The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-11 00:00:00

political interest—such conduct, had we not the melan-
choly fact before our eyes, would have been incredible.
The writer then proceeds shortly to show the connec-
tion of Russia's designs on Turkey with her subjuga-
tion of Poland, andspoints out with considerable acute-
ness the constant tendency of every action of Russia
during the last sixty years to one sole object—viz.,
the acquisition of Turkey. The tracing of these.
schemes of the Russian Autocrat, conducted with a
talent and success worthy of a better cause, will be
read, we think, with interest, but at the same time
with the deepest sorrow at the lamentable want of
foresight displayed throughout the transaction by
Great Britain, and, in fact, by the rest of Europe.
In nothing more, we should say, does the crafty policy
of Russia appear to have been so successful as in hav-
ing so completely hoodwinked her opponents, more
especially England and France, that she has not only
been able to persuade them of her moderation and un-
ambitious views, but actually to have made them the
tools for effecting her most destructive measures,
and has made " the natural allies of her prey,
plunge themselves the knife into its heart." Having
then set forth in the strongest colours the•unjustifiable
conduct of Russia, and having pointed out the glaring
and impudent demands established against Turkey by
the treaty of Adrianople, the writer proceeds to remark
on the ignorance which even at this moment exists
here with respect to the real state of Turkey, and the
extraordinary and amazing apathy displayed by us at
the approaching destruction of that country ; but it is
clearly proved, as our able correspondent from Con-
stantinople has informed us, constantly during the last
year, that Turkey, though prostrate, is not yet power
less ; that there at this moment exists within her the
slumbering embers of a fire, which the slightest breath
of England would instantly raise into a flame, which
would instantly scare away or annihilate her Russian
foes ; that the people of Turkey are now looking to
Great Britain for protection ; that throughout the coun-
try one universal feeling of detestation, from the
highest to the lowest, prevails against Russia ; that
the existence of this feeling, the perfect union of
the Cabinets of England and France, and the increas-
ing danger of allowing Russia to occupy longer her
present position, point out to us the necessity of at
once taking that step, which, if longer delayed, may
never be again in our power, except under much less
advantageous circumstances, and accompanied by a
great expenditure of blood and treasure. The effects
likely to be produced on the several great Powers of
Europe, and their interests, as involved in the preser-
vation of Turkey, are pointed out with great precision
and clearness, and show a knowledge of all the bear-
ings of this question which we have looked for in vain
in Lord Palmerston ; and whether the question is to be
looked upon as one of political existence to France, or
of commercial or national importance to ourselves, the
absolute necessity for something being at once clone is
most strongly enforced. As an additional argument,
if any were necessary, for our at once proceeding to
rescue Turkey from the state to which the treaties,
the protection, and the councils of Russia has re-
duced her, it is ably shown that the present state of
Russia would not allow her to proceed to extremities
in furtherance of her iniquitous designs. As is ob-
served, she knows too well her own weakness, and the
fictitious nature of the props on which the overgrown
superstructure of her power depends ; she fears the dis-
affected state of the many unhappy districts reduced
under her sway ; she knows that the Georgian pre-
vinces await but a signal to throw off the yoke ; that
the inhabitants of the Caucasus, that the Crimea, Bes-
sarabia, and the provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia
are ready, upon the announcement of our hostility, to
rise in one body against their oppressor. We cannot
now pursue this subject further. We are aware that,
in taking this hasty view of some of the contents of
this pamphlet, we are not doing justice to the writer.
The country, however, are much indebted to him for
thus calling their attention to this subject, the im-
portance of which cannot be longer denied. As
observed by an eminent diplomatist, "it is the" East that
will afford the arena for the approaching European
struggle," and it is added, " the Turkish question is
not only an European question, but the chief amongst
them." It is owing perhaps to its importance, that
Lord Palmerston, in a speech to his Hampshire con-
stituents last week, cautiously avoided even alluding to
the name of Turkey. It is a question, however, which
cannot be evaded, and it is one on which we will offer
to his Lordship a few remarks at a future time. We
will however now merely observe, that while thus cen-
suring the apathy of our Government, we do not over-
look the great and vital importance to this country of
preserving peace ; but at the same time we bear in
mind that the surest way of effecting that object is to
preserve our position amongst the nations of Europe ;
and we consider that by securing the integrity of Tur-
key, we are most likely to avert the horrors of war, and
at the same time to maintain the honour and indepen-
dence of this kingdom.—Morning Herald.
The recreant portion of the press, which is for the
people or against the people, as the hope of self-inte-
rests suits, and which is not therefore the people's press
in any honest sense of the word, has for some time
been raising the cry of " measures, not men." This is
the most senseless distinction that ever was made ; and
one by which the people of this country must not, and
cannot be deceived, or lulled from that vigilance which
the aspect of the times renders so indispensable. Mea-
sures without men are nothing. They are empty sounds
upon which no reliance can be placed. When " the
Devil transforms himself into an angel of light," he is
still " the Devil ;" and he is much more " the father of
lies,"—the archtype of hypocrisy and deceit, than when
he appears in his true colours. And, be it borne in
mind, that he never puts on the semblance of an angel
honestly, to do an angel's work ; but that in this dis-
guise he may impose upon the simple, and thereby
accomplish his mischievous ends with the greater sim-
plicity. It is when the snake charms .and gazes,. as if
it admired the beauty of the bird, that the bird is in
the greatest danger : it is when the wolf appears to
fawn, that there is most peril to the lamb : it is when
the deceiver swears that he is a friend, " fast and for
ever," that the victim stands in peril of being for ever
undone :—and it is when the man whose very life and
feeling have been tyranny to the people, says that die
has become their friend and partisan, that he is their
most dangerous enemy.—Not in vain nor ufitruly di

the poet sing, " Time° Danaos et dona ferenies ;
and be it remembered that the promises of Reforn

have not been made by the Tories themselves.
They have given no pledge but their recorded
pledge—that they are hostile to all Reform—
that, before the passing of the Reform
Bill, and with all its corruptions full and
rank upon it " the British Constitution (as it then
stood there is an error in the spelling of the last
word) was the best upon earth"—the very Con-
stitution which they would have given, by special
grace and favour, if any people had been asking a
Constitution at their hands. This is the attitude, and

the only attitude, in which the Duke of Wellington,
Sir Robert Peel, and the whole- of their party, stand
before the people of England ; and that people must
not, will not,' cannot, be so far imposed upon by any
sophistry, as to view them in any other. They stand
avowed and declared as Tories, as heart-and-soul ene-
mies to that reform which has been obtained, and
which is more and worse, to the spirit and practice of
all reform, be it of what it may ; and if any one be-
lieves otherwise of them, that person believes
not only win testimony which has no fomnda-
tion, but upon testimony which is in opposition to the
fact. Who are they that, contrary to the whole tenour
'of the recorded facts, take upon them to say that
cne arried
certain specific reforms will be proposedlad - fa° arid
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by a Tory, a High Monarch,
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Ministration? And what is the value of these spe-
cific reforms, supposing that by a sort of miracle (or,
at all events, marvel), they should be granted—given
—thrown as an alms to a beggar, and not heartily by
and with the voice of the people as their own just
and imprescriptible right ? Why, the promise makers
are that. portion of the press which has promised again
and again upon " a' the airts the wind can blew ; ' and
as often, and oftener, belied itself upon all. If
you were at sea in a starless night, would you ask the
weathercock for the direction of the pie/ so that you
might thereby set your course ? Assuredly not. „The
weathercock only " tells • how the wind sits ; all
the practical use you can make of it is to " trim