The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-10 00:00:00

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1831.

The Emperor Don PEDRO adds one more
to the numerous list of Sovereigns who, within
the last year, have been compelled to abdicate
their power and set out on their travels. His
Imperial MAJESTY has resigned the throne
of Brazil in favour of his son, an infant five
years of age, whom he has appointed Regent,
but who will most probably be compelled, ere
long, to give way to a Republic, with a President
at its head. The EMPEROR'S abdication will
surprise no one in the slightest degree acquainted
with the state of parties in Brazil. On ascend-
ing the throne it was expressly understood that
Don PEDRO was to forswear all further connec-
tion with Portugal, to devote himself wholly
and exclusively to the interests of his subjects
in the new world. This—at least the former
part—seems to have been too hard a task for
his Imperial MAJESTY to fulfil. His attention
was constantly fixed on Portugal ; he could not
stand aloof from the intrigues of parties, in the
Cabinet at Lisbon, but embroiled himself with his
subjects,and entailed considerable expense on them
by his establishment of a Regency in favour of his
daughter Donna MARIA at Terceira, and his
subsequent reception of her, as acknowledged
Queen of PORTUGAL, at Rio Janeiro. To
complete the sum total of his offences in the
eyes of his Brazilian subjects, the EmPEROR, who
commenced his career as a Liberal, bade fair to
terminate it as a despot ; he was besides capri-
cious and uncertain in his temper, though a man
naturally of strong sense and much energy,
and seemed always to take a perverse pleasure in
heaping rewards and honours on his Portuguese
favourites, to the neglect of his Brazilian subjects.
His Imperial MAJESTY is now, we understand,
on his way to France.

On the subject of the late partial defeat at
Ostrolenka, the Polish Government have ad-
dressed a formal communication to its foreign
agents, by which it appears that though the
Poles have obtained a check, and had fallen
back on Pultusk, yet that the Commander-in-
Chief had attained the aim which he had in
view, that of throwing troops into Lithuania.
The communication proceeds to state that " one
victory would not have been sufficient to con-
solidate our independence, but a rising
en masse in the Polish provinces, and
the co-operation of the Poles in the
common cause, insures to us more ad-
vantageous results, in a political as well as a
military point of view. The news we have re-
ceived from Lithuania is highly favourable to
the insurgents, and describes the enthusiasm
and general devotedness of that country,
which accounts for the precipitate march of
Marshal DIEBITSCH upon Ostrolenka.—
He determined to risk every thing in order
to cut off our communication with Lithuania.
Podolia has already risen. The insurgents
are advancing into Volhynia. Batta and Tulc-
zyn are in their possession. The ranks
of the Volhynian patriots are daily increasing.
So general an insurrection cannot but lead to
the happiest results. The check we have expe-
rienced has not caused any change in our mili-
tary position. The retreat from Ostrolenkat
far from discouraging us, gives us new cou-
rage, for now all the Poles form but one
army ; and those who perished on the banks
of the Narew will find avengers on the
banks of the Niemen and the Dwina."
We hope that France and England will at length
see the necessity of interfering in behalf of the
oppressed Poles. What with the open
hostility of Russia, and the insidious in-
trigues of the Jesuitical
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The following are extracts from German
Papers received this morning
VtENNA, MAY 28.—A courier, who left Constantinople
on the 14th, passed through this city yesterday, 0,:
way to Paris, with the answer of Count Guillerninot to the
letter re-calling him front his post. The Count only waits
for the arrival of his successor to return to France. Bul-
letins were published at Constantinople on occasion of the
victories of the Grand Vizier and the defeat of the rebel
Pashas. Festivities had been ordered on account of these
fortunate events, but nothing had yet been published re-
Teeing the rewards which await the Grand Vizier for
this important service,
Letters from Cracow say, that General Paz has had an
.engagement near Zamosc with the corps of General Kreutz,
but without any decisive result. The Polish troops in the
vicinity of Zamosc are stated at 8,000 men.
The taking of Ostrolenka by the Polish main army,
which got possession of bopoi taut Russian magazines, and

its advance against Bi ilystuel, Lave caused a great scii,a,
inn here.

It appears that the Lithuanian insurgents were previously
informed of the movements of the Polish army, for it is said
that about the same time several Cracovites and Lithua-
nian insurgents advanced 'from the vicinity of Wilna to
Grodno, and hover about in the neighbonring forests, with
,he view of assisting the troops expected from the kingdom
ut* Poland. All these circumstances, it seems, have in-
duced Count Diehitsch to retreat over the Bug. The ac-
counts from Lemberg respecting the cholera morbus are far
from satisfactory.
VIENNA, MAY 2S.—The following bulletin of the de-
feat of Mustapha, Pacha of Scutari, was published at Con-
stantinople on the 13th instant :
" Conformably to the notice in the last bulletin, the
Grand Vizier was pursuing the rebel Paella of Scutari in
his flight.—(The Constantinople mail of the 10th is not
arrived at Vienna, so that the bulletin containing the pre-
ceding operations is not known to us.)—By the aid of
the Almighty, this rebel is wholly annihilated by the de-
feats which he has lately sustained from the victorious
arms of the Sultan. He could not keep his ground either
at Kopuli or Uskuh, but fled, beaten and hopeless, accom-
panied by only three or four rebels, to Scutar i. Deputies
from Kopuli and Uskuh were immediately sent to the.
Grand Vizier, with petitions imploring pardon, and offer-
ing to submit to the Sultan's commands. In the same
manner all the Begler Beys and other chiefs have deserted
Mustapha Pacha, and he is now an object of their impre-
cations. Nifzi Pacha, in order to atone for his fault, has
even occupied with his troops the passes of Katschanik,
and others, through which Mustapha might attempt to es-
cape. Nay, Hussein Pacha of Varna, in order to obtain '
his pardon, engaged to deliver up the said fugitive, alive or
dead, and is eagerly pursuing him. The whole population
of these districts has began to submit and implore pardon.
The Grand Vizier himself has ordered a detachment of
his regular and irregular troops to advance towards Uskuh,
and has issued orders to the authorities of Scutari, and on
the road leading to it, that Mustapha Paella shall no whire
be received, but imakdiately seized and delivered up. The
Grand Vizier was carrying into effect the farther measures
rendered necessary in consequence of his glorious victory.
These accounts have just been received here from the camp
of the Grand Vizier.

The Corfu Gazette of April 30 and May 17 gives
more derailed accounts of the defeat of Mustapha Pacha.

The reigning Duke of BRUNSWICK is ex-
pected in Dover to-morrow on a visit to his
MAJESTY, and orders are received to pay every
mark of respec and attention to the Illustrious
traveller.

It is understood that her Imperial Highness
the Grand Duchess HELEN, of Russia,
sailed from Petersburgh, on the 30th of May, in
the Russian line of battle ship Cuim, accom-
panied by the Lionuc corvette, and that they
may be daily expected on our coast. Her Im-
perial Highness proceeds to Sidmouth for the
benefit of sea bathing.

In another part of The Sun will be found a
report of the grand Kent Reform Dinner, at
which a vast number of the respectable and in-
fluential yeomanry of the county attended. It is
gratifying to read of the enthusiasm, and the
entire and per feet unanimity that prevailed at this
meeting, in favour of the all-absorbing question
of Reform. There was not even a shadow of
difference in the whole assembly ; all were equally
determined on the success of their favourite mea-
sure ; and all were equally of opinion that it was
to all intents and purposes already carried.
There were few or no allusions made to the
House of Lords ; few or no speculations in-
dulged in, as to their probable conduct when
the great question came before them for discus-
cussion ; the whole assembly seemed to have
fully made up their minds on the subject, to the
effect that it was highly absurd to suppose that
the House of Lords would venture on opposing
or emasculating a Bill which the whole kingdom,
from one extremity to the other, had pronounced
necessary to the welfare of the Constitution, and
which it was firmly bent on seeing carried. Yet,
notwithstanding this general determination on
the part of the country, a few Ultra Journals, we
perceive, still cling to the opinion that the House
of Lords will throw out the Bill, or at least so
cripple it in its essential principles, as to make it
a useless and inefficient boon to the people.
These opinions the Journals in question disse-
minate, under the idea that they are thereby
serving the cause of the Ultras, and defending
the rights and privileges of the Upper House.
A more mistaken notion than this never entered
the mind of man. The best friends to the Aris-
tocracy are those who point out to them
the dangers that must infallibly accrue to
their order, should they be frantic and fool- ,
hardy enough to persevere in their unconsti-
tutional opposition to Reform—to that measure
which the SOVEREIGN has sanctioned, the Go-
vernment
have brought forward, and the people
have warmly and unequivocally approved. The
best, indeed the only friends to the Aristocracy
are those who advise them courteously to submit
to what cannot be avoided ; to conciliate rather
,
than to provoke ; to win back the estranged'
affections of the country, rather than to render
it still more distrustful, sensitive, and inimical to
the Patrician order. The House of Peers has
it still in its power to redeem its character with
the people ; but the opportunity of doing so is
h urrying swiftly on, and when once the fitting sea-
son is past, another equally favourable one may
never occur again. With regard to the episcopal
bench, we do not anticipate that the Rev. Pre-
lates will offer even a shadow of opposition to
the Bill. They will have too much respect for
their high calling—too much sagacity to venture
to run counter, at a crisis like the present, to
the declared will of the KING, the Ministry,
and the people.

This morning an accident occurred in Oxford-
street, which, it is feared, will prove fatal in its effects. A
woman, with a child in her arms, was crossing the road,
and, when about the centre, the pole of a hackney-coach,
which came up at the time, knocked her down. The poor
woman shrieked out, and, with an instinct that surprised
every person, she threw the infant from her, by which its
life was saved : before, however, the coachman could pull
up his horses, the animals trampled upon her chest and
head, by which the latter was most frightfully lacerated
and several of her ribs were broken. A shutter was pro-
cured and she was carried to the hospital, the coachman
assisting, and to whom no blame could attach, es he did
all in his power to prevent the accident. The poor wo-
man now remains in a very deplorable condition.

INTELLIGENCE-THIS DAY).

COURT OF KING'S BENCIL

The Court was occupied the whole of the morning with
caus,s from the special paper, none of which presented
anything of interest to the public up to the time of our
reporter leaving.