as wicked (mo-
rally.speaking) for a rich,man to eat as for a
poor man to shave or be shaved on the Sabbath-
day. We should be sorry to treat the subject
with unbecoming levity ; but really we would
ask, with what feelings but those of levity or dis-
gust can one read of such things as these ? We
trust we have as true a respect for the Christian
Sabbath as any Magistrate can have—we lament,'
as much as they can do, its frequent violation; but
it is not of works of cleanliness or necessity on that
day that any reasonable man would complain,
but of those of a very different nature, which no
man can move in the world without observing.
The Divine -Founder of Christianity tells us hien-
self,Ofrpersons who" strain at gnats and swallow
camels ;". and we think that a sabbatical war
against barbers fall; clearly within the range of
such an ithputation. We have in the metropolis
a Society for the Suppression of Vice, which,
as far as we have witnessed its proceedings.
are gnat-strainers of this description, who carry
on war against petty offenders, leaving the
greater ones (the camels) to proceed unheeded
on their course. They very much, as we con-
ceive, misapprehend both the laws of God and
man who strain the latter to this forced inter-
pretation. No duty is more incumbent upon
those who make the laws, and upon those who
execute them, than to render them, as far as pos-
sible, conformable to what we know. of the Di-
vine Will! but to become respecters of persons,
which we know God is not, and to visit minor
faults with vengeance, while greater ones are
overlooked, is alike hostile to the inandates of
religion and the true interests of society.