The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-07 00:00:00

sonally, forms any of the motives for the extraordinary
conduct hitherto pursued by the French Government
in Switzerland. The principal motive is, as we stated
yesterday, to be found only in the KING'S desire to
divert public attention from the state of affairs in
Spain. This diversion of public attention from a
point, so exceedingly painful to the King of the
FRENCH, promised to be productive of another ad-
vantage, which has not escaped the vigilance of
the Parisian Press. The advantage to which we allude
is a more perfect union between France and the Great
Northern Powers, particularly Austria and Prussia,
which could not fail to dispose the hearts of the Sove-
reigns of the North to matrimonial alliances with the
budding scions of the House of Orleans. The plot was
well conceived and admirable concocted, but spoiled
in the execution. To suppose that Ministers plunge
deeper into the mire, from a certainty that they can
drag, or that the Opposition will drive M. THIERS
after them, is ridiculous. The Ex-President of the
Council is not to be held responsible for the blunder-
ing incapacity of such diplomatic and Ministerial
noodles as MONTEBELLO and MOLE.

Six sail of the line is to be our naval force in the
Tagus, till after Portugal shall have decided on the
subject of the Constitution of 1820, and all fears are
at an end relative to the descent of Don MIGUEL on
the coast. We have at present five sail in the Tagus,
and the sixth has received orders to sail from Falmouth
this day. A French naval force of five sail of the
line will unite with the British Fleet in the

Tagus, to preserve the peace of the country. It has
been rumoured that our Government is opposed to the
establishment of the Constitution in Portugal. This
is not the fact. Our Government will not interfere
eitherfor or against the Constitution ; as it very pro-
perly regards the settling of this question as the
exclusive right of the Portuguese nation. Its object
is to preserve tranquillity ; to enforce respect to
the person of the QUEEN ; to guard against any
attempt of Don MIGUEL to profit by the pre-
sent disturbed aspect of affairs. The Pretender is
reported to have escaped from Rome, and no doubt
meditates the effecting of another rising in his favour
in Portugal. This will be best prevented by the
presence of an English and French fleet in the Tagus.

Advices from Constantinople to the 15th of Sep-
tember, have been received. It appears from the pri-
vate correspondence of a Morning Contemporary, that
the Porte has discovered a plot, presumed to be of
Russian manufacture, for the simultaneous insurrection
of all the Turkish provinces south of the Danube.
The plot was discovered by some Bulgarians and
Greeks ; and the concoctors of it were proved to be
Russian emissaries, who had scattered themselves over
Roumelia, inciting the people to revolt. The late
manifestations of rebellion in Sherkeny and Berkosska
were experiments to ascertain the vigilance of the Go-
vernment, and the general feeling of the people with
respect to it. The main object of Russia in having
recourse to such conspiracies at such a time is
quite manifest. She had hoped that by fomenting di-
visions between the Turkish Government and the
people, she would be furnished with a plausible pre-
text for delaying the evacuation of Silistria for some
six months longer. Of course, as the warm friend
and faithful ally of the Porte, she could not do less
than proffer her assistance in restoring tranquillity; and
this would of course impose upon her the necessity of
retaining Silistria, so as to prevent it from the hazard
of occupation by the insurgents.
We regret to learn that the CHURCHILL affair is
still in abeyance, principally through some strange and
unaccountable delay o❑ the part of Lord PALMER-
STON, to whom it has been referred for final settle-
ment. This is a great loss to British and Foreign
merchants, as it must have the effect of suspending all
ordinary intercourse between Lord PONSONBY and the
Porte. The British Ambassador occasionally tran-
sacts business at the office of the REIs EFFENDI, and
is always present at the public audiences given by the
SULTAN to Foreign diplomatists ; but in the mean
time no business is done which can possibly admit
of postponement, till the final decision of our Go-
vernment is known respecting the insult offered to
Great Britain in the person of Mr. CHURCHILL.
On the 12th Admiral RousslN, the French Am-
bassador, had an audience of the SULTAN, previous
to his return to France. His reception was the most
distant from cordial that can be imagined. Neverthe-
less the Admiral obtained the Order of Merit from the
hands of MAxmoup. This greatly surprised those
courtiers who were not aware of the fact, that the
French Ambassador had declined being presented to
the SULTAN, unless his Highness would bestow upon
him a similar mark of his favour to that bestowed
upon Lord PONSONBY. It :required, however, some
weeks reflection to induce the SULTAN to confer such
a mark of his regard on the Representative of a Power
that had violated faith with him, by entering into an
offensive and defensive alliance with his vassal, the
Bey of TUNIS.
The Ulemas, or Mussulman Priests, are raising a
furious cry against the innovation attempted by the
SULTAN, in exposing and commanding reverence to
be paid to his portraits. A few days before the
date of these advices, ABDAURAHMAN EFFENDI,
one of the most distinguished for sanctity and a
knowledge of the Koran, had the audacity to
enter the Chamber of Appeal, where the revered por.
trait was suspended, and in the hearing of the Minis.
ter, denounced the idolatrous innovation as sufficient

to bring down upon the faithful the terrible vengeance
of the Prophet. The portrait was removed to another
apartment, and the enraged Ulema suffered to de-

part in peace. It was, however, well known that the
SULTAN would take an early opportunity of making
him acquainted with the bow-string.

On the 9th, Mr. URQUHART, Secretary of the
British Embassy, and author of " England, France,

Russia, and Turkey," was presented to PUTEF EF.

FENDI, Minister of the Interior. His reception was
frank and cordial in the extreme.

The British fleet is at Vourla ; the French squadron
Ls off the coast of Syria.

The Margaret, an English brig, was boarded by
Greek Pirates, while lying off the Dardanelles, in the
early part of September. The Captain and three of
the men were severely wounded, but the crew at last
succeeded in driving off their assailants. Acts of
piracy are of daily occurrence in these waters, to the
great scandal of the Governments of France and
England.

The Conservatives, very wisely, are enjoying the
only pleasure now left them, that is, a good dinner,
whenever and wherever they can get one. If it were
not for this sensible recreation, which, according to
VOLTAIRE, is with the majority the surest safeguard
against suicide, we verily believe that one-half the
faction would, from very desperation, suspend them-
selves from their bed-posts. It is a hard thing for a
proud, domineering party, that for upwards of half a
century has monopolized all the power in the State ;
that has been KING, Lords, and Cominons—tria
juncta in uno—in its own comprehensive person ; that
has made war and made peace ; imposed taxes, created
sinecures, and manufactured coronets, just as suited
its own sovereign will and pleasure, without th e
slightest regard to the interests of the country, or the
fitness of the objects of its bounty ;—it is, we say, a
hard thing for a party that has so long exercised these