The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-14 00:00:00

dates. ! Mr. S idler is well known as the ex-nominee of
my Lird Newcastle, and as the seconder of General Gas-
eoyne's insidious motion against the Reform Bill. In his
speech on the latter occasion, he insisted that ' virtual
representation' was necessary for the preservation of pro•
perry,;and that the then existing system—the old boroughs,
with all their rottenness and corruption--was the most
perfect form of government that the wisdom of man could
devise! Every vote which he gave, while the now-
exploded system put nomination into the hands of his
patron; was against reform, and opposed tr every principle
of liberty. The Bill under which he now seeks to repre-
sent the new borough of Huddersfield, was the object
of his deadly hatred ; and it would, indeed, be a strange
order cf things, were the electors to choose one who did
his best to prevent their enjoyment of the franchise. Mr.
Sadler, his political principles, and his new associates,
they know too well to be deceived.
" The other candidate, Mr. Blackburne, is the man to
represent their borough. He is an honest and honourable
man-.—a steady and consistent friend to every rational
reform. His speech to the electors on Tuesday last—
which' we give in a subsequent column—is highly charac-
teristic of his fearless independence. It speaks for itself,
and needs no lengthened comment. The voters of
Huddersfield will have been enfranchised in vain, if they
reject such a man, for one who has, through the whole of his
political life, strenuously contended against the progress of
reform, and vehemently denounced every effort to promote
the spread of civil and religious liberty. We do not believe
that they will."—Moraing Chronicle.

Our attention is again very forcibly called to
the affairs of the East, and more especially to
the conduct of Russia, by the report that not
only has that grasping and insatiable power
procured the complete cession of Walla-
chia and Moldavia from the Porte, but that a
Russian fleet is immediately to put to sea, in
consequence of orders to that effect having been
received from St. Petersburgh. For what pur-
pose this " aquatic excursion," as it is justly
termed by a contemporary, is to be undertaken,
and more especially at a season of the year
which, as every one knows, is most unfavour-
able to a navigation of the Black Sea, it is dif-
ficult to conjecture ; but that it is connected, in
some way or other, with some immediate, or re-
mote, design of aggrandizement at the expense
of some other state, there can be no doubt.
The Autocrat of Russia does nothing without a
reason. He neither sends armies into the field
from mere caprice, nor issues orders to his
fleets—for Russia has now fleets—to leave
their moorings, without meaning that the
expense of the expeditio❑ should be ultimately
defrayed by some other than the Russian
treasury. Such, at least, has been the uni-
form practice of the Russian Cabinet, and so
uniform has that conduct been, that the past
may be safely taken, in all cases, as a solvent of
the future. Taking it for granted then that
the Russian fleet has not been ordered to sea
without special reasons, the question to be
solved is what is its destination, and for what
purpose has it been put in motion. That its
movement is of a nature hostile to the great ob-
ject of Russian ambition—the seizure of the
capital of the East—is scarcely to be credited ;
for although Russian policy is sufficiently un-
principled to commit, as well as to medi-
tate, such an act of aggression, and the state
of the Turkish empire sufficiently disorga-
nized to render the time favourable, the effect of
such a proceeding would inevitably be not only
a war upon Russia by the only two powers that
have sufficient strength to chastise her, but the
revival of feelings of the most hostile character
on the part of others—Prussia and Austria for
example—whom film has hitherto contrived to
blind, to bribe, or to bully into acquiescence
with her nefarious schemes of aggrandizement.
It is not, therefore, we presume, to be supposed
that she contemplates at present the adoption
of such a nefarious proceeding ; and the only
probable supposition that remains is, that the
object of the expedition is to support the treaty
into which the Russian Cabinet lately tricked
that of Turkey, and which, among other notable
points, provided for the closing of the Darda-
nelles against the ships of all other powers but
Russia, whenever the latter might call upon
the Sultan to declare them closed. Against
this treaty, it is well known, that both
France and England have protested in the most
energetic manner, and that accounts are daily
expected of their having forced the passage of
the Dardanelleq, in defiance of the compact.
It is, therefore—supposing the account of the
orders received from St. Petersburgh to be cor-
rect—barely possible that Russia may contem-
plate a breach of the kind alluded to; but
although the supposition is the only one that
seems to afford anything like an explanation of
the Russian movement, we are frank to own
that we do not consider it to partake of much
probability. What chance has the Russian
naval power, even combined with that of Turkey,
of coping successfully with that of England only,
not to speak of France ? The former would
annihilate both in less time than it would take '

to tell the story of its destruction ; and if
Russia be foolish enough, as has been asserted,
to believe that France will not, and that Eng-
land dare not, engage in a contest with her--
those who administer her affairs were never
more grievously mistaken. There is no-
thing so much hated throughout all Europe,
but more especially throughout France
and England, as the very name of Rus-
sia—there is nothing which deserves to be so
much execrated. The blood-stained ruins of
Poland are fresh in the indignant mind of libe-
ral Europe—and the spoliation of Turkey has
not tended to obliterate the impression made by
it, of Russian cruelty, Russian rapacity, and Rus-
sian fraud and aggrandisement. The question of
the treaty into which the latter has been tricked,
is not only one of high commercial moment, but
of European importance ; and, therefore, what-
ever the Autocrat or his minions may think, we
beg to assure them that there is no possible
war, in support of which men of all parties both
in France and England would so cheerfully come
forward, as one, the object of which would be
the chastisement of Russian insolence--the
abasement of Russian pretensions—and the
resuscitation of the victims of Russian barbarity,
perfidy, and cruelty.—Morning Advertiser.

FlRE.—Yesterday morning about two o'clock,
a fire was discovered in Messrs. Ashton and Ginn's ship.
building yard, Waterloo-road, which completely destroyed
a counting-house, stable, and smithy. The Sun fire-
engine was the first on the spot, but, as mud, it was
so difficult to oht tin a supply of water, that the fire-
engines were of little use.—Liverpool Courier.
FURIOUS DRIVING.—Two gentlemen in a
gig were driving up the Blackfriars-road between 4 and
5, on Thursday afternoon, and when near Rowland Hill's
Chapel they knocked down Mr. Thomas Manning, the
wheel passing over his hip and leg, hut providentially
without fracturing a bone. He was seriously bruised,
and was conveyed home. His snuff -box, in his coat
pocket, was literally Jammed to pieces from the effect of
the wheel passing over him. The inhuman brutes
never waited to inquire after the gentleman, but drove
on at a furious rate.

BRAWLING IN CHURCH.--A young man
named Thomas Short was married on Sunday last, at All
Saints' Church. He disputed the amount of the lees, and,
when ordered out of the Vestry-room, knocked down the
beadle, assaulted several others, and ran away. He was,
however, secured, and was to be examined before the
Magistrates oa Wednesday...•Maidstone Gazette,