The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-26 00:00:00

In a letter from Vienna of the 12th inst.,
coming fom a quarter where good means of information
are possessed, a close alliance between the Cabinets of
Vienna, St. Petersburgh, and Berlin, is spoken of as being
in full force. This alliance has been deemed necessary,
not only for ordinary purposes, but more especially as a
counterpart of the alliance, so far as it exists, and as far
as it can possibly go, between England and France. The
Austrian Ambassador in Constantinople, it is said, is in•
structed by his Government to give the utmost support to
any measures which the Russian Ambassador may think it
necessary to propose in regard to the occupation of that
capital. On this latter subject the three allies set at
defiance any representations or threats coming from Eng-
land and France, and will not be deterred from prosecuting
their own designs. They think themselves strong enough
to prove a match for those two Powers, enabled as they
are to assemble, at the shortest notice, more powerful
armies than the others are likely to put in the field, and
they conceive that they have sufficient means to defray the
expenses of a war, or sufficient credit in the world to raise
them. The alliance is not only to serve foreign political
purposes, but also to oppose a barrier to the propagation of
" liberal idea.," and perpetuate the fetters in which most
of the principal nations of the continent were held by
those who assume the power of ruling over them by
divine right.

Great offence has been given by the Post-
office to the merchants trading with America, in suddenly
stopping the practice which has heretofore existed of
making up a bag of letters at the North and South Ame-
rican Coffee-house, to be conveyed by the line of New
York packets from Liverpool. By that means merchants
have been enabled, and the practice is of many years'
standing, to communicate weekly with any part of the
United States, a facility not to be obtained by any of the
Post-office arrangements then in existence, and therefore
suffered to continue. An order has, however, been re-
cently issued, to put a stop to this practice, which has
been declared illegal, and it is intimated that the penalties
for any violation of this order will be enforced. The old
communications with the United States were by the
Halifax mail, which carries the letters for the Canadas
and the whole of British America, and which used to
touch at New York ; but the letters by this circuitous
voyage were thrown so much out of date, that no trier.
chants availed themselves of it, and latterly this packet
has ceased to touch at New York altogether; but it hap-
pens, that of the whole line of New York packets com-
municating with Liverpool and with London, there is not
one vessel of British ownership, and our Post office, con-
sequently, can have no authority to compel any of the
masters of them to take a bag of letters; so that it cannot
carry into execution the arrangement, nor any thing ap-
proachir, to it in convenience, of which it has deprived
the merchants. The conductors of the Post-office are
surely bound either to establish packets for conducting the
inisiness which they insist on living, or let the old ar-
rangement go on till they can. Their conduct on this
occasion is universally characterized as odious ant