The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-31 00:00:00

GEORGE CAPO D'ISTRIAS, brother of the late Presi-
dent, and General NITKIAS, one of the most active
agents of Russia in Greece. The papers seized proved
that these persons, acting under the influence of
Russia had organized a society bound by the most
solemn oaths to establish a new state, comprising the
present kingdom, the lonian Islands, Epirus, and Thes-
saly ; getting rid of their present heretic King, and
placing at the head of the Government three Chiefs, one
for each department, military, civil, and ecclesiastical,
the whole under the immediate protection of the Emperor
of Russia. Letters were also seized showing that the
Russian Government had supplied its agents in thelonian
Islands with ample funds for the conspirators, and that
the opposition now making to the Lord High Commis-
sioner of those islands, was the first act of the revolu-
tionary drama. Having made these discoveries, what
was the course taken by the sage OTHO ? Well may
it surprise our readers. Terrified out of his wits at the
idea of displeasing Russia, the Royal imbecile took care
that all the papers relating to the lonian Islands were
instantly returned to Count GEORGE CAPO DISTRIAS,
and time given him to lodge them in a place of safety,
or destroy them, before he was arrested ; and every
possible measure having been taken to destroy the evi-
dence that existed cf the participation of the Russian
mission in the views of the conspirators, the arrest of
CAPO DISTRIAS and NIKITAS took place I But a con-
spiracy having for one of its objects a revolution in the
Government of the lonian Islands, cannot thus be
hushed up. Sir EDMUND LYONS and Sir HOWARD
DOUGLAS will doubtless make such a report of it to our
Government as will warrant it in insisting upon the
fullest inquiry.

The Tories finding that they have gained nothing by
insulting and calumniating the QUEEN, and despairing
of success in obtaining a majority on the motion of Sir
J. Y. BULLER, seem determined to insult the Commons'
House of Parliament also, and transfer the control of
the public purse from the Representatives of the people
to the House of Lords. The Standard—one of the
most rational leaders of the disloyal and revolutionary
party, last evening had the following ominous sugges-
tion :—" If in remembrance of the advantage taken in
1839, notice is at once given, that no vote of money to
be placed at the disposal of the Board of Privy Council
for Education, will be allowed to pass the House of
Lords, there will at once be an end of the Education
question." And possibly also an end of some other
question. Here is openly proposed a violation of the
Constitution—a violation of a right of the Commons,
till now universally admitted and sacredly preserved.
And for what purpose? To put an end to useful educa-
tion ; to deprive the Representatives of the people of all
power, and to centre the whole government of the
country in the hands of irresponsible legislators.

The French Journals of Wednesday have all reached
us. They contain no domestic news of the least irate•
rest to the English reader. The following extracts
from them include the latest news from the East

A letter from Constantinople, of the Bth of this month,
tells us that the gradual diminution of the fame of our fleet
in the Levant is very dexterously made use of by the di-
plomatic body. The Triton, Gencreux, and Hercule of
the line, and the Ama zone and Belle Pontc frigates have
already left, and their departure is represented as a proof
that France abandons its share of influence in the settle-
ment of the affairs of the East. This is a circumstance
which renders the situation of Count Pontois still more
perplexing.
It appears, too, that M. Butcnieff having skilfully ex-
cited the jealousy of the y6ung Sultan against his mother,
in order to defeat the mission of the daughter of Mehemet
Ali, Abdal Medschid, it is said, has now returned to the
sentiments of his father with respect to the Viceroy.
Th 3 Legation of M. de Sesey arrived safe at Erzeroum
on the 20th of December, and left that city to proceed to
its destination. The Pasha of Erzeroum gave it an escort
of cavalry.
With respect to the quarrel which took place between
Hussein Khan and the French officers, all the circumstances
have been strangely exaggerated by the enemies of the
French name.
'I he Prince de Joinville has arrived at Paris.

A journal says that the Russian Ambassador, Count
Pozzo de Borgo, has just received from his sovereign a
definitive leave of absence which he has long solicited.
The Courrier Francais says, that the nomination of
M. Guizot, to the Embassy to. London is signed—that the
Ministry has given notice of it to the English Government
but that Count Sebastiani will remain till after the mar-
riage of the Queen. —Le Commerce.
BOURSE.—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, ;AN. 29.

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JOHN FROST.—The petition from Merthyr Tydvil,
in favour of Frost and his companions, is signed by
13,166 of the inhabitants, the majority of whom belong
to the middle classes. That from Brecon by 1,111.

OPINIONS OF THEPUBLIC PRESS
ON THE CASE OF FROST, WILLIAMS, AND
JONES.

Taus.—A majority of the Judges held that the pri-
soners had not what the statute entitled them to, but a
majority also held that the objection was not made in
time. It follows, we apprehend, from this decision,
that at least the lives of the convicts will be spared.
MORNING CHRONICLE.—StrictIy speaking, the objec-
tion has been overruled ; but, under the peculiar cir-
cumstances of the case there is reason for believing that
the sentence must be commuted. Her Majesty's Se-
cretary of State would hardly deem himself justified in
allowing the sentence to he carried into execution."
(The opinions of die HERALD and ADVERTISER on
this question, as on all others of a similar kind, are so
well known, that it is needless to quote them ; and the
PosT, if it has not given any opinion of its own) has
amply quoted the merciful opinions of other Journals.)
STANDARD.—We hold it impossible that under these
circumstances the sentence of the law can be executed—
first, because a majority of the Judges have decided
that the prisoners were not fairly tried—were deprived,
no matter whether by accident or otherwise, of an ad-
vantage provided for them by statute, as indispensable
to a fair trial.
GLOBE.—On these grounds, and with these hopes
and prospects, we cordially join in the supplications of
so many of her Majesty's subjects who are sending their
petitions to the foot of the Throne for an extension of
mercy to the Monmouth criminals. In the success of
these applications none will rejoice more fully ; even
though we may differ with some who unite in these
petitions as to the particular grounds on which their
prayers for mercy are made to rest.
COURIER.—We refrain from any other olyiervation
on the difference of opinion among the Judges than this,
that where doubt prevails, that doubt, by the Constitu-
tion and by the practice of the law, is always allowed
to prevail in favour of the criminal.
Was there ever such unanimity of opinion on any ono
political question, and that too expressed not with
doubt or hesitation, but with the simplicity and
firmness of full conviction ? Looking, therefore,
at the vast influence of the London Press, at
the recommendation of the Jury, the divided opi-
nions of the Judges, the approaching marriage of her
Majesty, and the hundreds of petitions signed by tens
of thousands of her loving subjects, that are flowing
into the Home Office, he would be a bold minister
indeed who would set all these at defiance, and consum-
mate a bloody tragedy on the eve of an event to which
the whole nation looks forward with joy and exultation.

We have just learned that in accordance with a re-
quisition most numerously signed. the High Bailiff of
Southwark has called a meeting of the inhabitants for
to-morrow at twelve o'clock to petition her Majesty

for mercy.
A correspondent, in reference to an article on the subject in
the Herald, makes the following communication :
. _

"I could, however, without -Much difficulty, furnish some
illustrations of cases in point, of precisely the very nature he
alludes to. Some acts of injustice perpetrate:l by a
Tory Government at a period, to borrow the very words
of the Herald, of tyranny and blood-sucking op-
pression in the Government, and of servility and corruption,
at the bar." When a legal minion of the Government became
the confidential adviser and advocate of persons whom the
Government wished to destroy on charges of high treason."
During the plenitude of Tory Administration in Ireland, and
for many years towards the close of the last century, and many
more after the commencement of the present, Mr. --, a ce-
lebrated advocate, and a most constant legal adviser of the par-
ties accused during his time of high treason, and to all
appearances, one of the most inveterate political op-
ponents of this Tory Government, was discovered, on
an investigation of the Pension List, after his death,
to have been all this time in the enjoyment of a retaining fee of
3001. per annum from this very Government, of which he was
supposed to have been for so many years the most inveterate
opponent ; it will be in the recollection of many of our readers
how this discovery filled the bar of that unfortunate country
with indignation, and the people with astonishment. The
execution of Mr. Fitz Gerald in the year 1786 as an accessary,
when the principals were not discovered, and consequently con-
trary to law, and without even waiting for the chance of a re-
prieve from the Castle, with many other similar cases, could be
cited in verification of this suppositious case of the Herald, to
whom we are indebted for this opportunity being afforded us of
drawing a distinction between Whig and Tory Governments.

DEATH OF THE HON, AND REV. J. MAR-
SHAM, D.D. The death of this eminent divine took place ra-
ther suddenly on Tuesday last, at his residence in the Precincts
Rochester. The deceased, who was cousin of the Earl of
Romney, was born the 28th Feb. 1759, and married in 1784
to Miss A. F. Bullock. by whom the Hon. and Rev. Gentle-
man had issue four children, two of whom were sons, the Rey.
Robert Marsham D.C.L. , Warden of Merton College, Oa-
ford ; and the Vice-Chancellor of that University, the Rev.
Charles Marsham. The deceased who was Canon of Windsor,
Prebendary of Rochester and Wells, was deservedly esteemed
by a numerous circle of friends, who have now to deplore the
death of a sincere Christian, the best part of whose long life
had been spent in alleviating the sufferings of his poor fellow-
creatures.