The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-09 00:00:00

Among other things it was stated that cannon
had been landed from the Russian ships to assist
one of the parties that was disturbing the
peace of the country and that some Russian
artillerymen had been taken among the insur-
gents—yet the treachery of the Russian is now
nompously announced by a voice from Downing-
street as a discovery ! Has the genius of the
Foreign-office been asleep ; or has the beauti-
fully-entangled web of Belgian policy monopo-
lised all its laboriously-abortive ingenuity ? We
are now told that " while Prince Otho was ex-

petted daily to arrive in Greece, for the purpose
of restoring order and subordination, it appears
the Russian Admiral had been tampering with

some members of the Greek Senate, and has

actually aided and abetted them in their secession
from the common cause of their country. Ten
unworthy members of that body, with the as-
•istance of the Russian Admiral, have with•

!rawn themselves from the seat of Government,

ioisted the standard of insurrection against their

countrymen, and offered to the Russian Ad•
miral himself the station of President o

Greece !" It has been our avowed opinion,
from the beginning, that Russia never interfered
in the affairs of Greece but with the view of
eventually appropriating that country to herself.
Even if she should discard her Admiral on

finding that his plot had failed of success, she
would take her measures so as to make the

beardless Otho the puppet of her will. Russia
knows that the more she distracts the country,
the more easy will it be for her, in course of time,
to seize upon the prey on which her vulture am-
bition has long desired to pounce. It was pre-
cisely by the same course of policy—that which
is condensed in the maxim divide et impera—
that she effected the first partition of Poland ;

much in the same way did-she obtain the sove-
reignty of the Crimea. The Ministerial Journal
adds, " We are glad, however, to learn that the
accredited agent of the Czar disapproves loudly
of the part taken by his naval officer." Of course
he does ; who would expect him to criminate
himself? What next ? "We therefore trust
that the conduct of the latter will be disavowed
and disapproved at St. Petersburgh." It is very
probable it will be disavowed, if the haughty
Czar condescend to give any explanation of the
matter at all ; just as the Empress Catherine
disavowed all that her treacherous emissaries
were doing in the old kingdom of Poland until
the time was ripe for that infamous league among
the three robber Potentates, by which the gallant
nation that first checked the career of the Otto-

man conquerors was parcelled out as the booty
of the perfidious spoilers. History informs us
of the arts which the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh
employed on a former occasion to raise the
Greeks in insurrection against their Turkish
oppressors ; and history also informs us that
when the same Cabinet considered it more to its
immediate advantage to make peace with the
Porte than continue the war, it abandoned the
Greeks to their fate, without making any stipu-
lations in their favour. He is a novice in poli-
tical information who does not know that the
Cabinet of St. Petersburgh is as crafty, subtle,

and perfidious, as it is inordinately ambitions
Whatever may be its avowals or disavowals
Greece is as surely marked for a province o
Russia, as Belgium is designed to be a depen.
dency of France.—Morning Herald.

In another column will be found the copy o
an Address lately presented by " the Society
for the Diffusion of Information on Capital
Punishments" to the Lord Chief Justice of the
King's Bench, with his Lordship's answer. Our
readers are aware of the constant and perse-
vering efforts which we have made, during some
years past, to induce our Legislators to reform
that chaotic mass of Penal Statutes in which, as
if to mock the growing energies of civilization
in this country in other respects, the spirit of
barbarism resides. To effect this great object,
the talents and virtues of such enlightened sena-
tors as Meredith and Romilly were unavailing,
because they were not supported by the press.
Since we commenced our labours public opinion
has been thoroughly awakened to the subject,
both in this country and in France. In both king-
doms the aversion to the judicial destruction of
life becomes continually stronger. Since the
time that we exerted ourselves to save the lives
of the delinquent Ministers of Charles X., that
feeling, so characteristic of moral improvement,
has made great progress. The principles of
criminal jurisprudence which we advocate, are
those which are also supported by the Society
to which we have alluded. The Bills which in
the last Session repealed the penalty of death
for all cases of forgery, with two exceptions,
introduced in the House of Lords—for all
cases of counterfeiting the coin, and for several
cases of larceny, attest the advance which has
already been made, in a comparatively short
time, to substitute rational and corrective punish-
ments for those of revenge and extermination.
The Forgery Bill of Chief Justice Denman will
make his memory revered when the perishable
conflicts of party shall have been forgotten.
Lord Auckland has the honour of having intro-
duced the Bill on coining ; and Mr. Ewart, by
one short Act cutting off a variety of penalties
of blood, deserves well of his country and of
mankind. In remarking upon those reforms
and their effects, the- Lord Chief Justice well
observes that the judicial duty has been divested
of much that made it painful, by the improve-
ments of late years, which, he adds, " is mainly
to be ascribed to the enlightened and persever-
ing benevolence of your Society. Through
their humane, but temperate exertions, the temp-
tation to trifle with the sacred claims of truth (in
the cases to which the improvements apply) is
removed. Those distressing conflicts are avoided
by which, in former times, the arm of justice
was paralysed, and opinion lends a willing and
conscientious aid to authority." These are the
judicious sentiments of an enlightened mind—
equally free from the intemperance of a rash theo-
rist and the shackles of professional prejudice.
Nor need a Judge, in the most exalted station,
be ashamed of taking a rational interest in the
mitigation of the vindictive character of our
criminal code, when the great Bacon, the Chan-
cellor of England, and the unrivalled luminary of
modern science, said " Let there be no rubrics
blood.—Morning Herald.
The state of Ireland has at length assumed
an appearance which will scarcely fail to con-
vince the most obstinate and persevering advo-
cate of that system of policy which has been
flattered with the title of conciliation, when, as
is now evident, nothing could have had a less
conciliatory tendency, that measures of coercion
and severity must be resorted to without
further delay, unless the British Government
has resolved to abdicate its functions in that
country, and to leave the two divisions of its
inhabitants, whom we take leave to classify as
the party of murderers, and the party who are
anxious to escape murder, to settle affairs be-
tween themselves, in which case undoubtedly