The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-01 00:00:00

prepared for this. Exact nothing but what Is
strictly just ; but of that yield not an atom. Do
not encourage this unprincipled, most encroach-
ing, and most offensive Power to bully the
British Government into submission to her views
of conquest, while she humbugs old worn-out
Metternich and the coxcomb Ancillon, whose
head has been turned by his elevation to the
Prussian Ministry, with pretended fears of the
march of democracy in Europe. The whole
game of the Russian Cabinet has been to dis-
tract the attention of the German Powers, by
affecting alarm at a spectre called the Propa-
ganda in the west of Europe, while she pursues
her own scheme of aggrandizement in the East.
A wanton war of opinion between her neigh-
bours on the Rhine would be a mask to her own
selfish war of conquest within the Dardanelles.
Russia has always been described as poor,—too
poor to enter on hostilities. She has always been
represented as weak,—too weak for any purpose of
aggression. Yet she has managed to find money
and men whenever she required them. She has
made war oftener, and gained more by it, than
any Power that has existed in the world within
the last 2,000 years ; and by dint of persuading
ourselves that she was essentially poor and feeble,
we have made her what she now is—a gigantic
aggressor, that dares everything, and has nevi r
failed to win the prize she fought for. The
opportunity of our close alliance with France is
one which ages may not again provide for either
of these powerful nations : let it not be madly
thrown away. As a specimen of the mystifica-
tion practised on Austria by her cunning
neighbour and pretended ally, we subjoin an
article copied out of the Austrian Observer,
where all is joy, and prosperity, and security on
the side of that fortunate infidel the Grand
Seignor, who, as a proof, we suppose, of the
pacific sentiments of Russia towards him, has
begun to unrig his fleet, and gone into winter
quarters in his palace of Changan, while the
Czar has, in the innocence of his own benevo-
lent heart, actually given his Ambassador at
Constantinople some months' leave of absence,
not commanding his return to Pera until the
weather shall render the Euxine navigable for
seamen, and the roads passable for troops.
The Austrian Observer of the 18th contains
the following article:—
" All the accounts from Constantinople, to the 30th of
November, concur in stating that the most perfect tran-
quillity reigns in that capital and also in the provinces.
The reports which recently prevailed of the danger of
fresh commotions have died away. That this political
quietude reacts upon the domain of politics the leave of
absence granted to the Russian Envoy by his Cabinet is
regarded as a proof. M. Butinieff is about to visit St.
Petershurgh, and M. Ruckman remains at the Porte as
Russian Charge d'Affaires.
" On the 14th the Sultan visited his winter residence of
Chiragan, and was saluted by the guns of the Ottoman
fleet during his passage from Beglerbeg to the European
coast. Immediately after this the Turkish ships of war
sailed from I3eshicktash roads, and entered the haven of
the arsenal, where many of them are already unrigged.
" The return of Edhem Effendi from Alexandria, whi-
ther he had been sent on an important mission after the
recall of Halil Pacha, is an event which attracts general
attention. He is the tearer of a present of 5,000,000 Turkish
piastres and the convention respecting the tribute to he
annually paid by the Viceroy of Egypt. These circum-
stances, taken in connection with the Turkish fleet's
return to the arsenal, afford the prospect of a lasting peace,
and have had a ♦ery favourable influence on the public,
and more particularly on the mercantile part of the com-
munity.
" On the 19th the Sultan visited the Tekse, or Ora-
tory, at Pera, and ascended for the first time the Fire-
tower, rebuilt after the great fire of Galata in 1830, and
entirely constructed of stone. The Ottoman etiquette
required that the tower should be closed to every one,
until after its inauguration in this manner by the person
of the Sultan. A fire-watch is now established in it, and
it is open to the public.
" On the 20th of November the North American Com-
modore Patterson, accompanied by the Charge d'Affaires
of the United States, Commodore Porter, had an audience
of the Sultan, and on the 22d the American frigate which
Commodore Patterson commands sailed for the Archi-
pelago.
" Among the official changes which have lately taken
place, the most remarkable are the appointment of the
former agent of the Pacha of Egypt, Nebsbid Effendi, to
the office of Chanush Bashi (Marshal of the Empire), and
the grant of the post of a Bash-Muhassebedshi to the
brother of the present Grand Vizier, Tahir Effendi. On
the 21st of November Riza Effendi was appointed Director
of the Mint, and Nafi Effendi, who formerly held that
office, was made Mucklta Nasiri, or Superintendent of the
Grand Seignor's ground..
" On the 24th of November the pilgrim caravan for
the present year began its march under the conduct of
the Sure Emini, for Asia Minor, whence it was, in the
beginning of December, to proceed on its 'journey to
Mecca. On the same day (the 24th) the Baruchan Nasiri,
or Superintendent of the Powder magazine, gave a splendid
entertainment to the Sultan and his Ministers.
" Baron Nathaniel Von Rothschild, son of his Imperial
Majesty's Consul-general in London, has lately arrived at
Constantinople, to adjust the claims of the Porte for sums
due by the new kingdom of Greece."— Times.

In the Chronicle of Monday last, in noticing
the meeting of the Dissenters at Bradford, we
offered some remarks on the subject of their
claims, specifying those which would not in our
opinion be objected to, and assigning some rea-
sons why, even admitting the establishment of
one sect to be a departure from the principle of
equal rights, there were circumstances which
Tendered it inexpedient (at present, at least) to
apply the principle in this country. We have
since seen in the Patriot a letter from Mr. John
\Vilks, M.P., dated 19th December last, in an-
swer to an application from the Dissenters at
Bristol, in which the views of that gentleman do
not differ materially from those expressed by us.
Mr. Wiiks, alluding to an Address from " the
United Committee," by which the repeal of the
Test and Corporation Acts was obtained, about
to be issued to the Dissenters of England and
\Vales, observes that—

,4 When it is received, I sincerely hope that prudence,
and not passion, will dictate the course they pursue. The
opinion of the Government, and of many Pat liamentary
friends to liberty of conscience, and the cause of dissent, I
believe to be, that any immediate and urgent attempt at the
severance of the Church and the State would utterly fail
,_would injure the Administration—would delight and
strengthen the Tories, still numerous, affluent, and strong
..—would delay the Ecclesiastical Reforms, intended and
desiied.—would retard an abolition or commutation of
tithes, and would pi event the Dissenters from progressively
procuring that redress of practical evils by which they are
afflicted, and which, if they he temperate, united, vigilant,
and judicious, they will gradually acquire, and at last
completely obtain.
In an article on Church Reform in the Bri-
tish Magazine, for January, 1834 (which advo-
cates the interests of the Established Church),
it is said " Conscientious Dissenters cannot, if
they love Christianity, at present wish for the
fall of the Church." There is one simple reason
for this. Suppose the State Church gone, and
take the case of one of the many thousand pa-
rishes where there are only farmers, poor shop-
keepers, and labourers living. Suppose the
tithes gone from the clergyman, and disposed
of in the most admirable manner which fancy
can suggest, still they (under some name) will
be paid—i. e., the farmer's expenses will be just
what they are now. Can he and the labourers
afford, besides what they have to pay for, to pay
for a minister ?—lt is notoriously impossible ;
or, ia other words, whatever may be the case
hereafter, to get rid of the Church note would
be to consign numberless parishes to spiritual
destitution. It cannot be otherwise, simply