The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-05 00:00:00

emobly of the Stew this year, la which they express
their conviction that they have acted conformably with
their duties to their Prince and their fellow-countrymen,
as they can answer to God and their consciences. It is
affirmed that the Assembly of the Estates just dissolved
would most probably not have agreed to any one of the
projects of law laid before it. It had resolved before-hand
not to waste its time in long discussions of amendments
to be proposed i❑ the projects of law submitted to it, but
to accept or reject at once the proposals of the :Ministry.
Sooner or later, therefore, a dissolutio❑ of the Assembly
would have been inevitable, so that if it had eat some
months it would have come to no result.

His Royal Highness the Electoral Prince and Co-
Regent issued yesterday a proclamation relative to the
dissolution of the Assembly of the States. His Royal
Highness says, that having declared at the opening of the
session his serious intention of conscientiously upholding
the constitution, he did not expect that he should be
obliged to execute this intention against the Assembly
itself. Sincerely regretting this circumstance, he thinks
it necessary to make his beloved subjects acquainted with
the motives of this dissolution, and with the real causes of
the unhappy delay of the opening of the session. The
first cause of the delay was, that there was not a sufficient
number of Deputies present, the electors having in several
instances chosen persons employed in the public service,
to whom the Government was obliged to refuse the assent
required by article 71 of the Constitution, and refused to
elect others in their room, though the invitation to pro-
ceed to new elections were made in due time.—Frank-
fort Papers, March 29.

STUTGARD, MARCH 26.—About thirty Deputies of
the opposition left Stotgard. About thirty of them
waited on M. Von Guiberg, the President, to thank him
for his impartiality in executing the duties of his office,
and their confidence, as members of the permanent com-
mittee, that he would endeavour to maintain the Constitu-
tion. Preparations are making to give a festal reception
to several Deputies on their return home.

The proclamation for the new elections is expected
to appear very soon, but the Assembly, which is to
meet on the 15th of May, will have only to discuss the
budget, and the convocatio❑ of an extraordinary Diet
will be announced to take place in the autumn, for the
discussion of several projects of law. In the choice of the
permanent committee that remains at Stutgard, not only
has the opposition been entirely overlooked, but not one
of the leaders of the Ministerial party, except Teuerleen,
has been chosen. The nobility have a decided prepon-
derance. This result is attributed to the circumstance
that on this occasion the election of the committee was
made by the two Chambers united, in which the Chamber
of the nobles had 36 votes.—Nurenburg Correspondent,
March 26.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 7.—The wind is still north-
east, and prevents the Russian fleet, at Bujukdere, return-
ing to the Black Sea. This is probably to our advantage.
The safety of the Sultan, and the peace of the capital,
appear to be maintained by their presence, as there is
considerable ferment among the people. An Egyptian
fleet is now cruising before the Port of Smyrna. Five
thousand Arabs sufficed to take possession of that city contain-
ing6o,ooo inhabitants. The whole Asiatic population is for
the Egyptians, who act as independent masters in spite of
the assurances of the French Ambassador, and appear to
take no notice of his remonstrances. Ibrahim Pacha's
headquarters are still at Koniab, but his army extends in
all directions, whilst he decl fres that every movement
shall cease as soon as he receives the necessary instructions
from Alexandria. Admiral Roussin has taken upon him-
self a great responsibility, as he promised peace, and yet
suffers war to be carried on. It is true lie excuses
himself by his not having yet received the answer of Me-
hemet Ali as to the convention sent to him, and next by
the presence of the Russian fleet, which, according to the
convention, should have been withdrawn, but makes no
preparation for departure. The Sultan cannot, how-
ever, command the elements, and the cessation of
hostilities should not be made dependant on the answer ex-
pected from Alexandria, for it might be the wish of Me-
hemet Ali to retard it in order to give time to his son to
has ird a final blow and attack the capital. It is certain
that the jealousy prevailing between the Russians end ti .e
French will, if Ibrahim Pacha be not forced to withdraw
and evacuate Smyrna, lead to the destruction of the
Porte; for the prosperity of the capital, and the subsistence
of the lower classes are dependant on the possession of that
port. If Smyrna should remain in foreign hands for a
time only, an explosion here will be inevitable. What
an embarrassment to all the European Powers if the Sultan
were to lose his life ! the presence of the Russian naval
forces is a necessity under these circumstances.
The Sultan is aware of this ; and, whatever Admiral
Roussin may say to the contrary, the Russians at this
moment are the real supporters of Tut key. As a token
of gratitude for this support, the Porte has ordered medals
to be struck, which are to be distributed to the whole crew
of the Russian squadron, from Admiral Lazareff down to
the lowest sailor. This may cause some surprise, as it
indicates a close friendship between the Divan and Russia,
and a coolness towards France. The momentary triumph
of French policy has been followed l;yr another in favour of
Russia, and M. de Butinieff has outdone Admiral Roue.
sin. how long Russian influence will prevail, time will
show ; it is with the Porte as with old men—they at last
heroine childish, and the sport of the world. The
Sultan, on the sth instant, invited the English
Charge d'Affaires to his palace and urged him to unite with
the French Ambassador in serious measures to force 'bra
him Pacha to concentrate his army round Koniah until
the definitive conclusion of peace. The request of the
Sultan was complied with, and a secretary of the Frerci
Legation set out yesterday for the head quarters of Ibr,t-
hint, with a letter from Admiral Roussin, by which it is
said lie is summoned to evacuate Smyrna and return to
the pos;tion which he occupied prior to Feb. 22. This
summons is accompanied with a threat that Ibrahim would
expose himself to a conflict with France, if the summons
remained without effect. It has created same surprise
at Pera that the Sultan should have intimated
his wishes to the English Charge d'Affaires, and not
to the French Ambassador himself. A report is
generally current that a Russian corps has passed
the Danube, near Silistri a in order to succour the
capital. This corps is said to be composed of 8,000
men, with proportionate field artillery. Another corps of
20,000 is to follow them."

CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 8. —(BY EXPRESS. )
Great agitation prevails among the diplomatists here, and
a rupture between France and Russia is apprehended, if
Admiral Roussin be not called to an account for his rash
proceedings. Our situation is very critical, and, without
a decisive step by the great Powers, we shall be exposed
to the dangers of both civil and foreign war. The old
spirit of the J inis:aries is reviving, and many arrests have
taken place. Admiral Rous,in still insists on the removal
of the Russian squadron, and says that the difficulty of
its leaving the Bosphorus could be easily overcome, if
there were good will on the put of the Porte, which
might employ steam vessels to tow the ships into the Black
Sea. The Sultan, however, does not appear disposed
to do so, although there are a few voices raised in the
Divan for the speedy departure of the Russian squadron.
Suspicions have arisen against several members of the
Divan, in consequence of intrigues which tend to spread
alarm, and weaken still further the feeble means of the
Porte. The representatives of France and England have
frequent conferences; the English Charge d'Affaires be-
comes very circumspect, and acts with great caution.
He no longer appears to place full reliance on the assur-
ances of Admiral Roussin, and although he approves his
steps, and in some measure concurs in them, yet all this is
done only with a view to prevent greater amplifications.
Such embarrassing collisions as those at Pera have sel-
dom occurred among diplomatists. At the time of the
Greek insurrection there were schisms in the diplomatic
holy, but they were concealed. The contrary is now the case.
It is said that troops have been ordered to the capital
from Rumelia ; and that engineers have been sent to the
Dardanelles to place the castles there in a state of defence.
VIENNA, MARCH 25.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 92k;
Bank Shares, 1219.—Allgemeine Zeitung, March 30.

A DEXTEROUS FEMALE THIEF. At
Henry-street Police office, Dublin, ELIZA:FITZIMMONS was
charged with having stolen money and other articles, the
property of MARY HARTFORD, CATHERINE WILSON,
ALICE RAMSAY, and three other women.—It appeared
trotn the depositions of the women, that this little mis-
creant (not thirteen years of age) knelt beside them in
Anne-street Chapel on Sunday last, during the celebration
of divine service, and, while -they were intent upon their
devotions, occupied herself piously in cutting through the
clothes of six of them successively, until she arrived at
their pockets, from each of which she deverously ex-
tracted their contents, without in the least disturbing the
wearers in their devotions. She was either so ingeniously
light-fingered a worshipper of Mammon, or the women
who knelt around her were so much absorbed in the wor-
ship of the DEITY, that she carried on her profitable specu-
lations unobserved, until, emboldened po,sibly by success,
she became too confident in her own adroitness, and using
the pruning knife rather unguardedly, she was ultimately
detected. On perceiving herself observed, she flew with
considerable agility to a remote part of the chapel, and
endeavoured to secrete herself in the crowd, brit was im-
mediately made a prisoner of. The prisoner was com-
mitted for trial.—Dublin Freeman's Journal.

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1833.

The quarter's reve►►ue has been published a
day earlier than was expected, and, instead of an
improvement, presents a decrease of 92,4201.,
while there is an increase on the year of
230,3891. The most remarkable feature in the
quarterly, and even yearly falling off, is in
stamps, there being a decrease of 82,076/. on
the quarter, and 188,9701. on the year. As we have
already so often urged the consideration of this
matter on the CHANCELLOROf the EXCHEQUER,
we shall now content ourselves with leaving him
to meditate on the complete verification of our
predictions. But Lord ALTIIORP is about to
make an alteration in this department, when the
pressure of other matters may afford him leisure.
There is a diminution of receipts in almost
all the other branches of the revenue, but only
to a small amount ; and we have no doubt what-
ever that, when his Lordship will modify those
taxes which more immediately press on the pro-
ductive industry of the country, or commute
them for a graduated property-tax, there must
be a very beneficial change produced, not only
in the public revenue, but in the general corn-
forts of the people.

The two Houses, on their rising last night,
adjourned for the Easter holydays, and will
resume business, the Commons on Monday, and
the Lords on Tuesday week. We hope on
their reassembling they will proceed with a little
more vigour than they have hitherto done.

Mr. BULWER'S Bill for licensing theatres,
and for the regulation of dramatic performances
in the cities of London and Westminster, and
within twenty miles thereof, has been printed.
It ()frets but little room for comment, its provi-
sions being, as might have been expected, almost
in perfect conformity with the report of the Com-
mittee he procured to be appointed upon the subject
last session. It is proposed that the power of li-
censing theatres within the above distance should
be solely vested in the LORD CHAMBERLAIN ;
but the license is to be granted as a matter of
course, if certain conditions have been complied
with. The chief of these is the absence of a
dissenting protest from the majority of the per-
sons interested in the property comprised within a
circle a quarter of a mile in diameter, of which
the proposed theatre is to be the centre. Those
deemed to be persons interested are all owners
of lands, houses, and tenements, entitled to vote
for the election of Members to serve in Parlia-
ment. This rule, however, only applies to new
theatres, all at present in existence being enti-
tled to ask for their licenses as matter of right.
The other conditions relate merely to the giving
of notice, providing certificates of the strength
of the building, &c. The Bill, in respect of
the licensing of plays, &c., leaves the law much
upon its present footing, marking, however, the
graduated scale of fees for licenses of theatres,
and examination of plays, songs, &c., already
published in The Sun. Not the slightest men-
tion is made in the Bill of the supposed vested
rights of Covent-garden and Drury-lane Thea-
tres, so that there can be no doubt of the inten-

tioii of its promoters to oppose any proposition,
the tendency of which shall be to continue the
monopoly of those establishments.

If there be one thing more than another which
distinguishes the present from the past Parliament,
it is the vast number of men of general information
which now fill the benches of the House of Com-
mons, and who have taken the places of the shoot-
ing and hunting young gentlemen, or at best super-
ficial college pedants, put in by the aristocracy for
their different rotten boroughs. The Tories, we
recollect, urged as an objection to the Reform Bill,
that it would send active men of business into the
House, who would quite worry the poor country
gentlemen to death. Some of the latter, forewarned
by these anticipations, or taking alarm at the symp-
toms already exhibited by the new House of Com-
mons, are rousing themselves to the unwonted ex-
ertion of handling a pen in defence of their beloved
monopoly. For the most part, however, their pro-
ductions are sad trash, almost without the shadow
of an argument to cover their barefaced demand to
fix their own price upon the commodity in which
they deal, and prevent the people going to another
shop. We have, however, before us, a pamphlet
which, although on the side of restriction, discusses
one or two questions for the benefit of the agricultural
interest, in which we think the community at large
equally concerned. The effect of railroads on agri-
culture is well put, and deserves the attention of all
landowners whose property may be in the line of a
projected road. The pamphlet is entitled," A Letter
of Appeal to the Members of the First Reformed
House of Commons, on Behalf of the Working
Clases of the United Kingdom." Unless the writer
can prove that it is better to have two loaves of
bread than four, we are at a loss to imagine how
his arguments are in favour of the working
classes ; but, leaving Lim to solve this difficulty as
he best can, we will quote the matter to which we
have alluded :
"Though we are first in science, we seem to be the last to
use it on an extended scale. The extraordinary success of ,the
Liverpool and Manchester railway, has shown that distance is
no longer an impediment to the most active and frequent com-
munications ; and that time and expense of transit need no
longer operate as a prohibition for a useful and profitable inter.
course between the most extreme parts of the empire. Coals