The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-22 00:00:00

newspapers, which,- *bile they call for the
labour of numbers in the printing and circulating,
them, are distracting the minds of thousand,,
from the great object of the Sabbath, and
become the means of disseminating principles
totally subversive of the ordinances of GOD."
We will leave the Sunday Papers to defend
themselves against this charge, our object being
to convince the petitioners, if possible, that they
have not perfect knowledg Now, it so hap-
pens, that all the so-called Sunday newspapers
are every one of them got up on the Saturday,
and a very large proportion of them are ac•
tually sent out of London by the Saturday
night's post. It is the daily Morning
papers which are really prepared (one
day out of the seven) on the Sunday. Al-
the petitioners, therefore, ought, in common
consistency, to cast out the Times, the Chro-
nicle, the Post, the Herald, and the Adver-
tiser, and take in the Sun, the Globe, the
Standard, or some other of the evening papers
all of which are prepared on the morning of the
day of publication. This is a point to which
we may again advert, for the benefit of those of
our readers who may not feel inclined to admit
that they have, in their petitions, been righteous
over much.

It will be seen by our Parliamentary report
that Sir H. PARNELL has this day taken his
seat as Member for Dundee.

`We perceive, by an official proclamation, in-
serted in the Frankfort Papers, that the German
Diet have caused a military occupation of the
environs of Frankfort, consisting of a corps of
Austrian and Prussian troops, in order to pre-
vent any attack from without. This measure,
says the proclamation, is not meant in any way to
" endanger the freedom of the city,"—a singular
assertion which hears very much the air of an
Irish bull. At any rate if the freedom of Frank-
fort be not " endangered" by the presence of an
overpowering body of military, it will not be
improved by it.

The news from the East is still vague and
contradictory, but nevertheless we can glean
quite enough from it to be assured that the
SULTAN'S position, so far from improving, daily
becomes more perplexed and hazardous. W hat
with the wily intrigues of the Russians, the
bold defiance of the Egyptians, and the dis-
content of that vast body of his subjects whom
his late reforms have alienated, and who are
inclined to look on the advance of IBRAHIM
rather as a god-send than as a movement to be
deprecated, it is clear that he is all but
reduced to -the last extremity. According
to some recent accounts it would appear
that he had expressed his readiness to treat on
the basis of the propositions dispatched by
MEHEMET ALI, through lIALIL PACHA,
while other accounts make no mention of any
such agreement on the part Jthe SULTAN ; but
simply state that IBRAHIM, at the head of a
numerous and well appointed army, flushed with
past victories and confident of future ones, was
hastening, by forced marches, upon Constanti-
nople. It seems well ascertained that at the
express entreaty of the SULTAN, the Russian
land forces were also rapidly advancing along
the coast of the Black Sea, by Sizeboli,
on the capital ; so that it was deemed not im-
probable that the two armies might cross each
other's path on the outskirts of Constantinople.
Possibly the SULTAN, who has survived many
political shocks, may survive this also,—but it
will be only for a season. By her present in-
terference (the onus of which she has artfully
thrown upon him), Russia will have claims on
the Turkish Cabinet, that will be but the pre-
lude to the overthrow, at no distant period, of
the dominion of the Crescent. Whenever the
St. Petersburgh Cabinet—which is only an
alias, a synonym for NICHOLAS—makes public
boast of her disinterestedness, the conviction
is at once brought home to the minds of all ob-
servers of passing events, that she is secretly medi-
tating some atrocious act of aggrandizement. Of
late she has been wondrously self-laudatory on the
subject of her relations with Turkey ; she has
no idea, as the St. Petersburg Journal assured
us the other day, but of acting solely for the
SULTAN'S benefit, who has himself implored
her interference ; whence we deduce the fact
that she is busy with schemes for founding a
future eastern capital at Constantinople. That
European policy would allow of such a step as
this—a step that would at once place Russia at
the head of all European Powers—we cannot
for an instant bring ourselves to believe ; still as
little doubt have we that Russia will attempt it
by all time multiplied means within her reach, and
never desist from her ambitious project till not
a chance remains of accomplishing it.

The China patronage is the most valuable in
the gift of the India Direction, and seldom al-
lowed to pass out of the families of the Direc-
tors. When a China writership falls vacant, the
usual course is fur the Director who has the
fortunate turn, to present his son, if he has one
of an age and qualified to receive the appoint-
tnent,—if he has not, it descends to the next,
and so on, till it comes to a Director who has a
son of proper age and qualification. So valuable,
however, is the appointment considered, that the
Director who is fortunate enough to obtain it, is
required to give up all his other patronage for
that year to his colleagues ; and so rigidly is this
rule enforced, that if he has previously disposed
of any appointments, he is obliged to give up an
equal number of similar appointments from his
next year's patronage to balance the account.
The monopoly of the China trade and the
China patronage, like the Siamese twins, came
into existence and must expire together.

THE LORD'S DAY.—The fuss made by the
Agnewites ab,ut the Lord's Day puts us in mind of an
anecdote that we Once heard in a country town—not
remarkably apropos, to be sure, but let the pass. A
looseish fellow had run in debt with a baker, one of the
super-sanctified Alter much dunning, the man brought
his money—one Sunday morning—to the " master of the
ro!ls ;" but the pious baker objected to receive it, saying
ihat he never took money on the Lord's D,y. '• Oh !
very well," said th.. other, pocketing the affront, " when
you ran tel me which is not the Lord's Day, you shall have
the money—.bat not till them"— The Town.